Virtual Machines Contracts in the West Midlands

Virtual Machine (VM)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 98 117 162
Rank change year-on-year +19 +45 -50
Contract jobs citing Virtual Machines 11 22 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.57% 0.92% 0.39%
As % of the System Software category 6.92% 7.36% 3.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 15 8
10th Percentile £165 £263 £200
25th Percentile £378 £300 £247
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £375 £408
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -7.98% +15.60%
75th Percentile £483 £419 £519
90th Percentile £600 £720 £598
England median daily rate £513 £545 £525
% change year-on-year -5.96% +3.81% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £10.53
25th Percentile - - £10.56
Median hourly rate - - £11.25
75th Percentile - - £12.06
90th Percentile - - £12.18
England median hourly rate £14.63 £66.00 £47.73
% change year-on-year -77.84% +38.28% +8.48%

All System Software Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 159 299 449
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 8.26% 12.56% 12.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 199 317
10th Percentile £178 £158 £164
25th Percentile £231 £266 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £410
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +15.85% +17.14%
75th Percentile £566 £551 £538
90th Percentile £675 £700 £625
England median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 24
10th Percentile £14.41 £14.42 £11.63
25th Percentile £15.21 £15.98 £13.69
Median hourly rate £17.80 £17.72 £16.75
Median % change year-on-year +0.47% +5.78% +11.67%
75th Percentile £20.90 £51.19 £20.00
90th Percentile £22.61 £52.50 £22.78
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Machines in the West Midlands

Virtual Machines
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Machines in the West Midlands

Virtual Machines
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Machines in the West Midlands

Virtual Machines
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Machines in the West Midlands

Virtual Machines
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands 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
Birmingham +10 5 £413 +22.22% 1
Warwickshire +3 2 £158 -80.31% 2
Shropshire - 1 £523 -
Virtual Machines
England

Virtual Machines
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 9 (81.82%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (27.27%) Azure Service Bus
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (18.18%) IaaS
3 2 (18.18%) PaaS
4 1 (9.09%) Azure App Service
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Functions
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Storage
4 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
4 1 (9.09%) GitHub
4 1 (9.09%) Nutanix
4 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
4 1 (9.09%) SaaS
4 1 (9.09%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) DNS
1 2 (18.18%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) SQL Server
2 3 (27.27%) Relational Database
3 2 (18.18%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
4 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (9.09%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 3 (27.27%) Visual Studio
2 1 (9.09%) Hudson
2 1 (9.09%) JIRA
2 1 (9.09%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 3 (27.27%) Finance
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) German Language
2 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) QA Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Desktop Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Desktop Support
3 2 (18.18%) Desktop Support Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Support Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Administrator
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Administrator
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (45.45%) Windows
2 2 (18.18%) Windows 10
2 2 (18.18%) Windows Server
3 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (9.09%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) API Management
1 4 (36.36%) DevOps
1 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (27.27%) Migration
2 3 (27.27%) Software Testing
2 3 (27.27%) Test Automation
3 2 (18.18%) Agile
3 2 (18.18%) Data Architecture
3 2 (18.18%) Data Migration
3 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (18.18%) ITIL
3 2 (18.18%) Load Balancing
3 2 (18.18%) Project Delivery
3 2 (18.18%) Time Management
4 1 (9.09%) B2C
4 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Security
4 1 (9.09%) Cost Management
4 1 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) SQL
2 2 (18.18%) Bicep
2 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
3 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Azure Certification
2 3 (27.27%) ISEB
2 3 (27.27%) ISTQB
3 2 (18.18%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (18.18%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) QA
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Ansible
1 1 (9.09%) SCCM
1 1 (9.09%) SCOM
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Citrix
3 1 (9.09%) LogicMonitor