Virtual Machines Contract Job Trends in Warwick

Virtual Machine (VM)
Warwickshire > Warwick

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Warwick requiring Virtual Machines skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 25 24
Rank change year-on-year -18 -1 +5
Contract jobs citing Virtual Machines 3 5 2
As % of all contract jobs in Warwick 0.93% 3.18% 1.47%
As % of the System Software category 8.33% 14.29% 8.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 2
10th Percentile £315 £391 £152
25th Percentile £319 £454 £154
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £512 £158
Median % change year-on-year -36.52% +225.08% -
75th Percentile £394 £577 £161
90th Percentile £428 £673 £164
Warwickshire median daily rate £325 £512 £158
% change year-on-year -36.52% +225.08% -80.31%

All System Software Skills
Warwick

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 Warwick.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 36 35 23
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Warwick 11.21% 22.29% 16.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 26 19
10th Percentile £285 £403 -
25th Percentile £313 £431 £150
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £501 £250
Median % change year-on-year -5.09% +100.20% -50.00%
75th Percentile £575 £602 £534
90th Percentile £595 £739 £655
Warwickshire median daily rate £537 £551 £275
% change year-on-year -2.54% +100.36% -45.00%

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in Warwick

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Virtual Machines relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Warwick.

Virtual Machines job vacancy trend in Warwick

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Daily Rate Trend in Warwick

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Warwick citing Virtual Machines.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Warwick citing Virtual Machines

Virtual Machines
Daily Rate Histogram in Warwick

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Machines in Warwick over the 6 months to 22 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Machines in Warwick

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Hourly Rate Trend in Warwick

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Warwick citing Virtual Machines.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Warwick citing Virtual Machines

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Warwick 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 2 (66.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) SSL
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
General
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Change Management
1 2 (66.67%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (66.67%) Network Virtualisation
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (66.67%) Service Management
1 2 (66.67%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 1 (33.33%) Change Control
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Impact Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) ITSM
2 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (33.33%) Server Patching
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Storage Management
2 1 (33.33%) Technology Transformation
2 1 (33.33%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PL/SQL
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) SCOM
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco