Virtual Infrastructure Contract Job Trends in Lancashire

Virtual Infrastructure
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Lancashire requiring Virtual Infrastructure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Lancashire 2.60% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.05% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
North West median daily rate £550 - £500
% change year-on-year - - +21.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £74.26 - -
North West median hourly rate £74.26 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 164 142 235
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 85.42% 72.82% 92.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 49 133
10th Percentile £194 £257 £360
25th Percentile £400 £325 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% +7.06%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £650
90th Percentile £671 £634 £720
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 28 60
10th Percentile £22.36 £25.97 £20.58
25th Percentile £41.94 £35.36 £37.78
Median hourly rate £63.20 £40.33 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +56.73% -12.68% +22.19%
75th Percentile £71.13 £46.18 £50.00
90th Percentile £74.41 £56.56 £63.21
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £35.02
% change year-on-year -37.63% +15.16% +40.06%

Virtual Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Virtual Infrastructure job vacancy trend in Lancashire

Virtual Infrastructure
Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

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

Virtual Infrastructure
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

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 Lancashire region over the 6 months to 24 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
Preston - 2 £550 -
Virtual Infrastructure
North West

Virtual Infrastructure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) BGP
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
1 5 (100.00%) Software-Defined Networking
1 5 (100.00%) VLAN
General
1 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 5 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
1 3 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
1 3 (60.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 5 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (100.00%) High Availability
1 5 (100.00%) ITSM
1 5 (100.00%) Knowledge Management
2 3 (60.00%) Change Control
2 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (60.00%) Digital Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Service Delivery
3 2 (40.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Network Design
3 2 (40.00%) Product Requirements
3 2 (40.00%) Service Management
3 2 (40.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Bash
1 5 (100.00%) Perl
1 5 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 5 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) CCDP
2 3 (60.00%) CCNA
2 3 (60.00%) CCNP
2 3 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (60.00%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Citrix
1 3 (60.00%) Red Hat
1 3 (60.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Palo Alto