Virtual Machines Contracts in West London

Virtual Machine (VM)
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West London 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 27 42 58
Rank change year-on-year +15 +16 +4
Contract jobs citing Virtual Machines 4 1 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West London 1.90% 0.28% 0.53%
As % of the System Software category 13.33% 2.33% 3.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile - - £434
25th Percentile - £225 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £250 £538
Median % change year-on-year +90.00% -53.49% +43.91%
75th Percentile - £275 £616
90th Percentile - - £651
London median daily rate £575 £535 £550
% change year-on-year +7.48% -2.73% +4.76%

All System Software Skills
West 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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 30 43 90
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 14.29% 12.11% 15.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 28 72
10th Percentile £235 £143 £236
25th Percentile £366 £291 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £588
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -23.40% +30.56%
75th Percentile £459 £509 £650
90th Percentile £558 £563 -
London median daily rate £550 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 8
10th Percentile £24.13 £22.60 £71.85
25th Percentile £24.94 £23.05 £75.00
Median hourly rate £26.30 £23.80 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.48% -70.25% +288.11%
75th Percentile £27.65 £40.65 £86.25
90th Percentile £28.46 £50.76 £90.00
London median hourly rate £28.41 £22.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +26.27% -50.00% +83.67%

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Machines in West London

Virtual Machines
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West London

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Machines in West London

Virtual Machines
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West London

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

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Machines in West London

Virtual Machines
Contract Job Locations in West London

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 West London 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
Hillingdon - 4 £475 -
Virtual Machines
London

Virtual Machines
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Power BI
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Analytics
1 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Operations
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
1 2 (50.00%) Data Collection
1 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) High Availability
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (50.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Qualys