Infrastructure Engineering Job Trends in Sunderland

Infrastructure Engineering
Tyne and Wear > Sunderland

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Sunderland requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 - 29
Rank change year-on-year - - -25
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 2 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Sunderland 1.20% - 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.90% - 1.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £48,750 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 - -
75th Percentile £56,250 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £45,250 £54,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -16.20% -10.00% +14.29%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Sunderland

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 Sunderland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 105 49 97
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Sunderland 63.25% 96.08% 95.10%
Number of salaries quoted 77 26 86
10th Percentile £29,250 £26,669 £35,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £34,125 £39,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £51,875 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.25% +3.75% -4.76%
75th Percentile £53,750 £59,688 £60,000
90th Percentile £65,500 £65,000 £66,250
Tyne and Wear median annual salary £55,000 £48,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +14.58% +1.05% -9.52%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Sunderland

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

Infrastructure Engineering job vacancy trend in Sunderland

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Trend in Sunderland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Sunderland citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Sunderland citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sunderland 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 1 (50.00%) IIS
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CodeDeploy
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CodePipeline
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Fargate
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Cloudflare
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Spanning Tree
1 1 (50.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) TeamCity
General
1 1 (50.00%) Games
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (50.00%) VMS
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Management
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) FinOps
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Fluentd
1 1 (50.00%) Kibana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Veeam