Virtual Machines Contracts in the South West

Virtual Machine (VM)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 142 141 147
Rank change year-on-year -1 +6 -23
Contract jobs citing Virtual Machines 11 22 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.35% 0.63% 0.71%
As % of the System Software category 3.18% 3.97% 4.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 15 21
10th Percentile £369 £385 £390
25th Percentile £393 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £439 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.15% - +8.11%
75th Percentile £454 £611 £589
90th Percentile £500 £637 £600
England median daily rate £525 £545 £525
% change year-on-year -3.67% +3.81% +5.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
Median hourly rate £14.00 £66.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -78.79% - -
England median hourly rate £14.63 £66.00 £50.77
% change year-on-year -77.84% +30.00% +11.58%

All System Software Skills
South West

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 the South West with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 346 554 615
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 10.98% 15.96% 16.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 418 431
10th Percentile £169 £200 £181
25th Percentile £374 £366 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +2.50% +17.65%
75th Percentile £588 £623 £575
90th Percentile £684 £725 £644
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 38 21
10th Percentile - £14.78 £15.76
25th Percentile £40.00 £17.31 £19.00
Median hourly rate £68.75 £60.00 £48.48
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% +23.76% +21.46%
75th Percentile £86.25 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £90.00 £80.85 £60.93
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 the South West

Job postings citing Virtual Machines as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Machines in the South West

Virtual Machines
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtual Machines in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Virtual Machines in the South West

Virtual Machines
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Virtual Machines in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Machines in the South West

Virtual Machines
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West 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
Bristol +16 6 £439 +9.81% 6
Gloucestershire -6 2 £450 -10.00% 2
Dorset - 2 - - 1
Somerset +2 1 - - 1
Virtual Machines
England

Virtual Machines
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 7 (63.64%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 8 (72.73%) Azure
1 8 (72.73%) Entra ID
2 7 (63.64%) Azure Logic Apps
2 7 (63.64%) Dynamics 365
2 7 (63.64%) Power Platform
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (18.18%) PaaS
3 2 (18.18%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 8 (72.73%) Firewall
2 1 (9.09%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (63.64%) Power BI
2 6 (54.55%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 4 (36.36%) Local Government
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (45.45%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (45.45%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Applications Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Help Desk Support
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) ICT Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) ICT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Support Technician
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Technical Support
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Technician
4 1 (9.09%) Support Technician
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Support
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (72.73%) VMS
2 3 (27.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Containerisation
1 8 (72.73%) Migration
2 7 (63.64%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (54.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (18.18%) Cost Control
5 1 (9.09%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 9 (81.82%) Active Directory
2 3 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (18.18%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (72.73%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (9.09%) SCCM
2 1 (9.09%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) CA
2 3 (27.27%) VMware
3 1 (9.09%) McAfee
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft