Virtual Machines Contracts in London

Virtual Machine (VM)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 276 315 387
Rank change year-on-year +39 +72 -38
Contract jobs citing Virtual Machines 118 181 225
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.67% 0.67% 0.58%
As % of the System Software category 6.66% 5.73% 4.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 114 152
10th Percentile £249 £370 £383
25th Percentile £425 £474 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £638 £669 £678
90th Percentile £775 £738 £834
England median daily rate £513 £545 £525
% change year-on-year -5.96% +3.81% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £31.85 -
25th Percentile - £41.75 £31.25
Median hourly rate - £62.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year - +90.77% -
75th Percentile - £84.75 £33.75
90th Percentile - £96.15 -
England median hourly rate £14.63 £66.00 £47.73
% change year-on-year -77.84% +38.28% +8.48%

All System Software Skills
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 London with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,771 3,161 5,153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.00% 11.67% 13.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,254 2,314 3,842
10th Percentile £213 £250 £325
25th Percentile £363 £445 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +2.22% +7.14%
75th Percentile £615 £688 £675
90th Percentile £723 £775 £750
England median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 42 46
10th Percentile £17.23 £15.73 £14.75
25th Percentile £20.50 £22.85 £20.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £45.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +83.67% -44.94%
75th Percentile £25.00 £73.63 £43.94
90th Percentile £48.89 £85.00 £73.13
England median hourly rate £21.00 £50.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -58.00% +163.16% -

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Machines in London

Virtual Machines
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Machines in London

Virtual Machines
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Machines in London

Virtual Machines
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Machines in London

Virtual Machines
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 Machines within the 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
Central London +30 22 £558 -0.45% 3
West London +17 1 £250 -53.49% 6
East London - 1 - - 3
Virtual Machines
England

Virtual Machines
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 26 (22.03%) OpenStack
2 6 (5.08%) nginx
3 5 (4.24%) Apache
4 4 (3.39%) IIS
5 3 (2.54%) Confluence
6 2 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (1.69%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 55 (46.61%) Azure
2 22 (18.64%) AWS
3 17 (14.41%) Entra ID
4 15 (12.71%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (11.02%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (9.32%) PaaS
7 10 (8.47%) Slack
8 9 (7.63%) Power Platform
9 8 (6.78%) Azure Key Vault
10 7 (5.93%) Azure Data Factory
10 7 (5.93%) GCP
10 7 (5.93%) GitHub
10 7 (5.93%) Power Automate
10 7 (5.93%) PowerApps
11 6 (5.08%) IaaS
12 5 (4.24%) Amazon Kinesis
12 5 (4.24%) Azure Logic Apps
13 4 (3.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 4 (3.39%) Serverless
14 3 (2.54%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 15 (12.71%) Firewall
2 14 (11.86%) DNS
3 7 (5.93%) Network Security
4 4 (3.39%) BGP
4 4 (3.39%) SAN
4 4 (3.39%) VPN
5 3 (2.54%) NAS
5 3 (2.54%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.69%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (1.69%) DHCP
6 2 (1.69%) InfiniBand
6 2 (1.69%) Internet
6 2 (1.69%) OpenLDAP
6 2 (1.69%) WAN
7 1 (0.85%) LAN
7 1 (0.85%) MPLS
7 1 (0.85%) MQTT
7 1 (0.85%) NGFW
7 1 (0.85%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.85%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (11.86%) Elasticsearch
2 13 (11.02%) SQL Server
3 9 (7.63%) Power BI
4 7 (5.93%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (5.08%) NoSQL
6 5 (4.24%) Couchbase
6 5 (4.24%) Oracle Database
7 4 (3.39%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (2.54%) Data Lake
9 2 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.69%) Metadata
9 2 (1.69%) MongoDB
9 2 (1.69%) MySQL
10 1 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 1 (0.85%) Redis
10 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 17 (14.41%) Jenkins
2 9 (7.63%) Git
2 9 (7.63%) GitLab
3 5 (4.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 4 (3.39%) JIRA
5 2 (1.69%) JMeter
5 2 (1.69%) LoadRunner
5 2 (1.69%) Maven
5 2 (1.69%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.85%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.85%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.85%) ERwin
6 1 (0.85%) Gradle
6 1 (0.85%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.85%) JUnit
6 1 (0.85%) Selenium
6 1 (0.85%) Spinnaker
6 1 (0.85%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.85%) TestNG
General
1 28 (23.73%) Finance
2 17 (14.41%) Social Skills
3 9 (7.63%) Telecoms
4 8 (6.78%) Banking
5 7 (5.93%) Financial Institution
6 6 (5.08%) Public Sector
7 5 (4.24%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.54%) Electronics
8 3 (2.54%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.54%) Marketing
8 3 (2.54%) Retail
9 2 (1.69%) German Language
10 1 (0.85%) Analytical Skills
10 1 (0.85%) Aviation
10 1 (0.85%) Billing
10 1 (0.85%) French Language
10 1 (0.85%) Legal
10 1 (0.85%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 23 (19.49%) Architect
2 17 (14.41%) Developer
3 13 (11.02%) Senior
4 10 (8.47%) DevOps Engineer
5 9 (7.63%) Lead
5 9 (7.63%) Senior Developer
6 8 (6.78%) Technical Leader
7 7 (5.93%) Azure Engineer
7 7 (5.93%) Platform Architect
7 7 (5.93%) Power Platform Architect
8 6 (5.08%) Software Developer
9 5 (4.24%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (4.24%) Infrastructure Architect
9 5 (4.24%) Oracle Architect
9 5 (4.24%) Senior Software Developer
9 5 (4.24%) Server Engineer
9 5 (4.24%) Systems Architect
10 4 (3.39%) Azure Developer
10 4 (3.39%) Azure DevOps Engineer
10 4 (3.39%) IT Security Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (16.10%) Elastic Stack
2 13 (11.02%) XML
3 8 (6.78%) JSON
4 7 (5.93%) Microsoft Graph
4 7 (5.93%) REST
5 6 (5.08%) ARM Templates
5 6 (5.08%) Spring
6 5 (4.24%) .NET
6 5 (4.24%) LAPP Stack
7 4 (3.39%) ASP.NET
7 4 (3.39%) LDAP
8 3 (2.54%) Node.js
8 3 (2.54%) Web Services
9 2 (1.69%) http4s
9 2 (1.69%) Java EE
9 2 (1.69%) Kafka
9 2 (1.69%) OpenTelemetry
10 1 (0.85%) GraphQL
10 1 (0.85%) Lambda Expressions
10 1 (0.85%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.47%) Onboarding
2 7 (5.93%) Public Cloud
3 5 (4.24%) Data Centre
3 5 (4.24%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.39%) Contactless
4 4 (3.39%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.54%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (2.54%) PKI
5 3 (2.54%) Replication
6 2 (1.69%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.69%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.69%) Equities
6 2 (1.69%) IoT
6 2 (1.69%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.69%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (0.85%) Cloud Security Posture
7 1 (0.85%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 53 (44.92%) Linux
2 31 (26.27%) Windows
3 20 (16.95%) CentOS
4 16 (13.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (9.32%) VMS
6 10 (8.47%) Windows Server
7 6 (5.08%) Ubuntu
7 6 (5.08%) Unix
8 5 (4.24%) Oracle Linux
8 5 (4.24%) Solaris
9 3 (2.54%) Mac OS
9 3 (2.54%) Windows 10
9 3 (2.54%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (1.69%) Mac OS X
10 2 (1.69%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.85%) Android
11 1 (0.85%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (34.75%) CI/CD
2 31 (26.27%) DevOps
3 24 (20.34%) Agile
4 22 (18.64%) Disaster Recovery
5 21 (17.80%) Infrastructure as Code
6 14 (11.86%) Observability
7 13 (11.02%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (10.17%) High Availability
9 11 (9.32%) Business Intelligence
9 11 (9.32%) Migration
10 8 (6.78%) Network Virtualisation
10 8 (6.78%) Performance Tuning
11 7 (5.93%) Computer Science
11 7 (5.93%) Configuration Management
11 7 (5.93%) Scrum
11 7 (5.93%) Validation
11 7 (5.93%) XML Parsing
12 5 (4.24%) Security Testing
12 5 (4.24%) SIEM
12 5 (4.24%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (27.12%) Python
2 24 (20.34%) PowerShell
3 22 (18.64%) SQL
4 19 (16.10%) Shell Script
5 13 (11.02%) Java
6 10 (8.47%) Bash
7 7 (5.93%) Go
8 6 (5.08%) Bicep
9 4 (3.39%) Scala
9 4 (3.39%) VB
10 2 (1.69%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.85%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.85%) Perl
11 1 (0.85%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.85%) VBA
Qualifications
1 15 (12.71%) Security Cleared
2 11 (9.32%) Degree
3 8 (6.78%) SC Cleared
4 7 (5.93%) Azure Certification
5 5 (4.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (4.24%) DV Cleared
6 4 (3.39%) AWS Certification
6 4 (3.39%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (1.69%) GCIA
7 2 (1.69%) GCIH
7 2 (1.69%) GIAC
8 1 (0.85%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.69%) QA
2 1 (0.85%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.85%) GDPR
2 1 (0.85%) NIST
2 1 (0.85%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (17.80%) Active Directory
2 9 (7.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (6.78%) Firmware
4 7 (5.93%) Docker
4 7 (5.93%) KVM
5 2 (1.69%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.69%) PowerDNS
6 1 (0.85%) iptables
6 1 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.85%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.85%) VMware Server
6 1 (0.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (22.03%) Ansible
2 21 (17.80%) Terraform
3 20 (16.95%) Grafana
3 20 (16.95%) Prometheus
4 14 (11.86%) Kibana
4 14 (11.86%) logstash
5 13 (11.02%) Kubernetes
6 5 (4.24%) ZABBIX
7 2 (1.69%) CSIRT
7 2 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (1.69%) Nessus
7 2 (1.69%) Packer
7 2 (1.69%) QRadar
8 1 (0.85%) Dell DRAC
8 1 (0.85%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.85%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.85%) SCCM
8 1 (0.85%) Trend Micro Deep Security
8 1 (0.85%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.85%) WSUS
Vendors
1 31 (26.27%) Microsoft
2 14 (11.86%) Red Hat
3 13 (11.02%) VMware
4 11 (9.32%) Oracle
5 9 (7.63%) Amdocs
6 8 (6.78%) Dell
7 7 (5.93%) Google
8 5 (4.24%) SEEBURGER
9 3 (2.54%) Cisco
9 3 (2.54%) New Relic
9 3 (2.54%) SAP
10 2 (1.69%) Adobe
10 2 (1.69%) BeyondTrust
10 2 (1.69%) Commvault
10 2 (1.69%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (1.69%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.69%) Juniper
10 2 (1.69%) NVIDIA
10 2 (1.69%) Omniture
10 2 (1.69%) Palo Alto