Virtual Environments Contracts in London

Virtual Environments
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Virtual Environments skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Environments over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 339 368 473
Rank change year-on-year +29 +105 +88
Contract jobs citing Virtual Environments 14 23 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.11% 0.13% 0.074%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.15% 0.081%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 15 15
10th Percentile £213 £228 £260
25th Percentile £311 £329 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £500 £535
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -6.54% +47.59%
75th Percentile £547 £613 £588
90th Percentile £575 £695 £720
England median daily rate £475 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -5.00% -2.44% +36.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £22.30
25th Percentile - - £31.72
Median hourly rate - - £47.93
75th Percentile - - £63.62
90th Percentile - - £72.73
England median hourly rate - £72.75 £78.80
% change year-on-year - -7.68% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Virtual Environments
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Environments in London

Virtual Environments
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtual Environments in London.

Daily rate trend for Virtual Environments in London

Virtual Environments
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Environments in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Environments in London

Virtual Environments
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Virtual Environments in London.

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Environments in London

Virtual Environments
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Central London +4 3 £550 +4.76% 2
East London - 1 £313 -
Virtual Environments
England

Virtual Environments
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) Azure
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (14.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (14.29%) DNS
2 2 (14.29%) Firewall
2 2 (14.29%) NAS
2 2 (14.29%) Network Security
2 2 (14.29%) SAN
2 2 (14.29%) TCP/IP
2 2 (14.29%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle Database
2 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Git
1 1 (7.14%) Maven
General
1 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Finance
3 2 (14.29%) Back Office
3 2 (14.29%) Banking
3 2 (14.29%) Front Office
3 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.14%) Billing
4 1 (7.14%) Environmental Health
4 1 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Investment Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Japanese Language
4 1 (7.14%) Local Government
4 1 (7.14%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (28.57%) VMware Engineer
1 4 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Active Directory Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Active Directory Support
2 3 (21.43%) Active Directory Support Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) Applications Support
2 3 (21.43%) Applications Support Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) Desktop Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Desktop Support
2 3 (21.43%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Service Desk Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Service Desk Support
2 3 (21.43%) Support Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) Support Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Hardware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) EJB
1 1 (7.14%) Hibernate
1 1 (7.14%) Java EE
1 1 (7.14%) JSP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Smartphone
1 3 (21.43%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 2 (14.29%) Clustering
2 2 (14.29%) Data Centre
3 1 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
3 1 (7.14%) PMI
3 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (7.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (42.86%) Windows
2 2 (14.29%) Windows Server
3 1 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Management
2 3 (21.43%) Customer Service
2 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (14.29%) Budget Management
3 2 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (14.29%) Cloud Security
3 2 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (14.29%) Cost Optimisation
3 2 (14.29%) Data Centre Operations
3 2 (14.29%) Network Virtualisation
3 2 (14.29%) Performance Analysis
4 1 (7.14%) Agile
4 1 (7.14%) Incident Management
4 1 (7.14%) ITIL
4 1 (7.14%) Migration
4 1 (7.14%) Programme Management
4 1 (7.14%) Release Management
4 1 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) SQL
2 1 (7.14%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Degree
1 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
1 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) VCAP
2 2 (14.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (7.14%) APMP
3 1 (7.14%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) SLA
2 1 (7.14%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Active Directory
2 4 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (14.29%) vSphere
4 1 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Dell DRAC
1 2 (14.29%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 4 (28.57%) VMware
3 3 (21.43%) HP
3 3 (21.43%) Splunk
4 2 (14.29%) Atempo
4 2 (14.29%) Databricks
4 2 (14.29%) Dell
4 2 (14.29%) F5
4 2 (14.29%) Fortinet
4 2 (14.29%) Interwoven
4 2 (14.29%) Mellanox
5 1 (7.14%) Oracle