Virtual Infrastructure Contracts in London

Virtual Infrastructure
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Virtual Infrastructure skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Virtual Infrastructure over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 370 473 581
Rank change year-on-year +103 +108 -127
Contract jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure 24 16 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.14% 0.061% 0.060%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.067% 0.065%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 9 19
10th Percentile £475 £320 £415
25th Percentile £500 £400 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year +5.22% -11.54% +57.58%
75th Percentile £688 £625 £670
90th Percentile £700 £655 £729
England median daily rate £538 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +7.60% -16.67% +29.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
England median hourly rate - £65.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Virtual Infrastructure is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,656 23,861 35,487
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.73% 90.97% 92.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,212 17,181 25,922
10th Percentile £340 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £680 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 313 269 419
10th Percentile £15.96 £18.40 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.21% +5.41% +12.63%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.25 £51.00
90th Percentile £66.40 £80.45 £69.45
England median hourly rate £37.18 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.85% +50.00% +6.38%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure in London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram 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
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 Infrastructure within the London region over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. 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
East London - 4 £500 -
Central London - 2 £413 -
Virtual Infrastructure
England

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 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 9 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (29.17%) Azure
3 6 (25.00%) AWS
4 2 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (8.33%) Mimecast
5 1 (4.17%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.17%) IaaS
5 1 (4.17%) PaaS
5 1 (4.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.50%) Firewall
2 2 (8.33%) Network Security
3 1 (4.17%) Internet
3 1 (4.17%) LAN
3 1 (4.17%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (29.17%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 7 (29.17%) Artifactory
1 7 (29.17%) Jenkins
1 7 (29.17%) Subversion
General
1 6 (25.00%) Finance
2 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
3 4 (16.67%) Billing
3 4 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (41.67%) Analyst
2 6 (25.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 6 (25.00%) Infrastructure Support
2 6 (25.00%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
2 6 (25.00%) Support Specialist
3 5 (20.83%) Citrix Analyst
3 5 (20.83%) SQL Analyst
4 4 (16.67%) Architect
4 4 (16.67%) Cloud Specialist
4 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Technical Architect
4 4 (16.67%) Windows Engineer
4 4 (16.67%) Windows Infrastructure Specialist
4 4 (16.67%) Windows Specialist
5 3 (12.50%) IT Analyst
5 3 (12.50%) Senior
5 3 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
5 3 (12.50%) Senior Systems Analyst
5 3 (12.50%) Systems Analyst
6 2 (8.33%) PowerShell Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (41.67%) Middleware
2 7 (29.17%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 8 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 4 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 4 (16.67%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) CMDB
3 1 (4.17%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.17%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 16 (66.67%) Windows
1 16 (66.67%) Windows Server
2 6 (25.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (87.50%) Disaster Recovery
2 13 (54.17%) Cybersecurity
2 13 (54.17%) ITIL
3 11 (45.83%) Configuration Management
4 10 (41.67%) DevOps
4 10 (41.67%) High Availability
5 7 (29.17%) Analytics
5 7 (29.17%) Capacity Management
5 7 (29.17%) Server Monitoring
6 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (20.83%) Mentoring
8 4 (16.67%) Computer Science
8 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 4 (16.67%) Network Monitoring
8 4 (16.67%) Presales
8 4 (16.67%) Time Management
9 3 (12.50%) Cloud Security
9 3 (12.50%) Problem Management
10 2 (8.33%) Information Security
10 2 (8.33%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 11 (45.83%) PowerShell
2 10 (41.67%) Python
3 7 (29.17%) C#
3 7 (29.17%) C++
3 7 (29.17%) Java
3 7 (29.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (25.00%) Degree
2 4 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.83%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 8 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (16.67%) vCloud
4 2 (8.33%) XenApp
5 1 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (29.17%) Ansible
1 7 (29.17%) BladeLogic
1 7 (29.17%) ITRS Geneos
2 6 (25.00%) SCCM
3 2 (8.33%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 18 (75.00%) Citrix
2 9 (37.50%) Microsoft
3 8 (33.33%) VMware
4 7 (29.17%) Altiris
4 7 (29.17%) Dynatrace
5 6 (25.00%) ServiceNow