Infrastructure Transformation Job Trends

Infrastructure Transformation
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Infrastructure Transformation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 708 654 765
Rank change year-on-year -54 +111 -46
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Transformation 102 24 18
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.086% 0.048% 0.024%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.054% 0.029%
Number of salaries quoted 76 18 14
10th Percentile £41,875 £37,500 £55,230
25th Percentile £50,000 £48,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £92,500 £86,250
Median % change year-on-year -35.14% +7.25% +53.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £103,125 £92,813
90th Percentile £98,750 £105,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £92,500 £88,750
% change year-on-year -37.84% +4.23% +97.22%

All Process & 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 permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 86,437 44,202 61,341
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.18% 89.12% 81.82%
Number of salaries quoted 59,483 24,460 33,440
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,500 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £58,465
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -5.93% -2.56%
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £96,250 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

Infrastructure Transformation
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Infrastructure Transformation relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Infrastructure Transformation job vacancy trend in the UK

Infrastructure Transformation
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Infrastructure Transformation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Infrastructure Transformation

Infrastructure Transformation
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Transformation over the 6 months to 2 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Transformation in the UK

Infrastructure Transformation
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Infrastructure Transformation within the UK over the 6 months to 2 October 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -62 95 £60,000 -36.51% 82
UK excluding London -71 82 £57,500 -37.84% 47
North of England -43 27 £57,500 +21.05% 17
Work from Home -23 26 £60,000 -36.84% 43
Midlands -32 19 £55,000 -40.54% 7
London -47 17 £90,000 +33.33% 41
South West -55 16 £53,000 -43.92% 4
North West -23 15 £45,000 -5.26% 13
West Midlands -31 13 £50,000 -45.95% 3
Yorkshire - 12 £62,500 - 4
South East -48 10 £75,000 -25.00% 11
East of England -35 6 £90,641 +39.45% 2
East Midlands - 6 £60,000 - 4
Scotland +10 4 - - 3

Infrastructure Transformation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (11.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (4.90%) Confluence
2 5 (4.90%) SharePoint
3 4 (3.92%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.98%) Site Server
Applications
1 2 (1.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.98%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 40 (39.22%) Azure
2 32 (31.37%) Entra ID
3 18 (17.65%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (13.73%) AWS
5 7 (6.86%) SaaS
6 4 (3.92%) IaaS
6 4 (3.92%) Miro
7 2 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.96%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (0.98%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.98%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.98%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (0.98%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (0.98%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.98%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.98%) GCP
8 1 (0.98%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (0.98%) Mimecast
8 1 (0.98%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 28 (27.45%) Firewall
2 13 (12.75%) DHCP
2 13 (12.75%) DNS
3 11 (10.78%) WAN
4 8 (7.84%) VPN
5 7 (6.86%) Network Security
6 6 (5.88%) LAN
6 6 (5.88%) Wireless
7 4 (3.92%) SD-WAN
8 3 (2.94%) Cisco Nexus
8 3 (2.94%) Ethernet VPN
8 3 (2.94%) LoRaWAN
8 3 (2.94%) LTE
8 3 (2.94%) MPLS
8 3 (2.94%) NAS
8 3 (2.94%) Software-Defined Networking
8 3 (2.94%) TCP/IP
8 3 (2.94%) VLAN
8 3 (2.94%) VXLAN
9 2 (1.96%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.98%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (0.98%) Metadata
2 1 (0.98%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (4.90%) JIRA
2 2 (1.96%) GitLab
3 1 (0.98%) Git
General
1 21 (20.59%) Social Skills
2 19 (18.63%) Finance
3 10 (9.80%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (2.94%) Aerospace
4 3 (2.94%) Legal
4 3 (2.94%) Retail
4 3 (2.94%) Telecoms
5 2 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (1.96%) Public Sector
6 1 (0.98%) Billing
6 1 (0.98%) Digital Healthcare
6 1 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (0.98%) Law
Job Titles
1 31 (30.39%) Senior
2 24 (23.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 22 (21.57%) Architect
4 13 (12.75%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (7.84%) Platform Architect
6 7 (6.86%) Analyst
6 7 (6.86%) Lead
7 6 (5.88%) Consultant
7 6 (5.88%) IT Engineer
8 5 (4.90%) Cloud Architect
8 5 (4.90%) Cloud Engineer
8 5 (4.90%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 5 (4.90%) IT Manager
8 5 (4.90%) Senior Manager
9 4 (3.92%) Head of Infrastructure
9 4 (3.92%) IT Director
9 4 (3.92%) IT Support
9 4 (3.92%) Scrum Master
9 4 (3.92%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (3.92%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.78%) Terraform
2 2 (1.96%) ModSecurity
3 1 (0.98%) FHIR
3 1 (0.98%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (20.59%) Data Centre
2 10 (9.80%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (4.90%) Enterprise Storage
3 5 (4.90%) Private Cloud
4 4 (3.92%) Enterprise Cloud
4 4 (3.92%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (3.92%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.94%) IoT
5 3 (2.94%) NB-IoT
5 3 (2.94%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.94%) Replication
6 2 (1.96%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.96%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.96%) Social Media
7 1 (0.98%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.98%) Clustering
7 1 (0.98%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.98%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.98%) PMI
7 1 (0.98%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 29 (28.43%) Windows
2 23 (22.55%) Windows Server
3 16 (15.69%) Linux
4 4 (3.92%) Debian
4 4 (3.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (3.92%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (3.92%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (1.96%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.98%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (40.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 31 (30.39%) Migration
2 31 (30.39%) Project Delivery
3 27 (26.47%) Technical Leadership
4 23 (22.55%) Continuous Improvement
4 23 (22.55%) Disaster Recovery
4 23 (22.55%) Stakeholder Management
5 19 (18.63%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (15.69%) Platform Engineering
6 16 (15.69%) Roadmaps
7 14 (13.73%) Agile
7 14 (13.73%) Business Continuity
7 14 (13.73%) ITIL
8 13 (12.75%) High Availability
9 12 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
10 11 (10.78%) DevOps
10 11 (10.78%) Infrastructure Automation
10 11 (10.78%) Technology Roadmap
11 10 (9.80%) Collaborative Culture
12 9 (8.82%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 13 (12.75%) PowerShell
2 3 (2.94%) Python
3 2 (1.96%) SQL
4 1 (0.98%) Bash
4 1 (0.98%) Bicep
4 1 (0.98%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 13 (12.75%) Security Cleared
2 11 (10.78%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.84%) Azure Certification
4 6 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (3.92%) AWS Certification
5 4 (3.92%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 3 (2.94%) CCIE
6 3 (2.94%) Degree
6 3 (2.94%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (1.96%) CCNP
7 2 (1.96%) CISSP
7 2 (1.96%) JNCIP
7 2 (1.96%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.96%) PMP
8 1 (0.98%) CCNA
8 1 (0.98%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.98%) IIBA
8 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.98%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (4.90%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (3.92%) PMO
4 2 (1.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (1.96%) NCSC
5 1 (0.98%) HL7
5 1 (0.98%) ISO 19650
5 1 (0.98%) QA
System Software
1 29 (28.43%) Active Directory
2 19 (18.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (8.82%) vSphere
4 7 (6.86%) Hyper-V
5 4 (3.92%) Docker
5 4 (3.92%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (2.94%) VMware NSX
7 2 (1.96%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.98%) DFS Replication
8 1 (0.98%) KVM
Systems Management
1 12 (11.76%) Ansible
2 11 (10.78%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (8.82%) Kubernetes
4 7 (6.86%) Puppet
5 5 (4.90%) ZABBIX
6 3 (2.94%) Progress Chef
6 3 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.96%) FortiGate
7 2 (1.96%) Nessus
7 2 (1.96%) Proxmox
8 1 (0.98%) SCCM
8 1 (0.98%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.98%) WSUS
Vendors
1 39 (38.24%) Microsoft
2 31 (30.39%) VMware
3 15 (14.71%) Cisco
4 9 (8.82%) Veeam
5 6 (5.88%) Zscaler
6 5 (4.90%) Juniper
7 4 (3.92%) Meraki
7 4 (3.92%) Palo Alto
8 3 (2.94%) Citrix
9 2 (1.96%) Apple
9 2 (1.96%) Aruba
9 2 (1.96%) Dell
9 2 (1.96%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.96%) QNAP
9 2 (1.96%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.96%) SolarWinds
9 2 (1.96%) Tenable
9 2 (1.96%) Zerto
10 1 (0.98%) Arista
10 1 (0.98%) iManage