Virtual Environments Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Virtual Environments
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Virtual Environments skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Environments 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 290 328 443
Rank change year-on-year +38 +115 +167
Contract jobs citing Virtual Environments 14 17 34
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.14% 0.11% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.13% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 22
10th Percentile £361 £249 £368
25th Percentile £450 £296 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £628 £400 £509
Median % change year-on-year +57.02% -21.38% -3.10%
75th Percentile £630 £463 £584
90th Percentile £757 £485 £600
UK median daily rate £474 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -5.25% -2.44% +28.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £22.62
25th Percentile - - £32.52
Median hourly rate - - £50.53
75th Percentile - - £69.02
90th Percentile - - £79.21
UK median hourly rate - £72.75 £78.80
% change year-on-year - -7.68% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Virtual Environments
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Virtual Environments as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Virtual Environments trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Virtual Environments
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Virtual Environments.

Virtual Environments daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Virtual Environments
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Virtual Environments over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Virtual Environments daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Virtual Environments
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Virtual Environments.

Virtual Environments hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Virtual Environments
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) IaaS
2 3 (21.43%) PaaS
2 3 (21.43%) SaaS
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (7.14%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 5 (35.71%) VSAN
2 1 (7.14%) DNS
2 1 (7.14%) Firewall
2 1 (7.14%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) DB2
1 1 (7.14%) Informix
1 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Marketing
3 1 (7.14%) Arabic Language
3 1 (7.14%) Back Office
3 1 (7.14%) Billing
3 1 (7.14%) Environmental Health
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) French Language
3 1 (7.14%) German Language
3 1 (7.14%) Japanese Language
3 1 (7.14%) Korean Language
3 1 (7.14%) Local Government
3 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.14%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Architect
2 4 (28.57%) Senior
3 3 (21.43%) Senior Architect
3 3 (21.43%) Senior Technical Architect
3 3 (21.43%) Technical Architect
4 2 (14.29%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Architect
4 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
4 2 (14.29%) IT Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Programme Manager
4 2 (14.29%) Senior VMware Architect
4 2 (14.29%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (14.29%) VMware Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Project Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Support Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Hybrid Cloud
1 3 (21.43%) PKI
2 2 (14.29%) Clustering
2 2 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (14.29%) Onboarding
2 2 (14.29%) PMI
2 2 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (14.29%) Virtual Team
3 1 (7.14%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 5 (35.71%) Windows
2 4 (28.57%) Windows Server
3 2 (14.29%) Linux
4 1 (7.14%) Ubuntu
4 1 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) IT Strategy
1 6 (42.86%) Technology Strategy
2 5 (35.71%) Matrix Organization
3 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (28.57%) Roadmaps
4 3 (21.43%) Budget Management
4 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
4 3 (21.43%) Containerisation
4 3 (21.43%) Continuous Delivery
4 3 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (21.43%) DevSecOps
4 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (21.43%) ITIL
4 3 (21.43%) Microservices
4 3 (21.43%) Requirements Management
4 3 (21.43%) Strategic Roadmap
4 3 (21.43%) TOGAF
4 3 (21.43%) Use Case
4 3 (21.43%) Zachman Framework
5 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) SQL
2 1 (7.14%) Bash
2 1 (7.14%) Korn
2 1 (7.14%) Perl
2 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 3 (21.43%) DV Cleared
2 3 (21.43%) MCSE
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (21.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 2 (14.29%) Degree
3 2 (14.29%) PMI Certification
4 1 (7.14%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (21.43%) NCSC
1 3 (21.43%) NIST
2 2 (14.29%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (21.43%) VMware NSX
3 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
3 1 (7.14%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) FortiGate
1 1 (7.14%) Nessus
1 1 (7.14%) SCCM
1 1 (7.14%) TADDM
1 1 (7.14%) Tivoli
1 1 (7.14%) WSUS
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) VMware
2 3 (21.43%) Cisco
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 3 (21.43%) Palo Alto
3 1 (7.14%) Atempo
3 1 (7.14%) Databricks
3 1 (7.14%) F5
3 1 (7.14%) IBM
3 1 (7.14%) Mellanox
3 1 (7.14%) NVIDIA
3 1 (7.14%) Qualys