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 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 87 107
Rank change year-on-year +35 +20 +6
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 95 94 44
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 4.02% 2.58% 1.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.73% 3.02% 1.94%
Number of salaries quoted 38 60 34
10th Percentile £35,500 £37,500 £44,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £45,000 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -23.40% +17.50%
75th Percentile £64,688 £63,500 £73,438
90th Percentile £70,375 £73,875 £89,375
North West median annual salary £53,750 £46,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +16.85% -3.16% -

All Process and 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 2,010 3,108 2,267
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 84.95% 85.22% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1,277 1,417 1,856
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £55,000 £59,778
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% -7.99% +8.69%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,500 £85,000 £84,056
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +4.76%

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 6 November 2025.

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 6 November 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 +25.00% 8
Stockport +6 3 £47,500 -
Cheadle - 3 - - 3
Bury - 3 - - 3
Sale - 3 - -
Oldham - 3 - -
Bolton +6 2 - - 11
Dukinfield - 2 - -
Heywood - 2 - -
Ashton-under-Lyne - 2 - - 3
Stalybridge - 2 - -
Wigan - 2 - -
Littleborough - 1 - -
Rochdale - 1 - -
Salford - 1 £70,079 -
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 8 (8.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.16%) IIS
3 1 (1.05%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Civil 3D
Cloud Services
1 22 (23.16%) Azure
2 10 (10.53%) IaaS
3 9 (9.47%) Entra ID
4 7 (7.37%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (5.26%) AWS
5 5 (5.26%) SaaS
5 5 (5.26%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 4 (4.21%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (4.21%) GitHub
7 3 (3.16%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (3.16%) Amazon S3
7 3 (3.16%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (2.11%) Azure AKS
8 2 (2.11%) Azure Functions
8 2 (2.11%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (2.11%) Azure Storage
8 2 (2.11%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (2.11%) PaaS
8 2 (2.11%) Serverless
9 1 (1.05%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 56 (58.95%) VPN
2 43 (45.26%) Cisco IOS
3 11 (11.58%) Firewall
4 10 (10.53%) VLAN
5 8 (8.42%) TCP/IP
6 6 (6.32%) TETRA
7 5 (5.26%) DMZ
7 5 (5.26%) SSL
7 5 (5.26%) STUN
7 5 (5.26%) VoIP
8 4 (4.21%) DHCP
8 4 (4.21%) DNS
9 2 (2.11%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.37%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.11%) Data Hub
2 2 (2.11%) MongoDB
2 2 (2.11%) MySQL
2 2 (2.11%) SQL CLR
Development Applications
1 2 (2.11%) Git
2 1 (1.05%) Cucumber
2 1 (1.05%) JMeter
2 1 (1.05%) Locust
General
1 43 (45.26%) Analytical Skills
1 43 (45.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 14 (14.74%) Social Skills
3 7 (7.37%) Finance
4 5 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (4.21%) Legal
5 4 (4.21%) Local Government
6 2 (2.11%) Back Office
6 2 (2.11%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.11%) Retail
7 1 (1.05%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 76 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 16 (16.84%) Senior
3 12 (12.63%) Cloud Engineer
3 12 (12.63%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 9 (9.47%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 9 (9.47%) Principal Engineer
5 6 (6.32%) Applications Engineer
5 6 (6.32%) Applications Support
5 6 (6.32%) Applications Support Engineer
5 6 (6.32%) Design Engineer
5 6 (6.32%) Infrastructure Design Engineer
5 6 (6.32%) Senior Design Engineer
5 6 (6.32%) Support Engineer
6 5 (5.26%) 3rd Line Support
6 5 (5.26%) 3rd Line Support Technician
6 5 (5.26%) Infrastructure Support
6 5 (5.26%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 5 (5.26%) Support Technician
7 4 (4.21%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (4.21%) Civil Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (45.26%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (5.26%) FreeSWITCH
3 4 (4.21%) .NET
3 4 (4.21%) ARM Templates
4 3 (3.16%) OLE
5 2 (2.11%) .NET Core
5 2 (2.11%) .NET Framework
5 2 (2.11%) ASP.NET Web API
5 2 (2.11%) Dapper ORM
5 2 (2.11%) Entity Framework
5 2 (2.11%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (2.11%) WCF
6 1 (1.05%) Gherkin
6 1 (1.05%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 43 (45.26%) Cyberattack
2 10 (10.53%) Driving Licence
3 5 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (5.26%) Management Information System
4 4 (4.21%) NHS
5 3 (3.16%) Private Cloud
6 2 (2.11%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.11%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (1.05%) Clustering
7 1 (1.05%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.05%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.05%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (1.05%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 65 (68.42%) Windows
2 58 (61.05%) Linux
3 43 (45.26%) Android
4 18 (18.95%) Windows Server
5 5 (5.26%) Debian
6 4 (4.21%) Unix
7 3 (3.16%) CentOS
7 3 (3.16%) VMS
8 2 (2.11%) Mac OS
9 1 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (1.05%) Ubuntu
9 1 (1.05%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (60.00%) DevOps
2 54 (56.84%) Problem-Solving
3 46 (48.42%) Platform Engineering
3 46 (48.42%) Storage Management
4 44 (46.32%) Task Automation
5 43 (45.26%) Line Management
5 43 (45.26%) Mathematics
5 43 (45.26%) Risk Management
6 10 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (9.47%) High Availability
7 9 (9.47%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (7.37%) Containerisation
8 7 (7.37%) Cybersecurity
8 7 (7.37%) Data Loss Prevention
9 6 (6.32%) CI/CD
9 6 (6.32%) Mentoring
10 5 (5.26%) Customer Service
10 5 (5.26%) Mobile Device Management
10 5 (5.26%) Remote Monitoring and Management
10 5 (5.26%) Software Licensing
Programming Languages
1 49 (51.58%) PowerShell
2 48 (50.53%) Python
3 45 (47.37%) Bash
4 8 (8.42%) SQL
5 2 (2.11%) Bicep
5 2 (2.11%) C#
6 1 (1.05%) Java
6 1 (1.05%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (8.42%) Degree
2 5 (5.26%) Azure Certification
2 5 (5.26%) CCNA
2 5 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (5.26%) DBS Check
2 5 (5.26%) Security Cleared
3 4 (4.21%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.16%) Network+ Certification
5 2 (2.11%) Postgraduate
5 2 (2.11%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.05%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.05%) CEH
6 1 (1.05%) CISSP
6 1 (1.05%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.05%) GCIA
6 1 (1.05%) GCIH
6 1 (1.05%) Linux+ Certification
6 1 (1.05%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (5.26%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (5.26%) ISO 9001
3 3 (3.16%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.11%) GDPR
4 2 (2.11%) NIST
5 1 (1.05%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.05%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.05%) QA
5 1 (1.05%) WCAG
System Software
1 49 (51.58%) Docker
2 45 (47.37%) Hyper-V
2 45 (47.37%) VMware NSX
2 45 (47.37%) vSphere
3 10 (10.53%) Active Directory
4 5 (5.26%) Kamailio
5 4 (4.21%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (2.11%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.05%) Dovecot
7 1 (1.05%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 51 (53.68%) Terraform
2 47 (49.47%) Ansible
3 9 (9.47%) Kubernetes
4 8 (8.42%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (5.26%) Autotask
6 3 (3.16%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.05%) Grafana
7 1 (1.05%) Nessus
Vendors
1 46 (48.42%) Cisco
2 44 (46.32%) Splunk
3 43 (45.26%) 3PAR
3 43 (45.26%) Juniper
4 19 (20.00%) Microsoft
5 9 (9.47%) VMware
6 5 (5.26%) Salesforce
7 3 (3.16%) Fortinet
7 3 (3.16%) Red Hat
8 2 (2.11%) Google
8 2 (2.11%) Rapid7
9 1 (1.05%) Dell
9 1 (1.05%) Okta
9 1 (1.05%) Ping Identity
9 1 (1.05%) Proofpoint
9 1 (1.05%) Tenable