Virtual Infrastructure Contract Job Trends in Telford

Virtual Infrastructure
Shropshire > Telford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Telford requiring Virtual Infrastructure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 - 19
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure 1 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in Telford 0.13% - 4.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% - 5.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £298
25th Percentile £463 - £299
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £300
75th Percentile £488 - £300
90th Percentile - - -
Shropshire median daily rate £475 - £300

All Process & Methodology Skills
Telford

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 Telford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 693 174 72
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Telford 88.28% 95.60% 74.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 614 133 64
10th Percentile £361 £325 £298
25th Percentile £420 £410 £347
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £456
Median % change year-on-year -7.37% +12.39% -8.75%
75th Percentile £548 £538 £519
90th Percentile £641 £550 £567
Shropshire median daily rate £475 £513 £456
% change year-on-year -7.32% +12.33% -6.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 1 0
10th Percentile £20.25 - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 -
Median % change year-on-year +108.75% - -
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile £59.75 - -
Shropshire median hourly rate £52.50 £31.31 -
% change year-on-year +67.70% - -

Virtual Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in Telford

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

Virtual Infrastructure job vacancy trend in Telford

Virtual Infrastructure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Telford 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) SUSE
1 1 (100.00%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat