Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in the North of England

Infrastructure Engineer
England > North of England

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in the North of England is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 83 191 167
Rank change year-on-year +108 -24 -55
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 490 291 382
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 2.74% 1.73% 2.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.88% 1.93% 2.17%
Number of salaries quoted 400 244 329
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £37,313 £36,649
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.88% -1.16%
75th Percentile £60,000 £52,625 £51,000
90th Percentile £67,968 £60,000 £58,750
England median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - +5.82%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the North of England. 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 16,989 15,062 17,598
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.04% 89.50% 96.24%
Number of salaries quoted 13,134 8,047 10,963
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £78,446 £80,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £52,550 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -13.57% +1.33% +9.09%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured Infrastructure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the North of England

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the North of England.

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the North of England

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in the North of England

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 23 May 2024. 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
North West +72 259 £45,000 -4.26% 31
Yorkshire +85 154 £44,274 -1.61% 24
North East +38 75 £44,274 +0.62% 6
Infrastructure Engineer
England

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 23 May 2024, 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 North of England region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 463 (94.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 211 (43.06%) Windows
3 186 (37.96%) Azure
4 185 (37.76%) Microsoft
5 153 (31.22%) Active Directory
6 138 (28.16%) ITIL
7 127 (25.92%) VMware
8 126 (25.71%) Microsoft 365
9 105 (21.43%) Windows Server
10 96 (19.59%) Mentoring
11 87 (17.76%) Coaching
12 86 (17.55%) Firewall
13 82 (16.73%) DNS
14 81 (16.53%) Linux
15 79 (16.12%) AWS
16 73 (14.90%) Public Cloud
17 71 (14.49%) Problem-Solving
18 70 (14.29%) DHCP
19 69 (14.08%) Microsoft Exchange
19 69 (14.08%) VMware Infrastructure
20 65 (13.27%) Migration
21 63 (12.86%) Social Skills
22 60 (12.24%) Entra ID
22 60 (12.24%) Finance
22 60 (12.24%) Hyper-V
23 58 (11.84%) Disaster Recovery
24 55 (11.22%) Cybersecurity
25 53 (10.82%) LAN
26 52 (10.61%) Public Sector
27 51 (10.41%) WAN

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 69 (14.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 33 (6.73%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.63%) IIS
4 4 (0.82%) CMS
4 4 (0.82%) Umbraco
5 3 (0.61%) Confluence
Applications
1 16 (3.27%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.82%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.61%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 186 (37.96%) Azure
2 126 (25.71%) Microsoft 365
3 79 (16.12%) AWS
4 60 (12.24%) Entra ID
5 45 (9.18%) IaaS
6 23 (4.69%) SaaS
7 16 (3.27%) GCP
8 14 (2.86%) PaaS
9 13 (2.65%) Azure Key Vault
9 13 (2.65%) OneDrive
10 12 (2.45%) AWS KMS
11 11 (2.24%) Power Platform
12 9 (1.84%) GitHub
12 9 (1.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 6 (1.22%) Amazon EC2
13 6 (1.22%) PowerApps
14 5 (1.02%) AWS CloudFormation
15 4 (0.82%) GitHub Actions
15 4 (0.82%) Serverless
16 3 (0.61%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 86 (17.55%) Firewall
2 82 (16.73%) DNS
3 70 (14.29%) DHCP
4 53 (10.82%) LAN
5 51 (10.41%) WAN
6 35 (7.14%) VPN
7 21 (4.29%) SAN
8 15 (3.06%) Network Security
8 15 (3.06%) WLAN
9 13 (2.65%) SD-WAN
9 13 (2.65%) Wi-Fi
10 11 (2.24%) TCP/IP
11 10 (2.04%) SSL
12 9 (1.84%) BGP
12 9 (1.84%) MPLS
12 9 (1.84%) Wireless
13 8 (1.63%) VLAN
14 7 (1.43%) NAS
14 7 (1.43%) OSPF
15 6 (1.22%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (5.51%) SQL Server
2 17 (3.47%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (1.84%) MySQL
4 4 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.20%) MS Access
6 1 (0.20%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.20%) Power BI
6 1 (0.20%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 34 (6.94%) GitLab
2 21 (4.29%) Artifactory
3 8 (1.63%) Git
4 5 (1.02%) MSI
5 3 (0.61%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.61%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.61%) JIRA
6 2 (0.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.41%) Visual Studio
General
1 63 (12.86%) Social Skills
2 60 (12.24%) Finance
3 52 (10.61%) Public Sector
4 32 (6.53%) Manufacturing
5 18 (3.67%) Law
6 16 (3.27%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (2.45%) Automotive
8 9 (1.84%) Legal
9 7 (1.43%) Banking
9 7 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (1.02%) Retail
11 3 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.61%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.41%) Advertising
12 2 (0.41%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.20%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.20%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.20%) Local Government
13 1 (0.20%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.63%) CSS
2 5 (1.02%) LDAP
3 4 (0.82%) .NET
4 3 (0.61%) AWS CDK
4 3 (0.61%) Middleware
5 2 (0.41%) Lightning Web Components
5 2 (0.41%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 73 (14.90%) Public Cloud
2 45 (9.18%) Hybrid Cloud
3 43 (8.78%) Data Centre
4 27 (5.51%) Private Cloud
5 21 (4.29%) Management Information System
6 18 (3.67%) PKI
7 14 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
8 11 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (2.04%) Driving Licence
10 7 (1.43%) Cloud Native
10 7 (1.43%) Cyber Threat
10 7 (1.43%) Replication
11 6 (1.22%) Clustering
12 5 (1.02%) CMDB
12 5 (1.02%) FMCG
13 4 (0.82%) IoT
14 3 (0.61%) Mobile App
14 3 (0.61%) Onboarding
14 3 (0.61%) PMI
14 3 (0.61%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 211 (43.06%) Windows
2 105 (21.43%) Windows Server
3 81 (16.53%) Linux
4 28 (5.71%) Unix
5 22 (4.49%) Windows Server 2012
6 19 (3.88%) Windows Server 2016
7 13 (2.65%) Windows Server 2019
8 11 (2.24%) Mac OS
9 9 (1.84%) Android
9 9 (1.84%) Apple iOS
10 8 (1.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 8 (1.63%) VMS
11 7 (1.43%) Windows 10
12 4 (0.82%) Windows Server 2008
13 3 (0.61%) Amazon Linux
13 3 (0.61%) Windows Vista
14 2 (0.41%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 463 (94.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 138 (28.16%) ITIL
3 96 (19.59%) Mentoring
4 87 (17.76%) Coaching
5 71 (14.49%) Problem-Solving
6 65 (13.27%) Migration
7 58 (11.84%) Disaster Recovery
8 55 (11.22%) Cybersecurity
9 50 (10.20%) Service Management
10 47 (9.59%) Roadmaps
11 44 (8.98%) DevOps
12 42 (8.57%) Infrastructure as Code
13 40 (8.16%) Change Management
14 31 (6.33%) Operational Stability
15 30 (6.12%) Continuous Improvement
16 28 (5.71%) Architecture Roadmap
17 27 (5.51%) Customer Service
18 26 (5.31%) Proactive Monitoring
19 25 (5.10%) High Availability
20 24 (4.90%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 44 (8.98%) PowerShell
2 30 (6.12%) SQL
3 16 (3.27%) Python
4 12 (2.45%) Bash
5 9 (1.84%) Swift
6 3 (0.61%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (0.41%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.20%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 36 (7.35%) Degree
2 14 (2.86%) HNC
3 11 (2.24%) Azure Certification
4 9 (1.84%) Security Cleared
5 8 (1.63%) CCNA
5 8 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (1.22%) AWS Certification
7 5 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.02%) SC Cleared
8 4 (0.82%) A+ Certification
8 4 (0.82%) MCSA
8 4 (0.82%) Network+ Certification
9 3 (0.61%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.41%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.41%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.41%) MCSE
11 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (2.65%) SLA
2 10 (2.04%) NIST
3 5 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.41%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.20%) NCSC
System Software
1 153 (31.22%) Active Directory
2 69 (14.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 60 (12.24%) Hyper-V
4 15 (3.06%) VMware ESXi
5 12 (2.45%) Virtual Desktop
6 10 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (1.43%) Virtual Servers
7 7 (1.43%) XenApp
7 7 (1.43%) XenDesktop
8 6 (1.22%) vSphere
9 4 (0.82%) Docker
9 4 (0.82%) VMware Server
10 2 (0.41%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 43 (8.78%) Microsoft Intune
2 40 (8.16%) Terraform
3 30 (6.12%) Ansible
4 27 (5.51%) SCCM
5 17 (3.47%) WSUS
6 12 (2.45%) CA Single Sign-On
6 12 (2.45%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (1.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 9 (1.84%) SCOM
8 8 (1.63%) Kubernetes
8 8 (1.63%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
9 6 (1.22%) Failover Clustering
10 4 (0.82%) Proxmox
11 3 (0.61%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.41%) BMC PATROL
12 2 (0.41%) NetBackup
12 2 (0.41%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 2 (0.41%) vCenter Server
12 2 (0.41%) vRealize
13 1 (0.20%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 185 (37.76%) Microsoft
2 127 (25.92%) VMware
3 44 (8.98%) Cisco
4 40 (8.16%) Citrix
5 21 (4.29%) Veeam
6 17 (3.47%) Dynatrace
6 17 (3.47%) Splunk
7 15 (3.06%) Fortinet
7 15 (3.06%) Oracle
7 15 (3.06%) ServiceNow
8 14 (2.86%) CA
9 12 (2.45%) CyberArk
10 11 (2.24%) BMC
10 11 (2.24%) NetApp
11 9 (1.84%) Commvault
12 8 (1.63%) Aruba
12 8 (1.63%) Red Hat
13 7 (1.43%) Extreme Networks
13 7 (1.43%) F5
13 7 (1.43%) Meraki