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 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 83 87
Rank change year-on-year 0 +4 -46
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 80 64 134
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.63% 3.13% 2.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.23% 3.28% 3.21%
Number of salaries quoted 68 57 118
10th Percentile £41,250 £39,836 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,750 £42,238
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +1.80%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,119 £67,968
90th Percentile £82,500 £76,840 £76,250
North West median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%

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 3,593 1,949 4,175
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 73.36% 95.35% 86.55%
Number of salaries quoted 2,447 1,260 3,376
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £93,000 £90,822 £82,500
North West median annual salary £52,500 £53,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.41% +6.50% -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 17 April 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 17 April 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 -5 9 £50,000 -13.04% 4
Cheadle - 6 £45,000 -
Bolton - 4 £50,000 -
Altrincham - 2 £38,750 - 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 9 (11.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (10.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.25%) Confluence
3 1 (1.25%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 23 (28.75%) Azure
2 10 (12.50%) AWS
2 10 (12.50%) Entra ID
2 10 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (8.75%) GitHub
4 6 (7.50%) Azure AKS
5 5 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (6.25%) SaaS
6 4 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (5.00%) Amazon S3
6 4 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (5.00%) Microsoft Purview
6 4 (5.00%) OneDrive
7 3 (3.75%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (3.75%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (3.75%) Azure Storage
7 3 (3.75%) GCP
7 3 (3.75%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 3 (3.75%) OpenShift
7 3 (3.75%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 13 (16.25%) Firewall
2 9 (11.25%) DHCP
2 9 (11.25%) DNS
3 7 (8.75%) VLAN
4 6 (7.50%) WAN
5 5 (6.25%) LAN
5 5 (6.25%) SAN
6 4 (5.00%) VoIP
7 3 (3.75%) TCP/IP
7 3 (3.75%) VPN
8 2 (2.50%) SD-WAN
9 1 (1.25%) FTP
9 1 (1.25%) HTTP
9 1 (1.25%) NAS
9 1 (1.25%) Network Security
9 1 (1.25%) SMTP
9 1 (1.25%) SNMP
9 1 (1.25%) SSH
9 1 (1.25%) SSL
9 1 (1.25%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.25%) MongoDB
2 4 (5.00%) MySQL
3 3 (3.75%) DynamoDB
3 3 (3.75%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (3.75%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.75%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.50%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (8.75%) Git
2 3 (3.75%) Bitbucket
2 3 (3.75%) GitLab
3 1 (1.25%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.25%) JIRA
3 1 (1.25%) JMeter
3 1 (1.25%) Locust
3 1 (1.25%) PyCharm
3 1 (1.25%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 13 (16.25%) Social Skills
2 5 (6.25%) Public Sector
3 4 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (3.75%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.50%) Retail
6 1 (1.25%) Finance
6 1 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.25%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 60 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 19 (23.75%) Senior
3 14 (17.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 9 (11.25%) Design Engineer
4 9 (11.25%) Infrastructure Design Engineer
5 8 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
6 6 (7.50%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (6.25%) IT Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Analyst
9 3 (3.75%) DevOps Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 3 (3.75%) Infrastructure Support
9 3 (3.75%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) IT Support
9 3 (3.75%) IT Support Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Principal Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Senior Design Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.75%) ARM Templates
1 3 (3.75%) OLE
1 3 (3.75%) RESTful
2 2 (2.50%) Middleware
3 1 (1.25%) .NET
3 1 (1.25%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (1.25%) Gherkin
3 1 (1.25%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (1.25%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.00%) Social Media
2 3 (3.75%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (3.75%) Public Cloud
3 2 (2.50%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.50%) Driving Licence
3 2 (2.50%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.25%) AI Agents
4 1 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.25%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.25%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.25%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 21 (26.25%) Windows
2 17 (21.25%) Windows Server
3 11 (13.75%) Linux
4 5 (6.25%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (5.00%) Windows 10
6 3 (3.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (2.50%) VMS
8 1 (1.25%) Mac OS
8 1 (1.25%) Solaris
8 1 (1.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (22.50%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
3 13 (16.25%) CI/CD
3 13 (16.25%) DevOps
4 12 (15.00%) Containerisation
4 12 (15.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 10 (12.50%) High Availability
6 8 (10.00%) Business Continuity
6 8 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
6 8 (10.00%) Project Delivery
7 7 (8.75%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (8.75%) ITIL
7 7 (8.75%) Platform Engineering
8 6 (7.50%) Agile
8 6 (7.50%) Customer Service
8 6 (7.50%) Observability
8 6 (7.50%) Project Planning
8 6 (7.50%) Storage Management
9 5 (6.25%) Deployment Automation
9 5 (6.25%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 13 (16.25%) PowerShell
2 11 (13.75%) Python
3 6 (7.50%) Bicep
3 6 (7.50%) SQL
4 4 (5.00%) Java
5 3 (3.75%) Go
6 1 (1.25%) Bash
Qualifications
1 6 (7.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (6.25%) Azure Certification
2 5 (6.25%) Security Cleared
3 4 (5.00%) CCNA
3 4 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (5.00%) DBS Check
3 4 (5.00%) Degree
3 4 (5.00%) MCSA
4 3 (3.75%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.50%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.25%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.50%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.25%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.25%) QA
2 1 (1.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 10 (12.50%) Docker
3 8 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (8.75%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (6.25%) Hyper-V
6 4 (5.00%) VMware NSX
6 4 (5.00%) vSphere
7 1 (1.25%) Firmware
7 1 (1.25%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 15 (18.75%) Kubernetes
2 13 (16.25%) Terraform
3 8 (10.00%) Ansible
3 8 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (5.00%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (3.75%) Rancher
6 2 (2.50%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.25%) Grafana
7 1 (1.25%) Podman
Vendors
1 17 (21.25%) Microsoft
2 16 (20.00%) VMware
3 7 (8.75%) Cisco
4 4 (5.00%) Apple
4 4 (5.00%) Meraki
4 4 (5.00%) Ubiquiti
5 2 (2.50%) Fortinet
5 2 (2.50%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.25%) Extreme Networks
6 1 (1.25%) Google
6 1 (1.25%) Mirantis
6 1 (1.25%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.25%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.25%) Veeam
6 1 (1.25%) WatchGuard