Virtual Machines Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Virtual Machine (VM)
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Virtual Machines skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 - 54
Rank change year-on-year - - +14
Contract jobs citing Virtual Machines 5 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 0.86% - 0.85%
As % of the System Software category 14.29% - 8.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 5
10th Percentile - - £403
25th Percentile £463 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - +38.46%
75th Percentile £488 - £475
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £475 £563 £585
% change year-on-year -15.56% -3.85% +14.15%

All System Software Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 35 33 62
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 5.99% 10.68% 10.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 22 45
10th Percentile £305 £182 £227
25th Percentile £413 £208 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £263 £375
Median % change year-on-year +80.95% -30.00% -28.57%
75th Percentile £523 £525 £475
90th Percentile £660 £573 £621
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 7
10th Percentile £52.18 - -
25th Percentile £57.64 - -
Median hourly rate £67.47 £28.00 £17.80
Median % change year-on-year +140.96% +57.30% -50.56%
75th Percentile - £30.39 £33.90
90th Percentile £107.49 £31.82 £51.20
South East median hourly rate £51.50 £57.50 £54.88
% change year-on-year -10.43% +4.78% +7.07%

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Virtual Machines relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

Virtual Machines job vacancy trend in Surrey

Virtual Machines
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Virtual Machines

Virtual Machines
Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Virtual Machines

Virtual Machines
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey region over the 6 months to 31 July 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
Leatherhead - 4 £475 -
Guildford - 1 - - 2
Virtual Machines
South East

Virtual Machines
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) DNS
1 5 (100.00%) VPN
2 4 (80.00%) DHCP
2 4 (80.00%) Firewall
2 4 (80.00%) LAN
2 4 (80.00%) SD-WAN
2 4 (80.00%) VLAN
2 4 (80.00%) WAN
2 4 (80.00%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Data Centre Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) Network Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Change Control
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bicep
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (80.00%) vSphere
2 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Grafana
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) BT
1 4 (80.00%) CheckPoint
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco
1 4 (80.00%) Commvault
1 4 (80.00%) Meraki
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (80.00%) NetApp
1 4 (80.00%) SolarWinds
1 4 (80.00%) Veeam
1 4 (80.00%) VMware
1 4 (80.00%) Xerox