Virtual Machines Contracts in England

Virtual Machine (VM)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 307 310 391
Rank change year-on-year +3 +81 +1
Contract jobs citing Virtual Machines 264 376 456
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.72% 0.77% 0.65%
As % of the System Software category 6.60% 5.91% 4.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 251 302
10th Percentile £301 £338 £350
25th Percentile £403 £456 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.96% +3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £630
90th Percentile £675 £725 £729
UK median daily rate £507 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -6.20% +2.86% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 16 9
10th Percentile - £22.97 £27.10
25th Percentile £14.06 £25.09 £37.25
Median hourly rate £14.63 £66.00 £50.77
Median % change year-on-year -77.84% +30.00% +15.39%
75th Percentile £15.19 £70.56 £84.00
90th Percentile £88.75 £82.50 £85.30
UK median hourly rate £14.63 £66.00 £50.77
% change year-on-year -77.84% +30.00% +19.46%

All System Software Skills
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 England with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,000 6,362 9,822
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.86% 12.95% 13.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,788 4,605 7,110
10th Percentile £197 £204 £196
25th Percentile £325 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £634
90th Percentile £688 £738 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 212 235 276
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.36 £13.40
25th Percentile £14.48 £17.74 £15.00
Median hourly rate £21.00 £50.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.00% +150.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £58.69 £65.38 £33.28
90th Percentile £74.63 £75.65 £56.27
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £54.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -58.33% +170.00% -

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Machines in England

Virtual Machines
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Machines in England

Virtual Machines
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Machines in England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Machines in England

Virtual Machines
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Machines in England

Virtual Machines
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Virtual Machines in England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Virtual Machines in England

Virtual Machines
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 Virtual Machines within the England region over the 6 months to 8 May 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
London +40 114 £535 -2.73% 41
South East -3 46 £538 -2.27% 18
North of England +36 42 £588 +11.90% 13
Yorkshire +44 27 £340 -35.24% 6
North West +15 15 £618 +19.95% 5
East of England -4 14 £602 +20.40% 8
Midlands +15 13 £400 -3.03% 16
South West +12 13 £439 -14.30% 15
West Midlands +14 11 £400 +6.67% 6
East Midlands +15 2 £325 -38.10% 10
Virtual Machines
UK

Virtual Machines
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 30 (11.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 25 (9.47%) OpenStack
3 9 (3.41%) Confluence
4 7 (2.65%) IIS
5 6 (2.27%) nginx
6 5 (1.89%) Apache
7 2 (0.76%) SharePoint
7 2 (0.76%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.38%) CICS
Applications
1 5 (1.89%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.38%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 115 (43.56%) Azure
2 48 (18.18%) Entra ID
3 40 (15.15%) Microsoft 365
4 31 (11.74%) AWS
5 24 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (8.71%) Azure Storage
7 21 (7.95%) Azure Monitor
8 19 (7.20%) PaaS
9 17 (6.44%) Azure Logic Apps
9 17 (6.44%) Power Platform
10 16 (6.06%) IaaS
11 11 (4.17%) Azure Key Vault
12 9 (3.41%) Serverless
13 8 (3.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 8 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
13 8 (3.03%) GCP
13 8 (3.03%) GitHub
13 8 (3.03%) Slack
14 7 (2.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 7 (2.65%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 57 (21.59%) Firewall
2 50 (18.94%) DNS
3 38 (14.39%) DHCP
4 17 (6.44%) VPN
5 15 (5.68%) TCP/IP
6 11 (4.17%) Network Security
7 9 (3.41%) Wi-Fi
8 7 (2.65%) Remote Desktop
9 5 (1.89%) NAS
9 5 (1.89%) SAN
9 5 (1.89%) WAN
10 4 (1.52%) BGP
10 4 (1.52%) Internet
10 4 (1.52%) OpenLDAP
11 3 (1.14%) IPsec
11 3 (1.14%) LAN
11 3 (1.14%) MPLS
11 3 (1.14%) SD-WAN
12 2 (0.76%) 5G
12 2 (0.76%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (7.95%) SQL Server
2 16 (6.06%) Power BI
3 14 (5.30%) Azure SQL Database
4 13 (4.92%) Elasticsearch
5 10 (3.79%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (3.03%) Oracle Database
7 7 (2.65%) Data Lake
8 6 (2.27%) NoSQL
8 6 (2.27%) Redis
9 5 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (1.89%) Couchbase
10 4 (1.52%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (1.52%) MongoDB
10 4 (1.52%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.76%) MySQL
12 1 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.38%) DB2
12 1 (0.38%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 1 (0.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 21 (7.95%) Jenkins
2 19 (7.20%) Git
3 18 (6.82%) GitLab
4 11 (4.17%) JIRA
5 8 (3.03%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 7 (2.65%) Artifactory
6 7 (2.65%) Visual Studio
7 5 (1.89%) Selenium
8 4 (1.52%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.52%) CppUnit
8 4 (1.52%) PVCS
8 4 (1.52%) Rational DOORS
9 2 (0.76%) JMeter
9 2 (0.76%) LoadRunner
9 2 (0.76%) Maven
9 2 (0.76%) Terragrunt
10 1 (0.38%) Gradle
10 1 (0.38%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.38%) JUnit
10 1 (0.38%) TestNG
General
1 78 (29.55%) Social Skills
2 41 (15.53%) Finance
3 20 (7.58%) Public Sector
4 18 (6.82%) Banking
5 10 (3.79%) Financial Institution
5 10 (3.79%) Telecoms
6 9 (3.41%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.27%) German Language
8 5 (1.89%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (1.52%) Local Government
10 3 (1.14%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.14%) Electronics
10 3 (1.14%) Front Office
10 3 (1.14%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.14%) Marketing
10 3 (1.14%) Retail
11 2 (0.76%) Legal
12 1 (0.38%) Automotive
12 1 (0.38%) Billing
12 1 (0.38%) French Language
Job Titles
1 38 (14.39%) Architect
2 25 (9.47%) Senior
3 22 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 21 (7.95%) Azure Engineer
5 17 (6.44%) DevOps Engineer
6 16 (6.06%) Active Directory Support
7 15 (5.68%) Azure Specialist
7 15 (5.68%) Developer
7 15 (5.68%) Support Specialist
8 14 (5.30%) Active Directory Specialist
8 14 (5.30%) Analyst
9 12 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
10 10 (3.79%) Lead
11 9 (3.41%) Azure DevOps Engineer
11 9 (3.41%) Linux Engineer
11 9 (3.41%) Network Engineer
11 9 (3.41%) Senior Developer
12 8 (3.03%) Domain Architect
12 8 (3.03%) Platform Engineer
13 7 (2.65%) Platform Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (8.33%) ARM Templates
2 18 (6.82%) XML
3 17 (6.44%) Elastic Stack
4 12 (4.55%) .NET
5 10 (3.79%) JSON
5 10 (3.79%) YAML
6 8 (3.03%) Spring
6 8 (3.03%) Web Services
7 7 (2.65%) Microsoft Graph
7 7 (2.65%) REST
8 6 (2.27%) LDAP
9 5 (1.89%) LAPP Stack
9 5 (1.89%) Node.js
9 5 (1.89%) RESTful
10 4 (1.52%) ASP.NET
10 4 (1.52%) pytest
10 4 (1.52%) SOAP
11 2 (0.76%) Java EE
11 2 (0.76%) Kafka
11 2 (0.76%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 24 (9.09%) PKI
2 21 (7.95%) Driving Licence
3 19 (7.20%) Data Centre
3 19 (7.20%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (5.30%) Public Cloud
5 9 (3.41%) Linux Command Line
6 8 (3.03%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.27%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.89%) Replication
9 4 (1.52%) Contactless
9 4 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (1.52%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 3 (1.14%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.14%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.76%) Data Structures
11 2 (0.76%) Distributed Architecture
11 2 (0.76%) Distributed Systems
11 2 (0.76%) IoT
11 2 (0.76%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 93 (35.23%) Linux
2 84 (31.82%) Windows
3 37 (14.02%) Windows Server
4 26 (9.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 25 (9.47%) VMS
6 24 (9.09%) Windows Server 2016
6 24 (9.09%) Windows Server 2019
7 18 (6.82%) CentOS
8 13 (4.92%) Unix
8 13 (4.92%) Windows 10
9 8 (3.03%) Ubuntu
10 7 (2.65%) Windows 7
11 6 (2.27%) Oracle Linux
11 6 (2.27%) Solaris
12 5 (1.89%) Mac OS
12 5 (1.89%) Windows Server 2012
13 4 (1.52%) Alpine Linux
13 4 (1.52%) Embedded Linux
14 2 (0.76%) Mac OS X
15 1 (0.38%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (25.76%) CI/CD
2 61 (23.11%) DevOps
3 51 (19.32%) Agile
4 47 (17.80%) Infrastructure as Code
5 46 (17.42%) Migration
6 28 (10.61%) Disaster Recovery
6 28 (10.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 28 (10.61%) ITIL
7 24 (9.09%) RBAC
8 23 (8.71%) Analytics
8 23 (8.71%) Release Management
9 22 (8.33%) High Availability
10 21 (7.95%) Problem-Solving
11 20 (7.58%) Containerisation
11 20 (7.58%) Multi-Factor Authentication
12 19 (7.20%) Business Intelligence
12 19 (7.20%) Computer Science
13 18 (6.82%) Identity Management
13 18 (6.82%) Log Analytics
14 17 (6.44%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 51 (19.32%) SQL
2 49 (18.56%) Python
3 45 (17.05%) PowerShell
4 27 (10.23%) Bicep
5 21 (7.95%) Shell Script
6 20 (7.58%) C#
6 20 (7.58%) VB
7 18 (6.82%) Java
8 16 (6.06%) VBScript
9 13 (4.92%) Bash
10 10 (3.79%) C++
11 7 (2.65%) Go
12 4 (1.52%) C
12 4 (1.52%) Scala
13 3 (1.14%) PHP
13 3 (1.14%) Ruby
13 3 (1.14%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.76%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.76%) Kusto Query Language
15 1 (0.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 62 (23.48%) Security Cleared
2 47 (17.80%) Degree
3 45 (17.05%) SC Cleared
4 29 (10.98%) DV Cleared
5 16 (6.06%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 15 (5.68%) Azure Certification
7 10 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (3.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 7 (2.65%) CCNA
9 7 (2.65%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.52%) A+ Certification
10 4 (1.52%) AWS Certification
10 4 (1.52%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (1.52%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.52%) Network+ Certification
11 3 (1.14%) CCNP
11 3 (1.14%) ISEB
11 3 (1.14%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.76%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.41%) QA
2 7 (2.65%) SLA
3 3 (1.14%) ISO 9001
3 3 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 2 (0.76%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.38%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.38%) Def Stans
5 1 (0.38%) GDPR
5 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.38%) NIST
System Software
1 81 (30.68%) Active Directory
2 45 (17.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (7.95%) Docker
4 17 (6.44%) Virtual Desktop
5 16 (6.06%) Hyper-V
6 15 (5.68%) KVM
7 12 (4.55%) vSphere
8 8 (3.03%) Firmware
9 7 (2.65%) VMware ESXi
9 7 (2.65%) VMware Workstation
10 4 (1.52%) VirtualBox
11 3 (1.14%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.76%) Ceph
12 2 (0.76%) PowerDNS
12 2 (0.76%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 2 (0.76%) VMware Server
13 1 (0.38%) iptables
13 1 (0.38%) LXC
13 1 (0.38%) RACF
13 1 (0.38%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 48 (18.18%) Kubernetes
2 35 (13.26%) Terraform
3 34 (12.88%) Ansible
4 25 (9.47%) WSUS
5 23 (8.71%) Microsoft Intune
6 22 (8.33%) Grafana
6 22 (8.33%) Prometheus
7 21 (7.95%) SCCM
8 17 (6.44%) SCOM
9 16 (6.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 13 (4.92%) vCenter Server
11 12 (4.55%) Kibana
11 12 (4.55%) logstash
12 11 (4.17%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (1.89%) ZABBIX
14 4 (1.52%) Packer
15 3 (1.14%) Nessus
16 2 (0.76%) CSIRT
16 2 (0.76%) Pacemaker
16 2 (0.76%) QRadar
Vendors
1 80 (30.30%) Microsoft
2 54 (20.45%) VMware
3 20 (7.58%) BT
3 20 (7.58%) Oracle
3 20 (7.58%) Red Hat
3 20 (7.58%) Virgin Media
4 9 (3.41%) Dell
5 8 (3.03%) Amdocs
5 8 (3.03%) CA
5 8 (3.03%) Cisco
5 8 (3.03%) Google
6 7 (2.65%) Palo Alto
6 7 (2.65%) SEEBURGER
7 4 (1.52%) SAP
8 3 (1.14%) F5
8 3 (1.14%) Juniper
8 3 (1.14%) New Relic
9 2 (0.76%) Databricks
9 2 (0.76%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.76%) Splunk