Virtual Machines Contracts in England

Virtual Machine (VM)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 290 326 384
Rank change year-on-year +36 +58 +9
Contract jobs citing Virtual Machines 268 384 468
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.73% 0.76% 0.66%
As % of the System Software category 6.66% 5.79% 4.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 257 311
10th Percentile £300 £338 £350
25th Percentile £400 £454 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.96% +3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £638
90th Percentile £675 £710 £738
UK median daily rate £501 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -7.31% +2.86% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 16 10
10th Percentile - £22.97 £10.73
25th Percentile £14.06 £25.09 £32.75
Median hourly rate £14.63 £66.00 £47.73
Median % change year-on-year -77.84% +38.28% +8.48%
75th Percentile £15.19 £70.56 £83.94
90th Percentile £88.75 £82.50 £85.03
UK median hourly rate £14.63 £66.00 £47.73
% change year-on-year -77.84% +38.28% +12.31%

All System Software Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,023 6,627 9,943
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.88% 13.11% 13.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,784 4,805 7,184
10th Percentile £190 £204 £195
25th Percentile £325 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £710
UK median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 208 247 277
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.25 £13.31
25th Percentile £14.48 £17.72 £15.00
Median hourly rate £21.00 £50.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.00% +163.16% -
75th Percentile £57.80 £65.00 £28.75
90th Percentile £72.38 £75.60 £55.18
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £53.75 £20.00
% change year-on-year -58.14% +168.75% -

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Virtual Machines as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Machines in England

Virtual Machines
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Machines in England

Virtual Machines
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Machines in England

Virtual Machines
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Machines in England

Virtual Machines
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Virtual Machines in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Virtual Machines in England

Virtual Machines
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England 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 +39 118 £535 -2.73% 56
South East +10 46 £538 -2.27% 18
North of England +36 41 £588 +11.90% 12
Yorkshire +37 27 £340 -35.24% 6
East of England +9 14 £602 +20.40% 13
North West +3 14 £618 +14.93% 6
South West +16 13 £439 -14.30% 13
Midlands +8 13 £400 +6.67% 15
West Midlands +19 11 £400 +6.67% 5
East Midlands +14 2 £325 -38.10% 10
Virtual Machines
UK

Virtual Machines
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 29 (10.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (10.07%) OpenStack
3 9 (3.36%) Confluence
4 7 (2.61%) IIS
5 6 (2.24%) nginx
6 5 (1.87%) Apache
7 2 (0.75%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.75%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.37%) CICS
8 1 (0.37%) CMS
8 1 (0.37%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (2.24%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 118 (44.03%) Azure
2 49 (18.28%) Entra ID
3 38 (14.18%) Microsoft 365
4 30 (11.19%) AWS
5 26 (9.70%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (8.96%) Azure Storage
7 21 (7.84%) Azure Monitor
8 19 (7.09%) PaaS
9 17 (6.34%) Power Platform
10 16 (5.97%) Azure Logic Apps
11 15 (5.60%) IaaS
12 11 (4.10%) Azure Key Vault
13 10 (3.73%) Slack
14 9 (3.36%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 9 (3.36%) GCP
14 9 (3.36%) Serverless
15 8 (2.99%) Azure Data Factory
15 8 (2.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 8 (2.99%) GitHub
16 7 (2.61%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 57 (21.27%) Firewall
2 52 (19.40%) DNS
3 37 (13.81%) DHCP
4 16 (5.97%) VPN
5 14 (5.22%) TCP/IP
6 10 (3.73%) Network Security
7 9 (3.36%) Wi-Fi
8 7 (2.61%) Remote Desktop
9 6 (2.24%) BGP
9 6 (2.24%) SAN
10 5 (1.87%) NAS
10 5 (1.87%) WAN
11 4 (1.49%) Internet
11 4 (1.49%) OpenLDAP
12 3 (1.12%) IPsec
12 3 (1.12%) LAN
12 3 (1.12%) MPLS
12 3 (1.12%) SD-WAN
13 2 (0.75%) 5G
13 2 (0.75%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (8.21%) SQL Server
2 16 (5.97%) Power BI
3 15 (5.60%) Azure SQL Database
3 15 (5.60%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (3.73%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (2.99%) Oracle Database
6 7 (2.61%) Data Lake
7 6 (2.24%) NoSQL
7 6 (2.24%) Redis
8 5 (1.87%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (1.87%) Couchbase
9 4 (1.49%) Amazon Redshift
9 4 (1.49%) MongoDB
9 4 (1.49%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.75%) Metadata
10 2 (0.75%) MySQL
11 1 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.37%) DB2
11 1 (0.37%) Scylla
11 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 23 (8.58%) Jenkins
2 19 (7.09%) Git
3 18 (6.72%) GitLab
4 11 (4.10%) JIRA
5 8 (2.99%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 7 (2.61%) Artifactory
7 6 (2.24%) Visual Studio
8 5 (1.87%) Selenium
9 4 (1.49%) Bitbucket
9 4 (1.49%) CppUnit
9 4 (1.49%) PVCS
9 4 (1.49%) Rational DOORS
10 2 (0.75%) JMeter
10 2 (0.75%) LoadRunner
10 2 (0.75%) Maven
10 2 (0.75%) Terragrunt
11 1 (0.37%) ERwin
11 1 (0.37%) IntelliJ
11 1 (0.37%) JUnit
11 1 (0.37%) Spinnaker
General
1 78 (29.10%) Social Skills
2 38 (14.18%) Finance
3 22 (8.21%) Public Sector
4 15 (5.60%) Banking
5 10 (3.73%) Financial Institution
5 10 (3.73%) Telecoms
6 9 (3.36%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.24%) German Language
8 4 (1.49%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (1.49%) Electronics
8 4 (1.49%) Local Government
9 3 (1.12%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.12%) Front Office
9 3 (1.12%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.12%) Marketing
9 3 (1.12%) Retail
10 2 (0.75%) Legal
11 1 (0.37%) Automotive
11 1 (0.37%) Billing
11 1 (0.37%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 38 (14.18%) Architect
2 25 (9.33%) Senior
3 22 (8.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 20 (7.46%) Azure Engineer
5 19 (7.09%) Developer
6 17 (6.34%) DevOps Engineer
7 15 (5.60%) Active Directory Support
7 15 (5.60%) Azure Specialist
7 15 (5.60%) Support Specialist
8 14 (5.22%) Active Directory Specialist
8 14 (5.22%) Analyst
9 12 (4.48%) Cloud Engineer
10 11 (4.10%) Lead
11 9 (3.36%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 9 (3.36%) Linux Engineer
11 9 (3.36%) Network Engineer
11 9 (3.36%) Senior Developer
12 8 (2.99%) Domain Architect
12 8 (2.99%) Platform Engineer
12 8 (2.99%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (7.84%) ARM Templates
2 19 (7.09%) Elastic Stack
3 18 (6.72%) XML
4 11 (4.10%) .NET
5 10 (3.73%) JSON
5 10 (3.73%) YAML
6 7 (2.61%) Microsoft Graph
6 7 (2.61%) REST
6 7 (2.61%) Web Services
7 6 (2.24%) LDAP
7 6 (2.24%) Spring
8 5 (1.87%) LAPP Stack
8 5 (1.87%) Node.js
8 5 (1.87%) RESTful
9 4 (1.49%) ASP.NET
9 4 (1.49%) pytest
9 4 (1.49%) SOAP
10 3 (1.12%) http4s
11 2 (0.75%) Lambda Expressions
11 2 (0.75%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 24 (8.96%) PKI
2 21 (7.84%) Driving Licence
3 19 (7.09%) Self-Motivation
4 18 (6.72%) Data Centre
5 13 (4.85%) Public Cloud
6 10 (3.73%) Onboarding
7 9 (3.36%) Linux Command Line
8 6 (2.24%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.87%) Replication
10 4 (1.49%) Contactless
10 4 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.49%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 3 (1.12%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
11 3 (1.12%) Private Cloud
12 2 (0.75%) Data Structures
12 2 (0.75%) Equities
12 2 (0.75%) IoT
12 2 (0.75%) Tandem
12 2 (0.75%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 97 (36.19%) Linux
2 86 (32.09%) Windows
3 37 (13.81%) Windows Server
4 28 (10.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 24 (8.96%) VMS
6 23 (8.58%) Windows Server 2016
6 23 (8.58%) Windows Server 2019
7 20 (7.46%) CentOS
8 13 (4.85%) Windows 10
9 11 (4.10%) Unix
10 9 (3.36%) Ubuntu
11 7 (2.61%) Windows 7
12 6 (2.24%) Oracle Linux
12 6 (2.24%) Solaris
13 5 (1.87%) Mac OS
13 5 (1.87%) Windows Server 2012
14 4 (1.49%) Alpine Linux
14 4 (1.49%) Embedded Linux
15 2 (0.75%) Mac OS X
16 1 (0.37%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (25.75%) CI/CD
2 61 (22.76%) DevOps
3 55 (20.52%) Agile
4 49 (18.28%) Infrastructure as Code
5 46 (17.16%) Migration
6 29 (10.82%) Disaster Recovery
6 29 (10.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 27 (10.07%) ITIL
8 24 (8.96%) RBAC
9 23 (8.58%) Release Management
10 22 (8.21%) Analytics
10 22 (8.21%) High Availability
11 21 (7.84%) Problem-Solving
12 20 (7.46%) Computer Science
12 20 (7.46%) Containerisation
13 19 (7.09%) Multi-Factor Authentication
14 18 (6.72%) Business Intelligence
14 18 (6.72%) Log Analytics
15 17 (6.34%) Identity Management
15 17 (6.34%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 50 (18.66%) SQL
2 49 (18.28%) Python
3 48 (17.91%) PowerShell
4 26 (9.70%) Bicep
5 21 (7.84%) Shell Script
6 20 (7.46%) VB
7 19 (7.09%) C#
8 16 (5.97%) Java
8 16 (5.97%) VBScript
9 14 (5.22%) Bash
10 10 (3.73%) C++
11 7 (2.61%) Go
12 5 (1.87%) Scala
13 4 (1.49%) C
14 3 (1.12%) Kotlin
14 3 (1.12%) VB.NET
15 2 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
15 2 (0.75%) PHP
15 2 (0.75%) Ruby
16 1 (0.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 60 (22.39%) Security Cleared
2 48 (17.91%) Degree
3 45 (16.79%) SC Cleared
4 29 (10.82%) DV Cleared
5 17 (6.34%) Azure Certification
6 16 (5.97%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 11 (4.10%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (2.99%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 7 (2.61%) CCNA
9 7 (2.61%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.49%) A+ Certification
10 4 (1.49%) AWS Certification
10 4 (1.49%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (1.49%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.49%) Network+ Certification
11 3 (1.12%) CCNP
11 3 (1.12%) ISEB
11 3 (1.12%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.75%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.73%) QA
2 7 (2.61%) SLA
3 3 (1.12%) ISO 9001
3 3 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 2 (0.75%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.37%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.37%) Def Stans
5 1 (0.37%) GDPR
5 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.37%) NIST
System Software
1 82 (30.60%) Active Directory
2 44 (16.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (7.46%) Docker
4 17 (6.34%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (5.60%) Hyper-V
5 15 (5.60%) KVM
6 11 (4.10%) vSphere
7 8 (2.99%) Firmware
8 7 (2.61%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (2.61%) VMware Workstation
9 4 (1.49%) VirtualBox
10 3 (1.12%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.75%) Ceph
11 2 (0.75%) PowerDNS
11 2 (0.75%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 1 (0.37%) iptables
12 1 (0.37%) LXC
12 1 (0.37%) RACF
12 1 (0.37%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.37%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 47 (17.54%) Kubernetes
2 37 (13.81%) Ansible
2 37 (13.81%) Terraform
3 24 (8.96%) Grafana
3 24 (8.96%) Prometheus
3 24 (8.96%) WSUS
4 21 (7.84%) Microsoft Intune
5 20 (7.46%) SCCM
6 17 (6.34%) SCOM
7 16 (5.97%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 14 (5.22%) Kibana
8 14 (5.22%) logstash
9 13 (4.85%) vCenter Server
10 10 (3.73%) Single Sign-On
11 5 (1.87%) Packer
11 5 (1.87%) ZABBIX
12 3 (1.12%) Nessus
13 2 (0.75%) CSIRT
13 2 (0.75%) Pacemaker
13 2 (0.75%) QRadar
Vendors
1 79 (29.48%) Microsoft
2 52 (19.40%) VMware
3 23 (8.58%) Red Hat
4 20 (7.46%) BT
4 20 (7.46%) Virgin Media
5 18 (6.72%) Oracle
6 9 (3.36%) Amdocs
6 9 (3.36%) Dell
6 9 (3.36%) Google
7 8 (2.99%) CA
7 8 (2.99%) Cisco
8 7 (2.61%) Palo Alto
9 5 (1.87%) SEEBURGER
10 4 (1.49%) SAP
11 3 (1.12%) F5
11 3 (1.12%) Juniper
11 3 (1.12%) New Relic
12 2 (0.75%) Dynatrace
12 2 (0.75%) Qualys
12 2 (0.75%) Splunk