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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 705 652 731
Rank change year-on-year -53 +79 -11
Permanent jobs citing Infrastructure Transformation 103 25 18
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.087% 0.051% 0.025%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.057% 0.030%
Number of salaries quoted 79 19 14
10th Percentile £40,400 £37,500 £55,230
25th Percentile £46,875 £51,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £92,500 £86,250
Median % change year-on-year -35.14% +7.25% +91.67%
75th Percentile £77,500 £101,250 £92,813
90th Percentile £98,000 £105,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,250 £92,500 £88,750
% change year-on-year -39.19% +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 86,578 43,908 59,440
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.25% 88.94% 82.23%
Number of salaries quoted 59,120 24,542 31,807
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,054 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £78,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +17.02% -10.48% -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 11 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 11 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 -60 99 £60,000 -35.83% 98
UK excluding London -56 88 £56,250 -39.19% 52
North of England -40 32 £57,500 +21.05% 20
Work from Home -23 27 £60,000 -36.84% 51
North West -8 20 £45,000 -5.26% 13
Midlands -31 19 £55,000 -40.54% 7
South West -56 17 £52,750 -44.18% 5
London -44 15 £85,000 +36.00% 44
West Midlands -37 13 £50,000 -45.95% 3
Yorkshire - 12 £62,500 - 6
South East -46 10 £75,000 -25.00% 13
East of England -37 6 £90,641 +39.45% 3
East Midlands - 6 £60,000 - 4
Scotland +12 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 17 (16.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (5.83%) Confluence
3 5 (4.85%) SharePoint
4 4 (3.88%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.97%) Site Server
Applications
1 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.97%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 39 (37.86%) Azure
2 37 (35.92%) Entra ID
3 24 (23.30%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (14.56%) AWS
5 7 (6.80%) SaaS
6 4 (3.88%) IaaS
6 4 (3.88%) Miro
7 2 (1.94%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (0.97%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.97%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.97%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.97%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (0.97%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.97%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.97%) GCP
8 1 (0.97%) Google Workspace
8 1 (0.97%) Mimecast
8 1 (0.97%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 30 (29.13%) Firewall
2 14 (13.59%) DHCP
2 14 (13.59%) DNS
3 9 (8.74%) WAN
4 8 (7.77%) VPN
5 7 (6.80%) Network Security
6 6 (5.83%) Wireless
7 4 (3.88%) LAN
7 4 (3.88%) SD-WAN
8 3 (2.91%) Cisco Nexus
8 3 (2.91%) Ethernet VPN
8 3 (2.91%) LoRaWAN
8 3 (2.91%) LTE
8 3 (2.91%) MPLS
8 3 (2.91%) NAS
8 3 (2.91%) Software-Defined Networking
8 3 (2.91%) TCP/IP
8 3 (2.91%) VLAN
8 3 (2.91%) VXLAN
9 2 (1.94%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.94%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (1.94%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.97%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (0.97%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 6 (5.83%) JIRA
2 1 (0.97%) Git
General
1 21 (20.39%) Social Skills
2 16 (15.53%) Finance
3 11 (10.68%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (3.88%) Legal
5 3 (2.91%) Aerospace
5 3 (2.91%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (1.94%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.97%) Billing
7 1 (0.97%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (0.97%) Law
Job Titles
1 31 (30.10%) Senior
2 24 (23.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 19 (18.45%) Architect
4 13 (12.62%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 10 (9.71%) IT Engineer
6 8 (7.77%) IT Support
6 8 (7.77%) IT Support Engineer
6 8 (7.77%) Platform Architect
6 8 (7.77%) Support Engineer
7 7 (6.80%) Analyst
8 6 (5.83%) Cloud Engineer
8 6 (5.83%) Consultant
8 6 (5.83%) Lead
9 5 (4.85%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 5 (4.85%) 2nd Line Support
9 5 (4.85%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 5 (4.85%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 5 (4.85%) IT Manager
9 5 (4.85%) Senior Manager
10 4 (3.88%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.74%) Terraform
2 2 (1.94%) ModSecurity
2 2 (1.94%) SAML
3 1 (0.97%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 19 (18.45%) Data Centre
2 10 (9.71%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (4.85%) Enterprise Storage
3 5 (4.85%) Private Cloud
4 4 (3.88%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.91%) IoT
5 3 (2.91%) NB-IoT
5 3 (2.91%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.91%) Replication
6 2 (1.94%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.94%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.94%) Social Media
7 1 (0.97%) Clustering
7 1 (0.97%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (0.97%) EPoS
7 1 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.97%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.97%) PMI
7 1 (0.97%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 35 (33.98%) Windows
2 25 (24.27%) Windows Server
3 13 (12.62%) Linux
4 4 (3.88%) Debian
4 4 (3.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (3.88%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (3.88%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.97%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (0.97%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (42.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 33 (32.04%) Migration
3 32 (31.07%) Project Delivery
4 25 (24.27%) Technical Leadership
5 24 (23.30%) Continuous Improvement
5 24 (23.30%) Disaster Recovery
6 22 (21.36%) Stakeholder Management
7 20 (19.42%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (17.48%) ITIL
9 16 (15.53%) Platform Engineering
10 14 (13.59%) Business Continuity
10 14 (13.59%) High Availability
10 14 (13.59%) Roadmaps
11 13 (12.62%) Agile
11 13 (12.62%) Infrastructure Automation
12 11 (10.68%) Change Management
12 11 (10.68%) DevOps
12 11 (10.68%) Technology Roadmap
13 10 (9.71%) Cybersecurity
13 10 (9.71%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 14 (13.59%) PowerShell
2 3 (2.91%) Python
3 2 (1.94%) SQL
4 1 (0.97%) Bash
4 1 (0.97%) Bicep
4 1 (0.97%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 13 (12.62%) Security Cleared
2 11 (10.68%) SC Cleared
3 9 (8.74%) Azure Certification
4 6 (5.83%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (3.88%) AWS Certification
5 4 (3.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 3 (2.91%) CCIE
6 3 (2.91%) Degree
6 3 (2.91%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.91%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (1.94%) CCNP
7 2 (1.94%) CISSP
7 2 (1.94%) JNCIP
7 2 (1.94%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.94%) PMP
8 1 (0.97%) CCNA
8 1 (0.97%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.97%) IIBA
8 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.97%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (13.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (4.85%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (3.88%) PMO
4 2 (1.94%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (1.94%) NCSC
5 1 (0.97%) HL7
5 1 (0.97%) ISO 19650
5 1 (0.97%) QA
System Software
1 34 (33.01%) Active Directory
2 21 (20.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (9.71%) vSphere
4 9 (8.74%) Hyper-V
5 4 (3.88%) Docker
5 4 (3.88%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (2.91%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (2.91%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (2.91%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.97%) DFS Replication
7 1 (0.97%) KVM
Systems Management
1 13 (12.62%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (9.71%) Ansible
3 8 (7.77%) Kubernetes
4 7 (6.80%) Puppet
5 5 (4.85%) ZABBIX
6 3 (2.91%) FortiGate
6 3 (2.91%) Progress Chef
6 3 (2.91%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.94%) Nessus
7 2 (1.94%) Proxmox
8 1 (0.97%) SCCM
8 1 (0.97%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.97%) WSUS
Vendors
1 42 (40.78%) Microsoft
2 35 (33.98%) VMware
3 16 (15.53%) Cisco
4 15 (14.56%) Veeam
5 9 (8.74%) Juniper
6 8 (7.77%) Palo Alto
7 5 (4.85%) Apple
7 5 (4.85%) Zscaler
8 4 (3.88%) Citrix
8 4 (3.88%) Meraki
9 3 (2.91%) Aruba
9 3 (2.91%) Dell
10 2 (1.94%) Fortinet
10 2 (1.94%) Google
10 2 (1.94%) QNAP
10 2 (1.94%) SolarWinds
10 2 (1.94%) Tenable
10 2 (1.94%) Zerto
11 1 (0.97%) iManage
11 1 (0.97%) Proofpoint