Proxmox Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Proxmox Virtual Environment
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Proxmox skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 357 - 421
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Proxmox 14 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.090% - 0.005%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.57% - 0.034%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £485 - -
25th Percentile £500 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 - -
75th Percentile £519 - -
90th Percentile £553 - -
UK median daily rate £513 - £525
% change year-on-year - - -41.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £40.63
Median hourly rate - - £43.75
75th Percentile - - £46.88
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £48.13

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

Proxmox falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,463 2,258 2,936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.77% 12.99% 13.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,650 1,499 2,006
10th Percentile £235 £250 £273
25th Percentile £380 £380 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year -2.45% -3.85% -0.86%
75th Percentile £575 £585 £615
90th Percentile £644 £650 £697
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 36 119
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.75 £17.75
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.70 £36.27
Median hourly rate £21.39 £37.08 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year -42.32% -23.38% +122.22%
75th Percentile £63.66 £54.13 £75.25
90th Percentile £76.48 £74.44 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £36.83 £55.00
% change year-on-year -29.41% -33.03% +130.03%

Proxmox
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Proxmox relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Proxmox job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Proxmox
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Proxmox.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Proxmox

Proxmox
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Proxmox within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 October 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
Midlands - 10 £475 - 2
West Midlands - 10 £475 - 2
South East - 4 £513 - 3
Proxmox
UK

Proxmox
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 10 (71.43%) Confluence
1 10 (71.43%) nginx
Applications
1 10 (71.43%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 11 (78.57%) Azure
2 10 (71.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 10 (71.43%) Amazon EC2
2 10 (71.43%) Amazon ECS
2 10 (71.43%) Amazon ELB
2 10 (71.43%) Amazon S3
2 10 (71.43%) AWS
2 10 (71.43%) AWS KMS
2 10 (71.43%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (71.43%) Route 53
2 10 (71.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 11 (78.57%) DNS
2 10 (71.43%) Firewall
2 10 (71.43%) FTP
2 10 (71.43%) HTTP
2 10 (71.43%) IMAP
2 10 (71.43%) OpenLDAP
2 10 (71.43%) SMTP
2 10 (71.43%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (71.43%) Amazon Aurora
1 10 (71.43%) Amazon RDS
1 10 (71.43%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (71.43%) Git
1 10 (71.43%) Jenkins
1 10 (71.43%) JIRA
1 10 (71.43%) Vagrant
2 3 (21.43%) GitLab
General
1 10 (71.43%) Presentation Skills
1 10 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 9 (64.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (71.43%) AWS Engineer
1 10 (71.43%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 10 (71.43%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 10 (71.43%) Platform Engineer
2 8 (57.14%) AWS DevOps
2 8 (57.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 8 (57.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 8 (57.14%) DevOps Platform Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (71.43%) LDAP
2 3 (21.43%) Swagger
3 2 (14.29%) RESTful
4 1 (7.14%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 10 (71.43%) Replication
2 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.14%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 14 (100.00%) Linux
2 13 (92.86%) Windows
3 10 (71.43%) Amazon Linux
3 10 (71.43%) Ubuntu
3 10 (71.43%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 12 (85.71%) DevOps
3 11 (78.57%) Configuration Management
4 10 (71.43%) Change Management
4 10 (71.43%) Cloud Security
4 10 (71.43%) Patch Management
4 10 (71.43%) Performance Tuning
4 10 (71.43%) Platform Engineering
5 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (21.43%) Observability
7 2 (14.29%) Agile
7 2 (14.29%) API Development
7 2 (14.29%) Containerisation
7 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
7 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 1 (7.14%) Artificial Intelligence
8 1 (7.14%) Capacity Planning
8 1 (7.14%) High Availability
8 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Management
8 1 (7.14%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 14 (100.00%) Python
2 13 (92.86%) SQL
3 10 (71.43%) Groovy
4 3 (21.43%) Bash
4 3 (21.43%) Go
4 3 (21.43%) Java
4 3 (21.43%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 13 (92.86%) Security Cleared
2 12 (85.71%) SC Cleared
3 10 (71.43%) AWS Certification
3 10 (71.43%) Azure Certification
3 10 (71.43%) Degree
4 4 (28.57%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 12 (85.71%) Docker
2 10 (71.43%) DFS Replication
2 10 (71.43%) Dovecot
2 10 (71.43%) Postfix
2 10 (71.43%) Squid
3 3 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (92.86%) Terraform
2 10 (71.43%) Grafana
2 10 (71.43%) Nessus
2 10 (71.43%) Prometheus
3 4 (28.57%) Ansible
4 3 (21.43%) Rundeck
4 3 (21.43%) Salt
5 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
5 1 (7.14%) Podman
5 1 (7.14%) vRealize
Vendors
1 10 (71.43%) Jaspersoft
1 10 (71.43%) ServiceNow
2 3 (21.43%) VMware
3 1 (7.14%) Zscaler