Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends in Leeds

Infrastructure Engineer
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in Leeds is £62,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 February 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 57 77
Rank change year-on-year -19 +20 +44
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 30 23 39
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 1.92% 2.61% 2.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.07% 2.78% 2.30%
Number of salaries quoted 27 14 33
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,375 £36,000
25th Percentile £58,125 £51,438 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +40.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,886 £57,500
90th Percentile £85,000 - £69,594
West Yorkshire median annual salary £61,250 £67,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.26% +35.00% +5.26%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 1,452 828 1,697
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 93.88% 96.92%
Number of salaries quoted 989 470 1,305
10th Percentile £28,450 £30,704 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,725
90th Percentile £90,000 £94,150 £85,000
West Yorkshire median annual salary £55,233 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +0.42% +4.76% -4.55%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Infrastructure Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in Leeds

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in Leeds

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Leeds.

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Leeds

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in Leeds

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Leeds over the 6 months to 17 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in Leeds

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds

For the 6 months to 17 February 2026, Infrastructure Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Leeds region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 26 (86.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (40.00%) Azure
2 12 (40.00%) VMware
2 12 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (26.67%) Hyper-V
3 8 (26.67%) Microsoft
4 7 (23.33%) AWS
4 7 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (20.00%) Veeam
6 5 (16.67%) AWS Certification
6 5 (16.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
6 5 (16.67%) Azure Certification
6 5 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (16.67%) Google
6 5 (16.67%) Google Workspace
6 5 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (13.33%) Active Directory
7 4 (13.33%) Coaching
7 4 (13.33%) DNS
7 4 (13.33%) Mentoring
7 4 (13.33%) PowerShell
7 4 (13.33%) Virtual Infrastructure
8 3 (10.00%) DV Cleared
8 3 (10.00%) Entra ID
8 3 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (10.00%) Kubernetes
8 3 (10.00%) OLE
8 3 (10.00%) Security Cleared
8 3 (10.00%) Terraform

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.67%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 12 (40.00%) Azure
2 7 (23.33%) AWS
3 6 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (16.67%) Google Workspace
5 3 (10.00%) Entra ID
6 2 (6.67%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.33%) DNS
2 3 (10.00%) WAN
3 2 (6.67%) DHCP
3 2 (6.67%) LAN
3 2 (6.67%) NAS
3 2 (6.67%) SAN
3 2 (6.67%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.33%) Firewall
4 1 (3.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Git
1 2 (6.67%) GitLab
General
1 5 (16.67%) Legal
1 5 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (6.67%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.00%) OLE
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.67%) Data Centre
1 2 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (6.67%) Linux Command Line
1 2 (6.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) Windows
1 2 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (86.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (13.33%) Coaching
4 4 (13.33%) Mentoring
4 4 (13.33%) Virtual Infrastructure
5 3 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (6.67%) Agile
6 2 (6.67%) Architecture Roadmap
6 2 (6.67%) Data Centre Operations
6 2 (6.67%) Data Loss Prevention
6 2 (6.67%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (6.67%) Privileged Access Management
6 2 (6.67%) RBAC
6 2 (6.67%) Roadmaps
6 2 (6.67%) Secrets Management
6 2 (6.67%) Server Management
6 2 (6.67%) Service Delivery
6 2 (6.67%) Technical Leadership
7 1 (3.33%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 4 (13.33%) PowerShell
2 2 (6.67%) Bash
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) AWS Certification
1 5 (16.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 5 (16.67%) Azure Certification
1 5 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (10.00%) DV Cleared
2 3 (10.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 12 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (26.67%) Hyper-V
3 4 (13.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (10.00%) Terraform
2 2 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (6.67%) VxRail
2 2 (6.67%) WSUS
3 1 (3.33%) FortiGate
3 1 (3.33%) Kibana
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 12 (40.00%) VMware
2 8 (26.67%) Microsoft
3 6 (20.00%) Veeam
4 5 (16.67%) Google
5 2 (6.67%) Cisco
5 2 (6.67%) Commvault
5 2 (6.67%) CyberArk
5 2 (6.67%) Dell
5 2 (6.67%) HP
5 2 (6.67%) Meraki
5 2 (6.67%) Tenable
5 2 (6.67%) Zerto
6 1 (3.33%) LogRhythm
6 1 (3.33%) New Relic