Converged Infrastructure Contracts in the UK excluding London

Converged Infrastructure
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Converged Infrastructure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Converged Infrastructure over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 330 365 414
Rank change year-on-year +35 +49 +88
Contract jobs citing Converged Infrastructure 4 29 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.031% 0.14% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.035% 0.17% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 29 25
10th Percentile £494 - £369
25th Percentile £508 £463 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £605 £390
Median % change year-on-year -12.40% +55.13% +1.30%
75th Percentile £578 £608 £400
90th Percentile £606 £628 £475
UK median daily rate £530 £605 £390
% change year-on-year -12.40% +55.13% -21.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - £48.04
25th Percentile - - £48.40
Median hourly rate - - £54.56
75th Percentile - - £87.50
90th Percentile - - £97.50
UK median hourly rate - £23.80 £67.28
% change year-on-year - -64.63% +6.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,544 17,537 21,420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.36% 84.72% 89.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,245 10,476 14,867
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 827 2,058 1,303
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.31 £15.24 £15.75
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +6.69% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.58 £36.00
% change year-on-year -18.48% -1.18% +44.00%

Converged Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Converged Infrastructure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Converged Infrastructure in the UK excluding London

Converged Infrastructure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Converged Infrastructure in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Converged Infrastructure in the UK excluding London

Converged Infrastructure
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Converged Infrastructure in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Converged Infrastructure in the UK excluding London

Converged Infrastructure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Converged Infrastructure in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Converged Infrastructure in the UK excluding London

Converged Infrastructure
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +21 1 - - 1
South West +18 1 £485 +2.11% 5
East of England - 1 £530 -
North of England - 1 £625 - 3
Yorkshire - 1 £625 - 1
North East - 1 £625 -
Converged Infrastructure
UK

Converged Infrastructure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
1 1 (25.00%) IaaS
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (25.00%) PaaS
1 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) VSAN
2 1 (25.00%) Network Security
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (25.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Linux
3 1 (25.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Benchmarking
3 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) IT Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Kanban
3 1 (25.00%) Network Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Security Hardening
3 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (25.00%) TOGAF
3 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) VCAP
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (75.00%) VMware NSX
3 2 (50.00%) vSphere
4 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
4 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) VxRail
2 2 (50.00%) vCenter Server
3 1 (25.00%) Ansible
3 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (25.00%) Nessus
3 1 (25.00%) PowerCLI
3 1 (25.00%) SCCM
3 1 (25.00%) Terraform
3 1 (25.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (75.00%) Dell
3 1 (25.00%) Dynatrace
3 1 (25.00%) IBM
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle