Virgin Media Contract Job Trends

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 13 August 2026, 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
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 634 435 449
Rank change year-on-year -199 +14 +96
Contract jobs citing Virgin Media 26 120 119
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.049% 0.36% 0.31%
As % of the Vendors category 0.12% 0.77% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 112 97
10th Percentile £420 £412 £493
25th Percentile £425 £513 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £600
90th Percentile - £675 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 12
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £14.06
Median hourly rate - - £14.63
75th Percentile - - £15.19
90th Percentile - - -
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 22,208 15,570 17,043
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.62% 47.27% 43.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,745 9,527 10,624
10th Percentile £313 £278 £288
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -3.85% -0.95%
75th Percentile £607 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,140 801 840
10th Percentile £14.80 £14.54 £13.68
25th Percentile £18.25 £17.30 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -13.28% -28.95%
75th Percentile £65.00 £47.12 £61.60
90th Percentile £83.63 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.23 £21.29 £28.00
% change year-on-year +51.36% -23.96% -18.84%

Virgin Media
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Virgin Media job vacancy trend in the UK

Virgin Media
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Virgin Media

Virgin Media
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virgin Media over the 6 months to 13 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Virgin Media in the UK

Virgin Media
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Virgin Media.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Virgin Media

Virgin Media
Top 10 Contract Job 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 13 August 2026. 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 -186 26 £500 -9.09% 15
UK excluding London -144 21 £500 -9.09% 5
South East -83 18 £525 -4.55% 1
London -129 5 £525 -8.70% 11
Work from Home -76 4 £425 -19.05% 7
North West -51 3 £420 -23.64%
North of England -79 3 £420 -18.05% 2
South West - 3 £425 - 1
Midlands -53 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 - -

Virgin Media
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:

Applications
1 1 (3.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 12 (46.15%) Azure
2 6 (23.08%) Entra ID
3 4 (15.38%) Power Platform
4 3 (11.54%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (7.69%) AWS
5 2 (7.69%) OCI
5 2 (7.69%) PaaS
5 2 (7.69%) PowerApps
6 1 (3.85%) Azure AI
6 1 (3.85%) Azure AKS
6 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (3.85%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.54%) VPN
2 2 (7.69%) Network Security
3 1 (3.85%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (3.85%) Data Vault
2 1 (3.85%) IBM InfoSphere
2 1 (3.85%) Metadata
2 1 (3.85%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) ERwin
General
1 9 (34.62%) Public Sector
2 3 (11.54%) Social Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (26.92%) Architect
2 6 (23.08%) Developer
3 4 (15.38%) Designer
3 4 (15.38%) Service Designer
4 3 (11.54%) Azure Developer
4 3 (11.54%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Platform Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) Azure Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Business Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) Change Manager
5 2 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Full-Stack Python Developer
5 2 (7.69%) Python Developer
5 2 (7.69%) React Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Java Developer
6 1 (3.85%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.85%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 26 (100.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (7.69%) IVR
2 2 (7.69%) Operational Technology
2 2 (7.69%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.85%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.85%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (19.23%) RBAC
2 5 (19.23%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (15.38%) Journey Map
3 4 (15.38%) Service Design
4 3 (11.54%) AI
4 3 (11.54%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 3 (11.54%) Integration Patterns
4 3 (11.54%) Migration
4 3 (11.54%) User Experience
4 3 (11.54%) Validation
4 3 (11.54%) Zero Trust
5 2 (7.69%) Analytics
5 2 (7.69%) DevOps
5 2 (7.69%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (7.69%) Identity Access Management
5 2 (7.69%) Load Balancing
5 2 (7.69%) Security Architecture
5 2 (7.69%) SIEM
5 2 (7.69%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.69%) Java
1 2 (7.69%) Python
2 1 (3.85%) Bicep
2 1 (3.85%) C
2 1 (3.85%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) Accessibility
1 1 (3.85%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (3.85%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.85%) FreeRADIUS
Systems Management
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft
1 2 (7.69%) Oracle
2 1 (3.85%) Salesforce
2 1 (3.85%) SAP
2 1 (3.85%) Sparx