Virtual Environments Contracts in England

Virtual Environments
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 448 478 576
Rank change year-on-year +30 +98 +139
Contract jobs citing Virtual Environments 37 64 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.15% 0.17% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.20% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 41 61
10th Percentile £269 £245 £363
25th Percentile £356 £375 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -2.44% +36.67%
75th Percentile £569 £575 £600
90th Percentile £630 £613 £738
UK median daily rate £474 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -5.25% -2.44% +28.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - £65.18 £28.58
25th Percentile - £67.31 £47.41
Median hourly rate - £72.75 £78.80
Median % change year-on-year - -7.68% -
75th Percentile - £76.31 £82.40
90th Percentile - £77.33 £84.56
UK median hourly rate - £72.75 £78.80
% change year-on-year - -7.68% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 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%

Virtual Environments
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Virtual Environments as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Environments in England

Virtual Environments
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtual Environments in England.

Daily rate trend for Virtual Environments in England

Virtual Environments
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Environments in England

Virtual Environments
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Virtual Environments in England.

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Environments in England

Virtual Environments
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 Virtual Environments 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 +29 14 £375 -25.00% 17
South East +50 10 £602 +39.51% 12
North of England +23 6 £475 +61.70% 8
East of England +32 4 £467 +86.60% 1
Yorkshire - 4 £475 -
South West +35 1 £400 -20.00% 3
North West +16 1 £523 +77.87% 7
Midlands +8 1 £300 -45.45% 9
North East - 1 - - 1
East Midlands - 1 £300 - 6
Virtual Environments
UK

Virtual Environments
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (8.11%) IIS
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (27.03%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (24.32%) Azure
3 5 (13.51%) IaaS
3 5 (13.51%) PaaS
3 5 (13.51%) SaaS
4 3 (8.11%) Nutanix
5 2 (5.41%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (2.70%) AWS
6 1 (2.70%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.70%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (21.62%) VSAN
2 4 (10.81%) Fibre Channel
3 3 (8.11%) Firewall
3 3 (8.11%) HTTP
3 3 (8.11%) HTTPS
3 3 (8.11%) Network Security
3 3 (8.11%) SSL
3 3 (8.11%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (5.41%) DNS
4 2 (5.41%) NAS
4 2 (5.41%) SAN
4 2 (5.41%) TCP/IP
4 2 (5.41%) VLAN
5 1 (2.70%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.11%) Oracle Database
1 3 (8.11%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.70%) DB2
2 1 (2.70%) Informix
2 1 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.70%) Git
2 1 (2.70%) Maven
General
1 12 (32.43%) Social Skills
2 6 (16.22%) Finance
3 4 (10.81%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.41%) Back Office
4 2 (5.41%) Banking
4 2 (5.41%) Front Office
4 2 (5.41%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (5.41%) Japanese Language
4 2 (5.41%) Marketing
5 1 (2.70%) Arabic Language
5 1 (2.70%) Billing
5 1 (2.70%) Environmental Health
5 1 (2.70%) French Language
5 1 (2.70%) German Language
5 1 (2.70%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.70%) Korean Language
5 1 (2.70%) Local Government
5 1 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.70%) Spanish Language
5 1 (2.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (27.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (18.92%) Architect
3 6 (16.22%) Senior
4 5 (13.51%) Analyst
4 5 (13.51%) Senior Architect
4 5 (13.51%) Senior Technical Architect
4 5 (13.51%) Technical Architect
4 5 (13.51%) VMware Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) Support Engineer
5 4 (10.81%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Active Directory Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Active Directory Support
6 3 (8.11%) Active Directory Support Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Applications Support
6 3 (8.11%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Service Desk Engineer
6 3 (8.11%) Service Desk Support
6 3 (8.11%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.70%) EJB
1 1 (2.70%) Hibernate
1 1 (2.70%) Java EE
1 1 (2.70%) JSP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.92%) Clustering
2 6 (16.22%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (13.51%) PKI
3 5 (13.51%) Replication
4 3 (8.11%) Data Centre
4 3 (8.11%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (8.11%) Smartphone
4 3 (8.11%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 2 (5.41%) Onboarding
5 2 (5.41%) PMI
5 2 (5.41%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (5.41%) Virtual Team
6 1 (2.70%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (2.70%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 18 (48.65%) Windows
2 12 (32.43%) Windows Server
3 4 (10.81%) Linux
4 2 (5.41%) Windows 10
4 2 (5.41%) Windows 7
4 2 (5.41%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (2.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (35.14%) ITIL
2 11 (29.73%) CI/CD
3 10 (27.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 10 (27.03%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (21.62%) IT Strategy
4 8 (21.62%) Technology Strategy
5 7 (18.92%) Customer Service
5 7 (18.92%) Matrix Organization
6 6 (16.22%) Containerisation
7 5 (13.51%) Continuous Delivery
7 5 (13.51%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (13.51%) DevSecOps
7 5 (13.51%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (13.51%) Microservices
7 5 (13.51%) Requirements Management
7 5 (13.51%) TOGAF
7 5 (13.51%) Use Case
7 5 (13.51%) Zachman Framework
8 4 (10.81%) Capacity Management
8 4 (10.81%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (18.92%) SQL
2 5 (13.51%) PowerShell
3 4 (10.81%) Shell Script
4 2 (5.41%) Bash
4 2 (5.41%) Python
5 1 (2.70%) Java
5 1 (2.70%) Korn
5 1 (2.70%) Perl
Qualifications
1 11 (29.73%) Security Cleared
2 8 (21.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 7 (18.92%) DV Cleared
3 7 (18.92%) SC Cleared
4 5 (13.51%) MCSE
4 5 (13.51%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (10.81%) Degree
6 3 (8.11%) DBS Check
6 3 (8.11%) VCAP
7 2 (5.41%) PMI Certification
8 1 (2.70%) APMP
8 1 (2.70%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.51%) Cyber Essentials
1 5 (13.51%) NCSC
1 5 (13.51%) NIST
2 2 (5.41%) PMO
2 2 (5.41%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (54.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (32.43%) Active Directory
3 10 (27.03%) VMware NSX
4 6 (16.22%) vSphere
5 5 (13.51%) Docker
5 5 (13.51%) Hyper-V
6 3 (8.11%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (8.11%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (2.70%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
7 1 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (13.51%) Podman
2 4 (10.81%) Failover Clustering
2 4 (10.81%) SCCM
2 4 (10.81%) WSUS
3 3 (8.11%) Ansible
4 2 (5.41%) Dell DRAC
4 2 (5.41%) FortiGate
4 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.70%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.70%) Nessus
5 1 (2.70%) PowerCLI
5 1 (2.70%) TADDM
5 1 (2.70%) Tivoli
5 1 (2.70%) vCenter Server
5 1 (2.70%) vRealize
Vendors
1 20 (54.05%) VMware
2 9 (24.32%) Microsoft
3 5 (13.51%) Cisco
3 5 (13.51%) Palo Alto
4 4 (10.81%) LogicMonitor
5 3 (8.11%) HP
5 3 (8.11%) Oracle
5 3 (8.11%) Splunk
6 2 (5.41%) Atempo
6 2 (5.41%) Databricks
6 2 (5.41%) Dell
6 2 (5.41%) F5
6 2 (5.41%) Fortinet
6 2 (5.41%) Interwoven
6 2 (5.41%) Mellanox
7 1 (2.70%) Google
7 1 (2.70%) IBM
7 1 (2.70%) Qualys
7 1 (2.70%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.70%) Veeam