Infrastructure Engineering Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Infrastructure Engineering
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Infrastructure Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 74 82
Rank change year-on-year +24 +8 +10
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering 101 34 38
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 2.44% 2.18% 1.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.51% 2.39% 2.39%
Number of salaries quoted 78 25 18
10th Percentile £33,500 £42,300 £42,238
25th Percentile £45,361 £59,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £56,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +15.04% +17.10%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £97,792
Yorkshire median annual salary £50,000 £65,000 £46,000
% change year-on-year -23.08% +41.30% +8.24%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

Infrastructure Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,879 1,420 1,591
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 69.68% 90.91% 77.42%
Number of salaries quoted 2,168 735 878
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,550 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -0.04%
75th Percentile £74,028 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £85,000
Yorkshire median annual salary £52,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +9.47% -9.52% -0.94%

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Infrastructure Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Infrastructure Engineering job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Infrastructure Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Infrastructure Engineering

Infrastructure Engineering
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 10 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Engineering in West Yorkshire

Infrastructure Engineering
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Engineering within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 10 October 2026. 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
Leeds +6 84 £65,000 - 38
Huddersfield - 8 £45,000 - 1
Wakefield -3 7 £31,000 - 1
Bradford - 1 £50,321 - 4
Infrastructure Engineering
Yorkshire

Infrastructure Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 7 (6.93%) SharePoint
2 5 (4.95%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.97%) IIS
3 3 (2.97%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (3.96%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.98%) AutoCAD
2 2 (1.98%) Civil 3D
2 2 (1.98%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 42 (41.58%) Azure
2 20 (19.80%) Microsoft 365
3 19 (18.81%) AWS
4 13 (12.87%) Entra ID
5 12 (11.88%) OCI
6 9 (8.91%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (7.92%) GitHub
8 6 (5.94%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (5.94%) IaaS
9 5 (4.95%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (3.96%) GCP
10 4 (3.96%) SaaS
11 3 (2.97%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (2.97%) AWS KMS
11 3 (2.97%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (2.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 3 (2.97%) Kong
11 3 (2.97%) Mimecast
11 3 (2.97%) OneDrive
11 3 (2.97%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 21 (20.79%) Firewall
2 16 (15.84%) DNS
3 12 (11.88%) LAN
4 11 (10.89%) DHCP
4 11 (10.89%) TCP/IP
4 11 (10.89%) WAN
5 6 (5.94%) Wireless
6 5 (4.95%) VPN
7 4 (3.96%) BGP
7 4 (3.96%) NAS
7 4 (3.96%) Network Security
7 4 (3.96%) OSPF
7 4 (3.96%) SAN
8 3 (2.97%) Internet
8 3 (2.97%) Reverse Proxy
8 3 (2.97%) SD-WAN
8 3 (2.97%) VLAN
8 3 (2.97%) VoIP
9 2 (1.98%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 2 (1.98%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.97%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (2.97%) Data Lake
1 3 (2.97%) Relational Database
2 1 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (0.99%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (7.92%) Jenkins
2 6 (5.94%) Git
2 6 (5.94%) GitLab
3 2 (1.98%) JIRA
General
1 14 (13.86%) Social Skills
2 9 (8.91%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (8.91%) Public Sector
3 5 (4.95%) Telecoms
4 3 (2.97%) Finance
4 3 (2.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (2.97%) Manufacturing
5 2 (1.98%) Banking
5 2 (1.98%) Local Government
5 2 (1.98%) Retail
6 1 (0.99%) Digital Health
6 1 (0.99%) Legal
Job Titles
1 62 (61.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 30 (29.70%) Senior
3 25 (24.75%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 17 (16.83%) Cloud Engineer
4 17 (16.83%) Platform Engineer
5 15 (14.85%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 10 (9.90%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 10 (9.90%) Lead
6 10 (9.90%) Lead Cloud Engineer
6 10 (9.90%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
6 10 (9.90%) Oracle Infrastructure Engineer
7 9 (8.91%) DevOps Engineer
8 8 (7.92%) IT Engineer
9 6 (5.94%) IT Support
9 6 (5.94%) IT Support Engineer
9 6 (5.94%) Support Engineer
10 4 (3.96%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 4 (3.96%) Administrator
10 4 (3.96%) AWS Engineer
10 4 (3.96%) AWS Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (18.81%) Terraform
2 3 (2.97%) Kafka
3 2 (1.98%) Web Services
4 1 (0.99%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.99%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.99%) Node.js
4 1 (0.99%) OAuth
4 1 (0.99%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.99%) OpenID
4 1 (0.99%) React
4 1 (0.99%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.91%) Data Centre
2 8 (7.92%) CCTV
3 5 (4.95%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.96%) Driving Licence
4 4 (3.96%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (3.96%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.97%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (2.97%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (2.97%) Operational Technology
5 3 (2.97%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.98%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (1.98%) Housing Association
7 1 (0.99%) Cyber Defence
7 1 (0.99%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.99%) Hackathon
7 1 (0.99%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.99%) PKI
7 1 (0.99%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.99%) Social Media
7 1 (0.99%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 22 (21.78%) Windows
2 18 (17.82%) Windows Server
3 12 (11.88%) Linux
4 3 (2.97%) VMS
5 2 (1.98%) Unix
6 1 (0.99%) Android
6 1 (0.99%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.99%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (26.73%) Platform Engineering
2 25 (24.75%) CI/CD
3 22 (21.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 21 (20.79%) DevOps
5 17 (16.83%) Problem-Solving
6 13 (12.87%) Infrastructure Automation
7 11 (10.89%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (10.89%) Disaster Recovery
8 10 (9.90%) Agile
8 10 (9.90%) Mentoring
9 8 (7.92%) Deployment Automation
10 7 (6.93%) Change Management
10 7 (6.93%) Cybersecurity
11 6 (5.94%) Data Loss Prevention
11 6 (5.94%) Migration
11 6 (5.94%) Observability
11 6 (5.94%) Service Delivery
11 6 (5.94%) Sprint Planning
11 6 (5.94%) Test Automation
11 6 (5.94%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 13 (12.87%) PowerShell
2 12 (11.88%) Python
3 5 (4.95%) Bash
3 5 (4.95%) SQL
4 3 (2.97%) Shell Script
5 2 (1.98%) ActionScript
5 2 (1.98%) Bicep
5 2 (1.98%) Groovy
6 1 (0.99%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.99%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (7.92%) SC Cleared
1 8 (7.92%) Security Cleared
2 3 (2.97%) Azure Certification
2 3 (2.97%) Degree
2 3 (2.97%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (1.98%) Chartered Engineer
4 1 (0.99%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.99%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.99%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (0.99%) GDPR
1 1 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 21 (20.79%) Active Directory
2 13 (12.87%) Hyper-V
3 10 (9.90%) Docker
4 8 (7.92%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (2.97%) vSphere
6 1 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (13.86%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (9.90%) Kubernetes
3 7 (6.93%) Ansible
4 5 (4.95%) Progress Chef
4 5 (4.95%) WSUS
5 4 (3.96%) VxRail
6 3 (2.97%) Grafana
6 3 (2.97%) Prometheus
6 3 (2.97%) Puppet
7 2 (1.98%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 2 (1.98%) Nessus
7 2 (1.98%) SCCM
7 2 (1.98%) SCOM
8 1 (0.99%) Avamar
Vendors
1 32 (31.68%) Microsoft
2 14 (13.86%) Oracle
3 12 (11.88%) Cisco
4 11 (10.89%) VMware
5 4 (3.96%) Dell
5 4 (3.96%) F5
5 4 (3.96%) Google
5 4 (3.96%) Meraki
5 4 (3.96%) Veeam
5 4 (3.96%) Zerto
6 3 (2.97%) Commvault
6 3 (2.97%) Databricks
6 3 (2.97%) HP
6 3 (2.97%) SonicWALL
6 3 (2.97%) Tenable
7 2 (1.98%) Arista
7 2 (1.98%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.98%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.98%) Sophos
8 1 (0.99%) CyberArk