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 23 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 104 141 151
Rank change year-on-year +37 +10 -11
Contract jobs citing Virtual Machines 23 25 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.05% 0.73% 0.94%
As % of the System Software category 8.78% 5.51% 6.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 15 26
10th Percentile £419 £443 £421
25th Percentile £425 £506 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £560 £558
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +0.45% +35.15%
75th Percentile £775 £738 £873
90th Percentile - £760 £938
Central London median daily rate £550 £560 £558
% change year-on-year -1.79% +0.45% +35.15%

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 262 454 592
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 12.01% 13.25% 14.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 299 487
10th Percentile £263 £200 £275
25th Percentile £400 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% +6.36% +4.76%
75th Percentile £685 £725 £675
90th Percentile £768 £788 £763
Central London median daily rate £500 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile - - £26.23
25th Percentile £21.25 £47.50 £27.69
Median hourly rate £40.00 £50.00 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +62.60% +33.70%
75th Percentile - £52.50 £33.19
90th Percentile £46.15 - £34.28
Central London median hourly rate £40.00 £37.50 £30.75
% change year-on-year +6.67% +21.95% +53.75%

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 23 June 2024.

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

Virtual Machines
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

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 City of London region over the 6 months to 23 June 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
London Bridge - 1 £501 -
Virtual Machines
Central London

Virtual Machines
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.35%) IIS
2 1 (4.35%) nginx
2 1 (4.35%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 14 (60.87%) Azure
2 9 (39.13%) Entra ID
3 8 (34.78%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (30.43%) Azure Key Vault
4 7 (30.43%) Power Platform
5 6 (26.09%) Power Automate
5 6 (26.09%) PowerApps
6 2 (8.70%) GitHub
7 1 (4.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (4.35%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (4.35%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (4.35%) AWS
7 1 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (4.35%) Datadog
7 1 (4.35%) GCP
7 1 (4.35%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 9 (39.13%) Firewall
2 5 (21.74%) Network Security
3 2 (8.70%) Cisco IOS
3 2 (8.70%) Internet
3 2 (8.70%) VPN
3 2 (8.70%) WAN
3 2 (8.70%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (4.35%) DNS
4 1 (4.35%) MQTT
4 1 (4.35%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (30.43%) Power BI
2 2 (8.70%) Oracle Database
3 1 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (4.35%) Data Lake
3 1 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.35%) DynamoDB
3 1 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (4.35%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.35%) Metadata
3 1 (4.35%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.35%) MySQL
3 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.35%) Scylla
3 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.70%) GitLab
2 2 (8.70%) Maven
3 1 (4.35%) Cucumber
3 1 (4.35%) Gradle
3 1 (4.35%) IntelliJ
3 1 (4.35%) JIRA
3 1 (4.35%) JUnit
3 1 (4.35%) Selenium
3 1 (4.35%) Spinnaker
3 1 (4.35%) TestNG
General
1 8 (34.78%) Finance
2 6 (26.09%) Financial Institution
2 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Retail
4 1 (4.35%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) Architect
2 6 (26.09%) Platform Architect
2 6 (26.09%) Power Platform Architect
3 5 (21.74%) Analyst
4 4 (17.39%) Systems Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Audio Visual Support
5 2 (8.70%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Monitoring Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) Oracle Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Security Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) Security Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Security Monitoring Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) SIEM Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) SOC Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) Technical Support
6 1 (4.35%) Python Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (26.09%) JSON
1 6 (26.09%) Microsoft Graph
1 6 (26.09%) REST
1 6 (26.09%) XML
2 1 (4.35%) .NET
2 1 (4.35%) ASP.NET
2 1 (4.35%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (4.35%) GraphQL
2 1 (4.35%) http4s
2 1 (4.35%) Kafka
2 1 (4.35%) Node.js
2 1 (4.35%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (4.35%) RESTful
2 1 (4.35%) Spring
2 1 (4.35%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Management Information System
2 4 (17.39%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (17.39%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (8.70%) Data Centre
3 2 (8.70%) IoT
3 2 (8.70%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (4.35%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.35%) Machine to Machine
4 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 11 (47.83%) Windows
2 10 (43.48%) Linux
3 4 (17.39%) Windows Server
4 3 (13.04%) Mac OS
5 2 (8.70%) Mac OS X
5 2 (8.70%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (8.70%) Solaris
5 2 (8.70%) VMS
5 2 (8.70%) Windows 10
6 1 (4.35%) Android
6 1 (4.35%) Apple iOS
6 1 (4.35%) CentOS
6 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (47.83%) CI/CD
2 7 (30.43%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (26.09%) Computer Science
3 6 (26.09%) Information Security
3 6 (26.09%) Network Virtualisation
3 6 (26.09%) Security Monitoring
3 6 (26.09%) Security Operations
3 6 (26.09%) XML Parsing
4 4 (17.39%) Cyber Threat Analysis
4 4 (17.39%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (17.39%) Incident Response
4 4 (17.39%) Information Assurance
4 4 (17.39%) Remediation Plan
4 4 (17.39%) SIEM
4 4 (17.39%) Threat Analysis
4 4 (17.39%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 3 (13.04%) Agile
5 3 (13.04%) Identity Management
5 3 (13.04%) Migration
5 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 9 (39.13%) PowerShell
2 3 (13.04%) Java
2 3 (13.04%) Python
3 1 (4.35%) Bash
3 1 (4.35%) Kotlin
3 1 (4.35%) Scala
3 1 (4.35%) Shell Script
3 1 (4.35%) SQL
3 1 (4.35%) T-SQL
3 1 (4.35%) VB
Qualifications
1 6 (26.09%) Degree
2 4 (17.39%) GCIA
2 4 (17.39%) GCIH
2 4 (17.39%) GIAC
3 2 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) COBIT
1 2 (8.70%) GDPR
1 2 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (8.70%) NCSC
1 2 (8.70%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.35%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (39.13%) Active Directory
2 3 (13.04%) Docker
3 2 (8.70%) KVM
3 2 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (4.35%) iptables
Systems Management
1 4 (17.39%) CSIRT
1 4 (17.39%) Nessus
1 4 (17.39%) QRadar
2 2 (8.70%) CASB
2 2 (8.70%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.70%) SCCM
2 2 (8.70%) SCOrch
2 2 (8.70%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (4.35%) Ansible
3 1 (4.35%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (4.35%) Grafana
3 1 (4.35%) Kibana
3 1 (4.35%) logstash
3 1 (4.35%) Prometheus
3 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (43.48%) Microsoft
2 6 (26.09%) Oracle
3 4 (17.39%) BeyondTrust
3 4 (17.39%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (8.70%) Cisco
4 2 (8.70%) Imperva
4 2 (8.70%) Netskope
4 2 (8.70%) Palo Alto
4 2 (8.70%) VMware
5 1 (4.35%) Amdocs
5 1 (4.35%) New Relic
5 1 (4.35%) Red Hat
5 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow