Virtual Environments Contracts with Work from Home Options

Virtual Environments
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Virtual Environments skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Virtual Environments over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 331 435 599
Rank change year-on-year +104 +164 -140
Contract jobs citing Virtual Environments 18 31 21
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.12% 0.12% 0.047%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.14% 0.052%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 18 14
10th Percentile £223 £353 £248
25th Percentile £230 £400 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £493 £525
Median % change year-on-year -18.78% -6.19% +35.48%
75th Percentile £500 £584 £568
90th Percentile £530 £600 £610
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £400
% change year-on-year - +25.00% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £17.05 -
UK median hourly rate £72.75 £17.05 -
% change year-on-year +326.69% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Virtual Environments is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,143 22,599 40,333
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.00% 89.72% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,800 15,969 29,287
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 568 519 542
10th Percentile £14.96 £18.63 £14.28
25th Percentile £25.50 £29.31 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £53.35 £37.39
Median % change year-on-year -19.40% +42.69% +52.60%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £71.80
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%

Virtual Environments
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Virtual Environments as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Virtual Environments trend for jobs with a WFH option

Virtual Environments
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Virtual Environments over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

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 a work from home option 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (11.11%) OpenStack
1 2 (11.11%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.56%) Mule
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (5.56%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (5.56%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Oracle 11i
1 3 (16.67%) Oracle Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (16.67%) Oracle EBS R12
1 3 (16.67%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle Assets
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle E-Business Tax
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle Financials
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (5.56%) Aligne
3 1 (5.56%) BusinessWorks
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 4 (22.22%) Azure
2 2 (11.11%) AWS
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
3 1 (5.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) Firewall
2 2 (11.11%) BGP
2 2 (11.11%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (11.11%) Cisco ISE
2 2 (11.11%) MPLS
2 2 (11.11%) WAN
3 1 (5.56%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (5.56%) Network Security
3 1 (5.56%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.56%) DB2
2 1 (5.56%) MariaDB
2 1 (5.56%) Metadata
2 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.56%) MySQL
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle Database
2 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.56%) PowerPivot
2 1 (5.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) JIRA
2 1 (5.56%) Git
General
1 8 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 6 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Finance
4 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Arabic Language
4 2 (11.11%) French Language
4 2 (11.11%) German Language
4 2 (11.11%) Spanish Language
5 1 (5.56%) Banking
5 1 (5.56%) Billing
5 1 (5.56%) General Ledger
5 1 (5.56%) Japanese Language
5 1 (5.56%) Korean Language
5 1 (5.56%) Legal
5 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Consultant
2 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Oracle Consultant
3 3 (16.67%) Lead
4 2 (11.11%) Automation Test Lead
4 2 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Test Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Oracle Financials Support
4 2 (11.11%) Senior
4 2 (11.11%) Support Consultant
4 2 (11.11%) Support Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Test Automation Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Test Leader
4 2 (11.11%) Test Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Network Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Network Security Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) CSS
1 1 (5.56%) HTML
1 1 (5.56%) JSON
1 1 (5.56%) SOAP
1 1 (5.56%) TIBCO EMS
1 1 (5.56%) XML
1 1 (5.56%) XSD
1 1 (5.56%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Virtual Team
2 2 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 2 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 2 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (5.56%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.56%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (33.33%) Windows
2 4 (22.22%) Unix
3 2 (11.11%) Linux
3 2 (11.11%) VMS
3 2 (11.11%) Windows 2000
3 2 (11.11%) Windows XP
4 1 (5.56%) Android
4 1 (5.56%) Apple iOS
4 1 (5.56%) Windows 10
4 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (22.22%) Customer Experience
2 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (16.67%) Computer Science
4 2 (11.11%) Accounts Receivable
4 2 (11.11%) Agile
4 2 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (11.11%) Critical Thinking
4 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Management
4 2 (11.11%) ITIL
4 2 (11.11%) Line Management
4 2 (11.11%) Migration
4 2 (11.11%) Network Architecture
4 2 (11.11%) Network Monitoring
4 2 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (11.11%) Test Automation
5 1 (5.56%) Inventory Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) SQL
2 4 (22.22%) PL/SQL
3 3 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 2 (11.11%) Shell Script
5 1 (5.56%) Java
5 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.56%) VB
5 1 (5.56%) XPath
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) Degree
2 3 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (11.11%) CCNP
3 2 (11.11%) JNCIP
4 1 (5.56%) CCDP
4 1 (5.56%) CCIE
4 1 (5.56%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) HIPAA
1 1 (5.56%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 2 (11.11%) Hyper-V
2 2 (11.11%) VMware NSX
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 1 (5.56%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (5.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Ansible
1 2 (11.11%) Terraform
2 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.56%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Oracle
1 6 (33.33%) VMware
2 4 (22.22%) Cisco
2 4 (22.22%) Juniper
2 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.11%) Fortinet
3 2 (11.11%) TIBCO
4 1 (5.56%) Avaya
4 1 (5.56%) Citrix
4 1 (5.56%) IBM
4 1 (5.56%) Ivanti
4 1 (5.56%) Meraki
4 1 (5.56%) Pega
4 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.56%) Sun