Virtual Machines Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Virtual Machine (VM)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Virtual Machines skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 58 52
Rank change year-on-year -18 -6 +42
Contract jobs citing Virtual Machines 1 2 12
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.12% 0.27% 1.51%
As % of the System Software category 1.20% 2.33% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 4
10th Percentile - £439 -
25th Percentile - £459 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £513 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +10.81% -28.85%
75th Percentile - £559 £591
90th Percentile - £576 £621
England median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -4.55%

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 83 86 108
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 9.67% 11.76% 13.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 49 80
10th Percentile £132 £182 £162
25th Percentile £200 £304 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £400 £338
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +18.52% +3.85%
75th Percentile £475 £475 £526
90th Percentile £575 £526 £592
England median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 7
10th Percentile £22.12 £18.65 £13.25
25th Percentile £24.07 £19.40 £14.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £21.26 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% +19.98% +14.32%
75th Percentile £25.36 £23.60 £21.50
90th Percentile £25.75 £24.62 £22.39
England median hourly rate £30.00 £50.00 £43.75
% change year-on-year -40.00% +14.29% +86.17%

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Virtual Machines job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Virtual Machines
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Virtual Machines.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Virtual Machines

Virtual Machines
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Virtual Machines.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Virtual Machines

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 6 November 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 - 1 - -
Virtual Machines
England

Virtual Machines
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VSAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) PKI
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) IT Audit
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Servers
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Dell
1 1 (100.00%) Veeam
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Zerto