Virtual Environments Contracts in the North of England

Virtual Environments
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Virtual Environments skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Environments 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 160 183 219
Rank change year-on-year +23 +36 +10
Contract jobs citing Virtual Environments 6 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.18% 0.042% 0.017%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.049% 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile - £201 -
25th Percentile £463 £230 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £294 -
Median % change year-on-year +61.70% - -
75th Percentile £506 £367 -
90th Percentile £517 £402 -
England median daily rate £475 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -5.00% -2.44% +36.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Virtual Environments
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Environments in the North of England

Virtual Environments
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtual Environments in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Virtual Environments in the North of England

Virtual Environments
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Virtual Environments in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Environments in the North of England

Virtual Environments
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Yorkshire - 4 £475 -
North West +16 1 £523 +77.87% 7
North East - 1 - - 1
Virtual Environments
England

Virtual Environments
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) VSAN
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (16.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle Database
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Marketing
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) IT Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Database Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle Database Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Programme Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (16.67%) PMI
2 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
1 3 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) IT Strategy
2 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 2 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
2 2 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) Budget Management
3 1 (16.67%) Business Continuity
3 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (16.67%) Lead Generation
3 1 (16.67%) Matrix Organization
3 1 (16.67%) Patch Management
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Programme Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Programme Governance
3 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (50.00%) vSphere
3 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) VMware
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (33.33%) Oracle