Virtual Servers Contracts in London

Virtual Servers
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 376 462 558
Rank change year-on-year +86 +96 -71
Contract jobs citing Virtual Servers 24 20 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.14% 0.080% 0.12%
As % of the System Software category 1.32% 0.69% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 35
10th Percentile £317 £406 £141
25th Percentile £400 £425 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £498 £448
Median % change year-on-year -7.04% +11.17% +5.29%
75th Percentile £615 £536 £519
90th Percentile £631 £573 £675
England median daily rate £538 £525 £441
% change year-on-year +2.38% +18.98% +13.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.00 - -
Median hourly rate £17.00 - -
75th Percentile £18.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £36.92 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.36% +84.58% -

All System Software Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,819 2,907 4,825
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.29% 11.56% 12.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,313 2,129 3,638
10th Percentile £250 £242 £305
25th Percentile £383 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +2.22% +7.14%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 34 31
10th Percentile £17.23 £16.98 £14.75
25th Percentile £20.50 £25.06 £18.11
Median hourly rate £22.50 £60.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -62.50% +118.18% -41.49%
75th Percentile £25.00 £73.63 £46.62
90th Percentile £48.89 £84.40 £63.00
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 London

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Servers in London

Virtual Servers
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Servers in London

Virtual Servers
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Servers in London

Virtual Servers
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Servers in London

Virtual Servers
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London - 2 £413 - 1
West London - 1 - - 1
Virtual Servers
England

Virtual Servers
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (8.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.17%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (29.17%) Azure
2 4 (16.67%) AWS
3 3 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (8.33%) OneDrive
5 1 (4.17%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 12 (50.00%) WAN
2 11 (45.83%) LAN
3 10 (41.67%) Firewall
4 9 (37.50%) VPN
5 3 (12.50%) SAN
5 3 (12.50%) TCP/IP
6 2 (8.33%) DHCP
6 2 (8.33%) DNS
7 1 (4.17%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Bitbucket
1 1 (4.17%) Git
1 1 (4.17%) Subversion
General
1 9 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 8 (33.33%) Mandarin Language
3 2 (8.33%) Banking
3 2 (8.33%) Cantonese Language
3 2 (8.33%) Finance
4 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (16.67%) Desktop Support
2 3 (12.50%) Architect
2 3 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
2 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure Architect
2 3 (12.50%) IT Manager
2 3 (12.50%) VMware Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) Automation Developer
3 2 (8.33%) Business Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) Consultant
3 2 (8.33%) Developer
3 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
3 2 (8.33%) IT Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) IT Support
3 2 (8.33%) Microsoft 365 Business Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Network Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Programme Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Support Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.67%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (33.33%) Video Conferencing
2 4 (16.67%) CMDB
3 1 (4.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (62.50%) Windows
2 9 (37.50%) Windows Server
3 8 (33.33%) Mac OS
4 6 (25.00%) Windows 10
5 4 (16.67%) Linux
6 2 (8.33%) VMS
6 2 (8.33%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (62.50%) ITIL
2 8 (33.33%) Customer Service
3 6 (25.00%) Server Management
4 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
4 4 (16.67%) Migration
4 4 (16.67%) Product Management
4 4 (16.67%) SDLC
4 4 (16.67%) Software Engineering
5 3 (12.50%) Architectural Patterns
5 3 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (12.50%) Roadmaps
5 3 (12.50%) Service Management
5 3 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (12.50%) Technology Roadmap
5 3 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
6 2 (8.33%) Agile
6 2 (8.33%) Asset Management
6 2 (8.33%) Password Management
6 2 (8.33%) Project Management
6 2 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (29.17%) SQL
2 4 (16.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (4.17%) Degree
2 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 9 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (20.83%) Active Directory
3 3 (12.50%) Hyper-V
3 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (4.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (16.67%) vRealize Orchestrator
2 1 (4.17%) FortiGate
2 1 (4.17%) vRealize
Vendors
1 9 (37.50%) Cisco
1 9 (37.50%) Microsoft
1 9 (37.50%) VMware
2 6 (25.00%) TOWER Software
3 1 (4.17%) Citrix
3 1 (4.17%) Google