Converged Infrastructure Contracts

Converged Infrastructure
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 516 550 668
Rank change year-on-year +34 +118 +149
Contract jobs citing Converged Infrastructure 4 32 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.073% 0.084%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.015% 0.085% 0.093%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 30 29
10th Percentile £494 - £358
25th Percentile £508 £463 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £605 £390
Median % change year-on-year -12.40% +55.13% -21.41%
75th Percentile £578 £608 £438
90th Percentile £606 £626 £558
UK excluding London median daily rate £530 £605 £390
% change year-on-year -12.40% +55.13% +1.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 8
10th Percentile - - £48.13
25th Percentile - - £48.40
Median hourly rate - £23.80 £67.28
Median % change year-on-year - -64.63% +6.79%
75th Percentile - - £87.50
90th Percentile - - £95.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £54.56
% change year-on-year - - -35.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Converged Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Converged Infrastructure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Converged Infrastructure in the UK

Converged Infrastructure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Converged Infrastructure.

Daily rate trend for Converged Infrastructure in the UK

Converged Infrastructure
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Converged Infrastructure over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Converged Infrastructure in the UK

Converged Infrastructure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Converged Infrastructure.

Hourly rate trend for Converged Infrastructure in the UK

Converged Infrastructure
Top 9 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 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
UK excluding London +38 4 £530 -12.40% 9
England +29 4 £530 -12.40% 12
Work from Home - 3 £578 - 4
South West +34 1 £485 +2.11% 5
South East +31 1 - - 1
Yorkshire - 1 £625 - 1
North East - 1 £625 -
East of England - 1 £530 -
North of England - 1 £625 - 3

Converged Infrastructure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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%) Business Continuity
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
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%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Security Hardening
3 1 (25.00%) TOGAF
3 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
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