Virtual Machines Contracts in Hillingdon

Virtual Machine (VM)
West London > Hillingdon

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hillingdon requiring Virtual Machines skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Machines over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Virtual Machines 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hillingdon 8.51% - -
As % of the System Software category 28.57% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
West London median daily rate £475 £250 £538
% change year-on-year +90.00% -53.49% +43.91%

All System Software Skills
Hillingdon

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 Hillingdon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 14 12 36
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hillingdon 29.79% 12.00% 17.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 34
10th Percentile £292 £361 £430
25th Percentile £359 £450 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -16.67% +242.86%
75th Percentile £466 £538 £650
90th Percentile £475 - -
West London median daily rate £400 £450 £588
% change year-on-year -11.11% -23.40% +30.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
West London median hourly rate £26.30 £23.80 £80.00
% change year-on-year +10.48% -70.25% +288.11%

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in Hillingdon

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Machines in Hillingdon

Virtual Machines
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hillingdon

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Machines in Hillingdon

Virtual Machines
Contract Job Locations in Hillingdon

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 Hillingdon region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Heathrow - 4 £475 -
Virtual Machines
West London

Virtual Machines
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hillingdon 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 2 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Power BI
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Analytics
1 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Operations
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
1 2 (50.00%) Data Collection
1 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) High Availability
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (50.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Qualys