Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends in Bolton

Infrastructure Engineer
Manchester > Bolton

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in Bolton is £47,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 10 November 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 26 -
Rank change year-on-year +8 - -
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 3 4 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Bolton 3.80% 3.48% -
As % of the Job Titles category 4.76% 3.74% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 - -
75th Percentile £48,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Manchester median annual salary £50,000 £40,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% -33.33% +26.32%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Bolton

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Bolton. 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 Bolton with a recognized job title 63 107 51
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 79.75% 93.04% 96.23%
Number of salaries quoted 45 62 37
10th Percentile £28,900 £30,000 £28,900
25th Percentile £32,750 £41,250 £29,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £52,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% +40.63%
75th Percentile £51,250 £53,750 £55,000
90th Percentile £73,500 £59,750 £66,000
Manchester median annual salary £51,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.27% -4.35% +4.55%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Bolton

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Infrastructure Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Bolton.

Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in Bolton

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in Bolton

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Bolton.

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Bolton

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bolton

For the 6 months to 10 November 2025, Infrastructure Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Bolton region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
1 3 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) 3PAR
2 2 (66.67%) Android
2 2 (66.67%) Ansible
2 2 (66.67%) Bash
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Docker
2 2 (66.67%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (66.67%) Juniper
2 2 (66.67%) Line Management
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Mathematics
2 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Management
2 2 (66.67%) Splunk
2 2 (66.67%) Storage Management
2 2 (66.67%) Task Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 2 (66.67%) VMware NSX
2 2 (66.67%) VPN
2 2 (66.67%) vSphere
3 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (33.33%) Apple

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bolton by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco IOS
1 2 (66.67%) VPN
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) LAN
2 1 (33.33%) VLAN
2 1 (33.33%) VoIP
2 1 (33.33%) WAN
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cyberattack
2 1 (33.33%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Android
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Line Management
2 2 (66.67%) Mathematics
2 2 (66.67%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Risk Management
2 2 (66.67%) Storage Management
2 2 (66.67%) Task Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Change Management
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
3 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Information Security
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (33.33%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (33.33%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) CCNA
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (33.33%) DBS Check
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) MCSA
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (66.67%) Docker
2 2 (66.67%) VMware NSX
2 2 (66.67%) vSphere
3 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
2 2 (66.67%) 3PAR
2 2 (66.67%) Juniper
2 2 (66.67%) Splunk
3 1 (33.33%) Apple
3 1 (33.33%) Meraki
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) Ubiquiti