Virtual Machines Contracts in the Midlands

Virtual Machine (VM)
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 110 125 185
Rank change year-on-year +15 +60 -49
Contract jobs citing Virtual Machines 28 31 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.97% 0.96% 0.47%
As % of the System Software category 9.00% 6.72% 3.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 21 14
10th Percentile £313 £263 £187
25th Percentile £388 £313 £193
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £557 £500 £218
Median % change year-on-year +11.40% +129.89% -40.00%
75th Percentile £593 £738 £422
90th Percentile £627 £800 £529
England median daily rate £535 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -1.38% +3.33% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £10.50
Median hourly rate - - £11.00
75th Percentile - - £11.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £14.63 £66.00 £82.50
% change year-on-year -77.84% -20.00% +52.78%

All System Software Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 311 461 661
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 10.78% 14.31% 13.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 320 461
10th Percentile £160 £158 £130
25th Percentile £250 £244 £190
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £445 £375
Median % change year-on-year -10.11% +18.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £500
90th Percentile £660 £700 £580
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 23 39
10th Percentile £14.77 £12.54 £12.63
25th Percentile £15.74 £15.25 £13.63
Median hourly rate £17.98 £25.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.10% +42.86% +29.63%
75th Percentile £22.80 £34.50 £20.51
90th Percentile £37.83 £65.00 £23.75
England median hourly rate £22.23 £52.13 £19.00
% change year-on-year -57.37% +174.37% -

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Machines in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Machines in the Midlands

Virtual Machines
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Machines in the Midlands over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Machines in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Machines in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 8 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
West Midlands +10 26 £570 +38.18% 8
East Midlands +7 2 £325 -38.10% 6
Virtual Machines
England

Virtual Machines
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (3.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (7.14%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (35.71%) Azure
2 4 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (10.71%) Azure Service Bus
3 3 (10.71%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (7.14%) Azure AKS
4 2 (7.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (7.14%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (7.14%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (7.14%) IaaS
5 1 (3.57%) Azure App Service
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Functions
5 1 (3.57%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (3.57%) GitHub
5 1 (3.57%) PaaS
5 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.86%) Firewall
2 3 (10.71%) DNS
2 3 (10.71%) Remote Desktop
3 2 (7.14%) DHCP
3 2 (7.14%) TCP/IP
3 2 (7.14%) VLAN
3 2 (7.14%) VPN
3 2 (7.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.71%) Relational Database
1 3 (10.71%) SQL Server
2 2 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.57%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.57%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (39.29%) Git
2 3 (10.71%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 3 (10.71%) Visual Studio
3 1 (3.57%) Hudson
3 1 (3.57%) JIRA
3 1 (3.57%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 4 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.71%) Finance
2 3 (10.71%) Public Sector
3 2 (7.14%) German Language
4 1 (3.57%) Law
Job Titles
1 5 (17.86%) Analyst
2 3 (10.71%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (10.71%) DevOps Specialist
2 3 (10.71%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (10.71%) QA Analyst
3 2 (7.14%) Architect
3 2 (7.14%) Azure Architect
3 2 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) Desktop Analyst
3 2 (7.14%) Desktop Support
3 2 (7.14%) Desktop Support Analyst
3 2 (7.14%) Network Engineer
3 2 (7.14%) Platform Specialist
3 2 (7.14%) Subject Matter Expert
3 2 (7.14%) Support Analyst
3 2 (7.14%) VMware Specialist
4 1 (3.57%) Applications Manager
4 1 (3.57%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (3.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (3.57%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (39.29%) YAML
2 1 (3.57%) ARM Templates
2 1 (3.57%) JSON
2 1 (3.57%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.57%) Data Centre
1 1 (3.57%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 17 (60.71%) Windows
2 11 (39.29%) Linux
2 11 (39.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (10.71%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (7.14%) Windows 10
5 1 (3.57%) VMS
5 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 14 (50.00%) Validation
2 11 (39.29%) Configuration Management
2 11 (39.29%) Infrastructure Automation
2 11 (39.29%) Virtual Infrastructure
3 8 (28.57%) DevOps
4 4 (14.29%) API Management
4 4 (14.29%) Migration
5 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (10.71%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (10.71%) Software Testing
5 3 (10.71%) Test Automation
6 2 (7.14%) Agile
6 2 (7.14%) Data Architecture
6 2 (7.14%) Data Migration
6 2 (7.14%) ITIL
6 2 (7.14%) Load Balancing
6 2 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (7.14%) Project Delivery
6 2 (7.14%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (57.14%) PowerShell
2 8 (28.57%) SQL
3 3 (10.71%) Bicep
4 1 (3.57%) Bash
Qualifications
1 14 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (39.29%) SC Cleared
3 5 (17.86%) Azure Certification
4 3 (10.71%) ISEB
4 3 (10.71%) ISTQB
5 2 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (7.14%) CCNA
5 2 (7.14%) CCNP
5 2 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) QA
System Software
1 14 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (10.71%) VMFS
2 3 (10.71%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (7.14%) Active Directory
4 1 (3.57%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 13 (46.43%) Terraform
2 12 (42.86%) Ansible
3 11 (39.29%) Progress Chef
3 11 (39.29%) Puppet
3 11 (39.29%) Salt
4 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 14 (50.00%) VMware
2 11 (39.29%) Red Hat
3 9 (32.14%) SaltStack
4 6 (21.43%) Microsoft
5 2 (7.14%) Cisco
5 2 (7.14%) Citrix
5 2 (7.14%) Fortinet
5 2 (7.14%) Palo Alto
6 1 (3.57%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (3.57%) Zscaler