Microsoft Virtual Server Contracts in the South West

Microsoft Virtual Server
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Microsoft Virtual Server skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft Virtual Server 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 148 166 169
Rank change year-on-year +18 +3 -
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Virtual Server 4 8 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.13% 0.22% 0.16%
As % of the System Software category 1.11% 1.38% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 5
10th Percentile £558 £448 £193
25th Percentile £569 £463 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £525 £225
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% +133.33% -
75th Percentile £713 £575 £338
90th Percentile - - £398
England median daily rate £675 £600 £510
% change year-on-year +12.50% +17.65% +25.54%

All System Software Skills
South West

Microsoft Virtual Server 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 South West with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 359 578 621
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 11.34% 15.87% 16.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 439 443
10th Percentile £153 £200 £185
25th Percentile £265 £350 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% +2.56% +11.43%
75th Percentile £588 £623 £575
90th Percentile £700 £725 £649
England median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 43 20
10th Percentile - £13.69 £15.79
25th Percentile £40.00 £17.38 £36.12
Median hourly rate £68.75 £60.00 £49.49
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% +21.24% +23.99%
75th Percentile £86.25 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £90.00 £78.56 £61.74
England median hourly rate £21.00 £50.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -58.00% +163.16% -

Microsoft Virtual Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Microsoft Virtual Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Virtual Server in the South West

Microsoft Virtual Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Virtual Server in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Virtual Server in the South West

Microsoft Virtual Server
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West 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
Wiltshire -6 4 £638 +21.43%
Microsoft Virtual Server
England

Microsoft Virtual Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (100.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (50.00%) Confluence
2 2 (50.00%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) DHCP
1 4 (100.00%) DNS
1 4 (100.00%) Skype
2 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) LAN
2 2 (50.00%) SMTP
2 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (50.00%) Unified Communications
2 2 (50.00%) WAN
3 1 (25.00%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (25.00%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Military
2 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Wintel Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Service Desk Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows 10
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (50.00%) Windows 7
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) ITIL
1 4 (100.00%) Service Management
2 2 (50.00%) Change Management
2 2 (50.00%) Critical Thinking
2 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (50.00%) ITSM
2 2 (50.00%) Matrix Management
2 2 (50.00%) NsoIT
2 2 (50.00%) Office Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 2 (50.00%) PRINCE2
2 2 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Project Management
2 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Statistical Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) System Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Waterfall
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Degree
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) CCNA
2 1 (25.00%) CCNP
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (25.00%) MCSE
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (100.00%) Virtual Servers
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (25.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) SCCM
1 3 (75.00%) SCOM
2 2 (50.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (50.00%) OPNET
2 2 (50.00%) WSUS
3 1 (25.00%) Ansible
3 1 (25.00%) Progress Chef
3 1 (25.00%) Puppet
3 1 (25.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) Atlassian
2 2 (50.00%) Remedy
2 2 (50.00%) Veeam
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco
3 1 (25.00%) Splunk