Virtual Machines Contracts in Hampshire

Virtual Machine (VM)
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire 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 18 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 89 88
Rank change year-on-year +24 -1 +16
Contract jobs citing Virtual Machines 7 16 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 0.77% 0.93% 0.62%
As % of the System Software category 4.83% 4.60% 3.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 13 6
10th Percentile £256 £528 £506
25th Percentile £394 £570 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £585 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +6.36% +20.55%
75th Percentile - £609 £597
90th Percentile - £624 £685
South East median daily rate £575 £585 £511
% change year-on-year -1.71% +14.43% -11.09%

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 145 348 262
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 16.00% 20.14% 20.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 186 123
10th Percentile £256 £419 £330
25th Percentile £500 £511 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £613
90th Percentile £650 £675 £685
South East median daily rate £501 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.00% +10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 27 35
10th Percentile £52.10 £17.69 £15.50
25th Percentile £53.66 £26.25 £19.13
Median hourly rate £57.50 £54.88 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.78% +4.52% +144.19%
75th Percentile £58.75 £70.00 £70.63
90th Percentile - - £76.50
South East median hourly rate £57.50 £54.88 £52.50
% change year-on-year +4.78% +4.52% +162.50%

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Machines in Hampshire

Virtual Machines
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Machines in Hampshire

Virtual Machines
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Machines in Hampshire over the 6 months to 18 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Machines in Hampshire

Virtual Machines
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Machines in Hampshire

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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 18 July 2025. 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 - 4 £600 -
Basingstoke - 2 £600 -
Winchester - 1 £200 -
Virtual Machines
South East

Virtual Machines
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
1 2 (28.57%) NGFW
1 2 (28.57%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (28.57%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Consultant
1 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Integration Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) IT Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Security Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) IT Support
2 1 (14.29%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) JSON
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Windows
2 2 (28.57%) Linux
2 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (28.57%) Windows 10
2 2 (28.57%) Windows 7
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Agile
1 2 (28.57%) Deployment Automation
1 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (28.57%) Knowledge Transfer
1 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (28.57%) Remote Monitoring and Management
1 2 (28.57%) Runbook
1 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
1 2 (28.57%) Test Scripting
2 1 (14.29%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) DV Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Ansible
1 2 (28.57%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 2 (28.57%) Palo Alto
1 2 (28.57%) Red Hat
1 2 (28.57%) VMware