Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in the North West

Infrastructure Engineer
England > North West

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in the North West is £51,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 27 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 87 175
Rank change year-on-year +4 +88 -3
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 326 259 126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 4.19% 2.54% 1.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.55% 2.69% 1.84%
Number of salaries quoted 66 204 115
10th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £38,875 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £45,000 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -4.26% +10.59%
75th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £53,048
90th Percentile £67,500 £67,968 £55,000
England median annual salary £56,160 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +12.32% - -

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 7,165 9,643 6,847
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.12% 94.69% 89.43%
Number of salaries quoted 3,784 7,405 4,036
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,250 £30,138
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,325
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £76,840 £78,500 £80,875
England median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +6.67% -13.65% +1.33%

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 May 2025.

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 May 2025. 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
Lancashire -2 169 £47,750 -23.77% 30
Manchester +38 83 £60,000 +24.34% 39
Cheshire +1 46 £40,000 -12.09% 14
Cumbria -70 15 £52,000 +35.95% 2
Merseyside 0 13 £40,000 -5.88% 8
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 May 2025, 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.

1 325 (99.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 270 (82.82%) Windows
3 269 (82.52%) Linux
4 265 (81.29%) Problem-Solving
5 261 (80.06%) Terraform
6 258 (79.14%) DevOps
7 257 (78.83%) VMware NSX
7 257 (78.83%) PowerShell
7 257 (78.83%) Hyper-V
8 255 (78.22%) Ansible
9 254 (77.91%) Cisco
10 252 (77.30%) VPN
10 252 (77.30%) vSphere
10 252 (77.30%) Bash
10 252 (77.30%) Docker
11 251 (76.99%) Python
12 250 (76.69%) Juniper
12 250 (76.69%) Risk Management
12 250 (76.69%) 3PAR
12 250 (76.69%) Splunk
12 250 (76.69%) Android
12 250 (76.69%) Mathematics
12 250 (76.69%) Cisco IOS
12 250 (76.69%) Line Management
12 250 (76.69%) Analytical Skills
12 250 (76.69%) Elastic Stack
12 250 (76.69%) Cyberattack
12 250 (76.69%) Task Automation
12 250 (76.69%) Storage Management
12 250 (76.69%) Inclusion and Diversity

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 10 (3.07%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.53%) IIS
3 4 (1.23%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.92%) Exchange Server 2010
4 3 (0.92%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 16 (4.91%) AutoCAD
2 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 28 (8.59%) Azure
2 12 (3.68%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (2.15%) Entra ID
4 6 (1.84%) AWS
4 6 (1.84%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (1.84%) GCP
5 2 (0.61%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (0.61%) Nutanix
5 2 (0.61%) OneDrive
6 1 (0.31%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (0.31%) Cloudflare
6 1 (0.31%) IaaS
6 1 (0.31%) PaaS
6 1 (0.31%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 252 (77.30%) VPN
2 250 (76.69%) Cisco IOS
3 17 (5.21%) DNS
4 16 (4.91%) DHCP
5 9 (2.76%) Firewall
6 7 (2.15%) SAN
7 5 (1.53%) NAS
7 5 (1.53%) VSAN
8 4 (1.23%) LAN
9 3 (0.92%) IPv4
9 3 (0.92%) Skype
9 3 (0.92%) SMTP
9 3 (0.92%) VLAN
10 2 (0.61%) Cisco ISE
10 2 (0.61%) Reverse Proxy
10 2 (0.61%) SD-WAN
10 2 (0.61%) TETRA
11 1 (0.31%) Ethernet
11 1 (0.31%) OSPF
11 1 (0.31%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.15%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.53%) MongoDB
2 5 (1.53%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (1.53%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 250 (76.69%) Analytical Skills
1 250 (76.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 19 (5.83%) Social Skills
3 16 (4.91%) Finance
4 7 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (1.53%) Banking
6 4 (1.23%) Retail
7 2 (0.61%) Games
7 2 (0.61%) Legal
7 2 (0.61%) Local Government
8 1 (0.31%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.31%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 250 (76.69%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (1.53%) ARM Templates
2 5 (1.53%) Middleware
3 2 (0.61%) OLE
4 1 (0.31%) OpenCL
4 1 (0.31%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 250 (76.69%) Cyberattack
2 14 (4.29%) Data Centre
3 10 (3.07%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (0.92%) Clustering
5 2 (0.61%) Driving Licence
5 2 (0.61%) NHS
6 1 (0.31%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.31%) CUDA
6 1 (0.31%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.31%) PKI
6 1 (0.31%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.31%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.31%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 270 (82.82%) Windows
2 269 (82.52%) Linux
3 250 (76.69%) Android
4 11 (3.37%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.53%) CentOS
6 4 (1.23%) Unix
7 3 (0.92%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.92%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.61%) Debian
8 2 (0.61%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.61%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.31%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 325 (99.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 265 (81.29%) Problem-Solving
3 258 (79.14%) DevOps
4 250 (76.69%) Line Management
4 250 (76.69%) Mathematics
4 250 (76.69%) Platform Engineering
4 250 (76.69%) Risk Management
4 250 (76.69%) Storage Management
4 250 (76.69%) Task Automation
5 17 (5.21%) Mentoring
6 14 (4.29%) ITIL
7 11 (3.37%) Project Delivery
8 10 (3.07%) Disaster Recovery
9 9 (2.76%) Project Management
10 8 (2.45%) Infrastructure Automation
11 7 (2.15%) Commercial Awareness
12 6 (1.84%) Infrastructure as Code
13 5 (1.53%) Agile
13 5 (1.53%) Architectural Design
13 5 (1.53%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 257 (78.83%) PowerShell
2 252 (77.30%) Bash
3 251 (76.99%) Python
4 6 (1.84%) SQL
5 1 (0.31%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 19 (5.83%) Degree
2 14 (4.29%) SC Cleared
2 14 (4.29%) Security Cleared
3 12 (3.68%) Azure Certification
4 8 (2.45%) DV Cleared
5 7 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (2.15%) RIBA
6 5 (1.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (0.61%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.61%) Linux+ Certification
7 2 (0.61%) RHCE
8 1 (0.31%) CCNA
8 1 (0.31%) CEH
8 1 (0.31%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.31%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.31%) MCITP
8 1 (0.31%) MCSA
8 1 (0.31%) MCSE
8 1 (0.31%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.31%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.61%) GDPR
1 2 (0.61%) HIPAA
2 1 (0.31%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.31%) SLA
System Software
1 257 (78.83%) Hyper-V
1 257 (78.83%) VMware NSX
2 252 (77.30%) Docker
2 252 (77.30%) vSphere
3 14 (4.29%) Active Directory
4 7 (2.15%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.61%) Dovecot
5 2 (0.61%) Postfix
5 2 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.61%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 261 (80.06%) Terraform
2 255 (78.22%) Ansible
3 9 (2.76%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (2.15%) Kubernetes
5 5 (1.53%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.31%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.31%) SCCM
6 1 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 254 (77.91%) Cisco
2 250 (76.69%) 3PAR
2 250 (76.69%) Juniper
2 250 (76.69%) Splunk
3 27 (8.28%) Microsoft
4 19 (5.83%) VMware
5 6 (1.84%) Google
5 6 (1.84%) Veeam
6 5 (1.53%) Oracle
7 3 (0.92%) Red Hat
8 2 (0.61%) Meraki
8 2 (0.61%) Okta
8 2 (0.61%) Ping Identity
8 2 (0.61%) Sophos
8 2 (0.61%) Synology
9 1 (0.31%) Apple
9 1 (0.31%) Facebook
9 1 (0.31%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.31%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.31%) Tripwire