Infrastructure Engineering Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Infrastructure Engineering
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northamptonshire requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 41 45
Rank change year-on-year +4 +4 -10
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 8 8 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Northamptonshire 1.94% 1.79% 1.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.48% 2.07% 1.67%
Number of salaries quoted 7 3 6
10th Percentile - £42,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £45,625 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £61,250 £74,375 £51,875
90th Percentile £72,500 £86,750 £52,500
East Midlands median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Northamptonshire

Infrastructure Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Northamptonshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 323 386 360
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 78.21% 86.35% 86.96%
Number of salaries quoted 225 147 298
10th Percentile £27,125 £27,600 £30,875
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,625 £40,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £71,800
East Midlands median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.76%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire.

Infrastructure Engineering job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Trend in Northamptonshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Histogram in Northamptonshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in Northamptonshire

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 15 January 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
Northampton -2 6 £35,000 -63.16% 5
Infrastructure Engineering
East Midlands

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Dynamics 365
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) DHCP
1 3 (37.50%) DNS
1 3 (37.50%) VPN
2 2 (25.00%) Network Security
2 2 (25.00%) WAN
3 1 (12.50%) LAN
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (62.50%) Analyst
3 3 (37.50%) Applications Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) Applications Support
3 3 (37.50%) Applications Support Analyst
3 3 (37.50%) Applications Support Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Support
3 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
3 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) Support Analyst
3 3 (37.50%) Support Engineer
4 2 (25.00%) Information Analyst
4 2 (25.00%) Information Security Analyst
4 2 (25.00%) Security Analyst
5 1 (12.50%) Senior
5 1 (12.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Onboarding
2 2 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (25.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Mac OS
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
1 3 (37.50%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Agile
1 5 (62.50%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (62.50%) ITIL
1 5 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (37.50%) Client Onboarding
2 3 (37.50%) Computer Science
2 3 (37.50%) CRM
2 3 (37.50%) Incident Management
2 3 (37.50%) Process Improvement
2 3 (37.50%) Scrum
2 3 (37.50%) Service Management
3 2 (25.00%) Customer Service
3 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 2 (25.00%) Deadline-Driven
3 2 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 2 (25.00%) Information Security
3 2 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (25.00%) Threat Detection
4 1 (12.50%) Project Delivery
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) Degree
2 3 (37.50%) MCP
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (25.00%) CCNA
3 2 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (25.00%) CISM
3 2 (25.00%) CISSP
3 2 (25.00%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (37.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (25.00%) GDPR
2 2 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco