Virtual Environments Contract Job Trends in Portsmouth

Virtual Environments
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Portsmouth requiring Virtual Environments skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 26 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Virtual Environments 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Portsmouth 1.39% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.95% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £375 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
75th Percentile £425 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median daily rate £400 £500 -
% change year-on-year -20.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £44.86 - -
Median hourly rate £48.72 - -
75th Percentile £52.58 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £48.72 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 154 98 279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 71.30% 83.76% 89.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 55 117
10th Percentile £313 £378 £400
25th Percentile £416 £448 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year -5.68% -1.79% +12.00%
75th Percentile £609 £619 £638
90th Percentile £625 £660 £825
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £550 £580
% change year-on-year - -5.17% +10.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 19 98
10th Percentile £15.72 £31.25 £51.06
25th Percentile £29.97 £48.75 £53.40
Median hourly rate £47.50 £60.00 £59.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +1.69% +4.42%
75th Percentile £56.88 £63.13 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.55 £72.00 £76.86
Hampshire median hourly rate £28.50 £57.75 £57.35
% change year-on-year -50.65% +0.70% +14.70%

Virtual Environments
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

Virtual Environments job vacancy trend in Portsmouth

Virtual Environments
Daily Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing Virtual Environments

Virtual Environments
Hourly Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing Virtual Environments

Virtual Environments
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Portsmouth 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 (33.33%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) DHCP
2 2 (66.67%) LAN
2 2 (66.67%) WAN
3 1 (33.33%) SNMP
3 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (33.33%) VLAN
3 1 (33.33%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Organisational Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) IT Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) IT Systems Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Systems Administrator
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Requirements
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Observability
2 1 (33.33%) Operational Stability
2 1 (33.33%) Security Patching
2 1 (33.33%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) JSP 440
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) WSUS
2 1 (33.33%) Backup Exec
2 1 (33.33%) FortiGate
2 1 (33.33%) Norton AntiVirus
2 1 (33.33%) SCOM
2 1 (33.33%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco
2 2 (66.67%) VMware
3 1 (33.33%) Acronis
3 1 (33.33%) F5
3 1 (33.33%) Fortinet
3 1 (33.33%) McAfee
3 1 (33.33%) SolarWinds
3 1 (33.33%) Splunk
3 1 (33.33%) Symantec