Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends in Manchester

Infrastructure Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in Manchester is £52,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 October 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 107 133
Rank change year-on-year +34 +26 +3
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 80 62 26
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 3.41% 1.69% 1.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.68% 1.78% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 26 46 16
10th Percentile £35,500 £37,125 £42,500
25th Percentile £40,000 - £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £40,000 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year +31.25% -31.91% +23.68%
75th Percentile £63,438 £49,384 £63,188
90th Percentile £67,500 £59,000 £68,125
North West median annual salary £53,750 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +19.44% -5.26% +7.95%

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 2,172 3,475 2,393
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.76% 96.41%
Number of salaries quoted 1,375 1,778 1,943
10th Percentile £28,250 £33,000 £34,536
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £55,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% -7.60% +8.23%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,825 £84,056
North West median annual salary £48,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Infrastructure Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend 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 30 October 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 30 October 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 4 £62,500 +31.58%
Oldham - 3 - -
Bury - 3 - -
Cheadle - 3 - - 2
Sale - 3 - -
Stockport - 3 £47,500 -
Bolton +6 2 - -
Wigan - 2 - -
Stalybridge - 2 - -
Dukinfield - 2 - -
Heywood - 2 - -
Ashton-under-Lyne - 2 - -
Rochdale - 1 - -
Littleborough - 1 - -
Infrastructure Engineer
North West

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 30 October 2025, Infrastructure Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Manchester region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 78 (97.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 58 (72.50%) Windows
3 57 (71.25%) Linux
4 51 (63.75%) DevOps
4 51 (63.75%) VPN
5 49 (61.25%) Problem-Solving
6 46 (57.50%) Cisco
6 46 (57.50%) PowerShell
7 45 (56.25%) Hyper-V
8 44 (55.00%) Ansible
8 44 (55.00%) Bash
8 44 (55.00%) Docker
8 44 (55.00%) Python
8 44 (55.00%) Task Automation
8 44 (55.00%) Terraform
8 44 (55.00%) VMware NSX
9 43 (53.75%) 3PAR
9 43 (53.75%) Android
9 43 (53.75%) Cisco IOS
9 43 (53.75%) Elastic Stack
9 43 (53.75%) Juniper
9 43 (53.75%) Line Management
9 43 (53.75%) Mathematics
9 43 (53.75%) Platform Engineering
9 43 (53.75%) Risk Management
9 43 (53.75%) Splunk
9 43 (53.75%) Storage Management
9 43 (53.75%) vSphere
10 14 (17.50%) Azure
11 13 (16.25%) Windows Server

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 3 (3.75%) IIS
2 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Civil 3D
Cloud Services
1 14 (17.50%) Azure
2 5 (6.25%) IaaS
2 5 (6.25%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 2 (2.50%) AWS
3 2 (2.50%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.25%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (1.25%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (1.25%) Azure Stack
4 1 (1.25%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.25%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.25%) Nutanix
4 1 (1.25%) OneDrive
4 1 (1.25%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 51 (63.75%) VPN
2 43 (53.75%) Cisco IOS
3 6 (7.50%) DHCP
3 6 (7.50%) DNS
3 6 (7.50%) Firewall
3 6 (7.50%) TETRA
4 5 (6.25%) DMZ
4 5 (6.25%) STUN
4 5 (6.25%) VLAN
4 5 (6.25%) VoIP
5 3 (3.75%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.25%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.25%) SQL Server
General
1 43 (53.75%) Analytical Skills
1 43 (53.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 6 (7.50%) Social Skills
3 5 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (5.00%) Finance
4 4 (5.00%) Legal
4 4 (5.00%) Local Government
5 2 (2.50%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.25%) Games
6 1 (1.25%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (53.75%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (6.25%) FreeSWITCH
3 3 (3.75%) OLE
4 1 (1.25%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 43 (53.75%) Cyberattack
2 8 (10.00%) Driving Licence
3 4 (5.00%) NHS
4 3 (3.75%) Clustering
5 1 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 58 (72.50%) Windows
2 57 (71.25%) Linux
3 43 (53.75%) Android
4 13 (16.25%) Windows Server
5 5 (6.25%) CentOS
5 5 (6.25%) Debian
6 3 (3.75%) Unix
6 3 (3.75%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (2.50%) Mac OS
8 1 (1.25%) Ubuntu
8 1 (1.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (97.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 51 (63.75%) DevOps
3 49 (61.25%) Problem-Solving
4 44 (55.00%) Task Automation
5 43 (53.75%) Line Management
5 43 (53.75%) Mathematics
5 43 (53.75%) Platform Engineering
5 43 (53.75%) Risk Management
5 43 (53.75%) Storage Management
6 6 (7.50%) Mentoring
7 5 (6.25%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (6.25%) High Availability
7 5 (6.25%) Software Licensing
7 5 (6.25%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (6.25%) User Acceptance Testing
8 4 (5.00%) Infrastructure Automation
8 4 (5.00%) Project Management
9 3 (3.75%) ITIL
9 3 (3.75%) Technical Leadership
10 2 (2.50%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 46 (57.50%) PowerShell
2 44 (55.00%) Bash
2 44 (55.00%) Python
3 6 (7.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (3.75%) DV Cleared
1 3 (3.75%) Network+ Certification
1 3 (3.75%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.50%) Azure Certification
2 2 (2.50%) Postgraduate
3 1 (1.25%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.25%) Degree
3 1 (1.25%) Linux+ Certification
3 1 (1.25%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (6.25%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (6.25%) ISO 9001
3 2 (2.50%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.50%) GDPR
4 1 (1.25%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.25%) NIST
System Software
1 45 (56.25%) Hyper-V
2 44 (55.00%) Docker
2 44 (55.00%) VMware NSX
3 43 (53.75%) vSphere
4 5 (6.25%) Active Directory
4 5 (6.25%) Kamailio
5 2 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (1.25%) Dovecot
6 1 (1.25%) Postfix
6 1 (1.25%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 44 (55.00%) Ansible
1 44 (55.00%) Terraform
2 3 (3.75%) FortiGate
2 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (2.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 46 (57.50%) Cisco
2 43 (53.75%) 3PAR
2 43 (53.75%) Juniper
2 43 (53.75%) Splunk
3 8 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 7 (8.75%) VMware
5 5 (6.25%) Salesforce
6 3 (3.75%) Fortinet
7 2 (2.50%) Google
7 2 (2.50%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.25%) Okta
8 1 (1.25%) Ping Identity
8 1 (1.25%) Rapid7