Virtual Machines Contract Job Trends in Farnborough

Virtual Machine (VM)
Hampshire > Farnborough

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Farnborough requiring Virtual Machines skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 - 21
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Virtual Machines 2 0 12
As % of all contract jobs in Farnborough 0.70% - 5.91%
As % of the System Software category 7.41% - 17.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 9
10th Percentile £558 - £560
25th Percentile £569 - £582
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £585
75th Percentile £669 - £610
90th Percentile £673 - £627
Hampshire median daily rate £471 £600 £585
% change year-on-year -21.50% +2.56% +7.73%

All System Software Skills
Farnborough

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 Farnborough.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 27 5 67
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Farnborough 9.47% 6.41% 33.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 4 54
10th Percentile £500 £450 £511
25th Percentile £508 £515 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £551 £582
Median % change year-on-year +8.89% -5.33% +36.94%
75th Percentile £650 £563 £650
90th Percentile £725 £585 £675
Hampshire median daily rate £560 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -2.61% +4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £82.50 -
Hampshire median hourly rate £32.36 £57.50 £62.50
% change year-on-year -43.72% -8.00% +8.70%

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in Farnborough

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

Virtual Machines job vacancy trend in Farnborough

Virtual Machines
Daily Rate Trend in Farnborough

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

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

Virtual Machines
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Farnborough 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) VLAN
1 2 (100.00%) VSAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Security Hardening
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) RBAC
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (100.00%) vSphere
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) PowerCLI
1 2 (100.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Veeam
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) Zerto