Microsoft Virtual Server Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Virtual Server
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Microsoft Virtual Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Microsoft Virtual Server 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 399 413 487
Rank change year-on-year +14 +74 -46
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Virtual Server 2 17 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.009% 0.075% 0.056%
As % of the System Software category 0.079% 0.50% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 12 13
10th Percentile £271 £467 £191
25th Percentile £332 £521 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £638 £450
Median % change year-on-year -28.24% +41.67% +28.57%
75th Percentile £597 £838 £475
90th Percentile £666 - £500
UK median daily rate £458 £535 £450
% change year-on-year -14.49% +18.89% +28.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Median hourly rate - £26.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +30.00% -
UK median hourly rate - £26.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +30.00% -

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

Microsoft Virtual Server 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 2,540 3,419 4,580
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.91% 15.07% 15.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,722 2,407 3,261
10th Percentile £185 £181 £158
25th Percentile £313 £305 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £478 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.52% +6.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £553
90th Percentile £650 £688 £644
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 165 226
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £14.16 £16.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £43.75 £17.88
Median % change year-on-year -37.14% +144.72% -1.73%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £23.69
90th Percentile £78.80 £75.00 £50.00
UK median hourly rate £24.18 £54.56 £20.00
% change year-on-year -55.68% +172.80% -

Microsoft Virtual Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Microsoft Virtual Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Virtual Server in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Virtual Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Virtual Server in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Virtual Server in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Virtual Server
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Virtual Server in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Virtual Server in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Virtual Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Virtual Server in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Virtual Server in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Virtual Server
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Virtual Server within the UK excluding 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
South West -1 1 £675 +22.73%
Scotland - 1 £240 -
Microsoft Virtual Server
UK

Microsoft Virtual Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (50.00%) Skype
1 1 (50.00%) SMTP
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
General
1 1 (50.00%) Military
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Service Desk Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Wintel Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) ITSM
1 1 (50.00%) Matrix Management
1 1 (50.00%) Office Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Service Management
1 1 (50.00%) Statistical Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (50.00%) OPNET
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
1 1 (50.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Meraki
2 1 (50.00%) Remedy
2 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (50.00%) VMware