Application Virtualisation Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Application Virtualization
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Application Virtualisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Application Virtualisation 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.065% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.078% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
England median daily rate £388 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -29.55% - -3.51%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,562 1,203 1,611
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.67% 88.52% 83.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,683 800 1,066
10th Percentile £305 £200 £275
25th Percentile £402 £392 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.80% - -2.44%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £612
90th Percentile £650 £688 £728
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 57 116
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.62 £11.09
25th Percentile £17.09 £14.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £27.24 £18.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +51.33% -20.00% +26.98%
75th Percentile £60.37 £28.18 £40.81
90th Percentile £70.98 £35.90 £57.50
England median hourly rate £41.86 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +32.29% -9.60% -6.17%

Application Virtualisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Application Virtualisation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Application Virtualisation job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Application Virtualisation
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Application Virtualisation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Application Virtualisation

Application Virtualisation
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 April 2026. 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
Warwickshire - 2 £450 -
Application Virtualisation
England

Application Virtualisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Administrator
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix Administrator
2 1 (50.00%) Server Administrator
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Administrator
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Clustering
1 2 (100.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) Problem Management
1 2 (100.00%) Runbook
1 2 (100.00%) Server Hardening
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Environments
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) XenApp
1 2 (100.00%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Failover Clustering
1 2 (100.00%) SCCM
1 2 (100.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) VMware