Virtual Machines Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

Virtual Machine (VM)
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Sussex 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 35 - 29
Rank change year-on-year - - +8
Contract jobs citing Virtual Machines 3 0 6
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 1.19% - 2.69%
As % of the System Software category 15.79% - 18.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 6
10th Percentile £493 - £241
25th Percentile £538 - £270
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £358
Median % change year-on-year - - -39.10%
75th Percentile £681 - £475
90th Percentile £708 - £506
South East median daily rate £563 £350 £525
% change year-on-year +60.71% -33.33% -8.70%

All System Software Skills
West Sussex

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 Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 19 21 33
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 7.51% 16.94% 14.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 16 26
10th Percentile £290 - £213
25th Percentile £413 £170 £270
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £200 £438
Median % change year-on-year +162.50% -54.29% -21.52%
75th Percentile £613 £348 £484
90th Percentile £690 £422 £531
South East median daily rate £500 £490 £465
% change year-on-year +2.04% +5.38% -7.01%

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

Virtual Machines job vacancy trend in West Sussex

Virtual Machines
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Virtual Machines.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Virtual Machines

Virtual Machines
Daily Rate Histogram in West Sussex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Machines in West Sussex over the 6 months to 31 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Machines in West Sussex

Virtual Machines
Hourly Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Virtual Machines.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Virtual Machines

Virtual Machines
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

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 Sussex region over the 6 months to 31 January 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
Worthing - 3 £625 -
Virtual Machines
South East

Virtual Machines
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DHCP
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (66.67%) Back Office
1 2 (66.67%) Front Office
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Wintel Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2016
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Product Roadmap
1 3 (100.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (66.67%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Fit Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Waterfall
2 2 (66.67%) Zero Trust
3 1 (33.33%) Capacity Management
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Release Management
3 1 (33.33%) Remediation Plan
3 1 (33.33%) Runbook
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (33.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) Citrix
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle