The first table below looks at the demand for the Infrastructure Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Infrastructure Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Manchester region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Infrastructure Engineer
Rank 176 148 166
Rank change year-on-year
-28 +18
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 16 25 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 0.391% 0.690% 0.101%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.409% 0.716% 0.105%
Number of salaries quoted 12 22 4
Average salary £26,500 £37,500 £31,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
-29.33% +20.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £32,500 £29,300
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £44,000 £32,850
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +7.14%
All Job Titles
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
3913 3494 3793
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 95.56% 96.41% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 3384 3103 3469
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £23,000 £21,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £56,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Infrastructure Engineer
North West

Infrastructure Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer across the Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Manchester Infrastructure Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer across the Manchester region.

Manchester Infrastructure Engineer Salary Trend

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Manchester Infrastructure Engineer Salary Histogram

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Bolton +7 3 £25,000 -41.86%
Stockport -3 3 £25,000 -41.86%
Infrastructure Engineer
North West

Infrastructure Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester region that cited Infrastructure Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Infrastructure Engineer in their job title.

1 37 (68.52%) Windows
2 34 (62.96%) Microsoft
2 34 (62.96%) VMware
3 31 (57.41%) Active Directory
4 30 (55.56%) Windows Server 2003
4 30 (55.56%) MS Exchange
5 26 (48.15%) Windows Server 2008
6 21 (38.89%) VMware Infrastructure
6 21 (38.89%) Cisco
6 21 (38.89%) Exchange Server 2010
7 20 (37.04%) WAN
8 19 (35.19%) NetApp
9 15 (27.78%) LAN
9 15 (27.78%) vSphere
10 14 (25.93%) Firewall
10 14 (25.93%) SAN
11 13 (24.07%) DNS
11 13 (24.07%) ITIL
11 13 (24.07%) Legal
12 12 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
12 12 (22.22%) Hyper-V
12 12 (22.22%) SQL Server
12 12 (22.22%) DHCP
13 11 (20.37%) Microsoft Certification
13 11 (20.37%) MPLS
14 10 (18.52%) TCP/IP
14 10 (18.52%) SCCM
14 10 (18.52%) SCOM
14 10 (18.52%) VMware ESXi
15 9 (16.67%) Windows 7

Infrastructure Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester region that cited Infrastructure Engineer in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled with Infrastructure Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 30 (55.56%) MS Exchange
2 21 (38.89%) Exchange Server 2010
3 8 (14.81%) SharePoint
4 7 (12.96%) Exchange Server 2007
5 6 (11.11%) Lync
6 5 (9.259%) Exchange Server 2003
7 3 (5.556%) SharePoint 2010
8 2 (3.704%) IIS
8 2 (3.704%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 7 (12.96%) MS Excel
2 5 (9.259%) MS Office
3 3 (5.556%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 4 (7.407%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 20 (37.04%) WAN
2 15 (27.78%) LAN
3 14 (25.93%) Firewall
3 14 (25.93%) SAN
4 13 (24.07%) DNS
5 12 (22.22%) DHCP
6 11 (20.37%) MPLS
7 10 (18.52%) TCP/IP
8 7 (12.96%) NAS
8 7 (12.96%) VoIP
9 6 (11.11%) WLAN
9 6 (11.11%) Fibre Channel
9 6 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
10 3 (5.556%) VPN
10 3 (5.556%) SNMP
11 1 (1.852%) Network Security
11 1 (1.852%) iSCSI
11 1 (1.852%) Wireless
11 1 (1.852%) SDH
11 1 (1.852%) ADSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 5 (9.259%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (7.407%) SQL Server 2000
3 4 (7.407%) SQL Server 2005
3 4 (7.407%) SQL Server 2012
4 3 (5.556%) MySQL
5 1 (1.852%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 2 (3.704%) MSI
General
1 13 (24.07%) Legal
2 5 (9.259%) Telecoms
3 4 (7.407%) Law
4 3 (5.556%) Finance
5 1 (1.852%) Retail
5 1 (1.852%) Electronics
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.11%) Firmware
2 4 (7.407%) Blackberry
3 2 (3.704%) Clustering
3 2 (3.704%) iPad
4 1 (1.852%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 37 (68.52%) Windows
2 30 (55.56%) Windows Server 2003
3 26 (48.15%) Windows Server 2008
4 9 (16.67%) Windows 7
5 8 (14.81%) Windows XP
6 7 (12.96%) Linux
7 4 (7.407%) UNIX
8 3 (5.556%) Windows NT
9 2 (3.704%) Solaris
10 1 (1.852%) Windows Vista
10 1 (1.852%) Mac OS X
10 1 (1.852%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (24.07%) ITIL
2 12 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (11.11%) Business Continuity
3 6 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
4 5 (9.259%) Network Management
5 4 (7.407%) CRM
5 4 (7.407%) Migration
6 3 (5.556%) Network Design
6 3 (5.556%) Time Management
6 3 (5.556%) Change Management
6 3 (5.556%) Project Management
6 3 (5.556%) PRINCE2
7 1 (1.852%) Network Architecture
7 1 (1.852%) High Availability
7 1 (1.852%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (1.852%) Software Engineering
7 1 (1.852%) Problem Management
7 1 (1.852%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (14.81%) SQL
2 2 (3.704%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.852%) VB
3 1 (1.852%) C++
3 1 (1.852%) Java
Qualifications
1 11 (20.37%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (16.67%) MCSE
3 8 (14.81%) MCITP
4 5 (9.259%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (9.259%) MCP
5 4 (7.407%) CCNA
6 3 (5.556%) MCTS
6 3 (5.556%) Degree
6 3 (5.556%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (5.556%) MCSA
7 2 (3.704%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (3.704%) NCDA
8 1 (1.852%) VCP4
8 1 (1.852%) VCP5
8 1 (1.852%) Security Cleared
8 1 (1.852%) CCNP
8 1 (1.852%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.852%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.852%) BS7799
System Software
1 31 (57.41%) Active Directory
2 21 (38.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (27.78%) vSphere
4 12 (22.22%) Hyper-V
5 10 (18.52%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (11.11%) NFS
7 3 (5.556%) XenApp
7 3 (5.556%) Citrix Presentation Server
7 3 (5.556%) Samba
8 1 (1.852%) XenServer
8 1 (1.852%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 10 (18.52%) SCCM
1 10 (18.52%) SCOM
2 6 (11.11%) WSUS
3 4 (7.407%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
4 2 (3.704%) MOM
4 2 (3.704%) SolarWinds Orion
5 1 (1.852%) McAfee ePO
5 1 (1.852%) SCVMM
5 1 (1.852%) NetBackup
5 1 (1.852%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (1.852%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 34 (62.96%) Microsoft
1 34 (62.96%) VMware
2 21 (38.89%) Cisco
3 19 (35.19%) NetApp
4 9 (16.67%) HP
5 8 (14.81%) Citrix
6 4 (7.407%) Symantec
7 2 (3.704%) Sophos
7 2 (3.704%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.852%) AppSense
8 1 (1.852%) Apple
8 1 (1.852%) McAfee
8 1 (1.852%) IBM
8 1 (1.852%) Sun
8 1 (1.852%) Avaya
8 1 (1.852%) Oracle