Virtual Machines Contracts in the Thames Valley

Virtual Machine (VM)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 114 126 131
Rank change year-on-year +12 +5 -12
Contract jobs citing Virtual Machines 26 25 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.97% 0.85% 1.15%
As % of the System Software category 7.47% 7.04% 7.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 18 31
10th Percentile £362 £385 £213
25th Percentile £500 £507 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £543 £625
Median % change year-on-year +11.47% -13.16% +89.39%
75th Percentile £608 £551 £700
90th Percentile £612 £578 £730
South East median daily rate £538 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% +27.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £65.00 £82.50
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year - -17.65% -
75th Percentile - £75.00 £87.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - £70.00 £84.00
% change year-on-year - -16.67% +97.65%

All System Software Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 348 355 526
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 12.97% 12.09% 15.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 265 394
10th Percentile £175 £230 £150
25th Percentile £310 £365 £346
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £481 £453
Median % change year-on-year +9.25% +6.20% +3.43%
75th Percentile £608 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £656
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 16 14
10th Percentile £16.25 £18.86 £10.92
25th Percentile £46.25 £48.18 £12.44
Median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £14.85
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +270.37% -32.50%
75th Percentile £65.00 £71.25 £20.00
90th Percentile - £78.56 £53.25
South East median hourly rate £50.75 £54.03 £20.00
% change year-on-year -6.07% +170.15% -4.76%

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Machines in the Thames Valley

Virtual Machines
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtual Machines in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Virtual Machines in the Thames Valley

Virtual Machines
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Machines in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Machines in the Thames Valley

Virtual Machines
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Virtual Machines in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Machines in the Thames Valley

Virtual Machines
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 29 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
Berkshire +3 25 £605 +11.42% 4
Oxfordshire +3 1 £400 -1.23% 1
Virtual Machines
South East

Virtual Machines
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 15 (57.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.85%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 22 (84.62%) Azure
2 18 (69.23%) Entra ID
3 16 (61.54%) Azure Monitor
3 16 (61.54%) Azure Storage
4 15 (57.69%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (19.23%) IaaS
6 2 (7.69%) AWS
6 2 (7.69%) Azure API Management
6 2 (7.69%) Azure Event Grid
6 2 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (7.69%) PaaS
6 2 (7.69%) SaaS
7 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 20 (76.92%) DNS
2 19 (73.08%) DHCP
2 19 (73.08%) Firewall
3 2 (7.69%) 3G
3 2 (7.69%) 4G
3 2 (7.69%) 5G
3 2 (7.69%) GPRS
3 2 (7.69%) Network Security
3 2 (7.69%) VPN
4 1 (3.85%) VoLTE
4 1 (3.85%) VoWiFi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) MongoDB
1 2 (7.69%) Oracle Database
1 2 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) GitLab
1 2 (7.69%) Visual Studio
2 1 (3.85%) Axure RP
2 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
General
1 19 (73.08%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (57.69%) Active Directory Support
1 15 (57.69%) Azure Specialist
2 14 (53.85%) Active Directory Specialist
2 14 (53.85%) Support Specialist
3 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Senior
3 3 (11.54%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Lead
4 2 (7.69%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Active Directory Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Active Directory Support Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Data Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Mobile Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (57.69%) ARM Templates
2 2 (7.69%) .NET
2 2 (7.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (61.54%) PKI
1 16 (61.54%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (7.69%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (7.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (73.08%) Windows
2 18 (69.23%) Windows Server
3 17 (65.38%) Linux
4 15 (57.69%) Windows Server 2016
4 15 (57.69%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (7.69%) Unix
5 2 (7.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (69.23%) DevOps
1 18 (69.23%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 16 (61.54%) Agile
2 16 (61.54%) Analytics
2 16 (61.54%) Identity Management
2 16 (61.54%) Infrastructure as Code
2 16 (61.54%) ITIL
2 16 (61.54%) Log Analytics
2 16 (61.54%) Privileged Identity Management
2 16 (61.54%) RBAC
2 16 (61.54%) Release Management
2 16 (61.54%) Service Management
3 15 (57.69%) CI/CD
4 3 (11.54%) Customer Service
4 3 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (11.54%) Mobile Device Management
5 2 (7.69%) Affinity Analysis
5 2 (7.69%) Continuous Deployment
5 2 (7.69%) Security Monitoring
5 2 (7.69%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 18 (69.23%) C#
2 16 (61.54%) PowerShell
2 16 (61.54%) VB
2 16 (61.54%) VBScript
3 15 (57.69%) Bicep
4 4 (15.38%) Python
5 2 (7.69%) Bash
5 2 (7.69%) Java
5 2 (7.69%) PHP
5 2 (7.69%) Ruby
5 2 (7.69%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.85%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (69.23%) SC Cleared
1 18 (69.23%) Security Cleared
2 16 (61.54%) DV Cleared
2 16 (61.54%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 15 (57.69%) Degree
4 3 (11.54%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (80.77%) Active Directory
2 16 (61.54%) Virtual Desktop
3 7 (26.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (11.54%) Docker
5 2 (7.69%) Hyper-V
5 2 (7.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (84.62%) Kubernetes
2 19 (73.08%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (73.08%) WSUS
3 16 (61.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 16 (61.54%) SCCM
3 16 (61.54%) SCOM
4 3 (11.54%) Ansible
4 3 (11.54%) vCenter Server
5 2 (7.69%) Packer
5 2 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (7.69%) vRealize
6 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (65.38%) Microsoft
2 7 (26.92%) VMware
3 2 (7.69%) Oracle
3 2 (7.69%) Red Hat