Virtual Machines Contract Job Trends in Eastleigh

Virtual Machine (VM)
Hampshire > Eastleigh

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Eastleigh requiring Virtual Machines skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Virtual Machines 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Eastleigh 5.00% - -
As % of the System Software category 25.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
Hampshire median daily rate £380 £350 £513
% change year-on-year +8.57% -31.71% -8.32%

All System Software Skills
Eastleigh

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 Eastleigh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Eastleigh 20.00% 13.33% 6.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £473 £223 -
25th Percentile £506 £256 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £313 £500
Median % change year-on-year +72.00% -37.50% -
75th Percentile £550 £369 -
90th Percentile - £403 -
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% -3.64%

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in Eastleigh

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

Virtual Machines job vacancy trend in Eastleigh

Virtual Machines
Daily Rate Trend in Eastleigh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Eastleigh citing Virtual Machines.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Eastleigh citing Virtual Machines

Virtual Machines
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Eastleigh 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
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft