Virtual Environments Contracts in the North West

Virtual Environments
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Virtual Environments skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Virtual Environments over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 135 160 181
Rank change year-on-year +25 +21 -41
Contract jobs citing Virtual Environments 3 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.11% 0.031% 0.100%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.034% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile £220 - £156
25th Percentile £278 - £179
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £218
Median % change year-on-year - - -37.86%
75th Percentile £563 - £264
90th Percentile £645 - £308
England median daily rate £500 £510 £375
% change year-on-year -2.01% +36.07% -13.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Virtual Environments 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 the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,379 2,929 3,538
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.54% 90.85% 88.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,538 2,093 2,614
10th Percentile £306 £313 £230
25th Percentile £406 £407 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £569
90th Percentile £689 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +9.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 147 166
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.64
25th Percentile £13.11 £20.74 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +68.72% +19.02%
75th Percentile £45.00 £49.46 £43.96
90th Percentile £52.78 £65.30 £60.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +56.25% -

Virtual Environments
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Virtual Environments as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Environments in the North West

Virtual Environments
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtual Environments in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Virtual Environments in the North West

Virtual Environments
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Environments in the North West over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Environments in the North West

Virtual Environments
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Virtual Environments in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Environments in the North West

Virtual Environments
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Environments within the North West region over the 6 months to 19 April 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
Manchester - 2 £550 -
Merseyside - 1 £188 -
Virtual Environments
England

Virtual Environments
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint 2010
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Metadata
1 1 (33.33%) PowerPivot
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 1 (33.33%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) 1st/2nd Line Support
1 1 (33.33%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) 2nd Line Support
1 1 (33.33%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (33.33%) IT Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) IT Support
1 1 (33.33%) IT Support Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
1 1 (33.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Benchmarking
2 1 (33.33%) Business Case
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) ETL
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Transformation
2 1 (33.33%) IT Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Metadata Management
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Metrics
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Supplier Management
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Time Management
2 1 (33.33%) TOGAF
2 1 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft