Virtual Infrastructure Contracts in London

Virtual Infrastructure
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 367 484 571
Rank change year-on-year +117 +87 -85
Contract jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure 26 9 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.15% 0.035% 0.059%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.039% 0.064%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 6 19
10th Percentile £475 £363 £415
25th Percentile £500 £444 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +45.45%
75th Percentile £675 £634 £650
90th Percentile £700 £669 £685
England median daily rate £544 £500 £594
% change year-on-year +8.80% -15.79% +29.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
England median hourly rate - £65.25 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,473 23,264 35,752
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.29% 90.93% 92.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,093 16,856 26,215
10th Percentile £340 £375 £394
25th Percentile £449 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 320 265 402
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.49 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.21% +9.86% +8.07%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £68.08 £82.50 £67.50
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 London

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Infrastructure in London

Virtual Infrastructure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Infrastructure in London

Virtual Infrastructure
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Infrastructure in London

Virtual Infrastructure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Infrastructure in London

Virtual Infrastructure
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
East London - 4 £500 -
Central London +35 2 £413 -41.07%
Virtual Infrastructure
England

Virtual Infrastructure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 10 (38.46%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (30.77%) Azure
3 6 (23.08%) AWS
4 2 (7.69%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (7.69%) Entra ID
4 2 (7.69%) IaaS
4 2 (7.69%) Mimecast
4 2 (7.69%) PaaS
4 2 (7.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (15.38%) Firewall
2 2 (7.69%) Internet
2 2 (7.69%) LAN
2 2 (7.69%) Network Security
2 2 (7.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (26.92%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 7 (26.92%) Artifactory
1 7 (26.92%) Jenkins
1 7 (26.92%) Subversion
2 1 (3.85%) Git
General
1 6 (23.08%) Finance
1 6 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 4 (15.38%) Billing
2 4 (15.38%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (42.31%) Analyst
2 6 (23.08%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 6 (23.08%) Infrastructure Support
2 6 (23.08%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
2 6 (23.08%) Support Specialist
3 5 (19.23%) Citrix Analyst
3 5 (19.23%) SQL Analyst
4 4 (15.38%) Architect
4 4 (15.38%) Cloud Specialist
4 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Technical Architect
4 4 (15.38%) Windows Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Windows Infrastructure Specialist
4 4 (15.38%) Windows Specialist
5 3 (11.54%) IT Analyst
5 3 (11.54%) Senior
5 3 (11.54%) Senior Analyst
5 3 (11.54%) Senior Systems Analyst
5 3 (11.54%) Systems Analyst
6 2 (7.69%) PowerShell Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (38.46%) Middleware
2 7 (26.92%) .NET
3 1 (3.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (30.77%) Data Centre
2 4 (15.38%) Management Information System
2 4 (15.38%) Public Cloud
3 2 (7.69%) Mobile App
3 2 (7.69%) Replication
4 1 (3.85%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 17 (65.38%) Windows
2 16 (61.54%) Windows Server
3 6 (23.08%) Windows 10
4 1 (3.85%) Linux
4 1 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (84.62%) Disaster Recovery
2 14 (53.85%) Cybersecurity
2 14 (53.85%) ITIL
3 13 (50.00%) Configuration Management
4 11 (42.31%) DevOps
5 10 (38.46%) High Availability
6 7 (26.92%) Analytics
6 7 (26.92%) Capacity Management
6 7 (26.92%) Server Monitoring
7 6 (23.08%) Mentoring
7 6 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (15.38%) Cloud Security
8 4 (15.38%) Computer Science
8 4 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 4 (15.38%) Network Monitoring
8 4 (15.38%) Presales
8 4 (15.38%) Problem Management
8 4 (15.38%) Time Management
9 2 (7.69%) Change Management
9 2 (7.69%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 13 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 10 (38.46%) Python
3 7 (26.92%) C#
3 7 (26.92%) C++
3 7 (26.92%) Java
3 7 (26.92%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (23.08%) Degree
2 4 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (11.54%) Security Cleared
4 2 (7.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (23.08%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (38.46%) Active Directory
2 9 (34.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (15.38%) vCloud
4 3 (11.54%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (7.69%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 8 (30.77%) Ansible
2 7 (26.92%) BladeLogic
2 7 (26.92%) ITRS Geneos
3 6 (23.08%) SCCM
4 2 (7.69%) FortiGate
5 1 (3.85%) Progress Chef
5 1 (3.85%) Puppet
5 1 (3.85%) Salt
5 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (69.23%) Citrix
2 10 (38.46%) Microsoft
3 9 (34.62%) VMware
4 7 (26.92%) Altiris
4 7 (26.92%) Dynatrace
5 6 (23.08%) ServiceNow
6 1 (3.85%) Red Hat
6 1 (3.85%) SaltStack