Virtual Infrastructure Contract Job Trends

Virtual Infrastructure
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs 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 530 510 589
Rank change year-on-year -20 +79 +216
Contract jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure 22 39 51
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.067% 0.10% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.074% 0.12% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 30 35
10th Percentile - £299 £356
25th Percentile £219 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -50.74% +1.50% -18.37%
75th Percentile £442 £567 £575
90th Percentile £603 £585 £665
UK excluding London median daily rate £238 £508 £488
% change year-on-year -53.10% +4.10% +12.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £80.00

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 29,886 32,659 43,468
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.55% 85.92% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,552 19,727 29,515
10th Percentile £300 £308 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,876 1,335 1,584
10th Percentile £14.31 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.12 £18.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.40% -2.35% +45.65%
75th Percentile £43.22 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £74.26 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.32 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -48.10% +1.18% +73.47%

Virtual Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Virtual Infrastructure job vacancy trend in the UK

Virtual Infrastructure
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Virtual Infrastructure
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Infrastructure in the UK

Virtual Infrastructure
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Virtual Infrastructure
Top 7 Contract Job 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 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
England -4 19 £244 -51.92% 3
Work from Home +30 15 £238 -57.02% 12
UK excluding London -25 13 £238 -53.10% 3
South East +18 12 £238 -59.11% 3
London +16 6 £509 +27.25% 2
Yorkshire - 1 - -
North of England - 1 - -

Virtual Infrastructure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 13 (59.09%) AWS
1 13 (59.09%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 13 (59.09%) DHCP
1 13 (59.09%) DNS
2 12 (54.55%) TCP/IP
2 12 (54.55%) VLAN
3 4 (18.18%) Firewall
4 1 (4.55%) NAS
4 1 (4.55%) Network Security
4 1 (4.55%) SAN
4 1 (4.55%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Git
1 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.55%) Postman
General
1 11 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 3 (13.64%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (13.64%) Finance
3 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Law
4 1 (4.55%) Police
Job Titles
1 12 (54.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (50.00%) Infrastructure Support
2 11 (50.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 11 (50.00%) Support Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Technical Architect
4 2 (9.09%) VMware Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Wintel Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Deployment Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Senior
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Technical Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Server Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Service Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Storage Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Technical Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (50.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (9.09%) Data Centre
2 2 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (9.09%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 17 (77.27%) Linux
2 16 (72.73%) Windows
3 3 (13.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (13.64%) Windows Server
4 2 (9.09%) CentOS
4 2 (9.09%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (68.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 13 (59.09%) ITIL
3 12 (54.55%) Disaster Recovery
4 11 (50.00%) Preventative Maintenance
4 11 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (50.00%) Service Management
5 3 (13.64%) DevOps
6 2 (9.09%) B2B
6 2 (9.09%) CI/CD
6 2 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (9.09%) High Availability
6 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Management
6 2 (9.09%) Migration
6 2 (9.09%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (9.09%) Risk Analysis
6 2 (9.09%) Service Migration
6 2 (9.09%) Technical Architecture
6 2 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (9.09%) TOGAF
6 2 (9.09%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 4 (18.18%) Bash
1 4 (18.18%) PowerShell
2 2 (9.09%) Python
3 1 (4.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (68.18%) SC Cleared
1 15 (68.18%) Security Cleared
2 11 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 11 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 11 (50.00%) Network+ Certification
2 11 (50.00%) Server+ Certification
3 1 (4.55%) CCDP
3 1 (4.55%) CCNA
3 1 (4.55%) CCNP
3 1 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.55%) VCAP
3 1 (4.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 21 (95.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (68.18%) Hyper-V
3 3 (13.64%) vSphere
4 2 (9.09%) Active Directory
4 2 (9.09%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (4.55%) Docker
5 1 (4.55%) Firmware
5 1 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) Ansible
1 2 (9.09%) Kubernetes
1 2 (9.09%) PowerCLI
1 2 (9.09%) Terraform
1 2 (9.09%) vCenter Server
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (4.55%) Puppet
2 1 (4.55%) SCCM
2 1 (4.55%) vRealize
2 1 (4.55%) VxRail
Vendors
1 21 (95.45%) VMware
2 12 (54.55%) Microsoft
3 3 (13.64%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.55%) Cisco
4 1 (4.55%) Citrix
4 1 (4.55%) Dell
4 1 (4.55%) EMC
4 1 (4.55%) MuleSoft
4 1 (4.55%) Pure Storage