Virtual Machines Contract Job Trends in Wiltshire

Virtual Machine (VM)
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wiltshire requiring Virtual Machines skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 47 65
Rank change year-on-year 0 +18 +19
Contract jobs citing Virtual Machines 6 16 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 1.42% 2.56% 1.28%
As % of the System Software category 10.34% 10.39% 7.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 10
10th Percentile £525 £441 £506
25th Percentile £534 £570 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £582 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.20% +5.82% +16.40%
75th Percentile £588 £585 -
90th Percentile - £627 £554
South West median daily rate £550 £570 £525
% change year-on-year -3.51% +8.57% +16.67%

All System Software Skills
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 58 154 152
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 13.68% 24.68% 17.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 112 122
10th Percentile £251 £456 £200
25th Percentile £480 £503 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £603 £592
90th Percentile £663 £670 £650
South West median daily rate £500 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.38% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £60.00
Median hourly rate - - £61.50
75th Percentile - - £64.50
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £85.00 £80.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year +6.25% +30.08% +26.86%

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Machines in Wiltshire

Virtual Machines
Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing Virtual Machines

Virtual Machines
Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing Virtual Machines

Virtual Machines
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
Corsham +15 6 £575 -1.20% 1
Virtual Machines
South West

Virtual Machines
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (33.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (16.67%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (16.67%) Skype for Business
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) DNS
2 2 (33.33%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
1 6 (100.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 5 (83.33%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Logistics
3 1 (16.67%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (16.67%) Server Management
3 1 (16.67%) Service Management
3 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (83.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 6 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (33.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) vCenter Server
2 2 (33.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (16.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (33.33%) SolarWinds
2 2 (33.33%) Veeam