Virtual Machines Contracts in Reading

Virtual Machine (VM)
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 79 80 84
Rank change year-on-year +1 +4 -27
Contract jobs citing Virtual Machines 17 6 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.43% 0.58% 1.12%
As % of the System Software category 9.88% 4.96% 8.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 5 13
10th Percentile - £525 -
25th Percentile £603 - £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £543 £625
Median % change year-on-year +11.42% -13.12% +89.79%
75th Percentile £608 £569 £725
90th Percentile £629 £610 £730
Berkshire median daily rate £605 £543 £625
% change year-on-year +11.42% -13.12% +89.39%

All System Software Skills
Reading

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 Reading with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 172 121 173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 14.48% 11.72% 12.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 90 131
10th Percentile £205 £386 £133
25th Percentile £519 £481 £348
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £581 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.09% +16.25% +11.11%
75th Percentile £610 £675 £625
90th Percentile £675 £701 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £575 £525 £475
% change year-on-year +9.52% +10.53% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 1
10th Percentile - £15.90 -
25th Percentile - £32.61 £9.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £50.00 £10.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% +400.00% -83.33%
75th Percentile - £63.75 £10.25
90th Percentile - £74.55 -
Berkshire median hourly rate £65.00 £54.78 £41.25
% change year-on-year +18.66% +32.80% -31.54%

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Machines in Reading

Virtual Machines
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Machines in Reading

Virtual Machines
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Machines in Reading

Virtual Machines
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 14 (82.35%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 15 (88.24%) Azure
1 15 (88.24%) Azure Monitor
1 15 (88.24%) Azure Storage
1 15 (88.24%) Entra ID
2 14 (82.35%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 15 (88.24%) DHCP
1 15 (88.24%) DNS
1 15 (88.24%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) MongoDB
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle Database
1 2 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) GitLab
2 1 (5.88%) Axure RP
General
1 15 (88.24%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (88.24%) Azure Specialist
2 14 (82.35%) Active Directory Specialist
2 14 (82.35%) Active Directory Support
2 14 (82.35%) Support Specialist
3 2 (11.76%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (82.35%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 15 (88.24%) PKI
1 15 (88.24%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (11.76%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 16 (94.12%) Linux
2 15 (88.24%) Windows
3 14 (82.35%) Windows Server
3 14 (82.35%) Windows Server 2016
3 14 (82.35%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (11.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (11.76%) Unix
4 2 (11.76%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (88.24%) Agile
1 15 (88.24%) Analytics
1 15 (88.24%) Identity Management
1 15 (88.24%) ITIL
1 15 (88.24%) Log Analytics
1 15 (88.24%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 15 (88.24%) Privileged Identity Management
1 15 (88.24%) RBAC
1 15 (88.24%) Release Management
1 15 (88.24%) Service Management
2 14 (82.35%) CI/CD
2 14 (82.35%) DevOps
2 14 (82.35%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (11.76%) Containerisation
3 2 (11.76%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 15 (88.24%) C#
1 15 (88.24%) PowerShell
1 15 (88.24%) VB
1 15 (88.24%) VBScript
2 14 (82.35%) Bicep
3 2 (11.76%) Bash
3 2 (11.76%) Python
3 2 (11.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 17 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (88.24%) DV Cleared
2 15 (88.24%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 14 (82.35%) Degree
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 15 (88.24%) Active Directory
1 15 (88.24%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (11.76%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 15 (88.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 15 (88.24%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (88.24%) SCCM
2 15 (88.24%) SCOM
2 15 (88.24%) WSUS
3 2 (11.76%) Ansible
3 2 (11.76%) Packer
3 2 (11.76%) vRealize
Vendors
1 14 (82.35%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) Oracle
2 2 (11.76%) Red Hat
2 2 (11.76%) VMware