Virtual Machines Contracts in the North of England

Virtual Machine (VM)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Virtual Machines skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Virtual Machines over the 6 months to 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 147 182 222
Rank change year-on-year +35 +40 -41
Contract jobs citing Virtual Machines 39 31 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.85% 0.56% 0.31%
As % of the System Software category 7.25% 3.80% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 25 16
10th Percentile £319 £463 £228
25th Percentile £489 £469 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £594 £525 £505
Median % change year-on-year +13.10% +3.96% +1.00%
75th Percentile £666 £563 £622
90th Percentile £670 £638 £670
England median daily rate £525 £545 £525
% change year-on-year -3.67% +3.81% +5.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 2 1
10th Percentile - £34.73 -
25th Percentile £14.06 £39.94 £37.25
Median hourly rate £14.63 £49.25 £39.73
Median % change year-on-year -70.30% +23.98% -9.72%
75th Percentile £15.19 £57.94 £42.20
90th Percentile - £62.78 -
England median hourly rate £14.63 £66.00 £50.77
% change year-on-year -77.84% +30.00% +11.58%

All System Software Skills
North of England

Virtual Machines is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 538 815 1,066
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 11.68% 14.60% 14.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 385 598 796
10th Percentile £176 £181 £157
25th Percentile £275 £313 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £489 £425
Median % change year-on-year -11.51% +15.00% +1.80%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £550
90th Percentile £650 £652 £638
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 33 50
10th Percentile - £14.05 £14.35
25th Percentile £14.06 £16.25 £15.44
Median hourly rate £16.00 £22.41 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.60% +28.06% -6.72%
75th Percentile £18.00 £52.13 £20.00
90th Percentile £43.54 £65.60 £24.25
England median hourly rate £21.00 £50.00 £18.68
% change year-on-year -58.00% +167.74% -6.63%

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Virtual Machines as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Machines in the North of England

Virtual Machines
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtual Machines in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Virtual Machines in the North of England

Virtual Machines
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Machines in the North of England over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Machines in the North of England

Virtual Machines
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Virtual Machines in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Machines in the North of England

Virtual Machines
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Virtual Machines in the North of England over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Virtual Machines in the North of England

Virtual Machines
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 Virtual Machines within the North of England region over the 6 months to 21 May 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
Yorkshire +34 23 £338 -35.71% 8
North West +22 16 £600 +14.29% 6
Virtual Machines
England

Virtual Machines
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Applications
1 2 (5.13%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (12.82%) Azure
2 2 (5.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 2 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (5.13%) Azure Service Bus
2 2 (5.13%) Azure Storage
2 2 (5.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (2.56%) Entra ID
3 1 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.26%) DHCP
1 4 (10.26%) DNS
2 3 (7.69%) Remote Desktop
2 3 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (5.13%) Firewall
4 1 (2.56%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.56%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.13%) Redis
2 1 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (5.13%) GitLab
1 2 (5.13%) Selenium
General
1 27 (69.23%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.82%) Public Sector
3 3 (7.69%) Banking
3 3 (7.69%) Finance
4 2 (5.13%) German Language
5 1 (2.56%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 10 (25.64%) Architect
2 8 (20.51%) Domain Architect
3 3 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (7.69%) Data Centre Engineer
3 3 (7.69%) IT Engineer
4 2 (5.13%) Azure Architect
4 2 (5.13%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (5.13%) Data Centre Technician
4 2 (5.13%) Data Technician
4 2 (5.13%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (5.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (5.13%) IT Technician
5 1 (2.56%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (2.56%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (2.56%) Server Engineer
5 1 (2.56%) Windows Engineer
5 1 (2.56%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (2.56%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.13%) pytest
1 2 (5.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (51.28%) Driving Licence
2 3 (7.69%) Data Centre
2 3 (7.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 2 (5.13%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.56%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.26%) Windows
2 3 (7.69%) Windows 10
2 3 (7.69%) Windows 7
3 2 (5.13%) Alpine Linux
3 2 (5.13%) Linux
3 2 (5.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (5.13%) VMS
4 1 (2.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (25.64%) TOGAF
2 8 (20.51%) Zachman Framework
3 6 (15.38%) Strategic Thinking
4 5 (12.82%) IT Strategy
4 5 (12.82%) Migration
4 5 (12.82%) Technology Strategy
5 4 (10.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (10.26%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (7.69%) Computer Science
6 3 (7.69%) Network Monitoring
6 3 (7.69%) Performance Metrics
6 3 (7.69%) Runbook
7 2 (5.13%) Business Analysis
7 2 (5.13%) Data Architecture
7 2 (5.13%) Data Migration
7 2 (5.13%) Demand Management
7 2 (5.13%) Load Balancing
7 2 (5.13%) Resource Management
7 2 (5.13%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (5.13%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.26%) SQL
2 2 (5.13%) Python
3 1 (2.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (28.21%) Degree
2 8 (20.51%) SC Cleared
2 8 (20.51%) Security Cleared
3 3 (7.69%) A+ Certification
3 3 (7.69%) Azure Certification
3 3 (7.69%) CCNA
3 3 (7.69%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (7.69%) Network+ Certification
3 3 (7.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 5 (12.82%) Active Directory
2 4 (10.26%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (10.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (7.69%) Hyper-V
3 3 (7.69%) KVM
3 3 (7.69%) VMware Workstation
4 1 (2.56%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (7.69%) vCenter Server
2 2 (5.13%) Grafana
2 2 (5.13%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.13%) Prometheus
2 2 (5.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (51.28%) BT
1 20 (51.28%) Virgin Media
2 6 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 4 (10.26%) VMware