Virtual Infrastructure Contract Job Trends in England

Virtual Infrastructure
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Virtual Infrastructure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 498 494 555
Rank change year-on-year -4 +61 +161
Contract jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure 19 37 48
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.068% 0.11% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.075% 0.13% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 28 32
10th Percentile - £300 £356
25th Percentile £219 £400 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £244 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -51.92% +1.50% -18.37%
75th Percentile £349 £570 £583
90th Percentile £538 £585 £673
UK median daily rate £250 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -50.74% +1.50% -18.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £80.00
UK median hourly rate - - £80.00

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 25,397 28,013 37,126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.93% 86.36% 88.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,099 17,122 25,667
10th Percentile £300 £313 £315
25th Percentile £405 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £643 £656
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,574 1,187 1,474
10th Percentile £14.42 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +47.11%
75th Percentile £45.75 £66.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -39.40% -2.35% +45.65%

Virtual Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Virtual Infrastructure job vacancy trend in England

Virtual Infrastructure
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Virtual Infrastructure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Virtual Infrastructure

Virtual Infrastructure
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure in England over the 6 months to 5 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Infrastructure in England

Virtual Infrastructure
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Virtual Infrastructure.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Virtual Infrastructure

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 5 October 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 +18 12 £238 -59.11% 3
London +16 6 £509 +27.25% 2
Yorkshire - 1 - -
North of England - 1 - -
Virtual Infrastructure
UK

Virtual Infrastructure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (57.89%) AWS
1 11 (57.89%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 13 (68.42%) DHCP
1 13 (68.42%) DNS
2 12 (63.16%) TCP/IP
2 12 (63.16%) VLAN
3 4 (21.05%) Firewall
4 1 (5.26%) NAS
4 1 (5.26%) Network Security
4 1 (5.26%) SAN
4 1 (5.26%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Git
1 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.26%) Postman
General
1 11 (57.89%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.26%) Finance
3 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (63.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (57.89%) Infrastructure Support
2 11 (57.89%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 11 (57.89%) Support Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) VMware Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Wintel Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Deployment Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Senior
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Technical Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Server Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Storage Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Technical Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (57.89%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (10.53%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 16 (84.21%) Linux
1 16 (84.21%) Windows
2 3 (15.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (15.79%) Windows Server
3 2 (10.53%) CentOS
3 2 (10.53%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (68.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (63.16%) Disaster Recovery
3 11 (57.89%) ITIL
3 11 (57.89%) Preventative Maintenance
3 11 (57.89%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (57.89%) Service Management
4 2 (10.53%) B2B
4 2 (10.53%) CI/CD
4 2 (10.53%) High Availability
4 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Management
4 2 (10.53%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (10.53%) Service Migration
5 1 (5.26%) Agile
5 1 (5.26%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (5.26%) Configuration Management
5 1 (5.26%) ITSM
5 1 (5.26%) Machine Learning
5 1 (5.26%) Performance Management
5 1 (5.26%) Scrum
5 1 (5.26%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (21.05%) Bash
1 4 (21.05%) PowerShell
2 2 (10.53%) Python
3 1 (5.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (63.16%) SC Cleared
1 12 (63.16%) Security Cleared
2 11 (57.89%) Azure Certification
2 11 (57.89%) Microsoft Certification
2 11 (57.89%) Network+ Certification
2 11 (57.89%) Server+ Certification
3 1 (5.26%) CCDP
3 1 (5.26%) CCNA
3 1 (5.26%) CCNP
3 1 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.26%) VCAP
3 1 (5.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 19 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (68.42%) Hyper-V
3 3 (15.79%) vSphere
4 2 (10.53%) Active Directory
4 2 (10.53%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (5.26%) Docker
5 1 (5.26%) Firmware
5 1 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Ansible
1 2 (10.53%) Kubernetes
1 2 (10.53%) PowerCLI
1 2 (10.53%) Terraform
1 2 (10.53%) vCenter Server
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (5.26%) Puppet
2 1 (5.26%) SCCM
2 1 (5.26%) vRealize
2 1 (5.26%) VxRail
Vendors
1 19 (100.00%) VMware
2 12 (63.16%) Microsoft
3 3 (15.79%) Red Hat
4 1 (5.26%) Cisco
4 1 (5.26%) Citrix
4 1 (5.26%) Dell
4 1 (5.26%) EMC
4 1 (5.26%) MuleSoft
4 1 (5.26%) Pure Storage