Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends in the North West

Infrastructure Engineer
England > North West

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in the North West is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 September 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 49 98
Rank change year-on-year -56 +49 +48
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 179 342 171
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.46% 6.58% 2.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.54% 7.32% 2.19%
Number of salaries quoted 143 74 136
10th Percentile £36,500 £36,625 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,875 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% +15.56% -4.26%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £65,000 £67,968
England median annual salary £57,500 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +15.00% -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the North West. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the North West with a recognized job title 11,602 4,671 7,814
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.91% 89.90% 95.47%
Number of salaries quoted 8,657 2,428 5,177
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Infrastructure Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in the North West

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the North West.

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in the North West

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the North West over the 6 months to 1 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in the North West

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the North West region over the 6 months to 1 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester -16 108 £55,000 - 33
Lancashire -23 38 £65,576 +0.89% 8
Cheshire -25 15 £42,000 +5.00% 1
Merseyside -14 11 £35,500 -32.38% 3
Cumbria -23 6 - -
Infrastructure Engineer
England

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 1 September 2026, Infrastructure Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North West region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 177 (98.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 38 (21.23%) Azure
2 38 (21.23%) Microsoft
3 35 (19.55%) Windows
4 33 (18.44%) VMware
5 28 (15.64%) VMware Infrastructure
6 27 (15.08%) Security Cleared
6 27 (15.08%) Windows Server
7 26 (14.53%) Active Directory
8 25 (13.97%) Linux
9 22 (12.29%) Firewall
10 21 (11.73%) SC Cleared
11 18 (10.06%) Cybersecurity
11 18 (10.06%) PowerShell
12 17 (9.50%) Microsoft 365
13 16 (8.94%) Disaster Recovery
13 16 (8.94%) Infrastructure as Code
13 16 (8.94%) Problem-Solving
14 14 (7.82%) Cisco
15 13 (7.26%) AWS
15 13 (7.26%) Continuous Improvement
15 13 (7.26%) SAN
16 12 (6.70%) DV Cleared
17 11 (6.15%) Hyper-V
17 11 (6.15%) Microsoft Intune
17 11 (6.15%) Project Delivery
18 10 (5.59%) DNS
18 10 (5.59%) Storage Management
19 9 (5.03%) DHCP
20 8 (4.47%) Microsoft Certification

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (1.68%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (1.68%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.56%) Confluence
2 1 (0.56%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (1.68%) AutoCAD
1 3 (1.68%) Civil 3D
1 3 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 38 (21.23%) Azure
2 17 (9.50%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (7.26%) AWS
4 5 (2.79%) Entra ID
5 4 (2.23%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (2.23%) Azure AKS
5 4 (2.23%) SaaS
6 3 (1.68%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (1.68%) IaaS
6 3 (1.68%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (1.12%) GitHub
7 2 (1.12%) Google Workspace
7 2 (1.12%) PaaS
7 2 (1.12%) Rubrik
8 1 (0.56%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.56%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.56%) OCI
8 1 (0.56%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 22 (12.29%) Firewall
2 13 (7.26%) SAN
3 10 (5.59%) DNS
4 9 (5.03%) DHCP
5 5 (2.79%) Network Security
6 4 (2.23%) Cisco ASA
6 4 (2.23%) Cisco Firepower
6 4 (2.23%) Cisco Nexus
6 4 (2.23%) LAN
6 4 (2.23%) VLAN
7 3 (1.68%) NGFW
7 3 (1.68%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.68%) VPN
7 3 (1.68%) WAN
8 2 (1.12%) VoIP
9 1 (0.56%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.56%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.56%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (0.56%) VSAN
9 1 (0.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.68%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.56%) Db2
Development Applications
1 1 (0.56%) GitLab
1 1 (0.56%) JIRA
General
1 17 (9.50%) Public Sector
2 15 (8.38%) Finance
3 13 (7.26%) Social Skills
4 8 (4.47%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (2.23%) Fire and Rescue
6 3 (1.68%) Local Government
6 3 (1.68%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.12%) Automotive
7 2 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.56%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.56%) Banking
8 1 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.56%) Games
8 1 (0.56%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.68%) Microsoft Graph
2 2 (1.12%) OAuth
2 2 (1.12%) OpenID
2 2 (1.12%) SAML
2 2 (1.12%) Terraform
3 1 (0.56%) Flash
3 1 (0.56%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.82%) Driving Licence
2 10 (5.59%) Data Centre
2 10 (5.59%) Enterprise Storage
3 5 (2.79%) Clustering
3 5 (2.79%) Replication
4 3 (1.68%) CCTV
4 3 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (1.68%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.12%) IoT
5 2 (1.12%) Social Media
6 1 (0.56%) CUDA
6 1 (0.56%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.56%) Life Science
6 1 (0.56%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.56%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.56%) PKI
6 1 (0.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 35 (19.55%) Windows
2 27 (15.08%) Windows Server
3 25 (13.97%) Linux
4 5 (2.79%) Unix
5 3 (1.68%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.12%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.12%) VMS
6 2 (1.12%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.56%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (98.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 18 (10.06%) Cybersecurity
3 16 (8.94%) Disaster Recovery
3 16 (8.94%) Infrastructure as Code
3 16 (8.94%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (7.26%) Continuous Improvement
5 11 (6.15%) Project Delivery
6 10 (5.59%) Storage Management
7 7 (3.91%) Coaching
7 7 (3.91%) Identity Access Management
7 7 (3.91%) ITIL
7 7 (3.91%) Mentoring
7 7 (3.91%) Virtual Environments
8 6 (3.35%) High Availability
8 6 (3.35%) Logistics
8 6 (3.35%) Migration
8 6 (3.35%) Virtual Infrastructure
9 5 (2.79%) Business Continuity
9 5 (2.79%) Business Continuity Planning
9 5 (2.79%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 18 (10.06%) PowerShell
2 8 (4.47%) SQL
3 7 (3.91%) Python
4 4 (2.23%) Bash
4 4 (2.23%) Bicep
5 2 (1.12%) Java
6 1 (0.56%) C
6 1 (0.56%) C++
Qualifications
1 27 (15.08%) Security Cleared
2 21 (11.73%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.70%) DV Cleared
4 8 (4.47%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (3.91%) CCNA
5 7 (3.91%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (3.35%) Azure Certification
6 6 (3.35%) MCSA
7 5 (2.79%) CCNP
8 4 (2.23%) Degree
8 4 (2.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (1.12%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.56%) HNC
10 1 (0.56%) HND
10 1 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (2.23%) SLA
2 3 (1.68%) NIST
System Software
1 28 (15.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 26 (14.53%) Active Directory
3 11 (6.15%) Hyper-V
4 6 (3.35%) Firmware
5 3 (1.68%) vSphere
6 2 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.56%) Ceph
7 1 (0.56%) Docker
7 1 (0.56%) MetaFrame
7 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.56%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.56%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 11 (6.15%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (2.79%) Microsoft Clustering
3 4 (2.23%) Ansible
3 4 (2.23%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.12%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (1.12%) SCCM
4 2 (1.12%) WSUS
4 2 (1.12%) ZABBIX
5 1 (0.56%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (0.56%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.56%) Proxmox
5 1 (0.56%) Puppet
5 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.56%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 38 (21.23%) Microsoft
2 33 (18.44%) VMware
3 14 (7.82%) Cisco
4 6 (3.35%) HP
5 5 (2.79%) Veeam
6 4 (2.23%) Aruba
6 4 (2.23%) LogicMonitor
6 4 (2.23%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.68%) Apple
7 3 (1.68%) Meraki
7 3 (1.68%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.12%) Commvault
8 2 (1.12%) Datto
8 2 (1.12%) Dell
8 2 (1.12%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.12%) Google
8 2 (1.12%) MEDITECH
8 2 (1.12%) NetApp
8 2 (1.12%) Oracle
8 2 (1.12%) Ubiquiti