Infrastructure Engineer Jobs in Wakefield

Infrastructure Engineer
West Yorkshire > Wakefield

The median Infrastructure Engineer salary in Wakefield is £31,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 August 2025.

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

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 - 28
Rank change year-on-year - - -12
DemandTrendPermanent jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 1 0 2
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Wakefield 1.18% - 1.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.56% - 2.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £50,500
25th Percentile £30,500 - £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,000 - £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.51%
75th Percentile £31,500 - £53,750
90th Percentile - - £54,500
West Yorkshire median annual salary £65,000 £57,500 £47,750
% change year-on-year +13.04% +20.42% +0.53%

All DemandTrendPermanent IT Job Vacancies
Wakefield

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in Wakefield. 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.

DemandTrendPermanent vacancies in Wakefield with a recognized job title 39 60 79
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 45.88% 96.77% 73.83%
Number of salaries quoted 14 34 54
10th Percentile £40,225 £25,500 £29,500
25th Percentile £40,750 £36,500 £38,766
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,917 £48,750 £47,605
Median % change year-on-year -14.02% +2.41% +19.01%
75th Percentile £70,000 £56,875 £66,625
90th Percentile £70,875 £66,750 £73,750
West Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Wakefield

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Engineer in Wakefield

Infrastructure Engineer
Salary Trend in Wakefield

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Wakefield.

Salary distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Wakefield

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 19 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wakefield

For the 6 months to 23 August 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 Wakefield region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) VMS
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wakefield 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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft