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 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 284 312 389
Rank change year-on-year +28 +77 -41
Contract jobs citing Virtual Machines 109 179 234
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.62% 0.70% 0.61%
As % of the System Software category 6.04% 6.09% 4.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 118 155
10th Percentile £262 £354 £400
25th Percentile £429 £461 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% -3.45%
75th Percentile £661 £675 £663
90th Percentile £753 £738 £839
England median daily rate £535 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -1.38% +3.33% +6.28%
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 £82.50
% change year-on-year -77.84% -20.00% +52.78%

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 1,804 2,941 4,899
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.30% 11.56% 12.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,307 2,153 3,692
10th Percentile £237 £243 £310
25th Percentile £379 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.50% +4.81%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £725 £775 £744
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 34 31
10th Percentile £17.23 £16.98 £14.75
25th Percentile £20.50 £25.06 £18.11
Median hourly rate £22.50 £60.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -62.50% +118.18% -45.00%
75th Percentile £25.00 £73.63 £46.62
90th Percentile £48.89 £84.40 £63.00
England median hourly rate £22.23 £52.50 £18.55
% change year-on-year -57.67% +183.02% -2.37%

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 1 June 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 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
Central London +34 24 £550 -1.79% 3
West London +17 1 £250 -30.96% 7
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 14 (12.84%) OpenStack
2 4 (3.67%) IIS
3 3 (2.75%) Confluence
3 3 (2.75%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.92%) nginx
4 1 (0.92%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 1 (0.92%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.92%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 57 (52.29%) Azure
2 19 (17.43%) Entra ID
3 16 (14.68%) AWS
3 16 (14.68%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (14.68%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (11.01%) PaaS
5 8 (7.34%) Azure Key Vault
5 8 (7.34%) IaaS
5 8 (7.34%) Power Platform
6 7 (6.42%) GCP
6 7 (6.42%) Power Automate
6 7 (6.42%) PowerApps
6 7 (6.42%) Serverless
7 6 (5.50%) Azure Data Factory
7 6 (5.50%) GitHub
7 6 (5.50%) SaaS
7 6 (5.50%) Slack
8 5 (4.59%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (3.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 4 (3.67%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 16 (14.68%) Firewall
2 12 (11.01%) DNS
3 8 (7.34%) Network Security
4 5 (4.59%) Internet
4 5 (4.59%) WAN
5 4 (3.67%) TCP/IP
6 3 (2.75%) VPN
7 2 (1.83%) BGP
7 2 (1.83%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (1.83%) DHCP
7 2 (1.83%) InfiniBand
7 2 (1.83%) LAN
7 2 (1.83%) NAS
7 2 (1.83%) OpenLDAP
7 2 (1.83%) SAN
7 2 (1.83%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.92%) MQTT
8 1 (0.92%) NGFW
8 1 (0.92%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.92%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (11.01%) SQL Server
2 8 (7.34%) Power BI
3 7 (6.42%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (4.59%) Oracle Database
5 3 (2.75%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.83%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (1.83%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.83%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.83%) MySQL
6 2 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.92%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.92%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.92%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.92%) Metadata
7 1 (0.92%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.92%) Redis
7 1 (0.92%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.92%) Scylla
Development Applications
1 10 (9.17%) Jenkins
2 8 (7.34%) GitLab
3 5 (4.59%) Git
3 5 (4.59%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 4 (3.67%) JIRA
5 2 (1.83%) Maven
6 1 (0.92%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.92%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.92%) Gradle
6 1 (0.92%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.92%) JUnit
6 1 (0.92%) Selenium
6 1 (0.92%) Spinnaker
6 1 (0.92%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.92%) Terragrunt
6 1 (0.92%) TestNG
General
1 34 (31.19%) Finance
2 20 (18.35%) Social Skills
3 10 (9.17%) Banking
4 7 (6.42%) Financial Institution
5 6 (5.50%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.59%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (3.67%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.75%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.75%) Billing
9 2 (1.83%) Electronics
9 2 (1.83%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.83%) Marketing
9 2 (1.83%) Retail
10 1 (0.92%) Aviation
10 1 (0.92%) German Language
10 1 (0.92%) Legal
10 1 (0.92%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 20 (18.35%) Architect
2 15 (13.76%) Senior
3 14 (12.84%) Developer
4 8 (7.34%) Senior Developer
5 7 (6.42%) Platform Architect
5 7 (6.42%) Power Platform Architect
6 6 (5.50%) Analyst
6 6 (5.50%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (5.50%) Lead
6 6 (5.50%) Platform Engineer
6 6 (5.50%) Software Developer
7 5 (4.59%) Administrator
7 5 (4.59%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (4.59%) Infrastructure Architect
7 5 (4.59%) Oracle Architect
7 5 (4.59%) Senior Software Developer
7 5 (4.59%) Server Engineer
7 5 (4.59%) Systems Architect
7 5 (4.59%) Technical Leader
8 4 (3.67%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (11.93%) XML
2 8 (7.34%) JSON
2 8 (7.34%) Spring
3 7 (6.42%) ARM Templates
3 7 (6.42%) Elastic Stack
3 7 (6.42%) Microsoft Graph
3 7 (6.42%) REST
4 5 (4.59%) .NET
5 4 (3.67%) ASP.NET
5 4 (3.67%) LDAP
6 3 (2.75%) Node.js
7 2 (1.83%) http4s
7 2 (1.83%) Kafka
7 2 (1.83%) OpenTelemetry
7 2 (1.83%) Oracle Fusion
8 1 (0.92%) EDI
8 1 (0.92%) Middleware
8 1 (0.92%) RESTful
8 1 (0.92%) Web Services
8 1 (0.92%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.17%) Management Information System
2 7 (6.42%) Data Centre
2 7 (6.42%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.59%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (3.67%) Contactless
4 4 (3.67%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (3.67%) Replication
4 4 (3.67%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.75%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.83%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.83%) IoT
6 2 (1.83%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.83%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.83%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.83%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (0.92%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.92%) Equities
7 1 (0.92%) Machine to Machine
7 1 (0.92%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.92%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 37 (33.94%) Linux
2 28 (25.69%) Windows
3 10 (9.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (9.17%) VMS
3 10 (9.17%) Windows Server
4 8 (7.34%) CentOS
4 8 (7.34%) Unix
5 5 (4.59%) Oracle Linux
5 5 (4.59%) Solaris
6 4 (3.67%) Mac OS
7 2 (1.83%) Mac OS X
7 2 (1.83%) Windows 10
7 2 (1.83%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (1.83%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.92%) Android
8 1 (0.92%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (26.61%) CI/CD
2 25 (22.94%) DevOps
3 21 (19.27%) Agile
4 17 (15.60%) Disaster Recovery
5 14 (12.84%) Infrastructure as Code
5 14 (12.84%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (11.01%) Migration
7 11 (10.09%) Business Intelligence
7 11 (10.09%) High Availability
8 9 (8.26%) Information Security
9 8 (7.34%) Cloud Security
9 8 (7.34%) Computer Science
9 8 (7.34%) Cybersecurity
9 8 (7.34%) Security Operations
9 8 (7.34%) SIEM
10 7 (6.42%) Network Virtualisation
10 7 (6.42%) Observability
10 7 (6.42%) Performance Tuning
10 7 (6.42%) Scrum
10 7 (6.42%) XML Parsing
Programming Languages
1 25 (22.94%) PowerShell
1 25 (22.94%) Python
2 18 (16.51%) SQL
3 14 (12.84%) Shell Script
4 13 (11.93%) Java
5 7 (6.42%) Bicep
6 5 (4.59%) Bash
7 4 (3.67%) Scala
7 4 (3.67%) VB
8 2 (1.83%) Go
8 2 (1.83%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.92%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.92%) Perl
9 1 (0.92%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (19.27%) Security Cleared
2 13 (11.93%) Degree
3 11 (10.09%) SC Cleared
4 8 (7.34%) Azure Certification
5 5 (4.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (4.59%) DV Cleared
6 4 (3.67%) AWS Certification
6 4 (3.67%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 3 (2.75%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (2.75%) GCIA
7 3 (2.75%) GCIH
7 3 (2.75%) GIAC
8 2 (1.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (1.83%) CCSK
8 2 (1.83%) CISM
8 2 (1.83%) CISSP
8 2 (1.83%) CTC Cleared
8 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.92%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.75%) GDPR
2 2 (1.83%) COBIT
2 2 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.83%) NCSC
2 2 (1.83%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.83%) SLA
3 1 (0.92%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.92%) NIST
3 1 (0.92%) QA
System Software
1 23 (21.10%) Active Directory
2 9 (8.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (7.34%) Firmware
4 7 (6.42%) Docker
4 7 (6.42%) KVM
5 2 (1.83%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.83%) PowerDNS
5 2 (1.83%) VMware Server
5 2 (1.83%) vSphere
6 1 (0.92%) iptables
Systems Management
1 16 (14.68%) Terraform
2 15 (13.76%) Kubernetes
3 14 (12.84%) Ansible
4 8 (7.34%) Grafana
4 8 (7.34%) Prometheus
5 7 (6.42%) Kibana
5 7 (6.42%) logstash
6 5 (4.59%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (3.67%) Data Guard
7 4 (3.67%) SCCM
8 3 (2.75%) CSIRT
8 3 (2.75%) Nessus
8 3 (2.75%) QRadar
9 2 (1.83%) CASB
9 2 (1.83%) Progress Chef
9 2 (1.83%) Puppet
9 2 (1.83%) SCOrch
9 2 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (1.83%) WSUS
10 1 (0.92%) yum
Vendors
1 35 (32.11%) Microsoft
2 18 (16.51%) Oracle
3 14 (12.84%) VMware
4 9 (8.26%) Red Hat
5 7 (6.42%) Dell
5 7 (6.42%) SEEBURGER
6 6 (5.50%) Amdocs
7 4 (3.67%) CrowdStrike
7 4 (3.67%) Google
7 4 (3.67%) Palo Alto
8 3 (2.75%) BeyondTrust
8 3 (2.75%) Cisco
8 3 (2.75%) New Relic
9 2 (1.83%) Commvault
9 2 (1.83%) F5
9 2 (1.83%) Imperva
9 2 (1.83%) Juniper
9 2 (1.83%) Rapid7
9 2 (1.83%) SAP
9 2 (1.83%) Sophos