Virtual Machines Contracts in the South West

Virtual Machine (VM)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 139 155 142
Rank change year-on-year +16 -13 -19
Contract jobs citing Virtual Machines 13 19 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.41% 0.52% 0.89%
As % of the System Software category 3.62% 3.29% 5.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 14 27
10th Percentile £333 £406 £378
25th Percentile £372 £427 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £439 £513 £470
Median % change year-on-year -14.30% +9.04% +1.62%
75th Percentile - £617 £589
90th Percentile £500 £639 £594
England median daily rate £513 £545 £525
% change year-on-year -5.96% +3.81% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
Median hourly rate £14.00 £66.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -78.79% - -
England median hourly rate £14.63 £66.00 £47.73
% change year-on-year -77.84% +38.28% +8.48%

All System Software Skills
South West

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 South West with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 359 578 621
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 11.34% 15.87% 16.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 439 443
10th Percentile £153 £200 £185
25th Percentile £265 £350 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% +2.56% +11.43%
75th Percentile £588 £623 £575
90th Percentile £700 £725 £649
England median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 43 20
10th Percentile - £13.69 £15.79
25th Percentile £40.00 £17.38 £36.12
Median hourly rate £68.75 £60.00 £49.49
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% +21.24% +23.99%
75th Percentile £86.25 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £90.00 £78.56 £61.74
England median hourly rate £21.00 £50.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -58.00% +163.16% -

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Machines in the South West

Virtual Machines
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtual Machines in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Virtual Machines in the South West

Virtual Machines
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Machines in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Virtual Machines in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Machines in the South West

Virtual Machines
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West 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
Bristol +22 6 £439 +4.89% 3
Gloucestershire +3 2 £450 -10.00% 2
Somerset +2 2 - - 1
Dorset - 2 - - 1
Wiltshire -8 1 £225 -62.03% 1
Virtual Machines
England

Virtual Machines
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 8 (61.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (7.69%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (69.23%) Azure
1 9 (69.23%) Entra ID
2 7 (53.85%) Azure Logic Apps
2 7 (53.85%) Dynamics 365
2 7 (53.85%) Power Platform
3 4 (30.77%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (23.08%) WhatsApp
5 2 (15.38%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (15.38%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (61.54%) Firewall
2 1 (7.69%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (53.85%) Power BI
2 6 (46.15%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 4 (30.77%) Local Government
2 1 (7.69%) Legal
2 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (38.46%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Applications Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Help Desk Support
4 1 (7.69%) Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Help Desk Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) ICT Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) ICT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) IT Support
4 1 (7.69%) IT Support Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) Senior
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Support Technician
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Technical Support
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Technician
4 1 (7.69%) Support Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) Support Technician
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Support
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
1 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (7.69%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (61.54%) VMS
2 5 (38.46%) Windows
3 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
3 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Containerisation
1 8 (61.54%) Migration
2 7 (53.85%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (46.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (15.38%) Cost Control
5 1 (7.69%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 8 (61.54%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
1 1 (7.69%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 11 (84.62%) Active Directory
2 3 (23.08%) Hyper-V
2 3 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (61.54%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (7.69%) SCCM
2 1 (7.69%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) CA
2 3 (23.08%) VMware
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.69%) McAfee