Server Virtualisation Contracts in England

Server Virtualization
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Server Virtualisation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Server Virtualisation over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 523 627 750
Rank change year-on-year +104 +123 -160
Contract jobs citing Server Virtualisation 14 35 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.038% 0.070% 0.038%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.044% 0.077% 0.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 24 20
10th Percentile - £273 £212
25th Percentile £275 £358 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £450 £436
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +3.15% +5.76%
75th Percentile £438 £524 £486
90th Percentile £658 £575 £488
UK median daily rate £300 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -33.33% - +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £17.75 £15.04
Median hourly rate £19.95 £18.50 £15.86
Median % change year-on-year +7.84% +16.65% -29.26%
75th Percentile - £19.25 £16.68
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £19.95 £18.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year +7.84% +5.71% -21.94%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Server Virtualisation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,086 45,187 64,582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.56% 90.18% 90.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,040 31,727 45,864
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,256 1,594 1,765
10th Percentile £12.96 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.33 £36.77 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -1.19% +51.01% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.69
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

Server Virtualisation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Server Virtualisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Server Virtualisation in England

Server Virtualisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Server Virtualisation in England.

Daily rate trend for Server Virtualisation in England

Server Virtualisation
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Server Virtualisation in England over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Server Virtualisation in England

Server Virtualisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Server Virtualisation in England.

Hourly rate trend for Server Virtualisation in England

Server Virtualisation
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 Server Virtualisation within the England region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
North of England - 9 £300 - 2
Yorkshire - 7 £300 -
London +80 4 £575 +43.75% 7
Midlands +25 1 - - 1
West Midlands +21 1 - -
North East - 1 £180 -
North West - 1 £625 - 2
Server Virtualisation
UK

Server Virtualisation
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 7 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 7 (50.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (14.29%) Apache
2 2 (14.29%) Apache Solr
3 1 (7.14%) Site Server
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (35.71%) AWS
3 3 (21.43%) Azure
4 2 (14.29%) Akamai
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (7.14%) GCP
5 1 (7.14%) IaaS
5 1 (7.14%) PaaS
5 1 (7.14%) SaaS
5 1 (7.14%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (57.14%) VPN
2 7 (50.00%) Firewall
3 3 (21.43%) SAN
4 2 (14.29%) DHCP
4 2 (14.29%) DNS
4 2 (14.29%) Internet
5 1 (7.14%) LAN
5 1 (7.14%) NAS
5 1 (7.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Apache Cassandra
1 2 (14.29%) Hadoop
1 2 (14.29%) MySQL
1 2 (14.29%) Redis
General
1 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Finance
2 1 (7.14%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
1 7 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 7 (50.00%) IT Support
2 3 (21.43%) Server Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) 1st Line Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) 1st Line Support
4 1 (7.14%) 1st Line Support Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Server Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Site Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) Kafka
1 2 (14.29%) LDAP
2 1 (7.14%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) Client/Server
2 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (78.57%) Windows
2 10 (71.43%) Windows Server
3 2 (14.29%) Linux
4 1 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 3 (21.43%) Server Management
3 2 (14.29%) Configuration Management
3 2 (14.29%) DevOps
3 2 (14.29%) High Availability
3 2 (14.29%) Information Security
3 2 (14.29%) Microservices
3 2 (14.29%) Performance Monitoring
3 2 (14.29%) Server Monitoring
3 2 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
3 2 (14.29%) Systems Engineering
4 1 (7.14%) Antivirus Management
4 1 (7.14%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (7.14%) ITIL
4 1 (7.14%) Kanban
4 1 (7.14%) Patch Management
4 1 (7.14%) Scrum
4 1 (7.14%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) Java
2 2 (14.29%) Go
2 2 (14.29%) Python
2 2 (14.29%) Ruby
3 1 (7.14%) C#
3 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
3 1 (7.14%) SQL
3 1 (7.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) MCSE
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (7.14%) MCP
2 1 (7.14%) MCSA
2 1 (7.14%) RHCE
System Software
1 9 (64.29%) Active Directory
2 4 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (14.29%) Hyper-V
4 1 (7.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Ansible
1 2 (14.29%) Progress Chef
1 2 (14.29%) Puppet
2 1 (7.14%) Grafana
2 1 (7.14%) WSUS
Vendors
1 11 (78.57%) Microsoft
2 4 (28.57%) VMware
3 2 (14.29%) Adobe
3 2 (14.29%) Salesforce
3 2 (14.29%) SAP
4 1 (7.14%) Citrix
4 1 (7.14%) Commvault
4 1 (7.14%) Dell
4 1 (7.14%) NetApp
4 1 (7.14%) New Relic
4 1 (7.14%) PagerDuty
4 1 (7.14%) Red Hat
4 1 (7.14%) Sophos