Application Virtualisation Contracts

Application Virtualization
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Application Virtualisation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Application Virtualisation 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 506 554 665
Rank change year-on-year +48 +111 +160
Contract jobs citing Application Virtualisation 14 28 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.048% 0.064% 0.089%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.053% 0.074% 0.099%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 26 36
10th Percentile £483 £385 £313
25th Percentile £523 £482 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +18.92%
75th Percentile £578 £592 £619
90th Percentile £588 £595 £715
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £553 £590
% change year-on-year -0.45% -6.36% +31.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £60.15
25th Percentile - - £60.38
Median hourly rate - - £61.50
75th Percentile - - £63.38
90th Percentile - - £64.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Application Virtualisation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Application Virtualisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Application Virtualisation in the UK

Application Virtualisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Application Virtualisation.

Daily rate trend for Application Virtualisation in the UK

Application Virtualisation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Application Virtualisation over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Application Virtualisation in the UK

Application Virtualisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Application Virtualisation.

Hourly rate trend for Application Virtualisation in the UK

Application Virtualisation
Top 5 Contract Locations

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 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
England +42 13 £550 - 3
UK excluding London +50 7 £550 -0.45% 1
London +36 6 £469 +19.43% 2
South East +34 6 £550 -0.45% 1
South West +45 1 - -

Application Virtualisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) Azure
2 6 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (21.43%) OneDrive
4 2 (14.29%) Google Drive
4 2 (14.29%) Google Workspace
5 1 (7.14%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (7.14%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) Firewall
2 1 (7.14%) DHCP
2 1 (7.14%) DNS
2 1 (7.14%) TCP/IP
2 1 (7.14%) VPN
2 1 (7.14%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) MSI
2 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Applications Packager
1 6 (42.86%) DV Cleared Application Packager
2 3 (21.43%) Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (7.14%) Collaboration Specialist
3 1 (7.14%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Support Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Support
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Support Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Windows Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Wintel Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 6 (42.86%) Client/Server
2 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 14 (100.00%) Windows
2 7 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 6 (42.86%) Linux
3 6 (42.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (21.43%) Windows 10
4 3 (21.43%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Application Packaging
2 7 (50.00%) Agile
2 7 (50.00%) DevOps
2 7 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 3 (21.43%) Change Management
3 3 (21.43%) ITIL
3 3 (21.43%) Migration
3 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (14.29%) Design Patterns
4 2 (14.29%) GAP Analysis
4 2 (14.29%) Identity Management
4 2 (14.29%) Roadmaps
5 1 (7.14%) CI/CD
5 1 (7.14%) Decision-Making
5 1 (7.14%) Knowledge Transfer
5 1 (7.14%) Line Management
5 1 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (7.14%) Scrum
5 1 (7.14%) User Experience
5 1 (7.14%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (71.43%) PowerShell
2 8 (57.14%) Python
3 6 (42.86%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 11 (78.57%) Security Cleared
2 9 (64.29%) DV Cleared
3 2 (14.29%) PMI Certification
3 2 (14.29%) PMP
3 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 8 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (42.86%) Active Directory
3 3 (21.43%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (14.29%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (7.14%) Hyper-V
5 1 (7.14%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (7.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) SCCM
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (57.14%) VMware
2 7 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (35.71%) Citrix
4 2 (14.29%) Google
5 1 (7.14%) F5
5 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow