Azure Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in Manchester

Infrastructure Engineer - Microsoft Azure
North West > Manchester

The median Infrastructure Engineer - Microsoft Azure salary in Manchester is £51,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 213 236
Rank change year-on-year +64 +23 +18
Permanent jobs requiring an Azure Infrastructure Engineer 6 6 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.27% 0.12% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.12% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 2 6 5
10th Percentile £43,625 £45,000 £42,520
25th Percentile £45,313 £50,000 £50,049
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £65,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.15% +23.81% +10.53%
75th Percentile £57,813 - £60,000
90th Percentile £59,875 - £64,500
North West median annual salary £51,250 £47,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +7.89% -17.39% +10.05%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 1,992 4,849 4,551
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.30% 94.50% 91.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1,288 3,739 2,670
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,988 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £54,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.26% -6.09% +4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £92,000 £81,250 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings that featured Azure Infrastructure Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Infrastructure Engineer in Manchester

Azure Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Azure Infrastructure Engineer in Manchester.

Salary trend for Azure Infrastructure Engineer in Manchester

Azure Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester

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

1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (83.33%) Terraform
2 5 (83.33%) DevOps
2 5 (83.33%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
3 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
3 4 (66.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (66.67%) Configuration Management
3 4 (66.67%) ARM Templates
3 4 (66.67%) Azure Certification
3 4 (66.67%) Ansible
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) Firewall
4 1 (16.67%) ITSM
4 1 (16.67%) VMware
4 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
4 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
4 1 (16.67%) Windows
4 1 (16.67%) Python
4 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
4 1 (16.67%) vSphere
4 1 (16.67%) PaaS
4 1 (16.67%) High Availability
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Management

Azure Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (83.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (16.67%) PaaS
3 1 (16.67%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) DevOps
1 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
1 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) Configuration Management
2 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) FinOps
3 1 (16.67%) High Availability
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (16.67%) ITSM
3 1 (16.67%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Bicep
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (16.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Terraform
2 4 (66.67%) Ansible
2 4 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow
2 1 (16.67%) VMware