Virtual Environments Contracts

Virtual Environments
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 506 599 770
Rank change year-on-year +93 +171 -158
Contract jobs citing Virtual Environments 65 88 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.15% 0.085%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.17% 0.093%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 70 51
10th Percentile £248 £300 £160
25th Percentile £403 £364 £243
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year - +25.00% -5.88%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £530
90th Percentile £725 £603 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £490 £375
% change year-on-year +2.04% +30.67% -11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £65.18 - -
25th Percentile £67.31 £16.03 -
Median hourly rate £72.75 £17.05 -
Median % change year-on-year +326.69% - -
75th Percentile £76.31 £18.08 -
90th Percentile £77.33 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.75 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,673 51,121 79,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.13% 89.77% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,631 35,432 55,673
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,683 1,892
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £16.01 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -4.99%

Virtual Environments
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Virtual Environments as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Environments in the UK

Virtual Environments
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtual Environments.

Daily rate trend for Virtual Environments in the UK

Virtual Environments
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Environments over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Environments in the UK

Virtual Environments
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Virtual Environments.

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Environments in the UK

Virtual Environments
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 18 May 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
England +91 63 £500 - 38
UK excluding London +56 39 £500 +2.04% 26
London +92 21 £538 +8.34% 11
Work from Home +98 18 £400 -18.78% 18
Midlands +25 16 £550 +14.58% 7
West Midlands +35 15 £550 +4.76% 3
South West +13 12 £500 +21.95% 3
South East +24 6 £431 -14.62% 5
North of England +34 2 £294 - 10
North West +22 2 £294 - 7
East of England 0 2 £250 -62.96% 2
East Midlands +5 1 £550 +17.72% 4
Scotland - 1 £240 - 1

Virtual Environments
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (3.08%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (3.08%) OpenStack
1 2 (3.08%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.54%) Jupyter
2 1 (1.54%) Mule
2 1 (1.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.54%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (1.54%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 3 (4.62%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (9.23%) Aligne
2 3 (4.62%) Oracle 11i
2 3 (4.62%) Oracle Applications
2 3 (4.62%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (4.62%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (4.62%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (3.08%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (3.08%) Oracle E-Business Tax
3 2 (3.08%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (3.08%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (1.54%) BusinessWorks
4 1 (1.54%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (1.54%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (1.54%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 17 (26.15%) Azure
2 7 (10.77%) AWS
3 6 (9.23%) Power Platform
4 4 (6.15%) Azure Functions
4 4 (6.15%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (6.15%) Serverless
5 3 (4.62%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.08%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (3.08%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (3.08%) GCP
6 2 (3.08%) Nutanix
6 2 (3.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (1.54%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.54%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (1.54%) ChatGPT
7 1 (1.54%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.54%) IBM Cloud
7 1 (1.54%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (20.00%) DNS
2 12 (18.46%) DHCP
3 10 (15.38%) TCP/IP
4 6 (9.23%) Firewall
4 6 (9.23%) NAS
4 6 (9.23%) SAN
5 4 (6.15%) VSAN
5 4 (6.15%) WAN
6 2 (3.08%) BGP
6 2 (3.08%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (3.08%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (3.08%) InfiniBand
6 2 (3.08%) LAN
6 2 (3.08%) MPLS
6 2 (3.08%) SD-WAN
7 1 (1.54%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (1.54%) Network Security
7 1 (1.54%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (1.54%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.23%) Power BI
2 3 (4.62%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.08%) Metadata
4 1 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.54%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.54%) DB2
4 1 (1.54%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.54%) MariaDB
4 1 (1.54%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.54%) MySQL
4 1 (1.54%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.54%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.54%) PowerPivot
4 1 (1.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (4.62%) Artifactory
1 3 (4.62%) GitLab
1 3 (4.62%) JIRA
2 2 (3.08%) Git
3 1 (1.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (1.54%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.54%) MSI
3 1 (1.54%) Travis CI
General
1 13 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (12.31%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (12.31%) Public Sector
3 7 (10.77%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (7.69%) Finance
5 4 (6.15%) German Language
6 3 (4.62%) Arabic Language
6 3 (4.62%) French Language
6 3 (4.62%) Spanish Language
7 2 (3.08%) Banking
7 2 (3.08%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.54%) Billing
8 1 (1.54%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.54%) Japanese Language
8 1 (1.54%) Korean Language
8 1 (1.54%) Legal
8 1 (1.54%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (32.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (12.31%) Analyst
2 8 (12.31%) Architect
3 7 (10.77%) Consultant
4 6 (9.23%) Principal Engineer
5 4 (6.15%) Backup Engineer
5 4 (6.15%) Backup Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (6.15%) Business Analyst
5 4 (6.15%) IT Analyst
5 4 (6.15%) Lead
5 4 (6.15%) Oracle Consultant
5 4 (6.15%) Senior
5 4 (6.15%) Storage and Backup Engineer
5 4 (6.15%) Storage Engineer
6 3 (4.62%) Automation Test Lead
6 3 (4.62%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (4.62%) ETRM Business Analyst
6 3 (4.62%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
6 3 (4.62%) Security Engineer
6 3 (4.62%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.08%) HTML
2 1 (1.54%) CSS
2 1 (1.54%) JSON
2 1 (1.54%) Kafka
2 1 (1.54%) LangChain
2 1 (1.54%) scikit-learn
2 1 (1.54%) SOAP
2 1 (1.54%) TensorFlow
2 1 (1.54%) TIBCO EMS
2 1 (1.54%) Torch
2 1 (1.54%) XML
2 1 (1.54%) XSD
2 1 (1.54%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.31%) Management Information System
2 5 (7.69%) Data Centre
3 4 (6.15%) Virtual Team
4 3 (4.62%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (3.08%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (1.54%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.54%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 28 (43.08%) Windows
2 18 (27.69%) Linux
3 14 (21.54%) Unix
4 10 (15.38%) Windows Server
5 8 (12.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (6.15%) Windows 10
7 3 (4.62%) VMS
7 3 (4.62%) Windows 2000
7 3 (4.62%) Windows XP
8 2 (3.08%) Android
8 2 (3.08%) Apple iOS
9 1 (1.54%) Windows 7
9 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (1.54%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (36.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 20 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (21.54%) ITIL
4 12 (18.46%) Agile
4 12 (18.46%) Infrastructure as Code
5 9 (13.85%) Visualisation
6 7 (10.77%) Acceptance Criteria
6 7 (10.77%) CI/CD
6 7 (10.77%) Cybersecurity
6 7 (10.77%) DevOps
6 7 (10.77%) Information Management
6 7 (10.77%) Security Hardening
6 7 (10.77%) Security Monitoring
6 7 (10.77%) SIEM
6 7 (10.77%) Systems Engineering
7 6 (9.23%) Business Analysis
7 6 (9.23%) Computer Science
7 6 (9.23%) ETRM
7 6 (9.23%) Risk Management
7 6 (9.23%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 12 (18.46%) Java
2 10 (15.38%) C#
2 10 (15.38%) PowerShell
3 7 (10.77%) SQL
4 6 (9.23%) Python
5 4 (6.15%) PL/SQL
6 3 (4.62%) Shell Script
7 2 (3.08%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.54%) Bash
8 1 (1.54%) Go
8 1 (1.54%) Ruby
8 1 (1.54%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.54%) VB
8 1 (1.54%) XPath
Qualifications
1 25 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 16 (24.62%) DV Cleared
3 13 (20.00%) Degree
3 13 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 6 (9.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (6.15%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (6.15%) VCAP
5 4 (6.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (3.08%) CCNP
6 2 (3.08%) JNCIP
7 1 (1.54%) CCDP
7 1 (1.54%) CCIE
7 1 (1.54%) CCNA
7 1 (1.54%) CISSP
7 1 (1.54%) MCP
7 1 (1.54%) MCSA
7 1 (1.54%) MCSE
7 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.54%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.77%) NIST
2 4 (6.15%) SLA
3 2 (3.08%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.08%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.54%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.54%) QA
System Software
1 30 (46.15%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (20.00%) VMware NSX
3 7 (10.77%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (9.23%) Docker
4 6 (9.23%) vSphere
5 5 (7.69%) Active Directory
5 5 (7.69%) Hyper-V
5 5 (7.69%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (4.62%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (3.08%) KVM
7 2 (3.08%) LXC
7 2 (3.08%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (1.54%) XenApp
8 1 (1.54%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 11 (16.92%) SCCM
2 8 (12.31%) Kubernetes
3 7 (10.77%) vCenter Server
4 6 (9.23%) Ansible
5 5 (7.69%) Terraform
6 4 (6.15%) SysTrack
7 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (3.08%) Proxmox
8 1 (1.54%) Grafana
8 1 (1.54%) Podman
8 1 (1.54%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.54%) Puppet
8 1 (1.54%) Salt
8 1 (1.54%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 30 (46.15%) VMware
2 9 (13.85%) Microsoft
3 8 (12.31%) Veeam
4 7 (10.77%) Citrix
5 6 (9.23%) Cisco
5 6 (9.23%) Oracle
6 5 (7.69%) Juniper
7 4 (6.15%) Dell
7 4 (6.15%) New Relic
7 4 (6.15%) OpenAI
8 3 (4.62%) Atlassian
8 3 (4.62%) Fortinet
9 2 (3.08%) Avaya
9 2 (3.08%) Google
9 2 (3.08%) IBM
9 2 (3.08%) Ivanti
9 2 (3.08%) Red Hat
9 2 (3.08%) ServiceNow
9 2 (3.08%) Sun
9 2 (3.08%) TIBCO