VirtualBox Contract Job Trends

Oracle VM VirtualBox
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring VirtualBox skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 670 565 561
Rank change year-on-year -105 -4 +102
Contract jobs citing VirtualBox 2 5 6
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.004% 0.015% 0.015%
As % of the System Software category 0.038% 0.13% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 5
10th Percentile - £356 £403
25th Percentile - £357 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £370 £450
Median % change year-on-year +21.79% -17.89% +38.46%
75th Percentile - £386 £475
90th Percentile - £387 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £370 £450
% change year-on-year +21.79% -17.89% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £80.00

All System Software Skills
UK

VirtualBox falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 5,251 3,875 4,474
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 9.84% 11.71% 11.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,452 2,487 3,111
10th Percentile £225 £225 £218
25th Percentile £400 £380 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.44%
75th Percentile £591 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £684
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 209 100 149
10th Percentile £15.39 £13.75 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.65 £15.65
Median hourly rate £52.50 £31.39 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +67.28% +31.87% -52.40%
75th Percentile £74.00 £79.03 £58.69
90th Percentile £79.10 £91.50 £70.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £59.50 £24.18
% change year-on-year -11.76% +146.07% -10.44%

VirtualBox
Job Vacancy Trend

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

VirtualBox job vacancy trend in the UK

VirtualBox
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

VirtualBox
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VirtualBox

VirtualBox
Top 3 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VirtualBox within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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
UK excluding London -99 2 £450 +21.79% 3
England -115 2 £450 +21.79% 3
South West - 2 £450 - 3

VirtualBox
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) QA Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) QA Test Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Principle of Least Privilege
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware