Infrastructure Manager Jobs in Manchester

Infrastructure Manager
North West > Manchester

The median Infrastructure Manager salary in Manchester is £56,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 151 199 233
Rank change year-on-year +48 +34 +18
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Manager 6 27 9
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.28% 0.50% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.53% 0.21%
Number of salaries quoted 2 17 6
10th Percentile £53,025 £65,000 £53,375
25th Percentile £53,813 £67,500 £54,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,750 £72,500 £56,163
Median % change year-on-year -21.72% +29.09% +2.11%
75th Percentile £58,813 £76,250 £68,926
90th Percentile £59,075 - £77,500
North West median annual salary £54,793 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.68% +9.09% -4.35%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Manchester. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Manchester with a recognized job title 1,976 5,078 4,339
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.98% 94.53% 92.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1,137 3,901 2,596
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,988 £42,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.38% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £77,500 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £93,778 £81,000 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

Infrastructure Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings that featured Infrastructure Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Manager in Manchester

Infrastructure Manager
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Manager in Manchester

Infrastructure Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 28 May 2025, Infrastructure Manager job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Manchester region featuring Infrastructure Manager in the job title.

1 4 (66.67%) ITIL
1 4 (66.67%) Legal
1 4 (66.67%) Degree
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
1 4 (66.67%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (50.00%) Cost Reduction
2 3 (50.00%) Enterprise Cloud
2 3 (50.00%) Law
2 3 (50.00%) Budget Management
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 3 (50.00%) Cisco
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (33.33%) QA
3 2 (33.33%) Project Management
3 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
4 1 (16.67%) Cloudflare
4 1 (16.67%) User Experience
4 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 1 (16.67%) MySQL
4 1 (16.67%) Web Services
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) Zero Trust
4 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
4 1 (16.67%) API Management
4 1 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS

Infrastructure Manager Skill Set
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 1 (16.67%) Apache Solr
1 1 (16.67%) CMS
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (16.67%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) SD-WAN
1 1 (16.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (16.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
General
1 4 (66.67%) Legal
2 3 (50.00%) Law
3 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) ITIL
2 3 (50.00%) Budget Management
2 3 (50.00%) Cost Reduction
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (33.33%) Project Management
4 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (16.67%) Content Management
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
4 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (16.67%) IT Governance
4 1 (16.67%) Migration
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Server Management
4 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
4 1 (16.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (33.33%) QA
3 1 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Cisco
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) Aruba