Virtual Machines Contracts in the UK excluding London

Virtual Machine (VM)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 254 264 314
Rank change year-on-year +10 +50 -24
Contract jobs citing Virtual Machines 133 202 197
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.65% 0.86% 0.64%
As % of the System Software category 5.52% 5.70% 4.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 150 145
10th Percentile £325 £313 £200
25th Percentile £398 £450 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £608 £575 £625
90th Percentile £650 £600 £683
UK median daily rate £507 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -6.20% +2.86% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 12 8
10th Percentile - £21.64 £11.19
25th Percentile £14.06 £24.62 £30.81
Median hourly rate £14.63 £64.50 £66.64
Median % change year-on-year -77.33% -3.20% +51.44%
75th Percentile £15.19 £67.00 £84.19
90th Percentile £88.75 £74.50 £85.58
UK median hourly rate £14.63 £66.00 £50.77
% change year-on-year -77.84% +30.00% +19.46%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 2,411 3,545 4,626
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.83% 15.08% 15.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,622 2,562 3,279
10th Percentile £178 £181 £158
25th Percentile £280 £313 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £483 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.18% +7.26% +6.16%
75th Percentile £586 £588 £560
90th Percentile £650 £676 £644
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 187 240
10th Percentile £14.01 £14.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £14.16 £16.73 £14.25
Median hourly rate £20.98 £46.11 £18.31
Median % change year-on-year -54.51% +151.84% +4.02%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £23.81
90th Percentile £79.80 £71.50 £51.95
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £54.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -58.33% +170.00% -

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Virtual Machines as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Machines in the UK excluding London

Virtual Machines
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtual Machines in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Virtual Machines in the UK excluding London

Virtual Machines
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Machines in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Machines in the UK excluding London

Virtual Machines
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Virtual Machines in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Machines in the UK excluding London

Virtual Machines
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Virtual Machines in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Virtual Machines in the UK excluding London

Virtual Machines
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 Virtual Machines within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 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
South East +7 46 £538 -2.27% 44
North of England +32 42 £588 +11.90% 13
Yorkshire +43 27 £340 -35.24% 6
North West +14 15 £618 +19.95% 5
East of England -5 14 £602 +20.40% 8
Midlands +17 13 £400 -3.03% 39
South West +9 13 £439 -14.30% 14
West Midlands +13 11 £400 +6.67% 4
Scotland +15 4 £444 -12.39% 2
East Midlands +16 2 £325 -38.10% 35
Wales +18 1 £425 -19.05% 1
Virtual Machines
UK

Virtual Machines
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 28 (21.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (4.51%) Confluence
3 3 (2.26%) IIS
4 2 (1.50%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.50%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.75%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (3.01%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.26%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 50 (37.59%) Azure
2 29 (21.80%) Entra ID
3 25 (18.80%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
5 18 (13.53%) Azure Storage
6 12 (9.02%) Azure Logic Apps
7 9 (6.77%) IaaS
7 9 (6.77%) PaaS
8 8 (6.02%) Azure DevOps
8 8 (6.02%) Power Platform
9 7 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (4.51%) AWS
10 6 (4.51%) SaaS
11 5 (3.76%) Azure Service Bus
12 4 (3.01%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 4 (3.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 3 (2.26%) Azure API Management
13 3 (2.26%) Azure Event Grid
13 3 (2.26%) Serverless
13 3 (2.26%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 38 (28.57%) Firewall
2 35 (26.32%) DNS
3 34 (25.56%) DHCP
4 9 (6.77%) TCP/IP
4 9 (6.77%) VPN
4 9 (6.77%) Wi-Fi
5 7 (5.26%) Remote Desktop
6 3 (2.26%) IPsec
6 3 (2.26%) Network Security
7 2 (1.50%) 3G
7 2 (1.50%) 4G
7 2 (1.50%) 5G
7 2 (1.50%) GPRS
7 2 (1.50%) NAS
7 2 (1.50%) OpenLDAP
7 2 (1.50%) SAN
7 2 (1.50%) VLAN
8 1 (0.75%) VoLTE
8 1 (0.75%) VoWiFi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (6.77%) Azure SQL Database
1 9 (6.77%) SQL Server
2 7 (5.26%) Power BI
3 3 (2.26%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.26%) Redis
3 3 (2.26%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.50%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (1.50%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.50%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.75%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 7 (5.26%) Git
1 7 (5.26%) GitLab
1 7 (5.26%) JIRA
1 7 (5.26%) Visual Studio
2 6 (4.51%) Artifactory
2 6 (4.51%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.01%) Bitbucket
3 4 (3.01%) CppUnit
3 4 (3.01%) PVCS
3 4 (3.01%) Rational DOORS
4 3 (2.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 2 (1.50%) Selenium
6 1 (0.75%) Hudson
6 1 (0.75%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 57 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 11 (8.27%) Public Sector
3 8 (6.02%) Finance
4 7 (5.26%) Banking
5 4 (3.01%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (3.01%) German Language
5 4 (3.01%) Local Government
6 3 (2.26%) Aerospace
6 3 (2.26%) Front Office
7 2 (1.50%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (0.75%) Automotive
8 1 (0.75%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.75%) Legal
8 1 (0.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 16 (12.03%) Active Directory Support
3 15 (11.28%) Azure Specialist
3 15 (11.28%) Support Specialist
4 14 (10.53%) Active Directory Specialist
5 12 (9.02%) Architect
6 10 (7.52%) Azure Engineer
7 8 (6.02%) Domain Architect
7 8 (6.02%) Linux Engineer
7 8 (6.02%) Senior
8 7 (5.26%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (4.51%) Analyst
9 6 (4.51%) Cloud Engineer
9 6 (4.51%) Data Centre Engineer
10 5 (3.76%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (3.76%) DevOps Engineer
11 4 (3.01%) Azure Architect
11 4 (3.01%) IT Engineer
11 4 (3.01%) Lead
11 4 (3.01%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (12.03%) ARM Templates
2 7 (5.26%) .NET
3 5 (3.76%) Web Services
3 5 (3.76%) YAML
4 4 (3.01%) RESTful
4 4 (3.01%) SOAP
4 4 (3.01%) XML
5 3 (2.26%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (1.50%) LDAP
6 2 (1.50%) Middleware
6 2 (1.50%) Node.js
6 2 (1.50%) pytest
7 1 (0.75%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.75%) JSON
7 1 (0.75%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 21 (15.79%) PKI
2 20 (15.04%) Driving Licence
3 17 (12.78%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (8.27%) Data Centre
5 6 (4.51%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (3.01%) Public Cloud
6 4 (3.01%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 2 (1.50%) Replication
7 2 (1.50%) Tandem
8 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.75%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.75%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 51 (38.35%) Windows
2 37 (27.82%) Linux
3 26 (19.55%) Windows Server
4 24 (18.05%) Windows Server 2019
5 22 (16.54%) Windows Server 2016
6 13 (9.77%) VMS
7 10 (7.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (6.77%) Windows 10
9 7 (5.26%) Windows 7
10 5 (3.76%) Unix
11 4 (3.01%) Embedded Linux
12 3 (2.26%) Ubuntu
13 2 (1.50%) Alpine Linux
13 2 (1.50%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (26.32%) Migration
2 29 (21.80%) DevOps
3 27 (20.30%) Agile
4 26 (19.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 24 (18.05%) ITIL
6 22 (16.54%) CI/CD
6 22 (16.54%) Infrastructure as Code
7 21 (15.79%) Release Management
8 20 (15.04%) RBAC
9 19 (14.29%) Analytics
9 19 (14.29%) Multi-Factor Authentication
10 17 (12.78%) Identity Management
10 17 (12.78%) Service Management
11 16 (12.03%) Log Analytics
11 16 (12.03%) Privileged Identity Management
12 15 (11.28%) Project Delivery
13 12 (9.02%) Containerisation
13 12 (9.02%) Roadmaps
14 11 (8.27%) Computer Science
14 11 (8.27%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 25 (18.80%) SQL
2 21 (15.79%) PowerShell
3 20 (15.04%) C#
4 18 (13.53%) Bicep
5 16 (12.03%) VB
5 16 (12.03%) VBScript
6 13 (9.77%) Python
7 10 (7.52%) C++
8 4 (3.01%) C
9 3 (2.26%) Java
9 3 (2.26%) PHP
9 3 (2.26%) Ruby
9 3 (2.26%) VB.NET
10 2 (1.50%) Bash
10 2 (1.50%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 41 (30.83%) Security Cleared
2 36 (27.07%) Degree
3 34 (25.56%) SC Cleared
4 24 (18.05%) DV Cleared
5 16 (12.03%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 10 (7.52%) Azure Certification
7 7 (5.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 6 (4.51%) CCNA
8 6 (4.51%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (3.01%) A+ Certification
9 4 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (3.01%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (3.01%) Network+ Certification
10 3 (2.26%) ISEB
10 3 (2.26%) ISTQB
10 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (1.50%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.26%) QA
2 6 (4.51%) SLA
3 3 (2.26%) ISO 9001
3 3 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (0.75%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 58 (43.61%) Active Directory
2 34 (25.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (12.78%) Virtual Desktop
4 14 (10.53%) Hyper-V
5 10 (7.52%) vSphere
6 8 (6.02%) Docker
7 7 (5.26%) KVM
7 7 (5.26%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (5.26%) VMware Workstation
8 4 (3.01%) VirtualBox
9 2 (1.50%) Ceph
9 2 (1.50%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 2 (1.50%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.75%) LXC
10 1 (0.75%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 29 (21.80%) Kubernetes
2 23 (17.29%) WSUS
3 20 (15.04%) Microsoft Intune
4 19 (14.29%) SCCM
5 17 (12.78%) SCOM
6 16 (12.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 11 (8.27%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (8.27%) vCenter Server
8 9 (6.77%) Ansible
8 9 (6.77%) Terraform
9 3 (2.26%) Packer
10 2 (1.50%) Grafana
10 2 (1.50%) Pacemaker
10 2 (1.50%) Podman
10 2 (1.50%) Prometheus
10 2 (1.50%) vRealize
11 1 (0.75%) Nessus
11 1 (0.75%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 47 (35.34%) Microsoft
2 38 (28.57%) VMware
3 20 (15.04%) BT
3 20 (15.04%) Virgin Media
4 9 (6.77%) Oracle
4 9 (6.77%) Red Hat
5 8 (6.02%) CA
6 4 (3.01%) Palo Alto
7 3 (2.26%) Okta
8 2 (1.50%) Cisco
8 2 (1.50%) Citrix
8 2 (1.50%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.50%) Qualys
8 2 (1.50%) Sun
9 1 (0.75%) LogicMonitor
9 1 (0.75%) McAfee
9 1 (0.75%) Zscaler