Virtual Machines Contracts in London

Virtual Machine (VM)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 20 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 294 332 383
Rank change year-on-year +38 +51 +67
Contract jobs citing Virtual Machines 92 124 238
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.57% 0.56% 0.61%
As % of the System Software category 5.28% 4.80% 4.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 83 152
10th Percentile £355 £344 £324
25th Percentile £431 £454 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.65% +3.62% +0.72%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £627
90th Percentile £704 £725 £735
England median daily rate £535 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +1.90% - +13.51%

All System Software Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,743 2,585 4,910
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.71% 11.75% 12.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,201 1,848 3,596
10th Percentile £262 £225 £265
25th Percentile £400 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £675 £688
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
England median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 30 33
10th Percentile £20.00 £25.68 £15.95
25th Percentile £23.80 £40.20 £20.25
Median hourly rate £23.99 £60.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -60.02% +50.00% +60.00%
75th Percentile £49.38 £65.08 £65.79
90th Percentile £98.35 £83.36 £79.20
England median hourly rate £26.25 £47.67 £22.00
% change year-on-year -44.93% +116.66% +29.41%

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Machines in London

Virtual Machines
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Machines in London

Virtual Machines
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Machines in London over the 6 months to 20 September 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Machines in London

Virtual Machines
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Virtual Machines in London.

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Machines in London

Virtual Machines
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 20 September 2024. 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
Central London +30 16 £500 -6.98% 4
South London +10 1 £475 -
Virtual Machines
England

Virtual Machines
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 8 (8.70%) OpenStack
2 4 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.17%) Confluence
3 2 (2.17%) nginx
4 1 (1.09%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.09%) ThingWorx
Business Applications
1 4 (4.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.09%) Elite 3E
2 1 (1.09%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 50 (54.35%) Azure
2 20 (21.74%) Entra ID
3 19 (20.65%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (13.04%) GCP
5 10 (10.87%) Azure Key Vault
5 10 (10.87%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (10.87%) PaaS
5 10 (10.87%) Serverless
6 9 (9.78%) AWS
6 9 (9.78%) Azure AKS
6 9 (9.78%) Azure Monitor
7 8 (8.70%) Azure Storage
8 7 (7.61%) Azure Data Factory
8 7 (7.61%) GitHub
8 7 (7.61%) Power Platform
8 7 (7.61%) SaaS
9 6 (6.52%) IaaS
10 5 (5.43%) Azure App Service
10 5 (5.43%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 5 (5.43%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 25 (27.17%) Firewall
2 11 (11.96%) Network Security
3 9 (9.78%) DNS
4 6 (6.52%) DHCP
4 6 (6.52%) WAN
5 5 (5.43%) Internet
5 5 (5.43%) TCP/IP
6 4 (4.35%) VPN
6 4 (4.35%) VSAN
7 3 (3.26%) DNSSEC
7 3 (3.26%) NGFW
7 3 (3.26%) Remote Desktop
7 3 (3.26%) SAN
7 3 (3.26%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (2.17%) InfiniBand
8 2 (2.17%) NAS
8 2 (2.17%) OpenLDAP
8 2 (2.17%) WAAS
9 1 (1.09%) Cisco ISE
9 1 (1.09%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (11.96%) Azure SQL Database
2 7 (7.61%) Power BI
3 6 (6.52%) Data Lake
4 4 (4.35%) Metadata
5 3 (3.26%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (3.26%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 3 (3.26%) Oracle Database
6 2 (2.17%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.17%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (2.17%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (2.17%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.17%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.17%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (7.61%) GitLab
2 5 (5.43%) Jenkins
2 5 (5.43%) JIRA
3 4 (4.35%) Git
4 2 (2.17%) Maven
5 1 (1.09%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.09%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.09%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.09%) IntelliJ
5 1 (1.09%) Selenium
5 1 (1.09%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.09%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 25 (27.17%) Finance
2 22 (23.91%) Social Skills
3 12 (13.04%) Banking
4 9 (9.78%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.35%) Marketing
6 3 (3.26%) Billing
6 3 (3.26%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.26%) Legal
6 3 (3.26%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.26%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.09%) Aviation
7 1 (1.09%) French Language
7 1 (1.09%) German Language
7 1 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.09%) Italian Language
7 1 (1.09%) Military
7 1 (1.09%) Polish Language
7 1 (1.09%) Portuguese Language
7 1 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.09%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 15 (16.30%) Architect
2 9 (9.78%) Azure Engineer
3 8 (8.70%) Administrator
3 8 (8.70%) Network Engineer
3 8 (8.70%) Platform Engineer
3 8 (8.70%) Senior
4 7 (7.61%) Developer
4 7 (7.61%) Lead
4 7 (7.61%) Security Engineer
5 6 (6.52%) Cloud Engineer
5 6 (6.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (5.43%) Cloud Architect
6 5 (5.43%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (4.35%) Analyst
7 4 (4.35%) Azure Architect
7 4 (4.35%) Infrastructure Architect
7 4 (4.35%) Security Architect
8 3 (3.26%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
8 3 (3.26%) Operations Engineer
8 3 (3.26%) Product Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.78%) Spring
2 8 (8.70%) ARM Templates
3 6 (6.52%) YAML
4 4 (4.35%) Node.js
5 2 (2.17%) .NET
5 2 (2.17%) EDI
5 2 (2.17%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (2.17%) LDAP
5 2 (2.17%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (2.17%) React
6 1 (1.09%) CSS
6 1 (1.09%) Dask
6 1 (1.09%) HTML
6 1 (1.09%) JSON
6 1 (1.09%) Middleware
6 1 (1.09%) Playwright
6 1 (1.09%) scikit-learn
6 1 (1.09%) SciPy
6 1 (1.09%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.09%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.87%) Management Information System
2 9 (9.78%) Data Centre
3 6 (6.52%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (5.43%) Public Cloud
5 3 (3.26%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (3.26%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (3.26%) Product Ownership
5 3 (3.26%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.17%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.17%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.09%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.09%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.09%) Machine to Machine
7 1 (1.09%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.09%) NHS
7 1 (1.09%) Replication
7 1 (1.09%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (1.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 25 (27.17%) Windows
2 24 (26.09%) Linux
3 11 (11.96%) Unix
4 10 (10.87%) Windows Server
5 9 (9.78%) VMS
6 5 (5.43%) Mac OS
7 4 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (3.26%) CentOS
8 3 (3.26%) Oracle Linux
8 3 (3.26%) Solaris
8 3 (3.26%) Windows 10
9 2 (2.17%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (2.17%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (1.09%) Android
10 1 (1.09%) Apple iOS
10 1 (1.09%) Debian
10 1 (1.09%) Fedora
10 1 (1.09%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (29.35%) DevOps
2 19 (20.65%) CI/CD
3 17 (18.48%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (17.39%) Migration
4 16 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (15.22%) Agile
6 12 (13.04%) Disaster Recovery
7 11 (11.96%) Analytics
7 11 (11.96%) Cloud Security
8 10 (10.87%) Cybersecurity
8 10 (10.87%) Test Automation
9 9 (9.78%) ETL
9 9 (9.78%) Information Security
9 9 (9.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 9 (9.78%) SIEM
10 8 (8.70%) Business Intelligence
10 8 (8.70%) ITIL
10 8 (8.70%) Log Analytics
10 8 (8.70%) Network Virtualisation
10 8 (8.70%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 27 (29.35%) SQL
2 25 (27.17%) Python
3 13 (14.13%) Java
4 11 (11.96%) PowerShell
5 10 (10.87%) Shell Script
6 9 (9.78%) Bicep
7 6 (6.52%) Bash
8 3 (3.26%) JavaScript
8 3 (3.26%) T-SQL
9 2 (2.17%) AppleScript
9 2 (2.17%) Ruby
10 1 (1.09%) C++
10 1 (1.09%) Go
10 1 (1.09%) Perl
10 1 (1.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (19.57%) Security Cleared
2 14 (15.22%) Degree
2 14 (15.22%) SC Cleared
3 9 (9.78%) Azure Certification
4 6 (6.52%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (6.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (4.35%) CCNA
5 4 (4.35%) CCNP
6 3 (3.26%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (2.17%) AWS Certification
7 2 (2.17%) CCSK
7 2 (2.17%) CISM
7 2 (2.17%) CISSP
7 2 (2.17%) CTC Cleared
7 2 (2.17%) GCIA
7 2 (2.17%) GCIH
7 2 (2.17%) GIAC
7 2 (2.17%) ISEB
7 2 (2.17%) ISEB Practitioner
7 2 (2.17%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.70%) GDPR
2 7 (7.61%) PCI DSS
3 3 (3.26%) COBIT
3 3 (3.26%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.26%) QA
4 2 (2.17%) NCSC
5 1 (1.09%) NIST
5 1 (1.09%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (23.91%) Active Directory
2 13 (14.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (8.70%) Docker
4 5 (5.43%) KVM
4 5 (5.43%) vSphere
5 4 (4.35%) Firmware
6 3 (3.26%) Hyper-V
6 3 (3.26%) vCloud
6 3 (3.26%) VMware NSX
7 2 (2.17%) VMware Server
8 1 (1.09%) iptables
8 1 (1.09%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 23 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 23 (25.00%) Terraform
2 9 (9.78%) Ansible
3 6 (6.52%) Puppet
4 5 (5.43%) Data Guard
4 5 (5.43%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (5.43%) SCCM
5 4 (4.35%) Grafana
5 4 (4.35%) Prometheus
5 4 (4.35%) vCenter Server
6 3 (3.26%) Jamf Pro
6 3 (3.26%) Progress Chef
7 2 (2.17%) CASB
7 2 (2.17%) CSIRT
7 2 (2.17%) Kibana
7 2 (2.17%) logstash
7 2 (2.17%) QRadar
7 2 (2.17%) SCOrch
7 2 (2.17%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (2.17%) WSUS
Vendors
1 32 (34.78%) Microsoft
2 18 (19.57%) Oracle
3 17 (18.48%) VMware
4 8 (8.70%) SEEBURGER
5 6 (6.52%) CheckPoint
5 6 (6.52%) Dell
5 6 (6.52%) Google
6 5 (5.43%) Infoblox
6 5 (5.43%) Palo Alto
6 5 (5.43%) Red Hat
7 3 (3.26%) Ericsson
7 3 (3.26%) F5
7 3 (3.26%) ServiceNow
8 2 (2.17%) Amdocs
8 2 (2.17%) Apple
8 2 (2.17%) Cisco
8 2 (2.17%) Citrix
8 2 (2.17%) Commvault
8 2 (2.17%) Juniper
8 2 (2.17%) Sophos