Virtual Servers Contracts in the Midlands

Virtual Servers
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 125 160 188
Rank change year-on-year +35 +28 -33
Contract jobs citing Virtual Servers 9 1 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.33% 0.029% 0.22%
As % of the System Software category 3.54% 0.21% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 9
10th Percentile - - £258
25th Percentile £475 - £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £310
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +45.16% -1.20%
75th Percentile £601 - £350
90th Percentile £646 - £438
England median daily rate £537 £525 £449
% change year-on-year +2.19% +16.99% +12.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £20.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 £26.00 £39.73
% change year-on-year +53.85% -34.55% -

All System Software Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 254 481 681
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 9.21% 14.08% 13.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 341 478
10th Percentile £150 £158 £134
25th Percentile £208 £260 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £450 £375
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% +11.94%
75th Percentile £550 £565 £500
90th Percentile £638 £690 £588
England median daily rate £495 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -5.71% - +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 26 39
10th Percentile £14.77 £12.60 £10.70
25th Percentile £15.74 £15.25 £13.44
Median hourly rate £17.98 £19.25 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.62% +13.24% +17.24%
75th Percentile £22.80 £48.13 £20.51
90th Percentile £37.83 £65.00 £23.75
England median hourly rate £21.00 £50.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -58.00% +150.00% +5.26%

Virtual Servers
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Servers in the Midlands

Virtual Servers
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Servers in the Midlands

Virtual Servers
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Servers in the Midlands over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Servers in the Midlands

Virtual Servers
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Servers in the Midlands

Virtual Servers
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 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
East Midlands - 5 - - 3
West Midlands +23 4 £500 +11.11% 6
Virtual Servers
England

Virtual Servers
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) Internet
1 5 (55.56%) TCP/IP
General
1 6 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Support Officer
1 5 (55.56%) Technical Support
1 5 (55.56%) Technical Support Officer
2 2 (22.22%) Server Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) IT Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Operations Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Edge Computing
1 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (11.11%) Server Management
System Software
1 8 (88.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (44.44%) Hyper-V
3 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) VMware
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft