Virtual Machines Contracts in Yorkshire

Virtual Machine (VM)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 87 73 117
Rank change year-on-year -14 +44 +25
Contract jobs citing Virtual Machines 5 27 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.49% 1.60% 0.43%
As % of the System Software category 2.63% 10.34% 3.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 7
10th Percentile £428 £314 £500
25th Percentile £441 £319 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £340 £525
Median % change year-on-year +39.71% -35.24% -25.00%
75th Percentile £503 £360 £588
90th Percentile £513 £366 £638
England median daily rate £525 £513 £545
% change year-on-year +2.44% -5.96% +3.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 20 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 - - -
England median hourly rate £63.00 £14.63 £66.00
% change year-on-year +330.77% -77.84% +38.28%

All System Software Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 190 261 259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 18.68% 15.45% 11.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 191 207
10th Percentile £186 £178 £154
25th Percentile £279 £275 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £430 £425
Median % change year-on-year -4.07% +1.18% +8.97%
75th Percentile £574 £575 £575
90th Percentile £649 £638 £625
England median daily rate £525 £494 £525
% change year-on-year +6.33% -5.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 23 7
10th Percentile - - £20.20
25th Percentile - £14.06 £26.63
Median hourly rate - £14.63 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - -76.60% +257.14%
75th Percentile - £15.19 £66.88
90th Percentile - £15.64 £70.00
England median hourly rate £27.94 £21.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +33.05% -58.00% +163.16%

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Machines in Yorkshire

Virtual Machines
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Machines in Yorkshire

Virtual Machines
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Machines in Yorkshire

Virtual Machines
Contract Job Locations in 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 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
South Yorkshire +11 4 £438 +28.68% 6
West Yorkshire 0 1 £513 +51.29% 2
Virtual Machines
England

Virtual Machines
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (20.00%) Confluence
1 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Storage
1 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) DNS
1 3 (60.00%) NAS
1 3 (60.00%) SAN
2 1 (20.00%) SNA
2 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Git
1 3 (60.00%) GitLab
2 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Automation Specialist
1 1 (20.00%) Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) SharePoint Developer
1 1 (20.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) Virtualisation Specialist
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) z/OS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (20.00%) Mainframe
3 1 (20.00%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
1 3 (60.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (20.00%) Unix
2 1 (20.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
1 4 (80.00%) Migration
1 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Kanban
2 3 (60.00%) Scrum
3 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (20.00%) Change Management
4 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (20.00%) ITIL
4 1 (20.00%) Network Monitoring
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Records Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (60.00%) Python
1 3 (60.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (20.00%) JCL
2 1 (20.00%) REXX
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (60.00%) VMware NSX
2 3 (60.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Ansible
1 3 (60.00%) vCenter Server
1 3 (60.00%) vRealize
2 1 (20.00%) Tivoli NetView
2 1 (20.00%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) IBM
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft