Virtual Servers Contracts in London

Virtual Servers
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Virtual Servers skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Virtual Servers over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 374 468 554
Rank change year-on-year +94 +86 -101
Contract jobs citing Virtual Servers 20 27 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.11% 0.100% 0.13%
As % of the System Software category 1.13% 0.85% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 43
10th Percentile £300 £292 £228
25th Percentile £314 £403 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £498 £475
Median % change year-on-year -19.60% +4.74% +4.68%
75th Percentile £472 £604 £523
90th Percentile £695 £653 £570
England median daily rate £537 £525 £449
% change year-on-year +2.19% +16.99% +12.33%
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 £26.00 £39.73
% change year-on-year +53.85% -34.55% -

All System Software Skills
London

Virtual Servers is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,771 3,161 5,153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.00% 11.67% 13.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,254 2,314 3,842
10th Percentile £213 £250 £325
25th Percentile £363 £445 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +2.22% +7.14%
75th Percentile £615 £688 £675
90th Percentile £723 £775 £750
England median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 42 46
10th Percentile £17.23 £15.73 £14.75
25th Percentile £20.50 £22.85 £20.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £45.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +83.67% -44.94%
75th Percentile £25.00 £73.63 £43.94
90th Percentile £48.89 £85.00 £73.13
England median hourly rate £21.00 £50.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -58.00% +163.16% -

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 +39 2 £300 -46.67%
South London - 1 £675 -
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 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (15.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.00%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (10.00%) OneDrive
3 1 (5.00%) AWS
3 1 (5.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 11 (55.00%) Firewall
2 10 (50.00%) WAN
3 9 (45.00%) LAN
3 9 (45.00%) VPN
4 4 (20.00%) TCP/IP
5 3 (15.00%) DHCP
5 3 (15.00%) DNS
6 1 (5.00%) Internet
6 1 (5.00%) Skype
6 1 (5.00%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (5.00%) Git
1 1 (5.00%) Subversion
General
1 10 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (40.00%) Mandarin Language
3 2 (10.00%) Banking
3 2 (10.00%) Cantonese Language
3 2 (10.00%) Finance
4 1 (5.00%) Military
4 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
1 5 (25.00%) VMware Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Desktop Support
3 2 (10.00%) Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Automation Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Business Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Consultant
3 2 (10.00%) Developer
3 2 (10.00%) IT Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) IT Support
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft 365 Business Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Data Business Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Business Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Programme Manager
4 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Service Desk Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) SharePoint Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) SharePoint Business Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) VMware Consultant
4 1 (5.00%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (30.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (40.00%) Video Conferencing
2 6 (30.00%) CMDB
3 1 (5.00%) PKI
3 1 (5.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (65.00%) Windows
2 10 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 8 (40.00%) Mac OS
4 7 (35.00%) Windows 10
5 2 (10.00%) VMS
5 2 (10.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (75.00%) ITIL
2 8 (40.00%) Customer Service
3 6 (30.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 6 (30.00%) Product Management
3 6 (30.00%) SDLC
3 6 (30.00%) Server Management
3 6 (30.00%) Software Engineering
4 3 (15.00%) Agile
4 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (15.00%) Project Management
5 2 (10.00%) Asset Management
5 2 (10.00%) Change Management
5 2 (10.00%) Fintech
5 2 (10.00%) Password Management
5 2 (10.00%) Requirements Gathering
5 2 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (10.00%) Waterfall
6 1 (5.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (5.00%) ITSM
6 1 (5.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) SQL
2 6 (30.00%) Java
3 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Degree
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (15.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 1 (5.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) vRealize Orchestrator
2 1 (5.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (5.00%) FortiGate
2 1 (5.00%) OPNET
2 1 (5.00%) SCCM
2 1 (5.00%) SCOM
2 1 (5.00%) vRealize
Vendors
1 9 (45.00%) Cisco
2 8 (40.00%) VMware
3 6 (30.00%) TOWER Software
4 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (5.00%) Citrix
5 1 (5.00%) Google
5 1 (5.00%) Remedy
5 1 (5.00%) SolarWinds