Virtual Machines Contracts in Merton

Virtual Machine (VM)
South London > Merton

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merton 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 7 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Virtual Machines 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merton 4.17% - -
As % of the System Software category 20.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South London median daily rate - - £540
% change year-on-year - - +30.91%

All System Software Skills
Merton

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 Merton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 5 5 7
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merton 20.83% 26.32% 20.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 5
10th Percentile £224 £224 £170
25th Percentile £241 £241 £208
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £338 £350
Median % change year-on-year +3.78% -3.57% +8.95%
75th Percentile £491 £441 £713
90th Percentile £519 £446 -
South London median daily rate £470 £430 £575
% change year-on-year +9.30% -25.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £43.84 £62.68
Median % change year-on-year - -30.06% +39.29%
South London median hourly rate £34.00 £43.84 £62.68
% change year-on-year -22.45% -30.06% +39.29%

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in Merton

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Machines in Merton

Virtual Machines
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Merton

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

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Machines in Merton

Virtual Machines
Contract Job Locations in Merton

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 Merton 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
Morden - 1 - -
Virtual Machines
South London

Virtual Machines
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merton 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%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) IT Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Proofpoint