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 19 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 702 659 852
Rank change year-on-year -43 +193 -34
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Transformation 58 14 18
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.058% 0.028% 0.018%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.079% 0.032% 0.023%
Number of salaries quoted 46 11 12
10th Percentile £48,750 £37,500 £56,250
25th Percentile £51,688 £38,500 £75,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -36.11% +24.14%
75th Percentile £77,500 £95,000 £92,813
90th Percentile £90,000 £96,750 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £52,500 £90,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% -41.67% +74.10%

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 73,444 44,348 79,843
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.65% 90.06% 82.03%
Number of salaries quoted 50,849 24,963 55,346
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.19% +2.73% -8.72%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,840 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,474 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%

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 19 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Transformation in the UK

Infrastructure Transformation
Top 13 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 19 July 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 -24 55 £60,000 -25.00% 21
UK excluding London -47 46 £60,000 +14.29% 19
Midlands -13 17 £55,000 -40.54% 3
West Midlands -5 13 £50,000 -45.95% 1
Work from Home -1 12 £62,500 -5.66% 5
South West -53 11 £50,000 -47.09% 4
North of England -28 10 £70,000 +47.37% 7
London -35 9 £81,250 +20.37% 5
Yorkshire - 8 £66,250 - 5
South East -28 5 £75,000 -20.00% 4
East Midlands - 4 £60,000 - 2
East of England - 3 £90,641 -
North West -13 2 £100,000 +110.53% 2

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 5 (8.62%) SharePoint
2 4 (6.90%) Confluence
2 4 (6.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (5.17%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.72%) Site Server
Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 16 (27.59%) Azure
2 9 (15.52%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (13.79%) Entra ID
4 6 (10.34%) AWS
5 4 (6.90%) Miro
6 1 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.72%) GCP
6 1 (1.72%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (13.79%) Firewall
2 7 (12.07%) WAN
3 6 (10.34%) LAN
4 3 (5.17%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (5.17%) Ethernet VPN
4 3 (5.17%) LoRaWAN
4 3 (5.17%) LTE
4 3 (5.17%) VXLAN
4 3 (5.17%) Wireless
4 3 (5.17%) WLAN
5 2 (3.45%) SD-WAN
6 1 (1.72%) DHCP
6 1 (1.72%) DNS
6 1 (1.72%) NAS
6 1 (1.72%) Network Security
6 1 (1.72%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (1.72%) SAN
6 1 (1.72%) VPN
6 1 (1.72%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.72%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (1.72%) Metadata
2 1 (1.72%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (6.90%) JIRA
2 2 (3.45%) GitLab
General
1 12 (20.69%) Finance
1 12 (20.69%) Social Skills
2 3 (5.17%) Retail
2 3 (5.17%) Telecoms
3 1 (1.72%) Aerospace
3 1 (1.72%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (1.72%) Digital Healthcare
3 1 (1.72%) Legal
3 1 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (29.31%) Senior
2 15 (25.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 10 (17.24%) Architect
4 8 (13.79%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 7 (12.07%) Platform Architect
6 6 (10.34%) Lead
7 4 (6.90%) Consultant
7 4 (6.90%) IT Director
7 4 (6.90%) Network Consultant
7 4 (6.90%) Scrum Master
8 3 (5.17%) Cloud Architect
8 3 (5.17%) Enterprise Architect
8 3 (5.17%) Principal Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) Radio Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) Team Leader
8 3 (5.17%) Telecoms Engineer
9 2 (3.45%) Cloud Engineer
9 2 (3.45%) Infrastructure Manager
9 2 (3.45%) Platform Engineer
10 1 (1.72%) Infrastructure Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.72%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 14 (24.14%) Data Centre
2 4 (6.90%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.17%) Enterprise Cloud
3 3 (5.17%) IoT
3 3 (5.17%) NB-IoT
4 2 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.45%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.72%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.72%) Clustering
5 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.72%) EPoS
5 1 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.72%) NHS
5 1 (1.72%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.72%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (13.79%) Linux
2 5 (8.62%) Windows
2 5 (8.62%) Windows Server
3 3 (5.17%) Debian
3 3 (5.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (3.45%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (39.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 21 (36.21%) Project Delivery
3 15 (25.86%) Continuous Improvement
3 15 (25.86%) Technical Leadership
4 13 (22.41%) Roadmaps
5 12 (20.69%) Stakeholder Management
6 11 (18.97%) Platform Engineering
7 8 (13.79%) Agile
7 8 (13.79%) Collaborative Culture
7 8 (13.79%) Disaster Recovery
7 8 (13.79%) Migration
8 7 (12.07%) DevOps
8 7 (12.07%) Technology Roadmap
9 6 (10.34%) Cybersecurity
9 6 (10.34%) Infrastructure Automation
9 6 (10.34%) ITIL
10 5 (8.62%) Business Continuity
10 5 (8.62%) High Availability
10 5 (8.62%) IT Strategy
10 5 (8.62%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 4 (6.90%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (17.24%) Security Cleared
2 9 (15.52%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.62%) Azure Certification
3 5 (8.62%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (6.90%) CCIE
5 3 (5.17%) Degree
5 3 (5.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (3.45%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.72%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.72%) CCNA
7 1 (1.72%) CCNP
7 1 (1.72%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (5.17%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.72%) HL7
4 1 (1.72%) ISO 19650
4 1 (1.72%) NCSC
4 1 (1.72%) PMO
4 1 (1.72%) QA
System Software
1 6 (10.34%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (8.62%) Active Directory
3 4 (6.90%) vSphere
4 3 (5.17%) Docker
4 3 (5.17%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.72%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (10.34%) Ansible
2 5 (8.62%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (6.90%) Kubernetes
4 3 (5.17%) Puppet
4 3 (5.17%) Terraform
4 3 (5.17%) ZABBIX
5 2 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.72%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.72%) Proxmox
6 1 (1.72%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 13 (22.41%) Microsoft
2 10 (17.24%) VMware
3 7 (12.07%) Cisco
4 2 (3.45%) Red Hat
4 2 (3.45%) Zscaler
5 1 (1.72%) Aruba
5 1 (1.72%) Cerner
5 1 (1.72%) Oracle
5 1 (1.72%) Veeam
5 1 (1.72%) Zerto