Virtual Infrastructure Contract Job Trends in the South West

Virtual Infrastructure
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Virtual Infrastructure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 - 121
Rank change year-on-year - - +35
Contract jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure 2 0 28
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.058% - 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.074% - 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 23
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £518 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £553 - £538
90th Percentile - - £582
England median daily rate £496 £475 £544
% change year-on-year +4.37% -12.68% +14.53%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,718 1,596 2,688
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 79.31% 90.84% 82.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,453 965 1,683
10th Percentile £325 £217 £238
25th Percentile £413 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £606 £623 £625
90th Percentile £700 £688 £700
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 481 171 366
10th Percentile £16.62 £18.13 £13.85
25th Percentile £28.25 £18.87 £28.44
Median hourly rate £57.50 £32.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +76.92% -40.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £72.54 £70.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £47.25 £28.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +65.79% -24.00% +4.17%

Virtual Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Virtual Infrastructure job vacancy trend in the South West

Virtual Infrastructure
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Virtual Infrastructure
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Virtual Infrastructure
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 Infrastructure within the South West region over the 6 months to 9 June 2026. 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
Dorset - 1 - - 1
Wiltshire - 1 £535 -
Virtual Infrastructure
England

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

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Confluence
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) NAS
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
1 1 (50.00%) SSL
1 1 (50.00%) VLAN
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
1 1 (50.00%) VSAN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) ITSM
2 1 (50.00%) NsoIT
2 1 (50.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) System Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCNA
1 1 (50.00%) Chartered Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (50.00%) VMware NSX
2 1 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (50.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft