Virtual Machines Contract Job Trends in Workington

Virtual Machine (VM)
Cumbria > Workington

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Workington requiring Virtual Machines skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 5 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Virtual Machines 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Workington 9.09% - -
As % of the System Software category 100.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £644 - -
Cumbria median daily rate £483 - £653

All System Software Skills
Workington

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 Workington.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Workington 9.09% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £644 - -
Cumbria median daily rate £472 £438 £551
% change year-on-year +7.89% -20.63% +22.50%

Virtual Machines
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Workington 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Datadog
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Management
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) RBAC
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft