Virtual Machines Contracts in Leeds

Virtual Machine (VM)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 15 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 56 68 99
Rank change year-on-year +12 +31 +13
Contract jobs citing Virtual Machines 11 10 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 1.65% 1.00% 1.10%
As % of the System Software category 12.09% 6.80% 9.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 9 19
10th Percentile £416 £414 £450
25th Percentile £440 £500 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £700 £600
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +16.67% +27.66%
75th Percentile £594 - -
90th Percentile £655 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £490 £606 £600
% change year-on-year -19.18% +1.04% +27.66%

All System Software Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 91 147 196
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 13.62% 14.74% 11.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 102 153
10th Percentile £263 £317 £172
25th Percentile £363 £425 £215
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £510 £475
Median % change year-on-year -21.57% +7.37% +8.57%
75th Percentile £488 £614 £600
90th Percentile £565 £700 £685
West Yorkshire median daily rate £400 £488 £400
% change year-on-year -17.95% +21.88% -6.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.75
Median hourly rate - £62.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year - +188.37% -
75th Percentile - - £25.00
90th Percentile - - £41.50
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - £17.35 £21.50
% change year-on-year - -19.31% +43.33%

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Machines in Leeds

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Machines in Leeds

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Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Machines in Leeds over the 6 months to 15 November 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Machines in Leeds

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Machines in Leeds

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 (9.09%) Oracle Workflow
1 1 (9.09%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) Azure
2 6 (54.55%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (54.55%) GitHub
2 6 (54.55%) GitHub Actions
3 5 (45.45%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (36.36%) Azure App Service
4 4 (36.36%) Azure Key Vault
5 3 (27.27%) AWS
5 3 (27.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (27.27%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (27.27%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (27.27%) Entra ID
6 2 (18.18%) IaaS
6 2 (18.18%) PaaS
7 1 (9.09%) Azure AKS
7 1 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
7 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) Network Security
1 3 (27.27%) WAN
2 1 (9.09%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (9.09%) DB2
2 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (9.09%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) GitLab
1 1 (9.09%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 3 (27.27%) Legal
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Architect
1 3 (27.27%) Server Engineer
1 3 (27.27%) Windows Engineer
1 3 (27.27%) Windows Server Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Lead
2 2 (18.18%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Lead DevOps Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Migration Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Project Leader
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Leader
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Project Leader
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) ARM Templates
2 1 (9.09%) IBM Integration Bus
2 1 (9.09%) Kafka
2 1 (9.09%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Windows
2 3 (27.27%) VMS
2 3 (27.27%) Windows Server
2 3 (27.27%) Windows Server 2019
3 2 (18.18%) Linux
4 1 (9.09%) Unix
4 1 (9.09%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (54.55%) Analytics
2 6 (54.55%) DevOps
3 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
3 5 (45.45%) Log Analytics
3 5 (45.45%) Platform Engineering
4 4 (36.36%) Cloud Security
4 4 (36.36%) Identity Access Management
4 4 (36.36%) Network Virtualisation
4 4 (36.36%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (36.36%) Workflow
5 3 (27.27%) Continuous Deployment
5 3 (27.27%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (27.27%) Design Patterns
5 3 (27.27%) Privileged Access Management
5 3 (27.27%) Software Delivery
5 3 (27.27%) Test Automation
6 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Automation
6 2 (18.18%) Machine Learning
6 2 (18.18%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) SQL
2 3 (27.27%) Bicep
3 1 (9.09%) Assembly Language
3 1 (9.09%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
3 1 (9.09%) Python
3 1 (9.09%) REXX
3 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) DBS Check
2 1 (9.09%) OCP
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 9 (81.82%) Terraform
2 1 (9.09%) Ansible
2 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Confluent
2 1 (9.09%) IBM
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) Red Hat
2 1 (9.09%) Skytap