Virtual Machines Contracts in Bristol

Virtual Machine (VM)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol requiring Virtual Machines skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Machines over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 68 97
Rank change year-on-year +15 +29 -3
Contract jobs citing Virtual Machines 2 6 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 0.37% 0.57% 0.32%
As % of the System Software category 3.17% 5.77% 3.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 2
10th Percentile - £367 £402
25th Percentile £535 £388 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £439 £419
Median % change year-on-year +29.77% +4.89% -20.24%
75th Percentile £605 - £442
90th Percentile - - £451
South West median daily rate £535 £439 £513
% change year-on-year +21.80% -14.30% +11.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.50 - -
Median hourly rate £63.00 - £66.00
75th Percentile £64.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £63.00 £14.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year +350.00% -78.79% -

All System Software Skills
Bristol

Virtual Machines falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 63 104 109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 11.73% 9.84% 8.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 71 80
10th Percentile £198 £225 £163
25th Percentile £213 £435 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £400
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +31.25% -14.89%
75th Percentile £600 £647 £566
90th Percentile £674 £725 £641
South West median daily rate £550 £508 £500
% change year-on-year +8.37% +1.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 18 7
10th Percentile £63.22 £66.11 £43.90
25th Percentile £65.80 £69.09 -
Median hourly rate £70.85 £80.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.44% +23.08% +271.43%
75th Percentile £75.15 £90.00 -
90th Percentile £77.28 - £65.40
South West median hourly rate £40.63 £68.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year -40.91% +14.58% +21.24%

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Machines in Bristol

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Machines in Bristol

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Machines in Bristol

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 (50.00%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Electronics
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Information Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Information Systems Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Business Case
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Strategy
1 1 (50.00%) Information Management
1 1 (50.00%) Programme Management
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) SAP