Virtual Machines Contracts in Warwickshire

Virtual Machine (VM)
West Midlands > Warwickshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Warwickshire 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 34 43 42
Rank change year-on-year +9 -1 -
Contract jobs citing Virtual Machines 8 2 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Warwickshire 2.59% 0.59% 1.01%
As % of the System Software category 19.05% 8.33% 11.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 2
10th Percentile £265 £152 £778
25th Percentile £350 £154 £781
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £158 £800
Median % change year-on-year +169.84% -80.31% -
75th Percentile £514 £161 £819
90th Percentile £519 £164 £823
West Midlands median daily rate £463 £400 £375
% change year-on-year +15.63% +6.67% -24.24%

All System Software Skills
Warwickshire

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 Warwickshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 42 24 34
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Warwickshire 13.59% 7.10% 8.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 18 27
10th Percentile £400 £150 £328
25th Percentile £450 £186 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £419 £520
Median % change year-on-year +26.33% -19.47% +54.07%
75th Percentile £638 £647 £688
90th Percentile £738 £751 £738
West Midlands median daily rate £476 £400 £475
% change year-on-year +19.00% -15.79% +15.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £31.32 - -
Median hourly rate £36.65 - -
75th Percentile £41.97 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.13 £17.80 £17.72
% change year-on-year +1.85% +0.47% +5.78%

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in Warwickshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Machines in Warwickshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Warwickshire

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Machines in Warwickshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Warwickshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Machines in Warwickshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Machines in Warwickshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Warwickshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Machines in Warwickshire

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Contract Job Locations in Warwickshire

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 Warwickshire 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
Warwick +1 8 £425 +169.84% 4
Virtual Machines
West Midlands

Virtual Machines
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Warwickshire 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:

Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Deployment Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Wintel Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Product Ownership
2 1 (12.50%) Operational Technology
2 1 (12.50%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 7 (87.50%) Windows
2 3 (37.50%) Windows 10
2 3 (37.50%) Windows 7
2 3 (37.50%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Change Control
1 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (12.50%) Asset Management
2 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
2 1 (12.50%) RBAC
2 1 (12.50%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (87.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (62.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) VMware
2 4 (50.00%) Broadcom
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
21 Virtual Machines jobs in the West Midlands