Infrastructure Engineering Job Trends in Manchester

Infrastructure Engineering
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 60 81
Rank change year-on-year +8 +21 +23
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 203 99 104
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.65% 4.22% 2.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.47% 4.74% 3.16%
Number of salaries quoted 151 38 65
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,500 £36,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,750 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% +8.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £70,000 £64,688 £57,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £70,000 £72,500
North West median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £46,000
% change year-on-year +10.53% +3.26% -8.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

Infrastructure Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,843 2,087 3,289
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 76.41% 88.96% 84.68%
Number of salaries quoted 4,358 1,189 1,574
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £33,750 £40,809
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.35% -5.45% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £69,725
90th Percentile £97,500 £85,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £51,712
% change year-on-year +10.00% -3.31% -5.98%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Infrastructure Engineering job vacancy trend in Manchester

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in Manchester over the 6 months to 12 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in Manchester

Infrastructure Engineering
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 Engineering within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 12 October 2026. 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
Salford - 20 £45,000 - 4
Stockport +6 8 £72,500 +52.63% 4
Sale +4 2 £62,500 -
Bury +4 1 £40,000 -
Oldham +1 1 - - 1
Bolton 0 1 £35,000 - 3
Infrastructure Engineering
North West

Infrastructure Engineering
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 12 (5.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.48%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.49%) Apache
3 1 (0.49%) Apache Superset
3 1 (0.49%) Confluence
3 1 (0.49%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.49%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (1.97%) AutoCAD
2 3 (1.48%) Civil 3D
3 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.49%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.49%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 57 (28.08%) Azure
2 23 (11.33%) AWS
3 19 (9.36%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (7.39%) Entra ID
5 14 (6.90%) IaaS
6 10 (4.93%) SaaS
7 9 (4.43%) GCP
8 7 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
9 6 (2.96%) GitHub
10 3 (1.48%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 3 (1.48%) PaaS
11 2 (0.99%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (0.99%) Google Workspace
11 2 (0.99%) Mimecast
11 2 (0.99%) Power Platform
11 2 (0.99%) Rubrik
12 1 (0.49%) Akamai
12 1 (0.49%) Cloudflare
12 1 (0.49%) Dynamics 365
12 1 (0.49%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 28 (13.79%) Firewall
2 24 (11.82%) DNS
3 13 (6.40%) DHCP
3 13 (6.40%) SAN
4 11 (5.42%) Network Security
4 11 (5.42%) VPN
5 7 (3.45%) Cisco ASA
5 7 (3.45%) Cisco Firepower
6 6 (2.96%) BIG-IP
6 6 (2.96%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 6 (2.96%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 5 (2.46%) BGP
7 5 (2.46%) TCP/IP
7 5 (2.46%) VLAN
7 5 (2.46%) WAN
8 4 (1.97%) Cisco Nexus
8 4 (1.97%) SD-WAN
9 3 (1.48%) Ethernet VPN
9 3 (1.48%) HSRP
9 3 (1.48%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.97%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.99%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.49%) Metabase
3 1 (0.49%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.49%) OLAP
3 1 (0.49%) OLAP Cube
3 1 (0.49%) OLTP
3 1 (0.49%) Semantic Layer
3 1 (0.49%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (5.42%) JIRA
2 5 (2.46%) GitLab
2 5 (2.46%) Jenkins
3 4 (1.97%) Git
4 1 (0.49%) Artifactory
General
1 30 (14.78%) Social Skills
2 12 (5.91%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (3.45%) Finance
4 6 (2.96%) Public Sector
5 5 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (1.97%) Legal
7 3 (1.48%) Local Government
8 2 (0.99%) Aerospace
8 2 (0.99%) Automotive
8 2 (0.99%) Banking
8 2 (0.99%) Law
8 2 (0.99%) Retail
9 1 (0.49%) Games
9 1 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.49%) Social Housing
9 1 (0.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 147 (72.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 58 (28.57%) Senior
3 57 (28.08%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 14 (6.90%) Cloud Engineer
4 14 (6.90%) Linux Engineer
4 14 (6.90%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 13 (6.40%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (5.42%) IT Engineer
6 11 (5.42%) IT Support
7 10 (4.93%) Automation Engineer
7 10 (4.93%) IT Support Engineer
7 10 (4.93%) Lead
7 10 (4.93%) Support Engineer
8 9 (4.43%) Senior Linux Engineer
9 7 (3.45%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 7 (3.45%) Administrator
9 7 (3.45%) Design Engineer
9 7 (3.45%) DevOps Engineer
9 7 (3.45%) Infrastructure Design Engineer
9 7 (3.45%) Server Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (8.87%) Terraform
2 2 (0.99%) .NET
2 2 (0.99%) Node.js
2 2 (0.99%) React
2 2 (0.99%) REST
2 2 (0.99%) SAML
3 1 (0.49%) Kafka
3 1 (0.49%) NumPy
3 1 (0.49%) Pandas
3 1 (0.49%) pgvector
3 1 (0.49%) PostGIS
3 1 (0.49%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 22 (10.84%) Data Centre
2 21 (10.34%) Driving Licence
3 10 (4.93%) Enterprise Storage
4 7 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (2.96%) Management Information System
5 6 (2.96%) Security Posture
6 5 (2.46%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.46%) Replication
7 4 (1.97%) Clustering
7 4 (1.97%) Online Gambling
7 4 (1.97%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.48%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.48%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.48%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.99%) CSOC
9 2 (0.99%) Cyber Defence
9 2 (0.99%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.99%) Enterprise Cloud
9 2 (0.99%) Hackathon
Operating Systems
1 43 (21.18%) Windows
2 39 (19.21%) Linux
3 22 (10.84%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.97%) macOS
4 4 (1.97%) Windows 10
5 3 (1.48%) VMS
5 3 (1.48%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (1.48%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.99%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.49%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.49%) SUSE
7 1 (0.49%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.49%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (18.23%) Problem-Solving
2 33 (16.26%) Infrastructure as Code
3 23 (11.33%) CI/CD
3 23 (11.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 22 (10.84%) Disaster Recovery
4 22 (10.84%) ITIL
5 18 (8.87%) AI
5 18 (8.87%) DevOps
5 18 (8.87%) Infrastructure Automation
5 18 (8.87%) Platform Engineering
5 18 (8.87%) Technical Leadership
6 17 (8.37%) Cloud Security
6 17 (8.37%) Mentoring
7 16 (7.88%) Problem Management
8 15 (7.39%) Agile
9 14 (6.90%) Business Continuity
9 14 (6.90%) Change Management
9 14 (6.90%) Cybersecurity
9 14 (6.90%) Project Delivery
9 14 (6.90%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (13.30%) Python
2 22 (10.84%) PowerShell
3 16 (7.88%) Bash
4 10 (4.93%) SQL
5 6 (2.96%) Java
6 5 (2.46%) ActionScript
6 5 (2.46%) Go
7 4 (1.97%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.99%) Bicep
8 2 (0.99%) C++
8 2 (0.99%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.49%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.49%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 45 (22.17%) Security Cleared
2 28 (13.79%) SC Cleared
3 22 (10.84%) DV Cleared
4 11 (5.42%) Degree
5 10 (4.93%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (3.94%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (3.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 6 (2.96%) Azure Certification
8 6 (2.96%) CCNA
9 4 (1.97%) CCNP
9 4 (1.97%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (1.97%) MCSA
9 4 (1.97%) MCSE
10 3 (1.48%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.99%) CCIE
11 2 (0.99%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 1 (0.49%) Computer Science Degree
12 1 (0.49%) HP ASE
12 1 (0.49%) RIBA
12 1 (0.49%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.42%) SLA
2 6 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.48%) QA
4 1 (0.49%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.49%) Data Quality
System Software
1 31 (15.27%) VMware Infrastructure
2 29 (14.29%) Active Directory
3 8 (3.94%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (3.45%) Firmware
4 7 (3.45%) vSphere
5 6 (2.96%) Docker
5 6 (2.96%) Hyper-V
6 5 (2.46%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (2.46%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.99%) UAG
8 1 (0.49%) DFS Replication
8 1 (0.49%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 1 (0.49%) MetaFrame
8 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.49%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.49%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 14 (6.90%) Kubernetes
2 11 (5.42%) Ansible
3 7 (3.45%) FortiGate
3 7 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (2.96%) SCCM
4 6 (2.96%) vCenter Server
5 4 (1.97%) Microsoft Clustering
5 4 (1.97%) Puppet
6 3 (1.48%) Autotask
6 3 (1.48%) Grafana
6 3 (1.48%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.48%) WSUS
7 2 (0.99%) AirWatch
7 2 (0.99%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.99%) SolarWinds Orion
7 2 (0.99%) ZABBIX
8 1 (0.49%) VxRail
Vendors
1 54 (26.60%) Microsoft
2 41 (20.20%) VMware
3 14 (6.90%) Cisco
4 12 (5.91%) Veeam
5 11 (5.42%) Google
6 10 (4.93%) F5
7 6 (2.96%) Apple
7 6 (2.96%) HP
7 6 (2.96%) Palo Alto
8 5 (2.46%) Aruba
8 5 (2.46%) Datto
8 5 (2.46%) Fortinet
8 5 (2.46%) Juniper
9 4 (1.97%) LogicMonitor
9 4 (1.97%) SolarWinds
9 4 (1.97%) YouTube
10 3 (1.48%) Arista
10 3 (1.48%) Dell
10 3 (1.48%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.48%) WatchGuard