Virtual Environments Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Virtual Environments
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Virtual Environments skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 109 115
Rank change year-on-year -12 +6 -
Contract jobs citing Virtual Environments 2 4 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.11% 0.21% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.26% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 5
10th Percentile - £514 £346
25th Percentile £386 £516 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £398 £538 £400
Median % change year-on-year -26.05% +34.38% -
75th Percentile £409 £566 £419
90th Percentile - £571 £513
England median daily rate £365 £500 £400
% change year-on-year -27.00% +25.00% -14.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Virtual Environments 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 1,587 1,541 1,828
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.12% 81.45% 85.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,014 1,002 1,238
10th Percentile £250 £255 £263
25th Percentile £400 £394 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £516 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.05% +3.15% -
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £667 £725 £725
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.19% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 40 48
10th Percentile £12.62 £14.14 £14.29
25th Percentile £16.07 £15.13 £20.36
Median hourly rate £24.34 £22.05 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.41% -19.84% +61.76%
75th Percentile £35.30 £35.63 £36.87
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.03 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +46.96%

Virtual Environments
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Virtual Environments as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Environments in the West Midlands

Virtual Environments
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Virtual Environments.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Virtual Environments

Virtual Environments
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Virtual Environments.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Virtual Environments

Virtual Environments
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 Virtual Environments within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 September 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
Birmingham -3 2 £398 -
Virtual Environments
England

Virtual Environments
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Billing
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Citrix Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Desktop Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Report Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Budgeting
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Cost Management
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Data Management
1 1 (50.00%) Data Mapping
1 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Service Management
1 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Citrix
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) New Relic