Application Virtualisation Contracts in England

Application Virtualization
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Application Virtualisation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Application Virtualisation 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 472 514 608
Rank change year-on-year +42 +94 +149
Contract jobs citing Application Virtualisation 13 28 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.053% 0.075% 0.089%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.059% 0.087% 0.099%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 26 32
10th Percentile £483 £385 £313
25th Percentile £523 £482 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year - -3.51% +23.24%
75th Percentile £578 £592 £619
90th Percentile £588 £595 £743
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +18.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £60.15
25th Percentile - - £60.38
Median hourly rate - - £61.50
75th Percentile - - £63.38
90th Percentile - - £64.05
UK median hourly rate - - £61.50
% change year-on-year - - -6.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Application Virtualisation 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Application Virtualisation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Application Virtualisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Application Virtualisation in England

Application Virtualisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Application Virtualisation in England.

Daily rate trend for Application Virtualisation in England

Application Virtualisation
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Application Virtualisation in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Application Virtualisation in England

Application Virtualisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Application Virtualisation in England.

Hourly rate trend for Application Virtualisation in England

Application Virtualisation
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Application Virtualisation within the England 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
London +36 6 £469 +19.43% 1
South East +34 6 £550 -0.45% 1
South West +45 1 - -
Application Virtualisation
UK

Application Virtualisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 7 (53.85%) Azure
2 6 (46.15%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (15.38%) Google Drive
3 2 (15.38%) Google Workspace
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (15.38%) OneDrive
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (7.69%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) MSI
2 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 2 (15.38%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Applications Packager
1 6 (46.15%) DV Cleared Application Packager
2 3 (23.08%) Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (7.69%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Support Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Technical Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Technical Support
3 1 (7.69%) Technical Support Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Windows Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Client/Server
2 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (46.15%) Linux
2 6 (46.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (46.15%) Windows Server
3 3 (23.08%) Windows 10
3 3 (23.08%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Application Packaging
2 7 (53.85%) Agile
2 7 (53.85%) DevOps
2 7 (53.85%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 3 (23.08%) Migration
4 2 (15.38%) Change Management
4 2 (15.38%) Design Patterns
4 2 (15.38%) GAP Analysis
4 2 (15.38%) Identity Management
4 2 (15.38%) ITIL
4 2 (15.38%) Roadmaps
4 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (7.69%) CI/CD
5 1 (7.69%) Decision-Making
5 1 (7.69%) Knowledge Transfer
5 1 (7.69%) Line Management
5 1 (7.69%) Load Balancing
5 1 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (7.69%) Scrum
5 1 (7.69%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) PowerShell
2 8 (61.54%) Python
3 6 (46.15%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 10 (76.92%) Security Cleared
2 9 (69.23%) DV Cleared
3 2 (15.38%) PMI Certification
3 2 (15.38%) PMP
4 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 7 (53.85%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (38.46%) Active Directory
3 3 (23.08%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (15.38%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (7.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (23.08%) SCCM
2 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) VMware
2 6 (46.15%) Microsoft
3 4 (30.77%) Citrix
4 2 (15.38%) Google
5 1 (7.69%) F5
5 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow