Virtual Machines Contracts in the Thames Valley

Virtual Machine (VM)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Virtual Machines skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Virtual Machines over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 116 126 131
Rank change year-on-year +10 +5 -11
Contract jobs citing Virtual Machines 27 20 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.02% 0.71% 1.07%
As % of the System Software category 8.01% 5.76% 7.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 14 28
10th Percentile £364 £358 £201
25th Percentile £472 £506 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £543 £619
Median % change year-on-year +11.52% -12.32% +87.50%
75th Percentile £608 £551 £653
90th Percentile - £567 £700
South East median daily rate £538 £547 £575
% change year-on-year -1.65% -4.96% +43.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £65.00 £82.50
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year - -17.65% -
75th Percentile - £75.00 £87.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - £70.00 £84.00
% change year-on-year - -16.67% +97.65%

All System Software Skills
Thames Valley

Virtual Machines is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 337 347 509
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 12.75% 12.29% 14.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 242 261 375
10th Percentile £176 £213 £150
25th Percentile £313 £363 £341
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £480 £453
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% +6.08% +3.43%
75th Percentile £608 £575 £578
90th Percentile £650 £675 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 16 14
10th Percentile £16.25 £33.75 £12.25
25th Percentile £46.25 £48.40 £13.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £14.85
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +270.37% -20.27%
75th Percentile £65.00 £71.25 £20.00
90th Percentile - £78.56 £53.25
South East median hourly rate £53.19 £54.56 £20.00
% change year-on-year -2.52% +172.80% -9.09%

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Machines in the Thames Valley

Virtual Machines
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtual Machines in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Virtual Machines in the Thames Valley

Virtual Machines
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Machines in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Machines in the Thames Valley

Virtual Machines
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Virtual Machines in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Machines in the Thames Valley

Virtual Machines
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 10 May 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
Berkshire +2 26 £605 +11.42% 5
Oxfordshire +6 1 £400 -1.23% 1
Virtual Machines
South East

Virtual Machines
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 16 (59.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.70%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 23 (85.19%) Azure
2 19 (70.37%) Entra ID
3 16 (59.26%) Azure Monitor
3 16 (59.26%) Azure Storage
3 16 (59.26%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (22.22%) IaaS
5 3 (11.11%) AWS
5 3 (11.11%) Azure API Management
5 3 (11.11%) Azure Event Grid
5 3 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (11.11%) PaaS
5 3 (11.11%) SaaS
6 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 20 (74.07%) DNS
2 19 (70.37%) DHCP
2 19 (70.37%) Firewall
3 3 (11.11%) Network Security
3 3 (11.11%) VPN
4 2 (7.41%) 3G
4 2 (7.41%) 4G
4 2 (7.41%) 5G
4 2 (7.41%) GPRS
5 1 (3.70%) VoLTE
5 1 (3.70%) VoWiFi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.41%) MongoDB
1 2 (7.41%) Oracle Database
1 2 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.70%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Visual Studio
2 2 (7.41%) GitLab
3 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
General
1 19 (70.37%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (59.26%) Active Directory Support
2 14 (51.85%) Active Directory Specialist
2 14 (51.85%) Azure Specialist
2 14 (51.85%) Support Specialist
3 3 (11.11%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Lead
3 3 (11.11%) Senior
3 3 (11.11%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Active Directory Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Active Directory Support Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Support Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Data Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Mobile Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (59.26%) ARM Templates
2 3 (11.11%) .NET
2 3 (11.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (59.26%) PKI
1 16 (59.26%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (11.11%) Public Cloud
3 2 (7.41%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 19 (70.37%) Windows
1 19 (70.37%) Windows Server
2 18 (66.67%) Linux
3 16 (59.26%) Windows Server 2016
3 16 (59.26%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (7.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (7.41%) Unix
4 2 (7.41%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (74.07%) DevOps
2 19 (70.37%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 17 (62.96%) Infrastructure as Code
4 16 (59.26%) Agile
4 16 (59.26%) Analytics
4 16 (59.26%) CI/CD
4 16 (59.26%) Identity Management
4 16 (59.26%) ITIL
4 16 (59.26%) Log Analytics
4 16 (59.26%) Privileged Identity Management
4 16 (59.26%) RBAC
4 16 (59.26%) Release Management
4 16 (59.26%) Service Management
5 3 (11.11%) Cryptography
5 3 (11.11%) Data Protection
5 3 (11.11%) High Availability
5 3 (11.11%) ITSM
5 3 (11.11%) Migration
5 3 (11.11%) Network Architecture
5 3 (11.11%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 19 (70.37%) C#
2 16 (59.26%) Bicep
2 16 (59.26%) PowerShell
2 16 (59.26%) VB
2 16 (59.26%) VBScript
3 5 (18.52%) Python
4 3 (11.11%) Java
4 3 (11.11%) PHP
4 3 (11.11%) Ruby
5 2 (7.41%) Bash
5 2 (7.41%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 18 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 16 (59.26%) Degree
2 16 (59.26%) DV Cleared
2 16 (59.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 3 (11.11%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (81.48%) Active Directory
2 16 (59.26%) Virtual Desktop
3 8 (29.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (14.81%) Docker
5 3 (11.11%) Hyper-V
6 2 (7.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (85.19%) Kubernetes
2 19 (70.37%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (70.37%) WSUS
3 16 (59.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 16 (59.26%) SCCM
3 16 (59.26%) SCOM
4 3 (11.11%) Ansible
4 3 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (11.11%) vCenter Server
5 2 (7.41%) Packer
5 2 (7.41%) vRealize
6 1 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (70.37%) Microsoft
2 8 (29.63%) VMware
3 2 (7.41%) Oracle
3 2 (7.41%) Red Hat