Converged Infrastructure Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Converged Infrastructure
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Converged Infrastructure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 248 190 -
Rank change year-on-year -58 - -
Contract jobs citing Converged Infrastructure 2 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.026% 0.051% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.032% 0.057% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £380 - -
25th Percentile £388 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £625 -
Median % change year-on-year -32.00% - -
75th Percentile £463 - -
90th Percentile £470 - -
England median daily rate £697 £550 £538
% change year-on-year +26.64% +2.33% +34.38%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

Converged Infrastructure falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,285 3,510 3,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 83.16% 88.95% 84.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,721 2,265 2,059
10th Percentile £313 £268 £313
25th Percentile £406 £375 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -7.50% -
75th Percentile £588 £550 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £675
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 510 202 205
10th Percentile £16.00 £12.88 £11.56
25th Percentile £21.17 £17.44 £15.17
Median hourly rate £43.96 £22.60 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +94.49% -28.25% +14.55%
75th Percentile £70.00 £36.56 £51.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £71.32 £69.35
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%

Converged Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Converged Infrastructure relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Converged Infrastructure job vacancy trend in the North of England

Converged Infrastructure
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Converged Infrastructure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Converged Infrastructure

Converged Infrastructure
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Converged Infrastructure within the North of England region over the 6 months to 3 September 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Yorkshire -40 1 £400 -36.00% 3
North East -43 1 £450 -28.00% 3
Converged Infrastructure
England

Converged Infrastructure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Wireless
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Server Migrations
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (50.00%) FortiGate
2 1 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Okta
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (50.00%) Meraki