Senior Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in the North West

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
England > North West

The median Senior Infrastructure Engineer salary in the North West is £56,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 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
10 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 260 230 294
Rank change year-on-year -30 +64 +19
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 19 62 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.24% 0.63% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.67% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 12 53 12
10th Percentile - - £47,750
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £48,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £62,783 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.01% +23.10% +29.70%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,968 £54,938
90th Percentile £64,292 £70,000 £65,625
England median annual salary £61,644 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +2.74% +4.35% -4.17%

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 7,226 9,301 6,978
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.34% 94.61% 89.05%
Number of salaries quoted 4,120 7,150 4,068
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,619 £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 £61,250 £65,000 £69,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the North West

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the North West

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the North West over the 6 months to 10 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the North West

Senior 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 Senior Infrastructure Engineer within the North West region over the 6 months to 10 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
Manchester +47 18 £60,000 -4.43% 10
Lancashire -72 1 £53,000 -15.58% 6
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 10 May 2025, Senior 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 Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 19 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (42.11%) Infrastructure Automation
2 8 (42.11%) Azure
3 7 (36.84%) Microsoft
3 7 (36.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (26.32%) DevOps
4 5 (26.32%) Kubernetes
4 5 (26.32%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (26.32%) Terraform
4 5 (26.32%) Ansible
4 5 (26.32%) Finance
4 5 (26.32%) Degree
4 5 (26.32%) AutoCAD
4 5 (26.32%) Configuration Management
4 5 (26.32%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (26.32%) Azure Certification
4 5 (26.32%) ARM Templates
5 4 (21.05%) Active Directory
5 4 (21.05%) Windows
5 4 (21.05%) DHCP
5 4 (21.05%) DNS
5 4 (21.05%) VMware
6 3 (15.79%) Clustering
6 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (15.79%) IIS
6 3 (15.79%) ITIL
6 3 (15.79%) Linux
6 3 (15.79%) AWS
6 3 (15.79%) CentOS
6 3 (15.79%) Windows Server

Senior 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 3 (15.79%) IIS
2 1 (5.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (26.32%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 8 (42.11%) Azure
2 5 (26.32%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (15.79%) AWS
4 2 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (10.53%) Nutanix
5 1 (5.26%) PaaS
5 1 (5.26%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (21.05%) DHCP
1 4 (21.05%) DNS
2 2 (10.53%) TETRA
3 1 (5.26%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (5.26%) Firewall
3 1 (5.26%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (5.26%) SAN
3 1 (5.26%) SD-WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) GitLab
General
1 5 (26.32%) Finance
2 2 (10.53%) Games
3 1 (5.26%) Local Government
3 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (26.32%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (15.79%) Clustering
3 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.26%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.26%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 4 (21.05%) Windows
2 3 (15.79%) CentOS
2 3 (15.79%) Linux
2 3 (15.79%) Windows Server
2 3 (15.79%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (42.11%) Infrastructure Automation
3 7 (36.84%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (26.32%) Configuration Management
4 5 (26.32%) DevOps
5 3 (15.79%) ITIL
5 3 (15.79%) Mentoring
5 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (15.79%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (10.53%) Coaching
6 2 (10.53%) Game Development
6 2 (10.53%) Network Architecture
6 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (10.53%) Tech Ops
7 1 (5.26%) Agile
7 1 (5.26%) Capacity Planning
7 1 (5.26%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (5.26%) Line Management
7 1 (5.26%) Patch Management
7 1 (5.26%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.26%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (26.32%) Azure Certification
1 5 (26.32%) Degree
2 1 (5.26%) CCNA
2 1 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (5.26%) MCITP
2 1 (5.26%) MCSE
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) Active Directory
2 2 (10.53%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (10.53%) VMware NSX
3 1 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (26.32%) Ansible
1 5 (26.32%) Kubernetes
1 5 (26.32%) Terraform
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (36.84%) Microsoft
2 4 (21.05%) VMware
3 1 (5.26%) Cisco
3 1 (5.26%) Facebook
3 1 (5.26%) Meraki
3 1 (5.26%) Sophos
3 1 (5.26%) Synology
3 1 (5.26%) Veeam