Virtual Machines Contracts in South Yorkshire

Virtual Machine (VM)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 59 -
Rank change year-on-year 0 - -
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Virtual Machines 14 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 2.22% 0.22% -
As % of the System Software category 10.85% 1.08% -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 0
10th Percentile £406 - -
25th Percentile £409 £510 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £442 £520 -
Median % change year-on-year -14.95% - -
75th Percentile £492 £530 -
90th Percentile £525 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £442 £573 £506
% change year-on-year -22.75% +13.09% +12.50%

All System Software Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 129 93 51
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 20.48% 20.13% 11.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 68 36
10th Percentile £356 £375 £181
25th Percentile £400 £472 £291
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -12.27% +2.33% +14.00%
75th Percentile £550 £623 £641
90th Percentile £612 £651 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £495 £475
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.21% +18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
10th Percentile - - £18.65
25th Percentile - £20.50 £18.88
Median hourly rate - £21.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year - +10.26% +9.09%
75th Percentile - £22.00 £19.88
90th Percentile - - £19.95
Yorkshire median hourly rate - £14.63 £21.00
% change year-on-year - -30.36% -2.33%

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Machines in South Yorkshire

Virtual Machines
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Virtual Machines.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Virtual Machines

Virtual Machines
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Machines in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Machines in South Yorkshire

Virtual Machines
Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Virtual Machines.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Virtual Machines

Virtual Machines
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Sheffield -1 14 £442 -14.95% 1
Virtual Machines
Yorkshire

Virtual Machines
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 2 (14.29%) Apache
1 2 (14.29%) IIS
2 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) Azure
2 4 (28.57%) Azure AKS
2 4 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (14.29%) Entra ID
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Storage
4 1 (7.14%) IaaS
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (7.14%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (42.86%) DNS
1 6 (42.86%) NAS
1 6 (42.86%) SAN
2 3 (21.43%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (14.29%) Data Mining
2 2 (14.29%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Git
1 6 (42.86%) GitLab
2 5 (35.71%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Private Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Developer
2 3 (21.43%) Migration Specialist
2 3 (21.43%) Server Migration Specialist
2 3 (21.43%) Server Specialist
3 2 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Data Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Automation Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Machine Learning Developer
4 1 (7.14%) SharePoint Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Virtualisation Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) VMware Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (57.14%) Middleware
2 4 (28.57%) Hugging Face
2 4 (28.57%) OpenCV
2 4 (28.57%) PyTorch
2 4 (28.57%) Regular Expression
2 4 (28.57%) SpaCy
2 4 (28.57%) TensorFlow
3 2 (14.29%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (7.14%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Management Information System
2 3 (21.43%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (21.43%) Onboarding
3 2 (14.29%) Algorithms
4 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (7.14%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 6 (42.86%) Linux
1 6 (42.86%) Windows
1 6 (42.86%) Windows Server
2 2 (14.29%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Agile
2 7 (50.00%) Migration
3 6 (42.86%) Infrastructure Automation
3 6 (42.86%) Kanban
3 6 (42.86%) Machine Learning
3 6 (42.86%) Scrum
4 5 (35.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (35.71%) Storage Management
5 4 (28.57%) Artificial Intelligence
5 4 (28.57%) Computer Science
5 4 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (28.57%) Deep Learning
5 4 (28.57%) DevOps
5 4 (28.57%) Generative AI
5 4 (28.57%) Image Processing
5 4 (28.57%) Natural Language Processing
5 4 (28.57%) OCR
5 4 (28.57%) Open Source
6 3 (21.43%) Server Migrations
Programming Languages
1 12 (85.71%) Python
2 7 (50.00%) PowerShell
3 5 (35.71%) Shell Script
4 2 (14.29%) Java
4 2 (14.29%) Scala
5 1 (7.14%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (28.57%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
2 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 8 (57.14%) Active Directory
2 6 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (42.86%) VMware NSX
2 6 (42.86%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (42.86%) Ansible
1 6 (42.86%) vCenter Server
1 6 (42.86%) vRealize
2 4 (28.57%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.14%) Terraform
3 1 (7.14%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) VMware
2 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 3 (21.43%) F5