Virtual Infrastructure Contracts

Virtual Infrastructure
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Virtual Infrastructure skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Virtual Infrastructure over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 503 644 813
Rank change year-on-year +141 +169 -178
Contract jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure 75 72 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.12% 0.061%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.14% 0.067%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 40 40
10th Percentile £300 £393 £368
25th Percentile £463 £422 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.00% -16.67% +29.03%
75th Percentile £638 £621 £668
90th Percentile £700 £643 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £508 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +1.50% -2.44% +9.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 14 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £65.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Virtual Infrastructure is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,480 53,073 80,381
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.37% 89.85% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,166 36,804 56,457
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,447 1,751 1,910
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

Virtual Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Virtual Infrastructure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Infrastructure in the UK

Virtual Infrastructure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure.

Daily rate trend for Virtual Infrastructure in the UK

Virtual Infrastructure
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Infrastructure in the UK

Virtual Infrastructure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure.

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Infrastructure in the UK

Virtual Infrastructure
Top 9 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 6 May 2024. 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 +115 72 £538 +7.60% 19
UK excluding London +62 50 £508 +1.50% 15
London +119 24 £605 +5.22% 6
South East +35 21 £625 +4.17% 3
South West +33 21 £508 -13.25% 6
Work from Home +113 10 £500 +5.26% 48
Midlands +31 6 £300 -36.84% 3
West Midlands +21 6 £300 -36.84% 2
Wales - 2 £220 - 1

Virtual Infrastructure
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 10 (13.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.67%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.67%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 7 (9.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 16 (21.33%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (16.00%) Azure
3 6 (8.00%) AWS
4 3 (4.00%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.67%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (2.67%) Mimecast
5 2 (2.67%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.33%) IaaS
6 1 (1.33%) PaaS
6 1 (1.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 28 (37.33%) Firewall
2 9 (12.00%) Fibre Channel
2 9 (12.00%) LAN
2 9 (12.00%) SAN
3 7 (9.33%) WAN
4 5 (6.67%) DHCP
4 5 (6.67%) DNS
4 5 (6.67%) Remote Desktop
5 4 (5.33%) iSCSI
5 4 (5.33%) NAS
5 4 (5.33%) SSL
5 4 (5.33%) TCP/IP
5 4 (5.33%) VLAN
5 4 (5.33%) VoIP
5 4 (5.33%) VPN
6 2 (2.67%) Network Security
6 2 (2.67%) Skype
6 2 (2.67%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (2.67%) WLAN
7 1 (1.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.33%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 7 (9.33%) Artifactory
1 7 (9.33%) Jenkins
1 7 (9.33%) Subversion
General
1 13 (17.33%) Social Skills
2 8 (10.67%) Public Sector
3 6 (8.00%) Finance
4 4 (5.33%) Billing
4 4 (5.33%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (28.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 18 (24.00%) Network Engineer
3 13 (17.33%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 13 (17.33%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 11 (14.67%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 10 (13.33%) Analyst
6 6 (8.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 6 (8.00%) Infrastructure Support
6 6 (8.00%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
6 6 (8.00%) Support Specialist
7 5 (6.67%) Administrator
7 5 (6.67%) Citrix Analyst
7 5 (6.67%) Server Administrator
7 5 (6.67%) SQL Analyst
7 5 (6.67%) VMWare Administrator
8 4 (5.33%) Architect
8 4 (5.33%) Cloud Specialist
8 4 (5.33%) Support Engineer
8 4 (5.33%) Technical Architect
8 4 (5.33%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (13.33%) Middleware
2 7 (9.33%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 27 (36.00%) Data Centre
2 17 (22.67%) Private Cloud
3 6 (8.00%) Management Information System
4 5 (6.67%) PKI
5 4 (5.33%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.33%) CMDB
7 1 (1.33%) Cyber Security Posture
7 1 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.33%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.33%) Replication
7 1 (1.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 25 (33.33%) Windows
2 23 (30.67%) Windows Server
3 8 (10.67%) Linux
4 6 (8.00%) Windows 10
5 4 (5.33%) CentOS
5 4 (5.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (5.33%) Ubuntu
5 4 (5.33%) Unix
6 2 (2.67%) Mac OS
6 2 (2.67%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (2.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (46.67%) Cybersecurity
2 27 (36.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 25 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (28.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 17 (22.67%) Resource Management
6 15 (20.00%) ITIL
6 15 (20.00%) Penetration Testing
7 14 (18.67%) Containerisation
7 14 (18.67%) DevSecOps
7 14 (18.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 14 (18.67%) Test Automation
8 13 (17.33%) Vulnerability Scanning
9 12 (16.00%) DevOps
10 11 (14.67%) Agile
10 11 (14.67%) Configuration Management
11 10 (13.33%) High Availability
12 7 (9.33%) Analytics
12 7 (9.33%) Capacity Management
12 7 (9.33%) Server Monitoring
13 6 (8.00%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 10 (13.33%) Python
3 7 (9.33%) C#
3 7 (9.33%) C++
3 7 (9.33%) Java
3 7 (9.33%) SQL
4 4 (5.33%) Bash
Qualifications
1 33 (44.00%) SC Cleared
1 33 (44.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (13.33%) Degree
3 5 (6.67%) CCNA
3 5 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (5.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (5.33%) MCSE
4 4 (5.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (5.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (2.67%) DBS Check
5 2 (2.67%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (2.67%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (14.67%) SLA
2 2 (2.67%) PMO
3 1 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 41 (54.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 27 (36.00%) vSphere
3 18 (24.00%) Active Directory
4 6 (8.00%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (6.67%) VMware NSX
5 5 (6.67%) VMware Server
6 4 (5.33%) Firmware
6 4 (5.33%) vCloud
7 2 (2.67%) Hyper-V
7 2 (2.67%) XenApp
8 1 (1.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (28.00%) vCenter Server
2 10 (13.33%) SCCM
3 7 (9.33%) Ansible
3 7 (9.33%) BladeLogic
3 7 (9.33%) ITRS Geneos
4 4 (5.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (2.67%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 41 (54.67%) VMware
2 25 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 20 (26.67%) Citrix
4 7 (9.33%) Altiris
4 7 (9.33%) Dynatrace
5 6 (8.00%) Cisco
5 6 (8.00%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.67%) Dell
6 2 (2.67%) SonicWALL
6 2 (2.67%) WatchGuard
7 1 (1.33%) Juniper