Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends in Yorkshire

Infrastructure Engineer
England > Yorkshire

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in Yorkshire is £51,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 October 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 125 104
Rank change year-on-year +43 -21 -1
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 113 31 80
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.48% 0.92% 1.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.60% 1.06% 1.83%
Number of salaries quoted 102 22 53
10th Percentile £40,125 £40,575 £39,100
25th Percentile £45,250 £55,313 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £65,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.77% +44.44% +11.80%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,438 £53,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £58,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +20.00% -4.76%

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 7,066 2,923 4,376
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.85% 86.50% 94.66%
Number of salaries quoted 5,083 1,544 2,237
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £30,945 £39,221
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,130 £46,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -8.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £59,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.18% - -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 7 October 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 7 October 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 0 65 £65,576 +0.89% 21
East Yorkshire - 16 £45,000 - 4
North Yorkshire +24 15 £50,000 +4.17% 2
South Yorkshire -21 13 £58,750 -16.07% 6
Humberside - 2 £42,500 - 2
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 7 October 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.

1 109 (96.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 41 (36.28%) Azure
3 31 (27.43%) Microsoft
4 28 (24.78%) Windows
5 25 (22.12%) Active Directory
5 25 (22.12%) Windows Server
6 22 (19.47%) Microsoft 365
7 20 (17.70%) DNS
8 19 (16.81%) DHCP
8 19 (16.81%) Firewall
9 16 (14.16%) Entra ID
9 16 (14.16%) PowerShell
10 14 (12.39%) Oracle
11 13 (11.50%) VMware
12 12 (10.62%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (10.62%) Disaster Recovery
12 12 (10.62%) OCI
12 12 (10.62%) Project Delivery
12 12 (10.62%) VMware Infrastructure
13 11 (9.73%) Platform Engineering
14 10 (8.85%) AWS
14 10 (8.85%) Infrastructure as Code
14 10 (8.85%) LAN
14 10 (8.85%) Microsoft Intune
14 10 (8.85%) Terraform
14 10 (8.85%) VPN
15 9 (7.96%) Cisco
15 9 (7.96%) TCP/IP
15 9 (7.96%) WAN
16 8 (7.08%) Hyper-V

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 4 (3.54%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (3.54%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.65%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.88%) AutoCAD
2 1 (0.88%) Civil 3D
2 1 (0.88%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 41 (36.28%) Azure
2 22 (19.47%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (14.16%) Entra ID
4 12 (10.62%) OCI
5 10 (8.85%) AWS
6 5 (4.42%) IaaS
7 3 (2.65%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (2.65%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (2.65%) PaaS
8 2 (1.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (1.77%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.77%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (1.77%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.77%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.77%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (1.77%) Serverless
8 2 (1.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (0.88%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 1 (0.88%) Mimecast
9 1 (0.88%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 20 (17.70%) DNS
2 19 (16.81%) DHCP
2 19 (16.81%) Firewall
3 10 (8.85%) LAN
3 10 (8.85%) VPN
4 9 (7.96%) TCP/IP
4 9 (7.96%) WAN
5 6 (5.31%) VLAN
6 5 (4.42%) SAN
7 4 (3.54%) NAS
8 2 (1.77%) SD-WAN
8 2 (1.77%) Wireless
9 1 (0.88%) BGP
9 1 (0.88%) HTTP
9 1 (0.88%) Kerberos
9 1 (0.88%) Network Security
9 1 (0.88%) OSPF
9 1 (0.88%) SSL
9 1 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.42%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.65%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (1.77%) Git
2 1 (0.88%) GitLab
General
1 14 (12.39%) Manufacturing
2 12 (10.62%) Social Skills
3 5 (4.42%) Telecoms
4 4 (3.54%) Law
4 4 (3.54%) Public Sector
5 2 (1.77%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (0.88%) Advertising
6 1 (0.88%) Aerospace
6 1 (0.88%) Finance
6 1 (0.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (0.88%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (8.85%) Terraform
2 1 (0.88%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.88%) ARM Templates
2 1 (0.88%) OAuth
2 1 (0.88%) OAuth2
2 1 (0.88%) OpenID
2 1 (0.88%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.85%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (4.42%) CCTV
3 4 (3.54%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.65%) Driving Licence
4 3 (2.65%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.77%) Private Cloud
5 2 (1.77%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.88%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (0.88%) Life Science
6 1 (0.88%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.88%) PKI
6 1 (0.88%) Smartphone
6 1 (0.88%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 28 (24.78%) Windows
2 25 (22.12%) Windows Server
3 8 (7.08%) Linux
4 7 (6.19%) VMS
5 2 (1.77%) Unix
6 1 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.88%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (96.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (10.62%) Continuous Improvement
2 12 (10.62%) Disaster Recovery
2 12 (10.62%) Project Delivery
3 11 (9.73%) Platform Engineering
4 10 (8.85%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (7.08%) Migration
5 8 (7.08%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (6.19%) CI/CD
6 7 (6.19%) Mentoring
7 6 (5.31%) Identity Access Management
7 6 (5.31%) Identity Management
8 5 (4.42%) Coaching
8 5 (4.42%) Cybersecurity
8 5 (4.42%) Infrastructure Automation
8 5 (4.42%) ITIL
9 4 (3.54%) Data Loss Prevention
9 4 (3.54%) DevOps
9 4 (3.54%) Infrastructure Transformation
9 4 (3.54%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (14.16%) PowerShell
2 6 (5.31%) Bash
2 6 (5.31%) SQL
3 5 (4.42%) Python
4 3 (2.65%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 2 (1.77%) Azure Certification
1 2 (1.77%) Degree
2 1 (0.88%) Chartered Engineer
2 1 (0.88%) DBS Check
2 1 (0.88%) DV Cleared
2 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (0.88%) SC Cleared
2 1 (0.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.77%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (1.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (1.77%) GDPR
1 2 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 25 (22.12%) Active Directory
2 12 (10.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (7.08%) Hyper-V
4 4 (3.54%) vSphere
5 3 (2.65%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (1.77%) Docker
6 2 (1.77%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.77%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.88%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 10 (8.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (4.42%) Ansible
2 5 (4.42%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.42%) WSUS
3 4 (3.54%) VxRail
4 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
4 2 (1.77%) SCCM
4 2 (1.77%) SCOM
5 1 (0.88%) Avamar
5 1 (0.88%) Nessus
5 1 (0.88%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.88%) Puppet
5 1 (0.88%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 31 (27.43%) Microsoft
2 14 (12.39%) Oracle
3 13 (11.50%) VMware
4 9 (7.96%) Cisco
5 6 (5.31%) Veeam
6 4 (3.54%) Dell
6 4 (3.54%) Meraki
6 4 (3.54%) Zerto
7 3 (2.65%) Commvault
7 3 (2.65%) HP
7 3 (2.65%) Red Hat
7 3 (2.65%) Tenable
8 1 (0.88%) CyberArk
8 1 (0.88%) NetApp
8 1 (0.88%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.88%) Thales