Virtual Machines Contracts in the West Midlands

Virtual Machine (VM)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 85 101
Rank change year-on-year -5 +16 +69
Contract jobs citing Virtual Machines 16 29 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.06% 1.40% 1.08%
As % of the System Software category 7.62% 14.01% 7.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 23 16
10th Percentile £351 £351 £281
25th Percentile £399 £400 £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £570 £488
Median % change year-on-year -19.30% +16.92% +116.67%
75th Percentile £519 £600 £788
90th Percentile £523 £627 £813
England median daily rate £507 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -7.86% +4.76% -

All System Software Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 210 207 301
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.96% 10.02% 13.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 157 198
10th Percentile £190 £178 £160
25th Percentile £375 £256 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £430
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +4.65% +4.88%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £576
90th Percentile £700 £675 £727
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 8
10th Percentile - £14.59 £14.42
25th Percentile £31.32 £15.65 £15.98
Median hourly rate £36.65 £16.00 £21.75
Median % change year-on-year +129.03% -26.44% +31.82%
75th Percentile £41.97 £19.95 £28.75
90th Percentile - £22.23 -
England median hourly rate £29.50 £22.23 £50.00
% change year-on-year +32.73% -55.55% +150.00%

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Machines in the West Midlands

Virtual Machines
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Machines in the West Midlands

Virtual Machines
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Machines in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Machines in the West Midlands

Virtual Machines
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Machines in the West Midlands

Virtual Machines
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 Virtual Machines within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 July 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
Warwickshire -19 8 £425 -27.16%
Birmingham +13 4 £425 -29.17% 3
Coventry - 1 £495 -
Virtual Machines
England

Virtual Machines
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) Azure
2 5 (31.25%) Azure Monitor
3 4 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (25.00%) Serverless
4 3 (18.75%) Azure API Management
4 3 (18.75%) Azure Event Grid
4 3 (18.75%) Azure Functions
4 3 (18.75%) Azure Logic Apps
4 3 (18.75%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (6.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
6 1 (6.25%) AWS
6 1 (6.25%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (6.25%) AWS KMS
6 1 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (6.25%) Route 53
6 1 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) DHCP
1 1 (6.25%) DNS
1 1 (6.25%) Firewall
1 1 (6.25%) IPsec
1 1 (6.25%) iSCSI
1 1 (6.25%) LAN
1 1 (6.25%) Network Security
1 1 (6.25%) VLAN
1 1 (6.25%) VPN
1 1 (6.25%) VSAN
1 1 (6.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (18.75%) Relational Database
2 3 (18.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
Job Titles
1 3 (18.75%) Deployment Engineer
1 3 (18.75%) Developer
2 2 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Integration Developer
2 2 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (6.25%) .NET Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (6.25%) Nutanix Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle Architect
3 1 (6.25%) Technical Specialist
3 1 (6.25%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) .NET
1 3 (18.75%) RESTful
1 3 (18.75%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Product Ownership
1 3 (18.75%) Replication
2 1 (6.25%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (6.25%) Operational Technology
2 1 (6.25%) PKI
2 1 (6.25%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 8 (50.00%) Windows
2 3 (18.75%) Windows 10
2 3 (18.75%) Windows 7
2 3 (18.75%) Windows XP
3 1 (6.25%) Linux
3 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (6.25%) SUSE
3 1 (6.25%) Ubuntu
3 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) DevOps
2 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
3 4 (25.00%) Migration
3 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (18.75%) Analytics
4 3 (18.75%) API Design
4 3 (18.75%) API Management
4 3 (18.75%) Change Control
4 3 (18.75%) Cloud Security
4 3 (18.75%) Data Integration
4 3 (18.75%) ETL
4 3 (18.75%) Log Analytics
4 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (12.50%) Business Continuity
5 2 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Management
5 2 (12.50%) Network Virtualisation
6 1 (6.25%) Asset Management
6 1 (6.25%) Change Management
6 1 (6.25%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (18.75%) C#
3 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Azure Certification
1 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
2 1 (6.25%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
2 1 (6.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 8 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (37.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (6.25%) VMware NSX
3 1 (6.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (12.50%) Terraform
1 2 (12.50%) vCenter Server
2 1 (6.25%) Ansible
2 1 (6.25%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) VMware
2 4 (25.00%) Broadcom
2 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle
3 1 (6.25%) Veeam