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 4 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 82 87
Rank change year-on-year -4 +5 -12
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 61 71 107
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.62% 3.07% 2.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.16% 3.22% 3.08%
Number of salaries quoted 54 55 98
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,836 £41,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,875 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £58,000 £66,250 £67,968
90th Percentile £80,000 £73,886 £76,625
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 2,827 2,208 3,478
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 75.17% 95.63% 88.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,829 1,157 2,861
10th Percentile £30,000 £34,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £74,258 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%

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 4 March 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 4 March 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 - 3
Cheadle - 6 £45,000 -
Bolton +7 2 £48,750 - 2
Altrincham -6 2 £38,750 -18.42% 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 11 (18.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (8.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Civil 3D
Cloud Services
1 16 (26.23%) Azure
2 12 (19.67%) Entra ID
3 11 (18.03%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (14.75%) AWS
5 6 (9.84%) IaaS
5 6 (9.84%) SaaS
6 5 (8.20%) Azure AKS
7 4 (6.56%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (6.56%) Amazon S3
8 3 (4.92%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (4.92%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (4.92%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (4.92%) GCP
8 3 (4.92%) GitHub
8 3 (4.92%) GitHub Actions
8 3 (4.92%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 3 (4.92%) OneDrive
8 3 (4.92%) OpenShift
9 2 (3.28%) Azure Functions
9 2 (3.28%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (19.67%) Firewall
2 9 (14.75%) VLAN
3 8 (13.11%) VPN
4 7 (11.48%) TCP/IP
5 6 (9.84%) SSL
6 5 (8.20%) DHCP
6 5 (8.20%) DNS
7 4 (6.56%) WAN
8 3 (4.92%) LAN
9 2 (3.28%) SD-WAN
9 2 (3.28%) VoIP
10 1 (1.64%) FTP
10 1 (1.64%) HTTP
10 1 (1.64%) NAS
10 1 (1.64%) Network Security
10 1 (1.64%) SMTP
10 1 (1.64%) SNMP
10 1 (1.64%) SSH
10 1 (1.64%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.84%) MongoDB
2 5 (8.20%) MySQL
3 3 (4.92%) DynamoDB
3 3 (4.92%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (4.92%) NoSQL
3 3 (4.92%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.64%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.64%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (8.20%) Git
2 3 (4.92%) Bitbucket
2 3 (4.92%) GitLab
3 1 (1.64%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.64%) JMeter
3 1 (1.64%) Locust
General
1 12 (19.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (6.56%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (4.92%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (3.28%) Retail
5 1 (1.64%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.64%) Finance
5 1 (1.64%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 39 (63.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (14.75%) Senior
3 8 (13.11%) Cloud Engineer
4 5 (8.20%) 3rd Line Support
4 5 (8.20%) 3rd Line Support Technician
4 5 (8.20%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (8.20%) Support Technician
5 4 (6.56%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (4.92%) Design Engineer
6 3 (4.92%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (4.92%) Infrastructure Design Engineer
6 3 (4.92%) Infrastructure Support
6 3 (4.92%) IT Engineer
6 3 (4.92%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (4.92%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 2 (3.28%) Analyst
7 2 (3.28%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 2 (3.28%) Network Engineer
7 2 (3.28%) Support Analyst
7 2 (3.28%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.92%) OLE
1 3 (4.92%) RESTful
2 2 (3.28%) .NET
2 2 (3.28%) ARM Templates
2 2 (3.28%) ASP.NET Web API
2 2 (3.28%) Middleware
2 2 (3.28%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (3.28%) WCF
3 1 (1.64%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.20%) Management Information System
2 3 (4.92%) Data Centre
2 3 (4.92%) Public Cloud
3 2 (3.28%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.28%) Driving Licence
3 2 (3.28%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (3.28%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.28%) Private Cloud
3 2 (3.28%) Social Media
4 1 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 19 (31.15%) Windows
2 14 (22.95%) Windows Server
3 9 (14.75%) Linux
4 3 (4.92%) VMS
5 2 (3.28%) Windows 10
5 2 (3.28%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.64%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (19.67%) DevOps
1 12 (19.67%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (18.03%) CI/CD
2 11 (18.03%) Containerisation
3 10 (16.39%) Disaster Recovery
3 10 (16.39%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (11.48%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (11.48%) Customer Service
4 7 (11.48%) Project Delivery
5 6 (9.84%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (9.84%) Information Security
5 6 (9.84%) Project Planning
5 6 (9.84%) Service Delivery
6 5 (8.20%) Business Continuity
6 5 (8.20%) Data Protection
6 5 (8.20%) Information Security Management
6 5 (8.20%) ISMS
6 5 (8.20%) ITIL
6 5 (8.20%) Mobile Device Management
6 5 (8.20%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (13.11%) PowerShell
2 6 (9.84%) Python
3 4 (6.56%) Java
3 4 (6.56%) SQL
4 3 (4.92%) Go
5 2 (3.28%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 7 (11.48%) CCNA
1 7 (11.48%) Cisco Certification
1 7 (11.48%) DBS Check
1 7 (11.48%) Degree
2 4 (6.56%) Security Cleared
3 3 (4.92%) Azure Certification
3 3 (4.92%) DV Cleared
3 3 (4.92%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (3.28%) MCSA
5 1 (1.64%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.64%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.84%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.64%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.64%) QA
2 1 (1.64%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (26.23%) Active Directory
2 8 (13.11%) Docker
3 6 (9.84%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (6.56%) VMware NSX
4 4 (6.56%) vSphere
5 2 (3.28%) Hyper-V
5 2 (3.28%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (1.64%) Firmware
6 1 (1.64%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 12 (19.67%) Kubernetes
2 11 (18.03%) Terraform
3 10 (16.39%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (11.48%) Ansible
5 5 (8.20%) Autotask
6 3 (4.92%) Rancher
7 2 (3.28%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (1.64%) FortiGate
8 1 (1.64%) Grafana
Vendors
1 13 (21.31%) Microsoft
2 10 (16.39%) VMware
3 3 (4.92%) Cisco
4 2 (3.28%) Apple
4 2 (3.28%) Fortinet
4 2 (3.28%) Meraki
4 2 (3.28%) Ubiquiti
5 1 (1.64%) Extreme Networks
5 1 (1.64%) Google