Virtual Machines Contracts in Suffolk

Virtual Machine (VM)
East of England > Suffolk

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Suffolk 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Virtual Machines 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Suffolk 2.70% - -
As % of the System Software category 9.09% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £345 - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile £706 - -
East of England median daily rate £538 £602 £500
% change year-on-year -10.71% +20.40% +5.26%

All System Software Skills
Suffolk

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 Suffolk.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 22 12 12
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Suffolk 29.73% 19.67% 8.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 9 8
10th Percentile £170 £170 £137
25th Percentile £178 £178 £195
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £188 £210 £313
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% -32.80% -35.90%
75th Percentile £250 £220 £700
90th Percentile £415 £314 -
East of England median daily rate £470 £425 £430
% change year-on-year +10.59% -1.16% +1.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £17.00 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year - +3.03% -19.12%
East of England median hourly rate £21.46 £14.16 £24.62
% change year-on-year +51.55% -42.49% +58.84%

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Machines in Suffolk

Virtual Machines
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Suffolk

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtual Machines in Suffolk.

Daily rate trend for Virtual Machines in Suffolk

Virtual Machines
Daily Rate Histogram in Suffolk

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Machines in Suffolk over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Machines in Suffolk

Virtual Machines
Contract Job Locations in Suffolk

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 Suffolk region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Ipswich - 1 £751 - 1
Virtual Machines
East of England

Virtual Machines
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Suffolk 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Event Grid
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) IaaS
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (50.00%) PaaS
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365 Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Cloud Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Architect
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (50.00%) Private Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Thought Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bicep
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) VMware