Virtual Machines Contracts in West Sussex

Virtual Machine (VM)
South East > West Sussex

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Sussex 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 22 48
Rank change year-on-year -8 +26 -9
Contract jobs citing Virtual Machines 8 23 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Sussex 3.17% 7.52% 1.85%
As % of the System Software category 14.04% 37.10% 13.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 15 6
10th Percentile £398 £266 £483
25th Percentile £413 £424 £566
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £583 £600
Median % change year-on-year -18.52% -2.83% -4.00%
75th Percentile £538 £587 £638
90th Percentile £590 - £663
South East median daily rate £538 £543 £575
% change year-on-year -1.01% -5.57% +43.75%

All System Software Skills
West Sussex

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 West Sussex with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 57 62 61
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 22.62% 20.26% 14.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 47 52
10th Percentile £360 £234 -
25th Percentile £413 £438 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £583 £475
Median % change year-on-year -20.67% +22.74% +3.26%
75th Percentile £500 £587 £606
90th Percentile £588 £593 £744
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £36.75 £10.75 -
Median hourly rate £38.50 £11.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +234.78% - -
75th Percentile £40.25 £12.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £53.19 £54.56 £20.00
% change year-on-year -2.52% +172.80% -9.09%

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Machines in West Sussex

Virtual Machines
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Machines in West Sussex

Virtual Machines
Daily Rate Histogram in West Sussex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Machines in West Sussex over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Machines in West Sussex

Virtual Machines
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Machines in West Sussex

Virtual Machines
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

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 Sussex region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
Crawley -7 3 £550 -6.30%
Worthing - 3 £475 -
East Grinstead - 2 £425 -
Virtual Machines
South East

Virtual Machines
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Sussex 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 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
1 2 (25.00%) NAS
1 2 (25.00%) SAN
2 1 (12.50%) DHCP
2 1 (12.50%) DNS
2 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Artifactory
2 1 (12.50%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) GitLab
2 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Senior
2 3 (37.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Automation Specialist
4 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Platform Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Middleware
1 2 (25.00%) YAML
2 1 (12.50%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (25.00%) Linux Command Line
1 2 (25.00%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Linux
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Ubuntu
2 1 (12.50%) Unix
2 1 (12.50%) VMS
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (37.50%) ITIL
2 3 (37.50%) Project Delivery
2 3 (37.50%) Roadmaps
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) High Availability
3 2 (25.00%) Matrix Organization
3 2 (25.00%) Product Roadmap
3 2 (25.00%) Remediation Plan
3 2 (25.00%) Runbook
4 1 (12.50%) Batch Scripting
4 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
4 1 (12.50%) Customer Experience
4 1 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (12.50%) Log Aggregation
4 1 (12.50%) RBAC
4 1 (12.50%) Re-Platforming
4 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery Management
4 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
1 1 (12.50%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) ISO 9001
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 1 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) vSphere
2 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 3 (37.50%) Docker
2 3 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (25.00%) Ceph
3 2 (25.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 2 (25.00%) VMware NSX
4 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
4 1 (12.50%) LXC
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Ansible
2 2 (25.00%) Pacemaker
2 2 (25.00%) Podman
2 2 (25.00%) Terraform
3 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
3 1 (12.50%) Packer
3 1 (12.50%) WSUS
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) VMware
2 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (25.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (25.00%) Sun