Microsoft Virtual Server Contracts

Microsoft Virtual Server
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 582 680 823
Rank change year-on-year +98 +143 -145
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Virtual Server 5 35 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.011% 0.058% 0.041%
As % of the System Software category 0.11% 0.43% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 28 32
10th Percentile £560 £413 £212
25th Percentile £575 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £520 £471
Median % change year-on-year +29.81% +10.34% +24.26%
75th Percentile £713 £694 £536
90th Percentile - £788 £623
UK excluding London median daily rate £638 £475 £425
% change year-on-year +34.21% +11.76% +12.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Median hourly rate - £26.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +30.00% -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £26.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +30.00% -

All System Software Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,700 8,135 12,238
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.75% 13.38% 13.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,213 5,825 8,766
10th Percentile £194 £205 £200
25th Percentile £325 £400 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £480 £440
% change year-on-year -4.22% +9.15% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 233 300 340
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.25 £13.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.96 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £50.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.00% +150.00% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £66.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £71.13 £75.00 £58.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.00 £38.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year -45.45% +120.00% -0.28%

Microsoft Virtual Server
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Microsoft Virtual Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Virtual Server in the UK

Microsoft Virtual Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Virtual Server in the UK

Microsoft Virtual Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Virtual Server.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Virtual Server in the UK

Microsoft Virtual Server
Top 4 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 18 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
England +102 5 £675 +22.73% 12
UK excluding London +28 4 £638 +34.21% 9
South West +13 4 £638 +27.50% 2
London +108 1 £675 +29.81% 4

Microsoft Virtual Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 5 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (100.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (40.00%) Confluence
2 2 (40.00%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) DHCP
1 5 (100.00%) DNS
1 5 (100.00%) Skype
2 3 (60.00%) Firewall
2 3 (60.00%) LAN
2 3 (60.00%) SMTP
2 3 (60.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (60.00%) WAN
3 2 (40.00%) Unified Communications
4 1 (20.00%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (20.00%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) Bitbucket
General
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Military
3 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Wintel Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Service Desk Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) .NET
1 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Windows 10
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (40.00%) Windows 7
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) ITIL
1 5 (100.00%) Service Management
2 3 (60.00%) Change Management
2 3 (60.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (60.00%) ITSM
2 3 (60.00%) Matrix Management
2 3 (60.00%) Office Automation
2 3 (60.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 3 (60.00%) PRINCE2
2 3 (60.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Project Management
2 3 (60.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (60.00%) Statistical Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) Critical Thinking
3 2 (40.00%) NsoIT
3 2 (40.00%) System Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Waterfall
4 1 (20.00%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Degree
1 5 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) CCNA
2 1 (20.00%) CCNP
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (20.00%) MCSE
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 5 (100.00%) Virtual Servers
1 5 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (60.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (20.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) SCCM
1 4 (80.00%) SCOM
2 3 (60.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 3 (60.00%) OPNET
3 2 (40.00%) WSUS
4 1 (20.00%) Ansible
4 1 (20.00%) Progress Chef
4 1 (20.00%) Puppet
4 1 (20.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (100.00%) SolarWinds
1 5 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (60.00%) Remedy
3 2 (40.00%) Atlassian
3 2 (40.00%) Veeam
4 1 (20.00%) Cisco
4 1 (20.00%) Splunk