Virtual Environments Contracts in the South West

Virtual Environments
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Virtual Environments skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Virtual Environments 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 137 160 162
Rank change year-on-year +23 +2 -22
Contract jobs citing Virtual Environments 13 8 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.41% 0.22% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.24% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 4
10th Percentile £268 £368 £273
25th Percentile £433 £377 £298
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £443 £350
Median % change year-on-year +12.99% +26.43% -17.65%
75th Percentile £566 £520 £433
90th Percentile £725 £534 £514
England median daily rate £500 £511 £388
% change year-on-year -2.07% +31.76% -8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £65.18 - -
25th Percentile £67.31 £82.00 -
Median hourly rate £72.75 £84.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -13.39% - -
75th Percentile £76.31 £86.00 -
90th Percentile £77.33 - -
England median hourly rate £72.75 £78.80 -
% change year-on-year -7.68% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

Virtual Environments 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 West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,650 3,299 3,329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.97% 89.57% 88.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,714 2,417 2,348
10th Percentile £223 £313 £301
25th Percentile £406 £425 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% +9.00% +6.95%
75th Percentile £625 £640 £588
90th Percentile £700 £719 £670
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 348 194
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £26.63 £17.69 £17.25
Median hourly rate £47.83 £61.50 £48.38
Median % change year-on-year -22.23% +27.13% +7.50%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £64.69
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.34 £69.95
England median hourly rate £35.00 £38.35 £24.00
% change year-on-year -8.74% +59.79% -

Virtual Environments
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Environments in the South West

Virtual Environments
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Environments in the South West

Virtual Environments
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Environments in the South West

Virtual Environments
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Environments in the South West

Virtual Environments
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Bristol +24 9 £500 -3.61% 3
Wiltshire -2 2 £274 -31.13%
Gloucestershire - 2 £700 - 2
Virtual Environments
England

Virtual Environments
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) AWS
2 2 (15.38%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) NAS
1 4 (30.77%) SAN
2 3 (23.08%) DHCP
2 3 (23.08%) DNS
2 3 (23.08%) Firewall
2 3 (23.08%) LAN
2 3 (23.08%) WAN
3 2 (15.38%) SD-WAN
3 2 (15.38%) TCP/IP
4 1 (7.69%) VPN
4 1 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) JIRA
2 2 (15.38%) Artifactory
General
1 6 (46.15%) Public Sector
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Backup Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Backup Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Storage and Backup Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Storage Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Automation Test Lead
3 3 (23.08%) Lead
3 3 (23.08%) Test Leader
4 2 (15.38%) Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Test Manager
4 2 (15.38%) Network Architect
4 2 (15.38%) Test Automation Manager
4 2 (15.38%) Test Manager
5 1 (7.69%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) 2nd Line Support
5 1 (7.69%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (46.15%) Windows
2 5 (38.46%) Unix
3 3 (23.08%) VMS
3 3 (23.08%) Windows 2000
3 3 (23.08%) Windows Server
3 3 (23.08%) Windows XP
4 2 (15.38%) Linux
4 2 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Automation
3 3 (23.08%) Test Automation
4 2 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (15.38%) Information Management
4 2 (15.38%) ITIL
4 2 (15.38%) Load Balancing
4 2 (15.38%) Network Virtualisation
4 2 (15.38%) Security Hardening
4 2 (15.38%) Security Monitoring
4 2 (15.38%) Server Management
4 2 (15.38%) SIEM
4 2 (15.38%) Systems Engineering
4 2 (15.38%) Visualisation
5 1 (7.69%) Preventative Maintenance
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) PowerShell
1 3 (23.08%) Shell Script
2 2 (15.38%) C#
2 2 (15.38%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (61.54%) Security Cleared
2 5 (38.46%) DV Cleared
3 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
4 2 (15.38%) CCNA
4 2 (15.38%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (15.38%) MCP
4 2 (15.38%) MCSA
4 2 (15.38%) MCSE
4 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (76.92%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (15.38%) Docker
2 2 (15.38%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (15.38%) VMware NSX
2 2 (15.38%) vSphere
3 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
3 1 (7.69%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Kubernetes
2 3 (23.08%) Ansible
2 3 (23.08%) Terraform
3 2 (15.38%) SCCM
3 2 (15.38%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 10 (76.92%) VMware
2 4 (30.77%) Dell
2 4 (30.77%) Veeam
3 3 (23.08%) Fortinet
3 3 (23.08%) Juniper
4 2 (15.38%) Atlassian
4 2 (15.38%) Cisco
4 2 (15.38%) Palo Alto
4 2 (15.38%) SolarWinds
5 1 (7.69%) Microsoft