Proxmox Contracts

Proxmox Virtual Environment
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Proxmox skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Proxmox 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 512 578 717
Rank change year-on-year +66 +139 -
Contract jobs citing Proxmox 8 4 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.027% 0.009% 0.002%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.17% 0.078% 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 0
10th Percentile £408 £305 -
25th Percentile £463 £388 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £669 £631 -
90th Percentile £675 £665 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £350 £550 -
% change year-on-year -36.36% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,597 5,137 9,615
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.70% 11.79% 16.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,150 3,667 6,945
10th Percentile £313 £258 £356
25th Percentile £419 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £563
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £675
90th Percentile £725 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 127 209
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.00 £16.48
25th Percentile £19.51 £17.77 £22.75
Median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%
75th Percentile £50.75 £54.38 £71.50
90th Percentile £69.88 £70.50 £82.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.34 £38.50 £43.75
% change year-on-year -34.18% -12.00% +118.75%

Proxmox
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Proxmox as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Proxmox in the UK

Proxmox
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Proxmox.

Daily rate trend for Proxmox in the UK

Proxmox
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Proxmox over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Proxmox in the UK

Proxmox
Top 5 Contract Locations

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 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
England +61 8 £500 -9.09% 10
London - 5 £500 - 5
UK excluding London +61 2 £350 -36.36% 9
Work from Home - 2 £650 - 11
South East - 2 £350 - 2

Proxmox
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (12.50%) nginx
1 1 (12.50%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Weka
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (12.50%) GCP
3 1 (12.50%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) Network Security
1 3 (37.50%) Remote Desktop
1 3 (37.50%) SNMP
1 3 (37.50%) SSH
1 3 (37.50%) Telnet
1 3 (37.50%) Wireshark
2 2 (25.00%) InfiniBand
2 2 (25.00%) VLAN
3 1 (12.50%) DSLAM
3 1 (12.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Git
1 3 (37.50%) GitLab
General
1 3 (37.50%) Telecoms
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Network Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Fibre Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) IT Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) JSON
1 3 (37.50%) XML
2 2 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (12.50%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Replication
2 1 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Linux
2 3 (37.50%) Windows
3 2 (25.00%) Windows 10
3 2 (25.00%) Windows 7
4 1 (12.50%) CentOS
4 1 (12.50%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 4 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (37.50%) Data Analysis
2 3 (37.50%) Database Tuning
2 3 (37.50%) Event Correlation
2 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (37.50%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (37.50%) Service-Level Objective
2 3 (37.50%) SIEM
3 2 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (25.00%) Dashboard Development
3 2 (25.00%) Data Ingestion
3 2 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (25.00%) Network Monitoring
3 2 (25.00%) Observability
3 2 (25.00%) Remote Monitoring and Management
3 2 (25.00%) Test Scripting
3 2 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (37.50%) Java
2 3 (37.50%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) Bash
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) SLA
2 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) FreeRADIUS
1 3 (37.50%) iptables
2 2 (25.00%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Ansible
1 4 (50.00%) Nagios
2 3 (37.50%) Cacti
2 3 (37.50%) Grafana
2 3 (37.50%) Netcool
2 3 (37.50%) Puppet
2 3 (37.50%) Terraform
2 3 (37.50%) ZABBIX
3 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (12.50%) Graylog
4 1 (12.50%) logstash
4 1 (12.50%) Prometheus
4 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) VMware
2 3 (37.50%) Cisco
2 3 (37.50%) Nokia
2 3 (37.50%) Splunk
3 1 (12.50%) Huawei
3 1 (12.50%) Juniper
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Palo Alto
3 1 (12.50%) Red Hat
3 1 (12.50%) SolarWinds