Virgin Media Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Virgin Media
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 19 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
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 184 150 -
Rank change year-on-year -34 - -
Contract jobs citing Virgin Media 9 14 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.21% 0.34% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.45% 0.81% -
Number of daily rates quoted 9 9 0
10th Percentile £373 £483 -
25th Percentile £400 £500 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £575 -
Median % change year-on-year -26.96% - -
75th Percentile £450 £648 -
90th Percentile £510 £738 -
England median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +4.35%

All Vendors
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 2,018 1,732 2,369
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 48.12% 42.49% 46.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,311 925 1,518
10th Percentile £283 £300 £225
25th Percentile £380 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £585 £593
90th Percentile £686 £675 £670
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 121 80 113
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.22 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £20.91 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.63 £35.18 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.67% +17.27% +40.61%
75th Percentile £52.50 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £81.25 £55.79 £46.88
England median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.57% -21.35% +80.56%

Virgin Media
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Virgin Media job vacancy trend in the North of England

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Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Virgin Media.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Virgin Media

Virgin Media
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virgin Media in the North of England over the 6 months to 19 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Virgin Media in the North of England

Virgin Media
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Virgin Media.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Virgin Media

Virgin Media
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 19 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
North West -9 8 £423 -15.50% 5
Yorkshire -24 1 £375 -40.48% 3
Virgin Media
England

Virgin Media
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) Power Platform
3 1 (11.11%) Azure AKS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (22.22%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Cucumber
1 1 (11.11%) Cypress.io
1 1 (11.11%) Postman
1 1 (11.11%) Selenium
General
1 8 (88.89%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Azure Data Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Data Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Java Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Power BI Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Test Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Business Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Content Designer
3 1 (11.11%) Designer
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Lead Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Spring
1 2 (22.22%) Spring Boot
2 1 (11.11%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 9 (100.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Data Engineering
1 2 (22.22%) Microservices
2 1 (11.11%) Agile
2 1 (11.11%) Analytics
2 1 (11.11%) BPMN
2 1 (11.11%) Business Process Mapping
2 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
2 1 (11.11%) Containerisation
2 1 (11.11%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (11.11%) DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) Inclusive Design
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (11.11%) Operational Stability
2 1 (11.11%) Service Design
2 1 (11.11%) TDD
2 1 (11.11%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Java
2 2 (22.22%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform