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 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 159 181 187
Rank change year-on-year +22 +6 +72
Contract jobs citing Virtual Environments 5 7 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.14% 0.14% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.17% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 15
10th Percentile £515 £478 £300
25th Percentile £538 £493 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -1.96% +2.00%
75th Percentile £630 £504 £553
90th Percentile £708 £512 £605
England median daily rate £400 £505 £400
% change year-on-year -20.79% +26.25% -8.57%

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 3,151 4,093 5,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 90.05% 82.84% 89.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,966 2,486 3,415
10th Percentile £250 £255 £263
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £518
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +0.31% +3.68%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £623
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 284 328 237
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.00 £15.40
25th Percentile £15.13 £26.02 £21.22
Median hourly rate £21.67 £57.35 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.22% +14.70% +105.25%
75th Percentile £50.25 £70.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.63 £76.90 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +62.40%

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 3 August 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 3 August 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
Hampshire - 3 £550 - 4
Surrey +18 1 - - 2
Thames Valley +8 1 £575 +15.00%
Berkshire - 1 £575 -
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 1 (20.00%) IIS
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) VSAN
2 1 (20.00%) HTTP
2 1 (20.00%) HTTPS
2 1 (20.00%) NAS
2 1 (20.00%) SAN
2 1 (20.00%) SSL
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architect
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (20.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) IT Support
1 1 (20.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Server Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Storage Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (20.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
1 2 (40.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (20.00%) Windows 7
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (40.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
2 1 (20.00%) Application Packaging
2 1 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (20.00%) Converged Infrastructure
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL
2 1 (20.00%) ITSM
2 1 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Prototyping
2 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (20.00%) Service Design
2 1 (20.00%) Software Distribution
2 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) Bash
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) A+ Certification
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (20.00%) VCAP
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (40.00%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (40.00%) vSphere
2 1 (20.00%) Firmware
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (20.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) vCenter Server
2 1 (20.00%) PowerCLI
2 1 (20.00%) SCCM
2 1 (20.00%) vRealize
2 1 (20.00%) VxRail
2 1 (20.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) EMC
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Veeam