Virtual Infrastructure Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Virtual Infrastructure
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Virtual Infrastructure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 197 - 183
Rank change year-on-year - - +54
Contract jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure 6 0 8
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.13% - 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% - 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 7
10th Percentile - - £390
25th Percentile - - £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +17.65%
75th Percentile - - £531
90th Percentile - - £593
England median daily rate £270 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -46.00% - -19.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £74.26 - -
England median hourly rate £74.26 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,181 3,087 4,106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.47% 86.76% 88.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,776 1,756 2,724
10th Percentile £215 £263 £291
25th Percentile £363 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.53% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £667 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 151 189
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £15.68
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.16 £17.75
Median hourly rate £29.00 £27.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.45% -8.33% +33.33%
75th Percentile £52.50 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £68.79 £67.50 £62.35
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.85%

Virtual Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Virtual Infrastructure job vacancy trend in the North of England

Virtual Infrastructure
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Virtual Infrastructure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Virtual Infrastructure

Virtual Infrastructure
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Virtual Infrastructure.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Virtual Infrastructure

Virtual Infrastructure
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 Infrastructure within the North of England region over the 6 months to 21 December 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
North West - 5 £550 -
North East - 2 £550 -
Yorkshire - 1 - - 5
Virtual Infrastructure
England

Virtual Infrastructure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) Firewall
2 5 (83.33%) BGP
2 5 (83.33%) Software-Defined Networking
2 5 (83.33%) VLAN
3 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (16.67%) Postman
General
1 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Legal
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Technical Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Data Centre
1 5 (83.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 3 (50.00%) Linux
2 3 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Containerisation
1 5 (83.33%) Cybersecurity
1 5 (83.33%) High Availability
1 5 (83.33%) ITSM
1 5 (83.33%) Knowledge Management
2 3 (50.00%) Change Control
2 3 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (50.00%) Digital Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (50.00%) Service Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Network Design
3 2 (33.33%) Product Requirements
3 2 (33.33%) Service Management
3 2 (33.33%) User Stories
4 1 (16.67%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (83.33%) Bash
2 5 (83.33%) Perl
2 5 (83.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) SC Cleared
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) CCDP
2 3 (50.00%) CCNA
2 3 (50.00%) CCNP
2 3 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) FortiGate
2 1 (16.67%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (16.67%) Puppet
2 1 (16.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) VMware
2 3 (50.00%) Citrix
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (33.33%) Cisco
3 2 (33.33%) Palo Alto
4 1 (16.67%) MuleSoft