Virtual Machines Contracts in London

Virtual Machine (VM)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 277 321 381
Rank change year-on-year +44 +60 -30
Contract jobs citing Virtual Machines 113 177 227
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.65% 0.68% 0.59%
As % of the System Software category 6.37% 5.98% 4.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 112 153
10th Percentile £262 £371 £400
25th Percentile £434 £462 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £666 £650 £675
90th Percentile £775 £738 £851
England median daily rate £525 £545 £525
% change year-on-year -3.67% +3.81% +5.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £31.85 -
25th Percentile - £41.75 £31.25
Median hourly rate - £62.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year - +90.77% -
75th Percentile - £84.75 £33.75
90th Percentile - £96.15 -
England median hourly rate £14.63 £66.00 £50.77
% change year-on-year -77.84% +30.00% +11.58%

All System Software Skills
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 London with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,774 2,961 4,995
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.16% 11.44% 12.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,271 2,172 3,764
10th Percentile £219 £243 £313
25th Percentile £370 £447 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +2.22% +7.14%
75th Percentile £619 £683 £672
90th Percentile £725 £775 £743
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 37 41
10th Percentile £17.14 £18.10 £14.75
25th Percentile £20.50 £25.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £60.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -62.50% +118.18% -43.30%
75th Percentile £25.00 £75.00 £46.50
90th Percentile £49.23 £87.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £21.00 £50.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -58.00% +163.16% -5.00%

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Machines in London

Virtual Machines
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Machines in London

Virtual Machines
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Machines in London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Machines in London

Virtual Machines
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Machines in London

Virtual Machines
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 16 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
Central London +30 21 £565 +0.89% 4
West London +19 1 £250 -53.49% 8
East London - 1 - - 4
Virtual Machines
England

Virtual Machines
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 21 (18.58%) OpenStack
2 6 (5.31%) nginx
3 5 (4.42%) Apache
4 4 (3.54%) IIS
5 3 (2.65%) Confluence
6 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.88%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 1 (0.88%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 53 (46.90%) Azure
2 24 (21.24%) AWS
3 16 (14.16%) Entra ID
4 15 (13.27%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (13.27%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (12.39%) PaaS
6 9 (7.96%) Power Platform
7 8 (7.08%) Azure Key Vault
8 7 (6.19%) Azure Data Factory
8 7 (6.19%) GCP
8 7 (6.19%) GitHub
8 7 (6.19%) Power Automate
8 7 (6.19%) PowerApps
9 6 (5.31%) IaaS
9 6 (5.31%) Serverless
9 6 (5.31%) Slack
10 5 (4.42%) Amazon Kinesis
10 5 (4.42%) Azure Logic Apps
11 4 (3.54%) Amazon EC2
11 4 (3.54%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (12.39%) Firewall
2 13 (11.50%) DNS
3 7 (6.19%) Network Security
4 5 (4.42%) TCP/IP
5 3 (2.65%) DHCP
5 3 (2.65%) VPN
6 2 (1.77%) BGP
6 2 (1.77%) Cisco IOS
6 2 (1.77%) InfiniBand
6 2 (1.77%) Internet
6 2 (1.77%) NAS
6 2 (1.77%) OpenLDAP
6 2 (1.77%) SAN
6 2 (1.77%) WAN
7 1 (0.88%) LAN
7 1 (0.88%) MPLS
7 1 (0.88%) MQTT
7 1 (0.88%) NGFW
7 1 (0.88%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (0.88%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.62%) SQL Server
2 9 (7.96%) Elasticsearch
2 9 (7.96%) Power BI
3 7 (6.19%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (5.31%) NoSQL
5 5 (4.42%) Couchbase
5 5 (4.42%) Oracle Database
6 3 (2.65%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (2.65%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.77%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (1.77%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (1.77%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.77%) MySQL
8 1 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.88%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.88%) Redis
8 1 (0.88%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 12 (10.62%) Jenkins
2 9 (7.96%) Git
2 9 (7.96%) GitLab
3 5 (4.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 4 (3.54%) JIRA
5 2 (1.77%) Maven
5 2 (1.77%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.88%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.88%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.88%) Gradle
6 1 (0.88%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.88%) JUnit
6 1 (0.88%) Selenium
6 1 (0.88%) Spinnaker
6 1 (0.88%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.88%) TestNG
General
1 33 (29.20%) Finance
2 17 (15.04%) Social Skills
3 10 (8.85%) Banking
4 9 (7.96%) Telecoms
5 7 (6.19%) Financial Institution
5 7 (6.19%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.42%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.65%) Billing
7 3 (2.65%) Electronics
7 3 (2.65%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.65%) Marketing
7 3 (2.65%) Retail
8 2 (1.77%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.77%) German Language
9 1 (0.88%) Aviation
9 1 (0.88%) French Language
9 1 (0.88%) Legal
9 1 (0.88%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 22 (19.47%) Architect
2 15 (13.27%) Developer
2 15 (13.27%) Senior
3 10 (8.85%) DevOps Engineer
4 9 (7.96%) Senior Developer
5 7 (6.19%) Azure Engineer
5 7 (6.19%) Platform Architect
5 7 (6.19%) Power Platform Architect
6 6 (5.31%) Lead
6 6 (5.31%) Software Developer
7 5 (4.42%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (4.42%) Infrastructure Architect
7 5 (4.42%) Oracle Architect
7 5 (4.42%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (4.42%) Senior Software Developer
7 5 (4.42%) Server Engineer
7 5 (4.42%) Systems Architect
7 5 (4.42%) Technical Leader
8 4 (3.54%) Contracts Manager
8 4 (3.54%) IT Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (12.39%) Elastic Stack
2 13 (11.50%) XML
3 8 (7.08%) JSON
3 8 (7.08%) Spring
4 7 (6.19%) Microsoft Graph
4 7 (6.19%) REST
5 6 (5.31%) ARM Templates
6 5 (4.42%) .NET
6 5 (4.42%) LAPP Stack
7 4 (3.54%) ASP.NET
7 4 (3.54%) LDAP
8 3 (2.65%) Node.js
9 2 (1.77%) http4s
9 2 (1.77%) Kafka
9 2 (1.77%) OpenTelemetry
10 1 (0.88%) EDI
10 1 (0.88%) GraphQL
10 1 (0.88%) Oracle Fusion
10 1 (0.88%) RESTful
10 1 (0.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.19%) Onboarding
1 7 (6.19%) Public Cloud
2 6 (5.31%) Management Information System
3 5 (4.42%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.54%) Contactless
4 4 (3.54%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.65%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (2.65%) PKI
5 3 (2.65%) Replication
6 2 (1.77%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.77%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.77%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.77%) Equities
6 2 (1.77%) IoT
6 2 (1.77%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.77%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (0.88%) EPoS
7 1 (0.88%) Machine to Machine
7 1 (0.88%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 44 (38.94%) Linux
2 28 (24.78%) Windows
3 15 (13.27%) CentOS
4 13 (11.50%) VMS
5 11 (9.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (7.96%) Windows Server
7 8 (7.08%) Unix
8 5 (4.42%) Oracle Linux
8 5 (4.42%) Solaris
8 5 (4.42%) Ubuntu
9 4 (3.54%) Mac OS
10 3 (2.65%) Windows 10
10 3 (2.65%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (1.77%) Mac OS X
11 2 (1.77%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.88%) Android
12 1 (0.88%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (31.86%) CI/CD
2 31 (27.43%) DevOps
3 21 (18.58%) Disaster Recovery
4 19 (16.81%) Agile
5 16 (14.16%) Infrastructure as Code
6 13 (11.50%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (10.62%) Business Intelligence
8 11 (9.73%) High Availability
9 10 (8.85%) Migration
10 9 (7.96%) Observability
11 7 (6.19%) Computer Science
11 7 (6.19%) Configuration Management
11 7 (6.19%) ETL
11 7 (6.19%) Network Virtualisation
11 7 (6.19%) Performance Tuning
11 7 (6.19%) Scrum
11 7 (6.19%) Validation
11 7 (6.19%) XML Parsing
12 6 (5.31%) SIEM
13 5 (4.42%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 30 (26.55%) Python
2 23 (20.35%) SQL
3 22 (19.47%) PowerShell
4 16 (14.16%) Shell Script
5 14 (12.39%) Java
6 9 (7.96%) Bash
7 7 (6.19%) Go
8 6 (5.31%) Bicep
9 4 (3.54%) Scala
9 4 (3.54%) VB
10 2 (1.77%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.88%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
11 1 (0.88%) Perl
11 1 (0.88%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (16.81%) Security Cleared
2 11 (9.73%) Degree
3 10 (8.85%) SC Cleared
4 6 (5.31%) Azure Certification
5 5 (4.42%) AWS Certification
5 5 (4.42%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 5 (4.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (4.42%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.77%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.77%) CTC Cleared
6 2 (1.77%) GCIA
6 2 (1.77%) GCIH
6 2 (1.77%) GIAC
7 1 (0.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (0.88%) CCSK
7 1 (0.88%) CISM
7 1 (0.88%) MCSA
7 1 (0.88%) MCSE
7 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.77%) QA
2 1 (0.88%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.88%) GDPR
2 1 (0.88%) NIST
2 1 (0.88%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (17.70%) Active Directory
2 8 (7.08%) Firmware
2 8 (7.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (6.19%) Docker
3 7 (6.19%) KVM
4 2 (1.77%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.77%) PowerDNS
4 2 (1.77%) VMware Server
4 2 (1.77%) vSphere
5 1 (0.88%) iptables
Systems Management
1 20 (17.70%) Ansible
1 20 (17.70%) Terraform
2 15 (13.27%) Grafana
2 15 (13.27%) Kubernetes
2 15 (13.27%) Prometheus
3 9 (7.96%) Kibana
3 9 (7.96%) logstash
4 5 (4.42%) ZABBIX
5 4 (3.54%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (2.65%) Data Guard
7 2 (1.77%) CSIRT
7 2 (1.77%) Nessus
7 2 (1.77%) QRadar
7 2 (1.77%) SCCM
7 2 (1.77%) WSUS
8 1 (0.88%) Dell DRAC
8 1 (0.88%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.88%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.88%) Packer
8 1 (0.88%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 31 (27.43%) Microsoft
2 16 (14.16%) Oracle
3 13 (11.50%) VMware
4 9 (7.96%) Red Hat
5 8 (7.08%) Dell
6 7 (6.19%) SEEBURGER
7 6 (5.31%) Amdocs
8 5 (4.42%) Google
9 3 (2.65%) Cisco
9 3 (2.65%) New Relic
9 3 (2.65%) SAP
10 2 (1.77%) BeyondTrust
10 2 (1.77%) Commvault
10 2 (1.77%) CrowdStrike
10 2 (1.77%) Juniper
10 2 (1.77%) NVIDIA
10 2 (1.77%) Okta
10 2 (1.77%) Palo Alto
10 2 (1.77%) Rapid7
10 2 (1.77%) Sophos