Proxmox Contract Job Trends

Proxmox Virtual Environment
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs 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 546 - 629
Rank change year-on-year - - +212
Contract jobs citing Proxmox 14 0 9
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.043% - 0.018%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.26% - 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 7
10th Percentile £485 - £515
25th Percentile £500 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -41.67%
75th Percentile £519 - £550
90th Percentile £553 - £578
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £41.69
25th Percentile - - £43.28
Median hourly rate - - £48.13
75th Percentile - - £52.03
90th Percentile - - £53.06
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £43.75

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 5,306 5,189 7,182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.17% 13.77% 14.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,479 3,416 5,057
10th Percentile £300 £310 £325
25th Percentile £410 £423 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £663
90th Percentile £675 £721 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -2.45% -3.85% -0.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 58 175
10th Percentile £14.27 £19.85 £18.80
25th Percentile £18.87 £23.80 £37.90
Median hourly rate £26.00 £36.83 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.41% -33.03% +130.03%
75th Percentile £62.44 £61.88 £76.13
90th Percentile £67.08 £78.75 £78.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.39 £37.08 £48.40
% change year-on-year -42.32% -23.38% +122.22%

Proxmox
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Proxmox job vacancy trend in the UK

Proxmox
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Proxmox
Top 7 Contract Job 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 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
England - 14 £513 - 10
UK excluding London - 14 £513 - 9
West Midlands - 10 £475 - 2
London - 10 £475 - 1
Midlands - 10 £475 - 2
South East - 4 £513 - 2
Work from Home - 1 £475 - 18

Proxmox
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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