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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 461 491 533
Rank change year-on-year +30 +42 +183
Contract jobs citing Virtual Environments 31 60 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.12% 0.16% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.19% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 33 79
10th Percentile £231 £359 £212
25th Percentile £363 £450 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £525 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +23.53% +13.33%
75th Percentile £535 £575 £550
90th Percentile £584 £725 £600
UK median daily rate £467 £525 £438
% change year-on-year -11.14% +20.00% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - £65.18 £17.07
25th Percentile - £67.31 £18.64
Median hourly rate - £72.75 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year - +223.33% -70.59%
75th Percentile - £76.31 £51.88
90th Percentile - £77.33 £68.75
UK median hourly rate - £72.75 £22.50
% change year-on-year - +223.33% -70.59%

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 22,892 31,876 42,326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.36% 85.33% 89.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,789 20,642 29,656
10th Percentile £300 £304 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £502 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.33% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,111 2,365 1,544
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.77 £11.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £26.12 £38.00 £35.03
Median % change year-on-year -31.26% +8.48% +36.41%
75th Percentile £55.00 £61.30 £64.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £72.50 £75.67
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +34.62%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 +41 11 £400 -27.27% 66
East of England - 5 £467 - 20
South East +45 4 £548 +26.98% 20
South West +31 4 £400 -20.00% 16
North of England +29 4 £475 +61.70% 29
Midlands -2 2 £300 -45.45% 24
Yorkshire - 2 £475 - 13
North West +7 1 £523 +77.87% 14
East Midlands +5 1 £300 -45.45% 9
West Midlands -6 1 - - 15
North East - 1 - - 2
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 2 (6.45%) IIS
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (32.26%) Azure
2 7 (22.58%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (9.68%) Nutanix
4 2 (6.45%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (3.23%) AWS
5 1 (3.23%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.23%) GCP
5 1 (3.23%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.90%) Fibre Channel
2 3 (9.68%) Firewall
2 3 (9.68%) Network Security
2 3 (9.68%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (6.45%) DNS
3 2 (6.45%) HTTP
3 2 (6.45%) HTTPS
3 2 (6.45%) SSL
4 1 (3.23%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (3.23%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.68%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.45%) Oracle Database
3 1 (3.23%) DB2
3 1 (3.23%) Informix
3 1 (3.23%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.23%) AdminStudio
2 1 (3.23%) InstallShield
2 1 (3.23%) MSI
2 1 (3.23%) WiX
General
1 9 (29.03%) Social Skills
2 6 (19.35%) Finance
3 3 (9.68%) Public Sector
4 2 (6.45%) Back Office
4 2 (6.45%) Banking
4 2 (6.45%) Front Office
4 2 (6.45%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (6.45%) Japanese Language
4 2 (6.45%) Marketing
5 1 (3.23%) Arabic Language
5 1 (3.23%) Billing
5 1 (3.23%) Environmental Health
5 1 (3.23%) French Language
5 1 (3.23%) German Language
5 1 (3.23%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.23%) Korean Language
5 1 (3.23%) Local Government
5 1 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.23%) Spanish Language
5 1 (3.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (25.81%) Analyst
2 6 (19.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (16.13%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 4 (12.90%) Desktop Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Security Analyst
4 4 (12.90%) Support Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Active Directory Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Active Directory Support
5 3 (9.68%) Active Directory Support Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Applications Support
5 3 (9.68%) Applications Support Analyst
5 3 (9.68%) Desktop Support
5 3 (9.68%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Service Desk Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Service Desk Support
5 3 (9.68%) Support Analyst
5 3 (9.68%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.23%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 7 (22.58%) Clustering
2 5 (16.13%) Replication
3 4 (12.90%) Legacy Applications
4 3 (9.68%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (9.68%) Smartphone
4 3 (9.68%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 2 (6.45%) Onboarding
5 2 (6.45%) PMI
5 2 (6.45%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (6.45%) Virtual Team
6 1 (3.23%) Data Centre
6 1 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (61.29%) Windows
2 12 (38.71%) Windows Server
3 3 (9.68%) Linux
4 1 (3.23%) Unix
4 1 (3.23%) Windows 10
4 1 (3.23%) Windows 7
4 1 (3.23%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (22.58%) Customer Service
2 7 (22.58%) ITIL
3 6 (19.35%) CI/CD
3 6 (19.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (16.13%) Business Continuity
4 5 (16.13%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (16.13%) Patch Management
4 5 (16.13%) Vulnerability Management
5 4 (12.90%) Capacity Management
5 4 (12.90%) Cloud Security
5 4 (12.90%) Incident Response
5 4 (12.90%) Proactive Maintenance
5 4 (12.90%) Proactive Management
5 4 (12.90%) Problem Management
5 4 (12.90%) Security Hardening
5 4 (12.90%) Server Hardening
5 4 (12.90%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 4 (12.90%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 3 (9.68%) Budget Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (19.35%) PowerShell
2 5 (16.13%) SQL
3 4 (12.90%) Shell Script
4 2 (6.45%) Bash
4 2 (6.45%) Python
5 1 (3.23%) Korn
5 1 (3.23%) Perl
Qualifications
1 6 (19.35%) Security Cleared
2 4 (12.90%) Degree
3 3 (9.68%) DBS Check
3 3 (9.68%) DV Cleared
3 3 (9.68%) SC Cleared
3 3 (9.68%) VCAP
3 3 (9.68%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (6.45%) PMI Certification
5 1 (3.23%) APMP
5 1 (3.23%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.68%) SLA
2 2 (6.45%) PMO
System Software
1 11 (35.48%) Active Directory
1 11 (35.48%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (16.13%) Docker
2 5 (16.13%) Hyper-V
2 5 (16.13%) VMware NSX
3 4 (12.90%) vSphere
4 2 (6.45%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (3.23%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
5 1 (3.23%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (22.58%) SCCM
2 6 (19.35%) WSUS
3 5 (16.13%) Podman
4 4 (12.90%) Failover Clustering
4 4 (12.90%) Nessus
5 3 (9.68%) Ansible
5 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (6.45%) FortiGate
7 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
7 1 (3.23%) PowerCLI
7 1 (3.23%) SysTrack
7 1 (3.23%) TADDM
7 1 (3.23%) Tivoli
7 1 (3.23%) vCenter Server
7 1 (3.23%) vRealize
Vendors
1 11 (35.48%) VMware
2 8 (25.81%) Microsoft
3 4 (12.90%) LogicMonitor
3 4 (12.90%) Qualys
4 3 (9.68%) HP
4 3 (9.68%) Splunk
5 2 (6.45%) Atempo
5 2 (6.45%) Databricks
5 2 (6.45%) F5
5 2 (6.45%) Fortinet
5 2 (6.45%) Interwoven
5 2 (6.45%) Mellanox
5 2 (6.45%) Oracle
6 1 (3.23%) Citrix
6 1 (3.23%) Google
6 1 (3.23%) IBM
6 1 (3.23%) New Relic
6 1 (3.23%) Red Hat
6 1 (3.23%) Veeam