Virtual Infrastructure Contracts in the UK excluding London

Virtual Infrastructure
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 343 404 495
Rank change year-on-year +61 +91 -101
Contract jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure 50 47 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.24% 0.20% 0.052%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.22% 0.058%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 25 9
10th Percentile £300 £405 £323
25th Percentile £403 £463 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% -2.44% +9.04%
75th Percentile £638 £588 £600
90th Percentile £688 £638 £640
UK median daily rate £535 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +7.00% -16.67% +29.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 12 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £65.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,416 21,395 27,498
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.70% 89.57% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,404 14,844 19,217
10th Percentile £250 £256 £233
25th Percentile £375 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,048 1,307 1,356
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.05
25th Percentile £15.22 £15.56 £14.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.31
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%

Virtual Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Virtual Infrastructure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Infrastructure in the UK excluding London

Virtual Infrastructure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Virtual Infrastructure in the UK excluding London

Virtual Infrastructure
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Infrastructure in the UK excluding London

Virtual Infrastructure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Infrastructure in the UK excluding London

Virtual Infrastructure
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 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
South East +36 21 £625 +4.17% 3
South West +33 21 £508 -13.25% 8
Midlands +29 6 £300 -36.84% 3
West Midlands +24 6 £300 -36.84% 2
Wales - 2 £220 - 1
Virtual Infrastructure
UK

Virtual Infrastructure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (16.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.00%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 7 (14.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (14.00%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (10.00%) Azure
3 2 (4.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (4.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 25 (50.00%) Firewall
2 9 (18.00%) Fibre Channel
2 9 (18.00%) SAN
3 8 (16.00%) LAN
4 6 (12.00%) WAN
5 5 (10.00%) DHCP
5 5 (10.00%) DNS
5 5 (10.00%) Remote Desktop
6 4 (8.00%) iSCSI
6 4 (8.00%) NAS
6 4 (8.00%) SSL
6 4 (8.00%) TCP/IP
6 4 (8.00%) VLAN
6 4 (8.00%) VoIP
6 4 (8.00%) VPN
7 2 (4.00%) Skype
7 2 (4.00%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (4.00%) WLAN
General
1 8 (16.00%) Public Sector
1 8 (16.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (36.00%) Network Engineer
2 17 (34.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 13 (26.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 13 (26.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 11 (22.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 5 (10.00%) Administrator
5 5 (10.00%) Server Administrator
5 5 (10.00%) VMWare Administrator
6 4 (8.00%) IT Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) VMware Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) Contracts Manager
8 2 (4.00%) Field Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) IT Support
8 2 (4.00%) IT Support Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) Project Manager
8 2 (4.00%) Support Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) Systems Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 19 (38.00%) Data Centre
2 17 (34.00%) Private Cloud
3 5 (10.00%) PKI
4 2 (4.00%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.00%) Cyber Security Posture
5 1 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (18.00%) Windows
2 8 (16.00%) Linux
3 7 (14.00%) Windows Server
4 4 (8.00%) CentOS
4 4 (8.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (8.00%) Ubuntu
4 4 (8.00%) Unix
5 2 (4.00%) Mac OS
5 2 (4.00%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (4.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (46.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 22 (44.00%) Cybersecurity
3 19 (38.00%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (34.00%) Resource Management
5 15 (30.00%) Penetration Testing
6 14 (28.00%) Containerisation
6 14 (28.00%) DevSecOps
6 14 (28.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 14 (28.00%) Test Automation
7 13 (26.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
8 11 (22.00%) Agile
9 6 (12.00%) Patch Management
10 5 (10.00%) Load Balancing
11 4 (8.00%) Change Control
11 4 (8.00%) Change Management
11 4 (8.00%) Customer Service
11 4 (8.00%) Infrastructure Management
11 4 (8.00%) Mobile Device Management
11 4 (8.00%) Security Management
11 4 (8.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (8.00%) Bash
1 4 (8.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 32 (64.00%) SC Cleared
1 32 (64.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.00%) CCNA
2 5 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (8.00%) Degree
3 4 (8.00%) MCSE
3 4 (8.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (8.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (4.00%) DBS Check
4 2 (4.00%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (4.00%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.00%) SLA
2 2 (4.00%) PMO
3 1 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (2.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 32 (64.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 27 (54.00%) vSphere
3 9 (18.00%) Active Directory
4 5 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (10.00%) VMware NSX
4 5 (10.00%) VMware Server
5 4 (8.00%) Firmware
6 2 (4.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 20 (40.00%) vCenter Server
2 4 (8.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (8.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 32 (64.00%) VMware
2 16 (32.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (10.00%) Cisco
4 2 (4.00%) Citrix
4 2 (4.00%) Dell
4 2 (4.00%) SonicWALL
4 2 (4.00%) WatchGuard
5 1 (2.00%) Juniper