Infrastructure Engineer Contracts in Leeds

Infrastructure Engineer
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in Leeds is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

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

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 52 69
Rank change year-on-year +12 +17 +6
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 20 11 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 4.30% 1.38% 2.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.42% 1.49% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 10 18
10th Percentile £406 £368 £339
25th Percentile £513 £425 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £469 £440
Median % change year-on-year +17.33% +6.53% +3.53%
75th Percentile £575 £558 £616
90th Percentile £650 £575 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £538 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +19.44% +5.88% +3.03%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Leeds

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Leeds. 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Leeds with a recognized job title 452 736 1,303
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.20% 92.12% 97.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 302 458 948
10th Percentile £257 £300 £356
25th Percentile £352 £413 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -7.11% +7.65%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £619
90th Percentile £638 £675 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £490 £525
% change year-on-year -3.06% -6.67% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 13 11
10th Percentile £17.08 £11.24 £12.00
25th Percentile £31.47 £11.75 £16.50
Median hourly rate £41.00 £12.53 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +227.21% -79.95% +179.02%
75th Percentile £98.56 £15.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £102.00 £17.67 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.82 £14.34 £32.50
% change year-on-year +73.14% -55.89% +92.88%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Leeds

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Leeds.

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Leeds

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Leeds over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in Leeds

Infrastructure Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Leeds.

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Leeds

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Infrastructure Engineer contract 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 contract job ads across the Leeds region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 20 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 15 (75.00%) Active Directory
3 14 (70.00%) Security Cleared
4 13 (65.00%) SC Cleared
4 13 (65.00%) Windows
5 12 (60.00%) Linux
5 12 (60.00%) Cisco
5 12 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
5 12 (60.00%) Agile
5 12 (60.00%) Windows Server
6 10 (50.00%) Oracle
6 10 (50.00%) SQL
6 10 (50.00%) Bash
6 10 (50.00%) Oracle Database
7 9 (45.00%) PowerShell
7 9 (45.00%) PL/SQL
7 9 (45.00%) DNS
7 9 (45.00%) Linux Command Line
8 8 (40.00%) Microservices
8 8 (40.00%) SOA
8 8 (40.00%) Perl
8 8 (40.00%) Migration
8 8 (40.00%) Security Management
8 8 (40.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 6 (30.00%) IaaS
9 6 (30.00%) Server Management
9 6 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
9 6 (30.00%) AWS
10 5 (25.00%) Azure

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 (40.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 4 (20.00%) Confluence
3 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) AWS
1 6 (30.00%) IaaS
2 5 (25.00%) Azure
3 4 (20.00%) Entra ID
3 4 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (10.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (45.00%) DNS
2 3 (15.00%) Firewall
3 2 (10.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (50.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) JIRA
1 4 (20.00%) ScriptRunner
General
1 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Telecoms
3 2 (10.00%) Local Government
4 1 (5.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 9 (45.00%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (65.00%) Windows
2 12 (60.00%) Linux
2 12 (60.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (60.00%) Agile
3 8 (40.00%) Microservices
3 8 (40.00%) Migration
3 8 (40.00%) Security Management
3 8 (40.00%) SOA
4 6 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (30.00%) Server Management
5 5 (25.00%) Incident Management
5 5 (25.00%) Roadmaps
5 5 (25.00%) Technology Roadmap
6 4 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (20.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 3 (15.00%) Technical Architecture
8 2 (10.00%) Data Protection
8 2 (10.00%) Mentoring
8 2 (10.00%) Proactive Management
8 2 (10.00%) Proactive Monitoring
9 1 (5.00%) Identity Access Management
9 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (50.00%) Bash
1 10 (50.00%) SQL
2 9 (45.00%) PL/SQL
2 9 (45.00%) PowerShell
3 8 (40.00%) Perl
4 4 (20.00%) Groovy
5 1 (5.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 14 (70.00%) Security Cleared
2 13 (65.00%) SC Cleared
3 12 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (10.00%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 1 (5.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 15 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (10.00%) VMware NSX
2 2 (10.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (10.00%) SCCM
2 1 (5.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (5.00%) vCenter Server
2 1 (5.00%) vRealize
Vendors
1 12 (60.00%) Cisco
2 10 (50.00%) Oracle
3 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 4 (20.00%) Atlassian
4 4 (20.00%) Veeam
4 4 (20.00%) VMware
5 2 (10.00%) Meraki
5 2 (10.00%) Palo Alto
5 2 (10.00%) Red Hat
6 1 (5.00%) Aruba
6 1 (5.00%) HP