Virgin Media Contract Job Trends in England

Virgin Media
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring knowledge or experience of Virgin Media products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Virgin Media over the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Virgin Media.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 434 404 475
Rank change year-on-year -30 +71 +210
Contract jobs citing Virgin Media 84 126 109
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.30% 0.40% 0.27%
As % of the Vendors category 0.63% 0.88% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 110 83
10th Percentile £424 £475 £503
25th Percentile £509 £516 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £650
90th Percentile £688 £650 £795
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +4.35%

All Vendors
England

Virgin Media falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 13,434 14,291 18,226
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.74% 44.88% 44.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,538 8,563 12,089
10th Percentile £275 £300 £263
25th Percentile £404 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £619 £626 £643
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 664 483 626
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.00 £15.99 £20.06
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -21.35% +80.56%
75th Percentile £42.50 £65.00 £63.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £71.00 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £32.50 £43.85
% change year-on-year -26.15% -25.88% +82.71%

Virgin Media
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Virgin Media relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Virgin Media job vacancy trend in England

Virgin Media
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Virgin Media.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Virgin Media

Virgin Media
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virgin Media in England over the 6 months to 19 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Virgin Media in England

Virgin Media
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Virgin Media.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Virgin Media

Virgin Media
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Virgin Media within the England region over the 6 months to 19 October 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
South East +45 36 £600 +9.09% 7
London -41 36 £595 +8.18% 5
North of England -34 9 £420 -26.96% 9
North West -9 8 £423 -15.50% 5
Midlands -22 7 £675 +7.14% 2
West Midlands -18 6 £675 +7.14% 1
East of England - 2 £700 - 1
Yorkshire -24 1 £375 -40.48% 3
Virgin Media
UK

Virgin Media
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (3.57%) Umbraco
2 2 (2.38%) Anypoint
2 2 (2.38%) CMS
2 2 (2.38%) Mule
2 2 (2.38%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (1.19%) EPiServer
3 1 (1.19%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.38%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 27 (32.14%) Azure
2 8 (9.52%) AWS
3 5 (5.95%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (5.95%) Power Platform
4 4 (4.76%) Entra ID
4 4 (4.76%) GCP
4 4 (4.76%) GitHub
4 4 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (4.76%) Microsoft Purview
5 3 (3.57%) Serverless
6 2 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.38%) Azure AKS
6 2 (2.38%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (2.38%) Figma
6 2 (2.38%) Slack
6 2 (2.38%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.19%) Azure API Management
7 1 (1.19%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (1.19%) iPaaS
7 1 (1.19%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.95%) Power BI
2 2 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (2.38%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.19%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.19%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.19%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.19%) Oracle Database 11g
3 1 (1.19%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 2 (2.38%) JIRA
2 1 (1.19%) Cucumber
2 1 (1.19%) Cypress.io
2 1 (1.19%) Git
2 1 (1.19%) GitLab
2 1 (1.19%) Postman
2 1 (1.19%) Selenium
General
1 29 (34.52%) Public Sector
2 5 (5.95%) Social Skills
3 4 (4.76%) Telecoms
4 3 (3.57%) Marketing
5 1 (1.19%) Finance
5 1 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.19%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 28 (33.33%) Developer
2 25 (29.76%) Architect
3 12 (14.29%) Lead
4 8 (9.52%) Solutions Architect
5 7 (8.33%) Lead Developer
5 7 (8.33%) Python Developer
5 7 (8.33%) Ruby Developer
5 7 (8.33%) Salesforce Architect
6 6 (7.14%) Designer
6 6 (7.14%) React Developer
6 6 (7.14%) Salesforce Solution Architect
7 5 (5.95%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (5.95%) Cloud Developer
7 5 (5.95%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (5.95%) Java Developer
7 5 (5.95%) Security Architect
8 4 (4.76%) Azure Data Engineer
8 4 (4.76%) Azure Developer
8 4 (4.76%) Data Engineer
8 4 (4.76%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.33%) FastAPI
2 6 (7.14%) Spring Boot
3 5 (5.95%) RESTful
4 4 (4.76%) React
4 4 (4.76%) REST
4 4 (4.76%) Spring
5 3 (3.57%) .NET
6 2 (2.38%) CSS
6 2 (2.38%) HTML
6 2 (2.38%) Jest
6 2 (2.38%) Kafka
6 2 (2.38%) Sass
7 1 (1.19%) JSON
7 1 (1.19%) Node.js
7 1 (1.19%) Playwright
7 1 (1.19%) PySpark
7 1 (1.19%) SOAP
7 1 (1.19%) XML
7 1 (1.19%) XML Messaging
7 1 (1.19%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 67 (79.76%) Onboarding
2 2 (2.38%) Cloud Native
2 2 (2.38%) CUDA
2 2 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.19%) CCTV
3 1 (1.19%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (1.19%) SCADA
3 1 (1.19%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.38%) Windows
2 1 (1.19%) Linux
2 1 (1.19%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (11.90%) CI/CD
1 10 (11.90%) DevOps
2 9 (10.71%) AI
3 8 (9.52%) Generative AI
4 6 (7.14%) Design Patterns
5 5 (5.95%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (5.95%) Data Engineering
5 5 (5.95%) Full-Stack Development
5 5 (5.95%) Microservices
6 4 (4.76%) Agile
6 4 (4.76%) CQRS
7 3 (3.57%) Analytics
7 3 (3.57%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
7 3 (3.57%) Front End Development
7 3 (3.57%) Network Architecture
7 3 (3.57%) OOP
7 3 (3.57%) TDD
7 3 (3.57%) Validation
8 2 (2.38%) SOLID
8 2 (2.38%) Typography
Programming Languages
1 12 (14.29%) Python
2 8 (9.52%) Java
3 7 (8.33%) Ruby
4 5 (5.95%) SQL
5 3 (3.57%) C#
6 2 (2.38%) C++
6 2 (2.38%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.38%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.38%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.19%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (5.95%) SC Cleared
1 5 (5.95%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.19%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.19%) ISO 19650
1 1 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.19%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.19%) Docker
1 1 (1.19%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (1.19%) Argo
1 1 (1.19%) Data Guard
1 1 (1.19%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.19%) Oracle RMAN
1 1 (1.19%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (13.10%) Databricks
2 9 (10.71%) Salesforce
3 4 (4.76%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.57%) MuleSoft
4 3 (3.57%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.38%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.38%) Sitecore
6 1 (1.19%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.19%) Optimizely
6 1 (1.19%) Oracle
6 1 (1.19%) Palantir
6 1 (1.19%) Palo Alto