Virtual Environments Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Virtual Environments
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Virtual Environments skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 61 59
Rank change year-on-year +23 -2 -
Contract jobs citing Virtual Environments 1 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 0.35% 0.23% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.26% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £611 - £165
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £637 - £170
75th Percentile £662 - £175
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £400 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -20.00% - +33.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 246 380 445
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 87.23% 86.17% 89.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 196 274
10th Percentile £220 £363 £375
25th Percentile £350 £463 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £569 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.09% +3.41% +4.76%
75th Percentile £660 £653 £675
90th Percentile £725 £738 £742
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 34 45
10th Percentile £15.26 £22.50 £31.20
25th Percentile £26.43 £28.50 £50.00
Median hourly rate £35.17 £37.52 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -49.98% +109.97%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.50 £78.00
90th Percentile £70.50 £73.75 £84.36
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £63.57
% change year-on-year -62.74% +6.18% +11.18%

Virtual Environments
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Environments in Gloucestershire

Virtual Environments
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Virtual Environments.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Virtual Environments

Virtual Environments
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 8 September 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
Cheltenham - 1 £637 - 2
Virtual Environments
South West

Virtual Environments
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Business Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering