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 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 80 105
Rank change year-on-year +21 +25 -6
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 99 100 52
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 4.32% 2.61% 2.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.88% 3.07% 2.13%
Number of salaries quoted 38 62 42
10th Percentile £35,500 £37,500 £42,650
25th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -14.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £64,688 £56,875 £66,875
90th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £85,000
North West median annual salary £47,500 £46,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.26% -8.00% +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 2,027 3,258 2,443
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 88.52% 84.91% 94.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,192 1,528 1,997
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £35,150
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,000 £43,800
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 £69,850 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £84,056
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +4.76%

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 16 October 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 16 October 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 -4 4 £62,500 +25.00% 1
Stockport +8 3 £47,500 -
Sale - 3 - -
Oldham - 3 - -
Bury - 3 - -
Cheadle - 3 - - 3
Bolton +2 2 - -
Stalybridge - 2 - -
Wigan - 2 - -
Dukinfield - 2 - -
Heywood - 2 - -
Ashton-under-Lyne - 2 - -
Rochdale - 1 - -
Littleborough - 1 - -
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 12 (12.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (7.07%) IIS
3 1 (1.01%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.01%) Civil 3D
Cloud Services
1 26 (26.26%) Azure
2 10 (10.10%) IaaS
3 8 (8.08%) SaaS
4 7 (7.07%) Entra ID
4 7 (7.07%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (5.05%) AWS
5 5 (5.05%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (5.05%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 3 (3.03%) GitHub
6 3 (3.03%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.02%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.02%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.02%) Nutanix
8 1 (1.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.01%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (1.01%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.01%) Azure Stack
8 1 (1.01%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.01%) OneDrive
8 1 (1.01%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 56 (56.57%) VPN
2 43 (43.43%) Cisco IOS
3 11 (11.11%) Firewall
4 10 (10.10%) VLAN
5 8 (8.08%) TCP/IP
6 7 (7.07%) DHCP
6 7 (7.07%) DNS
7 6 (6.06%) TETRA
8 5 (5.05%) DMZ
8 5 (5.05%) SSL
8 5 (5.05%) STUN
8 5 (5.05%) VoIP
9 2 (2.02%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 6 (6.06%) Data Hub
2 6 (6.06%) SQL CLR
3 3 (3.03%) Metadata
3 3 (3.03%) Power BI
3 3 (3.03%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 3 (3.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.01%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.01%) MySQL
General
1 43 (43.43%) Analytical Skills
1 43 (43.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 15 (15.15%) Social Skills
3 11 (11.11%) Finance
4 6 (6.06%) Back Office
5 5 (5.05%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (4.04%) Legal
6 4 (4.04%) Local Government
7 2 (2.02%) Games
7 2 (2.02%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.01%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 81 (81.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 24 (24.24%) Senior
3 18 (18.18%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 14 (14.14%) Cloud Engineer
5 11 (11.11%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (8.08%) Principal Engineer
7 6 (6.06%) Applications Engineer
7 6 (6.06%) Applications Support
7 6 (6.06%) Applications Support Engineer
7 6 (6.06%) Design Engineer
7 6 (6.06%) Infrastructure Design Engineer
7 6 (6.06%) Senior Design Engineer
7 6 (6.06%) Support Engineer
8 5 (5.05%) 3rd Line Support
8 5 (5.05%) 3rd Line Support Technician
8 5 (5.05%) Azure Engineer
8 5 (5.05%) Infrastructure Support
8 5 (5.05%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 5 (5.05%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 5 (5.05%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (43.43%) Elastic Stack
2 5 (5.05%) ARM Templates
2 5 (5.05%) FreeSWITCH
3 4 (4.04%) .NET
4 3 (3.03%) .NET Core
4 3 (3.03%) .NET Framework
4 3 (3.03%) Dapper ORM
4 3 (3.03%) Entity Framework
4 3 (3.03%) OLE
5 1 (1.01%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (1.01%) Middleware
5 1 (1.01%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.01%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 43 (43.43%) Cyberattack
2 8 (8.08%) Driving Licence
3 7 (7.07%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (7.07%) Private Cloud
4 5 (5.05%) Management Information System
5 4 (4.04%) Clustering
5 4 (4.04%) NHS
6 3 (3.03%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (1.01%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.01%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.01%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.01%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (1.01%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 68 (68.69%) Windows
2 60 (60.61%) Linux
3 43 (43.43%) Android
4 22 (22.22%) Windows Server
5 6 (6.06%) CentOS
6 5 (5.05%) Debian
7 4 (4.04%) Unix
7 4 (4.04%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (2.02%) Mac OS
8 2 (2.02%) VMS
9 1 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (1.01%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (56.57%) DevOps
2 53 (53.54%) Problem-Solving
3 44 (44.44%) Platform Engineering
3 44 (44.44%) Storage Management
3 44 (44.44%) Task Automation
4 43 (43.43%) Line Management
4 43 (43.43%) Mathematics
4 43 (43.43%) Risk Management
5 11 (11.11%) High Availability
6 10 (10.10%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (9.09%) Infrastructure Automation
8 8 (8.08%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (7.07%) Data Loss Prevention
9 7 (7.07%) Fintech
10 6 (6.06%) Cybersecurity
10 6 (6.06%) Data Privacy
10 6 (6.06%) Mentoring
10 6 (6.06%) Performance Tuning
10 6 (6.06%) Wealth Management
10 6 (6.06%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 47 (47.47%) PowerShell
2 45 (45.45%) Bash
2 45 (45.45%) Python
3 12 (12.12%) SQL
4 3 (3.03%) C#
4 3 (3.03%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.01%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (8.08%) Degree
2 6 (6.06%) Azure Certification
3 5 (5.05%) CCNA
3 5 (5.05%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (5.05%) DBS Check
4 4 (4.04%) DV Cleared
4 4 (4.04%) Security Cleared
5 3 (3.03%) Network+ Certification
6 2 (2.02%) Postgraduate
7 1 (1.01%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.01%) CEH
7 1 (1.01%) CISSP
7 1 (1.01%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.01%) GCIA
7 1 (1.01%) GCIH
7 1 (1.01%) Linux+ Certification
7 1 (1.01%) RHCE
7 1 (1.01%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (5.05%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (5.05%) ISO 9001
3 2 (2.02%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.02%) GDPR
3 2 (2.02%) NIST
4 1 (1.01%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.01%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 46 (46.46%) VMware NSX
2 45 (45.45%) Docker
2 45 (45.45%) Hyper-V
3 44 (44.44%) vSphere
4 11 (11.11%) Active Directory
5 8 (8.08%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (5.05%) Kamailio
7 2 (2.02%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (1.01%) Dovecot
8 1 (1.01%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 50 (50.51%) Terraform
2 49 (49.49%) Ansible
3 8 (8.08%) Kubernetes
3 8 (8.08%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (5.05%) Autotask
5 3 (3.03%) Failover Clustering
5 3 (3.03%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.01%) Nessus
Vendors
1 46 (46.46%) Cisco
2 44 (44.44%) Splunk
3 43 (43.43%) 3PAR
3 43 (43.43%) Juniper
4 24 (24.24%) Microsoft
5 15 (15.15%) VMware
6 5 (5.05%) Salesforce
7 3 (3.03%) Fortinet
7 3 (3.03%) Red Hat
8 2 (2.02%) Google
8 2 (2.02%) Rapid7
9 1 (1.01%) Dell
9 1 (1.01%) Okta
9 1 (1.01%) Ping Identity
9 1 (1.01%) Proofpoint
9 1 (1.01%) Tenable