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 21 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 63 86
Rank change year-on-year +7 +23 -18
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 175 100 105
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 2.33% 4.26% 2.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.07% 4.77% 3.11%
Number of salaries quoted 141 35 66
10th Percentile £40,000 £35,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +33.33% -13.52%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £64,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £70,000 £71,250
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +15.56% -5.26%

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 5,706 2,096 3,374
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 75.99% 89.27% 83.14%
Number of salaries quoted 4,342 1,187 1,774
10th Percentile £32,500 £29,300 £30,300
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £40,991
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £85,500 £83,750
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -0.99% -8.18%

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 21 September 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 21 September 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 -3 21 £45,000 -21.74% 4
Stockport +5 8 £72,500 +52.63% 3
Sale +4 2 £62,500 -
Bury +5 1 £40,000 -
Oldham +1 1 - - 4
Bolton +1 1 £35,000 - 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 4 (2.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.71%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.14%) Confluence
4 1 (0.57%) Apache
4 1 (0.57%) Apache Superset
4 1 (0.57%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (2.29%) AutoCAD
2 3 (1.71%) Civil 3D
3 2 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.57%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.57%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.57%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 53 (30.29%) Azure
2 21 (12.00%) AWS
3 12 (6.86%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (5.71%) SaaS
5 9 (5.14%) Entra ID
6 7 (4.00%) GCP
6 7 (4.00%) GitHub
7 6 (3.43%) Azure Monitor
7 6 (3.43%) IaaS
8 3 (1.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (1.14%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.14%) Google Workspace
9 2 (1.14%) PaaS
9 2 (1.14%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.14%) Rubrik
10 1 (0.57%) Akamai
10 1 (0.57%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (0.57%) Azure Storage
10 1 (0.57%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.57%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 19 (10.86%) Firewall
2 17 (9.71%) DNS
2 17 (9.71%) SAN
3 12 (6.86%) DHCP
4 7 (4.00%) Network Security
5 5 (2.86%) Cisco ASA
5 5 (2.86%) Cisco Firepower
5 5 (2.86%) VPN
6 4 (2.29%) Cisco Nexus
6 4 (2.29%) WAN
7 3 (1.71%) BGP
7 3 (1.71%) SD-WAN
8 2 (1.14%) BIG-IP
8 2 (1.14%) CTI
8 2 (1.14%) DMZ
8 2 (1.14%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 2 (1.14%) IPsec
8 2 (1.14%) LAN
8 2 (1.14%) NetScaler
8 2 (1.14%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.29%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.57%) Metabase
3 1 (0.57%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.57%) OLAP
3 1 (0.57%) OLAP Cube
3 1 (0.57%) OLTP
3 1 (0.57%) Semantic Layer
3 1 (0.57%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (4.57%) JIRA
2 5 (2.86%) Git
3 2 (1.14%) GitLab
3 2 (1.14%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.57%) PyCharm
4 1 (0.57%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 23 (13.14%) Social Skills
2 10 (5.71%) Public Sector
3 9 (5.14%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (4.00%) Finance
5 4 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (1.71%) Local Government
7 2 (1.14%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.14%) Automotive
7 2 (1.14%) Law
7 2 (1.14%) Legal
7 2 (1.14%) Retail
8 1 (0.57%) Banking
8 1 (0.57%) Games
8 1 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.57%) Social Housing
8 1 (0.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 127 (72.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 56 (32.00%) Senior
3 54 (30.86%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 12 (6.86%) Linux Engineer
5 11 (6.29%) Design Engineer
5 11 (6.29%) Infrastructure Design Engineer
5 11 (6.29%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
6 8 (4.57%) Cloud Engineer
6 8 (4.57%) Lead
6 8 (4.57%) VMware Engineer
7 7 (4.00%) Administrator
7 7 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
7 7 (4.00%) Electrical Engineer
7 7 (4.00%) IT Support
7 7 (4.00%) Server Administrator
8 6 (3.43%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (3.43%) IT Engineer
8 6 (3.43%) IT Support Engineer
8 6 (3.43%) Senior Linux Engineer
8 6 (3.43%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.86%) Terraform
2 2 (1.14%) .NET
2 2 (1.14%) REST
3 1 (0.57%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.57%) Kafka
3 1 (0.57%) NumPy
3 1 (0.57%) Pandas
3 1 (0.57%) pgvector
3 1 (0.57%) PostGIS
3 1 (0.57%) SAML
3 1 (0.57%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.29%) Data Centre
2 17 (9.71%) Driving Licence
3 10 (5.71%) Enterprise Storage
4 5 (2.86%) Replication
5 4 (2.29%) Clustering
5 4 (2.29%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.71%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.71%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.71%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.14%) CCTV
7 2 (1.14%) CSOC
7 2 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.14%) Fat Client
7 2 (1.14%) IoT
7 2 (1.14%) PKI
7 2 (1.14%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.14%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 35 (20.00%) Windows
2 31 (17.71%) Linux
3 22 (12.57%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.71%) Mac OS
4 3 (1.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.71%) VMS
4 3 (1.71%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.14%) Unix
5 2 (1.14%) Windows 7
5 2 (1.14%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (1.14%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.57%) Oracle Linux
6 1 (0.57%) Solaris
6 1 (0.57%) SUSE
6 1 (0.57%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
2 26 (14.86%) Infrastructure as Code
3 21 (12.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 19 (10.86%) Continuous Improvement
5 17 (9.71%) CI/CD
5 17 (9.71%) Storage Management
6 15 (8.57%) Business Continuity
6 15 (8.57%) ITIL
7 14 (8.00%) DevOps
7 14 (8.00%) Platform Engineering
7 14 (8.00%) Project Delivery
8 12 (6.86%) Stakeholder Management
9 11 (6.29%) Agile
9 11 (6.29%) AI
9 11 (6.29%) BCP
9 11 (6.29%) Business Continuity Planning
10 10 (5.71%) Cloud Security
10 10 (5.71%) Infrastructure Automation
10 10 (5.71%) Observability
10 10 (5.71%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 20 (11.43%) Python
2 17 (9.71%) PowerShell
3 12 (6.86%) SQL
4 10 (5.71%) Bash
5 6 (3.43%) Bicep
6 3 (1.71%) Go
6 3 (1.71%) Java
7 2 (1.14%) ActionScript
7 2 (1.14%) C++
7 2 (1.14%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.57%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.57%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 36 (20.57%) Security Cleared
2 25 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 16 (9.14%) DV Cleared
4 10 (5.71%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (4.57%) Azure Certification
5 8 (4.57%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (4.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 6 (3.43%) CCNA
7 6 (3.43%) Degree
8 4 (2.29%) CCNP
8 4 (2.29%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (2.29%) MCSA
8 4 (2.29%) MCSE
9 2 (1.14%) CCIE
9 2 (1.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.57%) HP ASE
10 1 (0.57%) RIBA
10 1 (0.57%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.57%) SLA
2 3 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (1.71%) QA
3 1 (0.57%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.57%) Data Quality
System Software
1 30 (17.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 27 (15.43%) Active Directory
3 8 (4.57%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (4.00%) Firmware
4 7 (4.00%) vSphere
5 6 (3.43%) Docker
6 4 (2.29%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.14%) UAG
7 2 (1.14%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (1.14%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.57%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 1 (0.57%) MetaFrame
8 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.57%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.57%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 11 (6.29%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.00%) Ansible
3 6 (3.43%) SCCM
4 4 (2.29%) FortiGate
4 4 (2.29%) Microsoft Clustering
5 3 (1.71%) Grafana
5 3 (1.71%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.71%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.71%) vCenter Server
5 3 (1.71%) WSUS
6 2 (1.14%) AirWatch
6 2 (1.14%) SolarWinds Orion
6 2 (1.14%) ZABBIX
7 1 (0.57%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.57%) Podman
7 1 (0.57%) Puppet
7 1 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.57%) VxRail
Vendors
1 43 (24.57%) Microsoft
2 37 (21.14%) VMware
3 13 (7.43%) Cisco
4 9 (5.14%) Google
5 8 (4.57%) Veeam
6 6 (3.43%) F5
6 6 (3.43%) HP
7 4 (2.29%) Aruba
7 4 (2.29%) LogicMonitor
7 4 (2.29%) Palo Alto
7 4 (2.29%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.71%) Apple
8 3 (1.71%) Dell
8 3 (1.71%) Fortinet
8 3 (1.71%) Oracle
8 3 (1.71%) SolarWinds
9 2 (1.14%) Atlassian
9 2 (1.14%) Commvault
9 2 (1.14%) Juniper
9 2 (1.14%) NetApp