Virtual Machines Contracts in Manchester

Virtual Machine (VM)
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 91 91 136
Rank change year-on-year 0 +45 -36
Contract jobs citing Virtual Machines 6 16 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.42% 0.90% 0.38%
As % of the System Software category 4.51% 5.32% 2.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 14 7
10th Percentile £484 £463 £233
25th Percentile £494 £464 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - +40.00%
75th Percentile £583 £559 £609
90th Percentile £600 £571 £666
North West median daily rate £600 £525 £485
% change year-on-year +14.29% +8.25% +29.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £66.00 -
North West median hourly rate £84.67 £66.00 £39.73
% change year-on-year +28.28% +66.14% -12.69%

All System Software Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 133 301 355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 9.22% 16.87% 13.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 215 285
10th Percentile £281 £266 £159
25th Percentile £363 £375 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £625
90th Percentile £693 £638 £660
North West median daily rate £450 £481 £450
% change year-on-year -6.49% +6.94% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 14 10
10th Percentile - £14.04 £15.25
25th Percentile - £15.79 £16.25
Median hourly rate £12.00 £20.00 £18.31
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +9.24% -42.44%
75th Percentile - £36.89 £20.10
90th Percentile - £65.00 £28.75
North West median hourly rate £17.72 £20.00 £18.12
% change year-on-year -11.40% +10.41% -

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Machines in Manchester

Virtual Machines
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Machines in Manchester

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Machines in Manchester

Virtual Machines
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Applications
1 2 (33.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Service Bus
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Storage
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) DHCP
2 1 (16.67%) DNS
2 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (16.67%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Redis
2 1 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) GitLab
1 2 (33.33%) Selenium
General
1 2 (33.33%) German Language
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Server Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) pytest
1 2 (33.33%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (16.67%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Alpine Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (33.33%) VMS
2 1 (16.67%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) API Management
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Data Architecture
2 2 (33.33%) Data Migration
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 2 (33.33%) Migration
2 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 2 (33.33%) Resource Management
2 2 (33.33%) Time Management
3 1 (16.67%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Metrics
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Server Virtualisation
3 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (16.67%) Firmware
2 1 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Grafana
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (33.33%) Prometheus
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) VMware