Virtual Machines Contract Job Trends in West End of London

Virtual Machine (VM)
Central London > West End of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West End of London requiring Virtual Machines skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Virtual Machines 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in West End of London 2.94% - -
As % of the System Software category 33.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £475 £615 £488
% change year-on-year -22.70% +25.99% -14.05%

All System Software Skills
West End of London

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 West End of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 3 8 6
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West End of London 8.82% 10.26% 11.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 5
10th Percentile £627 £128 £323
25th Percentile £650 £278 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £699 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year +16.46% +20.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £747 - £523
90th Percentile £769 - £532
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £484
% change year-on-year -4.55% +13.70% -15.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £22.50 -
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £112.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -77.26% +180.00% +100.00%

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in West End of London

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

Virtual Machines job vacancy trend in West End of London

Virtual Machines
Daily Rate Trend in West End of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West End of London citing Virtual Machines.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West End of London citing Virtual Machines

Virtual Machines
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West End of London 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:

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform