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 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 630 699 694
Rank change year-on-year +69 -5 +230
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Transformation 20 20 24
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.034% 0.036% 0.047%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.041% 0.040% 0.051%
Number of salaries quoted 13 18 23
10th Percentile £56,250 £52,500 £37,127
25th Percentile £62,500 £55,157 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £95,000 £76,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +68.89% -35.71%
75th Percentile £105,000 £90,000 £64,375
90th Percentile - £93,750 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £97,500 £87,500 £43,500
% change year-on-year +11.43% +101.15% -43.87%

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 48,671 49,754 47,191
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 82.04% 89.85% 91.49%
Number of salaries quoted 28,569 24,792 36,014
10th Percentile £28,500 £35,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £36,500 £45,000 £42,631
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -3.67%

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 29 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Infrastructure Transformation in the UK

Infrastructure Transformation
Top 10 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 29 December 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +63 19 £95,000 +25.00% 17
UK excluding London +63 13 £97,500 +11.43% 11
Work from Home +77 8 £100,000 +11.11% 5
South East - 8 £100,000 - 6
London +42 7 £95,000 +72.73% 9
South West +9 2 - - 1
North West +21 1 £57,500 - 2
North of England +3 1 £57,500 - 3
East of England - 1 £65,000 -
Scotland - 1 £40,000 -

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 2 (10.00%) Confluence
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 12 (60.00%) Azure
2 7 (35.00%) AWS
3 4 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (10.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (10.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (5.00%) GCP
5 1 (5.00%) IaaS
5 1 (5.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (45.00%) WAN
2 8 (40.00%) LAN
2 8 (40.00%) SD-WAN
2 8 (40.00%) Wi-Fi
3 7 (35.00%) Unified Communications
3 7 (35.00%) VoIP
3 7 (35.00%) VPN
4 4 (20.00%) Firewall
5 1 (5.00%) iSCSI
5 1 (5.00%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (5.00%) SAN
5 1 (5.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (5.00%) Power BI
3 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
1 7 (35.00%) Telecoms
2 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Aerospace
3 2 (10.00%) Finance
3 2 (10.00%) Mandarin Language
4 1 (5.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Head of IT
1 7 (35.00%) Head of IT Operations
1 7 (35.00%) Head of Operations
2 4 (20.00%) Senior
3 3 (15.00%) Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) Business Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Azure Infrastructure Lead
4 2 (10.00%) Consultant
4 2 (10.00%) DV Cleared Business Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Business Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Consultant
4 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) IT Consultant
4 2 (10.00%) Lead
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Consultant
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Infrastructure Consultant
4 2 (10.00%) Senior IT Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Technical Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 7 (35.00%) Operational Technology
2 4 (20.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (10.00%) PMI
3 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (25.00%) Windows
2 4 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 10 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 9 (45.00%) Computer Science
3 9 (45.00%) Cybersecurity
4 8 (40.00%) Budget Management
4 8 (40.00%) Business Continuity
4 8 (40.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 8 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 7 (35.00%) Budgeting
5 7 (35.00%) DevOps
5 7 (35.00%) ERP
5 7 (35.00%) High Availability
5 7 (35.00%) ITIL
5 7 (35.00%) ITSM
5 7 (35.00%) Logistics
5 7 (35.00%) Problem Management
5 7 (35.00%) Project Management
5 7 (35.00%) Resource Management
5 7 (35.00%) Service Delivery
5 7 (35.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (10.00%) VB
2 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (55.00%) Degree
2 9 (45.00%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (45.00%) PMI Certification
3 8 (40.00%) Azure Certification
4 7 (35.00%) AWS Certification
4 7 (35.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 7 (35.00%) CCNP
4 7 (35.00%) Master's Degree
4 7 (35.00%) PMP
5 2 (10.00%) CBAP
5 2 (10.00%) CCNA
5 2 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (10.00%) DV Cleared
5 2 (10.00%) MCSE
5 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (40.00%) NIST
2 1 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (20.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (15.00%) vSphere
4 1 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.00%) SCCM
2 1 (5.00%) Terraform
2 1 (5.00%) vCenter Server
2 1 (5.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 10 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (40.00%) Cisco
3 6 (30.00%) VMware
4 1 (5.00%) Dell
4 1 (5.00%) Google
4 1 (5.00%) Meraki
4 1 (5.00%) SolarWinds