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 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 572 545 631
Rank change year-on-year -27 +86 +192
Contract jobs citing VirtualBox 2 6 3
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.006% 0.016% 0.006%
As % of the System Software category 0.047% 0.14% 0.050%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 6 3
10th Percentile - £425 -
25th Percentile - £432 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £519 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.75% +8.11%
75th Percentile - £613 £550
90th Percentile - £623 £580
UK excluding London median daily rate - £519 £500
% change year-on-year - +3.75% -

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 4,261 4,310 6,058
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.31% 11.80% 13.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,751 2,763 4,137
10th Percentile £206 £213 £198
25th Percentile £378 £380 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £623
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 88 252
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.44 £15.50
25th Percentile £18.90 £21.46 £18.50
Median hourly rate £26.75 £44.00 £44.86
Median % change year-on-year -39.20% -1.92% +90.89%
75th Percentile £67.25 £66.92 £66.31
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £77.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.00 £50.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +8.00% +33.33% +87.50%

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 6 November 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
Work from Home +14 2 - -
England -4 2 - -
London - 1 - -

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Apache
1 2 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MariaDB
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) Vagrant
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Administrator
1 2 (100.00%) Linux Administrator
1 2 (100.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 2 (100.00%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) LAMP
1 2 (100.00%) Zend Framework
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) CentOS
1 2 (100.00%) Debian
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Build Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Security Hardening
1 2 (100.00%) Server Building
1 2 (100.00%) Server Patching
1 2 (100.00%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Perl
1 2 (100.00%) PHP
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Ansible
1 2 (100.00%) Icinga
1 2 (100.00%) Nagios
1 2 (100.00%) Progress Chef
1 2 (100.00%) Puppet
1 2 (100.00%) Salt
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) New Relic
1 2 (100.00%) Rackspace
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) Zend