Application Virtualisation Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Application Virtualization
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Application Virtualisation skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 354 354 395
Rank change year-on-year 0 +41 +99
Contract jobs citing Application Virtualisation 8 13 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.052% 0.072% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.058% 0.087% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 10 15
10th Percentile £493 £365 £500
25th Percentile £538 £526 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £568 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% +3.18% +22.22%
75th Percentile £563 £595 £614
90th Percentile £585 - £617
UK median daily rate £548 £553 £550
% change year-on-year -0.90% +0.45% +13.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Application Virtualisation 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,705 14,932 19,108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.12% 82.82% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,203 8,845 12,723
10th Percentile £238 £250 £260
25th Percentile £367 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £695
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,396 1,346 1,209
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £16.50 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.63 £43.00 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year -47.37% +8.72% +75.78%
75th Percentile £43.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £76.02
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £42.03 £41.90
% change year-on-year -40.16% +0.31% +52.36%

Application Virtualisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Application Virtualisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Application Virtualisation in the UK excluding London

Application Virtualisation
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Application Virtualisation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Application Virtualisation

Application Virtualisation
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Application Virtualisation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Application Virtualisation in the UK excluding London

Application Virtualisation
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Application Virtualisation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Application Virtualisation

Application Virtualisation
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Application Virtualisation within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 August 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
North of England - 7 £553 - 4
North West - 4 £550 - 4
Yorkshire - 3 £600 -
South East +1 1 £475 -18.10%
Application Virtualisation
UK

Application Virtualisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (50.00%) SAN
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Architect
1 4 (50.00%) Technical Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Applications Packager
2 1 (12.50%) Applications Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Migration Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) SAN Technical Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) Virtualisation Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Virtualisation Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (25.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Customer Service
1 4 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (37.50%) Due Diligence
2 3 (37.50%) Technical Architecture
3 2 (25.00%) Application Packaging
3 2 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Migration
4 1 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (12.50%) Kalman Filter
4 1 (12.50%) Predictive Maintenance
4 1 (12.50%) Task Automation
4 1 (12.50%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) SC Cleared
1 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft App-V
1 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (12.50%) UAG
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Capita
2 2 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (12.50%) Citrix
3 1 (12.50%) NetIQ