Proxmox Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Proxmox Virtual Environment
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Proxmox skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Proxmox 7 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.28% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 1.56% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
England median daily rate £525 £650 £525
% change year-on-year -19.23% +23.81% -41.67%

All Systems Management Skills
West Midlands

Proxmox falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 450 190 179
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 18.30% 12.24% 9.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 305 119 144
10th Percentile £269 £187 £190
25th Percentile £420 £321 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £419
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% +19.40% -16.25%
75th Percentile £575 £583 £525
90th Percentile £665 £690 £638
England median daily rate £500 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -6.59% +1.95% -10.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 1
10th Percentile £43.30 £12.18 -
25th Percentile £54.25 £12.94 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £16.19 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +363.25% -70.56% +210.38%
75th Percentile £77.38 £17.89 -
90th Percentile £77.45 £18.13 -
England median hourly rate £48.00 £26.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +81.13% -42.62% -2.78%

Proxmox
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Proxmox relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Proxmox job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Proxmox
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Proxmox within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 February 2026. 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
Birmingham - 6 £475 -
Solihull - 1 - -
Proxmox
England

Proxmox
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (100.00%) Confluence
1 7 (100.00%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (100.00%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 7 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 7 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 7 (100.00%) Amazon ELB
1 7 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
1 7 (100.00%) AWS KMS
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 7 (100.00%) Route 53
1 7 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (100.00%) DNS
1 7 (100.00%) Firewall
1 7 (100.00%) FTP
1 7 (100.00%) HTTP
1 7 (100.00%) IMAP
1 7 (100.00%) OpenLDAP
1 7 (100.00%) SMTP
1 7 (100.00%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 7 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 7 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (100.00%) Git
1 7 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 7 (100.00%) JIRA
1 7 (100.00%) Vagrant
General
1 7 (100.00%) Presentation Skills
1 7 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (85.71%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) AWS Engineer
1 7 (100.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
1 7 (100.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
1 7 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
2 5 (71.43%) AWS DevOps
2 5 (71.43%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 5 (71.43%) DevOps Engineer
2 5 (71.43%) DevOps Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Amazon Linux
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
1 7 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 7 (100.00%) VMS
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Change Management
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 7 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 7 (100.00%) DevOps
1 7 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 7 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 7 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (14.29%) Agile
2 1 (14.29%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (14.29%) Process Improvement
2 1 (14.29%) Servant Leadership
2 1 (14.29%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) Groovy
1 7 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 7 (100.00%) Python
1 7 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 7 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 7 (100.00%) Degree
2 6 (85.71%) SC Cleared
2 6 (85.71%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) DFS Replication
1 7 (100.00%) Docker
1 7 (100.00%) Dovecot
1 7 (100.00%) Postfix
1 7 (100.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Grafana
1 7 (100.00%) Nessus
1 7 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 7 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Jaspersoft
1 7 (100.00%) ServiceNow