Virtual Machines Contracts in the City of London

Virtual Machine (VM)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London 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 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 104 141
Rank change year-on-year -11 +37 +20
Contract jobs citing Virtual Machines 6 22 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.34% 1.03% 0.81%
As % of the System Software category 3.70% 8.53% 5.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 20 18
10th Percentile £553 £401 £447
25th Percentile £613 £425 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £751 £513 £544
Median % change year-on-year +46.47% -5.70% -3.76%
75th Percentile - £738 £644
90th Percentile £848 £775 £738
Central London median daily rate £625 £538 £544
% change year-on-year +16.28% -1.15% -3.76%

All System Software Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 162 258 469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.11% 12.11% 13.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 190 315
10th Percentile £231 £262 £200
25th Percentile £408 £388 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £727
90th Percentile £701 £763 £808
Central London median daily rate £525 £507 £569
% change year-on-year +3.65% -10.95% +3.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 2
10th Percentile £22.95 £26.88 £23.88
25th Percentile £24.38 £35.31 £27.81
Median hourly rate £28.50 £40.00 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.75% +10.34% +36.79%
75th Percentile £108.88 £42.56 £45.31
90th Percentile £156.05 £47.18 £49.63
Central London median hourly rate £27.48 £40.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -31.31% +60.00% +7.53%

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Machines in the City of London

Virtual Machines
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtual Machines in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Virtual Machines in the City of London

Virtual Machines
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Machines in the City of London over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Machines in the City of London

Virtual Machines
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Virtual Machines in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Machines in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 4 (66.67%) AWS
3 3 (50.00%) Azure AKS
3 3 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (50.00%) Serverless
4 2 (33.33%) Azure Event Grid
4 2 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (33.33%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
4 2 (33.33%) GCP
4 2 (33.33%) IaaS
4 2 (33.33%) PaaS
4 2 (33.33%) SaaS
5 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (16.67%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
1 2 (33.33%) Network Security
2 1 (16.67%) IPsec
2 1 (16.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Architect
2 3 (50.00%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Architect
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365 Architect
3 2 (33.33%) Security Architect
3 2 (33.33%) Senior
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Architect
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Cloud Architect
4 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Cloud Security Architect
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) ARM Templates
1 2 (33.33%) Azure Blueprints
2 1 (16.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
1 2 (33.33%) Reinsurance
2 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (33.33%) Linux
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Cloud Security
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Migration
2 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Cost Management
3 2 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 2 (33.33%) High Availability
3 2 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) Zero Trust
4 1 (16.67%) Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) Blue Team
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (16.67%) Red Team
4 1 (16.67%) Regulatory Change
4 1 (16.67%) Security Architecture
4 1 (16.67%) Threat Modelling
4 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 3 (50.00%) Bicep
3 2 (33.33%) SQL
4 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) GDPR
2 2 (33.33%) SOC 2
3 1 (16.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (16.67%) HIPAA
3 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (16.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle