Virgin Media Contracts

Virgin Media
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Virgin Media products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Virgin Media over the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Virgin Media.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 373 488 590
Rank change year-on-year +115 +102 +232
Contract jobs citing Virgin Media 152 96 106
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.52% 0.23% 0.19%
As % of the Vendors category 1.09% 0.53% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 67 102
10th Percentile £380 £513 £500
25th Percentile £500 £550 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +35.29%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £634
90th Percentile £646 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £600 £575
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +43.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 22 0
Median hourly rate - £14.63 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £14.63 -

All Vendors
UK

Virgin Media falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 13,951 17,999 24,597
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.74% 42.30% 42.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,684 11,221 16,458
10th Percentile £280 £263 £270
25th Percentile £406 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -
75th Percentile £615 £630 £645
90th Percentile £713 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +7.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 580 1,111 668
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.02 £15.15
25th Percentile £17.21 £14.48 £18.68
Median hourly rate £25.50 £21.50 £40.59
Median % change year-on-year +18.60% -47.03% +88.79%
75th Percentile £56.00 £57.33 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.88 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £21.46 £37.50
% change year-on-year +4.85% -42.77% +97.37%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Virgin Media in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Virgin Media in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virgin Media over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Virgin Media in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Virgin Media.

Hourly rate trend for Virgin Media in the UK

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Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Virgin Media within the UK over the 6 months to 20 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 +112 145 £550 -8.33% 27
UK excluding London +96 86 £550 -8.33% 18
London +55 59 £566 -5.63% 13
North of England +37 48 £500 -9.09% 3
South East +64 34 £550 -8.33% 9
Work from Home +60 25 £525 -12.50% 5
North West +37 24 £575 -4.17% 2
North East +14 21 £380 -27.62%
Midlands +17 4 £550 - 4
West Midlands - 4 £550 - 4
Yorkshire -2 3 £413 -25.00% 1

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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 10 (6.58%) Umbraco
2 7 (4.61%) CMS
3 5 (3.29%) Camunda
4 4 (2.63%) Sitecore CMS
5 3 (1.97%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (1.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (1.32%) Headless CMS
7 1 (0.66%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.66%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.66%) Mule ESB
Business Applications
1 2 (1.32%) SAP WM
2 1 (0.66%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 29 (19.08%) Azure
2 23 (15.13%) AWS
3 9 (5.92%) Serverless
4 6 (3.95%) Amazon S3
4 6 (3.95%) Snowflake
5 5 (3.29%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (3.29%) GitHub
6 4 (2.63%) Power Platform
7 3 (1.97%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (1.97%) iPaaS
8 2 (1.32%) Azure AKS
8 2 (1.32%) Figma
8 2 (1.32%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.66%) Amazon EKS
9 1 (0.66%) Azure Functions
9 1 (0.66%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.66%) Collibra
9 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.66%) OCI
9 1 (0.66%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.32%) Broadband
2 1 (0.66%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.95%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (3.95%) Relational Database
1 6 (3.95%) Tableau
2 4 (2.63%) Power BI
3 3 (1.97%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.32%) Redis
5 1 (0.66%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.66%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.66%) Big Data
5 1 (0.66%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.66%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.66%) Oracle Database 11g
5 1 (0.66%) Oracle Database 12c
5 1 (0.66%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (4.61%) GitLab
2 4 (2.63%) Selenium
3 3 (1.97%) Cucumber
3 3 (1.97%) Git
3 3 (1.97%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.97%) JIRA
4 2 (1.32%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.32%) MLflow
4 2 (1.32%) Postman
5 1 (0.66%) JMeter
5 1 (0.66%) Maven
5 1 (0.66%) REST Assured
5 1 (0.66%) SoapUI
General
1 55 (36.18%) Public Sector
2 17 (11.18%) Telecoms
3 7 (4.61%) Finance
3 7 (4.61%) Social Skills
4 5 (3.29%) Banking
5 4 (2.63%) Investment Banking
6 3 (1.97%) Publishing
7 2 (1.32%) Billing
7 2 (1.32%) Marketing
8 1 (0.66%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (30.26%) Developer
2 20 (13.16%) Java Developer
3 17 (11.18%) Analyst
4 16 (10.53%) Architect
5 14 (9.21%) Business Analyst
6 12 (7.89%) Full-Stack Developer
7 11 (7.24%) React Developer
8 10 (6.58%) Data Engineer
9 9 (5.92%) Designer
9 9 (5.92%) Lead
10 8 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
11 7 (4.61%) Android Developer
11 7 (4.61%) Azure Developer
11 7 (4.61%) Azure Engineer
11 7 (4.61%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 7 (4.61%) Java Architect
11 7 (4.61%) Java Technical Architect
11 7 (4.61%) Technical Architect
12 6 (3.95%) AWS Engineer
12 6 (3.95%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.92%) .NET
1 9 (5.92%) Node.js
2 8 (5.26%) HTML
3 4 (2.63%) CSS
3 4 (2.63%) Express.js
3 4 (2.63%) Spring Boot
4 2 (1.32%) Kafka
4 2 (1.32%) Next.js
4 2 (1.32%) Playwright
4 2 (1.32%) REST
4 2 (1.32%) Spring
5 1 (0.66%) JSON
5 1 (0.66%) PySpark
5 1 (0.66%) React
5 1 (0.66%) SOAP
5 1 (0.66%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 88 (57.89%) Onboarding
2 2 (1.32%) Digital Wallet
2 2 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (1.32%) Product Ownership
2 2 (1.32%) SCADA
3 1 (0.66%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (0.66%) Management Information System
3 1 (0.66%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.61%) Android
2 1 (0.66%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.66%) Linux
2 1 (0.66%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (10.53%) Microservices
2 14 (9.21%) DevOps
3 13 (8.55%) CI/CD
3 13 (8.55%) Full-Stack Development
4 10 (6.58%) Event-Driven
5 9 (5.92%) Test Automation
6 8 (5.26%) Agile
7 7 (4.61%) Android Development
7 7 (4.61%) Migration
7 7 (4.61%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (3.95%) Data Integration
8 6 (3.95%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 6 (3.95%) Event-Driven Programming
8 6 (3.95%) User Stories
9 5 (3.29%) Analytics
9 5 (3.29%) Design Patterns
10 4 (2.63%) API Testing
10 4 (2.63%) Business Intelligence
10 4 (2.63%) Data Engineering
10 4 (2.63%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 36 (23.68%) Java
2 14 (9.21%) SQL
3 9 (5.92%) Python
4 4 (2.63%) Ruby
5 2 (1.32%) C#
5 2 (1.32%) Kotlin
5 2 (1.32%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.66%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.66%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 20 (13.16%) SC Cleared
1 20 (13.16%) Security Cleared
2 1 (0.66%) ISTQB
2 1 (0.66%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.32%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.66%) GDPR
2 1 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.66%) QA
System Software
1 12 (7.89%) Docker
2 1 (0.66%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 15 (9.87%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.61%) Terraform
3 2 (1.32%) Ansible
3 2 (1.32%) Grafana
4 1 (0.66%) Argo
4 1 (0.66%) Data Guard
4 1 (0.66%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (0.66%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 14 (9.21%) Databricks
2 6 (3.95%) Sitecore
3 4 (2.63%) MuleSoft
4 3 (1.97%) BT
4 3 (1.97%) Openreach
5 2 (1.32%) Adobe
5 2 (1.32%) Microsoft
5 2 (1.32%) Palantir
5 2 (1.32%) SAP
6 1 (0.66%) Dynatrace
6 1 (0.66%) Nokia
6 1 (0.66%) Nortel
6 1 (0.66%) Optimizely
6 1 (0.66%) Oracle
6 1 (0.66%) Salesforce