Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in the North West

Infrastructure Engineer
England > North West

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in the North West is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 87 171 172
Rank change year-on-year +84 +1 -69
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 256 142 184
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 2.64% 1.78% 1.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.79% 2.00% 2.04%
Number of salaries quoted 201 134 165
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,625 £33,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,500 £43,150
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +10.08% +0.35%
75th Percentile £62,500 £53,211 £50,000
90th Percentile £67,968 £57,500 £58,650
England median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - +7.53%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised 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 9,192 7,102 9,035
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.80% 89.19% 96.01%
Number of salaries quoted 7,069 4,115 5,476
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,000 £28,625
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £81,800 £82,500
England median annual salary £53,500 £60,732 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.91% +1.22% +9.09%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings that featured Infrastructure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the North West

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the North West.

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineer 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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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 +38 101 £50,000 +5.26% 12
Merseyside +46 56 £42,500 -5.56% 3
Cheshire +4 49 £46,000 -2.13% 5
Lancashire +17 30 £62,641 +35.44% 4
Cumbria - 20 £38,250 - 1
Infrastructure Engineer
England

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Infrastructure Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the North West region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 234 (91.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 109 (42.58%) Windows
3 104 (40.63%) Microsoft
4 103 (40.23%) Azure
5 100 (39.06%) ITIL
6 90 (35.16%) Active Directory
7 68 (26.56%) VMware
7 68 (26.56%) Microsoft 365
8 56 (21.88%) DNS
9 55 (21.48%) Windows Server
10 50 (19.53%) Mentoring
11 48 (18.75%) DHCP
12 47 (18.36%) AWS
13 45 (17.58%) Coaching
14 44 (17.19%) Problem-Solving
15 42 (16.41%) VMware Infrastructure
15 42 (16.41%) Disaster Recovery
16 41 (16.02%) Microsoft Exchange
17 37 (14.45%) Migration
17 37 (14.45%) Public Cloud
18 34 (13.28%) Linux
19 33 (12.89%) Cisco
19 33 (12.89%) Roadmaps
20 31 (12.11%) Social Skills
20 31 (12.11%) Hyper-V
21 30 (11.72%) LAN
21 30 (11.72%) Finance
21 30 (11.72%) Firewall
22 29 (11.33%) PowerShell
23 28 (10.94%) Degree

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 41 (16.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (7.42%) SharePoint
3 8 (3.13%) IIS
4 4 (1.56%) CMS
4 4 (1.56%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.39%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (2.34%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.78%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 103 (40.23%) Azure
2 68 (26.56%) Microsoft 365
3 47 (18.36%) AWS
4 27 (10.55%) Entra ID
5 25 (9.77%) IaaS
6 15 (5.86%) SaaS
7 11 (4.30%) Power Platform
8 9 (3.52%) GCP
9 7 (2.73%) AWS KMS
9 7 (2.73%) Azure Key Vault
9 7 (2.73%) GitHub
9 7 (2.73%) OneDrive
9 7 (2.73%) PaaS
10 6 (2.34%) PowerApps
11 5 (1.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 4 (1.56%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (1.17%) AWS CodePipeline
14 2 (0.78%) Azure Logic Apps
14 2 (0.78%) Azure Service Bus
14 2 (0.78%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 56 (21.88%) DNS
2 48 (18.75%) DHCP
3 30 (11.72%) Firewall
3 30 (11.72%) LAN
4 24 (9.38%) WAN
5 12 (4.69%) VPN
6 9 (3.52%) WLAN
7 8 (3.13%) SSL
8 7 (2.73%) Network Security
8 7 (2.73%) TCP/IP
8 7 (2.73%) Wireless
9 6 (2.34%) Remote Desktop
9 6 (2.34%) Wi-Fi
10 5 (1.95%) BGP
10 5 (1.95%) SAN
10 5 (1.95%) VLAN
10 5 (1.95%) VoIP
11 4 (1.56%) TETRA
12 3 (1.17%) OSPF
12 3 (1.17%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (7.81%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.91%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (3.52%) MySQL
4 2 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.39%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 12 (4.69%) GitLab
2 7 (2.73%) Artifactory
3 5 (1.95%) MSI
4 4 (1.56%) Git
5 3 (1.17%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.17%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.78%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.78%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.39%) JIRA
General
1 31 (12.11%) Social Skills
2 30 (11.72%) Finance
3 27 (10.55%) Public Sector
4 18 (7.03%) Manufacturing
5 14 (5.47%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (3.13%) Law
6 8 (3.13%) Legal
7 5 (1.95%) Retail
8 4 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.78%) Advertising
9 2 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.39%) Banking
10 1 (0.39%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.39%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.34%) LDAP
2 4 (1.56%) .NET
2 4 (1.56%) CSS
3 3 (1.17%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 37 (14.45%) Public Cloud
2 21 (8.20%) Data Centre
3 17 (6.64%) Hybrid Cloud
4 14 (5.47%) Management Information System
5 10 (3.91%) PKI
6 9 (3.52%) Driving Licence
7 8 (3.13%) Private Cloud
8 7 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (2.73%) Replication
8 7 (2.73%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.95%) CMDB
10 4 (1.56%) FMCG
11 3 (1.17%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.17%) PMI
12 2 (0.78%) CCTV
13 1 (0.39%) Data Protection Act
13 1 (0.39%) Housing Association
13 1 (0.39%) IBM Mainframe
13 1 (0.39%) Mainframe
13 1 (0.39%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 109 (42.58%) Windows
2 55 (21.48%) Windows Server
3 34 (13.28%) Linux
4 17 (6.64%) Unix
5 12 (4.69%) Windows Server 2019
6 10 (3.91%) Windows Server 2012
7 9 (3.52%) Android
7 9 (3.52%) Apple iOS
8 8 (3.13%) Windows Server 2016
9 7 (2.73%) Mac OS
10 6 (2.34%) VMS
10 6 (2.34%) Windows 10
11 3 (1.17%) Windows Vista
12 2 (0.78%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.39%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.39%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 234 (91.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 100 (39.06%) ITIL
3 50 (19.53%) Mentoring
4 45 (17.58%) Coaching
5 44 (17.19%) Problem-Solving
6 42 (16.41%) Disaster Recovery
7 37 (14.45%) Migration
8 33 (12.89%) Roadmaps
9 27 (10.55%) Capacity Planning
10 26 (10.16%) Service Management
11 24 (9.38%) Change Management
12 23 (8.98%) Infrastructure Management
13 21 (8.20%) Continuous Improvement
14 20 (7.81%) DevOps
14 20 (7.81%) Process Improvement
15 19 (7.42%) Incident Management
15 19 (7.42%) Server Management
16 18 (7.03%) Cybersecurity
17 17 (6.64%) Architecture Roadmap
18 16 (6.25%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 29 (11.33%) PowerShell
2 18 (7.03%) SQL
3 9 (3.52%) Swift
4 7 (2.73%) Bash
5 6 (2.34%) Python
6 3 (1.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 28 (10.94%) Degree
2 14 (5.47%) HNC
3 6 (2.34%) CCNA
3 6 (2.34%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (1.56%) A+ Certification
4 4 (1.56%) Network+ Certification
4 4 (1.56%) SC Cleared
4 4 (1.56%) Security Cleared
5 3 (1.17%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.17%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.17%) MCSA
5 3 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.17%) PMI Certification
6 2 (0.78%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.39%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.56%) NIST
2 3 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.39%) SLA
System Software
1 90 (35.16%) Active Directory
2 42 (16.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (12.11%) Hyper-V
4 10 (3.91%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (2.34%) vSphere
6 4 (1.56%) VMware Server
7 3 (1.17%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (7.03%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (5.08%) Terraform
3 9 (3.52%) SCCM
4 8 (3.13%) WSUS
5 7 (2.73%) Ansible
5 7 (2.73%) CA Single Sign-On
5 7 (2.73%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (2.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.78%) BMC PATROL
7 2 (0.78%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 2 (0.78%) vRealize
8 1 (0.39%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.39%) Kubernetes
8 1 (0.39%) Nessus
Vendors
1 104 (40.63%) Microsoft
2 68 (26.56%) VMware
3 33 (12.89%) Cisco
4 27 (10.55%) Citrix
5 12 (4.69%) Veeam
6 10 (3.91%) Dynatrace
6 10 (3.91%) Splunk
7 9 (3.52%) CA
7 9 (3.52%) ServiceNow
8 8 (3.13%) NetApp
9 7 (2.73%) BMC
9 7 (2.73%) CyberArk
9 7 (2.73%) F5
9 7 (2.73%) Fortinet
9 7 (2.73%) Meraki
10 6 (2.34%) Aruba
10 6 (2.34%) Extreme Networks
11 5 (1.95%) SolarWinds
12 4 (1.56%) HP
12 4 (1.56%) Oracle