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 21 October 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
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 471 429 517
Rank change year-on-year -42 +88 +231
Contract jobs citing Virgin Media 86 128 113
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.26% 0.35% 0.24%
As % of the Vendors category 0.54% 0.77% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 112 86
10th Percentile £425 £475 £506
25th Percentile £506 £522 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £688
90th Percentile £688 £650 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +7.32%

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 15,923 16,596 21,560
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.59% 44.79% 45.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,830 9,771 13,901
10th Percentile £275 £290 £263
25th Percentile £404 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.05% - +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 818 552 677
10th Percentile £14.99 £15.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.71 £19.25
Median hourly rate £24.00 £32.50 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year -26.15% -25.86% +82.65%
75th Percentile £37.50 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £76.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.30 £30.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.00% -29.41% +102.38%

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 21 October 2025.

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 11 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 21 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 -39 85 £575 +4.55% 28
UK excluding London +15 48 £550 -4.35% 27
London -54 37 £585 +6.36% 5
South East +38 36 £600 +9.09% 7
Work from Home +33 17 £550 - 3
North of England -32 9 £420 -26.96% 10
North West -12 8 £423 -15.50% 6
Midlands -26 7 £675 +7.14% 2
West Midlands -25 6 £675 +7.14% 1
East of England - 2 £700 - 1
Yorkshire -31 1 £375 -40.48% 3

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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (3.49%) Umbraco
2 2 (2.33%) Anypoint
2 2 (2.33%) CMS
2 2 (2.33%) Mule
2 2 (2.33%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (1.16%) EPiServer
3 1 (1.16%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.33%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 28 (32.56%) Azure
2 8 (9.30%) AWS
3 5 (5.81%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (5.81%) Power Platform
4 4 (4.65%) Entra ID
4 4 (4.65%) GCP
4 4 (4.65%) GitHub
4 4 (4.65%) GitHub Actions
4 4 (4.65%) Microsoft Purview
5 3 (3.49%) Serverless
6 2 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.33%) Azure AKS
6 2 (2.33%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (2.33%) Figma
6 2 (2.33%) Slack
6 2 (2.33%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.16%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.16%) Azure API Management
7 1 (1.16%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (1.16%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.81%) Power BI
2 2 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (2.33%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.16%) Amazon Aurora
3 1 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.16%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.16%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.16%) Oracle Database 11g
3 1 (1.16%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 2 (2.33%) Git
1 2 (2.33%) JIRA
2 1 (1.16%) Cucumber
2 1 (1.16%) Cypress.io
2 1 (1.16%) GitLab
2 1 (1.16%) Postman
2 1 (1.16%) Selenium
General
1 30 (34.88%) Public Sector
2 5 (5.81%) Social Skills
3 4 (4.65%) Telecoms
4 3 (3.49%) Marketing
5 1 (1.16%) Finance
5 1 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.16%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 30 (34.88%) Developer
2 25 (29.07%) Architect
3 12 (13.95%) Lead
4 8 (9.30%) Ruby Developer
4 8 (9.30%) Solutions Architect
5 7 (8.14%) Lead Developer
5 7 (8.14%) Python Developer
5 7 (8.14%) Salesforce Architect
6 6 (6.98%) Designer
6 6 (6.98%) Java Developer
6 6 (6.98%) React Developer
6 6 (6.98%) Salesforce Solution Architect
6 6 (6.98%) Senior
6 6 (6.98%) Senior Developer
7 5 (5.81%) Azure Developer
7 5 (5.81%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (5.81%) Cloud Developer
7 5 (5.81%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (5.81%) Security Architect
8 4 (4.65%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.14%) FastAPI
1 7 (8.14%) Spring Boot
2 5 (5.81%) RESTful
3 4 (4.65%) React
3 4 (4.65%) REST
3 4 (4.65%) Spring
4 3 (3.49%) .NET
4 3 (3.49%) CSS
4 3 (3.49%) HTML
5 2 (2.33%) Jest
5 2 (2.33%) Kafka
5 2 (2.33%) Sass
6 1 (1.16%) JSON
6 1 (1.16%) Node.js
6 1 (1.16%) Playwright
6 1 (1.16%) PySpark
6 1 (1.16%) Ruby on Rails
6 1 (1.16%) SOAP
6 1 (1.16%) XML
6 1 (1.16%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 69 (80.23%) Onboarding
2 2 (2.33%) Cloud Native
2 2 (2.33%) CUDA
2 2 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.16%) CCTV
3 1 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (1.16%) SCADA
3 1 (1.16%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.33%) Windows
2 1 (1.16%) Linux
2 1 (1.16%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (11.63%) CI/CD
1 10 (11.63%) DevOps
2 9 (10.47%) AI
3 8 (9.30%) Generative AI
4 6 (6.98%) Design Patterns
4 6 (6.98%) Microservices
5 5 (5.81%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (5.81%) Data Engineering
5 5 (5.81%) Full-Stack Development
6 4 (4.65%) Agile
6 4 (4.65%) CQRS
7 3 (3.49%) Analytics
7 3 (3.49%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
7 3 (3.49%) Front End Development
7 3 (3.49%) Network Architecture
7 3 (3.49%) OOP
7 3 (3.49%) TDD
7 3 (3.49%) Validation
8 2 (2.33%) CRM
8 2 (2.33%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 12 (13.95%) Python
2 9 (10.47%) Java
3 8 (9.30%) Ruby
4 6 (6.98%) SQL
5 3 (3.49%) C#
5 3 (3.49%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.33%) C++
6 2 (2.33%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.33%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.16%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (5.81%) SC Cleared
1 5 (5.81%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.16%) Accessibility
1 1 (1.16%) ISO 19650
1 1 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.16%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.16%) Docker
1 1 (1.16%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 1 (1.16%) Argo
1 1 (1.16%) Data Guard
1 1 (1.16%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.16%) Oracle RMAN
1 1 (1.16%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (12.79%) Databricks
2 9 (10.47%) Salesforce
3 4 (4.65%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.49%) MuleSoft
4 3 (3.49%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.33%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.33%) Sitecore
6 1 (1.16%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.16%) Optimizely
6 1 (1.16%) Oracle
6 1 (1.16%) Palantir
6 1 (1.16%) Palo Alto