Microsoft Virtual Server Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Virtual Server
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 393 423 489
Rank change year-on-year +30 +66 -59
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Virtual Server 4 21 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.019% 0.088% 0.068%
As % of the System Software category 0.16% 0.58% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 16 17
10th Percentile £558 £444 £195
25th Percentile £569 £463 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £550 £425
Median % change year-on-year +15.91% +29.41% +12.07%
75th Percentile £713 £800 £475
90th Percentile - £838 £485
UK median daily rate £675 £550 £463
% change year-on-year +22.73% +18.92% +21.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Median hourly rate - £26.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +30.00% -
UK median hourly rate - £26.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +30.00% -

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 2,459 3,638 4,646
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.85% 15.16% 15.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,646 2,641 3,305
10th Percentile £175 £180 £158
25th Percentile £275 £313 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £480 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% +6.67% +6.51%
75th Percentile £584 £588 £563
90th Percentile £650 £676 £644
UK median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 187 240
10th Percentile £14.02 £14.25 £12.99
25th Percentile £14.16 £16.69 £14.25
Median hourly rate £22.00 £40.00 £18.12
Median % change year-on-year -45.00% +120.81% +2.93%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £23.75
90th Percentile £79.40 £70.00 £50.87
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £53.75 £20.00
% change year-on-year -58.14% +168.75% -

Microsoft Virtual Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Microsoft Virtual Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Virtual Server in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Virtual Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Virtual Server in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Virtual Server in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Virtual Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Virtual Server in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Virtual Server in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Virtual Server
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
South West +13 4 £638 +21.43% 1
Microsoft Virtual Server
UK

Microsoft Virtual Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 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