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 10 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 97 87
Rank change year-on-year +16 -10 -52
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 91 66 138
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.69% 2.97% 2.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.34% 3.11% 3.22%
Number of salaries quoted 75 55 117
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,750 £36,118
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% +1.80%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £67,968
90th Percentile £87,500 £76,840 £76,250
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +9.47% -2.06%

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 3,897 2,123 4,289
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 72.27% 95.54% 85.90%
Number of salaries quoted 2,758 1,298 3,417
10th Percentile £32,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,813 £40,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £54,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +5.50% -5.22%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,840 £68,857
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,150 £82,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £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 10 May 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 10 May 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 0 10 £50,000 -13.04% 2
Cheadle - 6 £45,000 -
Bolton - 3 £50,000 - 1
Altrincham - 2 £38,750 - 4
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 (8.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (7.69%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.10%) Confluence
3 1 (1.10%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 27 (29.67%) Azure
2 10 (10.99%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (8.79%) AWS
4 7 (7.69%) Entra ID
5 5 (5.49%) GitHub
5 5 (5.49%) SaaS
6 4 (4.40%) Azure AKS
6 4 (4.40%) OneDrive
7 3 (3.30%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (3.30%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (3.30%) Amazon S3
7 3 (3.30%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (3.30%) GCP
7 3 (3.30%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (3.30%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (3.30%) OpenShift
8 2 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.20%) iPaaS
8 2 (2.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (15.38%) Firewall
2 10 (10.99%) DHCP
2 10 (10.99%) DNS
3 8 (8.79%) SAN
4 6 (6.59%) VLAN
5 5 (5.49%) WAN
6 4 (4.40%) LAN
7 3 (3.30%) TCP/IP
7 3 (3.30%) VoIP
7 3 (3.30%) VPN
8 2 (2.20%) Network Security
8 2 (2.20%) SD-WAN
9 1 (1.10%) Cisco ASA
9 1 (1.10%) Cisco Firepower
9 1 (1.10%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (1.10%) FTP
9 1 (1.10%) HTTP
9 1 (1.10%) NAS
9 1 (1.10%) SMTP
9 1 (1.10%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.40%) MongoDB
2 3 (3.30%) DynamoDB
2 3 (3.30%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (3.30%) MySQL
2 3 (3.30%) NoSQL
2 3 (3.30%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.20%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.10%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (5.49%) Git
2 3 (3.30%) Bitbucket
2 3 (3.30%) GitLab
3 1 (1.10%) JIRA
3 1 (1.10%) PyCharm
3 1 (1.10%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 14 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 7 (7.69%) Public Sector
3 5 (5.49%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (5.49%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (3.30%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (2.20%) Finance
6 1 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.10%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 72 (79.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 24 (26.37%) Senior
3 20 (21.98%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 12 (13.19%) Design Engineer
4 12 (13.19%) Infrastructure Design Engineer
5 7 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
5 7 (7.69%) IT Engineer
6 6 (6.59%) Azure Engineer
6 6 (6.59%) Electrical Engineer
7 5 (5.49%) IT Support
7 5 (5.49%) IT Support Engineer
7 5 (5.49%) Senior Design Engineer
7 5 (5.49%) Support Engineer
8 4 (4.40%) Principal Engineer
8 4 (4.40%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 4 (4.40%) VMware Engineer
8 4 (4.40%) VMware Support Engineer
9 3 (3.30%) Analyst
9 3 (3.30%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 3 (3.30%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.30%) OLE
1 3 (3.30%) RESTful
2 2 (2.20%) Middleware
3 1 (1.10%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.40%) Data Centre
2 3 (3.30%) Public Cloud
2 3 (3.30%) Social Media
3 2 (2.20%) Driving Licence
3 2 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (2.20%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.10%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.10%) Clustering
4 1 (1.10%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (1.10%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.10%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 23 (25.27%) Windows
2 20 (21.98%) Windows Server
3 10 (10.99%) Linux
4 4 (4.40%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (3.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (3.30%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.10%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.10%) Solaris
6 1 (1.10%) Unix
6 1 (1.10%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (17.58%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
3 13 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (10.99%) High Availability
5 9 (9.89%) Business Continuity
5 9 (9.89%) CI/CD
5 9 (9.89%) DevOps
5 9 (9.89%) Project Delivery
6 8 (8.79%) Containerisation
6 8 (8.79%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (7.69%) Storage Management
8 6 (6.59%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (6.59%) ITIL
8 6 (6.59%) Project Planning
9 5 (5.49%) Agile
9 5 (5.49%) BCP
9 5 (5.49%) Business Continuity Planning
9 5 (5.49%) Deployment Automation
9 5 (5.49%) Infrastructure Automation
9 5 (5.49%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 13 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 9 (9.89%) Python
3 7 (7.69%) SQL
4 5 (5.49%) Bicep
5 3 (3.30%) Go
5 3 (3.30%) Java
6 1 (1.10%) Bash
Qualifications
1 7 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (6.59%) Security Cleared
3 5 (5.49%) Azure Certification
4 4 (4.40%) CCNA
4 4 (4.40%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (4.40%) MCSA
5 3 (3.30%) DBS Check
5 3 (3.30%) Degree
5 3 (3.30%) DV Cleared
5 3 (3.30%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.10%) CCNP
6 1 (1.10%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.10%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.10%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.59%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 21 (23.08%) Active Directory
2 11 (12.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (6.59%) Docker
4 5 (5.49%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (4.40%) Hyper-V
6 3 (3.30%) VMware NSX
6 3 (3.30%) vSphere
7 1 (1.10%) Firmware
7 1 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 11 (12.09%) Kubernetes
2 9 (9.89%) Terraform
3 7 (7.69%) Ansible
3 7 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (3.30%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (3.30%) Rancher
5 2 (2.20%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (1.10%) Podman
Vendors
1 20 (21.98%) VMware
2 16 (17.58%) Microsoft
3 8 (8.79%) Cisco
4 3 (3.30%) Apple
4 3 (3.30%) Meraki
4 3 (3.30%) Ubiquiti
5 2 (2.20%) Fortinet
5 2 (2.20%) Palo Alto
5 2 (2.20%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.10%) Aruba
6 1 (1.10%) Extreme Networks
6 1 (1.10%) Google
6 1 (1.10%) HP
6 1 (1.10%) Mirantis
6 1 (1.10%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.10%) Veeam
6 1 (1.10%) WatchGuard