Virtual Servers Contracts in the South West

Virtual Servers
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 145 140 163
Rank change year-on-year -5 +23 -26
Contract jobs citing Virtual Servers 12 19 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.36% 0.56% 0.14%
As % of the System Software category 2.93% 3.68% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 16 4
10th Percentile £296 £344 £191
25th Percentile £328 £450 £197
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £538 £275
Median % change year-on-year -27.91% +95.45% -18.52%
75th Percentile £553 £575 £348
90th Percentile £649 £611 £368
England median daily rate £538 £525 £441
% change year-on-year +2.38% +18.98% +13.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
Median hourly rate £40.00 - -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £36.92 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.36% +84.58% -

All System Software Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 410 517 584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 12.43% 15.26% 15.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 297 380 423
10th Percentile £183 £200 £180
25th Percentile £450 £363 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £506 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.17% +6.58% +7.95%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £575
90th Percentile £672 £719 £656
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 38 18
10th Percentile - £13.25 £15.93
25th Percentile £40.00 £17.00 £19.44
Median hourly rate £70.00 £60.00 £48.38
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +24.03% +22.47%
75th Percentile £87.50 £73.13 £56.48
90th Percentile £90.00 £88.25 £58.53
England median hourly rate £22.40 £50.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -55.20% +163.16% +2.43%

Virtual Servers
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Servers in the South West

Virtual Servers
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Servers in the South West

Virtual Servers
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Servers in the South West

Virtual Servers
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Servers in the South West

Virtual Servers
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South 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
Somerset - 8 - -
Wiltshire -12 2 £675 +22.73% 1
Bristol +4 1 £300 -
Gloucestershire +2 1 £388 +29.17% 3
Virtual Servers
England

Virtual Servers
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (75.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) Azure
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (8.33%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (83.33%) DNS
1 10 (83.33%) WAN
2 9 (75.00%) DHCP
2 9 (75.00%) LAN
2 9 (75.00%) SAN
3 8 (66.67%) MPLS
3 8 (66.67%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (16.67%) Firewall
5 1 (8.33%) Skype
5 1 (8.33%) SMTP
5 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (66.67%) SQL Server
General
1 10 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 8 (66.67%) Aerospace
2 8 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Military
3 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Analyst
1 8 (66.67%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 8 (66.67%) IT Analyst
1 8 (66.67%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
2 1 (8.33%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
2 1 (8.33%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (8.33%) Architect
2 1 (8.33%) Identity Management Architect
2 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Support
2 1 (8.33%) Security Architect
2 1 (8.33%) Service Desk Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) OAuth
1 1 (8.33%) OpenID
1 1 (8.33%) REST
1 1 (8.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (66.67%) Client/Server
1 8 (66.67%) Clustering
1 8 (66.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (8.33%) PKI
2 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (91.67%) Windows
2 8 (66.67%) Unix
3 2 (16.67%) Windows 10
3 2 (16.67%) Windows Server
4 1 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Decision-Making
2 8 (66.67%) Application Packaging
2 8 (66.67%) Asset Management
2 8 (66.67%) Business Transformation
2 8 (66.67%) Capacity Management
2 8 (66.67%) Capacity Planning
2 8 (66.67%) Data Migration
2 8 (66.67%) Data Protection
2 8 (66.67%) Migration
2 8 (66.67%) Network Management
2 8 (66.67%) Server Management
3 2 (16.67%) Agile
3 2 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (16.67%) ITIL
3 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (8.33%) Antivirus Management
4 1 (8.33%) DevSecOps
4 1 (8.33%) Digital Identity
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (8.33%) Java
2 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (75.00%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (83.33%) Active Directory
1 10 (83.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (66.67%) VMware Workstation
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 1 (8.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 9 (75.00%) SCCM
2 8 (66.67%) Microsoft Clustering
2 8 (66.67%) Nagios
2 8 (66.67%) NetBackup
3 1 (8.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (8.33%) OPNET
3 1 (8.33%) SCOM
3 1 (8.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 10 (83.33%) VMware
2 8 (66.67%) Hitachi
2 8 (66.67%) NetApp
3 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (8.33%) Remedy
4 1 (8.33%) SolarWinds