Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends in Manchester

Infrastructure Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in Manchester is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 September 2025.

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

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 128 135
Rank change year-on-year +54 +7 +6
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 89 57 39
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 3.71% 1.40% 1.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.08% 1.48% 1.44%
Number of salaries quoted 29 42 29
10th Percentile £35,500 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £42,500 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +35.29% -16.67% +13.33%
75th Percentile £62,500 £55,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £66,000 £65,000 £67,500
North West median annual salary £53,750 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +19.44% -5.26% +11.76%

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 2,183 3,851 2,707
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.88% 94.50% 93.77%
Number of salaries quoted 1,307 2,251 2,168
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £34,626
25th Percentile £35,500 £42,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £82,500 £84,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -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

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Manchester.

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Manchester

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Manchester over the 6 months to 13 September 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 13 September 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
Altrincham - 4 £62,500 - 1
Sale - 3 - -
Stockport - 3 £47,500 - 1
Oldham - 3 - -
Cheadle - 3 - -
Bury - 3 - -
Bolton 0 2 - -
Heywood - 2 - -
Dukinfield - 2 - -
Ashton-under-Lyne - 2 - -
Stalybridge - 2 - -
Wigan - 2 - -
Littleborough - 1 - -
Salford - 1 £57,500 - 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 13 September 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 87 (97.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 59 (66.29%) Windows
2 59 (66.29%) Linux
3 55 (61.80%) DevOps
4 51 (57.30%) VPN
5 50 (56.18%) Problem-Solving
6 48 (53.93%) Terraform
6 48 (53.93%) Ansible
7 47 (52.81%) PowerShell
8 46 (51.69%) Cisco
9 45 (50.56%) Hyper-V
9 45 (50.56%) VMware NSX
10 44 (49.44%) Task Automation
10 44 (49.44%) vSphere
10 44 (49.44%) Bash
10 44 (49.44%) Docker
10 44 (49.44%) Python
11 43 (48.31%) Juniper
11 43 (48.31%) Risk Management
11 43 (48.31%) Line Management
11 43 (48.31%) Analytical Skills
11 43 (48.31%) 3PAR
11 43 (48.31%) Splunk
11 43 (48.31%) Android
11 43 (48.31%) Mathematics
11 43 (48.31%) Cisco IOS
11 43 (48.31%) Elastic Stack
11 43 (48.31%) Cyberattack
11 43 (48.31%) Storage Management
11 43 (48.31%) Inclusion and Diversity

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 5 (5.62%) IIS
2 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.12%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 20 (22.47%) Azure
2 5 (5.62%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (5.62%) IaaS
2 5 (5.62%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 4 (4.49%) AWS
3 4 (4.49%) Entra ID
4 2 (2.25%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (2.25%) Nutanix
5 1 (1.12%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (1.12%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (1.12%) Azure Stack
5 1 (1.12%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.12%) Cloudflare
5 1 (1.12%) GCP
5 1 (1.12%) OneDrive
5 1 (1.12%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 51 (57.30%) VPN
2 43 (48.31%) Cisco IOS
3 8 (8.99%) DNS
3 8 (8.99%) TETRA
4 7 (7.87%) DHCP
4 7 (7.87%) Firewall
5 5 (5.62%) DMZ
5 5 (5.62%) STUN
5 5 (5.62%) VLAN
5 5 (5.62%) VoIP
6 3 (3.37%) TCP/IP
7 1 (1.12%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.74%) SQL Server
General
1 43 (48.31%) Analytical Skills
1 43 (48.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 7 (7.87%) Social Skills
3 5 (5.62%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (4.49%) Finance
4 4 (4.49%) Legal
4 4 (4.49%) Local Government
5 2 (2.25%) Games
5 2 (2.25%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.12%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (48.31%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (5.62%) ARM Templates
2 5 (5.62%) FreeSWITCH
3 4 (4.49%) OLE
4 1 (1.12%) OpenCL
4 1 (1.12%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 43 (48.31%) Cyberattack
2 8 (8.99%) Driving Licence
3 5 (5.62%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (4.49%) Clustering
4 4 (4.49%) NHS
5 1 (1.12%) CUDA
5 1 (1.12%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.12%) PKI
5 1 (1.12%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 59 (66.29%) Linux
1 59 (66.29%) Windows
2 43 (48.31%) Android
3 15 (16.85%) Windows Server
4 6 (6.74%) CentOS
4 6 (6.74%) Debian
5 4 (4.49%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (3.37%) Mac OS
6 3 (3.37%) Unix
7 1 (1.12%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.12%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (97.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 55 (61.80%) DevOps
3 50 (56.18%) Problem-Solving
4 44 (49.44%) Task Automation
5 43 (48.31%) Line Management
5 43 (48.31%) Mathematics
5 43 (48.31%) Platform Engineering
5 43 (48.31%) Risk Management
5 43 (48.31%) Storage Management
6 9 (10.11%) Infrastructure Automation
7 6 (6.74%) Cybersecurity
7 6 (6.74%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (6.74%) Mentoring
7 6 (6.74%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (5.62%) Configuration Management
8 5 (5.62%) High Availability
8 5 (5.62%) ITIL
8 5 (5.62%) Software Licensing
8 5 (5.62%) User Acceptance Testing
9 4 (4.49%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 47 (52.81%) PowerShell
2 44 (49.44%) Bash
2 44 (49.44%) Python
3 6 (6.74%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (6.74%) Azure Certification
2 3 (3.37%) DV Cleared
2 3 (3.37%) Network+ Certification
2 3 (3.37%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.25%) Postgraduate
4 1 (1.12%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.12%) CEH
4 1 (1.12%) Degree
4 1 (1.12%) Linux+ Certification
4 1 (1.12%) MCSA
4 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.12%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (6.74%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (5.62%) ISO 9001
4 2 (2.25%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.25%) GDPR
5 1 (1.12%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.12%) NIST
System Software
1 45 (50.56%) Hyper-V
1 45 (50.56%) VMware NSX
2 44 (49.44%) Docker
2 44 (49.44%) vSphere
3 8 (8.99%) Active Directory
4 5 (5.62%) Kamailio
5 3 (3.37%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (2.25%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.12%) Dovecot
7 1 (1.12%) Postfix
7 1 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 48 (53.93%) Ansible
1 48 (53.93%) Terraform
2 6 (6.74%) Kubernetes
3 5 (5.62%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (3.37%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 46 (51.69%) Cisco
2 43 (48.31%) 3PAR
2 43 (48.31%) Juniper
2 43 (48.31%) Splunk
3 14 (15.73%) Microsoft
4 8 (8.99%) VMware
5 5 (5.62%) Salesforce
6 3 (3.37%) Fortinet
6 3 (3.37%) Google
7 2 (2.25%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.12%) Apple
8 1 (1.12%) Okta
8 1 (1.12%) Ping Identity
8 1 (1.12%) Rapid7
8 1 (1.12%) Veeam