Virtual Environments Contracts in Central London

Virtual Environments
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Virtual Environments skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Environments over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 130 168
Rank change year-on-year +4 +38 +26
Contract jobs citing Virtual Environments 3 3 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.15% 0.12% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.14% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile - - £520
25th Percentile £525 £488 £567
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £645
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -18.56% +7.44%
75th Percentile £666 £563 £722
90th Percentile £720 - £769
London median daily rate £375 £500 £535
% change year-on-year -25.00% -6.54% +47.59%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Virtual Environments falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,856 2,215 3,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.94% 90.56% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,573 2,397
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £774 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 25 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.04 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £33.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £46.89 £88.30
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

Virtual Environments
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Virtual Environments as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Environments in Central London

Virtual Environments
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtual Environments in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Virtual Environments in Central London

Virtual Environments
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Environments in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Environments in Central London

Virtual Environments
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Virtual Environments in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Environments in Central London

Virtual Environments
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
City of London +8 3 £550 +4.76% 2
Virtual Environments
London

Virtual Environments
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (33.33%) Business Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) IT Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) VCAP
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Atempo
1 2 (66.67%) Databricks
1 2 (66.67%) F5
1 2 (66.67%) Fortinet
1 2 (66.67%) Mellanox
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) VMware