Virtual Infrastructure Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

Virtual Infrastructure
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring Virtual Infrastructure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 0.32% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - -
North West median daily rate £551 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 234 125 162
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 75.00% 77.16% 74.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 78 86
10th Percentile £135 £143 £144
25th Percentile £223 £208 £233
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £434 £400
Median % change year-on-year -7.78% +8.44% -18.37%
75th Percentile £531 £545 £508
90th Percentile £653 £654 £613
North West median daily rate £475 £474 £500
% change year-on-year +0.26% -5.25% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 8 25
10th Percentile £16.30 £12.21 -
25th Percentile £20.78 £16.13 £15.50
Median hourly rate £25.38 £17.44 £22.11
Median % change year-on-year +45.53% -21.12% +26.34%
75th Percentile - £18.08 £36.25
90th Percentile - £24.23 £38.87
North West median hourly rate £55.00 £31.88 £26.66
% change year-on-year +72.52% +19.58% -23.83%

Virtual Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Virtual Infrastructure job vacancy trend in Merseyside

Virtual Infrastructure
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

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

Virtual Infrastructure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Technical Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware