Virtual Environments Contracts in the City of London

Virtual Environments
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 116 124 174
Rank change year-on-year +8 +50 +13
Contract jobs citing Virtual Environments 3 3 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.17% 0.14% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.15% 0.12%
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
Central London median daily rate £550 £525 £645
% change year-on-year +4.76% -18.56% +7.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,636 1,988 3,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.17% 90.49% 91.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,032 1,406 2,259
10th Percentile £363 £363 £355
25th Percentile £463 £451 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £680 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £806 £825
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.33
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

Virtual Environments
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Environments in the City of London

Virtual Environments
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtual Environments in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Virtual Environments in the City of London

Virtual Environments
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

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

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Environments in the City of London

Virtual Environments
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Virtual Environments in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Environments in the City of London

Virtual Environments
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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