Application Virtualisation Contracts

Application Virtualization
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Application Virtualisation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Application Virtualisation over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 555 646 807
Rank change year-on-year +91 +161 -149
Contract jobs citing Application Virtualisation 27 57 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.063% 0.098% 0.037%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.073% 0.11% 0.040%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 40 17
10th Percentile £385 £313 £375
25th Percentile £482 £436 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +18.92% +8.50%
75th Percentile £592 £618 £563
90th Percentile £595 £687 £601
UK excluding London median daily rate £553 £573 £450
% change year-on-year -3.49% +27.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 6
10th Percentile - £60.15 £61.00
25th Percentile - £60.38 -
Median hourly rate - £61.50 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year - -6.82% -
75th Percentile - £63.38 -
90th Percentile - £64.05 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Application Virtualisation 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,090 51,996 79,100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.26% 89.82% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,884 36,030 55,497
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,438 1,721 1,893
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%

Application Virtualisation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Application Virtualisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Application Virtualisation in the UK

Application Virtualisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Application Virtualisation.

Daily rate trend for Application Virtualisation in the UK

Application Virtualisation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Application Virtualisation over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Application Virtualisation in the UK

Application Virtualisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Application Virtualisation.

Hourly rate trend for Application Virtualisation in the UK

Application Virtualisation
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Application Virtualisation within the UK over the 6 months to 10 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
England +76 27 £550 -3.51% 16
UK excluding London +42 19 £553 -3.49% 18
South East +22 18 £553 -9.72% 2
London +90 8 £393 +20.77% 3
South West +13 1 - - 3

Application Virtualisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 17 (62.96%) Azure
2 15 (55.56%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (7.41%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (22.22%) DHCP
1 6 (22.22%) DNS
2 4 (14.81%) Firewall
2 4 (14.81%) IPv4
2 4 (14.81%) VPN
3 3 (11.11%) NetScaler
4 2 (7.41%) LAN
4 2 (7.41%) WAN
Development Applications
1 6 (22.22%) Robot Framework
1 6 (22.22%) Selenium
General
1 13 (48.15%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (14.81%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.41%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (33.33%) Analyst
2 5 (18.52%) Solutions Analyst
3 4 (14.81%) Applications Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Data Analyst
3 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Market Analyst
3 4 (14.81%) Market Data Analyst
3 4 (14.81%) Systems Analyst
4 3 (11.11%) Application Integration Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Applications Packager
4 3 (11.11%) Integration Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Desktop Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Desktop Support
5 2 (7.41%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) DV Cleared Application Packager
5 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) IT Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) IT Support Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Support Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) VMware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 18 (66.67%) Client/Server
2 4 (14.81%) Data Centre
3 2 (7.41%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 21 (77.78%) Windows
2 19 (70.37%) Windows Server
3 18 (66.67%) Linux
3 18 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (11.11%) Windows 10
5 1 (3.70%) Windows 7
5 1 (3.70%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (3.70%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (3.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (81.48%) Application Packaging
2 16 (59.26%) Agile
3 15 (55.56%) DevOps
3 15 (55.56%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 8 (29.63%) Release Management
5 6 (22.22%) Load Balancing
5 6 (22.22%) Test Automation
6 5 (18.52%) Scrum
7 4 (14.81%) Application Security
7 4 (14.81%) Asset Management
7 4 (14.81%) Batch Scripting
7 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (14.81%) Problem Management
8 3 (11.11%) Migration
8 3 (11.11%) SIEM
9 2 (7.41%) User Experience
9 2 (7.41%) Zero Trust
10 1 (3.70%) Business Case
10 1 (3.70%) Roadmaps
10 1 (3.70%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 25 (92.59%) PowerShell
2 22 (81.48%) VBScript
3 20 (74.07%) Python
Qualifications
1 18 (66.67%) DV Cleared
1 18 (66.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 20 (74.07%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 3 (11.11%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (7.41%) vSphere
4 1 (3.70%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (3.70%) XenApp
4 1 (3.70%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (7.41%) SCCM
Vendors
1 20 (74.07%) VMware
2 5 (18.52%) Citrix
3 3 (11.11%) ArcSight
4 2 (7.41%) Bloomberg
4 2 (7.41%) F5
4 2 (7.41%) Nexthink
4 2 (7.41%) Splunk
5 1 (3.70%) Ivanti
5 1 (3.70%) Microsoft