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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 85 59
Rank change year-on-year +22 -26 +39
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 103 103 142
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 4.37% 2.55% 4.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.88% 3.10% 5.25%
Number of salaries quoted 38 65 49
10th Percentile £35,500 £36,250 £38,700
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £45,000 £51,573
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -12.74% +9.44%
75th Percentile £66,875 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £71,500 £71,900
North West median annual salary £53,750 £45,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +19.44% -5.26% +5.56%

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 2,111 3,327 2,707
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 89.49% 82.41% 94.92%
Number of salaries quoted 1,196 1,788 2,110
10th Percentile £29,500 £30,700 £35,000
25th Percentile £34,750 £41,188 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,625 £83,575 £84,056
North West median annual salary £50,000 £50,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.99% -8.18% +4.76%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering 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 15 September 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 15 September 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 -8 4 £62,500 +19.05% 2
Stockport +10 3 £47,500 - 2
Sale - 3 - -
Oldham - 3 - -
Bury - 3 - - 1
Cheadle - 3 - -
Bolton +5 2 - - 1
Stalybridge - 2 - -
Wigan - 2 - -
Dukinfield - 2 - -
Heywood - 2 - -
Ashton-under-Lyne - 2 - - 1
Rochdale - 1 - -
Littleborough - 1 - -
Salford - 1 £57,500 - 1
Infrastructure Engineering
North West

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (9.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (7.77%) IIS
3 1 (0.97%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 30 (29.13%) Azure
2 7 (6.80%) Azure DevOps
2 7 (6.80%) IaaS
3 6 (5.83%) Entra ID
3 6 (5.83%) SaaS
4 5 (4.85%) AWS
4 5 (4.85%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (4.85%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 3 (2.91%) GitHub
5 3 (2.91%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.94%) Nutanix
7 1 (0.97%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (0.97%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.97%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.97%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (0.97%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (0.97%) GCP
7 1 (0.97%) Mimecast
7 1 (0.97%) OneDrive
7 1 (0.97%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 53 (51.46%) VPN
2 43 (41.75%) Cisco IOS
3 9 (8.74%) Firewall
4 8 (7.77%) DNS
4 8 (7.77%) TETRA
5 7 (6.80%) DHCP
5 7 (6.80%) VLAN
6 5 (4.85%) DMZ
6 5 (4.85%) STUN
6 5 (4.85%) TCP/IP
6 5 (4.85%) VoIP
7 2 (1.94%) Network Security
7 2 (1.94%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.65%) SQL Server
2 6 (5.83%) Data Hub
2 6 (5.83%) SQL CLR
3 3 (2.91%) Metadata
3 3 (2.91%) Power BI
3 3 (2.91%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 3 (2.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 43 (41.75%) Analytical Skills
1 43 (41.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 16 (15.53%) Social Skills
3 14 (13.59%) Finance
4 6 (5.83%) Back Office
5 5 (4.85%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (3.88%) Legal
6 4 (3.88%) Local Government
7 3 (2.91%) Banking
8 2 (1.94%) Games
8 2 (1.94%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.97%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 87 (84.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 27 (26.21%) Senior
3 21 (20.39%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 19 (18.45%) Cloud Engineer
5 13 (12.62%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 10 (9.71%) Principal Engineer
7 8 (7.77%) Design Engineer
7 8 (7.77%) Infrastructure Design Engineer
7 8 (7.77%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 8 (7.77%) Senior Design Engineer
8 7 (6.80%) Azure Engineer
9 5 (4.85%) Applications Engineer
9 5 (4.85%) Applications Support
9 5 (4.85%) Applications Support Engineer
9 5 (4.85%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (4.85%) Infrastructure Support
9 5 (4.85%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 5 (4.85%) Security Engineer
9 5 (4.85%) Support Engineer
10 4 (3.88%) Civil Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (41.75%) Elastic Stack
2 7 (6.80%) ARM Templates
3 5 (4.85%) FreeSWITCH
4 4 (3.88%) OLE
5 3 (2.91%) .NET
5 3 (2.91%) .NET Core
5 3 (2.91%) .NET Framework
5 3 (2.91%) Dapper ORM
5 3 (2.91%) Entity Framework
6 1 (0.97%) Middleware
6 1 (0.97%) OpenCL
6 1 (0.97%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 43 (41.75%) Cyberattack
2 8 (7.77%) Driving Licence
2 8 (7.77%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (5.83%) Private Cloud
4 4 (3.88%) Clustering
4 4 (3.88%) NHS
4 4 (3.88%) Public Cloud
4 4 (3.88%) Security Posture
5 3 (2.91%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.91%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.91%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 2 (1.94%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.97%) CUDA
7 1 (0.97%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.97%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.97%) PKI
7 1 (0.97%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 64 (62.14%) Windows
2 63 (61.17%) Linux
3 43 (41.75%) Android
4 20 (19.42%) Windows Server
5 6 (5.83%) CentOS
5 6 (5.83%) Debian
6 4 (3.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (3.88%) Unix
6 4 (3.88%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (2.91%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.97%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.97%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (58.25%) DevOps
2 53 (51.46%) Problem-Solving
3 44 (42.72%) Storage Management
3 44 (42.72%) Task Automation
4 43 (41.75%) Line Management
4 43 (41.75%) Mathematics
4 43 (41.75%) Platform Engineering
4 43 (41.75%) Risk Management
5 12 (11.65%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (10.68%) High Availability
6 11 (10.68%) Infrastructure Automation
7 8 (7.77%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (6.80%) Configuration Management
8 7 (6.80%) Cybersecurity
9 6 (5.83%) Data Privacy
9 6 (5.83%) Mentoring
9 6 (5.83%) Performance Tuning
9 6 (5.83%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (5.83%) Wealth Management
9 6 (5.83%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 48 (46.60%) PowerShell
2 45 (43.69%) Bash
2 45 (43.69%) Python
3 12 (11.65%) SQL
4 3 (2.91%) C#
4 3 (2.91%) T-SQL
5 1 (0.97%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (7.77%) Azure Certification
2 5 (4.85%) Degree
3 4 (3.88%) DV Cleared
3 4 (3.88%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.91%) Network+ Certification
5 2 (1.94%) CCNA
5 2 (1.94%) CEH
5 2 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.94%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.94%) Postgraduate
6 1 (0.97%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.97%) CISSP
6 1 (0.97%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.97%) GCIA
6 1 (0.97%) GCIH
6 1 (0.97%) MCSA
6 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.97%) RHCE
6 1 (0.97%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (5.83%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (4.85%) ISO 9001
4 2 (1.94%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.94%) GDPR
4 2 (1.94%) NIST
5 1 (0.97%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.97%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 45 (43.69%) Hyper-V
1 45 (43.69%) VMware NSX
2 44 (42.72%) Docker
2 44 (42.72%) vSphere
3 10 (9.71%) Active Directory
4 9 (8.74%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (4.85%) Kamailio
6 4 (3.88%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (1.94%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.97%) Dovecot
8 1 (0.97%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 54 (52.43%) Terraform
2 50 (48.54%) Ansible
3 9 (8.74%) Kubernetes
4 7 (6.80%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (2.91%) Failover Clustering
5 3 (2.91%) FortiGate
6 2 (1.94%) Autotask
7 1 (0.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.97%) Nessus
7 1 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 46 (44.66%) Cisco
2 44 (42.72%) Splunk
3 43 (41.75%) 3PAR
3 43 (41.75%) Juniper
4 25 (24.27%) Microsoft
5 14 (13.59%) VMware
6 5 (4.85%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.91%) Fortinet
7 3 (2.91%) Google
7 3 (2.91%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.94%) Rapid7
9 1 (0.97%) Apple
9 1 (0.97%) Dell
9 1 (0.97%) Okta
9 1 (0.97%) Ping Identity
9 1 (0.97%) Proofpoint
9 1 (0.97%) Tenable
9 1 (0.97%) Veeam