Virtual Machines Contracts in the North West

Virtual Machine (VM)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 118 135 162
Rank change year-on-year +17 +27 -17
Contract jobs citing Virtual Machines 17 15 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.61% 0.50% 0.50%
As % of the System Software category 6.23% 3.10% 3.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 13 15
10th Percentile £494 - £224
25th Percentile £517 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £618 £525 £485
Median % change year-on-year +17.67% +8.25% +29.33%
75th Percentile £670 £563 £609
90th Percentile - £668 £630
England median daily rate £543 £538 £525
% change year-on-year +0.80% +2.51% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £83.77 - -
25th Percentile £84.11 - -
Median hourly rate £84.67 £66.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +28.28% - -
75th Percentile £85.22 - -
90th Percentile £85.56 - -
England median hourly rate £14.63 £66.00 £82.50
% change year-on-year -77.84% -20.00% +52.78%

All System Software Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 273 484 582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 9.78% 16.07% 14.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 345 434
10th Percentile £201 £200 £159
25th Percentile £325 £325 £230
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +20.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £670 £650 £638
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 23 27
10th Percentile - £13.96 £12.63
25th Percentile £15.50 £15.86 £15.13
Median hourly rate £17.72 £17.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.26% - -1.73%
75th Percentile £42.88 £34.18 £20.00
90th Percentile £46.18 £52.13 £24.57
England median hourly rate £22.40 £50.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -55.20% +163.16% +2.43%

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Machines in the North West

Virtual Machines
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Machines in the North West

Virtual Machines
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Machines in the North West over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Machines in the North West

Virtual Machines
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Machines in the North West

Virtual Machines
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 12 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
Cumbria - 10 £670 -
Manchester +5 7 £513 -2.38% 2
Virtual Machines
England

Virtual Machines
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Applications
1 2 (11.76%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (35.29%) Azure
2 3 (17.65%) Azure Storage
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Pipelines
4 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.88%) IaaS
4 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.88%) PaaS
4 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.88%) PowerApps
4 1 (5.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) Firewall
2 1 (5.88%) DHCP
2 1 (5.88%) DNS
2 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.88%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) Redis
2 1 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) GitLab
1 2 (11.76%) Selenium
General
1 5 (29.41%) Public Sector
2 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.76%) German Language
4 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 10 (58.82%) Architect
2 8 (47.06%) Domain Architect
3 3 (17.65%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Azure Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Specialist
5 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (5.88%) Server Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Windows Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) pytest
1 2 (11.76%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (5.88%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Alpine Linux
1 2 (11.76%) Linux
1 2 (11.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (11.76%) VMS
2 1 (5.88%) Windows
2 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) TOGAF
2 8 (47.06%) Zachman Framework
3 6 (35.29%) Strategic Thinking
4 5 (29.41%) IT Strategy
4 5 (29.41%) Technology Strategy
5 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (17.65%) Migration
5 3 (17.65%) Performance Metrics
6 2 (11.76%) Agile
6 2 (11.76%) API Management
6 2 (11.76%) Business Analysis
6 2 (11.76%) Data Architecture
6 2 (11.76%) Data Migration
6 2 (11.76%) Demand Management
6 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (11.76%) Load Balancing
6 2 (11.76%) Resource Management
6 2 (11.76%) Roadmaps
6 2 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (11.76%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) SQL
2 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
2 2 (11.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (47.06%) Degree
1 8 (47.06%) SC Cleared
1 8 (47.06%) Security Cleared
2 3 (17.65%) Azure Certification
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.88%) Firmware
2 1 (5.88%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Terraform
2 2 (11.76%) Grafana
2 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
2 2 (11.76%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) VMware