Virtual Machines Contracts in the South East

Virtual Machine (VM)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 142 168 181
Rank change year-on-year +26 +13 -3
Contract jobs citing Virtual Machines 59 50 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.03% 0.88% 1.12%
As % of the System Software category 7.11% 6.26% 6.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 36 69
10th Percentile £404 £253 £350
25th Percentile £463 £331 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £589 £534 £575
Median % change year-on-year +10.30% -7.17% +39.39%
75th Percentile £608 £587 £650
90th Percentile £610 £587 £689
England median daily rate £535 £541 £525
% change year-on-year -1.15% +3.10% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
10th Percentile - - £62.96
25th Percentile - £65.00 £81.25
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £84.00
Median % change year-on-year - -16.67% +34.40%
75th Percentile - £75.00 £84.75
90th Percentile - - £86.40
England median hourly rate £14.63 £66.00 £82.50
% change year-on-year -77.84% -20.00% +52.78%

All System Software Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 830 799 1,280
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.43% 14.13% 16.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 528 536 862
10th Percentile £205 £200 £173
25th Percentile £406 £350 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% +5.26% +7.95%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £663
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 45 58
10th Percentile £17.69 £15.50 £12.87
25th Percentile £17.80 £27.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £54.88 £57.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.57% +187.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £39.81
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £80.75
England median hourly rate £22.30 £50.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -55.40% +163.16% +2.43%

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Machines in the South East

Virtual Machines
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtual Machines in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Virtual Machines in the South East

Virtual Machines
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Machines in the South East over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Machines in the South East

Virtual Machines
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Virtual Machines in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Machines in the South East

Virtual Machines
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 11 June 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
Thames Valley +17 29 £605 +14.69% 8
Berkshire +11 28 £605 +11.52% 8
Hampshire -1 16 £585 +4.65% 3
West Sussex -8 8 £475 -17.39% 1
Surrey +16 6 £450 +60.71% 3
Oxfordshire - 1 £400 -
Virtual Machines
England

Virtual Machines
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 21 (35.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (10.17%) Confluence
3 1 (1.69%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 26 (44.07%) Azure
2 23 (38.98%) Entra ID
3 20 (33.90%) Azure Monitor
3 20 (33.90%) Azure Storage
3 20 (33.90%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (10.17%) AWS
5 3 (5.08%) Azure API Management
5 3 (5.08%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (5.08%) Azure Event Grid
5 3 (5.08%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (5.08%) IaaS
5 3 (5.08%) PaaS
5 3 (5.08%) SaaS
6 2 (3.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (3.39%) Amazon ECR
6 2 (3.39%) AWS CloudTrail
6 2 (3.39%) AWS Direct Connect
6 2 (3.39%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (3.39%) Serverless
6 2 (3.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 25 (42.37%) DNS
2 24 (40.68%) DHCP
2 24 (40.68%) Firewall
3 7 (11.86%) TCP/IP
4 3 (5.08%) Network Security
4 3 (5.08%) VPN
5 2 (3.39%) NAS
5 2 (3.39%) OpenLDAP
5 2 (3.39%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (3.39%) SAN
6 1 (1.69%) 3G
6 1 (1.69%) 4G
6 1 (1.69%) 5G
6 1 (1.69%) GPRS
6 1 (1.69%) VoLTE
6 1 (1.69%) VoWiFi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.39%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (3.39%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (3.39%) MongoDB
1 2 (3.39%) Oracle Database
1 2 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 17 (28.81%) Git
2 6 (10.17%) Artifactory
2 6 (10.17%) Jenkins
2 6 (10.17%) JIRA
3 5 (8.47%) GitLab
4 4 (6.78%) Bitbucket
4 4 (6.78%) Visual Studio
5 2 (3.39%) MSI
General
1 22 (37.29%) Social Skills
2 4 (6.78%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (5.08%) Front Office
3 3 (5.08%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (33.90%) Active Directory Support
2 14 (23.73%) Active Directory Specialist
2 14 (23.73%) Azure Specialist
2 14 (23.73%) Support Specialist
3 8 (13.56%) Linux Engineer
4 7 (11.86%) Azure Engineer
4 7 (11.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (10.17%) Active Directory Engineer
5 6 (10.17%) Active Directory Support Engineer
5 6 (10.17%) Support Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) Development Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) Senior
6 4 (6.78%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) Software Development Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) Software Engineer
6 4 (6.78%) Test Development Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (5.08%) Lead
8 2 (3.39%) DevOps Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (33.90%) ARM Templates
2 12 (20.34%) YAML
3 6 (10.17%) .NET
4 4 (6.78%) RESTful
4 4 (6.78%) SOAP
4 4 (6.78%) XML
5 3 (5.08%) Web Services
6 2 (3.39%) LDAP
6 2 (3.39%) Middleware
6 2 (3.39%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 20 (33.90%) PKI
1 20 (33.90%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (6.78%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (6.78%) Public Cloud
3 3 (5.08%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.39%) Tandem
5 1 (1.69%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 46 (77.97%) Windows
2 44 (74.58%) Linux
3 22 (37.29%) Windows Server 2019
4 21 (35.59%) Windows Server
5 20 (33.90%) Windows Server 2016
6 13 (22.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (8.47%) Unix
8 4 (6.78%) Embedded Linux
8 4 (6.78%) VMS
9 3 (5.08%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (52.54%) Infrastructure as Code
2 29 (49.15%) DevOps
3 26 (44.07%) Agile
4 25 (42.37%) ITIL
5 24 (40.68%) Release Management
6 23 (38.98%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 23 (38.98%) RBAC
7 22 (37.29%) CI/CD
8 20 (33.90%) Analytics
8 20 (33.90%) Identity Management
8 20 (33.90%) Log Analytics
8 20 (33.90%) Privileged Identity Management
8 20 (33.90%) Service Management
9 12 (20.34%) Validation
10 10 (16.95%) Infrastructure Automation
10 10 (16.95%) Virtual Infrastructure
11 9 (15.25%) Configuration Management
12 7 (11.86%) Computer Science
12 7 (11.86%) High Availability
12 7 (11.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 35 (59.32%) PowerShell
2 24 (40.68%) C#
3 20 (33.90%) Bicep
3 20 (33.90%) VB
3 20 (33.90%) VBScript
4 11 (18.64%) Python
5 6 (10.17%) C++
6 5 (8.47%) SQL
7 3 (5.08%) Java
7 3 (5.08%) PHP
7 3 (5.08%) Ruby
7 3 (5.08%) VB.NET
8 2 (3.39%) Bash
8 2 (3.39%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 39 (66.10%) Security Cleared
2 37 (62.71%) SC Cleared
3 27 (45.76%) Degree
4 20 (33.90%) DV Cleared
4 20 (33.90%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 3 (5.08%) Azure Certification
5 3 (5.08%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.78%) SLA
2 3 (5.08%) ISO 9001
2 3 (5.08%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 29 (49.15%) Active Directory
2 25 (42.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (33.90%) Virtual Desktop
4 11 (18.64%) vSphere
5 7 (11.86%) Docker
6 6 (10.17%) Hyper-V
7 4 (6.78%) VirtualBox
7 4 (6.78%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (3.39%) Ceph
8 2 (3.39%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 2 (3.39%) VMFS
8 2 (3.39%) VMware NSX
8 2 (3.39%) XenApp
8 2 (3.39%) XenDesktop
9 1 (1.69%) LXC
Systems Management
1 30 (50.85%) Kubernetes
2 23 (38.98%) WSUS
3 22 (37.29%) SCCM
4 20 (33.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 20 (33.90%) Microsoft Intune
4 20 (33.90%) SCOM
5 17 (28.81%) Ansible
6 15 (25.42%) Terraform
7 9 (15.25%) Progress Chef
7 9 (15.25%) Puppet
7 9 (15.25%) Salt
8 3 (5.08%) Packer
8 3 (5.08%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (3.39%) Pacemaker
9 2 (3.39%) Podman
9 2 (3.39%) vRealize
10 1 (1.69%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 30 (50.85%) Microsoft
2 29 (49.15%) VMware
3 14 (23.73%) Red Hat
4 8 (13.56%) SaltStack
5 6 (10.17%) Oracle
6 2 (3.39%) Citrix
6 2 (3.39%) Palo Alto
6 2 (3.39%) Sun
7 1 (1.69%) Qualys