VirtualBox Contracts

Oracle VM VirtualBox
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring VirtualBox skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VirtualBox over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 545 567 672
Rank change year-on-year +22 +105 +177
Contract jobs citing VirtualBox 5 7 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.016% 0.016% 0.012%
As % of the System Software category 0.13% 0.14% 0.095%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 7
10th Percentile £356 £403 £300
25th Percentile £357 £425 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £370 £450 £325
Median % change year-on-year -17.89% +38.46% -32.99%
75th Percentile £386 £475 £363
90th Percentile £387 - £427
UK excluding London median daily rate £370 £450 -
% change year-on-year -17.89% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £75.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £75.00 -

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 3,824 4,843 7,347
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.02% 11.17% 13.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,487 3,333 5,133
10th Percentile £225 £208 £200
25th Percentile £381 £372 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £688 £688 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £480 £479
% change year-on-year -0.94% +0.10% +6.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 220 257
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.06 £15.21
25th Percentile £15.91 £15.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 £23.99 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.72% -55.57% +170.00%
75th Percentile £66.00 £59.20 £67.50
90th Percentile £89.03 £70.00 £76.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.19 £24.34 £27.50
% change year-on-year +130.84% -11.49% +48.65%

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 6 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 5 July 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 +51 5 £370 -17.89% 21
UK excluding London +38 3 £370 -17.89% 9
North of England - 3 £370 - 3
Yorkshire - 3 £370 - 1
Work from Home +28 2 - - 14
London - 1 - - 13

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 5 (100.00%) Confluence
2 2 (40.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) GitHub
2 2 (40.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) MariaDB
1 2 (40.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Git
1 5 (100.00%) JIRA
1 5 (100.00%) Vagrant
2 3 (60.00%) Cucumber
2 3 (60.00%) Visual Studio
3 2 (40.00%) Bitbucket
3 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Administrator
1 2 (40.00%) Linux Administrator
1 2 (40.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 2 (40.00%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Automation Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Migration Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Gherkin
2 2 (40.00%) LAMP
2 2 (40.00%) Zend Framework
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) CentOS
1 2 (40.00%) Debian
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Ubuntu
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Change Management
3 2 (40.00%) Build Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (40.00%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Security Hardening
3 2 (40.00%) Server Building
3 2 (40.00%) Server Patching
3 2 (40.00%) Software Deployment
4 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (60.00%) Ruby
3 2 (40.00%) Bash
3 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (40.00%) Perl
3 2 (40.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Ansible
1 5 (100.00%) Puppet
2 2 (40.00%) Icinga
2 2 (40.00%) Nagios
2 2 (40.00%) Progress Chef
2 2 (40.00%) Salt
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Splunk
2 2 (40.00%) New Relic
2 2 (40.00%) Rackspace
2 2 (40.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) Zend