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 7 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
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 81 188 172
Rank change year-on-year +107 -16 -50
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 521 283 389
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 2.67% 1.78% 2.08%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.80% 1.99% 2.16%
Number of salaries quoted 431 235 337
10th Percentile £35,000 £32,200 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,500 £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 £52,500 £51,000
90th Percentile £67,968 £60,000 £58,750
England median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%

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 18,613 14,213 18,022
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 95.26% 89.24% 96.29%
Number of salaries quoted 14,062 7,976 11,047
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +7.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £69,313 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £81,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,249 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.86% +0.42% +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 7 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 7 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 +94 290 £45,000 -4.26% 35
Yorkshire +70 152 £44,274 -1.06% 22
North East +31 77 £45,000 -1.64% 9
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 7 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.

1 491 (94.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 206 (39.54%) Windows
3 183 (35.12%) Azure
4 180 (34.55%) Microsoft
5 147 (28.21%) Active Directory
6 137 (26.30%) ITIL
7 123 (23.61%) Microsoft 365
8 122 (23.42%) VMware
9 101 (19.39%) Windows Server
10 96 (18.43%) Mentoring
11 87 (16.70%) Coaching
12 82 (15.74%) Firewall
13 81 (15.55%) DNS
14 80 (15.36%) Linux
15 79 (15.16%) AWS
16 73 (14.01%) Public Cloud
17 70 (13.44%) DHCP
18 69 (13.24%) Problem-Solving
19 64 (12.28%) Microsoft Exchange
20 63 (12.09%) Migration
20 63 (12.09%) VMware Infrastructure
21 60 (11.52%) Hybrid Cloud
22 58 (11.13%) Entra ID
23 57 (10.94%) Cybersecurity
24 56 (10.75%) Disaster Recovery
25 55 (10.56%) Hyper-V
25 55 (10.56%) Social Skills
26 53 (10.17%) Finance
27 52 (9.98%) Public Sector
28 51 (9.79%) 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 64 (12.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 31 (5.95%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.54%) IIS
4 4 (0.77%) CMS
4 4 (0.77%) Umbraco
5 3 (0.58%) Confluence
Applications
1 16 (3.07%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.77%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.19%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 2 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 183 (35.12%) Azure
2 123 (23.61%) Microsoft 365
3 79 (15.16%) AWS
4 58 (11.13%) Entra ID
5 45 (8.64%) IaaS
6 24 (4.61%) SaaS
7 14 (2.69%) OneDrive
7 14 (2.69%) PaaS
8 13 (2.50%) Azure Key Vault
9 12 (2.30%) AWS KMS
9 12 (2.30%) GCP
9 12 (2.30%) Power Platform
10 9 (1.73%) GitHub
10 9 (1.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 7 (1.34%) PowerApps
12 6 (1.15%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (0.96%) AWS CloudFormation
14 4 (0.77%) Azure Sentinel
14 4 (0.77%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (0.77%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 82 (15.74%) Firewall
2 81 (15.55%) DNS
3 70 (13.44%) DHCP
4 51 (9.79%) LAN
5 48 (9.21%) WAN
6 33 (6.33%) VPN
7 22 (4.22%) SAN
8 15 (2.88%) WLAN
9 13 (2.50%) Network Security
9 13 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
10 10 (1.92%) SD-WAN
10 10 (1.92%) SSL
10 10 (1.92%) TCP/IP
11 9 (1.73%) MPLS
12 8 (1.54%) BGP
12 8 (1.54%) VLAN
12 8 (1.54%) Wireless
13 7 (1.34%) NAS
14 6 (1.15%) OSPF
14 6 (1.15%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (5.18%) SQL Server
2 17 (3.26%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (1.73%) MySQL
4 4 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.38%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.19%) MS Access
6 1 (0.19%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 34 (6.53%) GitLab
2 21 (4.03%) Artifactory
3 9 (1.73%) Git
4 5 (0.96%) MSI
5 3 (0.58%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.58%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.58%) JIRA
6 2 (0.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.38%) Visual Studio
General
1 55 (10.56%) Social Skills
2 53 (10.17%) Finance
3 52 (9.98%) Public Sector
4 33 (6.33%) Manufacturing
5 17 (3.26%) Law
6 15 (2.88%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (2.11%) Automotive
8 9 (1.73%) Legal
9 8 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (0.96%) Retail
11 3 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.58%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.38%) Advertising
12 2 (0.38%) Banking
12 2 (0.38%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.19%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.19%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.19%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (1.54%) CSS
2 5 (0.96%) LDAP
3 4 (0.77%) .NET
4 3 (0.58%) AWS CDK
5 2 (0.38%) Lightning Web Components
5 2 (0.38%) Middleware
5 2 (0.38%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 73 (14.01%) Public Cloud
2 60 (11.52%) Hybrid Cloud
3 42 (8.06%) Data Centre
4 23 (4.41%) Private Cloud
5 21 (4.03%) Management Information System
6 18 (3.45%) PKI
7 14 (2.69%) Enterprise Software
8 11 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
9 10 (1.92%) Driving Licence
10 7 (1.34%) Replication
11 6 (1.15%) Cyber Threat
12 5 (0.96%) CMDB
12 5 (0.96%) FMCG
13 4 (0.77%) Clustering
13 4 (0.77%) IoT
14 3 (0.58%) Mobile App
14 3 (0.58%) Onboarding
14 3 (0.58%) PMI
14 3 (0.58%) Robotics
15 2 (0.38%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 206 (39.54%) Windows
2 101 (19.39%) Windows Server
3 80 (15.36%) Linux
4 28 (5.37%) Unix
5 21 (4.03%) Windows Server 2012
6 18 (3.45%) Windows Server 2016
7 12 (2.30%) Windows Server 2019
8 11 (2.11%) Mac OS
9 9 (1.73%) Android
9 9 (1.73%) Apple iOS
10 8 (1.54%) VMS
11 7 (1.34%) Windows 10
12 6 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 4 (0.77%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.58%) Amazon Linux
14 3 (0.58%) Windows Vista
15 2 (0.38%) zOS
16 1 (0.19%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 491 (94.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 137 (26.30%) ITIL
3 96 (18.43%) Mentoring
4 87 (16.70%) Coaching
5 69 (13.24%) Problem-Solving
6 63 (12.09%) Migration
7 57 (10.94%) Cybersecurity
8 56 (10.75%) Disaster Recovery
9 50 (9.60%) Service Management
10 46 (8.83%) Roadmaps
11 42 (8.06%) Infrastructure as Code
12 40 (7.68%) Change Management
13 39 (7.49%) DevOps
14 31 (5.95%) Operational Stability
15 28 (5.37%) Architecture Roadmap
15 28 (5.37%) Customer Service
16 26 (4.99%) Proactive Monitoring
17 25 (4.80%) Continuous Improvement
18 24 (4.61%) Capacity Planning
18 24 (4.61%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 43 (8.25%) PowerShell
2 30 (5.76%) SQL
3 16 (3.07%) Python
4 10 (1.92%) Bash
5 9 (1.73%) Swift
6 3 (0.58%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.19%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 36 (6.91%) Degree
2 14 (2.69%) HNC
3 9 (1.73%) Security Cleared
4 7 (1.34%) Azure Certification
4 7 (1.34%) CCNA
4 7 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (1.15%) AWS Certification
6 5 (0.96%) SC Cleared
7 4 (0.77%) A+ Certification
7 4 (0.77%) Network+ Certification
8 3 (0.58%) MCSA
8 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.58%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.38%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.38%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.19%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.19%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.11%) SLA
2 10 (1.92%) NIST
3 5 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.38%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 147 (28.21%) Active Directory
2 63 (12.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 55 (10.56%) Hyper-V
4 15 (2.88%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (1.73%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (1.34%) Virtual Servers
7 6 (1.15%) vSphere
8 5 (0.96%) Docker
8 5 (0.96%) XenApp
8 5 (0.96%) XenDesktop
9 4 (0.77%) VMware Server
10 1 (0.19%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 42 (8.06%) Microsoft Intune
1 42 (8.06%) Terraform
2 30 (5.76%) Ansible
3 23 (4.41%) SCCM
4 17 (3.26%) WSUS
5 12 (2.30%) CA Single Sign-On
5 12 (2.30%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (1.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 9 (1.73%) Kubernetes
7 7 (1.34%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 7 (1.34%) SCOM
8 4 (0.77%) Failover Clustering
8 4 (0.77%) Proxmox
9 2 (0.38%) BMC PATROL
9 2 (0.38%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.38%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.38%) Puppet
9 2 (0.38%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 2 (0.38%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.38%) vRealize
Vendors
1 180 (34.55%) Microsoft
2 122 (23.42%) VMware
3 44 (8.45%) Cisco
4 40 (7.68%) Citrix
5 21 (4.03%) Veeam
6 17 (3.26%) Dynatrace
6 17 (3.26%) Splunk
7 16 (3.07%) Oracle
8 15 (2.88%) ServiceNow
9 14 (2.69%) CA
10 13 (2.50%) Fortinet
11 12 (2.30%) CyberArk
11 12 (2.30%) NetApp
12 11 (2.11%) BMC
13 7 (1.34%) Aruba
13 7 (1.34%) Extreme Networks
13 7 (1.34%) F5
13 7 (1.34%) Meraki
13 7 (1.34%) Red Hat
14 6 (1.15%) SolarWinds