Infrastructure Engineer Jobs 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 17 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
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 112 157
Rank change year-on-year +29 +45 +12
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 87 102 86
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 3.80% 1.95% 1.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.20% 2.07% 1.94%
Number of salaries quoted 35 83 82
10th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £46,625 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% +5.26% +10.08%
75th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £53,096
90th Percentile £73,886 £67,968 £55,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £47,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -4.26% +10.59%

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 2,069 4,937 4,426
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.47% 94.36% 92.11%
Number of salaries quoted 1,266 3,807 2,601
10th Percentile £31,500 £30,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,063 £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 £93,125 £82,040 £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 17 May 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 17 May 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 -2 4 £43,500 -3.33% 2
Bury 0 3 - - 1
Cheadle - 3 - -
Sale - 3 - -
Altrincham -1 2 - - 4
Bolton -17 2 - - 1
Wigan - 2 - -
Stalybridge - 2 - -
Stockport - 2 - - 2
Heywood - 2 - -
Dukinfield - 2 - -
Ashton-under-Lyne - 2 - - 1
Salford +10 1 £57,500 -28.13% 3
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 17 May 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 86 (98.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 58 (66.67%) Windows
2 58 (66.67%) Linux
3 57 (65.52%) Problem-Solving
4 54 (62.07%) Terraform
5 52 (59.77%) DevOps
6 50 (57.47%) VMware NSX
7 49 (56.32%) Hyper-V
8 48 (55.17%) Ansible
9 47 (54.02%) vSphere
9 47 (54.02%) PowerShell
10 45 (51.72%) Bash
10 45 (51.72%) Docker
11 44 (50.57%) Line Management
11 44 (50.57%) Python
11 44 (50.57%) VPN
11 44 (50.57%) Analytical Skills
12 43 (49.43%) Cyberattack
12 43 (49.43%) Elastic Stack
12 43 (49.43%) Task Automation
12 43 (49.43%) Storage Management
12 43 (49.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 43 (49.43%) Platform Engineering
12 43 (49.43%) Cisco
12 43 (49.43%) Juniper
12 43 (49.43%) Risk Management
12 43 (49.43%) 3PAR
12 43 (49.43%) Splunk
12 43 (49.43%) Android
12 43 (49.43%) 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 5 (5.75%) IIS
2 4 (4.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (4.60%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (10.34%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 21 (24.14%) Azure
2 7 (8.05%) AWS
2 7 (8.05%) Entra ID
2 7 (8.05%) GCP
2 7 (8.05%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (2.30%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (2.30%) Cloudflare
4 2 (2.30%) Nutanix
4 2 (2.30%) OneDrive
4 2 (2.30%) PaaS
5 1 (1.15%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (1.15%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (1.15%) IaaS
5 1 (1.15%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 44 (50.57%) VPN
2 43 (49.43%) Cisco IOS
3 12 (13.79%) DNS
4 11 (12.64%) DHCP
5 5 (5.75%) NAS
5 5 (5.75%) SAN
5 5 (5.75%) VSAN
6 3 (3.45%) Firewall
7 2 (2.30%) TETRA
8 1 (1.15%) Ethernet
8 1 (1.15%) LAN
8 1 (1.15%) Network Security
8 1 (1.15%) OSPF
8 1 (1.15%) WAN
8 1 (1.15%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.05%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.75%) MongoDB
2 5 (5.75%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (5.75%) Oracle Forms
General
1 44 (50.57%) Analytical Skills
2 43 (49.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 15 (17.24%) Finance
4 11 (12.64%) Social Skills
5 5 (5.75%) Banking
6 2 (2.30%) Games
7 1 (1.15%) Legal
7 1 (1.15%) Local Government
7 1 (1.15%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.15%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (49.43%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (5.75%) ARM Templates
2 5 (5.75%) Middleware
3 1 (1.15%) OLE
3 1 (1.15%) OpenCL
3 1 (1.15%) SAML
3 1 (1.15%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 43 (49.43%) Cyberattack
2 10 (11.49%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (5.75%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.45%) Clustering
5 2 (2.30%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.15%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.15%) CUDA
6 1 (1.15%) Cyber Security Posture
6 1 (1.15%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.15%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.15%) PKI
6 1 (1.15%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 58 (66.67%) Linux
1 58 (66.67%) Windows
2 43 (49.43%) Android
3 9 (10.34%) Windows Server
4 5 (5.75%) CentOS
5 3 (3.45%) Ubuntu
5 3 (3.45%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (2.30%) Debian
6 2 (2.30%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (1.15%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (98.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 57 (65.52%) Problem-Solving
3 52 (59.77%) DevOps
4 44 (50.57%) Line Management
5 43 (49.43%) Mathematics
5 43 (49.43%) Platform Engineering
5 43 (49.43%) Risk Management
5 43 (49.43%) Storage Management
5 43 (49.43%) Task Automation
6 9 (10.34%) Mentoring
7 8 (9.20%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (9.20%) Infrastructure Automation
8 7 (8.05%) Disaster Recovery
9 5 (5.75%) Agile
9 5 (5.75%) Configuration Management
9 5 (5.75%) Defect Management
9 5 (5.75%) Fintech
9 5 (5.75%) ITIL
9 5 (5.75%) Performance Optimisation
9 5 (5.75%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 47 (54.02%) PowerShell
2 45 (51.72%) Bash
3 44 (50.57%) Python
4 5 (5.75%) SQL
5 1 (1.15%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 12 (13.79%) Azure Certification
1 12 (13.79%) Degree
2 7 (8.05%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (5.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (2.30%) AWS Certification
4 2 (2.30%) Linux+ Certification
4 2 (2.30%) RHCE
4 2 (2.30%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.30%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.15%) CCNA
5 1 (1.15%) CEH
5 1 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.15%) MCITP
5 1 (1.15%) MCSA
5 1 (1.15%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.45%) GDPR
2 2 (2.30%) HIPAA
2 2 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.15%) NIST
System Software
1 50 (57.47%) VMware NSX
2 49 (56.32%) Hyper-V
3 47 (54.02%) vSphere
4 45 (51.72%) Docker
5 11 (12.64%) Active Directory
6 6 (6.90%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (2.30%) Dovecot
7 2 (2.30%) Postfix
7 2 (2.30%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 54 (62.07%) Terraform
2 48 (55.17%) Ansible
3 7 (8.05%) Kubernetes
4 5 (5.75%) Progress Chef
5 4 (4.60%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.15%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.15%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (1.15%) SCCM
6 1 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 43 (49.43%) 3PAR
1 43 (49.43%) Cisco
1 43 (49.43%) Juniper
1 43 (49.43%) Splunk
2 23 (26.44%) Microsoft
3 18 (20.69%) VMware
4 6 (6.90%) Google
5 5 (5.75%) Oracle
6 3 (3.45%) Red Hat
7 2 (2.30%) Okta
7 2 (2.30%) Ping Identity
7 2 (2.30%) Veeam
8 1 (1.15%) Apple
8 1 (1.15%) Facebook
8 1 (1.15%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.15%) ServiceNow