VirtualBox Contract Job Trends in the South West

Oracle VM VirtualBox
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring VirtualBox skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing VirtualBox 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.030% - -
As % of the System Software category 0.32% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
England median daily rate £450 £370 £450
% change year-on-year +21.79% -17.89% +38.46%

All System Software Skills
South West

VirtualBox 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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 308 280 346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 9.21% 16.70% 11.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 227 260
10th Percentile £205 £209 £162
25th Percentile £384 £403 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +2.44%
75th Percentile £602 £623 £588
90th Percentile £691 £700 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 4 32
10th Percentile £13.65 £16.05 -
25th Percentile £20.82 £17.38 £40.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £40.63 £68.75
Median % change year-on-year +53.85% -40.91% +14.58%
75th Percentile £67.25 £68.05 £86.25
90th Percentile £75.80 £74.44 £90.00
England median hourly rate £56.25 £28.21 £21.00
% change year-on-year +99.43% +34.31% -58.00%

VirtualBox
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VirtualBox relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West.

VirtualBox job vacancy trend in the South West

VirtualBox
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing VirtualBox.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing VirtualBox

VirtualBox
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VirtualBox within the South West region over the 6 months to 16 May 2026. 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
Somerset - 1 £450 -
VirtualBox
England

VirtualBox
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Test Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Principle of Least Privilege
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware