Virtualisation Specialist Contracts in London

Virtualization Specialist
England > London

The median Virtualization Specialist daily rate in London is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 June 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 342 392 490
Rank change year-on-year +50 +98 +103
Contract jobs requiring a Virtualisation Specialist 1 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.008% 0.006% 0.004%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.009% 0.006% 0.004%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 £263 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £275 £500
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -45.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £288 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £550 £425 £600
% change year-on-year +29.41% -29.17% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 11,285 16,402 24,343
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.48% 93.59% 95.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,655 11,839 17,774
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £517 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.52% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 157 327 278
10th Percentile £20.24 £16.00 £17.83
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £22.53
Median hourly rate £32.00 £27.81 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.07% -22.75% +2.86%
75th Percentile £50.00 £47.18 £63.75
90th Percentile £63.10 £67.40 £82.33
England median hourly rate £29.33 £37.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year -22.30% -16.11% +88.21%

Virtualisation Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Virtualisation Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Virtualisation Specialist in London

Virtualisation Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtualisation Specialist in London.

Daily rate trend for Virtualisation Specialist in London

Virtualisation Specialist Skill Set
Top 18 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 3 June 2025, Virtualisation Specialist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Virtualisation Specialist in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 1 (100.00%) KVM
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (100.00%) VSAN
1 1 (100.00%) vCenter Server
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Co-Creation
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps

Virtualisation Specialist Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) VSAN
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Co-Creation
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) KVM
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) VMware