Virtual Machines Contracts in Hampshire

Virtual Machine (VM)
South East > Hampshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire 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 83 87 103
Rank change year-on-year +4 +16 -22
Contract jobs citing Virtual Machines 17 12 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 0.98% 0.94% 1.11%
As % of the System Software category 5.01% 4.69% 4.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 9 18
10th Percentile £514 £483 -
25th Percentile £570 £513 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £543 £394
Median % change year-on-year +7.73% +37.90% -1.56%
75th Percentile £609 £588 £563
90th Percentile £624 £590 £624
South East median daily rate £585 £543 £575
% change year-on-year +7.83% -5.65% +35.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £59.91
25th Percentile - - £73.63
Median hourly rate - - £83.25
75th Percentile - - £84.19
90th Percentile - - £84.53
South East median hourly rate - £70.00 £84.00
% change year-on-year - -16.67% +34.40%

All System Software Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 339 256 458
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 19.63% 20.09% 23.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 126 247
10th Percentile £281 £381 £181
25th Percentile £506 £475 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £547 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.64% +9.30% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £630 £630
90th Percentile £675 £678 £688
South East median daily rate £529 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +5.70% +5.26% +7.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 27 37
10th Percentile £17.69 £15.50 £13.05
25th Percentile £38.66 £18.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £62.50 £57.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +167.44% -2.27%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.63 £45.00
90th Percentile - £75.00 £73.81
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 Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Machines in Hampshire

Virtual Machines
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Machines in Hampshire

Virtual Machines
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Machines in Hampshire

Virtual Machines
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Machines in Hampshire

Virtual Machines
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire 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
Farnborough - 12 £585 - 1
Aldershot - 2 £595 -
Basingstoke -27 1 £288 - 2
Virtual Machines
South East

Virtual Machines
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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 (11.76%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (17.65%) AWS
1 3 (17.65%) Azure
2 2 (11.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (11.76%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (11.76%) Amazon ECR
2 2 (11.76%) Amazon S3
2 2 (11.76%) Amazon SQS
2 2 (11.76%) AWS CloudTrail
2 2 (11.76%) AWS Direct Connect
2 2 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (11.76%) Route 53
2 2 (11.76%) Serverless
2 2 (11.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) Firewall
1 2 (11.76%) OpenLDAP
1 2 (11.76%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (11.76%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 12 (70.59%) Git
2 2 (11.76%) GitLab
2 2 (11.76%) JIRA
General
1 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.88%) Finance
2 1 (5.88%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 3 (17.65%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) DevOps Specialist
2 2 (11.76%) Subject Matter Expert
2 2 (11.76%) VMware Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) VMware Specialist
3 1 (5.88%) Administrator
3 1 (5.88%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Backup Administrator
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) NetBackup Administrator
3 1 (5.88%) Test Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (64.71%) YAML
2 2 (11.76%) LDAP
2 2 (11.76%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
1 1 (5.88%) Private Cloud
1 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (76.47%) Windows
2 11 (64.71%) Linux
3 10 (58.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (70.59%) Validation
2 11 (64.71%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (58.82%) Infrastructure Automation
3 10 (58.82%) Virtual Infrastructure
4 9 (52.94%) Configuration Management
5 4 (23.53%) DevOps
6 3 (17.65%) Agile
6 3 (17.65%) Platform Engineering
7 2 (11.76%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (11.76%) Kanban
7 2 (11.76%) Migration
8 1 (5.88%) Auto-Scaling
8 1 (5.88%) Coaching
8 1 (5.88%) Continuous Integration
8 1 (5.88%) High Availability
8 1 (5.88%) Mentoring
8 1 (5.88%) Performance Tuning
8 1 (5.88%) Resource Management
8 1 (5.88%) Root Cause Analysis
8 1 (5.88%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 12 (70.59%) PowerShell
2 2 (11.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (76.47%) Security Cleared
2 11 (64.71%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 13 (76.47%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (11.76%) VMFS
2 2 (11.76%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (76.47%) Terraform
2 11 (64.71%) Ansible
3 9 (52.94%) Progress Chef
3 9 (52.94%) Puppet
3 9 (52.94%) Salt
4 3 (17.65%) Kubernetes
5 1 (5.88%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 15 (88.24%) VMware
2 10 (58.82%) Red Hat
3 8 (47.06%) SaltStack
4 2 (11.76%) Palo Alto
5 1 (5.88%) Microsoft