Virtual Infrastructure Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Virtual Infrastructure
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Virtual Infrastructure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 365 340 396
Rank change year-on-year -25 +56 +101
Contract jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure 13 31 36
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.083% 0.18% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.093% 0.21% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 23 22
10th Percentile - £298 £356
25th Percentile £219 £381 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £238 £508 £488
Median % change year-on-year -53.10% +4.10% +12.07%
75th Percentile £265 £576 £542
90th Percentile £270 £585 £575
UK median daily rate £250 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -50.74% +1.50% -18.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £80.00
UK median hourly rate - - £80.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,994 14,624 18,950
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.18% 83.41% 88.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,400 8,272 12,490
10th Percentile £225 £240 £260
25th Percentile £367 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £669 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,529 1,089 1,294
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.84 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.00 £18.19 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.32 £43.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.10% +1.18% +73.47%
75th Percentile £40.46 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £66.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -39.40% -2.35% +45.65%

Virtual Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Virtual Infrastructure job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Virtual Infrastructure
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Virtual Infrastructure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Virtual Infrastructure

Virtual Infrastructure
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Infrastructure in the UK excluding London

Virtual Infrastructure
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Virtual Infrastructure.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Virtual Infrastructure

Virtual Infrastructure
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 Infrastructure within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 October 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 +18 12 £238 -59.11% 3
North of England - 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 - -
Virtual Infrastructure
UK

Virtual Infrastructure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 11 (84.62%) AWS
1 11 (84.62%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 12 (92.31%) TCP/IP
2 11 (84.62%) DHCP
2 11 (84.62%) DNS
2 11 (84.62%) VLAN
3 1 (7.69%) Firewall
3 1 (7.69%) NAS
3 1 (7.69%) SAN
3 1 (7.69%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Git
1 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
1 1 (7.69%) Postman
General
1 11 (84.62%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Finance
2 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (84.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 11 (84.62%) Infrastructure Support
1 11 (84.62%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
1 11 (84.62%) Support Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Senior
2 1 (7.69%) Senior Technical Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Server Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Storage Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) Technical Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (84.62%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 12 (92.31%) Windows
2 11 (84.62%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Disaster Recovery
2 11 (84.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (84.62%) ITIL
2 11 (84.62%) Preventative Maintenance
2 11 (84.62%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (84.62%) Service Management
3 1 (7.69%) Agile
3 1 (7.69%) Configuration Management
3 1 (7.69%) Converged Infrastructure
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (7.69%) Performance Management
3 1 (7.69%) Scrum
3 1 (7.69%) Test Automation
3 1 (7.69%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) Bash
1 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
1 1 (7.69%) Python
1 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 11 (84.62%) Azure Certification
1 11 (84.62%) Microsoft Certification
1 11 (84.62%) Network+ Certification
1 11 (84.62%) Server+ Certification
2 9 (69.23%) SC Cleared
2 9 (69.23%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 13 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (84.62%) Hyper-V
3 1 (7.69%) Firmware
3 1 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (7.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Ansible
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Clustering
1 1 (7.69%) Puppet
1 1 (7.69%) SCCM
1 1 (7.69%) vCenter Server
1 1 (7.69%) VxRail
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) VMware
2 12 (92.31%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.69%) EMC
3 1 (7.69%) MuleSoft