Virtual Infrastructure Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Virtual Infrastructure
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Virtual Infrastructure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.10% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £270 £500 £465
% change year-on-year -46.00% +7.53% -24.70%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

Virtual Infrastructure 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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 812 492 636
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 84.94% 86.62% 82.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 472 293 445
10th Percentile £186 £250 £192
25th Percentile £353 £341 £290
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £445
Median % change year-on-year -0.06% -4.44% -2.19%
75th Percentile £537 £538 £550
90th Percentile £625 £625 £664
England median daily rate £501 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.67% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 21 56
10th Percentile £14.63 - £11.05
25th Percentile £16.28 £17.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £17.87 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -20.58% +26.99% +5.27%
75th Percentile £23.75 £30.00 £36.88
90th Percentile £25.15 £39.68 £52.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year -26.03% -6.85% +4.29%

Virtual Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Virtual Infrastructure relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Virtual Infrastructure job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Virtual Infrastructure
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Virtual Infrastructure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Virtual Infrastructure

Virtual Infrastructure
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 January 2026. 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
Northamptonshire - 1 £450 - 2
Virtual Infrastructure
England

Virtual Infrastructure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Dell
1 1 (100.00%) VMware