Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends in Yorkshire

Infrastructure Engineer
England > Yorkshire

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in Yorkshire is £52,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 August 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 122 110
Rank change year-on-year +27 -12 +4
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 114 46 86
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.59% 1.30% 1.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.68% 1.51% 1.77%
Number of salaries quoted 97 35 71
10th Percentile £43,500 £37,050 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £62,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +38.89% +13.92%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £56,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £63,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +15.00% -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Yorkshire. 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 6,777 3,050 4,865
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.57% 85.92% 94.58%
Number of salaries quoted 4,727 1,649 3,302
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £77,950
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Infrastructure Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Yorkshire.

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Yorkshire

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 4 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in Yorkshire

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 4 August 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
West Yorkshire +8 75 £60,000 -7.69% 9
North Yorkshire - 17 £47,500 - 1
South Yorkshire -31 10 £58,750 -2.08% 3
East Yorkshire -12 8 £46,250 +8.82% 5
Humberside - 2 £42,500 - 3
Infrastructure Engineer
England

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 4 August 2026, Infrastructure Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Yorkshire region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 107 (93.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 51 (44.74%) Azure
3 33 (28.95%) Microsoft
4 24 (21.05%) Windows
5 23 (20.18%) Active Directory
6 22 (19.30%) VMware
7 21 (18.42%) Windows Server
8 20 (17.54%) Microsoft 365
9 19 (16.67%) PowerShell
10 18 (15.79%) Entra ID
11 17 (14.91%) DHCP
11 17 (14.91%) DNS
12 15 (13.16%) Firewall
12 15 (13.16%) Oracle
12 15 (13.16%) VMware Infrastructure
13 14 (12.28%) Disaster Recovery
13 14 (12.28%) OCI
13 14 (12.28%) Platform Engineering
14 13 (11.40%) Hyper-V
15 12 (10.53%) Microsoft Intune
16 11 (9.65%) LAN
16 11 (9.65%) TCP/IP
16 11 (9.65%) Veeam
17 10 (8.77%) Migration
17 10 (8.77%) WAN
18 9 (7.89%) Cisco
19 8 (7.02%) AWS
19 8 (7.02%) Continuous Improvement
19 8 (7.02%) VPN
20 7 (6.14%) Bash

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 5 (4.39%) IIS
2 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 51 (44.74%) Azure
2 20 (17.54%) Microsoft 365
3 18 (15.79%) Entra ID
4 14 (12.28%) OCI
5 8 (7.02%) AWS
6 6 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (2.63%) IaaS
8 2 (1.75%) PaaS
9 1 (0.88%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.88%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.88%) Azure AKS
9 1 (0.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 1 (0.88%) ChatGPT
9 1 (0.88%) GCP
9 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (0.88%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 17 (14.91%) DHCP
1 17 (14.91%) DNS
2 15 (13.16%) Firewall
3 11 (9.65%) LAN
3 11 (9.65%) TCP/IP
4 10 (8.77%) WAN
5 8 (7.02%) VPN
6 7 (6.14%) SAN
7 6 (5.26%) NAS
7 6 (5.26%) VLAN
8 2 (1.75%) Wireless
9 1 (0.88%) BGP
9 1 (0.88%) HTTP
9 1 (0.88%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.88%) OSPF
9 1 (0.88%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.88%) SSL
9 1 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.39%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (0.88%) GitLab
General
1 10 (8.77%) Social Skills
2 6 (5.26%) Telecoms
3 4 (3.51%) Public Sector
4 1 (0.88%) Advertising
4 1 (0.88%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.88%) 802.1X
1 1 (0.88%) ARM Templates
1 1 (0.88%) OAuth
1 1 (0.88%) OAuth2
1 1 (0.88%) OpenID
1 1 (0.88%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.02%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (5.26%) CCTV
3 5 (4.39%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.75%) Driving Licence
5 1 (0.88%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.88%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.88%) PKI
5 1 (0.88%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.88%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 24 (21.05%) Windows
2 21 (18.42%) Windows Server
3 7 (6.14%) VMS
4 3 (2.63%) Linux
5 2 (1.75%) Android
5 2 (1.75%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.88%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (93.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 14 (12.28%) Disaster Recovery
2 14 (12.28%) Platform Engineering
3 10 (8.77%) Migration
4 8 (7.02%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (6.14%) Cybersecurity
5 7 (6.14%) Identity Management
5 7 (6.14%) Incident Management
6 6 (5.26%) Fintech
6 6 (5.26%) Identity Access Management
6 6 (5.26%) Project Delivery
6 6 (5.26%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 5 (4.39%) Data Loss Prevention
7 5 (4.39%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (4.39%) ITIL
7 5 (4.39%) Mentoring
7 5 (4.39%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (4.39%) Service Delivery
8 4 (3.51%) Coaching
8 4 (3.51%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 19 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 7 (6.14%) Bash
3 5 (4.39%) SQL
4 3 (2.63%) Bicep
5 1 (0.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (1.75%) Azure Certification
2 1 (0.88%) DV Cleared
2 1 (0.88%) SC Cleared
2 1 (0.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.51%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (1.75%) GDPR
2 2 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 23 (20.18%) Active Directory
2 15 (13.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (11.40%) Hyper-V
4 3 (2.63%) vSphere
5 2 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.75%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 12 (10.53%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (5.26%) WSUS
3 5 (4.39%) Terraform
3 5 (4.39%) VxRail
4 3 (2.63%) Kubernetes
5 2 (1.75%) Ansible
6 1 (0.88%) Avamar
6 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
6 1 (0.88%) Nessus
6 1 (0.88%) SCCM
6 1 (0.88%) SCOM
Vendors
1 33 (28.95%) Microsoft
2 22 (19.30%) VMware
3 15 (13.16%) Oracle
4 11 (9.65%) Veeam
5 9 (7.89%) Cisco
6 6 (5.26%) Dell
6 6 (5.26%) Zerto
7 5 (4.39%) Commvault
7 5 (4.39%) HP
7 5 (4.39%) Meraki
7 5 (4.39%) Tenable
8 2 (1.75%) Apple
8 2 (1.75%) Samsung
9 1 (0.88%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.88%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.88%) SolarWinds