Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends in Yorkshire

Infrastructure Engineer
England > Yorkshire

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in Yorkshire is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 January 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 83 73
Rank change year-on-year -31 -10 +97
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 58 67 136
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.61% 2.22% 3.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.74% 2.30% 3.47%
Number of salaries quoted 48 45 119
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,230 £31,125
25th Percentile £49,125 £45,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +17.65% -5.56%
75th Percentile £70,000 £58,750 £51,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £73,886 £67,968
England median annual salary £55,000 £53,300 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.19% +6.60% -3.85%

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 3,334 2,909 3,916
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.38% 96.55% 96.17%
Number of salaries quoted 2,023 1,166 3,176
10th Percentile £27,800 £29,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £30,382 £40,330 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,372 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.77% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,640 £71,250 £66,778
90th Percentile £83,300 £85,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

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 28 January 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 28 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
West Yorkshire -18 33 £62,500 -7.41% 16
North Yorkshire 0 9 £47,500 +5.56% 10
East Yorkshire -8 7 £50,000 +2.56% 1
South Yorkshire -8 6 £82,511 +79.37% 5
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 January 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 53 (91.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 28 (48.28%) Azure
3 19 (32.76%) Microsoft
4 15 (25.86%) Continuous Improvement
4 15 (25.86%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (25.86%) PowerShell
4 15 (25.86%) VMware
4 15 (25.86%) VMware Infrastructure
5 14 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (18.97%) Active Directory
6 11 (18.97%) Disaster Recovery
6 11 (18.97%) Windows
7 10 (17.24%) AWS
8 9 (15.52%) Terraform
9 8 (13.79%) Bash
9 8 (13.79%) Entra ID
9 8 (13.79%) Hyper-V
10 7 (12.07%) Cybersecurity
10 7 (12.07%) Kubernetes
10 7 (12.07%) Microsoft Intune
10 7 (12.07%) Technical Leadership
11 6 (10.34%) Coaching
11 6 (10.34%) DNS
11 6 (10.34%) Firewall
11 6 (10.34%) Mentoring
11 6 (10.34%) Migration
11 6 (10.34%) Roadmaps
11 6 (10.34%) SQL
11 6 (10.34%) SQL Server
11 6 (10.34%) Veeam

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 (6.90%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (6.90%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.72%) IIS
Business Applications
1 4 (6.90%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 28 (48.28%) Azure
2 15 (25.86%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (17.24%) AWS
4 8 (13.79%) Entra ID
5 5 (8.62%) Azure Monitor
5 5 (8.62%) Google Workspace
6 4 (6.90%) Mimecast
7 2 (3.45%) OCI
8 1 (1.72%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.72%) GCP
8 1 (1.72%) IaaS
8 1 (1.72%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.34%) DNS
1 6 (10.34%) Firewall
2 3 (5.17%) WAN
3 2 (3.45%) DHCP
3 2 (3.45%) DMZ
3 2 (3.45%) LAN
3 2 (3.45%) VLAN
3 2 (3.45%) VPN
4 1 (1.72%) NAS
4 1 (1.72%) SAN
4 1 (1.72%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.34%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (6.90%) Git
1 4 (6.90%) GitLab
General
1 9 (15.52%) Social Skills
2 5 (8.62%) Legal
3 3 (5.17%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.45%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.72%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.17%) OLE
2 1 (1.72%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.17%) CMDB
1 3 (5.17%) Data Centre
1 3 (5.17%) Driving Licence
2 2 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (3.45%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.72%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 11 (18.97%) Windows
2 5 (8.62%) Windows Server
3 3 (5.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (91.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 15 (25.86%) Continuous Improvement
3 14 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (18.97%) Disaster Recovery
5 7 (12.07%) Cybersecurity
5 7 (12.07%) Technical Leadership
6 6 (10.34%) Coaching
6 6 (10.34%) Mentoring
6 6 (10.34%) Migration
6 6 (10.34%) Roadmaps
7 5 (8.62%) Cloud Security
7 5 (8.62%) DevOps
7 5 (8.62%) Identity Management
7 5 (8.62%) Incident Management
7 5 (8.62%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (8.62%) Security Architecture
7 5 (8.62%) Virtual Infrastructure
7 5 (8.62%) Vulnerability Remediation
8 4 (6.90%) Architecture Roadmap
8 4 (6.90%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 15 (25.86%) PowerShell
2 8 (13.79%) Bash
3 6 (10.34%) SQL
4 2 (3.45%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (8.62%) AWS Certification
1 5 (8.62%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 5 (8.62%) Azure Certification
1 5 (8.62%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (6.90%) Degree
3 3 (5.17%) DV Cleared
3 3 (5.17%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 15 (25.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (18.97%) Active Directory
3 8 (13.79%) Hyper-V
4 4 (6.90%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 2 (3.45%) Docker
7 1 (1.72%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.72%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (15.52%) Terraform
2 7 (12.07%) Kubernetes
2 7 (12.07%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (5.17%) Ansible
4 2 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.72%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.72%) Kibana
5 1 (1.72%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.72%) VxRail
5 1 (1.72%) WSUS
Vendors
1 19 (32.76%) Microsoft
2 15 (25.86%) VMware
3 6 (10.34%) Veeam
4 5 (8.62%) Google
5 4 (6.90%) IFS
5 4 (6.90%) Oracle
6 3 (5.17%) Cisco
7 2 (3.45%) Citrix
7 2 (3.45%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.72%) Commvault
8 1 (1.72%) Dell
8 1 (1.72%) HP
8 1 (1.72%) LogRhythm
8 1 (1.72%) Meraki
8 1 (1.72%) New Relic
8 1 (1.72%) Tenable
8 1 (1.72%) Zerto