Virtual Infrastructure Contracts in London

Virtual Infrastructure
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Virtual Infrastructure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Infrastructure 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 348 366 474
Rank change year-on-year +18 +108 +102
Contract jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure 5 25 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.040% 0.14% 0.070%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.043% 0.16% 0.077%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 23 11
10th Percentile £413 £420 £325
25th Percentile £421 £488 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -25.83% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £471 £675 £656
90th Percentile £481 £700 £720
England median daily rate £510 £538 £500
% change year-on-year -5.20% +7.60% -19.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £85.00
England median hourly rate - - £65.00
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 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 Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Infrastructure in London

Virtual Infrastructure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Infrastructure in London

Virtual Infrastructure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Infrastructure in London

Virtual Infrastructure
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (20.00%) Asana
3 1 (20.00%) IaaS
3 1 (20.00%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (20.00%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (20.00%) LAN
2 1 (20.00%) NAS
2 1 (20.00%) SAN
2 1 (20.00%) VPN
2 1 (20.00%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Law
1 2 (40.00%) Legal
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) IT Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) IT Support
3 1 (20.00%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior IT Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior IT Support
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Support Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (20.00%) VMware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) Windows 10
2 3 (60.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (20.00%) Linux
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (60.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Business Continuity
2 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 2 (40.00%) ITSM
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (40.00%) Service Management
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (20.00%) High Availability
3 1 (20.00%) Investment Management
3 1 (20.00%) Problem Management
3 1 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (40.00%) Firmware
2 2 (40.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (20.00%) NFS
3 1 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (20.00%) VMware Workstation
3 1 (20.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (40.00%) SCCM
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (20.00%) Norton AntiVirus
2 1 (20.00%) Plesk
2 1 (20.00%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco
2 2 (40.00%) VMware
3 1 (20.00%) Dell
3 1 (20.00%) EMC
3 1 (20.00%) HP
3 1 (20.00%) McAfee
3 1 (20.00%) Meraki
3 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (20.00%) Rackspace
3 1 (20.00%) Symantec
3 1 (20.00%) Zscaler