Virtual Machines Contract Job Trends in Gloucester

Virtual Machine (VM)
Gloucestershire > Gloucester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucester requiring Virtual Machines skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 19 32
Rank change year-on-year -7 +13 -1
Contract jobs citing Virtual Machines 8 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucester 6.20% 1.22% 1.67%
As % of the System Software category 12.90% 4.55% 5.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile £320 - -
25th Percentile £366 £400 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £401 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.12% - -
75th Percentile £456 £401 -
90th Percentile £580 - -
Gloucestershire median daily rate £425 £401 -
% change year-on-year +6.12% - -

All System Software Skills
Gloucester

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 Gloucester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 62 22 36
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucester 48.06% 26.83% 30.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 15 19
10th Percentile £223 £405 £463
25th Percentile £325 £443 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £470 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.45% -14.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £700 £734 £676
90th Percentile £750 - £719
Gloucestershire median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £42.30
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £78.00
75th Percentile - - £90.00
90th Percentile - - -
Gloucestershire median hourly rate - - £78.00
% change year-on-year - - +30.00%

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucester

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

Virtual Machines job vacancy trend in Gloucester

Virtual Machines
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucester

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

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

Virtual Machines
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Machines in Gloucester over the 6 months to 31 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Machines in Gloucester

Virtual Machines
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucester 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 2 (25.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 5 (62.50%) Cloud Computing
2 5 (62.50%) GitHub
3 4 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (37.50%) AWS
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Stack
5 1 (12.50%) GCP
5 1 (12.50%) IaaS
5 1 (12.50%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) DHCP
1 2 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (12.50%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) JIRA
General
1 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (12.50%) Architect
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Architect
1 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security Architect
1 1 (12.50%) Desktop Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (12.50%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security Posture
1 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
1 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
1 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (87.50%) Windows
2 2 (25.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (75.00%) DevOps
1 6 (75.00%) High Availability
2 5 (62.50%) Migration
3 4 (50.00%) Agile
3 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (37.50%) Knowledge Transfer
4 3 (37.50%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 3 (37.50%) Scrum
5 2 (25.00%) ITIL
5 2 (25.00%) Patch Management
5 2 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
5 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (25.00%) Resource Management
5 2 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
6 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security
6 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
6 1 (12.50%) DevSecOps
6 1 (12.50%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) PowerShell
2 1 (12.50%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 7 (87.50%) SC Cleared
1 7 (87.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (12.50%) CCSP
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (12.50%) CISM
2 1 (12.50%) CISSP
2 1 (12.50%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) SLA
2 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (12.50%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (25.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Terraform
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Clustering
2 2 (25.00%) NetApp OnCommand
2 2 (25.00%) vCenter Server
2 2 (25.00%) vMotion
2 2 (25.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) NetApp
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
3 2 (25.00%) VMware
4 1 (12.50%) Oracle
4 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow