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

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 69 83
Rank change year-on-year -9 +14 -49
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 103 105 149
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.72% 4.77% 2.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.39% 4.98% 3.35%
Number of salaries quoted 86 47 123
10th Percentile £43,000 £42,150 £36,250
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 £86,875 £76,840 £76,000
North West median annual salary £48,445 £52,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -6.84% +9.47% -

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 4,311 2,108 4,445
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 72.15% 95.73% 84.19%
Number of salaries quoted 3,188 1,191 3,492
10th Percentile £32,845 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +9.52% -8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £81,250
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 31 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 31 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 -4 12 £50,000 -13.04% 4
Cheadle +3 6 £45,000 -
Bolton +19 3 £50,000 - 1
Altrincham +4 2 £38,750 - 3
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 (7.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (6.80%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.97%) Confluence
3 1 (0.97%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.97%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.97%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 35 (33.98%) Azure
2 10 (9.71%) AWS
3 9 (8.74%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (7.77%) Entra ID
5 5 (4.85%) GitHub
6 4 (3.88%) OneDrive
6 4 (3.88%) SaaS
7 3 (2.91%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (2.91%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.91%) Azure AKS
7 3 (2.91%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (2.91%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (1.94%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.94%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.94%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.94%) GCP
8 2 (1.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (1.94%) iPaaS
8 2 (1.94%) OpenShift
8 2 (1.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 19 (18.45%) Firewall
2 12 (11.65%) SAN
3 10 (9.71%) DHCP
3 10 (9.71%) DNS
4 6 (5.83%) VLAN
5 5 (4.85%) Network Security
5 5 (4.85%) WAN
6 4 (3.88%) Cisco ASA
6 4 (3.88%) Cisco Firepower
6 4 (3.88%) Cisco Nexus
6 4 (3.88%) LAN
6 4 (3.88%) VPN
7 3 (2.91%) TCP/IP
7 3 (2.91%) VoIP
8 2 (1.94%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.97%) FTP
9 1 (0.97%) HTTP
9 1 (0.97%) SMTP
9 1 (0.97%) SNMP
9 1 (0.97%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.91%) MongoDB
1 3 (2.91%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.94%) DynamoDB
2 2 (1.94%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (1.94%) MySQL
2 2 (1.94%) NoSQL
2 2 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.97%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.97%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (3.88%) Git
2 2 (1.94%) Bitbucket
2 2 (1.94%) GitLab
3 1 (0.97%) JIRA
3 1 (0.97%) PyCharm
3 1 (0.97%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 16 (15.53%) Social Skills
2 8 (7.77%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (6.80%) Documentation Skills
3 7 (6.80%) Public Sector
4 3 (2.91%) Finance
4 3 (2.91%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 79 (76.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 26 (25.24%) Senior
3 22 (21.36%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 12 (11.65%) Design Engineer
4 12 (11.65%) Infrastructure Design Engineer
5 7 (6.80%) Azure Engineer
5 7 (6.80%) Cloud Engineer
5 7 (6.80%) Electrical Engineer
5 7 (6.80%) IT Engineer
6 6 (5.83%) Network Engineer
6 6 (5.83%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (4.85%) IT Support
7 5 (4.85%) IT Support Engineer
7 5 (4.85%) Principal Engineer
7 5 (4.85%) Senior Design Engineer
7 5 (4.85%) Support Engineer
7 5 (4.85%) VMware Engineer
8 4 (3.88%) Infrastructure Architect
8 4 (3.88%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 4 (3.88%) VMware Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.94%) Middleware
1 2 (1.94%) RESTful
2 1 (0.97%) .NET
2 1 (0.97%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.68%) Data Centre
2 9 (8.74%) Driving Licence
3 5 (4.85%) Enterprise Storage
4 4 (3.88%) Clustering
5 3 (2.91%) Social Media
6 2 (1.94%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.94%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.94%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.97%) AI Agents
7 1 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.97%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (0.97%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.97%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.97%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 26 (25.24%) Windows
2 23 (22.33%) Windows Server
3 9 (8.74%) Linux
4 4 (3.88%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (2.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.91%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.97%) Solaris
6 1 (0.97%) Unix
6 1 (0.97%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (17.48%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (16.50%) Disaster Recovery
3 14 (13.59%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (11.65%) Business Continuity
5 11 (10.68%) Storage Management
6 10 (9.71%) High Availability
6 10 (9.71%) Project Delivery
7 9 (8.74%) CI/CD
7 9 (8.74%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (8.74%) DevOps
8 8 (7.77%) BCP
8 8 (7.77%) Business Continuity Planning
9 7 (6.80%) Containerisation
10 6 (5.83%) Cybersecurity
10 6 (5.83%) Platform Engineering
10 6 (5.83%) Project Planning
10 6 (5.83%) Systems Engineering
10 6 (5.83%) Technology Transformation
11 5 (4.85%) Infrastructure Automation
11 5 (4.85%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 13 (12.62%) PowerShell
2 10 (9.71%) SQL
3 8 (7.77%) Python
4 5 (4.85%) Bicep
5 2 (1.94%) Go
5 2 (1.94%) Java
6 1 (0.97%) Bash
Qualifications
1 10 (9.71%) Microsoft Certification
1 10 (9.71%) SC Cleared
1 10 (9.71%) Security Cleared
2 8 (7.77%) Azure Certification
3 7 (6.80%) CCNA
3 7 (6.80%) Cisco Certification
3 7 (6.80%) MCSA
4 4 (3.88%) CCNP
4 4 (3.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (2.91%) DBS Check
5 3 (2.91%) Degree
6 1 (0.97%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.83%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 27 (26.21%) Active Directory
2 16 (15.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (5.83%) Docker
4 5 (4.85%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (3.88%) Hyper-V
5 4 (3.88%) vSphere
6 3 (2.91%) VMware NSX
7 2 (1.94%) Firmware
8 1 (0.97%) MetaFrame
8 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.97%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.97%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.97%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.97%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 10 (9.71%) Kubernetes
2 9 (8.74%) Terraform
3 7 (6.80%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (5.83%) Ansible
5 4 (3.88%) Microsoft Clustering
6 3 (2.91%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (1.94%) FortiGate
7 2 (1.94%) Rancher
8 1 (0.97%) Podman
Vendors
1 25 (24.27%) VMware
2 20 (19.42%) Microsoft
3 11 (10.68%) Cisco
4 4 (3.88%) Aruba
4 4 (3.88%) HP
5 3 (2.91%) Apple
5 3 (2.91%) Meraki
5 3 (2.91%) Ubiquiti
6 2 (1.94%) Fortinet
6 2 (1.94%) Palo Alto
6 2 (1.94%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.97%) Citrix
7 1 (0.97%) Extreme Networks
7 1 (0.97%) Mirantis
7 1 (0.97%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.97%) Veeam
7 1 (0.97%) WatchGuard