Virtual Machines Contracts in the East Midlands

Virtual Machine (VM)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 68 75
Rank change year-on-year +5 +7 +6
Contract jobs citing Virtual Machines 3 1 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.42% 0.11% 0.70%
As % of the System Software category 4.05% 0.87% 4.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile £473 - £468
25th Percentile £488 £563 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £513
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +12.20% +162.82%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £553
90th Percentile £578 - £581
England median daily rate £507 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -7.86% +4.76% -

All System Software Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 74 115 154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 10.31% 13.22% 15.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 78 117
10th Percentile £200 £157 £122
25th Percentile £335 £253 £198
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £429 £375 £350
Median % change year-on-year +14.40% +7.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £530 £497 £565
90th Percentile £550 £568 £694
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 14
10th Percentile - - £12.87
25th Percentile - £45.22 £13.57
Median hourly rate £15.09 £48.56 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -68.93% +131.24% +9.09%
75th Percentile - £51.91 £55.37
90th Percentile - - £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.50 £22.23 £50.00
% change year-on-year +32.73% -55.55% +150.00%

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Machines in the East Midlands

Virtual Machines
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtual Machines in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Virtual Machines in the East Midlands

Virtual Machines
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Virtual Machines in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Machines in the East Midlands

Virtual Machines
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 July 2025. 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
Leicestershire - 2 £475 - 1
Nottinghamshire - 1 £575 -
Virtual Machines
England

Virtual Machines
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (33.33%) BizTalk Server
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure AKS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure API Management
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Event Grid
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (33.33%) IaaS
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) PaaS
2 1 (33.33%) SaaS
2 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) SSL
1 1 (33.33%) VLAN
1 1 (33.33%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) GCP Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) OAuth
1 1 (33.33%) OpenID
1 1 (33.33%) SAML
1 1 (33.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) PKI
1 1 (33.33%) Public Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) API Management
1 1 (33.33%) Business Case
1 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
1 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) FinOps
1 1 (33.33%) Fintech
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) IT Audit
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) RBAC
1 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
1 1 (33.33%) Secrets Management
1 1 (33.33%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Bash
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
1 1 (33.33%) VxRail
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Dell
1 1 (33.33%) Google
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Veeam
1 1 (33.33%) VMware
1 1 (33.33%) Zerto