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 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 93 113
Rank change year-on-year +7 +20 -21
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 41 68 34
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.52% 2.41% 1.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.84% 2.59% 1.71%
Number of salaries quoted 36 47 33
10th Percentile £35,500 £36,250 £44,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £38,858 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -3.05%
75th Percentile £70,000 £54,375 £75,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,250 £90,000
North West median annual salary £54,375 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +14.47% - -5.00%

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 2,231 2,621 1,990
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 82.69% 93.01% 94.72%
Number of salaries quoted 1,284 1,231 1,592
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £43,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +0.22%

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 21 December 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 21 December 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 -7 2 £62,500 +25.00%
Bolton +10 1 £47,500 -
Stockport +4 1 £47,500 -
Salford - 1 £70,079 - 3
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 (19.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Civil 3D
Cloud Services
1 18 (43.90%) Azure
2 11 (26.83%) IaaS
3 9 (21.95%) Entra ID
4 8 (19.51%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (17.07%) AWS
6 5 (12.20%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 4 (9.76%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (9.76%) Amazon S3
7 4 (9.76%) Azure AKS
7 4 (9.76%) SaaS
8 3 (7.32%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (4.88%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (4.88%) Azure Functions
9 2 (4.88%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (4.88%) Azure Storage
9 2 (4.88%) GCP
9 2 (4.88%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (4.88%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (4.88%) OpenShift
9 2 (4.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (29.27%) VLAN
2 11 (26.83%) VPN
3 8 (19.51%) Firewall
4 7 (17.07%) TCP/IP
5 6 (14.63%) SSL
5 6 (14.63%) VoIP
6 5 (12.20%) DMZ
6 5 (12.20%) STUN
7 3 (7.32%) TETRA
8 2 (4.88%) DHCP
8 2 (4.88%) DNS
8 2 (4.88%) WAN
9 1 (2.44%) FTP
9 1 (2.44%) HTTP
9 1 (2.44%) LAN
9 1 (2.44%) NAS
9 1 (2.44%) SMTP
9 1 (2.44%) SNMP
9 1 (2.44%) SSH
9 1 (2.44%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (14.63%) SQL Server
2 4 (9.76%) MongoDB
2 4 (9.76%) MySQL
3 2 (4.88%) DynamoDB
3 2 (4.88%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (4.88%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.44%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 4 (9.76%) Git
2 2 (4.88%) Bitbucket
2 2 (4.88%) GitLab
3 1 (2.44%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.44%) JMeter
3 1 (2.44%) Locust
General
1 16 (39.02%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.20%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (4.88%) Finance
3 2 (4.88%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (4.88%) Retail
4 1 (2.44%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.44%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.44%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 24 (58.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (26.83%) Cloud Engineer
3 8 (19.51%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (19.51%) Senior
4 6 (14.63%) Applications Engineer
4 6 (14.63%) Applications Support
4 6 (14.63%) Applications Support Engineer
4 6 (14.63%) Support Engineer
5 5 (12.20%) 3rd Line Support
5 5 (12.20%) 3rd Line Support Technician
5 5 (12.20%) Infrastructure Support
5 5 (12.20%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 5 (12.20%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (12.20%) Support Technician
6 4 (9.76%) Principal Engineer
7 3 (7.32%) Design Engineer
7 3 (7.32%) Infrastructure Design Engineer
7 3 (7.32%) Senior Design Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (4.88%) Senior DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.20%) FreeSWITCH
1 5 (12.20%) OLE
2 2 (4.88%) .NET
2 2 (4.88%) ARM Templates
2 2 (4.88%) ASP.NET Web API
2 2 (4.88%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (4.88%) RESTful
2 2 (4.88%) WCF
3 1 (2.44%) Gherkin
3 1 (2.44%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.07%) Driving Licence
2 5 (12.20%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.88%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.88%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.88%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (4.88%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.44%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.44%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 20 (48.78%) Windows
2 16 (39.02%) Windows Server
3 13 (31.71%) Linux
4 5 (12.20%) Debian
5 3 (7.32%) VMS
6 1 (2.44%) CentOS
6 1 (2.44%) Mac OS
6 1 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (2.44%) Unix
6 1 (2.44%) Windows 10
6 1 (2.44%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (36.59%) DevOps
2 10 (24.39%) Containerisation
2 10 (24.39%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (21.95%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (19.51%) CI/CD
4 8 (19.51%) Cybersecurity
4 8 (19.51%) High Availability
5 6 (14.63%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (14.63%) Customer Service
5 6 (14.63%) Information Security
5 6 (14.63%) Service Delivery
6 5 (12.20%) Data Loss Prevention
6 5 (12.20%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (12.20%) Information Security Management
6 5 (12.20%) ISMS
6 5 (12.20%) Mobile Device Management
6 5 (12.20%) Remote Monitoring and Management
6 5 (12.20%) Security Management
6 5 (12.20%) Software Licensing
6 5 (12.20%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (19.51%) SQL
2 5 (12.20%) Python
3 3 (7.32%) Java
3 3 (7.32%) PowerShell
4 2 (4.88%) Bicep
4 2 (4.88%) Go
5 1 (2.44%) Bash
5 1 (2.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (17.07%) Degree
1 7 (17.07%) Security Cleared
2 6 (14.63%) CCNA
2 6 (14.63%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (14.63%) DBS Check
2 6 (14.63%) DV Cleared
3 3 (7.32%) Azure Certification
4 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (4.88%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.44%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (2.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (2.44%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.20%) Cyber Essentials
1 5 (12.20%) ISO 9001
1 5 (12.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.44%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.44%) QA
2 1 (2.44%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (24.39%) Active Directory
2 7 (17.07%) Docker
3 5 (12.20%) Kamailio
4 3 (7.32%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (7.32%) VMware NSX
4 3 (7.32%) vSphere
5 1 (2.44%) Firmware
5 1 (2.44%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.44%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (24.39%) Kubernetes
2 9 (21.95%) Terraform
3 7 (17.07%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (12.20%) Ansible
4 5 (12.20%) Autotask
5 2 (4.88%) Rancher
6 1 (2.44%) FortiGate
6 1 (2.44%) Grafana
6 1 (2.44%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 12 (29.27%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.20%) Salesforce
2 5 (12.20%) VMware
3 3 (7.32%) Google
4 2 (4.88%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.44%) Apple
5 1 (2.44%) Cisco
5 1 (2.44%) Dell
5 1 (2.44%) Fortinet
5 1 (2.44%) Meraki
5 1 (2.44%) Rapid7
5 1 (2.44%) Ubiquiti