Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Infrastructure Engineer
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in Leeds is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 September 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
4 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 55 65
Rank change year-on-year -2 +10 +1
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 12 12 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 2.04% 1.68% 1.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.09% 1.82% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 11 14
10th Percentile £331 £363 £366
25th Percentile £436 £406 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £413 £513
Median % change year-on-year +21.21% -19.51% +13.89%
75th Percentile £553 £463 £700
90th Percentile £650 £488 £714
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £413 £450
% change year-on-year +21.21% -8.33% -

All DemandTrendContract 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 574 660 1,060
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.45% 92.18% 97.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 383 428 741
10th Percentile £313 £350 £338
25th Percentile £400 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £556 £575 £625
90th Percentile £650 £650 £710
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 30 13
10th Percentile £25.15 £17.89 £12.00
25th Percentile £25.38 £19.50 £15.75
Median hourly rate £29.56 £24.18 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.23% +27.26% -10.59%
75th Percentile £50.48 £46.25 £21.31
90th Percentile £79.33 £48.75 £23.45
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £77.50 £24.59 £19.00
% change year-on-year +215.17% +29.42% -5.00%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Leeds.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Leeds

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Leeds over the 6 months to 4 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in Leeds

Infrastructure Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Leeds.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Leeds

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

For the 6 months to 4 September 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 12 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 5 (41.67%) AWS
3 5 (41.67%) Incident Management
3 5 (41.67%) Migration
3 5 (41.67%) SC Cleared
4 4 (33.33%) Groovy
4 4 (33.33%) Confluence
4 4 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 4 (33.33%) IaaS
4 4 (33.33%) JIRA
4 4 (33.33%) Atlassian
4 4 (33.33%) Agile
4 4 (33.33%) ScriptRunner
4 4 (33.33%) Azure
5 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
5 3 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (16.67%) Aruba
6 2 (16.67%) Entra ID
6 2 (16.67%) Terraform
6 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
6 2 (16.67%) HP
6 2 (16.67%) Windows
7 1 (8.33%) Python
7 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
7 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (8.33%) VPN
7 1 (8.33%) VMware

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 4 (33.33%) Confluence
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) AWS
2 4 (33.33%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) IaaS
3 3 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (16.67%) Entra ID
5 1 (8.33%) Akamai
5 1 (8.33%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
1 1 (8.33%) VPN
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) JIRA
1 4 (33.33%) ScriptRunner
General
1 1 (8.33%) Legal
1 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
2 1 (8.33%) Mac OS
2 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (41.67%) Incident Management
2 5 (41.67%) Migration
3 4 (33.33%) Agile
3 4 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 1 (8.33%) CI/CD
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Security
4 1 (8.33%) DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (8.33%) High Availability
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (8.33%) IT Strategy
4 1 (8.33%) Mentoring
4 1 (8.33%) Privileged Access Management
4 1 (8.33%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (8.33%) Software Distribution
4 1 (8.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Groovy
2 1 (8.33%) Bash
2 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (41.67%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (8.33%) Hyper-V
2 1 (8.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (16.67%) Terraform
2 1 (8.33%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (8.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Atlassian
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (16.67%) Aruba
3 2 (16.67%) HP
4 1 (8.33%) Apple
4 1 (8.33%) Dell
4 1 (8.33%) VMware