Infrastructure Management Jobs in the North West

Infrastructure Management
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring Infrastructure Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Management over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 260 239 84
Rank change year-on-year -21 -155 +250
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Management 27 55 305
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.35% 0.54% 4.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.66% 4.22%
Number of salaries quoted 20 18 11
10th Percentile £32,500 £27,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £49,824
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% - -8.70%
75th Percentile £87,500 £77,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £91,125 -
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Infrastructure Management 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 the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,450 8,352 7,232
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 95.92% 81.31% 95.31%
Number of salaries quoted 3,764 6,302 3,849
10th Percentile £25,750 £27,500 £31,225
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £76,840 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Infrastructure Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Infrastructure Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Management in the North West

Infrastructure Management
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Management in the North West.

Salary trend for Infrastructure Management in the North West

Infrastructure Management
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Management in the North West over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Management in the North West

Infrastructure Management
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Management within the North West region over the 6 months to 29 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
Manchester +57 12 £85,000 +54.55% 17
Cheshire +12 10 £37,500 +44.23% 9
Lancashire -66 4 £85,000 +13.33% 5
Cumbria -83 1 £72,500 -
Infrastructure Management
England

Infrastructure Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 4 (14.81%) SharePoint
2 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 24 (88.89%) Azure
2 14 (51.85%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (29.63%) AWS
4 5 (18.52%) Entra ID
5 3 (11.11%) GCP
6 2 (7.41%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (7.41%) Power Platform
7 1 (3.70%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (3.70%) GitHub
7 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (3.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (37.04%) Firewall
2 3 (11.11%) DHCP
2 3 (11.11%) DNS
2 3 (11.11%) VoIP
3 1 (3.70%) Ethernet
3 1 (3.70%) LAN
3 1 (3.70%) OSPF
3 1 (3.70%) VPN
3 1 (3.70%) WAN
3 1 (3.70%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.70%) TeamCity
General
1 14 (51.85%) Social Skills
2 6 (22.22%) Organisational Skills
3 4 (14.81%) Finance
4 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (11.11%) Automotive
4 3 (11.11%) Law
4 3 (11.11%) Legal
4 3 (11.11%) Manufacturing
5 2 (7.41%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.70%) Aviation
6 1 (3.70%) Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (33.33%) Support Specialist
2 6 (22.22%) Infrastructure Manager
2 6 (22.22%) Technical Specialist
2 6 (22.22%) Technical Support
2 6 (22.22%) Technical Support Specialist
3 3 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
3 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure Support
3 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
3 3 (11.11%) IT Support
3 3 (11.11%) IT Support Specialist
3 3 (11.11%) Lead
4 2 (7.41%) Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Lead DevOps
4 2 (7.41%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (3.70%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.70%) .NET
1 1 (3.70%) AWS CDK
1 1 (3.70%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Data Centre
1 3 (11.11%) Enterprise Cloud
2 2 (7.41%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.70%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.81%) Linux
1 4 (14.81%) Windows
2 3 (11.11%) Unix
2 3 (11.11%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.70%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (51.85%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (40.74%) Cybersecurity
3 6 (22.22%) DevOps
3 6 (22.22%) Time Management
4 5 (18.52%) CI/CD
4 5 (18.52%) Platform Engineering
5 4 (14.81%) Agile
5 4 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (14.81%) Proactive Monitoring
5 4 (14.81%) Service Management
6 3 (11.11%) Budget Management
6 3 (11.11%) Coaching
6 3 (11.11%) Collaborative Culture
6 3 (11.11%) Containerisation
6 3 (11.11%) Cost Reduction
6 3 (11.11%) ITIL
6 3 (11.11%) Server Management
7 2 (7.41%) Roadmaps
7 2 (7.41%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 4 (14.81%) PowerShell
2 3 (11.11%) Bash
2 3 (11.11%) Python
3 1 (3.70%) Bicep
3 1 (3.70%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (18.52%) Degree
2 4 (14.81%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (11.11%) CCNA
3 3 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (11.11%) MCSE
3 3 (11.11%) Network+ Certification
4 2 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared
4 2 (7.41%) Security Cleared
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (7.41%) QA
3 1 (3.70%) GDPR
3 1 (3.70%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (37.04%) Active Directory
1 10 (37.04%) Hyper-V
2 3 (11.11%) Docker
3 1 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (18.52%) Terraform
2 3 (11.11%) Ansible
2 3 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.70%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (3.70%) Progress Chef
3 1 (3.70%) Puppet
3 1 (3.70%) SCCM
Vendors
1 12 (44.44%) Cisco
2 9 (33.33%) Fortinet
2 9 (33.33%) Meraki
2 9 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 9 (33.33%) SonicWALL
2 9 (33.33%) WatchGuard
3 3 (11.11%) Acronis
3 3 (11.11%) Kaseya
3 3 (11.11%) Sage
4 1 (3.70%) VMware