Virtual Infrastructure Contract Job Trends in the South East

Virtual Infrastructure
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Virtual Infrastructure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 152 170 214
Rank change year-on-year +18 +44 +53
Contract jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure 12 12 4
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.34% 0.27% 0.071%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.33% 0.080%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 9 1
10th Percentile - £560 -
25th Percentile £219 £570 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £238 £582 £500
Median % change year-on-year -59.11% +16.40% -20.00%
75th Percentile £265 £585 £525
90th Percentile £270 £602 -
England median daily rate £244 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -51.92% +1.50% -18.37%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,157 3,629 4,992
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 88.90% 82.97% 89.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,978 2,174 3,333
10th Percentile £213 £254 £248
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £625
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 317 201 260
10th Percentile £13.50 £16.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £16.17 £30.00 £24.07
Median hourly rate £22.19 £58.38 £54.38
Median % change year-on-year -61.99% +7.35% +80.48%
75th Percentile £48.75 £70.18 £66.70
90th Percentile £69.11 £76.86 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +47.11%

Virtual Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Virtual Infrastructure relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Virtual Infrastructure job vacancy trend in the South East

Virtual Infrastructure
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Virtual Infrastructure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Virtual Infrastructure

Virtual Infrastructure
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure in the South East over the 6 months to 5 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Infrastructure in the South East

Virtual Infrastructure
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Virtual Infrastructure.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Virtual Infrastructure

Virtual Infrastructure
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 5 October 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
Berkshire +27 11 £238 -60.33% 1
Thames Valley +19 11 £238 -60.33% 1
Hampshire +3 1 £550 -5.50%
Virtual Infrastructure
England

Virtual Infrastructure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (91.67%) AWS
1 11 (91.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 11 (91.67%) DHCP
1 11 (91.67%) DNS
1 11 (91.67%) TCP/IP
1 11 (91.67%) VLAN
2 1 (8.33%) NAS
2 1 (8.33%) SAN
2 1 (8.33%) VSAN
General
1 11 (91.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (91.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 11 (91.67%) Infrastructure Support
1 11 (91.67%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
1 11 (91.67%) Support Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Server Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Storage Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (91.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 11 (91.67%) Linux
1 11 (91.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 11 (91.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (91.67%) ITIL
2 11 (91.67%) Preventative Maintenance
2 11 (91.67%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (91.67%) Service Management
3 1 (8.33%) Converged Infrastructure
3 1 (8.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (8.33%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) Bash
1 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (91.67%) Azure Certification
1 11 (91.67%) Microsoft Certification
1 11 (91.67%) Network+ Certification
1 11 (91.67%) Server+ Certification
2 9 (75.00%) SC Cleared
2 9 (75.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 12 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (91.67%) Hyper-V
3 1 (8.33%) Firmware
3 1 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (8.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) vCenter Server
1 1 (8.33%) VxRail
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) VMware
2 11 (91.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.33%) EMC