VirtualBox Contract Job Trends in England

Oracle VM VirtualBox
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring VirtualBox skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 518 532 593
Rank change year-on-year +14 +61 +182
Contract jobs citing VirtualBox 3 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.011% 0.006% 0.007%
As % of the System Software category 0.088% 0.052% 0.054%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £360 £425 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £369 £450 £325
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% +38.46% -33.13%
75th Percentile £379 £475 £338
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £369 £450 £325
% change year-on-year -18.00% +38.46% -33.13%

All System Software Skills
England

VirtualBox 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 3,392 3,847 5,564
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.21% 11.68% 13.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,174 2,580 3,816
10th Percentile £213 £220 £199
25th Percentile £375 £380 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% - -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £611 £638
90th Percentile £675 £699 £731
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 99 248
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.16 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.50 £17.22 £18.27
Median hourly rate £34.50 £24.50 £47.86
Median % change year-on-year +40.82% -48.81% +117.56%
75th Percentile £80.00 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £80.25 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £33.39 £24.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +36.27% -51.00% +127.27%

VirtualBox
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for VirtualBox in England

VirtualBox
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing VirtualBox.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing VirtualBox

VirtualBox
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing VirtualBox.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing VirtualBox

VirtualBox
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 VirtualBox within the England region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
London - 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 £369 -
North of England - 1 £369 -
VirtualBox
UK

VirtualBox
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 3 (100.00%) Confluence
2 2 (66.67%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) MariaDB
1 2 (66.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Git
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
1 3 (100.00%) Vagrant
2 2 (66.67%) Bitbucket
2 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
3 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
3 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Administrator
1 2 (66.67%) Linux Administrator
1 2 (66.67%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 2 (66.67%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) Automation Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) LAMP
1 2 (66.67%) Zend Framework
2 1 (33.33%) Gherkin
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) CentOS
1 2 (66.67%) Debian
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Ubuntu
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Build Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Configuration Management
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Deployment Automation
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Security Hardening
2 2 (66.67%) Server Building
2 2 (66.67%) Server Patching
2 2 (66.67%) Software Deployment
3 1 (33.33%) Change Management
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Bash
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) Perl
2 2 (66.67%) PHP
3 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (33.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Puppet
2 2 (66.67%) Icinga
2 2 (66.67%) Nagios
2 2 (66.67%) Progress Chef
2 2 (66.67%) Salt
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) New Relic
1 2 (66.67%) Rackspace
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
1 2 (66.67%) Zend
2 1 (33.33%) Splunk