Virtual Environments Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Virtual Environments
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Virtual Environments skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 - 96
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Virtual Environments 3 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 0.31% - 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% - 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £510 - £197
25th Percentile £525 - £214
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £245
75th Percentile £655 - £274
90th Percentile £717 - £290
South East median daily rate £500 £508 £534
% change year-on-year -1.59% -4.81% +8.93%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 841 1,096 1,131
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 86.43% 79.25% 88.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 583 675 635
10th Percentile £313 £363 £263
25th Percentile £460 £456 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.96% +9.52% -
75th Percentile £600 £650 £623
90th Percentile £655 £725 £681
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £518
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.14% +3.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 113 112
10th Percentile - £23.05 £15.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £52.50 £21.05
Median hourly rate £25.15 £57.35 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.15% +4.27% +22.22%
75th Percentile £50.00 £73.75 £65.25
90th Percentile £64.00 £78.37 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £22.07 £57.35 £52.50
% change year-on-year -61.52% +9.24% +61.54%

Virtual Environments
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Environments in Hampshire

Virtual Environments
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

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

Virtual Environments
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Environments in Hampshire over the 6 months to 10 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Environments in Hampshire

Virtual Environments
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Virtual Environments.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Virtual Environments

Virtual Environments
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 10 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
Southampton - 2 £645 -
Virtual Environments
South East

Virtual Environments
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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 1 (33.33%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) HTTP
1 1 (33.33%) HTTPS
1 1 (33.33%) NAS
1 1 (33.33%) SAN
1 1 (33.33%) SSL
1 1 (33.33%) VSAN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Server Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Storage Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
1 1 (33.33%) Windows 7
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Virtual Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Converged Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Prototyping
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Service Design
2 1 (33.33%) Software Distribution
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Firmware
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft App-V
1 1 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (33.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) SCCM
1 1 (33.33%) vCenter Server
1 1 (33.33%) VxRail
1 1 (33.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) EMC
1 1 (33.33%) VMware