Virtual Infrastructure Contracts in England

Virtual Infrastructure
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Virtual Infrastructure skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Virtual Infrastructure over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 461 592 718
Rank change year-on-year +131 +126 -132
Contract jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure 72 55 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.20% 0.11% 0.068%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.13% 0.075%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 30 37
10th Percentile £350 £393 £372
25th Percentile £463 £463 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.60% -16.67% +29.03%
75th Percentile £638 £634 £675
90th Percentile £700 £691 £744
UK median daily rate £535 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +7.00% -16.67% +27.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 11 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £65.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Virtual Infrastructure is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,523 43,947 64,310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.44% 90.16% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,648 30,851 45,725
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £448 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £673 £650
90th Percentile £750 £764 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,245 1,554 1,761
10th Percentile £12.89 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% +50.00% +6.61%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%

Virtual Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Virtual Infrastructure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Infrastructure in England

Virtual Infrastructure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure in England.

Daily rate trend for Virtual Infrastructure in England

Virtual Infrastructure
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure in England over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Infrastructure in England

Virtual Infrastructure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure in England.

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Infrastructure in England

Virtual Infrastructure
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure within the England region over the 6 months to 14 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +94 24 £605 +2.98% 5
South East +37 21 £625 - 4
South West +21 21 £508 -13.25% 4
Midlands +27 6 £300 -36.84% 3
West Midlands +25 6 £300 -36.84% 2
Virtual Infrastructure
UK

Virtual Infrastructure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.78%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.78%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 5 (6.94%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 14 (19.44%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (13.89%) Azure
3 6 (8.33%) AWS
4 3 (4.17%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.78%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (2.78%) Mimecast
5 2 (2.78%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.39%) IaaS
6 1 (1.39%) PaaS
6 1 (1.39%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (36.11%) Firewall
2 9 (12.50%) Fibre Channel
2 9 (12.50%) SAN
3 7 (9.72%) LAN
3 7 (9.72%) WAN
4 5 (6.94%) DHCP
4 5 (6.94%) DNS
4 5 (6.94%) Remote Desktop
5 4 (5.56%) iSCSI
5 4 (5.56%) NAS
5 4 (5.56%) SSL
5 4 (5.56%) TCP/IP
5 4 (5.56%) VLAN
5 4 (5.56%) VoIP
5 4 (5.56%) VPN
6 2 (2.78%) Network Security
6 2 (2.78%) Skype
6 2 (2.78%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (1.39%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.72%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 7 (9.72%) Artifactory
1 7 (9.72%) Jenkins
1 7 (9.72%) Subversion
General
1 11 (15.28%) Social Skills
2 8 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 6 (8.33%) Finance
4 4 (5.56%) Billing
4 4 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (29.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 18 (25.00%) Network Engineer
3 13 (18.06%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 13 (18.06%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 11 (15.28%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 10 (13.89%) Analyst
6 6 (8.33%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 6 (8.33%) Infrastructure Support
6 6 (8.33%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
6 6 (8.33%) Support Specialist
7 5 (6.94%) Administrator
7 5 (6.94%) Citrix Analyst
7 5 (6.94%) Server Administrator
7 5 (6.94%) SQL Analyst
7 5 (6.94%) VMWare Administrator
8 4 (5.56%) Architect
8 4 (5.56%) Support Engineer
8 4 (5.56%) Technical Architect
8 4 (5.56%) Windows Engineer
8 4 (5.56%) Windows Infrastructure Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (13.89%) Middleware
2 7 (9.72%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 27 (37.50%) Data Centre
2 17 (23.61%) Private Cloud
3 6 (8.33%) Management Information System
4 5 (6.94%) PKI
5 4 (5.56%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.39%) CMDB
7 1 (1.39%) Cyber Security Posture
7 1 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.39%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.39%) Replication
7 1 (1.39%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 23 (31.94%) Windows
2 21 (29.17%) Windows Server
3 8 (11.11%) Linux
4 6 (8.33%) Windows 10
5 4 (5.56%) CentOS
5 4 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (5.56%) Ubuntu
5 4 (5.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (48.61%) Cybersecurity
2 27 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 23 (31.94%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (29.17%) Disaster Recovery
5 17 (23.61%) Resource Management
6 15 (20.83%) ITIL
6 15 (20.83%) Penetration Testing
7 14 (19.44%) Containerisation
7 14 (19.44%) DevSecOps
7 14 (19.44%) Infrastructure as Code
7 14 (19.44%) Test Automation
8 13 (18.06%) Vulnerability Scanning
9 12 (16.67%) DevOps
10 11 (15.28%) Agile
10 11 (15.28%) Configuration Management
11 10 (13.89%) High Availability
12 7 (9.72%) Analytics
12 7 (9.72%) Capacity Management
12 7 (9.72%) Server Monitoring
13 6 (8.33%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (20.83%) PowerShell
2 10 (13.89%) Python
3 7 (9.72%) C#
3 7 (9.72%) C++
3 7 (9.72%) Java
3 7 (9.72%) SQL
4 4 (5.56%) Bash
Qualifications
1 33 (45.83%) SC Cleared
1 33 (45.83%) Security Cleared
2 10 (13.89%) Degree
3 5 (6.94%) CCNA
3 5 (6.94%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (5.56%) MCSE
4 4 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (5.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (2.78%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (2.78%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.50%) SLA
2 2 (2.78%) PMO
3 1 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.39%) GDPR
System Software
1 38 (52.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 27 (37.50%) vSphere
3 16 (22.22%) Active Directory
4 5 (6.94%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (6.94%) VMware NSX
4 5 (6.94%) VMware Server
5 4 (5.56%) Firmware
5 4 (5.56%) vCloud
6 2 (2.78%) XenApp
7 1 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (27.78%) vCenter Server
2 8 (11.11%) SCCM
3 7 (9.72%) Ansible
3 7 (9.72%) BladeLogic
3 7 (9.72%) ITRS Geneos
4 2 (2.78%) FortiGate
4 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 38 (52.78%) VMware
2 23 (31.94%) Microsoft
3 20 (27.78%) Citrix
4 7 (9.72%) Altiris
4 7 (9.72%) Dynatrace
5 6 (8.33%) ServiceNow
6 3 (4.17%) Cisco
7 1 (1.39%) Juniper