Virtual Servers Contracts in the South East

Virtual Servers
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 194 207 249
Rank change year-on-year +13 +42 -25
Contract jobs citing Virtual Servers 6 8 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.10% 0.14% 0.18%
As % of the System Software category 0.72% 1.00% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 14
10th Percentile £546 £375 £167
25th Percentile £550 £413 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +17.89% -20.83% +45.45%
75th Percentile £584 £525 £638
90th Percentile - £528 £664
England median daily rate £538 £525 £441
% change year-on-year +2.38% +18.98% +13.94%

All System Software Skills
South East

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 East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 832 797 1,282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.46% 14.07% 16.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 527 534 864
10th Percentile £205 £200 £173
25th Percentile £408 £350 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% +5.26% +7.95%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £663
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 44 58
10th Percentile £17.69 £15.50 £12.87
25th Percentile £17.80 £32.44 £14.00
Median hourly rate £54.88 £57.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.57% +187.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.31 £39.81
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £80.75
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 East

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Servers in the South East

Virtual Servers
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Servers in the South East

Virtual Servers
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Servers in the South East

Virtual Servers
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 East 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
Thames Valley +10 5 £560 +21.08% 3
Berkshire -8 5 £560 +31.76% 2
Surrey +15 1 - - 1
Virtual Servers
England

Virtual Servers
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 5 (83.33%) NetScaler
2 4 (66.67%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Network Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Network Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Data Centre
1 5 (83.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Migration
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
2 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) ActionScript
2 1 (16.67%) Bash
2 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) RHCSA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) F5
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (16.67%) VMware