Infrastructure Support Job Trends in Manchester

Infrastructure Support
North West > Manchester

The median Infrastructure Support salary in Manchester is £37,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 December 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 171 144
Rank change year-on-year +44 -27 +109
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Support 5 1 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.22% 0.030% 0.045%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.032% 0.047%
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £35,500 - £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,000 - £40,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.11%
75th Percentile £38,500 - £42,500
90th Percentile - - -
North West median annual salary £45,750 £32,000 £41,250
% change year-on-year +42.97% -22.42% +3.13%

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 2,094 3,134 2,123
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.30% 94.57% 95.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1,400 1,581 1,712
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +2.68%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £84,000 £84,056
North West median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +4.76%

Infrastructure Support
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Infrastructure Support' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Infrastructure Support job vacancy trend in Manchester

Infrastructure Support
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Support job vacancies in Manchester.

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Support job vacancies in Manchester

Infrastructure Support Skill Set
Top 26 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 4 December 2025, Infrastructure Support job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Manchester region featuring Infrastructure Support in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 5 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (100.00%) Debian
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) DMZ
1 5 (100.00%) FreeSWITCH
1 5 (100.00%) High Availability
1 5 (100.00%) IaaS
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 5 (100.00%) ISO 9001
1 5 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (100.00%) Kamailio
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) Salesforce
1 5 (100.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
1 5 (100.00%) Software Licensing
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 5 (100.00%) STUN
1 5 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 5 (100.00%) VLAN
1 5 (100.00%) VoIP
1 5 (100.00%) VPN
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Server

Infrastructure Support Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) IaaS
1 5 (100.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) DMZ
1 5 (100.00%) STUN
1 5 (100.00%) VLAN
1 5 (100.00%) VoIP
1 5 (100.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) FreeSWITCH
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Debian
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) High Availability
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 5 (100.00%) Software Licensing
1 5 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 5 (100.00%) ISO 9001
1 5 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Kamailio
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Salesforce