Virtual Environments Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Virtual Environments
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Virtual Environments skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 137 126 127
Rank change year-on-year -11 +1 +78
Contract jobs citing Virtual Environments 3 5 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.12% 0.19% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.23% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 13
10th Percentile £286 £515 £198
25th Percentile £303 £519 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £349 £550 £413
Median % change year-on-year -36.59% +33.33% -14.06%
75th Percentile £388 £563 £550
90th Percentile £400 £570 £585
England median daily rate £365 £500 £400
% change year-on-year -27.00% +25.00% -14.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,278 2,207 2,568
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.41% 81.89% 85.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,483 1,432 1,774
10th Percentile £250 £263 £250
25th Percentile £361 £381 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £600
90th Percentile £650 £700 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.19% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 73 95
10th Percentile £12.81 £12.75 £13.38
25th Percentile £17.87 £15.00 £18.00
Median hourly rate £21.72 £21.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.43% -23.64% +52.78%
75th Percentile £27.04 £42.25 £51.50
90th Percentile £48.20 £54.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +46.96%

Virtual Environments
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Environments in the Midlands

Virtual Environments
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Virtual Environments.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Virtual Environments

Virtual Environments
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Virtual Environments.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Virtual Environments

Virtual Environments
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 September 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
West Midlands -12 2 £398 -26.05% 2
East Midlands -2 1 £300 -45.45% 2
Virtual Environments
England

Virtual Environments
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Power BI
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Billing
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Citrix Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) IT Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Report Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Virtualisation Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Data Management
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
1 2 (66.67%) Service Management
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Budgeting
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Cost Management
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Data Mapping
2 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Resource Allocation
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
1 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (33.33%) Podman
1 1 (33.33%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Citrix
1 1 (33.33%) Google
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) New Relic
1 1 (33.33%) VMware