Virtual Infrastructure Contracts in the South East

Virtual Infrastructure
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Virtual Infrastructure skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Virtual Infrastructure over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 183 209 256
Rank change year-on-year +26 +47 -65
Contract jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure 20 7 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.36% 0.12% 0.026%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.13% 0.029%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 4 1
10th Percentile £361 £554 -
25th Percentile £406 £559 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £325
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +84.62% -29.35%
75th Percentile £688 £650 £338
90th Percentile £689 £673 -
England median daily rate £538 £500 £625
% change year-on-year +7.60% -20.00% +35.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £82.50
Median hourly rate - - £85.00
75th Percentile - - £87.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - £65.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year - -3.70% +29.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Virtual Infrastructure is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,738 5,226 6,995
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 85.09% 89.47% 89.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,767 3,619 4,727
10th Percentile £232 £250 £226
25th Percentile £400 £405 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £619 £619 £588
90th Percentile £698 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 429 219 290
10th Percentile £13.00 £18.25 £12.25
25th Percentile £18.20 £23.83 £16.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -11.76%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.29 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.83 £63.80
England median hourly rate £35.00 £38.35 £24.00
% change year-on-year -8.74% +59.79% -

Virtual Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Infrastructure in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Infrastructure in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure in the South East over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Infrastructure in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Infrastructure in the South East

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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 Infrastructure within the South East region over the 6 months to 24 April 2024. 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
Surrey - 17 £625 - 1
Hampshire +8 3 £413 -34.00%
Virtual Infrastructure
England

Virtual Infrastructure
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 4 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) Fibre Channel
1 4 (20.00%) Firewall
1 4 (20.00%) iSCSI
1 4 (20.00%) NAS
1 4 (20.00%) SAN
1 4 (20.00%) SSL
1 4 (20.00%) TCP/IP
1 4 (20.00%) VLAN
1 4 (20.00%) VoIP
1 4 (20.00%) VPN
2 2 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (65.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Contracts Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Project Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) VMware Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Linux
1 4 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (70.00%) Containerisation
1 14 (70.00%) DevSecOps
1 14 (70.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 14 (70.00%) Test Automation
2 11 (55.00%) Agile
3 4 (20.00%) Change Management
3 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 4 (20.00%) Security Management
4 2 (10.00%) DevOps
4 2 (10.00%) Patch Management
4 2 (10.00%) Project Delivery
4 2 (10.00%) Project Management
4 2 (10.00%) Risk Management
4 2 (10.00%) Storage Management
5 1 (5.00%) Logistics
Qualifications
1 14 (70.00%) SC Cleared
1 14 (70.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (20.00%) CCNA
2 4 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (20.00%) Degree
2 4 (20.00%) MCSE
2 4 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (20.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) PMO
1 2 (10.00%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) Firmware
1 4 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (20.00%) vSphere
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (20.00%) VMware