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 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 85 192 173
Rank change year-on-year +107 -19 -49
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 509 288 385
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 2.70% 1.78% 2.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.84% 2.00% 2.17%
Number of salaries quoted 420 238 333
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,200 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,720 £36,500 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £45,000 £43,150
Median % change year-on-year - +4.29% +0.35%
75th Percentile £60,313 £52,500 £51,250
90th Percentile £67,968 £60,000 £58,750
England median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%

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 17,953 14,401 17,753
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.20% 89.25% 96.28%
Number of salaries quoted 13,711 7,947 10,940
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 £77,500 £80,627 £80,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,331 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.98% +0.55% +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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +90 276 £45,000 -4.26% 34
Yorkshire +66 152 £44,274 -1.61% 26
North East +42 79 £44,274 -0.51% 5
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 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.

1 481 (94.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 209 (41.06%) Windows
3 185 (36.35%) Azure
4 181 (35.56%) Microsoft
5 150 (29.47%) Active Directory
6 139 (27.31%) ITIL
7 124 (24.36%) VMware
7 124 (24.36%) Microsoft 365
8 105 (20.63%) Windows Server
9 96 (18.86%) Mentoring
10 87 (17.09%) Coaching
11 84 (16.50%) Firewall
12 82 (16.11%) DNS
13 80 (15.72%) AWS
14 79 (15.52%) Linux
15 73 (14.34%) Public Cloud
16 70 (13.75%) DHCP
17 69 (13.56%) Problem-Solving
18 67 (13.16%) Microsoft Exchange
19 65 (12.77%) VMware Infrastructure
20 64 (12.57%) Migration
21 59 (11.59%) Entra ID
21 59 (11.59%) Social Skills
22 58 (11.39%) Cybersecurity
23 57 (11.20%) Disaster Recovery
23 57 (11.20%) Hyper-V
24 56 (11.00%) Hybrid Cloud
25 55 (10.81%) Finance
26 52 (10.22%) Public Sector
27 51 (10.02%) LAN

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 67 (13.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 31 (6.09%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.57%) IIS
4 4 (0.79%) CMS
4 4 (0.79%) Umbraco
5 3 (0.59%) Confluence
Applications
1 16 (3.14%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.79%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 185 (36.35%) Azure
2 124 (24.36%) Microsoft 365
3 80 (15.72%) AWS
4 59 (11.59%) Entra ID
5 44 (8.64%) IaaS
6 23 (4.52%) SaaS
7 15 (2.95%) GCP
8 14 (2.75%) PaaS
9 13 (2.55%) Azure Key Vault
9 13 (2.55%) OneDrive
10 12 (2.36%) AWS KMS
10 12 (2.36%) Power Platform
11 9 (1.77%) GitHub
11 9 (1.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 7 (1.38%) PowerApps
13 6 (1.18%) Amazon EC2
14 5 (0.98%) AWS CloudFormation
15 4 (0.79%) GitHub Actions
15 4 (0.79%) Serverless
16 3 (0.59%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 84 (16.50%) Firewall
2 82 (16.11%) DNS
3 70 (13.75%) DHCP
4 51 (10.02%) LAN
5 49 (9.63%) WAN
6 32 (6.29%) VPN
7 21 (4.13%) SAN
8 15 (2.95%) WLAN
9 13 (2.55%) Network Security
9 13 (2.55%) Wi-Fi
10 11 (2.16%) SD-WAN
10 11 (2.16%) TCP/IP
11 10 (1.96%) MPLS
11 10 (1.96%) SSL
12 9 (1.77%) BGP
13 8 (1.57%) VLAN
13 8 (1.57%) Wireless
14 7 (1.38%) NAS
14 7 (1.38%) OSPF
15 6 (1.18%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (5.30%) SQL Server
2 17 (3.34%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (1.77%) MySQL
4 4 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.39%) 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 (6.68%) GitLab
2 21 (4.13%) Artifactory
3 8 (1.57%) Git
4 5 (0.98%) MSI
5 3 (0.59%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.59%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.59%) JIRA
6 2 (0.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.39%) Visual Studio
General
1 59 (11.59%) Social Skills
2 55 (10.81%) Finance
3 52 (10.22%) Public Sector
4 33 (6.48%) Manufacturing
5 17 (3.34%) Law
6 15 (2.95%) Analytical Skills
7 12 (2.36%) Automotive
8 9 (1.77%) Legal
9 8 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (0.98%) Banking
10 5 (0.98%) Retail
11 3 (0.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.59%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.39%) Advertising
12 2 (0.39%) 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 (1.57%) CSS
2 5 (0.98%) LDAP
3 4 (0.79%) .NET
4 3 (0.59%) AWS CDK
4 3 (0.59%) Middleware
5 2 (0.39%) Lightning Web Components
5 2 (0.39%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 73 (14.34%) Public Cloud
2 56 (11.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 41 (8.06%) Data Centre
4 26 (5.11%) Private Cloud
5 21 (4.13%) Management Information System
6 18 (3.54%) PKI
7 14 (2.75%) Enterprise Software
8 11 (2.16%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (1.96%) Driving Licence
10 7 (1.38%) Cyber Threat
10 7 (1.38%) Replication
11 5 (0.98%) Cloud Native
11 5 (0.98%) Clustering
11 5 (0.98%) CMDB
11 5 (0.98%) FMCG
12 4 (0.79%) IoT
13 3 (0.59%) Mobile App
13 3 (0.59%) Onboarding
13 3 (0.59%) PMI
13 3 (0.59%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 209 (41.06%) Windows
2 105 (20.63%) Windows Server
3 79 (15.52%) Linux
4 28 (5.50%) Unix
5 22 (4.32%) Windows Server 2012
6 19 (3.73%) Windows Server 2016
7 12 (2.36%) Windows Server 2019
8 11 (2.16%) Mac OS
9 9 (1.77%) Android
9 9 (1.77%) Apple iOS
10 8 (1.57%) VMS
11 7 (1.38%) Windows 10
12 6 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 4 (0.79%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.59%) Amazon Linux
14 3 (0.59%) Windows Vista
15 2 (0.39%) zOS
16 1 (0.20%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 481 (94.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 139 (27.31%) ITIL
3 96 (18.86%) Mentoring
4 87 (17.09%) Coaching
5 69 (13.56%) Problem-Solving
6 64 (12.57%) Migration
7 58 (11.39%) Cybersecurity
8 57 (11.20%) Disaster Recovery
9 50 (9.82%) Service Management
10 46 (9.04%) Roadmaps
11 42 (8.25%) DevOps
11 42 (8.25%) Infrastructure as Code
12 40 (7.86%) Change Management
13 31 (6.09%) Operational Stability
14 28 (5.50%) Architecture Roadmap
14 28 (5.50%) Continuous Improvement
15 26 (5.11%) Customer Service
15 26 (5.11%) Proactive Monitoring
16 24 (4.72%) Capacity Planning
16 24 (4.72%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 43 (8.45%) PowerShell
2 31 (6.09%) SQL
3 15 (2.95%) Python
4 10 (1.96%) Bash
5 9 (1.77%) Swift
6 3 (0.59%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.20%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 36 (7.07%) Degree
2 14 (2.75%) HNC
3 9 (1.77%) Security Cleared
4 8 (1.57%) Azure Certification
5 7 (1.38%) CCNA
5 7 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (1.18%) AWS Certification
7 5 (0.98%) SC Cleared
8 4 (0.79%) A+ Certification
8 4 (0.79%) Network+ Certification
9 3 (0.59%) MCSA
9 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (0.59%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.39%) Computer Science Degree
10 2 (0.39%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 1 (0.20%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.36%) SLA
2 10 (1.96%) NIST
3 5 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.39%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.20%) NCSC
System Software
1 150 (29.47%) Active Directory
2 65 (12.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 57 (11.20%) Hyper-V
4 15 (2.95%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (1.96%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (1.38%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (1.38%) Virtual Servers
7 6 (1.18%) vSphere
8 5 (0.98%) Docker
8 5 (0.98%) XenApp
8 5 (0.98%) XenDesktop
9 4 (0.79%) VMware Server
10 1 (0.20%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 42 (8.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 41 (8.06%) Terraform
3 29 (5.70%) Ansible
4 24 (4.72%) SCCM
5 17 (3.34%) WSUS
6 12 (2.36%) CA Single Sign-On
6 12 (2.36%) Single Sign-On
7 9 (1.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 9 (1.77%) Kubernetes
8 7 (1.38%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
8 7 (1.38%) SCOM
9 5 (0.98%) Failover Clustering
10 4 (0.79%) Proxmox
11 2 (0.39%) BMC PATROL
11 2 (0.39%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.39%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 2 (0.39%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.39%) vRealize
12 1 (0.20%) Nagios
12 1 (0.20%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 181 (35.56%) Microsoft
2 124 (24.36%) VMware
3 42 (8.25%) Cisco
4 39 (7.66%) Citrix
5 20 (3.93%) Veeam
6 17 (3.34%) Dynatrace
6 17 (3.34%) Splunk
7 15 (2.95%) Oracle
7 15 (2.95%) ServiceNow
8 14 (2.75%) CA
9 13 (2.55%) Fortinet
10 12 (2.36%) CyberArk
11 11 (2.16%) BMC
11 11 (2.16%) NetApp
12 7 (1.38%) Aruba
12 7 (1.38%) Extreme Networks
12 7 (1.38%) F5
12 7 (1.38%) Meraki
12 7 (1.38%) Red Hat
13 6 (1.18%) SolarWinds