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 24 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 63 94
Rank change year-on-year -2 +31 -66
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 145 113 105
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.06% 4.52% 2.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.75% 4.98% 2.90%
Number of salaries quoted 127 46 75
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,875 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,875 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £48,256
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +24.34% -6.43%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £76,840 £75,750
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £46,250
% change year-on-year -3.85% +12.43% -2.63%

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 5,282 2,269 3,625
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 75.11% 90.72% 81.74%
Number of salaries quoted 4,134 1,319 2,273
10th Percentile £33,500 £29,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,500 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £82,420
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -1.96% -7.27%

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 24 August 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 24 August 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 -4 14 £45,000 -21.74% 1
Stockport +8 6 £72,500 +52.63% 3
Bolton +19 4 £50,000 -
Sale +4 2 £62,500 - 1
Oldham +4 1 - -
Bury +3 1 £40,000 -
Cheadle 0 1 £45,000 - 1
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 7 (4.83%) SharePoint
2 6 (4.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.38%) Confluence
4 1 (0.69%) Apache
4 1 (0.69%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.69%) IIS
4 1 (0.69%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (2.07%) AutoCAD
1 3 (2.07%) Civil 3D
2 1 (0.69%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.69%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 49 (33.79%) Azure
2 19 (13.10%) AWS
3 14 (9.66%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (6.90%) SaaS
5 9 (6.21%) Entra ID
6 6 (4.14%) GCP
7 5 (3.45%) GitHub
8 4 (2.76%) IaaS
9 3 (2.07%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (2.07%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 3 (2.07%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (1.38%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.38%) Google Workspace
10 2 (1.38%) OneDrive
10 2 (1.38%) PaaS
10 2 (1.38%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.38%) Rubrik
11 1 (0.69%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (0.69%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (0.69%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 18 (12.41%) SAN
2 15 (10.34%) Firewall
3 9 (6.21%) DHCP
3 9 (6.21%) DNS
4 7 (4.83%) WAN
5 5 (3.45%) LAN
5 5 (3.45%) VLAN
6 4 (2.76%) Cisco ASA
6 4 (2.76%) Cisco Firepower
6 4 (2.76%) Cisco Nexus
6 4 (2.76%) Network Security
7 3 (2.07%) SD-WAN
7 3 (2.07%) VoIP
8 2 (1.38%) BGP
8 2 (1.38%) DMZ
8 2 (1.38%) IPsec
8 2 (1.38%) TCP/IP
8 2 (1.38%) VPN
9 1 (0.69%) VSAN
9 1 (0.69%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.07%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.38%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.69%) Metabase
3 1 (0.69%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.69%) OLAP
3 1 (0.69%) OLAP Cube
3 1 (0.69%) OLTP
3 1 (0.69%) Semantic Layer
3 1 (0.69%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (2.76%) Git
1 4 (2.76%) JIRA
2 1 (0.69%) PyCharm
2 1 (0.69%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 21 (14.48%) Social Skills
2 10 (6.90%) Public Sector
3 9 (6.21%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (4.14%) Finance
5 5 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.07%) Local Government
8 2 (1.38%) Automotive
8 2 (1.38%) Retail
9 1 (0.69%) Games
9 1 (0.69%) Legal
9 1 (0.69%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.69%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 104 (71.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 39 (26.90%) Senior
3 37 (25.52%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 13 (8.97%) Design Engineer
4 13 (8.97%) Infrastructure Design Engineer
5 12 (8.28%) Linux Engineer
6 11 (7.59%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
7 8 (5.52%) VMware Engineer
8 7 (4.83%) Administrator
8 7 (4.83%) Azure Engineer
8 7 (4.83%) Electrical Engineer
8 7 (4.83%) Lead
8 7 (4.83%) Server Administrator
9 6 (4.14%) IT Support
9 6 (4.14%) SAN Engineer
9 6 (4.14%) Senior Linux Engineer
9 6 (4.14%) Site Engineer
10 5 (3.45%) Cloud Engineer
10 5 (3.45%) DevOps Engineer
10 5 (3.45%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (7.59%) Terraform
2 2 (1.38%) .NET
2 2 (1.38%) REST
3 1 (0.69%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.69%) Kafka
3 1 (0.69%) NumPy
3 1 (0.69%) Pandas
3 1 (0.69%) pgvector
3 1 (0.69%) PostGIS
3 1 (0.69%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (10.34%) Driving Licence
2 12 (8.28%) Data Centre
3 10 (6.90%) Enterprise Storage
4 6 (4.14%) Replication
5 4 (2.76%) Clustering
6 3 (2.07%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.07%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.07%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.07%) Social Media
7 2 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.38%) IoT
8 1 (0.69%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.69%) CCTV
8 1 (0.69%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.69%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.69%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 29 (20.00%) Windows
2 26 (17.93%) Linux
3 25 (17.24%) Windows Server
4 6 (4.14%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (2.76%) Windows 10
6 3 (2.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.38%) Mac OS
7 2 (1.38%) Unix
7 2 (1.38%) VMS
7 2 (1.38%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.69%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.69%) Solaris
8 1 (0.69%) SUSE
8 1 (0.69%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (17.93%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (14.48%) Infrastructure as Code
3 17 (11.72%) Continuous Improvement
4 16 (11.03%) Disaster Recovery
5 15 (10.34%) Storage Management
6 12 (8.28%) Business Continuity
6 12 (8.28%) CI/CD
6 12 (8.28%) ITIL
7 11 (7.59%) DevOps
7 11 (7.59%) High Availability
7 11 (7.59%) Observability
7 11 (7.59%) Project Delivery
8 10 (6.90%) Platform Engineering
8 10 (6.90%) Software Engineering
9 9 (6.21%) AI
9 9 (6.21%) Cybersecurity
10 8 (5.52%) Business Continuity Planning
10 8 (5.52%) Migration
10 8 (5.52%) Service Delivery
10 8 (5.52%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (8.97%) Python
2 12 (8.28%) SQL
3 11 (7.59%) PowerShell
4 7 (4.83%) Bash
5 6 (4.14%) Bicep
6 3 (2.07%) Go
6 3 (2.07%) Java
7 2 (1.38%) C++
7 2 (1.38%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 26 (17.93%) Security Cleared
2 22 (15.17%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.90%) DV Cleared
4 9 (6.21%) Cisco Certification
4 9 (6.21%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (5.52%) Azure Certification
6 7 (4.83%) CCNA
6 7 (4.83%) MCSA
7 5 (3.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 4 (2.76%) CCNP
8 4 (2.76%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (2.07%) DBS Check
9 3 (2.07%) Degree
10 2 (1.38%) CCIE
11 1 (0.69%) HP ASE
11 1 (0.69%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.76%) SLA
2 3 (2.07%) QA
3 2 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.69%) Data Quality
System Software
1 27 (18.62%) Active Directory
1 27 (18.62%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (5.52%) Hyper-V
3 7 (4.83%) Firmware
4 6 (4.14%) Docker
5 5 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (3.45%) vSphere
6 3 (2.07%) VMware NSX
7 2 (1.38%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.69%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 1 (0.69%) MetaFrame
8 1 (0.69%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.69%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.69%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 12 (8.28%) Kubernetes
2 8 (5.52%) Ansible
3 7 (4.83%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (2.76%) Microsoft Clustering
5 3 (2.07%) Grafana
5 3 (2.07%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (2.07%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.38%) FortiGate
6 2 (1.38%) SCCM
6 2 (1.38%) SolarWinds Orion
6 2 (1.38%) WSUS
6 2 (1.38%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.69%) Podman
7 1 (0.69%) Puppet
7 1 (0.69%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.69%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.69%) VxRail
Vendors
1 34 (23.45%) Microsoft
2 31 (21.38%) VMware
3 14 (9.66%) Cisco
4 6 (4.14%) Google
4 6 (4.14%) HP
4 6 (4.14%) Veeam
5 4 (2.76%) Apple
5 4 (2.76%) Aruba
5 4 (2.76%) LogicMonitor
5 4 (2.76%) Meraki
5 4 (2.76%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.07%) Dell
6 3 (2.07%) Ubiquiti
7 2 (1.38%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.38%) Commvault
7 2 (1.38%) ConnectWise
7 2 (1.38%) F5
7 2 (1.38%) MEDITECH
7 2 (1.38%) NetApp
7 2 (1.38%) Zscaler