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 24 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 67 83
Rank change year-on-year -14 +16 -47
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 98 104 143
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.69% 4.84% 2.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.36% 5.05% 3.29%
Number of salaries quoted 81 46 118
10th Percentile £44,750 £44,750 £36,151
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% +1.80%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,886 £67,968
90th Percentile £90,000 £76,840 £76,250
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% +9.47% -1.04%

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 4,157 2,061 4,343
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 71.83% 95.86% 85.04%
Number of salaries quoted 3,050 1,170 3,453
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,675 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £53,847
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +6.78% -6.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,840 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £82,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -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 24 May 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 24 May 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 11 £50,000 -13.04% 4
Cheadle +4 6 £45,000 -
Bolton +24 3 £50,000 - 1
Altrincham +1 2 £38,750 - 5
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 8 (8.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (7.14%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.02%) Confluence
3 1 (1.02%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 32 (32.65%) Azure
2 9 (9.18%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (8.16%) AWS
3 8 (8.16%) Entra ID
4 5 (5.10%) GitHub
5 4 (4.08%) Azure AKS
5 4 (4.08%) OneDrive
5 4 (4.08%) SaaS
6 3 (3.06%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (3.06%) Amazon EKS
6 3 (3.06%) Amazon S3
6 3 (3.06%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (3.06%) GCP
6 3 (3.06%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (3.06%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 3 (3.06%) Microsoft Purview
6 3 (3.06%) OpenShift
7 2 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.04%) iPaaS
7 2 (2.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (18.37%) Firewall
2 11 (11.22%) SAN
3 10 (10.20%) DHCP
3 10 (10.20%) DNS
4 6 (6.12%) VLAN
5 5 (5.10%) Network Security
5 5 (5.10%) WAN
6 4 (4.08%) Cisco ASA
6 4 (4.08%) Cisco Firepower
6 4 (4.08%) Cisco Nexus
6 4 (4.08%) LAN
7 3 (3.06%) TCP/IP
7 3 (3.06%) VoIP
7 3 (3.06%) VPN
8 2 (2.04%) SD-WAN
9 1 (1.02%) FTP
9 1 (1.02%) HTTP
9 1 (1.02%) SMTP
9 1 (1.02%) SNMP
9 1 (1.02%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.08%) MongoDB
2 3 (3.06%) DynamoDB
2 3 (3.06%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (3.06%) MySQL
2 3 (3.06%) NoSQL
2 3 (3.06%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.04%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.02%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (5.10%) Git
2 3 (3.06%) Bitbucket
2 3 (3.06%) GitLab
3 1 (1.02%) JIRA
3 1 (1.02%) PyCharm
3 1 (1.02%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 15 (15.31%) Social Skills
2 8 (8.16%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 6 (6.12%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (3.06%) Finance
5 3 (3.06%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 76 (77.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 24 (24.49%) Senior
3 20 (20.41%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 12 (12.24%) Design Engineer
4 12 (12.24%) Infrastructure Design Engineer
5 8 (8.16%) Cloud Engineer
6 7 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
6 7 (7.14%) Electrical Engineer
6 7 (7.14%) IT Engineer
7 6 (6.12%) Network Engineer
7 6 (6.12%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 5 (5.10%) IT Support
8 5 (5.10%) IT Support Engineer
8 5 (5.10%) Principal Engineer
8 5 (5.10%) Senior Design Engineer
8 5 (5.10%) Support Engineer
9 4 (4.08%) Senior Cloud Engineer
9 4 (4.08%) VMware Engineer
9 4 (4.08%) VMware Support Engineer
10 3 (3.06%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.06%) RESTful
2 2 (2.04%) Middleware
3 1 (1.02%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.02%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.20%) Data Centre
2 8 (8.16%) Driving Licence
3 4 (4.08%) Clustering
3 4 (4.08%) Enterprise Storage
4 3 (3.06%) Public Cloud
4 3 (3.06%) Social Media
5 2 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.04%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.02%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.02%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.02%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 24 (24.49%) Windows
2 21 (21.43%) Windows Server
3 10 (10.20%) Linux
4 4 (4.08%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (3.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (3.06%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.02%) Solaris
6 1 (1.02%) Unix
6 1 (1.02%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (17.35%) Disaster Recovery
3 14 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (12.24%) Business Continuity
5 10 (10.20%) High Availability
5 10 (10.20%) Storage Management
6 9 (9.18%) CI/CD
6 9 (9.18%) DevOps
6 9 (9.18%) Project Delivery
7 8 (8.16%) BCP
7 8 (8.16%) Business Continuity Planning
7 8 (8.16%) Containerisation
7 8 (8.16%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (7.14%) Systems Engineering
9 6 (6.12%) Cybersecurity
9 6 (6.12%) Platform Engineering
9 6 (6.12%) Project Planning
10 5 (5.10%) Agile
10 5 (5.10%) ITIL
10 5 (5.10%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 13 (13.27%) PowerShell
2 10 (10.20%) SQL
3 9 (9.18%) Python
4 5 (5.10%) Bicep
5 3 (3.06%) Go
5 3 (3.06%) Java
6 1 (1.02%) Bash
Qualifications
1 10 (10.20%) Microsoft Certification
1 10 (10.20%) Security Cleared
2 9 (9.18%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.16%) Azure Certification
4 7 (7.14%) CCNA
4 7 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (7.14%) MCSA
5 4 (4.08%) CCNP
5 4 (4.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 3 (3.06%) DBS Check
6 3 (3.06%) Degree
7 1 (1.02%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.02%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.12%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 25 (25.51%) Active Directory
2 14 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (6.12%) Docker
4 5 (5.10%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (4.08%) Hyper-V
6 3 (3.06%) VMware NSX
6 3 (3.06%) vSphere
7 1 (1.02%) Firmware
7 1 (1.02%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 11 (11.22%) Kubernetes
2 10 (10.20%) Terraform
3 7 (7.14%) Ansible
3 7 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (4.08%) Microsoft Clustering
5 3 (3.06%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (3.06%) Rancher
6 2 (2.04%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.02%) Podman
Vendors
1 23 (23.47%) VMware
2 17 (17.35%) Microsoft
3 11 (11.22%) Cisco
4 4 (4.08%) Aruba
4 4 (4.08%) HP
5 3 (3.06%) Apple
5 3 (3.06%) Meraki
5 3 (3.06%) Ubiquiti
6 2 (2.04%) Fortinet
6 2 (2.04%) Palo Alto
6 2 (2.04%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.02%) Extreme Networks
7 1 (1.02%) Mirantis
7 1 (1.02%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.02%) Veeam
7 1 (1.02%) WatchGuard