IT Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in the North West

IT Infrastructure Engineer
England > North West

The median IT Infrastructure Engineer salary in the North West is £42,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 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
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 293 264 281
Rank change year-on-year -29 +17 +36
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Infrastructure Engineer 7 28 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.087% 0.28% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.095% 0.30% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 7 17 12
10th Percentile - £29,900 -
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £46,500 £41,250
Median % change year-on-year -8.60% +12.73% +1.85%
75th Percentile £44,000 £60,000 £43,750
90th Percentile £47,750 £63,750 £47,125
England median annual salary £42,500 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year - -5.56% -

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 7,375 9,439 6,930
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.93% 94.63% 89.57%
Number of salaries quoted 4,012 7,250 4,054
10th Percentile £26,415 £27,250 £30,041
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
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 £77,500 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £56,000 £53,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year +5.66% -12.83% +1.33%

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Infrastructure Engineer in the North West

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for IT Infrastructure Engineer in the North West

IT 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 IT Infrastructure Engineer within the North West region over the 6 months to 20 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 -68 5 £42,500 -19.05%
Manchester +45 1 £43,500 -30.40% 1
Cumbria -68 1 £53,000 +32.50%
IT Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 2025, IT 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 IT Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Windows
1 7 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (85.71%) Windows Server
2 6 (85.71%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (85.71%) Firewall
2 6 (85.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (85.71%) DHCP
2 6 (85.71%) DNS
2 6 (85.71%) Active Directory
3 5 (71.43%) Unix
3 5 (71.43%) IPv4
3 5 (71.43%) LAN
3 5 (71.43%) Linux
3 5 (71.43%) PowerShell
3 5 (71.43%) Hyper-V
3 5 (71.43%) Veeam
3 5 (71.43%) Business Continuity
3 5 (71.43%) Retail
3 5 (71.43%) Incident Management
3 5 (71.43%) VLAN
3 5 (71.43%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (42.86%) VMware
5 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
5 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
6 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
6 1 (14.29%) Windows 10
6 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines

IT 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 6 (85.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (14.29%) IIS
2 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) DHCP
1 6 (85.71%) DNS
1 6 (85.71%) Firewall
2 5 (71.43%) IPv4
2 5 (71.43%) LAN
2 5 (71.43%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 5 (71.43%) Retail
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (85.71%) Windows Server
3 5 (71.43%) Linux
3 5 (71.43%) Unix
4 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (14.29%) Windows 10
5 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (71.43%) Business Continuity
2 5 (71.43%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (71.43%) Incident Management
3 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
3 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
3 1 (14.29%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) Active Directory
2 5 (71.43%) Hyper-V
3 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (14.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Veeam
2 3 (42.86%) VMware
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco
3 1 (14.29%) McAfee
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow
3 1 (14.29%) Tripwire