Virtual Machines Contract Job Trends in Hounslow

Virtual Machine (VM)
West London > Hounslow

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hounslow requiring Virtual Machines skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 August 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 - 24
Rank change year-on-year - - +12
Contract jobs citing Virtual Machines 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hounslow 1.37% - 0.77%
As % of the System Software category 8.33% - 4.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
West London median daily rate - - £425
% change year-on-year - - -15.00%

All System Software Skills
Hounslow

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 Hounslow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 12 10 24
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hounslow 16.44% 9.09% 18.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 8 14
10th Percentile - £199 £64
25th Percentile £225 £325 £202
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +6.25% -11.11%
75th Percentile £405 £450 £645
90th Percentile £407 £464 £688
West London median daily rate £400 £413 £600
% change year-on-year -3.03% -31.25% +37.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £75.00
Median hourly rate - - £82.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +334.21%
75th Percentile - - £90.00
90th Percentile - - -
West London median hourly rate - £23.80 £75.00
% change year-on-year - -68.27% +272.90%

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in Hounslow

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Machines in Hounslow

Virtual Machines
Daily Rate Trend in Hounslow

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

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

Virtual Machines
Contract Job Locations in Hounslow

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 Hounslow region over the 6 months to 29 August 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
Feltham - 1 - - 1
Virtual Machines
West London

Virtual Machines
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hounslow 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 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MS Visio
1 1 (100.00%) OmniGraffle
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Wireless
1 1 (100.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (100.00%) FTP
1 1 (100.00%) HTTPS
1 1 (100.00%) NX-OS
1 1 (100.00%) RTP
1 1 (100.00%) SSH
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) BYOD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Creative Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Time Management
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) VMware