Lead Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in Leeds

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Lead Infrastructure Engineer salary in Leeds is £71,991 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 24 June 2025.

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

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 133 160
Rank change year-on-year +57 +27 -
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Infrastructure Engineer 6 4 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 0.73% 0.16% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.77% 0.16% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 5 4 3
10th Percentile £64,500 - -
25th Percentile £67,500 £55,250 £79,632
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £71,991 £59,500 £88,480
Median % change year-on-year +20.99% -32.75% -
75th Percentile £73,886 £63,750 £97,328
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median annual salary £71,991 £59,500 £88,480
% change year-on-year +20.99% -32.75% -

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 780 2,434 2,577
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.43% 96.47% 94.95%
Number of salaries quoted 526 1,751 1,569
10th Percentile £27,875 £31,250 £31,450
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £93,778 £84,964 £87,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% +7.89%

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Infrastructure Engineer in Leeds

Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in Leeds

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

Salary trend for Lead Infrastructure Engineer in Leeds

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

For the 6 months to 24 June 2025, Lead 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 Lead Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (83.33%) Microsoft Purview
2 5 (83.33%) DNSSEC
2 5 (83.33%) Internet
2 5 (83.33%) Veritas
2 5 (83.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (83.33%) SMTP
2 5 (83.33%) Windows
2 5 (83.33%) Cisco
2 5 (83.33%) SaaS
2 5 (83.33%) IronPort
2 5 (83.33%) Finance
2 5 (83.33%) DKIM
2 5 (83.33%) DMARC
3 4 (66.67%) Cloud Native
3 4 (66.67%) Banking
4 1 (16.67%) WSUS
4 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Online Security
4 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
4 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
4 1 (16.67%) Oracle
4 1 (16.67%) Linux
4 1 (16.67%) Python
4 1 (16.67%) DHCP
4 1 (16.67%) DNS
4 1 (16.67%) SCCM
4 1 (16.67%) SCOM
4 1 (16.67%) PowerShell

Lead 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 5 (83.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft Purview
1 5 (83.33%) SaaS
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) DKIM
1 5 (83.33%) DMARC
1 5 (83.33%) DNSSEC
1 5 (83.33%) Internet
1 5 (83.33%) SMTP
2 1 (16.67%) DHCP
2 1 (16.67%) DNS
General
1 5 (83.33%) Finance
2 4 (66.67%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) Coaching
2 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
2 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
2 1 (16.67%) Online Security
2 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Certification
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
1 1 (16.67%) SCCM
1 1 (16.67%) SCOM
1 1 (16.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (83.33%) Cisco
2 5 (83.33%) IronPort
2 5 (83.33%) Veritas
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle
3 1 (16.67%) Red Hat