Virtual Machines Contracts in Yorkshire

Virtual Machine (VM)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 84 111 143
Rank change year-on-year +27 +32 -39
Contract jobs citing Virtual Machines 23 10 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 1.33% 0.47% 0.15%
As % of the System Software category 9.13% 4.05% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 4
10th Percentile £312 £500 £389
25th Percentile £315 £506 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -35.24% +16.67% -5.26%
75th Percentile £505 £588 £515
90th Percentile £592 £638 £632
England median daily rate £543 £538 £525
% change year-on-year +0.80% +2.51% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £14.06 £31.25 -
Median hourly rate £14.63 £32.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -55.00% - -
75th Percentile £15.19 £33.75 -
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
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 252 247 369
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 14.55% 11.52% 13.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 180 183 287
10th Percentile £165 £153 £153
25th Percentile £275 £213 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £425 £390
Median % change year-on-year +3.53% +8.97% -8.24%
75th Percentile £584 £575 £524
90th Percentile £643 £638 £600
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 6 16
10th Percentile - £19.75 £16.00
25th Percentile £14.06 £24.31 £16.34
Median hourly rate £14.63 £37.75 £17.57
Median % change year-on-year -61.26% +114.85% -6.34%
75th Percentile £15.19 £58.94 £19.63
90th Percentile £19.78 £63.75 £22.71
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 Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Machines in Yorkshire

Virtual Machines
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Machines in Yorkshire

Virtual Machines
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Machines in Yorkshire

Virtual Machines
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Machines in Yorkshire

Virtual Machines
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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
West Yorkshire +34 12 £485 -22.40% 3
South Yorkshire -12 1 £340 -33.66% 2
Virtual Machines
England

Virtual Machines
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (4.35%) Azure
1 1 (4.35%) Azure AKS
1 1 (4.35%) Azure App Service
1 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (4.35%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (4.35%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (4.35%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (4.35%) IaaS
1 1 (4.35%) PaaS
1 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) DHCP
1 2 (8.70%) DNS
1 2 (8.70%) Remote Desktop
1 2 (8.70%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (4.35%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) GitLab
General
1 22 (95.65%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Banking
2 2 (8.70%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (8.70%) Data Centre Engineer
1 2 (8.70%) IT Engineer
2 1 (4.35%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (4.35%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (4.35%) Data Centre Technician
2 1 (4.35%) Data Technician
2 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (4.35%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (4.35%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 20 (86.96%) Driving Licence
2 2 (8.70%) Data Centre
2 2 (8.70%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (4.35%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.04%) Windows
2 2 (8.70%) Windows 10
2 2 (8.70%) Windows 7
3 1 (4.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (8.70%) Computer Science
1 2 (8.70%) Migration
1 2 (8.70%) Network Monitoring
1 2 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (8.70%) Runbook
2 1 (4.35%) Analytics
2 1 (4.35%) Cloud Operations
2 1 (4.35%) Configuration Management
2 1 (4.35%) DevOps
2 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (4.35%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.35%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
1 1 (4.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) A+ Certification
1 2 (8.70%) CCNA
1 2 (8.70%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (8.70%) Degree
1 2 (8.70%) Network+ Certification
1 2 (8.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) QA
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Active Directory
1 2 (8.70%) Hyper-V
1 2 (8.70%) KVM
1 2 (8.70%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (8.70%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 2 (8.70%) vCenter Server
2 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (86.96%) BT
1 20 (86.96%) Virgin Media
2 3 (13.04%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.70%) VMware
4 1 (4.35%) Confluent
4 1 (4.35%) Skytap