Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in Tyne and Wear

Infrastructure Engineer
North East > Tyne and Wear

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in Tyne and Wear is £42,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 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
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 47 76
Rank change year-on-year +1 +29 -6
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 9 53 18
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 2.04% 3.98% 1.94%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.13% 4.13% 2.37%
Number of salaries quoted 6 52 18
10th Percentile £36,875 £35,920 £34,000
25th Percentile £37,554 £38,750 £35,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,250 £44,274 £45,750
Median % change year-on-year -4.57% -3.23% -8.50%
75th Percentile £58,000 £67,968 £57,500
90th Percentile £63,125 - £61,250
North East median annual salary £40,000 £44,274 £42,500
% change year-on-year -9.65% +4.17% -5.56%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Tyne and Wear

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Tyne and Wear. 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 Tyne and Wear with a recognized job title 422 1,284 759
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.48% 96.54% 81.61%
Number of salaries quoted 305 1,073 464
10th Percentile £25,087 £29,100 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,000 £36,250 £38,641
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +16.67%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,772 £75,000
North East median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £47,672
% change year-on-year - -0.36% +19.18%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings that featured Infrastructure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Tyne and Wear

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Tyne and Wear.

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Tyne and Wear

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in Tyne and Wear

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 5 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +8 8 £40,000 -27.27% 7
Infrastructure Engineer
North East

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear

For the 6 months to 5 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 Tyne and Wear region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (44.44%) Degree
3 3 (33.33%) Local Government
3 3 (33.33%) Windows
3 3 (33.33%) Firewall
3 3 (33.33%) Data Centre
3 3 (33.33%) Windows Server
4 2 (22.22%) Hyper-V
4 2 (22.22%) GDPR
4 2 (22.22%) NIST
4 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
4 2 (22.22%) Cisco
4 2 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (22.22%) VMware
4 2 (22.22%) Business Continuity
4 2 (22.22%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 2 (22.22%) Azure
5 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (11.11%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (11.11%) Penetration Testing
5 1 (11.11%) Data Analysis
5 1 (11.11%) Unix
5 1 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (11.11%) Network Security
5 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
5 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
5 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
5 1 (11.11%) Microsoft

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (11.11%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (11.11%) LAN
2 1 (11.11%) NAS
2 1 (11.11%) Network Security
2 1 (11.11%) SAN
2 1 (11.11%) SD-WAN
2 1 (11.11%) VPN
2 1 (11.11%) WAN
General
1 3 (33.33%) Local Government
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Law
2 1 (11.11%) Legal
2 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
2 1 (11.11%) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (11.11%) Cyber Security Posture
2 1 (11.11%) Driving Licence
2 1 (11.11%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
1 3 (33.33%) Windows Server
2 1 (11.11%) AIX
2 1 (11.11%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Solaris
2 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (22.22%) Business Continuity
2 2 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
2 2 (22.22%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 1 (11.11%) Business Continuity Planning
3 1 (11.11%) Coaching
3 1 (11.11%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (11.11%) Data Analysis
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (11.11%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (11.11%) SDLC
3 1 (11.11%) SIEM
3 1 (11.11%) Software Delivery
3 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) GDPR
1 2 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (22.22%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Hyper-V
1 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Cisco
1 2 (22.22%) VMware
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft