Virtual Machines Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Virtual Machine (VM)
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Virtual Machines skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 73 83
Rank change year-on-year -6 +10 +16
Contract jobs citing Virtual Machines 9 3 10
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.69% 0.36% 0.76%
As % of the System Software category 5.06% 1.92% 4.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 9
10th Percentile - - £491
25th Percentile £305 - £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £310 £350 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.43% -33.33% -3.31%
75th Percentile £470 £439 £633
90th Percentile £563 £493 £674
South East median daily rate £563 £350 £588
% change year-on-year +60.71% -40.43% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.75 - -
Median hourly rate £58.50 - -
75th Percentile £60.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £58.50 - £25.12
% change year-on-year - - -67.06%

All System Software Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 178 156 236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 13.62% 18.73% 17.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 113 78
10th Percentile £206 £253 £206
25th Percentile £463 £413 £322
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £514
Median % change year-on-year - -2.68% -6.59%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £661
South East median daily rate £500 £475 £473
% change year-on-year +5.26% +0.53% -5.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 9 29
10th Percentile £45.14 £39.99 £19.84
25th Percentile £45.56 £54.63 £55.00
Median hourly rate £48.72 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.05% - +129.36%
75th Percentile £56.42 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £58.72 £83.25 £78.00
South East median hourly rate £81.00 £57.25 £62.50
% change year-on-year +41.48% -8.40% +92.31%

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Virtual Machines relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

Virtual Machines job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Virtual Machines
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Virtual Machines.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Virtual Machines

Virtual Machines
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Machines in Hampshire over the 6 months to 8 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Machines in Hampshire

Virtual Machines
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Virtual Machines.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Virtual Machines

Virtual Machines
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 8 January 2026. 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
Southampton +2 4 £310 -11.43% 2
Havant - 1 £625 -
Virtual Machines
South East

Virtual Machines
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) Azure Storage
1 1 (11.11%) IaaS
1 1 (11.11%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Database
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 6 (66.67%) Git
1 6 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 6 (66.67%) JIRA
General
1 1 (11.11%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 5 (55.56%) C++ Software Engineer
2 5 (55.56%) Embedded C++ Engineer
2 5 (55.56%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
2 5 (55.56%) Embedded Engineer
2 5 (55.56%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Security Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) DBA
4 1 (11.11%) Oracle DBA
4 1 (11.11%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Principal Software Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior
4 1 (11.11%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Embedded Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) CAN bus
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Linux
2 5 (55.56%) Windows
3 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) DevOps
2 6 (66.67%) Agile
2 6 (66.67%) Configuration Management
2 6 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 6 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 6 (66.67%) SysML
2 6 (66.67%) UML
3 2 (22.22%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (22.22%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
4 1 (11.11%) High Availability
4 1 (11.11%) Performance Monitoring
4 1 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (11.11%) Runbook
4 1 (11.11%) Statistics
4 1 (11.11%) Storage Management
4 1 (11.11%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) C#
1 6 (66.67%) C++
1 6 (66.67%) Embedded C++
2 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 5 (55.56%) SC Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
3 1 (11.11%) OCP
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Data Guard
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle RMAN
1 1 (11.11%) systemd
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle
1 1 (11.11%) Red Hat