The first table below looks at the demand for the Infrastructure Specialist 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 Specialist in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Infrastructure Specialist
Rank 192 166 -
Rank change year-on-year
-26 -
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Specialist 2 9 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 0.049% 0.248% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.052% 0.257% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 5 0
Average salary £36,250 £27,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+31.81% -
UK excluding London average salary £35,250 £43,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-18.02% +22.85%
All Job Titles
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
3875 3500 3791
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 95.49% 96.53% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 3350 3122 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 £55,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Infrastructure Specialist
North West

Infrastructure Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester Infrastructure Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Infrastructure Specialist
Salary Trend

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

Manchester Infrastructure Specialist Salary Trend

Infrastructure Specialist
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Specialist within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 17 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
Altrincham - 1 £40,000 -
Infrastructure Specialist
North West

Infrastructure Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester region that cited Infrastructure Specialist 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 Specialist in their job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) HP
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (50.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (50.00%) Nagios
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Network Design
2 1 (50.00%) iSCSI
2 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (50.00%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (50.00%) F5
2 1 (50.00%) Fredhopper
2 1 (50.00%) Office 365
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) CCNA
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) PHP
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) MySQL
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) MCSE

Infrastructure Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester region that cited Infrastructure Specialist 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 Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) iSCSI
2 1 (50.00%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (50.00%) VoIP
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (50.00%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) MCSE
1 1 (50.00%) CCNA
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) HP
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) F5
2 1 (50.00%) Fredhopper
2 1 (50.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft