Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in the North West

Infrastructure Engineer
England > North West

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in the North West is £45,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 91 166 174
Rank change year-on-year +75 +8 -63
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 257 132 175
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 2.58% 1.71% 1.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.72% 1.91% 1.92%
Number of salaries quoted 202 123 153
10th Percentile £35,000 £36,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £36,649
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £47,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% +10.59% -5.56%
75th Percentile £61,250 £53,096 £50,000
90th Percentile £67,968 £55,000 £58,750
England median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - +5.82%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 9,435 6,919 9,133
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.62% 89.54% 95.98%
Number of salaries quoted 7,240 4,035 5,402
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £81,250
England median annual salary £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the North West

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineer in the North West

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in the North West over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in the North West

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 20 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
Manchester +29 101 £49,128 +3.43% 9
Merseyside +51 56 £42,500 -5.56% 2
Cheshire +14 50 £46,000 -2.13% 4
Lancashire +14 30 £62,641 +31.88% 2
Cumbria - 20 £38,250 - 1
Infrastructure Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 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 West region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 235 (91.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 105 (40.86%) Windows
3 103 (40.08%) Microsoft
4 99 (38.52%) Azure
5 98 (38.13%) ITIL
6 87 (33.85%) Active Directory
7 67 (26.07%) VMware
8 64 (24.90%) Microsoft 365
9 56 (21.79%) DNS
10 51 (19.84%) Windows Server
11 48 (18.68%) DHCP
11 48 (18.68%) Mentoring
12 45 (17.51%) Coaching
13 43 (16.73%) Problem-Solving
14 42 (16.34%) AWS
15 41 (15.95%) VMware Infrastructure
16 39 (15.18%) Disaster Recovery
17 37 (14.40%) Microsoft Exchange
17 37 (14.40%) Public Cloud
18 36 (14.01%) Migration
19 35 (13.62%) Cisco
20 33 (12.84%) Linux
21 31 (12.06%) Firewall
21 31 (12.06%) Roadmaps
22 30 (11.67%) Social Skills
22 30 (11.67%) Finance
22 30 (11.67%) Hyper-V
23 29 (11.28%) LAN
24 27 (10.51%) Public Sector
24 27 (10.51%) Entra ID

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 37 (14.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (7.00%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.72%) IIS
4 4 (1.56%) CMS
4 4 (1.56%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.39%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (3.11%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.78%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 99 (38.52%) Azure
2 64 (24.90%) Microsoft 365
3 42 (16.34%) AWS
4 27 (10.51%) Entra ID
5 25 (9.73%) IaaS
6 15 (5.84%) SaaS
7 11 (4.28%) Power Platform
8 8 (3.11%) GCP
9 7 (2.72%) AWS KMS
9 7 (2.72%) Azure Key Vault
9 7 (2.72%) GitHub
9 7 (2.72%) PaaS
10 6 (2.33%) OneDrive
10 6 (2.33%) PowerApps
11 5 (1.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 4 (1.56%) GitHub Actions
13 3 (1.17%) AWS CodePipeline
14 2 (0.78%) Azure Logic Apps
14 2 (0.78%) Azure Service Bus
14 2 (0.78%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 56 (21.79%) DNS
2 48 (18.68%) DHCP
3 31 (12.06%) Firewall
4 29 (11.28%) LAN
5 23 (8.95%) WAN
6 13 (5.06%) VPN
7 9 (3.50%) WLAN
8 8 (3.11%) SSL
9 7 (2.72%) TCP/IP
9 7 (2.72%) Wireless
10 6 (2.33%) Network Security
10 6 (2.33%) Remote Desktop
10 6 (2.33%) SAN
10 6 (2.33%) VLAN
10 6 (2.33%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (1.95%) BGP
11 5 (1.95%) VoIP
12 4 (1.56%) TETRA
13 3 (1.17%) MPLS
13 3 (1.17%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (7.39%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.89%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (3.50%) MySQL
4 2 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.39%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 12 (4.67%) GitLab
2 7 (2.72%) Artifactory
3 5 (1.95%) MSI
4 4 (1.56%) Git
5 3 (1.17%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.17%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.78%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.78%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.39%) JIRA
General
1 30 (11.67%) Finance
1 30 (11.67%) Social Skills
2 27 (10.51%) Public Sector
3 18 (7.00%) Manufacturing
4 12 (4.67%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (3.50%) Legal
6 8 (3.11%) Law
7 5 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.56%) Retail
9 2 (0.78%) Advertising
9 2 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.39%) Banking
10 1 (0.39%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.39%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.95%) LDAP
2 4 (1.56%) .NET
2 4 (1.56%) CSS
3 3 (1.17%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 37 (14.40%) Public Cloud
2 24 (9.34%) Data Centre
3 17 (6.61%) Hybrid Cloud
4 14 (5.45%) Management Information System
5 11 (4.28%) PKI
6 9 (3.50%) Driving Licence
7 8 (3.11%) Private Cloud
8 7 (2.72%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (2.72%) Replication
8 7 (2.72%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.95%) CMDB
10 4 (1.56%) FMCG
11 3 (1.17%) Onboarding
11 3 (1.17%) PMI
12 2 (0.78%) CCTV
13 1 (0.39%) Data Protection Act
13 1 (0.39%) Housing Association
13 1 (0.39%) IBM Mainframe
13 1 (0.39%) Mainframe
13 1 (0.39%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 105 (40.86%) Windows
2 51 (19.84%) Windows Server
3 33 (12.84%) Linux
4 17 (6.61%) Unix
5 9 (3.50%) Android
5 9 (3.50%) Apple iOS
5 9 (3.50%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (3.11%) Windows Server 2012
6 8 (3.11%) Windows Server 2016
7 7 (2.72%) Mac OS
8 6 (2.33%) VMS
9 5 (1.95%) Windows 10
10 3 (1.17%) Windows Vista
11 1 (0.39%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.39%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 235 (91.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 98 (38.13%) ITIL
3 48 (18.68%) Mentoring
4 45 (17.51%) Coaching
5 43 (16.73%) Problem-Solving
6 39 (15.18%) Disaster Recovery
7 36 (14.01%) Migration
8 31 (12.06%) Roadmaps
9 26 (10.12%) Service Management
10 24 (9.34%) Capacity Planning
10 24 (9.34%) Change Management
11 23 (8.95%) Infrastructure Management
12 20 (7.78%) Cybersecurity
12 20 (7.78%) DevOps
13 19 (7.39%) Process Improvement
14 18 (7.00%) Continuous Improvement
14 18 (7.00%) Incident Management
15 17 (6.61%) Architecture Roadmap
15 17 (6.61%) Server Management
16 16 (6.23%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 25 (9.73%) PowerShell
2 17 (6.61%) SQL
3 9 (3.50%) Swift
4 6 (2.33%) Bash
5 5 (1.95%) Python
6 3 (1.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 27 (10.51%) Degree
2 14 (5.45%) HNC
3 6 (2.33%) CCNA
3 6 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (1.56%) A+ Certification
4 4 (1.56%) Network+ Certification
4 4 (1.56%) SC Cleared
4 4 (1.56%) Security Cleared
5 3 (1.17%) AWS Certification
5 3 (1.17%) Azure Certification
5 3 (1.17%) MCSA
5 3 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.17%) PMI Certification
6 2 (0.78%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.39%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.56%) NIST
2 3 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.39%) NCSC
3 1 (0.39%) SLA
System Software
1 87 (33.85%) Active Directory
2 41 (15.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (11.67%) Hyper-V
4 9 (3.50%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (1.56%) VMware Server
5 4 (1.56%) vSphere
6 2 (0.78%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (6.61%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (5.06%) Terraform
3 8 (3.11%) SCCM
4 7 (2.72%) Ansible
4 7 (2.72%) CA Single Sign-On
4 7 (2.72%) Single Sign-On
4 7 (2.72%) WSUS
5 6 (2.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.78%) BMC PATROL
6 2 (0.78%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 2 (0.78%) vRealize
7 1 (0.39%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.39%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 103 (40.08%) Microsoft
2 67 (26.07%) VMware
3 35 (13.62%) Cisco
4 27 (10.51%) Citrix
5 14 (5.45%) Veeam
6 11 (4.28%) NetApp
7 10 (3.89%) Dynatrace
7 10 (3.89%) Splunk
8 9 (3.50%) CA
8 9 (3.50%) ServiceNow
9 7 (2.72%) BMC
9 7 (2.72%) CyberArk
9 7 (2.72%) F5
9 7 (2.72%) Fortinet
9 7 (2.72%) Meraki
10 6 (2.33%) Aruba
10 6 (2.33%) Extreme Networks
10 6 (2.33%) SolarWinds
11 4 (1.56%) HP
11 4 (1.56%) Oracle