Virtual Infrastructure Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Virtual Infrastructure
England > West Midlands

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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 - 97
Rank change year-on-year - - +9
Contract jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure 5 0 17
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.14% - 0.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% - 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 11
10th Percentile £473 - £299
25th Percentile £488 - £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £570
Median % change year-on-year - - +54.58%
75th Percentile £537 - £582
90th Percentile £537 - £585
England median daily rate £538 £259 £515
% change year-on-year +107.93% -49.81% +3.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,007 1,625 1,565
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.92% 88.70% 81.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,839 1,039 1,005
10th Percentile £313 £249 £250
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £580 £588 £625
90th Percentile £675 £672 £725
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 106 39
10th Percentile £13.45 £12.62 £14.66
25th Percentile £17.57 £16.17 £15.25
Median hourly rate £29.60 £24.34 £26.13
Median % change year-on-year +21.61% -6.83% -5.00%
75th Percentile £53.75 £35.00 £40.25
90th Percentile £68.49 £50.00 £55.65
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -3.37%

Virtual Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Virtual Infrastructure job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Virtual Infrastructure
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Virtual Infrastructure
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Virtual Infrastructure
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 Infrastructure within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 September 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
Birmingham - 2 £531 -
Staffordshire - 2 - -
Shropshire - 1 £475 - 2
Virtual Infrastructure
England

Virtual Infrastructure
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 (40.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Network Security
2 2 (40.00%) HTTPS
3 1 (20.00%) DHCP
3 1 (20.00%) DNS
3 1 (20.00%) Firewall
3 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) VMware Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (20.00%) SUSE
3 1 (20.00%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
3 1 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (40.00%) RBAC
2 1 (20.00%) Change Management
2 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (20.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Service Management
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (40.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) NetApp
3 1 (20.00%) Google
3 1 (20.00%) Red Hat