Infrastructure Transformation Contracts

Infrastructure Transformation
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Infrastructure Transformation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Infrastructure Transformation 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 494 571 696
Rank change year-on-year +77 +125 +109
Contract jobs citing Infrastructure Transformation 26 11 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.089% 0.025% 0.037%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.098% 0.029% 0.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 11 12
10th Percentile £400 £200 £450
25th Percentile £530 £394 £534
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £425 £588
Median % change year-on-year +41.18% -27.66% +6.82%
75th Percentile £753 £525 £650
90th Percentile £838 £625 £673
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £425 £600
% change year-on-year +41.18% -29.17% +26.32%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

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%

Infrastructure Transformation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Infrastructure Transformation in the UK

Infrastructure Transformation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Infrastructure Transformation in the UK

Infrastructure Transformation
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Transformation in the UK

Infrastructure Transformation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Infrastructure Transformation in the UK

Infrastructure Transformation
Top 11 Contract Locations

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 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
England +70 24 £600 +41.18% 11
London +54 17 £613 +206.25% 9
UK excluding London +60 7 £600 +41.18% 5
Work from Home +43 7 £540 +27.06% 5
North of England +16 4 £600 +41.18% 1
North East -2 2 £575 +35.29%
Midlands - 2 £620 -
Yorkshire - 2 £625 - 1
South East +46 1 - - 3
West Midlands - 1 £540 -
East Midlands - 1 £700 -

Infrastructure Transformation
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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (23.08%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 10 (38.46%) Azure
2 9 (34.62%) AWS
3 7 (26.92%) Serverless
4 6 (23.08%) AWS CloudFormation
4 6 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (23.08%) GCP
4 6 (23.08%) IaaS
4 6 (23.08%) PaaS
4 6 (23.08%) SaaS
5 4 (15.38%) GitHub
6 2 (7.69%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (7.69%) Entra ID
7 1 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (3.85%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 7 (26.92%) Firewall
2 6 (23.08%) VPN
3 1 (3.85%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) Data Lake
2 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (26.92%) JIRA
2 3 (11.54%) Jenkins
3 2 (7.69%) GitLab
General
1 6 (23.08%) Marketing
2 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Finance
3 3 (11.54%) Public Sector
4 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Banking
5 1 (3.85%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (3.85%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.85%) Front Office
5 1 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.85%) Retail
5 1 (3.85%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (38.46%) Project Manager
2 9 (34.62%) Senior
3 6 (23.08%) Senior Manager
4 5 (19.23%) Technical Manager
4 5 (19.23%) Technical Project Manager
5 4 (15.38%) Senior Project Manager
6 3 (11.54%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Manager
6 3 (11.54%) Senior Infrastructure Manager
7 2 (7.69%) Architect
7 2 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Project Manager
7 2 (7.69%) Lead
7 2 (7.69%) Senior Cloud Engineer
7 2 (7.69%) Senior Infrastructure Project Manager
8 1 (3.85%) AWS Developer
8 1 (3.85%) Azure Architect
8 1 (3.85%) Migration Manager
8 1 (3.85%) Senior DevOps
8 1 (3.85%) Senior VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.69%) ARM Templates
2 1 (3.85%) AWS CDK
2 1 (3.85%) Node.js
2 1 (3.85%) React
2 1 (3.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Data Centre
1 4 (15.38%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (7.69%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.85%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 4 (15.38%) Linux
2 2 (7.69%) Windows
3 1 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.85%) SUSE
3 1 (3.85%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 11 (42.31%) Migration
3 10 (38.46%) Agile
4 9 (34.62%) Project Management
5 8 (30.77%) DevOps
6 7 (26.92%) Analytics
6 7 (26.92%) Cost Optimisation
6 7 (26.92%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (23.08%) ETL
7 6 (23.08%) FinOps
7 6 (23.08%) Project Delivery
7 6 (23.08%) RBAC
7 6 (23.08%) Zero Trust
8 5 (19.23%) Cost Management
9 4 (15.38%) Data Integration
9 4 (15.38%) Data Migration
9 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 4 (15.38%) Scrum
10 3 (11.54%) Business Transformation
10 3 (11.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 6 (23.08%) Bicep
2 2 (7.69%) Python
3 1 (3.85%) Bash
3 1 (3.85%) JCL
3 1 (3.85%) REXX
3 1 (3.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (23.08%) Azure Certification
2 4 (15.38%) SC Cleared
2 4 (15.38%) Security Cleared
3 2 (7.69%) Degree
4 1 (3.85%) CCNA
4 1 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 6 (23.08%) Docker
2 2 (7.69%) Active Directory
2 2 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.85%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.85%) Microcode
3 1 (3.85%) NFS
3 1 (3.85%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 8 (30.77%) Terraform
2 7 (26.92%) Kubernetes
3 6 (23.08%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (11.54%) Ansible
5 1 (3.85%) Argo
5 1 (3.85%) CA Endevor
5 1 (3.85%) Opsgenie
5 1 (3.85%) Opsview
5 1 (3.85%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 1 (3.85%) WSUS
Vendors
1 5 (19.23%) Microsoft
2 4 (15.38%) Google
3 2 (7.69%) Broadcom
3 2 (7.69%) IBM
3 2 (7.69%) SAP
3 2 (7.69%) ServiceNow
3 2 (7.69%) VMware
4 1 (3.85%) Ariba
4 1 (3.85%) Brocade
4 1 (3.85%) Citrix
4 1 (3.85%) Dell
4 1 (3.85%) NetApp
4 1 (3.85%) New Relic
4 1 (3.85%) PagerDuty