Virtual Servers Contracts in the South West

Virtual Servers
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 138 152 166
Rank change year-on-year +14 +14 -32
Contract jobs citing Virtual Servers 14 22 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.44% 0.60% 0.24%
As % of the System Software category 3.90% 3.81% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 19 8
10th Percentile £328 £395 £196
25th Percentile £423 £456 £204
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £325
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +61.54% -10.28%
75th Percentile £697 £575 £395
90th Percentile £713 £605 £468
England median daily rate £537 £525 £449
% change year-on-year +2.19% +16.99% +12.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
Median hourly rate £40.00 - -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £26.00 £39.73
% change year-on-year +53.85% -34.55% -

All System Software Skills
South West

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 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% -

Virtual Servers
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Servers in the South West

Virtual Servers
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Servers in the South West

Virtual Servers
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Servers in the South West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Servers in the South West

Virtual Servers
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Servers in the South West

Virtual Servers
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 Virtual Servers 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
Somerset - 8 - -
Wiltshire -12 4 £638 +15.91%
Bristol +20 1 £300 -
Gloucestershire +6 1 £388 +29.17% 5
Virtual Servers
England

Virtual Servers
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 12 (85.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (28.57%) SharePoint
3 2 (14.29%) Confluence
3 2 (14.29%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (7.14%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 12 (85.71%) DHCP
1 12 (85.71%) DNS
2 11 (78.57%) WAN
3 10 (71.43%) LAN
4 9 (64.29%) SAN
5 8 (57.14%) MPLS
5 8 (57.14%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (28.57%) Skype
7 2 (14.29%) Firewall
7 2 (14.29%) SMTP
7 2 (14.29%) TCP/IP
7 2 (14.29%) Unified Communications
8 1 (7.14%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (7.14%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (57.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) Bitbucket
General
1 12 (85.71%) Social Skills
2 10 (71.43%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (57.14%) Aerospace
4 2 (14.29%) Military
4 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
5 1 (7.14%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Analyst
1 8 (57.14%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 8 (57.14%) IT Analyst
1 8 (57.14%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) Wintel Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Service Desk Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
4 1 (7.14%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Support
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Windows Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) .NET
1 1 (7.14%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 8 (57.14%) Client/Server
1 8 (57.14%) Clustering
1 8 (57.14%) Data Centre
2 4 (28.57%) PKI
3 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (100.00%) Windows
2 8 (57.14%) Unix
3 5 (35.71%) Windows 10
3 5 (35.71%) Windows Server
4 2 (14.29%) Windows 7
4 2 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Application Packaging
1 8 (57.14%) Asset Management
1 8 (57.14%) Business Transformation
1 8 (57.14%) Capacity Management
1 8 (57.14%) Capacity Planning
1 8 (57.14%) Data Migration
1 8 (57.14%) Data Protection
1 8 (57.14%) Decision-Making
1 8 (57.14%) Migration
1 8 (57.14%) Network Management
1 8 (57.14%) Server Management
2 5 (35.71%) ITIL
3 4 (28.57%) Agile
3 4 (28.57%) Service Management
4 3 (21.43%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (14.29%) Critical Thinking
5 2 (14.29%) NsoIT
5 2 (14.29%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 12 (85.71%) PowerShell
2 4 (28.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (85.71%) Degree
2 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared
2 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) CCNA
3 1 (7.14%) CCNP
3 1 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (7.14%) MCSE
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (92.86%) Active Directory
1 13 (92.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (57.14%) VMware Workstation
3 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 2 (14.29%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (7.14%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (7.14%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 11 (78.57%) SCCM
2 8 (57.14%) Microsoft Clustering
2 8 (57.14%) Nagios
2 8 (57.14%) NetBackup
3 3 (21.43%) SCOM
3 3 (21.43%) WSUS
4 2 (14.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (14.29%) OPNET
5 1 (7.14%) Ansible
5 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (7.14%) Progress Chef
5 1 (7.14%) Puppet
5 1 (7.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 13 (92.86%) VMware
2 8 (57.14%) Hitachi
2 8 (57.14%) NetApp
3 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
4 4 (28.57%) SolarWinds
5 2 (14.29%) Atlassian
5 2 (14.29%) Remedy
5 2 (14.29%) Veeam
6 1 (7.14%) Cisco
6 1 (7.14%) Splunk