Virtual Environments Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Virtual Environments
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Virtual Environments skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 80 96
Rank change year-on-year -24 +16 +36
Contract jobs citing Virtual Environments 2 4 7
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.12% 0.35% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.42% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 6
10th Percentile - £82 £350
25th Percentile £463 £135 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £224 £538
Median % change year-on-year +112.29% -58.37% -15.69%
75th Percentile £488 £312 £681
90th Percentile - £365 £800
England median daily rate £355 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -29.00% +5.26% -1.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,356 957 1,504
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 84.49% 84.24% 88.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 556 411 794
10th Percentile £192 £240 £239
25th Percentile £363 £338 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £576 £586 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 443 182 355
10th Percentile £14.25 - £14.16
25th Percentile £16.45 £15.62 £15.00
Median hourly rate £21.00 £30.00 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +40.78% -3.14%
75th Percentile £60.96 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +23.61%

Virtual Environments
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Virtual Environments job vacancy trend in the East of England

Virtual Environments
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Virtual Environments.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Virtual Environments

Virtual Environments
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Virtual Environments.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Virtual Environments

Virtual Environments
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 20 December 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
Hertfordshire - 2 £475 - 2
Virtual Environments
England

Virtual Environments
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) VLAN
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) IT Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) IT Security Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) CCTV Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior IT Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 2 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware