Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends in the North West

Infrastructure Engineer
England > North West

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in the North West is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 April 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 87 80
Rank change year-on-year -20 -7 +85
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 111 106 247
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 1.22% 2.97% 2.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.36% 3.31% 2.99%
Number of salaries quoted 88 100 201
10th Percentile £34,550 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £44,500 £38,304 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £63,800 £53,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £67,500 £67,968
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -

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 8,159 3,198 8,267
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.50% 89.60% 94.96%
Number of salaries quoted 5,198 2,193 6,661
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,793 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.75% +9.59% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.19%

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 5 April 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 5 April 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 -9 54 £50,000 - 22
Lancashire -14 18 £65,576 +54.30% 11
Cumbria -13 14 £55,000 +5.77% 1
Cheshire -35 14 £55,000 +15.79% 6
Merseyside -26 11 £35,800 -10.50% 4
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 April 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 96 (86.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 32 (28.83%) Azure
3 24 (21.62%) Microsoft
4 23 (20.72%) Active Directory
4 23 (20.72%) Firewall
5 22 (19.82%) Windows
6 20 (18.02%) Microsoft 365
7 19 (17.12%) Microsoft Intune
8 17 (15.32%) Entra ID
8 17 (15.32%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (15.32%) Windows Server
9 16 (14.41%) ITIL
9 16 (14.41%) Project Delivery
10 15 (13.51%) PowerShell
10 15 (13.51%) VMware
11 13 (11.71%) Cybersecurity
12 11 (9.91%) Cyber Essentials
12 11 (9.91%) DNS
12 11 (9.91%) Microsoft Certification
12 11 (9.91%) Project Management
12 11 (9.91%) Stakeholder Management
13 10 (9.01%) BPSS Clearance
13 10 (9.01%) Disaster Recovery
13 10 (9.01%) Hyper-V
14 9 (8.11%) AutoCAD
14 9 (8.11%) Business Case
14 9 (8.11%) Customer Service
14 9 (8.11%) DHCP
14 9 (8.11%) Facilities Management
14 9 (8.11%) HNC

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 9 (8.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (7.21%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.80%) IIS
4 1 (0.90%) OpenStack
Applications
1 9 (8.11%) AutoCAD
1 9 (8.11%) SOLIDWORKS
2 5 (4.50%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.90%) Civil 3D
Cloud Services
1 32 (28.83%) Azure
2 20 (18.02%) Microsoft 365
3 17 (15.32%) Entra ID
4 9 (8.11%) SaaS
5 6 (5.41%) AWS
6 5 (4.50%) Intacct
7 4 (3.60%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (3.60%) OneDrive
8 2 (1.80%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.80%) iPaaS
8 2 (1.80%) OCI
9 1 (0.90%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.90%) Azure AKS
9 1 (0.90%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.90%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.90%) GitHub
9 1 (0.90%) Google Workspace
9 1 (0.90%) IaaS
9 1 (0.90%) PaaS
9 1 (0.90%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 23 (20.72%) Firewall
2 11 (9.91%) DNS
3 9 (8.11%) DHCP
4 7 (6.31%) VLAN
5 6 (5.41%) WAN
6 5 (4.50%) LAN
7 4 (3.60%) TCP/IP
7 4 (3.60%) VoIP
8 3 (2.70%) SAN
8 3 (2.70%) VPN
9 2 (1.80%) NAS
9 2 (1.80%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.90%) DMZ
10 1 (0.90%) Fibre Channel
10 1 (0.90%) iSCSI
10 1 (0.90%) Network Security
10 1 (0.90%) SMTP
10 1 (0.90%) SSH
10 1 (0.90%) SSL
10 1 (0.90%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.70%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 3 (2.70%) GitLab
2 2 (1.80%) Git
General
1 16 (14.41%) Social Skills
2 9 (8.11%) Manufacturing
3 8 (7.21%) Public Sector
4 6 (5.41%) Finance
5 4 (3.60%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.60%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.90%) Banking
7 1 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.90%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.70%) OLE
2 2 (1.80%) Middleware
3 1 (0.90%) DPDK
3 1 (0.90%) eBPF
3 1 (0.90%) NETCONF
3 1 (0.90%) RESTCONF
3 1 (0.90%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.50%) CCTV
2 4 (3.60%) Onboarding
2 4 (3.60%) Social Media
3 3 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.80%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (1.80%) Replication
5 1 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.90%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.90%) Clustering
5 1 (0.90%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.90%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (0.90%) NVMe
5 1 (0.90%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 22 (19.82%) Windows
2 17 (15.32%) Windows Server
3 5 (4.50%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (3.60%) Windows 10
5 3 (2.70%) Android
5 3 (2.70%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.90%) Linux
6 1 (0.90%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (86.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 17 (15.32%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (14.41%) ITIL
3 16 (14.41%) Project Delivery
4 13 (11.71%) Cybersecurity
5 11 (9.91%) Project Management
5 11 (9.91%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (9.01%) Disaster Recovery
7 9 (8.11%) Business Case
7 9 (8.11%) Customer Service
7 9 (8.11%) Facilities Management
7 9 (8.11%) Manufacturing Engineering
7 9 (8.11%) Mentoring
8 8 (7.21%) Coaching
9 7 (6.31%) Infrastructure as Code
10 6 (5.41%) Agile
10 6 (5.41%) Change Management
10 6 (5.41%) Project Planning
11 5 (4.50%) Continuous Improvement
11 5 (4.50%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 15 (13.51%) PowerShell
2 3 (2.70%) Python
2 3 (2.70%) SQL
3 2 (1.80%) Bash
3 2 (1.80%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 11 (9.91%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (9.01%) BPSS Clearance
3 9 (8.11%) HNC
3 9 (8.11%) RIBA
4 7 (6.31%) Azure Certification
5 5 (4.50%) Degree
6 4 (3.60%) CCNA
6 4 (3.60%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (3.60%) DBS Check
6 4 (3.60%) MCSA
7 3 (2.70%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.70%) Security Cleared
8 1 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.90%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (0.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.91%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 23 (20.72%) Active Directory
2 10 (9.01%) Hyper-V
3 8 (7.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.90%) Docker
5 1 (0.90%) Firmware
5 1 (0.90%) KVM
5 1 (0.90%) QEMU
5 1 (0.90%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.90%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.90%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (17.12%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (5.41%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.60%) Jamf Pro
3 4 (3.60%) Terraform
4 2 (1.80%) Ansible
4 2 (1.80%) FortiGate
4 2 (1.80%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.90%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 24 (21.62%) Microsoft
2 15 (13.51%) VMware
3 9 (8.11%) Ubiquiti
4 8 (7.21%) Cisco
5 7 (6.31%) Apple
6 5 (4.50%) Sage
7 4 (3.60%) Meraki
8 3 (2.70%) Samsung
9 2 (1.80%) CyberArk
9 2 (1.80%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.80%) Veeam
10 1 (0.90%) Citrix
10 1 (0.90%) Commvault
10 1 (0.90%) Dell
10 1 (0.90%) Google
10 1 (0.90%) NetApp
10 1 (0.90%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.90%) SaltStack
10 1 (0.90%) WatchGuard
10 1 (0.90%) Zerto