Virtual Environments Contracts in the UK excluding London

Virtual Environments
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Virtual Environments skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Environments over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 311 362 413
Rank change year-on-year +51 +51 +71
Contract jobs citing Virtual Environments 25 37 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.18% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.21% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 26 45
10th Percentile £410 £285 £365
25th Percentile £463 £385 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% +36.00%
75th Percentile £573 £575 £600
90th Percentile £630 - £703
UK median daily rate £474 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -5.25% -2.44% +28.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
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 -
UK median hourly rate - £72.75 £78.80
% change year-on-year - -7.68% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Virtual Environments 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 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Virtual Environments
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Environments in the UK excluding London

Virtual Environments
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtual Environments in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Virtual Environments in the UK excluding London

Virtual Environments
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Environments in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Environments in the UK excluding London

Virtual Environments
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Virtual Environments in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Environments in the UK excluding London

Virtual Environments
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 Virtual Environments within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
South East +50 10 £602 +39.51% 13
North of England +23 6 £475 +61.70% 8
East of England +32 4 £467 +86.60% 1
Yorkshire - 4 £475 - 1
Scotland - 3 £475 - 4
South West +35 1 £400 -20.00% 3
North West +16 1 £523 +77.87% 6
Midlands +8 1 £300 -45.45% 9
North East - 1 - - 1
East Midlands - 1 £300 - 6
Virtual Environments
UK

Virtual Environments
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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (20.00%) IIS
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (36.00%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (24.00%) Azure
3 5 (20.00%) IaaS
3 5 (20.00%) PaaS
3 5 (20.00%) SaaS
4 3 (12.00%) Nutanix
5 1 (4.00%) AWS
5 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (32.00%) VSAN
2 5 (20.00%) HTTP
2 5 (20.00%) HTTPS
2 5 (20.00%) SSL
3 4 (16.00%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (4.00%) Firewall
4 1 (4.00%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (4.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.00%) Finance
2 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (4.00%) Marketing
3 1 (4.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (24.00%) Architect
1 6 (24.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (20.00%) Senior
2 5 (20.00%) Senior Architect
2 5 (20.00%) Senior Technical Architect
2 5 (20.00%) Technical Architect
3 3 (12.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 2 (8.00%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
4 2 (8.00%) IT Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) SCCM Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Senior VMware Architect
4 2 (8.00%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (8.00%) VMware Architect
5 1 (4.00%) Developer
5 1 (4.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (4.00%) Programme Manager
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (20.00%) PKI
2 5 (20.00%) Replication
3 4 (16.00%) Clustering
3 4 (16.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.00%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.00%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (4.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.00%) PMI
4 1 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (52.00%) Windows
2 12 (48.00%) Windows Server
3 4 (16.00%) Windows 10
3 4 (16.00%) Windows 7
3 4 (16.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (12.00%) Linux
5 1 (4.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (56.00%) ITIL
2 11 (44.00%) CI/CD
3 7 (28.00%) IT Strategy
3 7 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (28.00%) Technology Strategy
4 6 (24.00%) Containerisation
4 6 (24.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 6 (24.00%) Matrix Organization
5 5 (20.00%) Configuration Management
5 5 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
5 5 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (20.00%) DevSecOps
5 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (20.00%) Microservices
5 5 (20.00%) Requirements Management
5 5 (20.00%) Service Design
5 5 (20.00%) TOGAF
5 5 (20.00%) Use Case
5 5 (20.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
5 5 (20.00%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 7 (28.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (20.00%) SQL
3 4 (16.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (4.00%) Bash
4 1 (4.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (36.00%) DV Cleared
3 6 (24.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 5 (20.00%) MCSE
4 5 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (16.00%) SC Cleared
6 3 (12.00%) DBS Check
7 1 (4.00%) Azure Certification
7 1 (4.00%) Degree
7 1 (4.00%) PMI Certification
7 1 (4.00%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 5 (20.00%) NCSC
1 5 (20.00%) NIST
2 1 (4.00%) PMO
System Software
1 17 (68.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (40.00%) VMware NSX
3 9 (36.00%) Active Directory
4 5 (20.00%) Docker
4 5 (20.00%) Hyper-V
4 5 (20.00%) Microsoft App-V
5 4 (16.00%) vSphere
6 1 (4.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (24.00%) SCCM
1 6 (24.00%) WSUS
2 5 (20.00%) Podman
3 4 (16.00%) Failover Clustering
4 3 (12.00%) Ansible
5 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
6 1 (4.00%) Nessus
6 1 (4.00%) PowerCLI
6 1 (4.00%) vCenter Server
6 1 (4.00%) vRealize
Vendors
1 17 (68.00%) VMware
2 5 (20.00%) Cisco
2 5 (20.00%) Palo Alto
3 4 (16.00%) LogicMonitor
4 3 (12.00%) Microsoft
5 2 (8.00%) Oracle
6 1 (4.00%) Google
6 1 (4.00%) NVIDIA
6 1 (4.00%) Qualys
6 1 (4.00%) Red Hat
6 1 (4.00%) Veeam