Virtual Machines Contracts in Berkshire

Virtual Machine (VM)
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for Virtual Machines skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Virtual Machines over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 92 99 109
Rank change year-on-year +7 +10 -6
Contract jobs citing Virtual Machines 28 13 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.45% 0.73% 1.06%
As % of the System Software category 11.62% 6.28% 8.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 9 18
10th Percentile £418 £286 £376
25th Percentile £603 £338 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £543 £625
Median % change year-on-year +11.52% -13.20% +42.86%
75th Percentile £608 £551 £654
90th Percentile - £556 £695
South East median daily rate £585 £543 £575
% change year-on-year +7.83% -5.65% +35.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £65.00 £82.50
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year - -17.65% -
75th Percentile - £75.00 £87.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - £70.00 £84.00
% change year-on-year - -16.67% +34.40%

All System Software Skills
Berkshire

Virtual Machines is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 241 207 288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 12.51% 11.66% 12.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 139 201
10th Percentile £243 £314 £143
25th Percentile £425 £404 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £543 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.50% +14.32% +4.11%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £623
90th Percentile £665 £700 £675
South East median daily rate £529 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +5.70% +5.26% +7.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 13 4
10th Percentile - £47.68 £11.70
25th Percentile - £48.40 £14.63
Median hourly rate £58.49 £58.75 £41.25
Median % change year-on-year -0.44% +42.42% +170.49%
75th Percentile - £75.00 £72.50
90th Percentile - £80.25 £81.50
South East median hourly rate £54.88 £56.25 £20.00
% change year-on-year -2.44% +181.25% -14.89%

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Machines in Berkshire

Virtual Machines
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Machines in Berkshire

Virtual Machines
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Machines in Berkshire over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Machines in Berkshire

Virtual Machines
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Machines in Berkshire

Virtual Machines
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 31 May 2024. 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
Reading +11 22 £605 +11.42% 3
Wokingham +1 2 £463 -15.91%
Slough +10 1 £372 +44.27%
Bracknell -7 1 £363 -3.33%
Virtual Machines
South East

Virtual Machines
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 20 (71.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.57%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 24 (85.71%) Azure
2 23 (82.14%) Entra ID
3 20 (71.43%) Azure Monitor
3 20 (71.43%) Azure Storage
3 20 (71.43%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (14.29%) IaaS
5 3 (10.71%) AWS
5 3 (10.71%) Azure API Management
5 3 (10.71%) Azure Event Grid
5 3 (10.71%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (10.71%) PaaS
5 3 (10.71%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (78.57%) DNS
2 21 (75.00%) DHCP
2 21 (75.00%) Firewall
3 3 (10.71%) Network Security
3 3 (10.71%) VPN
4 2 (7.14%) 3G
4 2 (7.14%) 4G
4 2 (7.14%) 5G
4 2 (7.14%) GPRS
5 1 (3.57%) VoLTE
5 1 (3.57%) VoWiFi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) MongoDB
1 2 (7.14%) Oracle Database
1 2 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Visual Studio
2 2 (7.14%) GitLab
General
1 21 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (3.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (71.43%) Active Directory Support
2 14 (50.00%) Active Directory Specialist
2 14 (50.00%) Azure Specialist
2 14 (50.00%) Support Specialist
3 6 (21.43%) Active Directory Engineer
3 6 (21.43%) Active Directory Support Engineer
3 6 (21.43%) Azure Engineer
3 6 (21.43%) Support Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Lead
5 2 (7.14%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Data Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Mobile Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Senior
6 1 (3.57%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (71.43%) ARM Templates
2 3 (10.71%) .NET
2 3 (10.71%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 20 (71.43%) PKI
1 20 (71.43%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (10.71%) Public Cloud
3 2 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 22 (78.57%) Linux
2 21 (75.00%) Windows
2 21 (75.00%) Windows Server
3 20 (71.43%) Windows Server 2016
3 20 (71.43%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (7.14%) Unix
4 2 (7.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (82.14%) DevOps
1 23 (82.14%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 20 (71.43%) Agile
2 20 (71.43%) Analytics
2 20 (71.43%) CI/CD
2 20 (71.43%) Identity Management
2 20 (71.43%) Infrastructure as Code
2 20 (71.43%) ITIL
2 20 (71.43%) Log Analytics
2 20 (71.43%) Privileged Identity Management
2 20 (71.43%) RBAC
2 20 (71.43%) Release Management
2 20 (71.43%) Service Management
3 3 (10.71%) Cryptography
3 3 (10.71%) Data Protection
3 3 (10.71%) High Availability
3 3 (10.71%) ITSM
3 3 (10.71%) Migration
3 3 (10.71%) Network Architecture
3 3 (10.71%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 23 (82.14%) C#
2 20 (71.43%) Bicep
2 20 (71.43%) PowerShell
2 20 (71.43%) VB
2 20 (71.43%) VBScript
3 5 (17.86%) Python
4 3 (10.71%) Java
4 3 (10.71%) PHP
4 3 (10.71%) Ruby
5 2 (7.14%) Bash
5 2 (7.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 22 (78.57%) SC Cleared
1 22 (78.57%) Security Cleared
2 20 (71.43%) Degree
2 20 (71.43%) DV Cleared
2 20 (71.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 3 (10.71%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (85.71%) Active Directory
2 20 (71.43%) Virtual Desktop
3 6 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (10.71%) Docker
4 3 (10.71%) Hyper-V
5 2 (7.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (92.86%) Kubernetes
2 21 (75.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (75.00%) WSUS
3 20 (71.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 20 (71.43%) SCCM
3 20 (71.43%) SCOM
4 3 (10.71%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (7.14%) Ansible
5 2 (7.14%) Packer
5 2 (7.14%) vRealize
6 1 (3.57%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 23 (82.14%) Microsoft
2 6 (21.43%) VMware
3 2 (7.14%) Oracle
3 2 (7.14%) Red Hat