Virtual Machines Contracts in Wales

Virtual Machine (VM)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales requiring Virtual Machines skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Machines over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 43 59
Rank change year-on-year +1 +16 +12
Contract jobs citing Virtual Machines 1 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 0.34% 0.25% 0.31%
As % of the System Software category 2.22% 2.56% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £413 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year -29.41% -19.05% -4.55%
75th Percentile - £438 £538
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £513 £507 £540
% change year-on-year +1.18% -6.20% +2.86%

All System Software Skills
Wales

Virtual Machines 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 in Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 45 39 86
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 15.36% 9.87% 13.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 31 71
10th Percentile £185 £185 £145
25th Percentile £213 £354 £180
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -13.89% +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £460 £531 £538
90th Percentile £539 £600 £631
UK median daily rate £525 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 3
10th Percentile £22.50 £12.94 £15.24
25th Percentile £26.25 £13.98 £15.61
Median hourly rate £37.50 £15.84 £16.45
Median % change year-on-year +136.82% -3.71% +17.46%
75th Percentile £41.25 £17.57 £17.38
90th Percentile - £18.53 £17.81
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £22.50 £53.43
% change year-on-year +22.22% -57.88% +167.13%

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing Virtual Machines as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Machines in Wales

Virtual Machines
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtual Machines in Wales.

Daily rate trend for Virtual Machines in Wales

Virtual Machines
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Virtual Machines in Wales.

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Machines in Wales

Virtual Machines
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Machines within the Wales region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
South Wales +6 1 £300 -29.41% 3
Virtual Machines
UK

Virtual Machines
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft