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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 349 340 376
Rank change year-on-year -9 +36 +110
Contract jobs citing Virtual Environments 24 31 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.17% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.20% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 21 41
10th Percentile £284 £466 £203
25th Percentile £315 £488 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £505 £475
Median % change year-on-year -20.79% +6.32% +11.76%
75th Percentile £494 £550 £550
90th Percentile £573 £575 £588
UK median daily rate £394 £503 £400
% change year-on-year -21.64% +25.63% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 5
10th Percentile - £65.18 £64.79
25th Percentile - £67.31 £64.79
Median hourly rate - £72.75 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year - -6.73% +1.96%
75th Percentile - £76.31 £79.17
90th Percentile - £77.33 £79.67
UK median hourly rate - £72.75 £73.79
% change year-on-year - -1.41% -3.54%

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 13,658 15,365 19,704
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.30% 83.02% 88.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,214 9,255 13,222
10th Percentile £235 £250 £263
25th Percentile £365 £385 £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 £694
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,315 1,608 1,218
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.69 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £16.50 £17.71
Median hourly rate £23.00 £41.25 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.24% +3.13% +86.05%
75th Percentile £46.30 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.10 £75.00 £76.37
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.90% -4.71% +62.40%

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 2 August 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 2 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 +1 11 £352 +87.60% 11
Yorkshire - 10 £352 - 8
South East +21 5 £563 +12.50% 17
South West +22 4 £400 -20.00% 10
Midlands -17 2 £300 -45.45% 8
East Midlands -2 1 £300 -45.45% 4
Scotland -5 1 - - 2
West Midlands -15 1 - - 4
East of England - 1 - - 8
North East - 1 - -
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 1 (4.17%) IIS
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (29.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (16.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (29.17%) Power Platform
2 6 (25.00%) Azure
3 3 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (8.33%) PowerApps
5 1 (4.17%) AWS
5 1 (4.17%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) VSAN
2 1 (4.17%) HTTP
2 1 (4.17%) HTTPS
2 1 (4.17%) NAS
2 1 (4.17%) SAN
2 1 (4.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (29.17%) Power BI
2 2 (8.33%) Data Mining
2 2 (8.33%) Oracle Database
2 2 (8.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.17%) AdminStudio
2 1 (4.17%) InstallShield
2 1 (4.17%) MSI
2 1 (4.17%) WiX
General
1 10 (41.67%) Finance
2 9 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 5 (20.83%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (12.50%) Billing
6 2 (8.33%) Banking
7 1 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (4.17%) Marketing
7 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (54.17%) Analyst
2 6 (25.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 5 (20.83%) Data Analyst
4 4 (16.67%) Security Analyst
5 3 (12.50%) Report Analyst
5 3 (12.50%) Senior
5 3 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (8.33%) IT Analyst
6 2 (8.33%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
6 2 (8.33%) Virtualisation Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Cloud Architect
7 1 (4.17%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
7 1 (4.17%) Database Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Infrastructure Architect
7 1 (4.17%) Financial Analyst
7 1 (4.17%) IT Support
7 1 (4.17%) Oracle Database Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Senior Financial Analyst
7 1 (4.17%) VMware Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 9 (37.50%) Data Centre
2 6 (25.00%) Mainframe
3 4 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (16.67%) Legacy Applications
3 4 (16.67%) Public Cloud
4 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.17%) PMI
4 1 (4.17%) Replication
4 1 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (37.50%) Windows
2 5 (20.83%) Windows Server
3 2 (8.33%) Linux
3 2 (8.33%) Windows 10
4 1 (4.17%) Ubuntu
4 1 (4.17%) Windows 7
4 1 (4.17%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (33.33%) Budgeting
1 8 (33.33%) Cost Management
1 8 (33.33%) ITIL
2 7 (29.17%) Service Management
3 6 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (20.83%) Vulnerability Management
5 4 (16.67%) Business Continuity
5 4 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (16.67%) Data Analysis
5 4 (16.67%) Data Mapping
5 4 (16.67%) Data Protection
5 4 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
5 4 (16.67%) FinOps
5 4 (16.67%) Patch Management
5 4 (16.67%) Portfolio Management
5 4 (16.67%) Security Hardening
5 4 (16.67%) Server Hardening
5 4 (16.67%) Visualisation
5 4 (16.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 4 (16.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 6 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 6 (25.00%) SQL
2 2 (8.33%) Bash
3 1 (4.17%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) A+ Certification
3 1 (4.17%) Degree
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (4.17%) PMI Certification
3 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) VCAP
3 1 (4.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.17%) PMO
2 1 (4.17%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (16.67%) vSphere
3 2 (8.33%) Active Directory
3 2 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (4.17%) Docker
4 1 (4.17%) Firmware
4 1 (4.17%) Hyper-V
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (4.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (25.00%) SCCM
2 5 (20.83%) WSUS
3 4 (16.67%) Nessus
4 2 (8.33%) Ansible
4 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (8.33%) vCenter Server
5 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
5 1 (4.17%) Podman
5 1 (4.17%) PowerCLI
5 1 (4.17%) SysTrack
5 1 (4.17%) vRealize
5 1 (4.17%) VxRail
Vendors
1 6 (25.00%) VMware
2 5 (20.83%) Microsoft
3 4 (16.67%) Qualys
4 2 (8.33%) Oracle
5 1 (4.17%) Citrix
5 1 (4.17%) EMC
5 1 (4.17%) Google
5 1 (4.17%) New Relic
5 1 (4.17%) NVIDIA
5 1 (4.17%) Veeam