Virtual Servers Contracts

Virtual Servers
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Virtual Servers skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Virtual Servers over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 518 590 700
Rank change year-on-year +72 +110 -33
Contract jobs citing Virtual Servers 57 92 138
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.16% 0.16%
As % of the System Software category 1.21% 1.25% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 60 112
10th Percentile £293 £396 £215
25th Percentile £395 £450 £348
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £523 £449
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +16.43% +19.67%
75th Percentile £615 £623 £538
90th Percentile £695 £743 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £547 £525 £425
% change year-on-year +4.10% +23.53% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 3
10th Percentile £16.00 £30.37 -
25th Percentile - £36.92 -
Median hourly rate £40.00 £47.83 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.37% +139.15% -74.36%
75th Percentile - £49.42 £33.75
90th Percentile - £50.37 £42.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £36.92 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.36% +84.58% -74.36%

All System Software Skills
UK

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,701 7,331 11,619
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.92% 13.08% 13.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,266 5,173 8,348
10th Percentile £200 £200 £200
25th Percentile £350 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +6.06%
75th Percentile £607 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £479 £450
% change year-on-year -0.84% +6.44% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 248 287
10th Percentile £14.06 £15.23 £13.00
25th Percentile £15.25 £19.75 £14.75
Median hourly rate £24.18 £55.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.04% +189.47% -5.00%
75th Percentile £60.75 £66.00 £37.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.82 £58.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £48.40 £17.50
% change year-on-year -43.18% +176.57% -3.39%

Virtual Servers
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Virtual Servers as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Servers in the UK

Virtual Servers
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Servers in the UK

Virtual Servers
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Servers over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Servers in the UK

Virtual Servers
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Servers in the UK

Virtual Servers
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Virtual Servers over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Virtual Servers in the UK

Virtual Servers
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Servers within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
England +63 55 £547 +4.10% 41
UK excluding London +13 32 £547 +4.10% 27
London +96 24 £400 -23.08% 15
Work from Home +101 18 £555 +13.85% 15
South West -4 13 £531 +1.19% 8
Midlands +30 9 £500 -4.76% 7
South East +11 8 £550 +15.79% 10
East Midlands +16 5 - - 1
West Midlands +17 4 £500 +11.11% 6
North of England +16 1 £188 -60.53% 2
North West +15 1 £188 -60.00% 1
Scotland - 1 £240 -

Virtual Servers
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 14 (24.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (10.53%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.75%) Apache
3 1 (1.75%) IIS
3 1 (1.75%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (5.26%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 15 (26.32%) Azure
2 9 (15.79%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (14.04%) AWS
4 3 (5.26%) OneDrive
5 2 (3.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (3.51%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (3.51%) Amazon S3
5 2 (3.51%) CloudFront
5 2 (3.51%) Route 53
5 2 (3.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (1.75%) Datadog
6 1 (1.75%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.75%) Fastly
6 1 (1.75%) GitHub
6 1 (1.75%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (40.35%) WAN
2 21 (36.84%) LAN
3 16 (28.07%) DNS
4 14 (24.56%) DHCP
4 14 (24.56%) Firewall
5 11 (19.30%) SAN
5 11 (19.30%) TCP/IP
6 9 (15.79%) VPN
7 8 (14.04%) MPLS
7 8 (14.04%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (10.53%) Internet
9 5 (8.77%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 5 (8.77%) NetScaler
10 4 (7.02%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 3 (5.26%) Skype
11 3 (5.26%) SMTP
12 1 (1.75%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (19.30%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Bitbucket
1 2 (3.51%) Git
2 1 (1.75%) Subversion
General
1 23 (40.35%) Social Skills
2 9 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (14.04%) Aerospace
3 8 (14.04%) Mandarin Language
3 8 (14.04%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.26%) Finance
4 3 (5.26%) Military
5 2 (3.51%) Banking
5 2 (3.51%) Cantonese Language
6 1 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (21.05%) Analyst
2 10 (17.54%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 9 (15.79%) IT Analyst
4 8 (14.04%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
5 7 (12.28%) Architect
6 5 (8.77%) Support Officer
6 5 (8.77%) Technical Support
6 5 (8.77%) Technical Support Officer
7 4 (7.02%) Automation Engineer
7 4 (7.02%) Desktop Support
7 4 (7.02%) VMware Engineer
8 3 (5.26%) Business Analyst
8 3 (5.26%) Infrastructure Architect
8 3 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (5.26%) IT Engineer
8 3 (5.26%) IT Support
8 3 (5.26%) Microsoft 365 Business Analyst
8 3 (5.26%) Senior
8 3 (5.26%) Service Desk Engineer
8 3 (5.26%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.77%) LDAP
2 4 (7.02%) JSON
3 1 (1.75%) Django
3 1 (1.75%) HornetQ
3 1 (1.75%) OAuth
3 1 (1.75%) OpenID
3 1 (1.75%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (1.75%) REST
3 1 (1.75%) SAML
3 1 (1.75%) VCL
Miscellaneous
1 17 (29.82%) Data Centre
2 8 (14.04%) Client/Server
2 8 (14.04%) Clustering
2 8 (14.04%) Video Conferencing
3 5 (8.77%) CMDB
3 5 (8.77%) Onboarding
4 3 (5.26%) PKI
5 1 (1.75%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.75%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 38 (66.67%) Windows
2 15 (26.32%) Windows Server
3 11 (19.30%) Windows 10
4 8 (14.04%) Linux
4 8 (14.04%) Mac OS
4 8 (14.04%) Unix
5 3 (5.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (5.26%) VMS
6 2 (3.51%) Debian
6 2 (3.51%) Windows 7
7 1 (1.75%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.75%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (35.09%) ITIL
2 17 (29.82%) Migration
3 15 (26.32%) Server Management
4 10 (17.54%) Asset Management
5 9 (15.79%) Customer Service
5 9 (15.79%) Decision-Making
6 8 (14.04%) Application Packaging
6 8 (14.04%) Business Transformation
6 8 (14.04%) Capacity Management
6 8 (14.04%) Capacity Planning
6 8 (14.04%) Data Migration
6 8 (14.04%) Data Protection
6 8 (14.04%) Network Management
6 8 (14.04%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (12.28%) Agile
8 6 (10.53%) Disaster Recovery
8 6 (10.53%) Project Management
9 5 (8.77%) Product Management
9 5 (8.77%) Service Management
9 5 (8.77%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 12 (21.05%) PowerShell
2 11 (19.30%) SQL
3 6 (10.53%) Java
4 4 (7.02%) ActionScript
5 2 (3.51%) Bash
6 1 (1.75%) Python
6 1 (1.75%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 14 (24.56%) Degree
2 4 (7.02%) SC Cleared
2 4 (7.02%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.75%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.26%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (52.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (31.58%) Active Directory
3 8 (14.04%) Hyper-V
3 8 (14.04%) VMware Workstation
4 6 (10.53%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 3 (5.26%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.75%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 11 (19.30%) SCCM
2 8 (14.04%) Microsoft Clustering
2 8 (14.04%) Nagios
2 8 (14.04%) NetBackup
3 4 (7.02%) vRealize Orchestrator
4 3 (5.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 3 (5.26%) Kubernetes
4 3 (5.26%) OPNET
4 3 (5.26%) SCOM
5 2 (3.51%) Ansible
5 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.75%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.75%) HAProxy
6 1 (1.75%) Terraform
6 1 (1.75%) vRealize
6 1 (1.75%) WSUS
Vendors
1 30 (52.63%) VMware
2 17 (29.82%) Microsoft
3 11 (19.30%) Cisco
4 8 (14.04%) Hitachi
4 8 (14.04%) NetApp
5 6 (10.53%) TOWER Software
6 5 (8.77%) F5
7 3 (5.26%) Red Hat
7 3 (5.26%) Remedy
7 3 (5.26%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.75%) Citrix
8 1 (1.75%) Google
8 1 (1.75%) Meraki