Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in Leicestershire

Infrastructure Engineer
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in Leicestershire is £56,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 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
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 80 80
Rank change year-on-year +17 0 +25
Permanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 6 24 14
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicestershire 0.84% 2.20% 1.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.88% 2.34% 1.87%
Number of salaries quoted 6 23 12
10th Percentile £37,625 £41,250 -
25th Percentile £42,625 £41,695 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.89% -9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £60,813 £48,750 £56,250
90th Percentile £61,250 £54,700 -
East Midlands median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% +11.11%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Leicestershire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Leicestershire. 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 Leicestershire with a recognized job title 679 1,025 748
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.83% 93.86% 93.73%
Number of salaries quoted 177 574 266
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,575 £25,168
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,375 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.78% - +5.88%
75th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £67,500
East Midlands median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% +5.26%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Leicestershire

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in Leicestershire

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

Salary trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Leicestershire

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Histogram in Leicestershire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Leicestershire over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in Leicestershire

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 17 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leicester +28 4 £58,250 +22.63% 2
Infrastructure Engineer
East Midlands

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

For the 6 months to 17 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 Leicestershire region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (83.33%) Windows Server
2 5 (83.33%) Windows
2 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (83.33%) PowerShell
3 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
3 4 (66.67%) DHCP
3 4 (66.67%) DNS
3 4 (66.67%) Hyper-V
3 4 (66.67%) Azure
4 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
4 3 (50.00%) SCCM
4 3 (50.00%) SCOM
5 2 (33.33%) VMware
5 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (33.33%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
5 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
5 2 (33.33%) Driving Licence
6 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Culture
6 1 (16.67%) GRC
6 1 (16.67%) Rubrik
6 1 (16.67%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (16.67%) GDPR
6 1 (16.67%) Security Monitoring
6 1 (16.67%) Privileged Access Management
6 1 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (16.67%) Task Automation

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicestershire 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 1 (16.67%) IIS
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (16.67%) OneDrive
3 1 (16.67%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) DHCP
1 4 (66.67%) DNS
2 1 (16.67%) Internet
2 1 (16.67%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (16.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
1 1 (16.67%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 2 (33.33%) Driving Licence
2 1 (16.67%) Clustering
2 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
1 5 (83.33%) Windows Server
2 1 (16.67%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 1 (16.67%) Change Control
3 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Mobile Device Management
3 1 (16.67%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Privileged Access Management
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Project Management
3 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Security Monitoring
3 1 (16.67%) SIEM
3 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) PowerShell
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
1 1 (16.67%) GRC
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (16.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 4 (66.67%) Hyper-V
2 2 (33.33%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) SCCM
1 3 (50.00%) SCOM
2 1 (16.67%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco
3 1 (16.67%) HP
3 1 (16.67%) Isilon