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 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 647 521 581
Rank change year-on-year -126 +60 +106
Contract jobs citing VirtualBox 1 3 6
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.002% 0.010% 0.014%
As % of the System Software category 0.020% 0.083% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 4
10th Percentile - £356 £399
25th Percentile - £357 £416
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% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
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 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 4,919 3,596 4,679
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.01% 12.45% 10.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,279 2,416 3,253
10th Percentile £218 £223 £200
25th Percentile £400 £393 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £590 £600 £606
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 81 229
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.99 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.25 £15.44 £15.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 £28.41 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +84.79% +17.49% -56.04%
75th Percentile £72.54 £62.50 £60.75
90th Percentile £79.00 £88.00 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.00 £32.32 £24.18
% change year-on-year +57.78% +33.67% -50.85%

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 30 May 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 -96 1 £450 +21.79% 1
England -128 1 £450 +21.79% 1
South West - 1 £450 - 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:

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