VirtualBox Contracts

Oracle VM VirtualBox
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for VirtualBox skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited VirtualBox over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 592 709 833
Rank change year-on-year +117 +124 -159
Contract jobs citing VirtualBox 6 10 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.017% 0.018%
As % of the System Software category 0.13% 0.13% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 13
10th Percentile £399 £309 £161
25th Percentile £416 £313 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £350 £484
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -27.69% +11.26%
75th Percentile £475 £384 £525
90th Percentile - £448 £653
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £375 £288
% change year-on-year +20.00% +30.43% -28.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £66.50 - -
25th Percentile £68.75 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £78.75 - -
90th Percentile £79.50 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 - -

All System Software Skills
UK

VirtualBox is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,653 7,900 12,040
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.75% 13.21% 13.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,179 5,646 8,623
10th Percentile £197 £205 £200
25th Percentile £331 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +9.38%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £485 £450
% change year-on-year -5.13% +7.75% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 284 318
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.83 £13.21
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.25 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £53.75 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.14% +168.75% -
75th Percentile £60.19 £66.00 £44.07
90th Percentile £77.95 £75.35 £60.92
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.50 £44.93 £18.12
% change year-on-year -52.15% +148.01% +2.06%

VirtualBox
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for VirtualBox in the UK

VirtualBox
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for VirtualBox in the UK

VirtualBox
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for VirtualBox in the UK

VirtualBox
Top 4 Contract 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 27 April 2024. 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 +125 6 £450 +38.46% 3
UK excluding London +69 6 £450 +20.00% 1
South East - 6 £450 - 1
Work from Home +132 3 £450 -2.44% 1

VirtualBox
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 6 (100.00%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) CouchDB
1 2 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 2 (33.33%) MySQL
1 2 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 6 (100.00%) Git
1 6 (100.00%) JIRA
2 4 (66.67%) Artifactory
2 4 (66.67%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Software Engineer
2 4 (66.67%) Development Engineer
2 4 (66.67%) Software Development Engineer
2 4 (66.67%) Test Development Engineer
3 3 (50.00%) C++ Software Engineer
3 3 (50.00%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) C# Software Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Full Stack Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Full Stack Software Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) JavaScript Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) RESTful
1 4 (66.67%) SOAP
1 4 (66.67%) XML
2 2 (33.33%) AngularJS
2 2 (33.33%) CSS
2 2 (33.33%) HTML
2 2 (33.33%) Node.js
2 2 (33.33%) React
2 2 (33.33%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (66.67%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
1 6 (100.00%) Scrum
1 6 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) API Testing
2 4 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 4 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (66.67%) End-to-End Testing
2 4 (66.67%) Manual Testing
2 4 (66.67%) Open Source
2 4 (66.67%) Performance Management
2 4 (66.67%) SDET
2 4 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Full Stack Development
3 2 (33.33%) Kanban
3 2 (33.33%) Web Development
4 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) C++
2 4 (66.67%) Python
2 4 (66.67%) SQL
3 3 (50.00%) C#
4 2 (33.33%) Bash
4 2 (33.33%) Java
4 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Degree
2 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (33.33%) Hyper-V
2 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Oracle
2 2 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (16.67%) Compaq