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 29 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 66 85
Rank change year-on-year -5 +19 -49
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 116 117 163
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.85% 4.99% 2.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.55% 5.30% 3.40%
Number of salaries quoted 99 52 131
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £41,119
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% +2.94%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £76,840 £75,000
North West median annual salary £47,500 £53,750 £47,500
% change year-on-year -11.63% +13.16% -

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 4,556 2,209 4,797
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 72.73% 94.28% 83.22%
Number of salaries quoted 3,612 1,269 3,556
10th Percentile £32,775 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% -9.48%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,886 £68,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,164 £81,250
North West median annual salary £55,000 £51,564 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.66% +3.13% -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 29 June 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 29 June 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 -1 14 £50,000 -13.04% 4
Cheadle +4 6 £45,000 - 1
Bolton +19 4 £50,000 -
Altrincham +6 2 £38,750 - 1
Bury +4 1 £40,000 -
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 5 (4.31%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (4.31%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.86%) Confluence
2 1 (0.86%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.86%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.86%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 34 (29.31%) Azure
2 14 (12.07%) AWS
3 10 (8.62%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (5.17%) Entra ID
5 5 (4.31%) GitHub
5 5 (4.31%) SaaS
6 3 (2.59%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (2.59%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (1.72%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.72%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.72%) Azure AKS
7 2 (1.72%) Google Workspace
7 2 (1.72%) IaaS
7 2 (1.72%) OneDrive
7 2 (1.72%) PaaS
7 2 (1.72%) Rubrik
7 2 (1.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (0.86%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.86%) GCP
8 1 (0.86%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (14.66%) Firewall
2 15 (12.93%) SAN
3 6 (5.17%) DHCP
3 6 (5.17%) DNS
4 5 (4.31%) VLAN
5 4 (3.45%) Cisco ASA
5 4 (3.45%) Cisco Firepower
5 4 (3.45%) Cisco Nexus
5 4 (3.45%) LAN
5 4 (3.45%) Network Security
6 3 (2.59%) VoIP
6 3 (2.59%) WAN
7 2 (1.72%) VPN
8 1 (0.86%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.59%) MongoDB
2 2 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.72%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.86%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (0.86%) MySQL
3 1 (0.86%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.86%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (2.59%) Git
2 1 (0.86%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.86%) GitLab
2 1 (0.86%) JIRA
2 1 (0.86%) PyCharm
2 1 (0.86%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 16 (13.79%) Social Skills
2 7 (6.03%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (6.03%) Public Sector
3 6 (5.17%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (1.72%) Finance
4 2 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (0.86%) Retail
5 1 (0.86%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 86 (74.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 27 (23.28%) Senior
3 24 (20.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 12 (10.34%) Design Engineer
4 12 (10.34%) Infrastructure Design Engineer
5 8 (6.90%) VMware Engineer
6 7 (6.03%) Azure Engineer
6 7 (6.03%) Electrical Engineer
6 7 (6.03%) IT Engineer
7 6 (5.17%) Site Engineer
8 5 (4.31%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (4.31%) IT Support
8 5 (4.31%) IT Support Engineer
8 5 (4.31%) Linux Engineer
8 5 (4.31%) Network Engineer
8 5 (4.31%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (4.31%) Principal Engineer
8 5 (4.31%) Senior Design Engineer
8 5 (4.31%) Support Engineer
9 4 (3.45%) VMware Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.72%) .NET
2 1 (0.86%) ARM Templates
2 1 (0.86%) Kafka
2 1 (0.86%) Middleware
2 1 (0.86%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.21%) Driving Licence
2 10 (8.62%) Data Centre
3 8 (6.90%) Enterprise Storage
4 4 (3.45%) Clustering
5 3 (2.59%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.59%) Replication
5 3 (2.59%) Social Media
6 2 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.86%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.86%) CCTV
7 1 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.86%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.86%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 25 (21.55%) Windows
2 23 (19.83%) Windows Server
3 13 (11.21%) Linux
4 4 (3.45%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (2.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.59%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.72%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.86%) Solaris
7 1 (0.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (18.97%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (13.79%) Disaster Recovery
3 14 (12.07%) Infrastructure as Code
4 13 (11.21%) Storage Management
5 12 (10.34%) Project Delivery
6 11 (9.48%) Business Continuity
7 10 (8.62%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (8.62%) High Availability
8 9 (7.76%) CI/CD
9 8 (6.90%) BCP
9 8 (6.90%) Business Continuity Planning
9 8 (6.90%) Observability
10 7 (6.03%) Cybersecurity
10 7 (6.03%) DevOps
10 7 (6.03%) ITIL
11 6 (5.17%) Customer Service
11 6 (5.17%) Platform Engineering
11 6 (5.17%) Technology Transformation
12 5 (4.31%) Containerisation
12 5 (4.31%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 11 (9.48%) PowerShell
2 8 (6.90%) SQL
3 7 (6.03%) Python
4 5 (4.31%) Bicep
5 2 (1.72%) Bash
6 1 (0.86%) Go
6 1 (0.86%) Java
Qualifications
1 13 (11.21%) SC Cleared
1 13 (11.21%) Security Cleared
2 9 (7.76%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (6.03%) Azure Certification
3 7 (6.03%) CCNA
3 7 (6.03%) Cisco Certification
3 7 (6.03%) MCSA
4 4 (3.45%) CCNP
4 4 (3.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (2.59%) DBS Check
5 3 (2.59%) Degree
6 1 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.17%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (1.72%) SLA
3 1 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 26 (22.41%) Active Directory
2 21 (18.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (5.17%) Hyper-V
4 4 (3.45%) Docker
4 4 (3.45%) Firmware
5 3 (2.59%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (2.59%) vSphere
6 2 (1.72%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.86%) MetaFrame
7 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.86%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.86%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.86%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 8 (6.90%) Kubernetes
2 7 (6.03%) Terraform
3 5 (4.31%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (3.45%) Ansible
4 4 (3.45%) Microsoft Clustering
5 3 (2.59%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (1.72%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.86%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.86%) Podman
7 1 (0.86%) Rancher
Vendors
1 27 (23.28%) VMware
2 24 (20.69%) Microsoft
3 12 (10.34%) Cisco
4 6 (5.17%) HP
5 4 (3.45%) Aruba
6 3 (2.59%) Apple
6 3 (2.59%) Meraki
6 3 (2.59%) Ubiquiti
6 3 (2.59%) Veeam
7 2 (1.72%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.72%) Commvault
7 2 (1.72%) ConnectWise
7 2 (1.72%) Datto
7 2 (1.72%) Dell
7 2 (1.72%) Google
7 2 (1.72%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (1.72%) NetApp
7 2 (1.72%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.72%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.86%) Mirantis