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 7 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 79 84
Rank change year-on-year -10 +5 +5
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 48 76 102
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.46% 2.98% 2.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.90% 3.15% 3.18%
Number of salaries quoted 44 56 96
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £44,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £70,313 £65,243 £67,968
90th Percentile £81,750 £73,886 £76,875
North West median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -7.90%

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 2,532 2,416 3,212
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 77.12% 94.75% 89.30%
Number of salaries quoted 1,565 1,177 2,676
10th Percentile £28,350 £33,400 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.51%
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £70,000
90th Percentile £88,900 £87,500 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -8.90%

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 7 February 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 7 February 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 - 7 £50,000 - 1
Altrincham -9 2 £38,750 -22.50% 2
Bolton +9 1 £47,500 -
Cheadle - 1 £45,000 - 2
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 10 (20.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (8.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Civil 3D
Cloud Services
1 15 (31.25%) Azure
2 11 (22.92%) Entra ID
3 10 (20.83%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (16.67%) AWS
5 6 (12.50%) IaaS
5 6 (12.50%) SaaS
6 5 (10.42%) Azure AKS
7 4 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (8.33%) Amazon S3
8 3 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (6.25%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (6.25%) GCP
8 3 (6.25%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 3 (6.25%) OneDrive
8 3 (6.25%) OpenShift
9 2 (4.17%) Azure Functions
9 2 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (4.17%) iPaaS
9 2 (4.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (22.92%) Firewall
2 8 (16.67%) VLAN
2 8 (16.67%) VPN
3 7 (14.58%) TCP/IP
4 6 (12.50%) SSL
5 5 (10.42%) DHCP
5 5 (10.42%) DNS
6 3 (6.25%) WAN
7 2 (4.17%) LAN
7 2 (4.17%) SD-WAN
8 1 (2.08%) FTP
8 1 (2.08%) HTTP
8 1 (2.08%) NAS
8 1 (2.08%) Network Security
8 1 (2.08%) SMTP
8 1 (2.08%) SNMP
8 1 (2.08%) SSH
8 1 (2.08%) Telnet
8 1 (2.08%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.50%) MongoDB
2 5 (10.42%) MySQL
3 3 (6.25%) DynamoDB
3 3 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (6.25%) NoSQL
3 3 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.08%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.08%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (10.42%) Git
2 3 (6.25%) Bitbucket
2 3 (6.25%) GitLab
3 1 (2.08%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.08%) JMeter
3 1 (2.08%) Locust
General
1 11 (22.92%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (4.17%) Retail
5 1 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.08%) Finance
5 1 (2.08%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 27 (56.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (18.75%) Senior
3 8 (16.67%) Cloud Engineer
4 5 (10.42%) 3rd Line Support
4 5 (10.42%) 3rd Line Support Technician
4 5 (10.42%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (10.42%) Support Technician
5 4 (8.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Analyst
7 2 (4.17%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 2 (4.17%) Infrastructure Support
7 2 (4.17%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
7 2 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Senior DevOps
7 2 (4.17%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.25%) OLE
1 3 (6.25%) RESTful
2 2 (4.17%) .NET
2 2 (4.17%) ARM Templates
2 2 (4.17%) ASP.NET Web API
2 2 (4.17%) Middleware
2 2 (4.17%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (4.17%) WCF
3 1 (2.08%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.42%) Management Information System
2 3 (6.25%) Data Centre
2 3 (6.25%) Public Cloud
3 2 (4.17%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.17%) Driving Licence
3 2 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (4.17%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.17%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.08%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 18 (37.50%) Windows
2 13 (27.08%) Windows Server
3 9 (18.75%) Linux
4 3 (6.25%) VMS
5 1 (2.08%) Mac OS
5 1 (2.08%) Windows 10
5 1 (2.08%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (22.92%) Containerisation
1 11 (22.92%) DevOps
1 11 (22.92%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (20.83%) CI/CD
2 10 (20.83%) Disaster Recovery
2 10 (20.83%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (14.58%) Project Delivery
4 6 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (12.50%) Customer Service
4 6 (12.50%) Information Security
4 6 (12.50%) Project Planning
4 6 (12.50%) Service Delivery
5 5 (10.42%) Business Continuity
5 5 (10.42%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (10.42%) Data Protection
5 5 (10.42%) Information Security Management
5 5 (10.42%) ISMS
5 5 (10.42%) Mobile Device Management
5 5 (10.42%) Platform Engineering
5 5 (10.42%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 6 (12.50%) Python
3 4 (8.33%) Java
3 4 (8.33%) SQL
4 3 (6.25%) Go
5 2 (4.17%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 6 (12.50%) CCNA
1 6 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
1 6 (12.50%) DBS Check
1 6 (12.50%) Degree
2 4 (8.33%) Security Cleared
3 3 (6.25%) Azure Certification
3 3 (6.25%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.08%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (2.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (2.08%) MCSA
5 1 (2.08%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.08%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (2.08%) QA
1 1 (2.08%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (31.25%) Active Directory
2 8 (16.67%) Docker
3 6 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (8.33%) VMware NSX
4 4 (8.33%) vSphere
5 2 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (2.08%) Firmware
6 1 (2.08%) Hyper-V
6 1 (2.08%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 11 (22.92%) Kubernetes
2 10 (20.83%) Terraform
3 9 (18.75%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (14.58%) Ansible
5 5 (10.42%) Autotask
6 3 (6.25%) Rancher
7 1 (2.08%) FortiGate
7 1 (2.08%) Grafana
7 1 (2.08%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 12 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (20.83%) VMware
3 2 (4.17%) Cisco
3 2 (4.17%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.08%) Apple
4 1 (2.08%) Extreme Networks
4 1 (2.08%) Google
4 1 (2.08%) Meraki
4 1 (2.08%) Ubiquiti