Virtual Environments Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Virtual Environments
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Virtual Environments skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Virtual Environments 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.15% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
North West median daily rate - £425 £688
% change year-on-year - -38.18% +61.76%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 590 407 444
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 89.26% 90.04% 87.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 425 238 297
10th Percentile £300 £300 £313
25th Percentile £356 £356 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £570 £553
90th Percentile £673 £658 £614
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 28 29
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.00 £15.60
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.53 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.85 £25.79 £26.66
Median % change year-on-year -11.39% -3.27% +52.82%
75th Percentile £43.00 £79.63 £40.00
90th Percentile £76.05 £86.00 £43.75
North West median hourly rate £41.94 £31.50 £33.16
% change year-on-year +33.14% -5.01% -11.57%

Virtual Environments
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Virtual Environments relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Virtual Environments job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Virtual Environments
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Virtual Environments.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Virtual Environments

Virtual Environments
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Virtual Environments.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Virtual Environments

Virtual Environments
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) DB2
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) AIX
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) KVM
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) IBM BigFix
1 1 (100.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) IBM