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 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 73 67
Rank change year-on-year -21 -6 +26
Contract jobs citing Virtual Machines 21 7 18
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 1.10% 0.70% 1.45%
As % of the System Software category 7.58% 4.12% 7.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 15
10th Percentile - £270 £414
25th Percentile £400 £394 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £600 £582
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +3.09% -5.37%
75th Percentile £500 - £608
90th Percentile £583 - £620
South East median daily rate £475 £550 £570
% change year-on-year -13.64% -3.51% +3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £58.50 -
South East median hourly rate - £58.50 -

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 277 170 242
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 14.53% 16.97% 19.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 145 148
10th Percentile £263 £226 £357
25th Percentile £463 £463 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £646 £600 £638
90th Percentile £735 £650 £679
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £505
% change year-on-year +5.00% -0.99% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 3 15
10th Percentile £16.00 - £26.25
25th Percentile £30.12 £56.25 £52.84
Median hourly rate £60.00 £57.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -17.86% +25.67%
75th Percentile £62.50 £59.50 -
90th Percentile £96.00 £59.95 -
South East median hourly rate £60.00 £81.00 £57.25
% change year-on-year -25.93% +41.48% +4.09%

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 6 October 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 6 October 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 +5 13 - - 3
Lymington - 4 £450 -
Portsmouth - 2 £471 - 1
Farnborough - 1 £750 - 2
Fareham - 1 £450 - 4
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (9.52%) CMS
1 2 (9.52%) Umbraco
Cloud Services
1 16 (76.19%) Azure
2 13 (61.90%) Entra ID
2 13 (61.90%) IaaS
3 6 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.76%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (14.29%) Firewall
2 2 (9.52%) VLAN
3 1 (4.76%) DHCP
3 1 (4.76%) DNS
3 1 (4.76%) LAN
3 1 (4.76%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.76%) VPN
3 1 (4.76%) VSAN
3 1 (4.76%) WAN
3 1 (4.76%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (71.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 13 (61.90%) Azure Engineer
2 13 (61.90%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 13 (61.90%) Cloud Engineer
2 13 (61.90%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Programme Manager
3 4 (19.05%) Software Manager
4 2 (9.52%) Developer
4 2 (9.52%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Lead
5 1 (4.76%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.76%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (19.05%) Linux
2 1 (4.76%) Windows
2 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (71.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (19.05%) Data Management
2 4 (19.05%) Software Engineering
3 2 (9.52%) DevOps
3 2 (9.52%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (9.52%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (4.76%) Front End Development
4 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 1 (4.76%) Network Segmentation
4 1 (4.76%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (4.76%) RBAC
4 1 (4.76%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (4.76%) Security Hardening
Programming Languages
1 14 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 4 (19.05%) C
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 4 (19.05%) Docker
2 2 (9.52%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (9.52%) vSphere
3 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) vCenter Server
2 1 (4.76%) Avamar
2 1 (4.76%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 14 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.52%) VMware
3 1 (4.76%) Veeam
3 1 (4.76%) Zerto