Virtual Machines Contracts in the East of England

Virtual Machine (VM)
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for Virtual Machines skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Virtual Machines over the 6 months to 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 98 101 122
Rank change year-on-year +3 +21 -25
Contract jobs citing Virtual Machines 14 22 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.73% 1.06% 0.93%
As % of the System Software category 8.59% 6.16% 5.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 14 18
10th Percentile £348 £343 £338
25th Percentile £436 £431 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £602 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +20.40% +5.26% -4.90%
75th Percentile £669 £569 £494
90th Percentile £685 £575 £536
England median daily rate £513 £545 £525
% change year-on-year -5.96% +3.81% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 0
10th Percentile - £21.31 -
25th Percentile £86.25 £22.97 -
Median hourly rate £87.50 £24.62 -
Median % change year-on-year +255.40% - -
75th Percentile £89.06 £65.25 -
90th Percentile £89.63 £67.60 -
England median hourly rate £14.63 £66.00 £47.73
% change year-on-year -77.84% +38.28% +8.48%

All System Software Skills
East of England

Virtual Machines is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 163 357 438
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 8.54% 17.28% 17.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 244 302
10th Percentile £175 £165 £143
25th Percentile £225 £239 £236
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £430 £425
Median % change year-on-year -1.16% +1.18% +3.03%
75th Percentile £556 £587 £538
90th Percentile £713 £700 £625
England median daily rate £494 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -5.95% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 41 54
10th Percentile - £14.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.50 £14.25
Median hourly rate £14.16 £24.62 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.49% +58.84% -15.16%
75th Percentile £18.00 £65.75 £19.50
90th Percentile £81.75 £70.00 £25.70
England median hourly rate £21.00 £50.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -58.00% +163.16% -

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Machines in the East of England

Virtual Machines
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Machines in the East of England

Virtual Machines
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Machines in the East of England over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Machines in the East of England

Virtual Machines
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Machines in the East of England

Virtual Machines
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Hertfordshire +5 13 £650 +18.18% 7
Bedfordshire -2 1 £513 +230.91%
Virtual Machines
England

Virtual Machines
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 3 (21.43%) IIS
2 2 (14.29%) Tomcat
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) CppUnit
1 4 (28.57%) PVCS
1 4 (28.57%) Rational DOORS
General
1 3 (21.43%) Aerospace
2 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Validation Engineer
1 4 (28.57%) Verification Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Applications Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Applications Support
3 2 (14.29%) Applications Support Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Design Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Designer
3 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Design Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Designer
3 2 (14.29%) Support Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Software Validation Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Software Verification Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) PKI
2 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (42.86%) Windows Server 2019
2 5 (35.71%) Linux
2 5 (35.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (35.71%) Windows Server 2016
3 3 (21.43%) Windows
3 3 (21.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Migration
2 5 (35.71%) High Availability
2 5 (35.71%) Project Delivery
2 5 (35.71%) Roadmaps
2 5 (35.71%) Technology Roadmap
3 4 (28.57%) Code Coverage
3 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (28.57%) Requirements Analysis
3 4 (28.57%) Test Planning
3 4 (28.57%) Unit Testing
3 4 (28.57%) Validation
3 4 (28.57%) Verification and Validation
4 2 (14.29%) Change Management
4 2 (14.29%) Problem Management
4 2 (14.29%) Release Management
4 2 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (14.29%) Security Patching
4 2 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
5 1 (7.14%) Server Migrations
5 1 (7.14%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) C
1 4 (28.57%) C++
2 2 (14.29%) SQL
3 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 7 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 5 (35.71%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (64.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (57.14%) Active Directory
3 1 (7.14%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Nessus
1 1 (7.14%) SCCM
1 1 (7.14%) WSUS
Vendors
1 9 (64.29%) VMware
2 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 5 (35.71%) Red Hat
3 1 (7.14%) Qualys