Virtual Infrastructure Contracts in England

Virtual Infrastructure
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Virtual Infrastructure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Infrastructure 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 470 473 584
Rank change year-on-year +3 +111 +151
Contract jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure 15 69 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.062% 0.19% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.068% 0.21% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 63 37
10th Percentile £409 £404 £370
25th Percentile £453 £469 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.20% +7.60% -19.68%
75th Percentile £675 £644 £638
90th Percentile - £700 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £538 £500
% change year-on-year -7.06% +7.60% -18.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 17
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
75th Percentile - - £65.75
90th Percentile - - £73.45
UK median hourly rate - - £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +27.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 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 Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Infrastructure in England

Virtual Infrastructure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Infrastructure in England

Virtual Infrastructure
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Infrastructure in England

Virtual Infrastructure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Infrastructure in England

Virtual Infrastructure
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 Infrastructure 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
South East +33 8 £650 +4.00% 3
London +18 5 £445 -25.83% 4
South West +26 1 £450 -11.33% 1
North of England - 1 £350 - 1
North East - 1 £350 -
Virtual Infrastructure
UK

Virtual Infrastructure
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 (20.00%) IIS
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (26.67%) Azure
3 2 (13.33%) Entra ID
4 1 (6.67%) Asana
4 1 (6.67%) IaaS
4 1 (6.67%) Nutanix
4 1 (6.67%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) HTTP
1 3 (20.00%) HTTPS
1 3 (20.00%) SSL
2 2 (13.33%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (6.67%) DNS
3 1 (6.67%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (6.67%) LAN
3 1 (6.67%) NAS
3 1 (6.67%) SAN
3 1 (6.67%) VPN
3 1 (6.67%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 2 (13.33%) Law
1 2 (13.33%) Legal
1 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Finance
2 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (20.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
1 3 (20.00%) Senior
2 2 (13.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Support Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) VMware Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Administrator
3 1 (6.67%) IT Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) IT Support
3 1 (6.67%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) SCCM Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Senior IT Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Senior IT Support
3 1 (6.67%) Senior Support Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (6.67%) Wintel Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Wintel Support
3 1 (6.67%) Wintel Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
1 1 (6.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 7 (46.67%) Windows
2 5 (33.33%) Windows 10
2 5 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 2 (13.33%) Windows 7
3 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (6.67%) Linux
4 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Agile
1 5 (33.33%) Containerisation
1 5 (33.33%) DevSecOps
1 5 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
1 5 (33.33%) ITIL
1 5 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 4 (26.67%) Configuration Management
3 3 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (20.00%) Prototyping
3 3 (20.00%) Service Design
3 3 (20.00%) Software Distribution
3 3 (20.00%) Virtual Environments
4 2 (13.33%) Data Protection
4 2 (13.33%) DevOps
4 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Management
4 2 (13.33%) ITSM
4 2 (13.33%) Service Delivery
4 2 (13.33%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 4 (26.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (46.67%) SC Cleared
3 6 (40.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 7 (46.67%) Active Directory
2 4 (26.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (20.00%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (13.33%) Firmware
4 2 (13.33%) Hyper-V
4 2 (13.33%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (13.33%) vSphere
5 1 (6.67%) NFS
5 1 (6.67%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 6 (40.00%) SCCM
2 4 (26.67%) WSUS
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (6.67%) Norton AntiVirus
4 1 (6.67%) Plesk
4 1 (6.67%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
4 1 (6.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (26.67%) VMware
3 2 (13.33%) Cisco
4 1 (6.67%) Dell
4 1 (6.67%) EMC
4 1 (6.67%) HP
4 1 (6.67%) McAfee
4 1 (6.67%) Meraki
4 1 (6.67%) Palo Alto
4 1 (6.67%) Rackspace
4 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow
4 1 (6.67%) Symantec
4 1 (6.67%) Zscaler