Infrastructure Engineering Contracts in Leeds

Infrastructure Engineering
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Engineering over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 49 61
Rank change year-on-year +21 +12 +8
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 32 14 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 6.88% 1.75% 2.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.48% 2.02% 2.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 13 24
10th Percentile £400 £313 £324
25th Percentile £506 £380 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £463
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -2.70% +8.82%
75th Percentile £575 £525 £618
90th Percentile £650 £575 £681
West Yorkshire median daily rate £550 £450 £440
% change year-on-year +22.22% +2.27% +3.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

Infrastructure Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 428 692 1,211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 92.04% 86.61% 91.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 421 872
10th Percentile £263 £300 £388
25th Percentile £350 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £550 £586 £620
90th Percentile £638 £669 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 24 12
10th Percentile £17.08 £11.75 £12.38
25th Percentile £31.54 £12.15 £16.87
Median hourly rate £41.00 £12.30 £58.25
Median % change year-on-year +233.33% -78.88% +158.37%
75th Percentile £98.08 £12.53 £70.00
90th Percentile £102.00 £14.82 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £27.50 £12.53 £25.25
% change year-on-year +119.47% -50.38% +40.28%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Leeds

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Leeds

Infrastructure Engineering
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

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

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in Leeds

Infrastructure Engineering
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Engineering in Leeds

Infrastructure Engineering
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 15 (46.88%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 5 (15.63%) Confluence
3 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (6.25%) SharePoint
5 1 (3.13%) nginx
5 1 (3.13%) Traefik
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (28.13%) AWS
2 6 (18.75%) Azure
2 6 (18.75%) IaaS
3 5 (15.63%) Entra ID
4 4 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (6.25%) PaaS
6 1 (3.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (3.13%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.13%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (3.13%) GCP
6 1 (3.13%) Serverless
6 1 (3.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 18 (56.25%) DNS
2 4 (12.50%) Firewall
3 2 (6.25%) Network Security
3 2 (6.25%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.13%) LAN
4 1 (3.13%) VLAN
4 1 (3.13%) VPN
4 1 (3.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (59.38%) Oracle Database
2 1 (3.13%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.13%) MySQL
2 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (15.63%) JIRA
2 4 (12.50%) ScriptRunner
3 1 (3.13%) GitLab
3 1 (3.13%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 3 (9.38%) Telecoms
3 2 (6.25%) Local Government
4 1 (3.13%) Finance
4 1 (3.13%) Military
4 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 20 (62.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (34.38%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 9 (28.13%) Engineering Specialist
4 7 (21.88%) IT Engineer
4 7 (21.88%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 7 (21.88%) Senior
5 5 (15.63%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (15.63%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
6 4 (12.50%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (12.50%) Network Engineer
7 3 (9.38%) JIRA Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) JIRA Specialist
8 1 (3.13%) Security Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 1 (3.13%) Senior DevOps
8 1 (3.13%) Senior Infrastructure Specialist
8 1 (3.13%) Senior Network Engineer
8 1 (3.13%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.13%) cloud-init
1 1 (3.13%) Kafka
1 1 (3.13%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 17 (53.13%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.13%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 23 (71.88%) Linux
1 23 (71.88%) Windows
2 21 (65.63%) Windows Server
3 4 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (6.25%) CentOS
5 1 (3.13%) Amazon Linux
5 1 (3.13%) Mac OS
5 1 (3.13%) Ubuntu
5 1 (3.13%) Unix
5 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (3.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (65.63%) Agile
2 16 (50.00%) Microservices
2 16 (50.00%) Security Management
3 15 (46.88%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (46.88%) SOA
4 14 (43.75%) Server Management
5 13 (40.63%) Migration
6 7 (21.88%) Roadmaps
6 7 (21.88%) Technology Roadmap
7 5 (15.63%) Incident Management
8 4 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
8 4 (12.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 3 (9.38%) Technical Architecture
10 2 (6.25%) Data Protection
10 2 (6.25%) DevOps
10 2 (6.25%) Infrastructure as Code
10 2 (6.25%) Mentoring
10 2 (6.25%) Proactive Management
10 2 (6.25%) Proactive Monitoring
10 2 (6.25%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 21 (65.63%) Bash
2 19 (59.38%) PowerShell
2 19 (59.38%) SQL
3 17 (53.13%) Perl
3 17 (53.13%) PL/SQL
4 4 (12.50%) Groovy
5 3 (9.38%) Python
6 1 (3.13%) Go
6 1 (3.13%) VBA
Qualifications
1 26 (81.25%) Security Cleared
2 21 (65.63%) Cisco Certification
2 21 (65.63%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.25%) AWS Certification
3 2 (6.25%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) NCSC
1 1 (3.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 1 (3.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 24 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (6.25%) VMware NSX
2 2 (6.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (9.38%) Terraform
2 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (6.25%) SCCM
3 1 (3.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (3.13%) Ansible
3 1 (3.13%) Consul
3 1 (3.13%) Grafana
3 1 (3.13%) HAProxy
3 1 (3.13%) Istio
3 1 (3.13%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (3.13%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.13%) linkerd
3 1 (3.13%) Packer
3 1 (3.13%) Prometheus
3 1 (3.13%) Rancher
3 1 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (3.13%) vCenter Server
3 1 (3.13%) vRealize
3 1 (3.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 22 (68.75%) Cisco
2 19 (59.38%) Oracle
3 5 (15.63%) Microsoft
4 4 (12.50%) Atlassian
4 4 (12.50%) Veeam
4 4 (12.50%) VMware
5 3 (9.38%) Red Hat
6 2 (6.25%) Meraki
6 2 (6.25%) Palo Alto
7 1 (3.13%) Apple
7 1 (3.13%) Aruba
7 1 (3.13%) ESET
7 1 (3.13%) HP
7 1 (3.13%) Okta
7 1 (3.13%) Splunk