Virtual Machines Contracts in the West Midlands

Virtual Machine (VM)
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Virtual Machines skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Virtual Machines over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 91 106 166
Rank change year-on-year +15 +60 -56
Contract jobs citing Virtual Machines 25 25 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.29% 1.11% 0.34%
As % of the System Software category 13.44% 8.53% 2.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 16 7
10th Percentile £327 £263 £200
25th Percentile £400 £300 £211
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £564 £375 £350
Median % change year-on-year +50.27% +7.14% -2.44%
75th Percentile £589 £750 £524
90th Percentile £627 £813 £618
England median daily rate £535 £539 £525
% change year-on-year -0.76% +2.69% +9.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £10.50
Median hourly rate - - £11.00
75th Percentile - - £11.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £14.63 £66.00 £82.50
% change year-on-year -77.84% -20.00% +52.78%

All System Software Skills
West Midlands

Virtual Machines is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 186 293 433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 9.56% 13.03% 12.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 189 297
10th Percentile £184 £160 £152
25th Percentile £255 £270 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £413
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +8.96% +18.00%
75th Percentile £591 £550 £538
90th Percentile £675 £700 £614
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 25
10th Percentile £14.59 £13.87 £12.56
25th Percentile £15.65 £15.49 £13.75
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.71 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.23% +1.26% +13.79%
75th Percentile £19.95 £18.39 £20.00
90th Percentile £22.23 £23.13 £22.45
England median hourly rate £22.23 £52.13 £18.58
% change year-on-year -57.37% +180.65% -2.24%

Virtual Machines
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Machines in the West Midlands

Virtual Machines
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Machines in the West Midlands

Virtual Machines
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Machines in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Machines in the West Midlands

Virtual Machines
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Machines in the West Midlands

Virtual Machines
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 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
Warwickshire +8 16 £582 -27.25% 3
Birmingham +15 3 £600 +100.00% 2
Solihull - 1 £345 -
Shropshire - 1 £523 -
Virtual Machines
England

Virtual Machines
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (4.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (8.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 9 (36.00%) Azure
2 4 (16.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (12.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 3 (12.00%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (8.00%) Azure AKS
4 2 (8.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (8.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (8.00%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (8.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (8.00%) IaaS
5 1 (4.00%) Azure App Service
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (4.00%) Azure Functions
5 1 (4.00%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (4.00%) GitHub
5 1 (4.00%) PaaS
5 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.00%) Firewall
1 3 (12.00%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (4.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) Relational Database
1 3 (12.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (4.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (44.00%) Git
2 3 (12.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 3 (12.00%) Visual Studio
3 1 (4.00%) Hudson
3 1 (4.00%) JIRA
3 1 (4.00%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 4 (16.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.00%) Finance
2 3 (12.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.00%) German Language
Job Titles
1 5 (20.00%) Analyst
2 3 (12.00%) Azure Engineer
2 3 (12.00%) DevOps Specialist
2 3 (12.00%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (12.00%) QA Analyst
3 2 (8.00%) Architect
3 2 (8.00%) Azure Architect
3 2 (8.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) Desktop Analyst
3 2 (8.00%) Desktop Support
3 2 (8.00%) Desktop Support Analyst
3 2 (8.00%) Platform Specialist
3 2 (8.00%) Subject Matter Expert
3 2 (8.00%) Support Analyst
3 2 (8.00%) VMware Specialist
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Specialist
4 1 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) DevOps Platform Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (44.00%) YAML
2 1 (4.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (4.00%) JSON
2 1 (4.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 17 (68.00%) Windows
2 11 (44.00%) Linux
2 11 (44.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (12.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (8.00%) Windows 10
5 1 (4.00%) VMS
5 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (56.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 14 (56.00%) Validation
2 11 (44.00%) Configuration Management
2 11 (44.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 11 (44.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
3 8 (32.00%) DevOps
4 4 (16.00%) API Management
5 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (12.00%) Migration
5 3 (12.00%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (12.00%) Software Testing
5 3 (12.00%) Test Automation
6 2 (8.00%) Agile
6 2 (8.00%) Data Architecture
6 2 (8.00%) Data Migration
6 2 (8.00%) ITIL
6 2 (8.00%) Load Balancing
6 2 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (8.00%) Project Delivery
6 2 (8.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (64.00%) PowerShell
2 8 (32.00%) SQL
3 3 (12.00%) Bicep
4 1 (4.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 14 (56.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (44.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (20.00%) Azure Certification
4 3 (12.00%) ISEB
4 3 (12.00%) ISTQB
5 2 (8.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (8.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) QA
System Software
1 14 (56.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (12.00%) VMFS
2 3 (12.00%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (8.00%) Active Directory
4 1 (4.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 13 (52.00%) Terraform
2 12 (48.00%) Ansible
3 11 (44.00%) Progress Chef
3 11 (44.00%) Puppet
3 11 (44.00%) Salt
4 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 14 (56.00%) VMware
2 11 (44.00%) Red Hat
3 9 (36.00%) SaltStack
4 6 (24.00%) Microsoft
5 2 (8.00%) Citrix
6 1 (4.00%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (4.00%) Zscaler