Virtual Machines Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Virtual Machine (VM)
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring Virtual Machines skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 57 71
Rank change year-on-year -20 +14 +14
Contract jobs citing Virtual Machines 4 2 6
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.32% 0.36% 0.57%
As % of the System Software category 4.49% 3.08% 5.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 6
10th Percentile £334 - £367
25th Percentile £441 £535 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £596 £570 £439
Median % change year-on-year +4.61% +29.77% +9.81%
75th Percentile £714 £605 -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £450 £535 £439
% change year-on-year -15.89% +21.80% -12.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £63.00 -
South West median hourly rate - £63.00 £14.00
% 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 89 65 106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 7.14% 11.69% 10.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 50 74
10th Percentile £372 £198 £236
25th Percentile £427 £218 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £445 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.55% -15.24% +23.53%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £628
90th Percentile £644 £629 £725
South West median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 2 18
10th Percentile £13.65 £63.22 £66.11
25th Percentile £19.64 £65.80 £69.09
Median hourly rate £65.00 £70.85 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% -11.44% +23.08%
75th Percentile £67.25 £75.15 £90.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.28 -
South West median hourly rate £62.50 £40.63 £68.75
% change year-on-year +53.85% -40.91% +14.58%

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Virtual Machines relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Virtual Machines job vacancy trend in Bristol

Virtual Machines
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Virtual Machines.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Virtual Machines

Virtual Machines
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Machines in Bristol over the 6 months to 13 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Machines in Bristol

Virtual Machines
Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Virtual Machines.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing Virtual Machines

Virtual Machines
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (50.00%) AWS CodePipeline
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (50.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) DNS
2 2 (50.00%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (25.00%) DHCP
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) Gradle
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Android Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Retrofit
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Android
2 1 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (25.00%) Android Development
2 1 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Single Responsibility Principle
2 1 (25.00%) Storage Management
2 1 (25.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) VMware