Virtual Infrastructure Contracts in the Midlands

Virtual Infrastructure
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Virtual Infrastructure skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Virtual Infrastructure over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 116 154 208
Rank change year-on-year +38 +54 -
Contract jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure 17 4 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.61% 0.12% 0.020%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 0.14% 0.023%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 3 1
10th Percentile £299 £383 -
25th Percentile £300 £413 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £557 £475 £350
Median % change year-on-year +17.26% +35.71% -
75th Percentile £582 £488 £375
90th Percentile £585 - -
England median daily rate £544 £500 £594
% change year-on-year +8.80% -15.79% +29.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Virtual Infrastructure 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 advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,273 2,867 4,434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.41% 87.68% 87.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,528 2,015 3,259
10th Percentile £231 £263 £250
25th Percentile £358 £370 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £694 £671
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 97 135
10th Percentile £11.07 £12.30 £10.68
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.50 £13.94
Median hourly rate £19.00 £22.50 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% +25.00% +20.00%
75th Percentile £35.00 £46.25 £24.25
90th Percentile £55.00 £60.50 £35.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.94% +48.60% +11.11%

Virtual Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Infrastructure in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Virtual Infrastructure in the Midlands

Virtual Infrastructure
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure in the Midlands over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Infrastructure in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Infrastructure in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the 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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. 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
West Midlands +29 17 £557 +31.06% 1
Virtual Infrastructure
England

Virtual Infrastructure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.88%) Azure
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (29.41%) DHCP
1 5 (29.41%) DNS
1 5 (29.41%) Fibre Channel
1 5 (29.41%) Remote Desktop
1 5 (29.41%) SAN
2 4 (23.53%) LAN
2 4 (23.53%) WAN
Development Applications
1 11 (64.71%) Git
General
1 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
2 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Administrator
1 5 (29.41%) Server Administrator
1 5 (29.41%) VMWare Administrator
2 3 (17.65%) DevOps Specialist
2 3 (17.65%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Subject Matter Expert
3 2 (11.76%) VMware Specialist
4 1 (5.88%) Cybersecurity Specialist
4 1 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Platform Specialist
4 1 (5.88%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (64.71%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) PKI
2 1 (5.88%) Cyber Security Posture
2 1 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.88%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 16 (94.12%) Windows
2 15 (88.24%) Linux
2 15 (88.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (29.41%) Windows Server
4 4 (23.53%) CentOS
4 4 (23.53%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) Configuration Management
1 11 (64.71%) Infrastructure as Code
1 11 (64.71%) Infrastructure Automation
1 11 (64.71%) Validation
2 5 (29.41%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (29.41%) Load Balancing
3 4 (23.53%) Change Control
3 4 (23.53%) Patch Management
3 4 (23.53%) Task Automation
4 3 (17.65%) DevOps
4 3 (17.65%) Platform Engineering
4 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (5.88%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 15 (88.24%) PowerShell
2 4 (23.53%) Bash
Qualifications
1 10 (58.82%) Security Cleared
2 8 (47.06%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (5.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (5.88%) GDPR
System Software
1 16 (94.12%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (64.71%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (29.41%) Active Directory
3 5 (29.41%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (29.41%) VMware NSX
3 5 (29.41%) VMware Server
3 5 (29.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (64.71%) Ansible
1 11 (64.71%) Progress Chef
1 11 (64.71%) Puppet
1 11 (64.71%) Salt
1 11 (64.71%) Terraform
2 5 (29.41%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 16 (94.12%) VMware
2 11 (64.71%) Red Hat
3 9 (52.94%) SaltStack
4 6 (35.29%) Microsoft