Virtual Machines Contracts in Wales

Virtual Machine (VM)
UK > Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 46 61 73
Rank change year-on-year +15 +12 -14
Contract jobs citing Virtual Machines 1 2 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 0.25% 0.32% 0.79%
As % of the System Software category 2.50% 2.35% 4.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 8
10th Percentile - - £366
25th Percentile £413 £513 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% -4.55% +76.00%
75th Percentile £438 £538 £575
90th Percentile - - £579
UK median daily rate £501 £541 £525
% change year-on-year -7.53% +3.10% +5.00%

All System Software Skills
Wales

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 Wales with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 40 85 170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 9.95% 13.41% 16.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 72 133
10th Percentile £187 £146 £159
25th Percentile £339 £180 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -5.56% +20.00%
75th Percentile £531 £538 £575
90th Percentile £594 £629 £665
UK median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +9.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 3
10th Percentile £12.94 £13.10 £12.59
25th Percentile £13.98 £14.32 £13.12
Median hourly rate £15.84 £15.72 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.72% +12.30% -6.67%
75th Percentile £17.57 £17.02 £20.75
90th Percentile £18.53 £17.66 £24.80
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £53.35 £20.00
% change year-on-year -57.83% +166.75% -

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Machines in Wales

Virtual Machines
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Machines in Wales

Virtual Machines
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Machines in Wales

Virtual Machines
Contract Job Locations in Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 26 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
South Wales +15 1 £425 -19.05% 1
Virtual Machines
UK

Virtual Machines
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Core
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Privileged Access Management
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Terminal Services
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) VMware