Infrastructure Transformation Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Transformation
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Infrastructure Transformation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 378 355 396
Rank change year-on-year -23 +41 +91
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Transformation 21 7 14
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.042% 0.068%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.050% 0.076%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 6 10
10th Percentile £425 £416 £369
25th Percentile £463 £519 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £763 £413
Median % change year-on-year -34.43% +84.85% -31.25%
75th Percentile £760 £1,025 £697
90th Percentile £825 - £709
UK median daily rate £506 £750 £613
% change year-on-year -32.50% +22.45% +4.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £100.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £100.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Infrastructure Transformation 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 15,064 14,107 18,303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 88.46% 83.88% 88.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,147 8,084 11,988
10th Percentile £220 £250 £250
25th Percentile £368 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £674 £685 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £535
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,694 888 1,294
10th Percentile £14.23 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.15 £18.13 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.57 £35.00 £43.95
Median % change year-on-year -35.52% -20.36% +49.97%
75th Percentile £41.94 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £66.50 £72.50 £77.35
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.03 £43.90
% change year-on-year -28.20% -20.21% +25.43%

Infrastructure Transformation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Infrastructure Transformation job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Transformation
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Infrastructure Transformation
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Transformation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Transformation in the UK excluding London

Infrastructure Transformation
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Infrastructure Transformation
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 Infrastructure Transformation within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 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
North of England -26 8 £475 +10.14% 3
South East +6 6 £600 -36.84% 11
Yorkshire -25 5 £456 +5.80% 3
North West - 3 £475 - 1
East of England - 3 £850 -
South West +5 2 £738 +28.26%
Midlands -21 1 £437 - 1
Channel Islands - 1 £760 -
East Midlands - 1 £437 -
Infrastructure Transformation
UK

Infrastructure Transformation
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 8 (38.10%) Azure
2 4 (19.05%) AWS
3 2 (9.52%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 2 (9.52%) Azure Sentinel
3 2 (9.52%) Entra ID
3 2 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (9.52%) SaaS
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Stack
4 1 (4.76%) GCP
4 1 (4.76%) IaaS
4 1 (4.76%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (23.81%) SAN
2 3 (14.29%) DNS
2 3 (14.29%) iSCSI
3 2 (9.52%) Network Security
3 2 (9.52%) TCP/IP
3 2 (9.52%) VLAN
3 2 (9.52%) VPN
4 1 (4.76%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (4.76%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (4.76%) Firewall
4 1 (4.76%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) GitLab
2 1 (4.76%) Git
2 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Finance
2 2 (9.52%) Legal
2 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.76%) Aerospace
3 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Electronics
3 1 (4.76%) Front Office
3 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
3 1 (4.76%) Marketing
3 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Architect
2 4 (19.05%) Programme Manager
3 3 (14.29%) Cloud Architect
3 3 (14.29%) Senior
3 3 (14.29%) Technical Manager
3 3 (14.29%) Technical Programme Manager
4 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Migration Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Project Manager
4 2 (9.52%) Security Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Server Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Storage Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Data Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) ARM Templates
1 1 (4.76%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 10 (47.62%) Data Centre
2 3 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (9.52%) Clustering
3 2 (9.52%) Onboarding
3 2 (9.52%) Replication
3 2 (9.52%) Security Posture
4 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.76%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.76%) FlexPod
4 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.76%) NHS
4 1 (4.76%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (23.81%) Windows
2 4 (19.05%) Linux
2 4 (19.05%) Windows Server
3 2 (9.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (4.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) Migration
2 6 (28.57%) CI/CD
2 6 (28.57%) Infrastructure Automation
3 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (19.05%) Risk Management
4 4 (19.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 4 (19.05%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (14.29%) Data Protection
5 3 (14.29%) DevOps
5 3 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (14.29%) ITIL
5 3 (14.29%) Programme Management
5 3 (14.29%) Project Delivery
5 3 (14.29%) Security Hardening
5 3 (14.29%) SIEM
6 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (9.52%) Programme Governance
6 2 (9.52%) Runbook
6 2 (9.52%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 6 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 3 (14.29%) Python
3 1 (4.76%) Bash
3 1 (4.76%) Bicep
3 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 2 (9.52%) AWS Certification
2 2 (9.52%) CCSP
2 2 (9.52%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (9.52%) CISSP
2 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.76%) CISM
3 1 (4.76%) Degree
3 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) Server+ Certification
3 1 (4.76%) SSCP
3 1 (4.76%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (23.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (9.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (9.52%) GDPR
3 2 (9.52%) NIST
4 1 (4.76%) GRC
System Software
1 7 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (28.57%) Active Directory
3 2 (9.52%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (9.52%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (9.52%) vSphere
4 1 (4.76%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (4.76%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (19.05%) vRealize
2 3 (14.29%) vRealize Orchestrator
3 2 (9.52%) Ansible
3 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (4.76%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (4.76%) Rundeck
4 1 (4.76%) SCCM
4 1 (4.76%) Terraform
4 1 (4.76%) vCenter Server
4 1 (4.76%) WSUS
Vendors
1 8 (38.10%) VMware
2 7 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 5 (23.81%) Cisco
4 3 (14.29%) NetApp
5 2 (9.52%) Dell
5 2 (9.52%) Red Hat
5 2 (9.52%) SolarWinds
5 2 (9.52%) Sophos
5 2 (9.52%) Veeam
6 1 (4.76%) Commvault
6 1 (4.76%) F5
6 1 (4.76%) Oracle
6 1 (4.76%) SAP
6 1 (4.76%) Zscaler