Converged Infrastructure Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Converged Infrastructure
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Converged Infrastructure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 379 331 405
Rank change year-on-year -48 +74 +68
Contract jobs citing Converged Infrastructure 4 32 16
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.024% 0.19% 0.077%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.027% 0.23% 0.087%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 19 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £519 £202
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £300
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% +79.17% -39.33%
75th Percentile - £609 £475
90th Percentile - £638 £565
UK median daily rate £550 £538 £450
% change year-on-year +2.33% +19.44% -11.76%

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 14,917 13,935 18,298
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 88.59% 83.76% 88.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,051 7,953 11,978
10th Percentile £220 £247 £250
25th Percentile £369 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £673 £685 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,672 883 1,292
10th Percentile £14.23 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.14 £18.13 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.58 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.50% -21.35% +53.93%
75th Percentile £41.94 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £72.50 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.36 £44.25
% change year-on-year -28.87% -20.09% +26.43%

Converged Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Converged Infrastructure job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Converged Infrastructure
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Converged Infrastructure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Converged Infrastructure

Converged Infrastructure
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Converged Infrastructure.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Converged Infrastructure

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 4 November 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 -3 2 £550 -9.09% 3
West Midlands -24 1 - - 2
Midlands -30 1 - - 2
North of England -41 1 - -
North East - 1 - -
Converged Infrastructure
UK

Converged Infrastructure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) VSAN
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (25.00%) LAN
2 1 (25.00%) NAS
2 1 (25.00%) Network Security
2 1 (25.00%) SAN
2 1 (25.00%) Spanning Tree
2 1 (25.00%) VLAN
2 1 (25.00%) VoIP
2 1 (25.00%) WAN
2 1 (25.00%) Wireless
General
1 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Support
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) IT Support
2 1 (25.00%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Migration Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Server Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Storage Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) Digital Signage
2 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (25.00%) CentOS
3 1 (25.00%) Linux
3 1 (25.00%) Ubuntu
3 1 (25.00%) VMS
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Preventative Maintenance
3 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Virtual Environments
3 1 (25.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (75.00%) vSphere
2 1 (25.00%) Firmware
2 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) vCenter Server
1 2 (50.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) EMC
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco
3 1 (25.00%) Dell
3 1 (25.00%) Red Hat