Virtual Environments Contracts in the South East

Virtual Environments
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 149 199 205
Rank change year-on-year +50 +6 +53
Contract jobs citing Virtual Environments 10 6 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.33% 0.11% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.13% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 17
10th Percentile £500 £376 £423
25th Percentile £508 £416 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £602 £431 £505
Median % change year-on-year +39.51% -14.62% -0.49%
75th Percentile £630 £500 £600
90th Percentile £669 - -
England median daily rate £475 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -5.00% -2.44% +36.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Environments in the South East

Virtual Environments
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtual Environments in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Virtual Environments in the South East

Virtual Environments
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Environments in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Environments in the South East

Virtual Environments
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Virtual Environments in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Environments in the South East

Virtual Environments
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Thames Valley +44 6 £629 +45.89% 6
Buckinghamshire +17 5 £630 +35.31%
Hampshire - 4 £510 - 3
Berkshire +31 1 £575 +64.29% 4
Virtual Environments
England

Virtual Environments
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (30.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) IaaS
1 5 (50.00%) PaaS
1 5 (50.00%) SaaS
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (10.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 6 (60.00%) VSAN
2 3 (30.00%) HTTP
2 3 (30.00%) HTTPS
2 3 (30.00%) SSL
General
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Architect
2 5 (50.00%) Senior
2 5 (50.00%) Senior Architect
2 5 (50.00%) Senior Technical Architect
2 5 (50.00%) Technical Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Senior VMware Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
3 2 (20.00%) VMware Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (10.00%) SCCM Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) VMware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 5 (50.00%) PKI
2 1 (10.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
1 2 (20.00%) Windows 10
1 2 (20.00%) Windows 7
1 2 (20.00%) Windows Server
1 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) ITIL
2 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 5 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 5 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 5 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 5 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (50.00%) IT Strategy
2 5 (50.00%) Matrix Organization
2 5 (50.00%) Microservices
2 5 (50.00%) Requirements Management
2 5 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
2 5 (50.00%) TOGAF
2 5 (50.00%) Use Case
2 5 (50.00%) Zachman Framework
3 3 (30.00%) Configuration Management
3 3 (30.00%) Prototyping
3 3 (30.00%) Service Design
3 3 (30.00%) Software Distribution
3 3 (30.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) DV Cleared
1 7 (70.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (60.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 5 (50.00%) MCSE
3 5 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
5 1 (10.00%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 5 (50.00%) NCSC
1 5 (50.00%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (60.00%) VMware NSX
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft App-V
3 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
4 1 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (10.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) SCCM
1 3 (30.00%) WSUS
2 1 (10.00%) PowerCLI
2 1 (10.00%) vCenter Server
2 1 (10.00%) vRealize
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) VMware
2 5 (50.00%) Cisco
2 5 (50.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (10.00%) Veeam