Virgin Media Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Virgin Media
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring knowledge or experience of Virgin Media products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Virgin Media over the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Virgin Media.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 147 129 -
Rank change year-on-year -18 - -
Contract jobs citing Virgin Media 7 12 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.25% 0.45% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.50% 0.96% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 11 0
10th Percentile £658 £525 -
25th Percentile £663 £575 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £630 -
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - -
75th Percentile £688 £675 -
90th Percentile £703 £775 -
England median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +4.35%

All Vendors
Midlands

Virgin Media falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,405 1,253 1,489
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 50.39% 46.77% 51.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 910 802 971
10th Percentile £250 £241 £213
25th Percentile £363 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -3.55%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £597
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 27 44
10th Percentile £15.81 £13.96 £12.30
25th Percentile £18.60 £15.05 £15.07
Median hourly rate £25.15 £17.00 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year +47.94% -13.92% +12.66%
75th Percentile £31.00 £35.00 £36.44
90th Percentile £50.00 £57.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.00 £35.18 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.94% -20.94% +81.04%

Virgin Media
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Virgin Media relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Virgin Media job vacancy trend in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Virgin Media.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Virgin Media

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Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Virgin Media.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Virgin Media

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Virgin Media within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 October 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
West Midlands -22 6 £675 +7.14% 1
Virgin Media
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Entra ID
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft Purview
General
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Architect
2 5 (71.43%) Security Architect
3 2 (28.57%) Data Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Lead
4 1 (14.29%) Lead Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Lead Data Architect
4 1 (14.29%) Salesforce Architect
4 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow Architect
Miscellaneous
1 7 (100.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (14.29%) CCTV
2 1 (14.29%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (14.29%) Data Governance
1 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
1 1 (14.29%) Security Architecture
1 1 (14.29%) Security Operations
1 1 (14.29%) SIEM
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Salesforce
2 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow