Infrastructure Engineering Job Trends in Bolton

Infrastructure Engineering
Manchester > Bolton

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Bolton requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 29 15
Rank change year-on-year +11 -14 +18
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 1 6 3
As % of all permanent jobs in Bolton 1.43% 5.94% 4.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.82% 6.12% 5.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 - £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -14.29%
75th Percentile £48,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Manchester median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Bolton

Infrastructure Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Bolton.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 55 98 59
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Bolton 78.57% 97.03% 86.76%
Number of salaries quoted 30 64 44
10th Percentile £29,625 £24,649 £29,150
25th Percentile £33,813 £29,875 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £40,000 £47,750
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -16.23% +19.38%
75th Percentile £52,188 £53,750 £60,938
90th Percentile £77,875 £77,500 £80,625
Manchester median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Bolton

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Bolton.

Infrastructure Engineering job vacancy trend in Bolton

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Trend in Bolton

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bolton citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Bolton citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
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 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VoIP
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 10
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Kalman Filter
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Web Filtering
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) DBS Check
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) MCSA
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Apple
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Meraki
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Ubiquiti