Infrastructure Engineering Jobs in Manchester

Infrastructure Engineering
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 94 37
Rank change year-on-year +23 -57 +86
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 106 140 382
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 4.68% 2.69% 7.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.91% 3.11% 8.23%
Number of salaries quoted 51 118 131
10th Percentile £42,500 £36,151 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £41,250 £43,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £51,573
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +1.80% +14.61%
75th Percentile £71,943 £67,968 £61,250
90th Percentile £76,840 £76,250 £102,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £48,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -1.04% +6.67%

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 2,160 4,498 4,641
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 95.32% 86.33% 96.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,281 3,431 2,489
10th Percentile £30,750 £30,000 £32,773
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £44,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £76,250 £69,375 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,000 £82,500 £83,750
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Manchester

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in Manchester.

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Manchester

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in Manchester over the 6 months to 16 May 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 May 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
Oldham -2 4 £43,500 -3.33% 1
Bury 0 3 - - 1
Cheadle - 3 - -
Sale - 3 - -
Altrincham -3 2 - - 4
Bolton -16 2 - - 1
Stalybridge - 2 - -
Stockport - 2 - - 1
Wigan - 2 - -
Ashton-under-Lyne - 2 - - 1
Dukinfield - 2 - -
Heywood - 2 - -
Salford +2 1 £57,500 -23.33% 5
Littleborough - 1 - -
Rochdale - 1 - -
Infrastructure Engineering
North West

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (7.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (5.66%) IIS
3 4 (3.77%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (8.49%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 37 (34.91%) Azure
2 12 (11.32%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (10.38%) AWS
4 8 (7.55%) Entra ID
4 8 (7.55%) GCP
5 7 (6.60%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (5.66%) SaaS
7 3 (2.83%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.89%) Azure AKS
8 2 (1.89%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.89%) Cloudflare
8 2 (1.89%) Nutanix
8 2 (1.89%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.94%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.94%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.94%) GitHub
9 1 (0.94%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 1 (0.94%) IaaS
9 1 (0.94%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 44 (41.51%) VPN
2 43 (40.57%) Cisco IOS
3 12 (11.32%) DNS
4 11 (10.38%) DHCP
5 5 (4.72%) NAS
5 5 (4.72%) SAN
5 5 (4.72%) VSAN
5 5 (4.72%) WAN
6 4 (3.77%) Firewall
7 2 (1.89%) Network Security
7 2 (1.89%) TETRA
8 1 (0.94%) Ethernet
8 1 (0.94%) LAN
8 1 (0.94%) OSPF
8 1 (0.94%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.38%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.72%) MongoDB
2 5 (4.72%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (3.77%) Data Hub
3 4 (3.77%) SQL CLR
4 3 (2.83%) Metadata
4 3 (2.83%) Power BI
4 3 (2.83%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 3 (2.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (4.72%) Oracle Forms
General
1 45 (42.45%) Analytical Skills
2 43 (40.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 32 (30.19%) Finance
4 20 (18.87%) Social Skills
5 13 (12.26%) Banking
6 4 (3.77%) Back Office
7 2 (1.89%) Games
8 1 (0.94%) Legal
8 1 (0.94%) Local Government
8 1 (0.94%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.94%) Retail
Job Titles
1 86 (81.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 25 (23.58%) Cloud Engineer
3 22 (20.75%) Senior
4 17 (16.04%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 12 (11.32%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (8.49%) Civil Engineer
7 8 (7.55%) Azure Engineer
7 8 (7.55%) Security Engineer
7 8 (7.55%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 7 (6.60%) Cloud Security Engineer
9 6 (5.66%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (3.77%) Associate Engineer
11 3 (2.83%) Developer
11 3 (2.83%) Microsoft Developer
11 3 (2.83%) Principal Engineer
11 3 (2.83%) SaaS Developer
11 3 (2.83%) Senior Developer
11 3 (2.83%) Senior Microsoft Developer
11 3 (2.83%) Senior SQL Developer
11 3 (2.83%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (40.57%) Elastic Stack
2 6 (5.66%) ARM Templates
3 5 (4.72%) Middleware
4 1 (0.94%) .NET
4 1 (0.94%) .NET Core
4 1 (0.94%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.94%) Dapper ORM
4 1 (0.94%) Entity Framework
4 1 (0.94%) OLE
4 1 (0.94%) OpenCL
4 1 (0.94%) SAML
4 1 (0.94%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 43 (40.57%) Cyberattack
2 11 (10.38%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (9.43%) Public Cloud
4 9 (8.49%) Data Centre
5 8 (7.55%) Cloud Native
5 8 (7.55%) Product Ownership
5 8 (7.55%) Security Posture
6 4 (3.77%) Private Cloud
7 3 (2.83%) Clustering
8 2 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.94%) CUDA
9 1 (0.94%) Cyber Security Posture
9 1 (0.94%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (0.94%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.94%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.94%) PKI
9 1 (0.94%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 65 (61.32%) Linux
2 64 (60.38%) Windows
3 43 (40.57%) Android
4 14 (13.21%) Windows Server
5 7 (6.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (4.72%) CentOS
7 3 (2.83%) Ubuntu
7 3 (2.83%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (1.89%) Debian
8 2 (1.89%) Mac OS
8 2 (1.89%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.94%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (57.55%) DevOps
2 59 (55.66%) Problem-Solving
3 44 (41.51%) Line Management
4 43 (40.57%) Mathematics
4 43 (40.57%) Platform Engineering
4 43 (40.57%) Risk Management
4 43 (40.57%) Storage Management
4 43 (40.57%) Task Automation
5 16 (15.09%) Infrastructure as Code
6 11 (10.38%) Disaster Recovery
7 9 (8.49%) Cloud Security
7 9 (8.49%) Fintech
7 9 (8.49%) Infrastructure Automation
7 9 (8.49%) Mentoring
8 7 (6.60%) Roadmaps
9 6 (5.66%) Agile
9 6 (5.66%) CI/CD
9 6 (5.66%) Configuration Management
9 6 (5.66%) Migration
10 5 (4.72%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 50 (47.17%) PowerShell
2 45 (42.45%) Bash
3 43 (40.57%) Python
4 9 (8.49%) SQL
5 3 (2.83%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.94%) C#
Qualifications
1 13 (12.26%) Azure Certification
2 12 (11.32%) Degree
3 7 (6.60%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (4.72%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (1.89%) AWS Certification
5 2 (1.89%) Linux+ Certification
5 2 (1.89%) RHCE
5 2 (1.89%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.89%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.94%) CCNA
6 1 (0.94%) CEH
6 1 (0.94%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.94%) MCITP
6 1 (0.94%) MCSA
6 1 (0.94%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.83%) GDPR
2 2 (1.89%) HIPAA
2 2 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.94%) NIST
System Software
1 50 (47.17%) VMware NSX
2 49 (46.23%) Hyper-V
3 47 (44.34%) vSphere
4 45 (42.45%) Docker
5 15 (14.15%) Active Directory
6 10 (9.43%) VMware Infrastructure
7 8 (7.55%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (1.89%) Dovecot
8 2 (1.89%) Postfix
8 2 (1.89%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 62 (58.49%) Terraform
2 49 (46.23%) Ansible
3 10 (9.43%) Kubernetes
4 5 (4.72%) Progress Chef
5 4 (3.77%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (2.83%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.94%) Istio
7 1 (0.94%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.94%) SCCM
7 1 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 43 (40.57%) 3PAR
1 43 (40.57%) Cisco
1 43 (40.57%) Juniper
1 43 (40.57%) Splunk
2 29 (27.36%) Microsoft
3 22 (20.75%) VMware
4 7 (6.60%) Google
5 6 (5.66%) Veeam
6 5 (4.72%) Oracle
7 3 (2.83%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.89%) Okta
8 2 (1.89%) Ping Identity
8 2 (1.89%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.94%) Apple
9 1 (0.94%) Facebook
9 1 (0.94%) Fortinet