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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 692 669 871
Rank change year-on-year -23 +202 -48
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Transformation 56 12 16
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.057% 0.024% 0.016%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.077% 0.027% 0.019%
Number of salaries quoted 44 10 10
10th Percentile £48,250 £37,500 £56,250
25th Percentile £50,938 £38,000 £83,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £90,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -36.11% +28.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £91,563 £92,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £96,300 £95,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £43,750 £90,000
% change year-on-year +31.43% -51.39% +89.42%

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 72,639 44,292 83,457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.85% 90.34% 82.30%
Number of salaries quoted 50,181 24,710 58,516
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,822 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.72%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,777 £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 11 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 11 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 -27 53 £60,000 -29.41% 30
UK excluding London -22 44 £57,500 +31.43% 23
Midlands -16 17 £55,000 -40.54% 7
West Midlands -6 13 £50,000 -45.95% 5
South West -50 12 £50,000 -47.09% 4
Work from Home -13 11 £62,500 +56.25% 10
London -17 9 £81,250 +6.56% 9
North of England -29 8 £70,000 +60.92% 5
Yorkshire - 7 £70,000 - 3
South East -27 4 £75,000 -18.92% 6
East Midlands - 4 £60,000 - 2
East of England - 3 £90,641 - 1
North West -9 1 £100,000 +129.89% 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 (8.93%) Confluence
2 4 (7.14%) SharePoint
3 3 (5.36%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (3.57%) OpenStack
5 1 (1.79%) Site Server
Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 15 (26.79%) Azure
2 8 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (12.50%) Entra ID
4 6 (10.71%) AWS
5 4 (7.14%) Miro
6 1 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.79%) GCP
6 1 (1.79%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (12.50%) Firewall
2 6 (10.71%) WAN
3 5 (8.93%) LAN
4 3 (5.36%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (5.36%) Ethernet VPN
4 3 (5.36%) LoRaWAN
4 3 (5.36%) LTE
4 3 (5.36%) VXLAN
4 3 (5.36%) WLAN
5 2 (3.57%) SD-WAN
5 2 (3.57%) Wireless
6 1 (1.79%) DHCP
6 1 (1.79%) DNS
6 1 (1.79%) NAS
6 1 (1.79%) Network Security
6 1 (1.79%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (1.79%) SAN
6 1 (1.79%) VPN
6 1 (1.79%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.57%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.79%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (1.79%) Metadata
2 1 (1.79%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (8.93%) JIRA
2 2 (3.57%) GitLab
General
1 13 (23.21%) Finance
1 13 (23.21%) Social Skills
2 3 (5.36%) Retail
2 3 (5.36%) Telecoms
3 1 (1.79%) Aerospace
3 1 (1.79%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (1.79%) Digital Healthcare
3 1 (1.79%) Legal
3 1 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (28.57%) Senior
2 15 (26.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 9 (16.07%) Architect
4 8 (14.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (10.71%) Platform Architect
6 5 (8.93%) Lead
6 5 (8.93%) Scrum Master
7 4 (7.14%) Consultant
7 4 (7.14%) IT Director
7 4 (7.14%) Network Consultant
8 3 (5.36%) Cloud Architect
8 3 (5.36%) Enterprise Architect
8 3 (5.36%) Principal Engineer
8 3 (5.36%) Radio Engineer
8 3 (5.36%) Telecoms Engineer
9 2 (3.57%) Cloud Engineer
9 2 (3.57%) Infrastructure Manager
9 2 (3.57%) Platform Engineer
9 2 (3.57%) Team Leader
10 1 (1.79%) Infrastructure Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.79%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 15 (26.79%) Data Centre
2 5 (8.93%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.36%) Enterprise Cloud
3 3 (5.36%) IoT
3 3 (5.36%) NB-IoT
4 2 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.57%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.79%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.79%) Clustering
5 1 (1.79%) Culture of Ownership
5 1 (1.79%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.79%) EPoS
5 1 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.79%) NHS
5 1 (1.79%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.79%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.50%) Linux
2 5 (8.93%) Windows
2 5 (8.93%) Windows Server
3 2 (3.57%) Debian
3 2 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (3.57%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 20 (35.71%) Project Delivery
3 14 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 14 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
4 11 (19.64%) Platform Engineering
4 11 (19.64%) Stakeholder Management
5 10 (17.86%) Roadmaps
6 8 (14.29%) Agile
6 8 (14.29%) Migration
7 7 (12.50%) Collaborative Culture
7 7 (12.50%) DevOps
7 7 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
8 6 (10.71%) Cybersecurity
9 5 (8.93%) IT Strategy
9 5 (8.93%) ITIL
9 5 (8.93%) Scrum
10 4 (7.14%) AI
10 4 (7.14%) Business Continuity
10 4 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (7.14%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 3 (5.36%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (19.64%) Security Cleared
2 9 (16.07%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.93%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (7.14%) Azure Certification
4 4 (7.14%) CCIE
5 3 (5.36%) Degree
5 3 (5.36%) DV Cleared
6 2 (3.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.79%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.79%) CCNA
7 1 (1.79%) CCNP
7 1 (1.79%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (5.36%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (3.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.79%) HL7
4 1 (1.79%) ISO 19650
4 1 (1.79%) NCSC
4 1 (1.79%) PMO
4 1 (1.79%) QA
System Software
1 5 (8.93%) Active Directory
1 5 (8.93%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (5.36%) vSphere
3 2 (3.57%) Docker
3 2 (3.57%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.79%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (8.93%) Ansible
2 4 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (5.36%) Kubernetes
3 3 (5.36%) Terraform
4 2 (3.57%) Puppet
4 2 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (3.57%) ZABBIX
5 1 (1.79%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.79%) Proxmox
5 1 (1.79%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 12 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 9 (16.07%) VMware
3 6 (10.71%) Cisco
4 2 (3.57%) Red Hat
4 2 (3.57%) Zscaler
5 1 (1.79%) Aruba
5 1 (1.79%) Cerner
5 1 (1.79%) Oracle
5 1 (1.79%) Veeam
5 1 (1.79%) Zerto