Virtual Machines Contracts in Central London

Virtual Machine (VM)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 115 132 172
Rank change year-on-year +17 +40 +12
Contract jobs citing Virtual Machines 14 18 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.60% 0.60% 0.78%
As % of the System Software category 4.90% 5.01% 6.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 9 23
10th Percentile £369 £446 £228
25th Percentile £425 £463 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £565
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -7.08% +7.62%
75th Percentile £663 £544 £688
90th Percentile £736 £640 £770
London median daily rate £508 £525 £543
% change year-on-year -3.33% -3.23% +8.50%

All System Software Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 286 359 593
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 12.24% 11.88% 12.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 261 442
10th Percentile £313 £238 £226
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £546 £525 £570
Median % change year-on-year +4.05% -7.89% +3.64%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £700
90th Percentile £749 £813 £786
London median daily rate £525 £540 £575
% change year-on-year -2.78% -6.09% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 10
10th Percentile £84.40 £23.88 £16.39
25th Percentile £94.75 £27.81 £18.75
Median hourly rate £112.00 £36.25 £20.25
Median % change year-on-year +208.97% +79.01% -11.96%
75th Percentile - £45.31 £23.94
90th Percentile - £49.63 £49.39
London median hourly rate £23.80 £49.88 £38.37
% change year-on-year -52.29% +30.00% +53.48%

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 October 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 October 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 +21 13 £463 -11.90% 2
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 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (7.14%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 10 (71.43%) Azure
2 5 (35.71%) Entra ID
3 2 (14.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Key Vault
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Storage
3 2 (14.29%) IaaS
3 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (14.29%) PaaS
3 2 (14.29%) Power Platform
4 1 (7.14%) Azure AKS
4 1 (7.14%) Azure App Service
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Functions
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Stack
4 1 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (7.14%) GCP
4 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (71.43%) Firewall
2 4 (28.57%) Network Security
3 3 (21.43%) VPN
4 2 (14.29%) Internet
4 2 (14.29%) IPsec
4 2 (14.29%) WAN
4 2 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (7.14%) DNS
5 1 (7.14%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (14.29%) Power BI
2 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
2 1 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 1 (7.14%) Metadata
General
1 3 (21.43%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Legal
2 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (21.43%) Analyst
1 3 (21.43%) Architect
1 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (21.43%) Security Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Cloud Architect
2 2 (14.29%) Cybersecurity Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Lead
2 2 (14.29%) Monitoring Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Security Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Security Monitoring Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) SIEM Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Technical Leader
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Specialist
3 1 (7.14%) Cloud Security Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Migration Specialist
3 1 (7.14%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) ARM Templates
1 1 (7.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Management Information System
2 2 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 2 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
3 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (35.71%) Windows
2 4 (28.57%) Linux
3 3 (21.43%) Windows Server
4 2 (14.29%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (28.57%) Incident Response
1 4 (28.57%) Information Security
1 4 (28.57%) Migration
1 4 (28.57%) Security Monitoring
1 4 (28.57%) Security Operations
2 3 (21.43%) Agile
2 3 (21.43%) Cloud Security
2 3 (21.43%) Computer Science
2 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (14.29%) Business Continuity
3 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (14.29%) Identity Management
3 2 (14.29%) Information Assurance
3 2 (14.29%) Information Security Management
3 2 (14.29%) ISMS
3 2 (14.29%) OWASP
3 2 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (14.29%) SIEM
3 2 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) SQL
2 1 (7.14%) Bicep
2 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.14%) Python
2 1 (7.14%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Degree
2 2 (14.29%) Azure Certification
2 2 (14.29%) GCIA
2 2 (14.29%) GCIH
2 2 (14.29%) GIAC
2 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
3 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) GDPR
1 3 (21.43%) PCI DSS
2 2 (14.29%) COBIT
2 2 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (14.29%) NCSC
3 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.14%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) CASB
1 2 (14.29%) CSIRT
1 2 (14.29%) Nessus
1 2 (14.29%) QRadar
1 2 (14.29%) SCCM
1 2 (14.29%) SCOrch
1 2 (14.29%) Single Sign-On
1 2 (14.29%) Terraform
2 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (64.29%) Microsoft
2 3 (21.43%) Oracle
3 2 (14.29%) BeyondTrust
3 2 (14.29%) CrowdStrike
3 2 (14.29%) Imperva
3 2 (14.29%) Netskope
3 2 (14.29%) Palo Alto
4 1 (7.14%) CheckPoint
4 1 (7.14%) iManage
4 1 (7.14%) Infoblox
4 1 (7.14%) Intapp
4 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow