Infrastructure Engineering Jobs in Manchester

Infrastructure Engineering
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 85 38
Rank change year-on-year -1 -47 +91
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 70 138 385
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 3.18% 2.68% 7.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.34% 3.09% 8.02%
Number of salaries quoted 59 118 133
10th Percentile £40,543 £36,151 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £51,573
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +1.80% +14.61%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,968 £61,250
90th Percentile £76,840 £76,250 £98,811
North West median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +11.11%

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 2,095 4,460 4,803
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 95.10% 86.69% 96.64%
Number of salaries quoted 1,301 3,407 2,566
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,500 £41,250 £43,800
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £76,840 £69,650 £72,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £82,500 £83,750
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in Manchester.

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Manchester

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in Manchester over the 6 months to 7 May 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 7 May 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
Salford +4 1 £57,500 -23.33% 3
Oldham -3 1 £43,500 -3.33%
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 8 (11.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (8.57%) IIS
3 4 (5.71%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (18.57%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 38 (54.29%) Azure
2 12 (17.14%) AWS
2 12 (17.14%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (12.86%) Entra ID
4 8 (11.43%) GCP
5 7 (10.00%) SaaS
6 6 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (4.29%) Power Platform
8 2 (2.86%) Azure AKS
8 2 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (2.86%) Cloudflare
8 2 (2.86%) Nutanix
8 2 (2.86%) OneDrive
8 2 (2.86%) PaaS
9 1 (1.43%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.43%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (1.43%) GitHub
9 1 (1.43%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (1.43%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (18.57%) DNS
2 12 (17.14%) DHCP
3 5 (7.14%) NAS
3 5 (7.14%) SAN
3 5 (7.14%) VSAN
3 5 (7.14%) WAN
4 4 (5.71%) Firewall
5 2 (2.86%) Network Security
5 2 (2.86%) TETRA
6 1 (1.43%) Ethernet
6 1 (1.43%) LAN
6 1 (1.43%) OSPF
6 1 (1.43%) VPN
6 1 (1.43%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (15.71%) SQL Server
2 5 (7.14%) MongoDB
2 5 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (5.71%) Data Hub
3 4 (5.71%) SQL CLR
4 3 (4.29%) Metadata
4 3 (4.29%) Power BI
4 3 (4.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 3 (4.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (7.14%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (1.43%) GitLab
General
1 35 (50.00%) Finance
2 20 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 13 (18.57%) Banking
4 4 (5.71%) Back Office
5 2 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.86%) Games
5 2 (2.86%) Legal
6 1 (1.43%) Law
6 1 (1.43%) Local Government
6 1 (1.43%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 50 (71.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 24 (34.29%) Cloud Engineer
2 24 (34.29%) Senior
3 20 (28.57%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 13 (18.57%) Civil Engineer
5 12 (17.14%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (12.86%) Security Engineer
7 7 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
7 7 (10.00%) Cloud Security Engineer
7 7 (10.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 6 (8.57%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (5.71%) Associate Engineer
10 3 (4.29%) Developer
10 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Developer
10 3 (4.29%) Principal Engineer
10 3 (4.29%) SaaS Developer
10 3 (4.29%) Senior Developer
10 3 (4.29%) Senior Microsoft Developer
10 3 (4.29%) Senior SQL Developer
10 3 (4.29%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.14%) ARM Templates
1 5 (7.14%) Middleware
2 1 (1.43%) .NET
2 1 (1.43%) .NET Core
2 1 (1.43%) .NET Framework
2 1 (1.43%) Dapper ORM
2 1 (1.43%) Entity Framework
2 1 (1.43%) OLE
2 1 (1.43%) OpenCL
2 1 (1.43%) SAML
2 1 (1.43%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
1 10 (14.29%) Public Cloud
2 9 (12.86%) Data Centre
2 9 (12.86%) Security Posture
3 8 (11.43%) Cloud Native
3 8 (11.43%) Product Ownership
4 4 (5.71%) Private Cloud
5 3 (4.29%) Clustering
6 2 (2.86%) Cyber Security Posture
6 2 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.43%) CUDA
7 1 (1.43%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 1 (1.43%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.43%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.43%) PKI
7 1 (1.43%) Replication
7 1 (1.43%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 23 (32.86%) Linux
1 23 (32.86%) Windows
2 14 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 7 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (7.14%) CentOS
5 4 (5.71%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (4.29%) Ubuntu
7 2 (2.86%) Debian
7 2 (2.86%) Mac OS
7 2 (2.86%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (1.43%) Windows 10
8 1 (1.43%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (25.71%) DevOps
2 17 (24.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 16 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (17.14%) Disaster Recovery
5 11 (15.71%) Mentoring
6 9 (12.86%) Cloud Security
6 9 (12.86%) Fintech
7 8 (11.43%) CI/CD
7 8 (11.43%) Infrastructure Automation
8 7 (10.00%) Agile
8 7 (10.00%) Roadmaps
9 6 (8.57%) High Availability
9 6 (8.57%) Migration
10 5 (7.14%) Architectural Design
10 5 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
10 5 (7.14%) Defect Management
10 5 (7.14%) ITIL
10 5 (7.14%) Performance Optimisation
10 5 (7.14%) Project Delivery
10 5 (7.14%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 9 (12.86%) SQL
2 7 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (4.29%) T-SQL
4 2 (2.86%) Bash
5 1 (1.43%) C#
5 1 (1.43%) Python
Qualifications
1 14 (20.00%) Degree
2 12 (17.14%) Azure Certification
3 7 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (7.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (2.86%) AWS Certification
5 2 (2.86%) Linux+ Certification
5 2 (2.86%) RHCE
5 2 (2.86%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.86%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.43%) CCNA
6 1 (1.43%) CEH
6 1 (1.43%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.43%) MCITP
6 1 (1.43%) MCSA
6 1 (1.43%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.71%) GDPR
2 3 (4.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.86%) HIPAA
3 2 (2.86%) NIST
4 1 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 16 (22.86%) Active Directory
2 10 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (11.43%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (10.00%) VMware NSX
5 6 (8.57%) Hyper-V
6 4 (5.71%) vSphere
7 2 (2.86%) Docker
7 2 (2.86%) Dovecot
7 2 (2.86%) Postfix
7 2 (2.86%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (1.43%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 18 (25.71%) Terraform
2 9 (12.86%) Kubernetes
3 5 (7.14%) Ansible
3 5 (7.14%) Progress Chef
4 4 (5.71%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (4.29%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (1.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.43%) Istio
6 1 (1.43%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (1.43%) SCCM
6 1 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (41.43%) Microsoft
2 23 (32.86%) VMware
3 7 (10.00%) Google
4 6 (8.57%) Veeam
5 5 (7.14%) Oracle
6 3 (4.29%) Red Hat
7 2 (2.86%) Okta
7 2 (2.86%) Ping Identity
7 2 (2.86%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.43%) Apple
8 1 (1.43%) Facebook
8 1 (1.43%) Fortinet