Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in Manchester

Infrastructure Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in Manchester is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 3 July 2025.

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

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 118 150
Rank change year-on-year +42 +32 +17
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 98 110 75
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 4.02% 1.86% 1.74%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.41% 1.95% 1.88%
Number of salaries quoted 39 90 63
10th Percentile £41,000 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £40,313 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £49,128 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.13% +3.43% +11.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £53,173
90th Percentile £73,886 £67,968 £59,000
North West median annual salary £52,000 £45,000 £47,250
% change year-on-year +15.56% -4.76% +11.18%

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 2,220 5,637 3,980
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.98% 95.12% 92.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,319 4,130 2,567
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,988 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -6.09% +4.55%
75th Percentile £74,258 £67,968 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,822 £80,000 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Manchester

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Manchester

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Manchester over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in Manchester

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 3 July 2025. 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
Oldham - 4 £43,500 - 3
Bury +4 3 - -
Cheadle - 3 - - 1
Sale - 3 - -
Altrincham -2 2 - - 1
Ashton-under-Lyne - 2 - -
Bolton - 2 - -
Dukinfield - 2 - -
Heywood - 2 - -
Stalybridge - 2 - -
Stockport - 2 - -
Wigan - 2 - - 2
Salford +13 1 £57,500 -28.13%
Littleborough - 1 - -
Rochdale - 1 - -
Infrastructure Engineer
North West

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

For the 6 months to 3 July 2025, 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 Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 96 (97.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 63 (64.29%) Linux
3 61 (62.24%) Windows
4 59 (60.20%) Problem-Solving
5 54 (55.10%) Terraform
6 52 (53.06%) DevOps
7 50 (51.02%) VMware NSX
7 50 (51.02%) PowerShell
8 49 (50.00%) Hyper-V
9 48 (48.98%) Ansible
10 47 (47.96%) VPN
11 46 (46.94%) Cisco
11 46 (46.94%) Bash
11 46 (46.94%) Docker
12 45 (45.92%) vSphere
12 45 (45.92%) Python
13 44 (44.90%) Task Automation
14 43 (43.88%) Elastic Stack
14 43 (43.88%) Line Management
14 43 (43.88%) Analytical Skills
14 43 (43.88%) Cyberattack
14 43 (43.88%) Storage Management
14 43 (43.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 43 (43.88%) Platform Engineering
14 43 (43.88%) Juniper
14 43 (43.88%) Risk Management
14 43 (43.88%) 3PAR
14 43 (43.88%) Splunk
14 43 (43.88%) Android
14 43 (43.88%) Mathematics

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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (6.12%) IIS
2 5 (5.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (5.10%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (6.12%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 24 (24.49%) Azure
2 8 (8.16%) Entra ID
3 7 (7.14%) AWS
3 7 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (6.12%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (6.12%) GCP
5 3 (3.06%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (3.06%) OneDrive
6 2 (2.04%) Nutanix
6 2 (2.04%) PaaS
7 1 (1.02%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (1.02%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (1.02%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.02%) Azure Stack
7 1 (1.02%) Cloudflare
7 1 (1.02%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 47 (47.96%) VPN
2 43 (43.88%) Cisco IOS
3 15 (15.31%) DNS
4 14 (14.29%) DHCP
5 7 (7.14%) Firewall
6 6 (6.12%) TETRA
7 5 (5.10%) NAS
7 5 (5.10%) SAN
7 5 (5.10%) VSAN
8 3 (3.06%) TCP/IP
9 1 (1.02%) Ethernet
9 1 (1.02%) LAN
9 1 (1.02%) Network Security
9 1 (1.02%) OSPF
9 1 (1.02%) WAN
9 1 (1.02%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.12%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.10%) MongoDB
2 5 (5.10%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (5.10%) Oracle Forms
General
1 43 (43.88%) Analytical Skills
1 43 (43.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 15 (15.31%) Finance
3 11 (11.22%) Social Skills
4 5 (5.10%) Banking
5 4 (4.08%) Legal
5 4 (4.08%) Local Government
6 2 (2.04%) Games
6 2 (2.04%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.02%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (43.88%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (5.10%) ARM Templates
2 5 (5.10%) Middleware
3 4 (4.08%) OLE
4 1 (1.02%) OpenCL
4 1 (1.02%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 43 (43.88%) Cyberattack
2 10 (10.20%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (4.08%) Clustering
3 4 (4.08%) Driving Licence
3 4 (4.08%) NHS
4 3 (3.06%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.02%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.02%) CUDA
5 1 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.02%) PKI
5 1 (1.02%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 63 (64.29%) Linux
2 61 (62.24%) Windows
3 43 (43.88%) Android
4 11 (11.22%) Windows Server
5 7 (7.14%) CentOS
6 4 (4.08%) Ubuntu
6 4 (4.08%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (3.06%) Mac OS
7 3 (3.06%) Unix
8 2 (2.04%) Debian
8 2 (2.04%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (1.02%) VMS
9 1 (1.02%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (97.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 59 (60.20%) Problem-Solving
3 52 (53.06%) DevOps
4 44 (44.90%) Task Automation
5 43 (43.88%) Line Management
5 43 (43.88%) Mathematics
5 43 (43.88%) Platform Engineering
5 43 (43.88%) Risk Management
5 43 (43.88%) Storage Management
6 13 (13.27%) Mentoring
7 9 (9.18%) Infrastructure Automation
8 7 (7.14%) Disaster Recovery
8 7 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
9 6 (6.12%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (5.10%) Agile
10 5 (5.10%) Architectural Design
10 5 (5.10%) Configuration Management
10 5 (5.10%) Defect Management
10 5 (5.10%) ITIL
10 5 (5.10%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 50 (51.02%) PowerShell
2 46 (46.94%) Bash
3 45 (45.92%) Python
4 6 (6.12%) SQL
5 1 (1.02%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 13 (13.27%) Azure Certification
2 10 (10.20%) Degree
3 7 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (5.10%) Security Cleared
4 5 (5.10%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (3.06%) AWS Certification
5 3 (3.06%) DV Cleared
5 3 (3.06%) Linux+ Certification
5 3 (3.06%) Network+ Certification
5 3 (3.06%) RHCE
6 2 (2.04%) Postgraduate
6 2 (2.04%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.02%) CCNA
7 1 (1.02%) CEH
7 1 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.02%) MCITP
7 1 (1.02%) MCSA
7 1 (1.02%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.08%) GDPR
2 3 (3.06%) HIPAA
3 2 (2.04%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.02%) NIST
System Software
1 50 (51.02%) VMware NSX
2 49 (50.00%) Hyper-V
3 46 (46.94%) Docker
4 45 (45.92%) vSphere
5 12 (12.24%) Active Directory
6 7 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (3.06%) Dovecot
7 3 (3.06%) Postfix
8 2 (2.04%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 54 (55.10%) Terraform
2 48 (48.98%) Ansible
3 8 (8.16%) Kubernetes
4 7 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (5.10%) Progress Chef
6 3 (3.06%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.02%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.02%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (1.02%) SCCM
7 1 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 46 (46.94%) Cisco
2 43 (43.88%) 3PAR
2 43 (43.88%) Juniper
2 43 (43.88%) Splunk
3 25 (25.51%) Microsoft
4 18 (18.37%) VMware
5 6 (6.12%) Google
6 5 (5.10%) Oracle
7 4 (4.08%) Red Hat
8 3 (3.06%) Fortinet
8 3 (3.06%) Okta
8 3 (3.06%) Ping Identity
9 1 (1.02%) Apple
9 1 (1.02%) Facebook
9 1 (1.02%) Veeam