Virtual Machines Contracts in the North of England

Virtual Machine (VM)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Virtual Machines skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Machines over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 145 176 229
Rank change year-on-year +31 +53 -48
Contract jobs citing Virtual Machines 40 26 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.83% 0.48% 0.31%
As % of the System Software category 7.27% 3.30% 2.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 20 17
10th Percentile £413 £463 £233
25th Percentile £494 £488 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £485
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +8.25% -3.00%
75th Percentile £670 £569 £619
90th Percentile - £643 £662
England median daily rate £543 £538 £525
% change year-on-year +0.80% +2.51% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 2 0
10th Percentile - £34.73 -
25th Percentile £14.06 £39.94 -
Median hourly rate £14.63 £49.25 -
Median % change year-on-year -70.30% - -
75th Percentile £15.19 £57.94 -
90th Percentile - £62.78 -
England median hourly rate £14.63 £66.00 £82.50
% change year-on-year -77.84% -20.00% +52.78%

All System Software Skills
North of England

Virtual Machines falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 550 788 1,050
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 11.35% 14.48% 14.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 392 571 784
10th Percentile £178 £175 £158
25th Percentile £285 £286 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £451 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.76% +0.26%
75th Percentile £579 £575 £550
90th Percentile £650 £675 £638
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 29 46
10th Percentile - £13.99 £13.87
25th Percentile £14.06 £16.19 £16.00
Median hourly rate £16.00 £20.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +14.29% +1.45%
75th Percentile £18.86 £44.50 £19.88
90th Percentile £43.87 £63.75 £22.71
England median hourly rate £22.40 £50.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -55.20% +163.16% +2.43%

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Machines in the North of England

Virtual Machines
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtual Machines in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Virtual Machines in the North of England

Virtual Machines
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Machines in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Machines in the North of England

Virtual Machines
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Virtual Machines in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Machines in the North of England

Virtual Machines
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Virtual Machines in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Virtual Machines in the North of England

Virtual Machines
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 12 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
Yorkshire +27 23 £340 -35.24% 7
North West +17 17 £618 +17.67% 6
Virtual Machines
England

Virtual Machines
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (5.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 7 (17.50%) Azure
2 3 (7.50%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (7.50%) Azure Storage
3 2 (5.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (5.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (5.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (5.00%) IaaS
3 2 (5.00%) PaaS
3 2 (5.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.50%) Azure AKS
4 1 (2.50%) Azure App Service
4 1 (2.50%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (2.50%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (2.50%) Azure Pipelines
4 1 (2.50%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (2.50%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.50%) PowerApps
4 1 (2.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.50%) DHCP
1 3 (7.50%) DNS
1 3 (7.50%) Firewall
2 2 (5.00%) Remote Desktop
2 2 (5.00%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (2.50%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.50%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.00%) Redis
2 1 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.50%) Power BI
2 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (7.50%) GitLab
2 2 (5.00%) Selenium
General
1 26 (65.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.00%) Banking
3 2 (5.00%) Finance
3 2 (5.00%) German Language
4 1 (2.50%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.50%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 10 (25.00%) Architect
2 8 (20.00%) Domain Architect
3 3 (7.50%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (5.00%) Azure Architect
4 2 (5.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (5.00%) Data Centre Engineer
4 2 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (5.00%) IT Engineer
5 1 (2.50%) Azure Specialist
5 1 (2.50%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (2.50%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (2.50%) Data Centre Technician
5 1 (2.50%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (2.50%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (2.50%) IT Technician
5 1 (2.50%) Server Engineer
5 1 (2.50%) Windows Engineer
5 1 (2.50%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (2.50%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.00%) pytest
1 2 (5.00%) YAML
2 1 (2.50%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 20 (50.00%) Driving Licence
2 3 (7.50%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (5.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (5.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (2.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.00%) Windows
2 3 (7.50%) Linux
3 2 (5.00%) Alpine Linux
3 2 (5.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (5.00%) VMS
3 2 (5.00%) Windows 10
3 2 (5.00%) Windows 7
4 1 (2.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (25.00%) TOGAF
2 8 (20.00%) Zachman Framework
3 6 (15.00%) Strategic Thinking
4 5 (12.50%) IT Strategy
4 5 (12.50%) Migration
4 5 (12.50%) Technology Strategy
5 4 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (7.50%) DevOps
6 3 (7.50%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (7.50%) Performance Metrics
6 3 (7.50%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (5.00%) Agile
7 2 (5.00%) Business Analysis
7 2 (5.00%) Demand Management
7 2 (5.00%) Load Balancing
7 2 (5.00%) Network Monitoring
7 2 (5.00%) Network Virtualisation
7 2 (5.00%) Resource Management
7 2 (5.00%) Runbook
7 2 (5.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (12.50%) SQL
2 3 (7.50%) PowerShell
3 2 (5.00%) Python
4 1 (2.50%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 10 (25.00%) Degree
2 8 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 8 (20.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (7.50%) Azure Certification
4 2 (5.00%) A+ Certification
4 2 (5.00%) CCNA
4 2 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (5.00%) Network+ Certification
4 2 (5.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) QA
System Software
1 4 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (7.50%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (7.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (5.00%) Hyper-V
3 2 (5.00%) KVM
3 2 (5.00%) VMware Workstation
4 1 (2.50%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (10.00%) Terraform
2 3 (7.50%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.00%) Grafana
3 2 (5.00%) Prometheus
3 2 (5.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 20 (50.00%) BT
1 20 (50.00%) Virgin Media
2 7 (17.50%) Microsoft
3 3 (7.50%) VMware
4 1 (2.50%) Confluent
4 1 (2.50%) Skytap