Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in Leeds

Infrastructure Engineer
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in Leeds is £65,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 May 2025.

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

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 86 134
Rank change year-on-year +31 +48 -6
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 25 48 49
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 3.19% 2.11% 1.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.41% 2.20% 1.76%
Number of salaries quoted 21 33 36
10th Percentile £46,250 £40,500 £35,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £43,750 £40,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £72,500 £60,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £73,886 £67,124 £83,664
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £52,500 £47,750
% change year-on-year +23.81% +9.95% +6.11%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Leeds

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in Leeds with a recognized job title 734 2,181 2,786
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.62% 96.04% 95.09%
Number of salaries quoted 499 1,582 1,675
10th Percentile £28,400 £31,250 £33,000
25th Percentile £40,375 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.71% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £78,324 £69,914 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £84,056 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £55,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +11.00% -9.09% +6.80%

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
Salary Trend in Leeds

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Leeds

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Leeds over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in Leeds

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 2025, Infrastructure Engineer 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 permanent job ads across the Leeds region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 25 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (40.00%) Windows
2 10 (40.00%) Cisco
3 9 (36.00%) Microsoft
3 9 (36.00%) SaaS
4 8 (32.00%) Microsoft Exchange
5 7 (28.00%) SMTP
5 7 (28.00%) Veritas
5 7 (28.00%) Internet
5 7 (28.00%) Finance
5 7 (28.00%) IronPort
5 7 (28.00%) DNSSEC
5 7 (28.00%) Microsoft Purview
5 7 (28.00%) DKIM
5 7 (28.00%) DMARC
6 6 (24.00%) Cloud Native
6 6 (24.00%) Banking
7 5 (20.00%) Active Directory
8 4 (16.00%) Ansible
8 4 (16.00%) PowerShell
8 4 (16.00%) Azure
9 3 (12.00%) Python
9 3 (12.00%) DNS
9 3 (12.00%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (12.00%) IaaS
9 3 (12.00%) Terraform
9 3 (12.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
9 3 (12.00%) Cloud Security
10 2 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
10 2 (8.00%) NIST

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 (32.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (36.00%) SaaS
2 7 (28.00%) Microsoft Purview
3 4 (16.00%) Azure
4 3 (12.00%) IaaS
4 3 (12.00%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (8.00%) AWS
5 2 (8.00%) Mimecast
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (4.00%) PaaS
6 1 (4.00%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (28.00%) DKIM
1 7 (28.00%) DMARC
1 7 (28.00%) DNSSEC
1 7 (28.00%) Internet
1 7 (28.00%) SMTP
2 3 (12.00%) DNS
3 2 (8.00%) Network Security
3 2 (8.00%) TETRA
3 2 (8.00%) VPN
4 1 (4.00%) DHCP
4 1 (4.00%) Wireless
General
1 7 (28.00%) Finance
2 6 (24.00%) Banking
3 2 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.00%) Retail
4 1 (4.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.00%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (8.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.00%) CCTV
3 1 (4.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.00%) Driving Licence
3 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (40.00%) Windows
2 2 (8.00%) Linux
2 2 (8.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (4.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (12.00%) Cloud Security
2 3 (12.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 2 (8.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (8.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 2 (8.00%) Information Security
3 2 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (8.00%) Risk Assessment
3 2 (8.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (8.00%) Service Delivery
3 2 (8.00%) SIEM
3 2 (8.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (8.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (8.00%) Threat Analysis
3 2 (8.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (8.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 1 (4.00%) Asset Management
4 1 (4.00%) Identity Management
4 1 (4.00%) Online Security
4 1 (4.00%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (12.00%) Python
3 1 (4.00%) Bash
3 1 (4.00%) Bicep
3 1 (4.00%) Perl
3 1 (4.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (4.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (8.00%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (4.00%) NFS
Systems Management
1 4 (16.00%) Ansible
2 3 (12.00%) Terraform
3 2 (8.00%) WSUS
4 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
4 1 (4.00%) SCCM
4 1 (4.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 10 (40.00%) Cisco
2 9 (36.00%) Microsoft
3 7 (28.00%) IronPort
3 7 (28.00%) Veritas
4 2 (8.00%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (8.00%) Tenable
4 2 (8.00%) Varonis
5 1 (4.00%) Citrix
5 1 (4.00%) NetApp
5 1 (4.00%) Oracle
5 1 (4.00%) Red Hat
5 1 (4.00%) SolarWinds
5 1 (4.00%) VMware