Virtual Environments Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

Virtual Environments
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hertfordshire requiring Virtual Environments skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 - 71
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Virtual Environments 1 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 0.22% - 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% - 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £369
25th Percentile £463 - £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £575
75th Percentile £488 - £738
90th Percentile - - £828
East of England median daily rate £475 £224 £500
% change year-on-year +112.29% -55.25% +17.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 412 546 665
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 91.35% 86.53% 87.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 169 362
10th Percentile £261 £240 £260
25th Percentile £425 £306 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £413 £545
Median % change year-on-year +28.00% -24.31% +9.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £675
90th Percentile £680 £638 £749
East of England median daily rate £500 £446 £500
% change year-on-year +12.11% -10.80% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 204 143
10th Percentile £16.49 £15.73 £17.97
25th Percentile £23.63 £38.12 £49.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -23.08% +16.07%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £69.63 £90.00
East of England median hourly rate £26.34 £39.50 £19.81
% change year-on-year -33.32% +99.39% -2.17%

Virtual Environments
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Environments in Hertfordshire

Virtual Environments
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

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

Virtual Environments
Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

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

Virtual Environments
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 7 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
Watford - 1 £475 - 2
Virtual Environments
East of England

Virtual Environments
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) IT Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior IT Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware