Virtual Machines Contracts in Central London

Virtual Machine (VM)
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 113 148 160
Rank change year-on-year +35 +12 -13
Contract jobs citing Virtual Machines 24 27 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.00% 0.73% 0.87%
As % of the System Software category 8.51% 5.63% 5.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 18 26
10th Percentile £419 £401 £421
25th Percentile £433 £481 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £558
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% +0.45% +35.15%
75th Percentile £763 £716 £873
90th Percentile £775 £749 £938
London median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% -2.33%

All System Software Skills
Central London

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 Central London with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 282 480 674
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 11.78% 13.01% 15.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 325 566
10th Percentile £250 £205 £230
25th Percentile £383 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.22% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £656 £706 £650
90th Percentile £744 £788 £750
London median daily rate £500 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 2
10th Percentile - £27.25 £26.23
25th Percentile £21.25 £30.63 £27.69
Median hourly rate £40.00 £37.50 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +21.95% +53.75%
75th Percentile - £45.63 £33.19
90th Percentile £46.15 £49.75 £34.28
London median hourly rate £22.50 £60.00 £28.13
% change year-on-year -62.50% +113.33% -43.75%

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Machines in Central London

Virtual Machines
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Machines in Central London

Virtual Machines
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

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

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Machines in Central London

Virtual Machines
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Machines in Central London

Virtual Machines
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London 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
City of London +34 22 £538 -4.02% 2
Southwark - 1 £501 -
City of Westminster - 1 £575 -
Virtual Machines
London

Virtual Machines
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.17%) IIS
2 1 (4.17%) nginx
2 1 (4.17%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 16 (66.67%) Azure
2 9 (37.50%) Entra ID
3 8 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (29.17%) Azure Key Vault
4 7 (29.17%) Power Platform
5 6 (25.00%) Power Automate
5 6 (25.00%) PowerApps
6 2 (8.33%) GitHub
7 1 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (4.17%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (4.17%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (4.17%) AWS
7 1 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (4.17%) Azure App Service
7 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (4.17%) Azure Storage
7 1 (4.17%) Datadog
7 1 (4.17%) GCP
7 1 (4.17%) IaaS
7 1 (4.17%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (33.33%) Firewall
2 4 (16.67%) Network Security
3 2 (8.33%) Cisco IOS
3 2 (8.33%) Internet
3 2 (8.33%) VPN
3 2 (8.33%) WAN
3 2 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (4.17%) DNS
4 1 (4.17%) MQTT
4 1 (4.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (29.17%) Power BI
2 2 (8.33%) Oracle Database
3 1 (4.17%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (4.17%) Data Lake
3 1 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.17%) DynamoDB
3 1 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.17%) Metadata
3 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.17%) MySQL
3 1 (4.17%) NoSQL
3 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.17%) Scylla
3 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.33%) GitLab
2 2 (8.33%) Maven
3 1 (4.17%) Cucumber
3 1 (4.17%) Gradle
3 1 (4.17%) IntelliJ
3 1 (4.17%) JIRA
3 1 (4.17%) JUnit
3 1 (4.17%) Selenium
3 1 (4.17%) Spinnaker
3 1 (4.17%) TestNG
General
1 8 (33.33%) Finance
2 6 (25.00%) Financial Institution
2 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Retail
4 1 (4.17%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 8 (33.33%) Architect
2 6 (25.00%) Platform Architect
2 6 (25.00%) Power Platform Architect
3 4 (16.67%) Analyst
3 4 (16.67%) Systems Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Audio Visual Support
4 2 (8.33%) Azure Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Developer
4 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Oracle Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Security Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Senior
4 2 (8.33%) SOC Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Technical Support
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Consultant
5 1 (4.17%) Monitoring Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Security Monitoring Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) SIEM Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (25.00%) JSON
1 6 (25.00%) Microsoft Graph
1 6 (25.00%) REST
1 6 (25.00%) XML
2 1 (4.17%) .NET
2 1 (4.17%) ASP.NET
2 1 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (4.17%) GraphQL
2 1 (4.17%) http4s
2 1 (4.17%) Kafka
2 1 (4.17%) Node.js
2 1 (4.17%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (4.17%) RESTful
2 1 (4.17%) Spring
2 1 (4.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Management Information System
2 3 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (8.33%) Data Centre
3 2 (8.33%) IoT
3 2 (8.33%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (4.17%) Contactless
4 1 (4.17%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.17%) Machine to Machine
4 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 10 (41.67%) Windows
2 9 (37.50%) Linux
3 4 (16.67%) Windows Server
4 3 (12.50%) Mac OS
4 3 (12.50%) VMS
5 2 (8.33%) Mac OS X
5 2 (8.33%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (8.33%) Solaris
5 2 (8.33%) Windows 10
6 1 (4.17%) Android
6 1 (4.17%) Apple iOS
6 1 (4.17%) CentOS
6 1 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (45.83%) CI/CD
2 7 (29.17%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 6 (25.00%) XML Parsing
4 5 (20.83%) Computer Science
4 5 (20.83%) Information Security
4 5 (20.83%) Security Monitoring
4 5 (20.83%) Security Operations
5 4 (16.67%) Agile
5 4 (16.67%) Migration
6 3 (12.50%) Cyber Threat Analysis
6 3 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (12.50%) DevOps
6 3 (12.50%) Identity Management
6 3 (12.50%) Incident Response
6 3 (12.50%) Information Assurance
6 3 (12.50%) Remediation Plan
6 3 (12.50%) SIEM
6 3 (12.50%) Threat Analysis
6 3 (12.50%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 9 (37.50%) PowerShell
2 3 (12.50%) Java
2 3 (12.50%) Python
3 2 (8.33%) SQL
4 1 (4.17%) Bash
4 1 (4.17%) Kotlin
4 1 (4.17%) Scala
4 1 (4.17%) Shell Script
4 1 (4.17%) T-SQL
4 1 (4.17%) VB
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) Degree
2 3 (12.50%) GCIA
2 3 (12.50%) GCIH
2 3 (12.50%) GIAC
3 2 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) COBIT
1 2 (8.33%) GDPR
1 2 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (8.33%) NCSC
1 2 (8.33%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 3 (12.50%) Docker
3 2 (8.33%) KVM
3 2 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (4.17%) iptables
Systems Management
1 3 (12.50%) CSIRT
1 3 (12.50%) Nessus
1 3 (12.50%) QRadar
2 2 (8.33%) CASB
2 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.33%) SCCM
2 2 (8.33%) SCOrch
2 2 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (4.17%) Ansible
3 1 (4.17%) Docker Swarm
3 1 (4.17%) Grafana
3 1 (4.17%) Kibana
3 1 (4.17%) logstash
3 1 (4.17%) Prometheus
3 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (20.83%) Oracle
3 4 (16.67%) CrowdStrike
4 3 (12.50%) BeyondTrust
5 2 (8.33%) Cisco
5 2 (8.33%) Imperva
5 2 (8.33%) Netskope
5 2 (8.33%) Palo Alto
5 2 (8.33%) VMware
6 1 (4.17%) Amdocs
6 1 (4.17%) New Relic
6 1 (4.17%) Red Hat
6 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow