Virtual Machines Contracts in the City of London

Virtual Machine (VM)
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Virtual Machines skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Virtual Machines over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 105 141 157
Rank change year-on-year +36 +16 -27
Contract jobs citing Virtual Machines 20 31 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.91% 0.85% 0.90%
As % of the System Software category 8.33% 7.01% 5.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 20 29
10th Percentile £365 £415 £363
25th Percentile £428 £490 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £590
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -5.08% +43.03%
75th Percentile £775 £738 £873
90th Percentile - £775 £915
Central London median daily rate £558 £560 £590
% change year-on-year -0.45% -5.08% +43.03%

All System Software Skills
City of London

Virtual Machines is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 240 442 651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 10.90% 12.15% 15.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 295 553
10th Percentile £246 £213 £294
25th Percentile £383 £424 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.22% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £725 £665
90th Percentile £741 £788 £754
Central London median daily rate £475 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -15.56% +2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.25 - £24.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 - £25.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.87%
75th Percentile - - £29.56
90th Percentile £46.15 - £32.83
Central London median hourly rate £40.00 £23.50 £25.50
% change year-on-year +70.21% -7.84% +27.50%

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Virtual Machines as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Machines in the City of London

Virtual Machines
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtual Machines in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Virtual Machines in the City of London

Virtual Machines
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Machines in the City of London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Machines in the City of London

Virtual Machines
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Virtual Machines in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Machines in the City of London

Virtual Machines
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Machines within the City of London region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
London Bridge - 1 £501 -
Virtual Machines
Central London

Virtual Machines
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (10.00%) OpenStack
2 1 (5.00%) IIS
2 1 (5.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 12 (60.00%) Azure
2 8 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (35.00%) Azure Key Vault
3 7 (35.00%) Entra ID
3 7 (35.00%) Power Platform
4 6 (30.00%) Power Automate
4 6 (30.00%) PowerApps
5 2 (10.00%) GitHub
5 2 (10.00%) Slack
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (5.00%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (5.00%) AWS
6 1 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (5.00%) Datadog
6 1 (5.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (25.00%) Firewall
2 3 (15.00%) Network Security
3 2 (10.00%) Cisco IOS
3 2 (10.00%) VPN
4 1 (5.00%) DNS
4 1 (5.00%) MQTT
4 1 (5.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (35.00%) Power BI
2 2 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle Database
3 1 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (5.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.00%) DynamoDB
3 1 (5.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.00%) Metadata
3 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (5.00%) MySQL
3 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.00%) Scylla
3 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (10.00%) GitLab
2 2 (10.00%) Maven
3 1 (5.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (5.00%) Gradle
3 1 (5.00%) IntelliJ
3 1 (5.00%) JIRA
3 1 (5.00%) JUnit
3 1 (5.00%) Selenium
3 1 (5.00%) Spinnaker
3 1 (5.00%) TestNG
General
1 8 (40.00%) Finance
2 6 (30.00%) Financial Institution
2 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Retail
4 1 (5.00%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) Architect
2 6 (30.00%) Platform Architect
2 6 (30.00%) Power Platform Architect
3 4 (20.00%) Systems Architect
4 3 (15.00%) Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Audio Visual Support
5 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Oracle Architect
5 2 (10.00%) SOC Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Technical Support
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Data Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) Java Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Lead
6 1 (5.00%) Operations Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) Python Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Senior
6 1 (5.00%) Server Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Test Automation Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (30.00%) JSON
1 6 (30.00%) Microsoft Graph
1 6 (30.00%) REST
1 6 (30.00%) XML
2 2 (10.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (5.00%) .NET
3 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (5.00%) GraphQL
3 1 (5.00%) http4s
3 1 (5.00%) Kafka
3 1 (5.00%) Node.js
3 1 (5.00%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (5.00%) RESTful
3 1 (5.00%) Spring
3 1 (5.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
1 2 (10.00%) IoT
1 2 (10.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (10.00%) Onboarding
1 2 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
1 2 (10.00%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (5.00%) Distributed Architecture
2 1 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.00%) Machine to Machine
Operating Systems
1 7 (35.00%) Linux
1 7 (35.00%) Windows
2 3 (15.00%) Mac OS
3 2 (10.00%) CentOS
3 2 (10.00%) Mac OS X
3 2 (10.00%) Oracle Linux
3 2 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (10.00%) Solaris
3 2 (10.00%) VMS
3 2 (10.00%) Windows 10
3 2 (10.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (5.00%) Android
4 1 (5.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (35.00%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (30.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 6 (30.00%) XML Parsing
4 4 (20.00%) Agile
4 4 (20.00%) Computer Science
5 3 (15.00%) Migration
5 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (10.00%) Customer Service
6 2 (10.00%) Cyber Threat Analysis
6 2 (10.00%) Database Migration
6 2 (10.00%) Filmmaking
6 2 (10.00%) Incident Response
6 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (10.00%) Observability
6 2 (10.00%) Remediation Plan
6 2 (10.00%) Security Monitoring
6 2 (10.00%) Security Operations
6 2 (10.00%) Threat Analysis
6 2 (10.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 9 (45.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (20.00%) Python
3 3 (15.00%) Java
4 2 (10.00%) Shell Script
5 1 (5.00%) Bash
5 1 (5.00%) Kotlin
5 1 (5.00%) Scala
5 1 (5.00%) SQL
5 1 (5.00%) T-SQL
5 1 (5.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) Degree
2 2 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (10.00%) GCIA
2 2 (10.00%) GCIH
2 2 (10.00%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 7 (35.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (15.00%) Docker
3 2 (10.00%) KVM
3 2 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (5.00%) iptables
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Ansible
1 2 (10.00%) CSIRT
1 2 (10.00%) Grafana
1 2 (10.00%) Kibana
1 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (10.00%) logstash
1 2 (10.00%) Nessus
1 2 (10.00%) Prometheus
1 2 (10.00%) QRadar
2 1 (5.00%) Docker Swarm
2 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (20.00%) Oracle
3 2 (10.00%) Amdocs
3 2 (10.00%) BeyondTrust
3 2 (10.00%) Cisco
3 2 (10.00%) CrowdStrike
3 2 (10.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (10.00%) VMware
4 1 (5.00%) New Relic