Virtual Environments Contracts

Virtual Environments
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Virtual Environments skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Environments over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 520 592 779
Rank change year-on-year +72 +187 -151
Contract jobs citing Virtual Environments 64 105 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.19% 0.079%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.21% 0.087%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 85 43
10th Percentile £279 £300 £144
25th Percentile £416 £325 £243
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £400
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% +18.75% -7.51%
75th Percentile £575 £556 £543
90th Percentile £725 £600 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £510 £375
% change year-on-year -1.96% +36.00% -11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £65.18 £22.42 -
25th Percentile £67.31 £32.02 -
Median hourly rate £72.75 £48.53 -
Median % change year-on-year +49.92% - -
75th Percentile £76.31 £64.52 -
90th Percentile £77.33 £73.81 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £72.75 £80.00 -
% change year-on-year -9.06% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Virtual Environments falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

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 12 June 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 12 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 12 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
England +51 60 £525 +8.89% 44
UK excluding London +23 36 £500 -1.96% 38
Work from Home +106 21 £425 -18.07% 29
London +61 21 £538 +34.38% 11
Midlands +21 16 £550 +12.31% 6
West Midlands +30 15 £550 +4.76% 2
South West +4 11 £500 -3.61% 4
South East +6 6 £431 -17.67% 8
North of England +18 2 £294 - 12
North West +16 2 £294 - 8
East Midlands 0 1 £550 +28.74% 4
Scotland - 1 £240 - 3

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 (3.13%) Jupyter
1 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (3.13%) OpenStack
1 2 (3.13%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.56%) Mule
2 1 (1.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.56%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (1.56%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 3 (4.69%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (9.38%) Aligne
2 4 (6.25%) Oracle 11i
2 4 (6.25%) Oracle Applications
2 4 (6.25%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (6.25%) Oracle EBS R12
2 4 (6.25%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (3.13%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (3.13%) Oracle E-Business Tax
3 2 (3.13%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (3.13%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (1.56%) BusinessWorks
4 1 (1.56%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (1.56%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (1.56%) Oracle Retail
Cloud Services
1 20 (31.25%) Azure
2 8 (12.50%) Power Platform
3 7 (10.94%) AWS
4 4 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (6.25%) Azure Functions
4 4 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (6.25%) Serverless
5 3 (4.69%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (3.13%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (3.13%) ChatGPT
6 2 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (3.13%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.13%) GCP
6 2 (3.13%) Nutanix
6 2 (3.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (1.56%) IBM Cloud
7 1 (1.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (20.31%) DNS
2 12 (18.75%) DHCP
3 10 (15.63%) TCP/IP
4 7 (10.94%) Firewall
5 6 (9.38%) NAS
5 6 (9.38%) SAN
6 4 (6.25%) VSAN
6 4 (6.25%) WAN
7 2 (3.13%) BGP
7 2 (3.13%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (3.13%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (3.13%) InfiniBand
7 2 (3.13%) LAN
7 2 (3.13%) MPLS
7 2 (3.13%) SD-WAN
8 1 (1.56%) Cisco Firepower
8 1 (1.56%) Network Security
8 1 (1.56%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (1.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.94%) Power BI
2 4 (6.25%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.69%) Metadata
4 2 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (3.13%) Data Lake
4 2 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.13%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.56%) DB2
5 1 (1.56%) MariaDB
5 1 (1.56%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.56%) MySQL
5 1 (1.56%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.56%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.56%) PowerPivot
5 1 (1.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (4.69%) Artifactory
1 3 (4.69%) JIRA
2 2 (3.13%) Git
2 2 (3.13%) GitLab
3 1 (1.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (1.56%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.56%) MSI
3 1 (1.56%) Travis CI
General
1 15 (23.44%) Social Skills
2 8 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
3 7 (10.94%) Public Sector
4 6 (9.38%) Finance
5 4 (6.25%) German Language
6 3 (4.69%) Arabic Language
6 3 (4.69%) French Language
6 3 (4.69%) Spanish Language
7 2 (3.13%) Banking
7 2 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.56%) Billing
8 1 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.56%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.56%) Japanese Language
8 1 (1.56%) Korean Language
8 1 (1.56%) Legal
8 1 (1.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (32.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (12.50%) Analyst
2 8 (12.50%) Consultant
3 6 (9.38%) Architect
3 6 (9.38%) Principal Engineer
4 5 (7.81%) Oracle Consultant
4 5 (7.81%) Senior
5 4 (6.25%) Backup Engineer
5 4 (6.25%) Backup Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (6.25%) Business Analyst
5 4 (6.25%) IT Analyst
5 4 (6.25%) Lead
5 4 (6.25%) Operations Engineer
5 4 (6.25%) Storage and Backup Engineer
5 4 (6.25%) Storage Engineer
6 3 (4.69%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
6 3 (4.69%) Security Engineer
6 3 (4.69%) Support Engineer
6 3 (4.69%) Test Leader
6 3 (4.69%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.69%) HTML
2 2 (3.13%) LangChain
2 2 (3.13%) scikit-learn
2 2 (3.13%) TensorFlow
2 2 (3.13%) Torch
3 1 (1.56%) CSS
3 1 (1.56%) JSON
3 1 (1.56%) Kafka
3 1 (1.56%) SOAP
3 1 (1.56%) TIBCO EMS
3 1 (1.56%) XML
3 1 (1.56%) XSD
3 1 (1.56%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 5 (7.81%) Data Centre
2 5 (7.81%) Virtual Team
3 3 (4.69%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.13%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (1.56%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.56%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 27 (42.19%) Windows
2 15 (23.44%) Linux
3 14 (21.88%) Unix
4 11 (17.19%) Windows Server
5 8 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (6.25%) VMS
6 4 (6.25%) Windows 10
7 3 (4.69%) Windows 2000
7 3 (4.69%) Windows XP
8 2 (3.13%) Android
8 2 (3.13%) Apple iOS
9 1 (1.56%) AIX
9 1 (1.56%) Windows 7
9 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (35.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 21 (32.81%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (20.31%) ITIL
4 12 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
5 11 (17.19%) Agile
6 9 (14.06%) Visualisation
7 7 (10.94%) Acceptance Criteria
7 7 (10.94%) CI/CD
7 7 (10.94%) Computer Science
7 7 (10.94%) Cybersecurity
7 7 (10.94%) DevOps
7 7 (10.94%) Information Management
7 7 (10.94%) Problem Management
7 7 (10.94%) Security Hardening
7 7 (10.94%) Security Monitoring
7 7 (10.94%) SIEM
7 7 (10.94%) Systems Engineering
7 7 (10.94%) Test Automation
8 6 (9.38%) Business Analysis
8 6 (9.38%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (20.31%) Java
2 11 (17.19%) PowerShell
3 10 (15.63%) C#
4 9 (14.06%) SQL
5 6 (9.38%) Python
6 5 (7.81%) PL/SQL
7 3 (4.69%) JavaScript
7 3 (4.69%) Shell Script
8 2 (3.13%) Go
8 2 (3.13%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.56%) Bash
9 1 (1.56%) Ruby
9 1 (1.56%) VB
9 1 (1.56%) XPath
Qualifications
1 22 (34.38%) Security Cleared
2 14 (21.88%) Degree
2 14 (21.88%) DV Cleared
3 10 (15.63%) SC Cleared
4 7 (10.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (6.25%) VCAP
5 4 (6.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 3 (4.69%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (3.13%) CCNP
7 2 (3.13%) JNCIP
8 1 (1.56%) CCDP
8 1 (1.56%) CCIE
8 1 (1.56%) CISSP
8 1 (1.56%) IBM Certification
8 1 (1.56%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.94%) NIST
2 4 (6.25%) SLA
3 3 (4.69%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.56%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.56%) QA
System Software
1 27 (42.19%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (20.31%) VMware NSX
3 7 (10.94%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (9.38%) vSphere
5 5 (7.81%) Active Directory
5 5 (7.81%) Docker
5 5 (7.81%) Hyper-V
5 5 (7.81%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (3.13%) KVM
7 2 (3.13%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (1.56%) XenApp
8 1 (1.56%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 11 (17.19%) SCCM
2 9 (14.06%) Kubernetes
3 7 (10.94%) vCenter Server
4 6 (9.38%) Ansible
5 5 (7.81%) Terraform
6 4 (6.25%) SysTrack
7 2 (3.13%) Grafana
7 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (3.13%) Podman
8 1 (1.56%) Progress Chef
8 1 (1.56%) Puppet
8 1 (1.56%) Salt
8 1 (1.56%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 27 (42.19%) VMware
2 10 (15.63%) Microsoft
3 7 (10.94%) Citrix
3 7 (10.94%) Oracle
3 7 (10.94%) Veeam
4 6 (9.38%) Cisco
5 5 (7.81%) Juniper
6 4 (6.25%) Dell
6 4 (6.25%) New Relic
6 4 (6.25%) OpenAI
7 3 (4.69%) Atlassian
7 3 (4.69%) Fortinet
7 3 (4.69%) IBM
8 2 (3.13%) Avaya
8 2 (3.13%) Google
8 2 (3.13%) Ivanti
8 2 (3.13%) Red Hat
8 2 (3.13%) Splunk
8 2 (3.13%) Sun
8 2 (3.13%) TIBCO