Virtual Infrastructure Contract Job Trends in Northumberland

Virtual Infrastructure
North East > Northumberland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northumberland requiring Virtual Infrastructure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northumberland 25.00% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 33.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
North East median daily rate £550 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £74.26 - -
North East median hourly rate £74.26 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northumberland

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 Northumberland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6 22 6
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northumberland 75.00% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £463 -
Median % change year-on-year +18.92% - -
North East median daily rate £450 £450 £450
% change year-on-year - - -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 11 6
10th Percentile - - £31.22
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £74.26 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +60.81% - +130.90%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
North East median hourly rate £19.25 £34.02 £32.00
% change year-on-year -43.42% +6.31% +82.86%

Virtual Infrastructure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northumberland 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 2 (100.00%) BGP
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Software-Defined Networking
1 2 (100.00%) VLAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) ITSM
1 2 (100.00%) Knowledge Management
2 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (50.00%) Change Control
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Network Design
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Product Requirements
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Perl
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) CCDP
2 1 (50.00%) CCNA
2 1 (50.00%) CCNP
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Citrix
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (50.00%) VMware