Virtual Machines Contract Job Trends in Wokingham

Virtual Machine (VM)
Berkshire > Wokingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wokingham requiring Virtual Machines skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 23 -
Rank change year-on-year -37 - -
Contract jobs citing Virtual Machines 2 5 0
As % of all contract jobs in Wokingham 0.47% 3.62% -
As % of the System Software category 2.41% 11.63% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £350 -
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% - -
Berkshire median daily rate £569 £422 £605
% change year-on-year +34.77% -30.25% +11.42%

All System Software Skills
Wokingham

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 Wokingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 83 43 15
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wokingham 19.62% 31.16% 17.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 24 13
10th Percentile £300 £333 £275
25th Percentile £362 £350 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £388 £310
Median % change year-on-year +20.77% +25.00% -44.89%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £338
90th Percentile £559 £539 £454
Berkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in Wokingham

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

Virtual Machines job vacancy trend in Wokingham

Virtual Machines
Daily Rate Trend in Wokingham

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

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

Virtual Machines
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wokingham 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 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) FTP
1 2 (100.00%) SSL
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Operational Stability
1 2 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 2 (100.00%) Server Management
1 2 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) VMware