Virtual Infrastructure Contracts

Virtual Infrastructure
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Virtual Infrastructure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Infrastructure over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 494 654 796
Rank change year-on-year +160 +142 -139
Contract jobs citing Virtual Infrastructure 90 43 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.077% 0.060%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.086% 0.066%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 27 36
10th Percentile £350 £348 £410
25th Percentile £463 £400 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £475 £581
Median % change year-on-year +13.26% -18.28% +22.37%
75th Percentile £638 £558 £650
90th Percentile £691 £658 £741
UK excluding London median daily rate £535 £475 £481
% change year-on-year +12.63% -1.30% +1.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £82.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £80.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Virtual Infrastructure 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 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 13 June 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 10 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 13 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 +137 88 £544 +14.53% 3
UK excluding London +62 63 £535 +12.63% 3
South East +42 31 £618 -1.20% 1
South West +23 28 £525 -4.55%
London +101 26 £600 +20.00% 1
West Midlands +32 17 £557 +31.06% 1
Midlands +30 17 £557 +17.26% 1
Work from Home +108 12 £554 +30.29% 2
Wales - 2 £220 -
East of England -3 1 - -

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 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.11%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.11%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 6 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 16 (17.78%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (14.44%) Azure
3 6 (6.67%) AWS
4 3 (3.33%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.22%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (2.22%) IaaS
5 2 (2.22%) Mimecast
5 2 (2.22%) PaaS
5 2 (2.22%) SaaS
6 1 (1.11%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 29 (32.22%) Firewall
2 9 (10.00%) Fibre Channel
2 9 (10.00%) LAN
2 9 (10.00%) SAN
3 7 (7.78%) WAN
4 6 (6.67%) DNS
5 5 (5.56%) DHCP
5 5 (5.56%) Remote Desktop
5 5 (5.56%) TCP/IP
6 4 (4.44%) iSCSI
6 4 (4.44%) NAS
6 4 (4.44%) SSL
6 4 (4.44%) VLAN
6 4 (4.44%) VoIP
6 4 (4.44%) VPN
7 2 (2.22%) Internet
7 2 (2.22%) Network Security
7 2 (2.22%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (2.22%) WLAN
8 1 (1.11%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.78%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 15 (16.67%) Git
2 7 (7.78%) Artifactory
2 7 (7.78%) Jenkins
2 7 (7.78%) Subversion
General
1 13 (14.44%) Social Skills
2 11 (12.22%) Public Sector
3 6 (6.67%) Finance
4 4 (4.44%) Billing
4 4 (4.44%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.11%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (24.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 18 (20.00%) Network Engineer
3 13 (14.44%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 13 (14.44%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 11 (12.22%) Analyst
4 11 (12.22%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 6 (6.67%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 6 (6.67%) Infrastructure Support
5 6 (6.67%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
5 6 (6.67%) Support Specialist
6 5 (5.56%) Administrator
6 5 (5.56%) Architect
6 5 (5.56%) Citrix Analyst
6 5 (5.56%) Server Administrator
6 5 (5.56%) SQL Analyst
6 5 (5.56%) VMWare Administrator
7 4 (4.44%) Platform Engineer
7 4 (4.44%) Technical Architect
7 4 (4.44%) VMware Engineer
7 4 (4.44%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (16.67%) YAML
2 10 (11.11%) Middleware
3 7 (7.78%) .NET
4 1 (1.11%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 27 (30.00%) Data Centre
2 17 (18.89%) Private Cloud
3 5 (5.56%) Management Information System
3 5 (5.56%) PKI
4 4 (4.44%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.22%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.22%) Replication
6 1 (1.11%) CMDB
6 1 (1.11%) Cyber Security Posture
6 1 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.11%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 40 (44.44%) Windows
2 23 (25.56%) Linux
2 23 (25.56%) Windows Server
3 19 (21.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (6.67%) Windows 10
5 4 (4.44%) CentOS
5 4 (4.44%) Ubuntu
5 4 (4.44%) Unix
6 2 (2.22%) Mac OS
6 2 (2.22%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (2.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
2 29 (32.22%) Infrastructure as Code
3 28 (31.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 26 (28.89%) Configuration Management
5 24 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (24.44%) Disaster Recovery
7 17 (18.89%) DevOps
7 17 (18.89%) Resource Management
8 15 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
8 15 (16.67%) ITIL
8 15 (16.67%) Penetration Testing
8 15 (16.67%) Validation
9 14 (15.56%) Containerisation
9 14 (15.56%) DevSecOps
9 14 (15.56%) Test Automation
10 13 (14.44%) Vulnerability Scanning
11 11 (12.22%) Agile
12 10 (11.11%) High Availability
13 7 (7.78%) Analytics
13 7 (7.78%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (35.56%) PowerShell
2 10 (11.11%) Python
3 7 (7.78%) C#
3 7 (7.78%) C++
3 7 (7.78%) Java
3 7 (7.78%) SQL
4 4 (4.44%) Bash
Qualifications
1 48 (53.33%) Security Cleared
2 45 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 10 (11.11%) Degree
4 5 (5.56%) CCNA
4 5 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (4.44%) MCSE
5 4 (4.44%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (4.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (2.22%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.11%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.11%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (12.22%) SLA
2 2 (2.22%) PMO
3 1 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.11%) GDPR
System Software
1 55 (61.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 27 (30.00%) vSphere
3 18 (20.00%) Active Directory
4 17 (18.89%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (5.56%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (5.56%) VMware NSX
5 5 (5.56%) VMware Server
6 4 (4.44%) Firmware
6 4 (4.44%) vCloud
7 2 (2.22%) Hyper-V
7 2 (2.22%) XenApp
8 1 (1.11%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (1.11%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 22 (24.44%) Ansible
2 20 (22.22%) vCenter Server
3 15 (16.67%) Terraform
4 14 (15.56%) Progress Chef
4 14 (15.56%) Puppet
5 13 (14.44%) Salt
6 9 (10.00%) SCCM
7 7 (7.78%) BladeLogic
7 7 (7.78%) ITRS Geneos
8 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
9 2 (2.22%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 55 (61.11%) VMware
2 26 (28.89%) Microsoft
3 20 (22.22%) Citrix
4 15 (16.67%) Red Hat
5 12 (13.33%) SaltStack
6 7 (7.78%) Altiris
6 7 (7.78%) Dynatrace
7 6 (6.67%) ServiceNow
8 4 (4.44%) Cisco
9 2 (2.22%) Dell
9 2 (2.22%) SonicWALL
9 2 (2.22%) WatchGuard
10 1 (1.11%) Juniper