Virtual Infrastructure Contracts

Virtual Infrastructure
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Virtual Infrastructure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Infrastructure 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 503 510 644
Rank change year-on-year +7 +134 +158
Contract jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure 17 72 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.058% 0.17% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.064% 0.19% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 65 40
10th Percentile £413 £378 £393
25th Percentile £434 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.06% +7.60% -18.03%
75th Percentile £669 £638 £628
90th Percentile £675 £700 £691
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.86% +5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 17
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
75th Percentile - - £65.75
90th Percentile - - £73.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £65.00
% change year-on-year - - -23.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

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%

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 1 May 2025.

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 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 +3 15 £510 -5.20% 15
UK excluding London +29 12 £510 -2.86% 13
South East +33 8 £650 +4.00% 3
London +18 5 £445 -25.83% 4
Scotland - 2 £475 -
Work from Home +33 1 £415 -30.83% 20
South West +26 1 £450 -11.33% 1
North East - 1 £350 -
North of England - 1 £350 - 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 5 (29.41%) IIS
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 8 (47.06%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (23.53%) Azure
3 2 (11.76%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.88%) Asana
4 1 (5.88%) IaaS
4 1 (5.88%) Nutanix
4 1 (5.88%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 5 (29.41%) HTTP
1 5 (29.41%) HTTPS
1 5 (29.41%) SSL
2 2 (11.76%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (5.88%) DNS
3 1 (5.88%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (5.88%) LAN
3 1 (5.88%) NAS
3 1 (5.88%) SAN
3 1 (5.88%) VPN
3 1 (5.88%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Law
2 2 (11.76%) Legal
3 1 (5.88%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (17.65%) DevSecOps Engineer
1 3 (17.65%) Senior
2 2 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) SCCM Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Support Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) VMware Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Administrator
3 1 (5.88%) IT Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) IT Support
3 1 (5.88%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Senior IT Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Senior IT Support
3 1 (5.88%) Senior Support Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (5.88%) Wintel Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Wintel Support
3 1 (5.88%) Wintel Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
1 1 (5.88%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 9 (52.94%) Windows
2 7 (41.18%) Windows 10
2 7 (41.18%) Windows Server
3 4 (23.53%) Windows 7
3 4 (23.53%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (5.88%) Linux
4 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) ITIL
2 6 (35.29%) Configuration Management
3 5 (29.41%) Agile
3 5 (29.41%) Containerisation
3 5 (29.41%) DevSecOps
3 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (29.41%) Prototyping
3 5 (29.41%) Service Design
3 5 (29.41%) Software Distribution
3 5 (29.41%) Test Automation
3 5 (29.41%) Virtual Environments
4 3 (17.65%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (11.76%) Business Continuity
5 2 (11.76%) Data Protection
5 2 (11.76%) DevOps
5 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Management
5 2 (11.76%) Service Delivery
5 2 (11.76%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) PowerShell
2 6 (35.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (82.35%) Security Cleared
2 8 (47.06%) DV Cleared
3 7 (41.18%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 9 (52.94%) Active Directory
2 5 (29.41%) Microsoft App-V
3 4 (23.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (11.76%) Firmware
4 2 (11.76%) Hyper-V
4 2 (11.76%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (11.76%) vSphere
5 1 (5.88%) NFS
5 1 (5.88%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 8 (47.06%) SCCM
2 6 (35.29%) WSUS
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (5.88%) Norton AntiVirus
4 1 (5.88%) Plesk
4 1 (5.88%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
4 1 (5.88%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
2 4 (23.53%) VMware
3 2 (11.76%) Cisco
4 1 (5.88%) Dell
4 1 (5.88%) EMC
4 1 (5.88%) HP
4 1 (5.88%) McAfee
4 1 (5.88%) Meraki
4 1 (5.88%) Palo Alto
4 1 (5.88%) Rackspace
4 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.88%) Symantec
4 1 (5.88%) Zscaler