Infrastructure Management Job Trends in Cheshire

Infrastructure Management
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Infrastructure Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 59 59
Rank change year-on-year -11 0 +31
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Management 2 1 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheshire 0.16% 0.17% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.19% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £36,250 £34,750 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £36,500 £55,440
Median % change year-on-year +2.74% -34.16% -
75th Percentile £38,750 £38,250 -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median annual salary £40,000 £70,000 £55,440
% change year-on-year -42.86% +26.26% +5.60%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cheshire

Infrastructure Management 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 Cheshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,074 529 430
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheshire 84.83% 88.76% 85.32%
Number of salaries quoted 422 266 348
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,500 £23,850
25th Percentile £35,000 £39,000 £35,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,979 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.11% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £60,000 £58,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £69,375 £77,650
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -

Infrastructure Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Infrastructure Management job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Infrastructure Management
Salary Trend in Cheshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Infrastructure Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Infrastructure Management

Infrastructure Management
Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Management within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 2 January 2026. 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
Knutsford - 2 £37,500 -
Infrastructure Management
North West

Infrastructure Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Datadog
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) CA Release Automation
2 1 (50.00%) CircleCI
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (50.00%) TeamCity
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Change Control
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) Go
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform