Virtual Machines Contracts in Ipswich

Virtual Machine (VM)
Suffolk > Ipswich

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Ipswich 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 12 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Virtual Machines 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Ipswich 2.86% - -
As % of the System Software category 7.69% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £751 - -
Suffolk median daily rate £526 - -

All System Software Skills
Ipswich

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 Ipswich.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 13 5 10
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Ipswich 37.14% 13.16% 8.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 6
10th Percentile £161 £178 £134
25th Percentile £170 £178 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £185 £186 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.67% -66.14% +12.82%
75th Percentile £196 £193 £700
90th Percentile £505 £194 -
Suffolk median daily rate £188 £210 £313
% change year-on-year -10.71% -32.80% -35.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £17.00 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year - +3.03% -34.00%
Suffolk median hourly rate - £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year - +3.03% -19.12%

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in Ipswich

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Machines in Ipswich

Virtual Machines
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Ipswich

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Machines in Ipswich

Virtual Machines
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Ipswich 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Event Grid
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) PaaS
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365 Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (100.00%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft