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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 629 513 537
Rank change year-on-year -116 +24 +80
Contract jobs citing VirtualBox 2 5 6
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.004% 0.018% 0.017%
As % of the System Software category 0.045% 0.15% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 5
10th Percentile - £356 £403
25th Percentile - £357 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £370 £450
Median % change year-on-year +21.79% -17.89% +38.46%
75th Percentile - £386 £475
90th Percentile - £387 -
UK median daily rate £450 £370 £450
% change year-on-year +21.79% -17.89% +38.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £80.00
UK median hourly rate - - £80.00

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 4,490 3,308 3,945
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 9.98% 11.98% 11.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,970 2,169 2,755
10th Percentile £213 £225 £225
25th Percentile £400 £378 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £694 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 181 88 154
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.14 £14.06
25th Percentile £26.00 £22.50 £14.48
Median hourly rate £55.00 £35.57 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.61% +65.45% -46.25%
75th Percentile £74.00 £80.00 £58.69
90th Percentile £83.75 £90.45 £70.46
UK median hourly rate £51.00 £30.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +70.00% +36.36% -56.00%

VirtualBox
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

VirtualBox job vacancy trend 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 27 July 2026. 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 West - 2 £450 -
VirtualBox
UK

VirtualBox
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) QA Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) QA Test Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Principle of Least Privilege
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware