Senior Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in Manchester

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Senior Infrastructure Engineer salary in Manchester is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 12 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
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 148 190 236
Rank change year-on-year +42 +46 +15
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 18 33 10
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.79% 0.63% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.88% 0.67% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 11 31 10
10th Percentile - - £47,725
25th Percentile £47,500 £51,250 £48,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,783 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.43% +23.10% -2.86%
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,968 £53,188
90th Percentile £64,491 £75,000 £60,750
North West median annual salary £56,500 £62,783 £51,000
% change year-on-year -10.01% +23.10% +29.70%

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 2,053 4,909 4,481
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.36% 94.39% 91.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,287 3,788 2,637
10th Percentile £31,800 £30,000 £31,660
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,988 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £54,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.26% -5.22% +4.55%
75th Percentile £76,920 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £81,250 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in Manchester

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in Manchester

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Senior Infrastructure Engineer in Manchester over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in Manchester

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

For the 6 months to 12 May 2025, Senior Infrastructure Engineer 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 Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 18 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (44.44%) Infrastructure Automation
3 7 (38.89%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (38.89%) Azure
4 6 (33.33%) Microsoft
5 5 (27.78%) DevOps
5 5 (27.78%) Kubernetes
5 5 (27.78%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (27.78%) Terraform
5 5 (27.78%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (27.78%) Ansible
5 5 (27.78%) AutoCAD
5 5 (27.78%) Configuration Management
5 5 (27.78%) Finance
5 5 (27.78%) Degree
5 5 (27.78%) Azure Certification
5 5 (27.78%) ARM Templates
6 3 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (16.67%) VMware
6 3 (16.67%) Clustering
6 3 (16.67%) AWS
6 3 (16.67%) CentOS
6 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (16.67%) Active Directory
6 3 (16.67%) DHCP
6 3 (16.67%) DNS
6 3 (16.67%) IIS
6 3 (16.67%) ITIL
6 3 (16.67%) Windows
6 3 (16.67%) Linux

Senior Infrastructure Engineer 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 3 (16.67%) IIS
2 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (27.78%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 7 (38.89%) Azure
2 5 (27.78%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (16.67%) AWS
4 2 (11.11%) Nutanix
5 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (5.56%) PaaS
5 1 (5.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) DHCP
1 3 (16.67%) DNS
2 2 (11.11%) TETRA
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) GitLab
General
1 5 (27.78%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Games
3 1 (5.56%) Local Government
3 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (16.67%) Clustering
3 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.56%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) CentOS
1 3 (16.67%) Linux
1 3 (16.67%) Windows
1 3 (16.67%) Windows Server
1 3 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (44.44%) Infrastructure Automation
3 7 (38.89%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (27.78%) Configuration Management
4 5 (27.78%) DevOps
5 3 (16.67%) ITIL
5 3 (16.67%) Mentoring
5 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (11.11%) Coaching
6 2 (11.11%) Game Development
6 2 (11.11%) Network Architecture
6 2 (11.11%) Tech Ops
7 1 (5.56%) Agile
7 1 (5.56%) Capacity Planning
7 1 (5.56%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (5.56%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (5.56%) Line Management
7 1 (5.56%) Performance Monitoring
7 1 (5.56%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) Azure Certification
1 5 (27.78%) Degree
2 1 (5.56%) CCNA
2 1 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (5.56%) MCITP
2 1 (5.56%) MCSE
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (11.11%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) Ansible
1 5 (27.78%) Kubernetes
1 5 (27.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (16.67%) VMware
3 1 (5.56%) Facebook