Virtual Machines Contracts in West Yorkshire

Virtual Machine (VM)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 61 61 103
Rank change year-on-year 0 +42 +15
Contract jobs citing Virtual Machines 1 16 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 0.18% 1.60% 0.24%
As % of the System Software category 1.00% 14.55% 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 3
10th Percentile - £313 £533
25th Percentile £506 £317 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £339 £625
Median % change year-on-year +51.29% -45.80% -10.71%
75th Percentile £519 £363 £638
90th Percentile - £367 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £340 £525
% change year-on-year +39.71% -35.24% -25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £14.06 £31.25
Median hourly rate - £14.63 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year - -55.00% -
75th Percentile - £15.19 £33.75
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate - £14.63 £32.50
% change year-on-year - -55.00% -

All System Software Skills
West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 100 110 157
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 18.25% 11.01% 9.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 87 128
10th Percentile £185 £178 £201
25th Percentile £235 £313 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -14.29% +20.00%
75th Percentile £547 £576 £575
90th Percentile £600 £646 £606
Yorkshire median daily rate £413 £430 £425
% change year-on-year -4.07% +1.18% +8.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 5
10th Percentile - - £43.25
25th Percentile - £14.06 £61.25
Median hourly rate - £14.63 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - -76.60% +254.31%
75th Percentile - £15.19 £70.00
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate - £14.63 £62.50
% change year-on-year - -76.60% +257.14%

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Machines in West Yorkshire

Virtual Machines
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Machines in West Yorkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Machines in West Yorkshire

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Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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
Halifax - 1 £513 -
Virtual Machines
Yorkshire

Virtual Machines
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SNA
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) z/OS Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
1 1 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JCL
1 1 (100.00%) REXX
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) IBM