Virtual Machines Contracts in West Yorkshire

Virtual Machine (VM)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 59 93 115
Rank change year-on-year +34 +22 -30
Contract jobs citing Virtual Machines 12 4 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 1.24% 0.27% 0.16%
As % of the System Software category 12.12% 2.55% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 3
10th Percentile £344 £533 -
25th Percentile £395 £563 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £625 £450
Median % change year-on-year -22.40% +38.89% -7.69%
75th Percentile £570 £638 £580
90th Percentile £618 - £658
Yorkshire median daily rate £340 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -35.24% +16.67% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £14.06 £31.25 -
Median hourly rate £14.63 £32.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -55.00% - -
75th Percentile £15.19 £33.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £14.63 £32.50 -
% change year-on-year -55.00% - -

All System Software Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 99 157 204
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 10.22% 10.42% 11.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 113 163
10th Percentile £178 £164 £163
25th Percentile £313 £288 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £425
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +23.53% -
75th Percentile £596 £575 £549
90th Percentile £650 £638 £635
Yorkshire median daily rate £430 £381 £390
% change year-on-year +12.79% -2.24% -9.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 5
10th Percentile - £37.25 £16.81
25th Percentile £14.06 £46.25 £17.64
Median hourly rate £14.63 £62.50 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -76.60% +237.84% +25.42%
75th Percentile £15.19 £63.75 £20.00
90th Percentile - - £21.65
Yorkshire median hourly rate £14.63 £37.75 £17.57
% change year-on-year -61.26% +114.85% -6.34%

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Machines in West Yorkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Machines in West Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Machines in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Machines in West Yorkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Machines in West Yorkshire

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Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Leeds +35 11 £650 +4.00% 5
Wakefield - 1 £320 -
Virtual Machines
Yorkshire

Virtual Machines
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) Azure
1 1 (8.33%) Azure AKS
1 1 (8.33%) Azure App Service
1 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (8.33%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (8.33%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (8.33%) IaaS
1 1 (8.33%) PaaS
1 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) DHCP
1 1 (8.33%) DNS
1 1 (8.33%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (8.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) GitLab
General
1 11 (91.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Banking
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
1 1 (8.33%) Data Centre Engineer
1 1 (8.33%) Data Centre Technician
1 1 (8.33%) Data Technician
1 1 (8.33%) IT Engineer
1 1 (8.33%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 10 (83.33%) Driving Licence
2 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (8.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
2 1 (8.33%) Linux
2 1 (8.33%) Windows 10
2 1 (8.33%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (8.33%) Analytics
1 1 (8.33%) Cloud Operations
1 1 (8.33%) Computer Science
1 1 (8.33%) DevOps
1 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (8.33%) Log Analytics
1 1 (8.33%) Migration
1 1 (8.33%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (8.33%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) A+ Certification
1 1 (8.33%) CCNA
1 1 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
1 1 (8.33%) Network+ Certification
1 1 (8.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (8.33%) Hyper-V
1 1 (8.33%) KVM
1 1 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (8.33%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform
1 1 (8.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 10 (83.33%) BT
1 10 (83.33%) Virgin Media
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.33%) Confluent
3 1 (8.33%) Skytap
3 1 (8.33%) VMware