Virtual Machines Contract Job Trends, Contractor Rates & Related Skills in the City of Westminster

Virtual Machine (VM)
Central London > City of Westminster

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of Westminster requiring Virtual Machines skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 16 Aug 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	-	-	10
Rank change year-on-year	-	-	-
Contract jobs citing Virtual Machines	0	0	1
As % of all contract jobs in the City of Westminster	-	-	2.78%
As % of the System Software category	-	-	50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted	0	0	1
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	-	-	£575
Central London median daily rate	£550	£525	£500
% change year-on-year	+4.76%	+5.00%	-6.98%

All System Software Skills
City of Westminster

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 Westminster.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills	12	12	2
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster	17.14%	26.09%	5.56%
Number of daily rates quoted	7	7	2
10^th Percentile	£369	£355	£463
25^th Percentile	£506	£444	£481
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£600	£475	£513
Median % change year-on-year	+26.32%	-7.32%	+12.02%
75^th Percentile	£681	£613	£544
90^th Percentile	£763	£650	£563
Central London median daily rate	£525	£513	£531
% change year-on-year	+2.44%	-3.44%	-7.70%

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of Westminster

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