Virtual Servers Contracts in the UK excluding London

Virtual Servers
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 360 398 426
Rank change year-on-year +38 +28 -16
Contract jobs citing Virtual Servers 36 49 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.21% 0.28%
As % of the System Software category 1.49% 1.38% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 40 71
10th Percentile £266 £402 £256
25th Percentile £475 £455 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £425
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +23.53% +13.33%
75th Percentile £606 £623 £530
90th Percentile £684 £793 £638
UK median daily rate £530 £525 £450
% change year-on-year +0.95% +16.67% +12.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £26.00 £29.86
Median % change year-on-year +53.85% -12.93% -
75th Percentile - - £43.53
90th Percentile - - £45.91
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £38.50 £42.21
% change year-on-year +3.90% -8.78% -

All System Software Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 2,415 3,538 4,592
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.79% 15.08% 15.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,631 2,553 3,250
10th Percentile £178 £181 £158
25th Percentile £285 £313 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £485 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.64% +7.78% +6.51%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £559
90th Percentile £650 £676 £644
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 193 185 239
10th Percentile £14.01 £14.25 £13.10
25th Percentile £14.16 £16.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £19.95 £46.11 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -56.73% +149.22% +5.11%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £23.88
90th Percentile £77.40 £72.25 £52.15
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £54.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -58.33% +170.00% -2.44%

Virtual Servers
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Servers in the UK excluding London

Virtual Servers
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Servers in the UK excluding London

Virtual Servers
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Servers in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Servers in the UK excluding London

Virtual Servers
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Servers in the UK excluding London

Virtual Servers
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 Virtual Servers within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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 +7 13 £600 +14.29% 5
Midlands +43 9 £500 +11.11% 8
South East +27 9 £550 +15.79% 9
East Midlands - 5 - - 2
West Midlands +25 4 £500 +11.11% 6
Scotland - 3 £430 - 2
North of England +26 2 £188 -60.53% 4
North West +12 2 £188 -60.53% 4
Virtual Servers
UK

Virtual Servers
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 11 (30.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (8.33%) SharePoint
3 2 (5.56%) Apache
3 2 (5.56%) nginx
4 1 (2.78%) Confluence
4 1 (2.78%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 9 (25.00%) Azure
2 5 (13.89%) AWS
2 5 (13.89%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (8.33%) Amazon S3
3 3 (8.33%) CloudFront
3 3 (8.33%) Route 53
3 3 (8.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (5.56%) Datadog
4 2 (5.56%) Entra ID
4 2 (5.56%) Fastly
4 2 (5.56%) GitHub
5 1 (2.78%) Azure Stack
5 1 (2.78%) GCP
5 1 (2.78%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (47.22%) DNS
2 14 (38.89%) DHCP
3 11 (30.56%) WAN
4 10 (27.78%) LAN
5 9 (25.00%) SAN
5 9 (25.00%) TCP/IP
6 8 (22.22%) MPLS
6 8 (22.22%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (13.89%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 5 (13.89%) Internet
7 5 (13.89%) NetScaler
8 4 (11.11%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 3 (8.33%) Skype
10 2 (5.56%) Firewall
10 2 (5.56%) SMTP
11 1 (2.78%) Remote Desktop
11 1 (2.78%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 4 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Bitbucket
1 2 (5.56%) Git
2 1 (2.78%) JIRA
General
1 14 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 10 (27.78%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (22.22%) Aerospace
4 7 (19.44%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.56%) Banking
5 2 (5.56%) Finance
5 2 (5.56%) Investment Banking
5 2 (5.56%) Military
Job Titles
1 9 (25.00%) Analyst
1 9 (25.00%) IT Analyst
2 8 (22.22%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 8 (22.22%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
3 5 (13.89%) Support Officer
3 5 (13.89%) Technical Support
3 5 (13.89%) Technical Support Officer
4 4 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Architect
5 3 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Linux Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Senior
5 3 (8.33%) Wintel Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Network Architect
6 2 (5.56%) Senior Architect
6 2 (5.56%) Senior Network Architect
6 2 (5.56%) Server Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Service Desk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.11%) JSON
2 2 (5.56%) Django
2 2 (5.56%) HornetQ
2 2 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (5.56%) VCL
3 1 (2.78%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 16 (44.44%) Data Centre
2 8 (22.22%) Client/Server
2 8 (22.22%) Clustering
3 5 (13.89%) Onboarding
4 3 (8.33%) PKI
5 1 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.78%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.78%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.78%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 23 (63.89%) Windows
2 9 (25.00%) Unix
3 7 (19.44%) Linux
3 7 (19.44%) Windows Server
4 5 (13.89%) Windows 10
5 4 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (8.33%) Debian
7 1 (2.78%) Windows 7
7 1 (2.78%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (2.78%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (2.78%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (38.89%) Migration
2 9 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 9 (25.00%) Server Management
3 8 (22.22%) Application Packaging
3 8 (22.22%) Asset Management
3 8 (22.22%) Business Transformation
3 8 (22.22%) Capacity Management
3 8 (22.22%) Capacity Planning
3 8 (22.22%) Data Migration
3 8 (22.22%) Decision-Making
3 8 (22.22%) Network Management
4 6 (16.67%) ITIL
5 5 (13.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (8.33%) Change Management
7 3 (8.33%) DevOps
7 3 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (8.33%) Edge Computing
7 3 (8.33%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 4 (11.11%) ActionScript
2 4 (11.11%) Python
3 3 (8.33%) Bash
3 3 (8.33%) SQL
4 2 (5.56%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.78%) Perl
Qualifications
1 13 (36.11%) Degree
2 3 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 3 (8.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.78%) CCNA
3 1 (2.78%) CCNP
3 1 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.78%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (2.78%) MCSE
3 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.78%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (63.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (41.67%) Active Directory
3 8 (22.22%) VMware Workstation
4 7 (19.44%) Hyper-V
5 4 (11.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 2 (5.56%) Varnish
6 2 (5.56%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 11 (30.56%) SCCM
2 8 (22.22%) Microsoft Clustering
2 8 (22.22%) Nagios
2 8 (22.22%) NetBackup
3 4 (11.11%) Ansible
3 4 (11.11%) Kubernetes
4 3 (8.33%) SCOM
4 3 (8.33%) Terraform
5 2 (5.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (5.56%) HAProxy
5 2 (5.56%) OPNET
5 2 (5.56%) WSUS
6 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (2.78%) Progress Chef
6 1 (2.78%) Puppet
Vendors
1 23 (63.89%) VMware
2 9 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 8 (22.22%) Hitachi
3 8 (22.22%) NetApp
4 5 (13.89%) F5
5 4 (11.11%) Cisco
5 4 (11.11%) Red Hat
6 3 (8.33%) SolarWinds
7 2 (5.56%) Remedy
8 1 (2.78%) Atlassian
8 1 (2.78%) Meraki
8 1 (2.78%) Veeam