Virtual Servers Contracts in England

Virtual Servers
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Virtual Servers skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Servers 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 498 565 679
Rank change year-on-year +67 +114 -67
Contract jobs citing Virtual Servers 52 71 108
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.14% 0.15% 0.15%
As % of the System Software category 1.25% 1.18% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 46 88
10th Percentile £302 £381 £188
25th Percentile £400 £450 £334
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £441
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% +18.98% +13.94%
75th Percentile £607 £619 £581
90th Percentile £671 £788 £675
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -2.38% +16.67% +27.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 3
10th Percentile £16.00 £28.18 -
25th Percentile - £31.46 -
Median hourly rate £40.00 £36.92 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.36% +84.58% -
75th Percentile - £42.37 £33.75
90th Percentile - £45.65 £42.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £47.83 £20.00
% change year-on-year -16.37% +139.15% -74.36%

All System Software Skills
England

Virtual Servers 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,150 6,031 9,477
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.06% 12.82% 13.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,893 4,317 6,885
10th Percentile £205 £200 £190
25th Percentile £363 £375 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £608 £650 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 208 252
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.25 £13.01
25th Percentile £14.48 £17.50 £14.94
Median hourly rate £22.40 £50.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.20% +163.16% +2.43%
75th Percentile £58.69 £66.38 £29.00
90th Percentile £74.48 £76.95 £56.61
UK median hourly rate £24.18 £54.56 £20.00
% change year-on-year -55.68% +172.80% -

Virtual Servers
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Servers in England

Virtual Servers
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Servers in England

Virtual Servers
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Servers in England

Virtual Servers
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Servers in England

Virtual Servers
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Virtual Servers in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Virtual Servers in England

Virtual Servers
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England 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
London +86 24 £463 -7.04% 13
South West -5 12 £388 -27.91% 5
Midlands +24 9 £500 -4.76% 7
South East +13 6 £560 +17.89% 7
East Midlands +11 5 - - 2
West Midlands +21 4 £500 +11.11% 5
North of England +10 1 £188 -60.53% 3
North West +9 1 £188 -60.00% 2
Virtual Servers
UK

Virtual Servers
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 11 (21.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (5.77%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.92%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 14 (26.92%) Azure
2 6 (11.54%) AWS
2 6 (11.54%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (3.85%) OneDrive
4 1 (1.92%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.92%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 22 (42.31%) WAN
2 20 (38.46%) LAN
3 13 (25.00%) DNS
4 12 (23.08%) DHCP
4 12 (23.08%) Firewall
4 12 (23.08%) SAN
5 9 (17.31%) TCP/IP
5 9 (17.31%) VPN
6 8 (15.38%) MPLS
6 8 (15.38%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (11.54%) Internet
8 5 (9.62%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 5 (9.62%) NetScaler
9 4 (7.69%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 1 (1.92%) Skype
10 1 (1.92%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (23.08%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Bitbucket
1 1 (1.92%) Git
1 1 (1.92%) Subversion
General
1 19 (36.54%) Social Skills
2 9 (17.31%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (15.38%) Aerospace
3 8 (15.38%) Mandarin Language
3 8 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.77%) Finance
5 2 (3.85%) Banking
5 2 (3.85%) Cantonese Language
6 1 (1.92%) Military
6 1 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (21.15%) Analyst
2 9 (17.31%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 9 (17.31%) IT Analyst
3 8 (15.38%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
4 7 (13.46%) Architect
5 5 (9.62%) Support Officer
5 5 (9.62%) Technical Support
5 5 (9.62%) Technical Support Officer
6 4 (7.69%) Desktop Support
7 3 (5.77%) Automation Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Infrastructure Architect
7 3 (5.77%) IT Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) IT Manager
7 3 (5.77%) IT Support
7 3 (5.77%) Senior
7 3 (5.77%) VMware Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) Automation Developer
8 2 (3.85%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
8 2 (3.85%) Microsoft 365 Business Analyst
8 2 (3.85%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.69%) JSON
1 4 (7.69%) LDAP
2 1 (1.92%) OAuth
2 1 (1.92%) OpenID
2 1 (1.92%) REST
2 1 (1.92%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (30.77%) Data Centre
2 8 (15.38%) Client/Server
2 8 (15.38%) Clustering
2 8 (15.38%) Video Conferencing
3 5 (9.62%) Onboarding
4 4 (7.69%) CMDB
5 1 (1.92%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.92%) PKI
5 1 (1.92%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 34 (65.38%) Windows
2 12 (23.08%) Windows Server
3 9 (17.31%) Windows 10
4 8 (15.38%) Mac OS
4 8 (15.38%) Unix
5 7 (13.46%) Linux
6 2 (3.85%) VMS
6 2 (3.85%) Windows 7
7 1 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.92%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.92%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (34.62%) ITIL
1 18 (34.62%) Migration
2 15 (28.85%) Server Management
3 10 (19.23%) Asset Management
4 9 (17.31%) Customer Service
4 9 (17.31%) Decision-Making
5 8 (15.38%) Application Packaging
5 8 (15.38%) Business Transformation
5 8 (15.38%) Capacity Management
5 8 (15.38%) Capacity Planning
5 8 (15.38%) Data Migration
5 8 (15.38%) Data Protection
5 8 (15.38%) Network Management
6 6 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (9.62%) Disaster Recovery
8 4 (7.69%) Agile
8 4 (7.69%) Product Management
8 4 (7.69%) SDLC
8 4 (7.69%) Service Management
8 4 (7.69%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 10 (19.23%) PowerShell
2 8 (15.38%) SQL
3 5 (9.62%) Java
4 4 (7.69%) ActionScript
5 1 (1.92%) Bash
Qualifications
1 12 (23.08%) Degree
2 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (3.85%) SC Cleared
2 2 (3.85%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.92%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.92%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (55.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (32.69%) Active Directory
3 8 (15.38%) Hyper-V
3 8 (15.38%) VMware Workstation
4 4 (7.69%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (1.92%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.92%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 9 (17.31%) SCCM
2 8 (15.38%) Microsoft Clustering
2 8 (15.38%) Nagios
2 8 (15.38%) NetBackup
3 4 (7.69%) vRealize Orchestrator
4 3 (5.77%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.92%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.92%) OPNET
5 1 (1.92%) SCOM
5 1 (1.92%) vRealize
5 1 (1.92%) WSUS
Vendors
1 29 (55.77%) VMware
2 14 (26.92%) Microsoft
3 9 (17.31%) Cisco
4 8 (15.38%) Hitachi
4 8 (15.38%) NetApp
5 6 (11.54%) TOWER Software
6 5 (9.62%) F5
7 1 (1.92%) Citrix
7 1 (1.92%) Google
7 1 (1.92%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.92%) Remedy
7 1 (1.92%) SolarWinds