Senior Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Senior Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in Leeds is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 66 82
Rank change year-on-year 0 +16 +27
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Infrastructure Engineer 6 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.95% 0.14% 0.091%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.97% 0.15% 0.093%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £475 £700
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -32.14% +27.27%
West Yorkshire median daily rate £650 £475 £700
% change year-on-year +36.84% -32.14% +27.27%

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 617 646 1,073
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.32% 92.15% 97.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 408 414 738
10th Percentile £300 £343 £313
25th Percentile £400 £413 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.94%
75th Percentile £574 £575 £625
90th Percentile £650 £646 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 29 13
10th Percentile £25.05 £17.65 £12.00
25th Percentile £25.13 £19.50 £15.75
Median hourly rate £25.50 £24.18 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.46% +27.26% -11.11%
75th Percentile £26.13 £48.75 £21.31
90th Percentile £26.35 - £23.45
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £50.00 £25.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year +100.00% +31.58% -9.52%

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Infrastructure Engineer in Leeds

Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

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

For the 6 months to 1 October 2025, Senior 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 Senior Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (83.33%) Migration
2 5 (83.33%) Incident Management
3 4 (66.67%) JIRA
3 4 (66.67%) Atlassian
3 4 (66.67%) Groovy
3 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
3 4 (66.67%) Agile
3 4 (66.67%) AWS
3 4 (66.67%) Confluence
3 4 (66.67%) IaaS
3 4 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (66.67%) ScriptRunner
3 4 (66.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
5 1 (16.67%) Mac OS
5 1 (16.67%) Azure
5 1 (16.67%) Windows
5 1 (16.67%) Python
5 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
5 1 (16.67%) HP
5 1 (16.67%) Apple
5 1 (16.67%) Firewall
5 1 (16.67%) User Experience
5 1 (16.67%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
5 1 (16.67%) Terraform
5 1 (16.67%) IT Strategy
5 1 (16.67%) Aruba

Senior 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 (66.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) AWS
1 4 (66.67%) IaaS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) JIRA
1 4 (66.67%) ScriptRunner
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Mac OS
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (83.33%) Incident Management
2 5 (83.33%) Migration
3 4 (66.67%) Agile
3 4 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
3 4 (66.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 1 (16.67%) IT Strategy
4 1 (16.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Groovy
2 1 (16.67%) Bash
2 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Atlassian
2 1 (16.67%) Apple
2 1 (16.67%) Aruba
2 1 (16.67%) HP
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft