Virtual Environments Contracts in the Thames Valley

Virtual Environments
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 129 137 159
Rank change year-on-year +8 +22 -22
Contract jobs citing Virtual Environments 5 13 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.19% 0.45% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.49% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 13 3
10th Percentile £376 £385 £228
25th Percentile £416 £480 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.76% - -10.11%
75th Percentile £500 £550 £511
90th Percentile - £600 £518
South East median daily rate £431 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -14.62% +1.00% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,314 2,662 3,133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.03% 91.76% 89.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,304 1,857 2,108
10th Percentile £213 £322 £225
25th Percentile £370 £413 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £601 £580
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 63 87
10th Percentile £14.25 £18.50 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £23.75 £12.15
Median hourly rate £45.00 £52.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +200.00% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.21 £25.36
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £66.75
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £21.99
% change year-on-year -5.00% +127.43% -20.05%

Virtual Environments
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Environments in the Thames Valley

Virtual Environments
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtual Environments in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Virtual Environments in the Thames Valley

Virtual Environments
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Environments in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Environments in the Thames Valley

Virtual Environments
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Virtual Environments in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Environments in the Thames Valley

Virtual Environments
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 4 May 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
Buckinghamshire +20 4 £466 -5.46%
Berkshire -1 1 £350 -30.00% 1
Virtual Environments
South East

Virtual Environments
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) VSAN
2 1 (20.00%) DHCP
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MSI
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Operations Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Security Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) VMware Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) IT Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior VMware Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows 10
1 1 (20.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) ITIL
1 5 (100.00%) Release Management
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (80.00%) ITSM
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Process Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Application Packaging
4 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (20.00%) Software Deployment
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (80.00%) VCAP
2 4 (80.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (80.00%) VMware NSX
1 4 (80.00%) vSphere
2 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) XenApp
2 1 (20.00%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) Citrix
3 1 (20.00%) FireEye
3 1 (20.00%) Tanium