IT Infrastructure Engineer Job Trends in Leicestershire

IT Infrastructure Engineer
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The median IT Infrastructure Engineer salary in Leicestershire is £45,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 September 2025.

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

6 months to
7 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 85 58
Rank change year-on-year +39 -27 +32
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Infrastructure Engineer 1 6 1
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leicestershire 0.26% 0.74% 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.28% 0.80% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1 4 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £47,500 £43,750 £50,000
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median annual salary £33,750 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -15.63% -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 354 752 402
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.95% 92.38% 95.26%
Number of salaries quoted 213 383 278
10th Percentile £27,750 £27,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £37,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -12.20% +19.43%
75th Percentile £58,000 £60,000 £60,600
90th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £67,500
East Midlands median annual salary £42,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% -14.29% +10.52%

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Infrastructure Engineer in Leicestershire

IT Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in Leicestershire

Salary distribution trend for IT Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Leicestershire.

Salary distribution trend for IT Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Leicestershire

IT Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 29 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicestershire

For the 6 months to 7 September 2025, IT 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 IT Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Law
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) Veeam
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (100.00%) iPaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (100.00%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills

IT 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 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) iPaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Law
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Engineering
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Veeam