Virtual Infrastructure Contracts

Virtual Infrastructure
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 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 497 625 791
Rank change year-on-year +128 +166 -141
Contract jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure 74 62 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.11% 0.061%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.12% 0.067%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 35 37
10th Percentile £335 £400 £368
25th Percentile £463 £419 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.30% -16.67% +27.66%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £675
90th Percentile £700 £668 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £508 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +1.50% -2.44% +9.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 11 0
Median hourly rate - £65.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £65.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 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 Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Infrastructure in the UK

Virtual Infrastructure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Infrastructure in the UK

Virtual Infrastructure
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Infrastructure in the UK

Virtual Infrastructure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Infrastructure in the UK

Virtual Infrastructure
Top 9 Contract Locations

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 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 +125 71 £538 +7.60% 11
UK excluding London +68 49 £508 +1.50% 10
London +109 24 £605 +2.98% 4
South East +49 21 £625 - 5
South West +17 20 £508 -13.25%
Work from Home +98 10 £500 +11.11% 4
West Midlands +26 6 £300 -36.84% 2
Midlands +25 6 £300 -36.84% 2
Wales - 2 £220 -

Virtual Infrastructure
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 9 (12.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.35%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.35%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 6 (8.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 15 (20.27%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (14.86%) Azure
3 6 (8.11%) AWS
4 2 (2.70%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (2.70%) Entra ID
4 2 (2.70%) Mimecast
5 1 (1.35%) IaaS
5 1 (1.35%) OneDrive
5 1 (1.35%) PaaS
5 1 (1.35%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (36.49%) Firewall
2 9 (12.16%) Fibre Channel
2 9 (12.16%) SAN
3 8 (10.81%) LAN
4 6 (8.11%) WAN
5 5 (6.76%) DHCP
5 5 (6.76%) DNS
5 5 (6.76%) Remote Desktop
6 4 (5.41%) iSCSI
6 4 (5.41%) NAS
6 4 (5.41%) SSL
6 4 (5.41%) TCP/IP
6 4 (5.41%) VLAN
6 4 (5.41%) VoIP
6 4 (5.41%) VPN
7 2 (2.70%) Network Security
7 2 (2.70%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (2.70%) WLAN
8 1 (1.35%) Internet
8 1 (1.35%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.46%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 7 (9.46%) Artifactory
1 7 (9.46%) Jenkins
1 7 (9.46%) Subversion
General
1 12 (16.22%) Social Skills
2 8 (10.81%) Public Sector
3 6 (8.11%) Finance
4 4 (5.41%) Billing
4 4 (5.41%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (28.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 18 (24.32%) Network Engineer
3 13 (17.57%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 13 (17.57%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 11 (14.86%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 10 (13.51%) Analyst
6 6 (8.11%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 6 (8.11%) Infrastructure Support
6 6 (8.11%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
6 6 (8.11%) Support Specialist
7 5 (6.76%) Administrator
7 5 (6.76%) Citrix Analyst
7 5 (6.76%) Server Administrator
7 5 (6.76%) SQL Analyst
7 5 (6.76%) VMWare Administrator
8 4 (5.41%) Architect
8 4 (5.41%) Technical Architect
8 4 (5.41%) Windows Engineer
8 4 (5.41%) Windows Infrastructure Specialist
8 4 (5.41%) Windows Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (13.51%) Middleware
2 7 (9.46%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 27 (36.49%) Data Centre
2 17 (22.97%) Private Cloud
3 5 (6.76%) Management Information System
3 5 (6.76%) PKI
4 4 (5.41%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.35%) CMDB
5 1 (1.35%) Cyber Security Posture
5 1 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.35%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.35%) Replication
5 1 (1.35%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 24 (32.43%) Windows
2 23 (31.08%) Windows Server
3 8 (10.81%) Linux
4 6 (8.11%) Windows 10
5 4 (5.41%) CentOS
5 4 (5.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (5.41%) Ubuntu
5 4 (5.41%) Unix
6 2 (2.70%) Mac OS
6 2 (2.70%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (2.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (47.30%) Cybersecurity
2 27 (36.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 24 (32.43%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (28.38%) Disaster Recovery
5 17 (22.97%) Resource Management
6 15 (20.27%) Penetration Testing
7 14 (18.92%) Containerisation
7 14 (18.92%) DevSecOps
7 14 (18.92%) Infrastructure as Code
7 14 (18.92%) ITIL
7 14 (18.92%) Test Automation
8 13 (17.57%) Vulnerability Scanning
9 12 (16.22%) DevOps
10 11 (14.86%) Agile
10 11 (14.86%) Configuration Management
11 10 (13.51%) High Availability
12 7 (9.46%) Analytics
12 7 (9.46%) Capacity Management
12 7 (9.46%) Server Monitoring
13 6 (8.11%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (20.27%) PowerShell
2 10 (13.51%) Python
3 7 (9.46%) C#
3 7 (9.46%) C++
3 7 (9.46%) Java
3 7 (9.46%) SQL
4 4 (5.41%) Bash
Qualifications
1 33 (44.59%) SC Cleared
1 33 (44.59%) Security Cleared
2 10 (13.51%) Degree
3 5 (6.76%) CCNA
3 5 (6.76%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (5.41%) MCSE
4 4 (5.41%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (5.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (2.70%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.35%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.35%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (13.51%) SLA
2 2 (2.70%) PMO
3 1 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.35%) GDPR
System Software
1 40 (54.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 27 (36.49%) vSphere
3 17 (22.97%) Active Directory
4 6 (8.11%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (6.76%) VMware NSX
5 5 (6.76%) VMware Server
6 4 (5.41%) Firmware
6 4 (5.41%) vCloud
7 2 (2.70%) Hyper-V
7 2 (2.70%) XenApp
8 1 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (28.38%) vCenter Server
2 9 (12.16%) SCCM
3 7 (9.46%) Ansible
3 7 (9.46%) BladeLogic
3 7 (9.46%) ITRS Geneos
4 3 (4.05%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (2.70%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 40 (54.05%) VMware
2 24 (32.43%) Microsoft
3 19 (25.68%) Citrix
4 7 (9.46%) Altiris
4 7 (9.46%) Dynatrace
5 6 (8.11%) ServiceNow
6 5 (6.76%) Cisco
7 2 (2.70%) Dell
7 2 (2.70%) SonicWALL
7 2 (2.70%) WatchGuard
8 1 (1.35%) Juniper