Virtual Servers Contracts with Work from Home Options

Virtual Servers
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 325 440 556
Rank change year-on-year +115 +116 -107
Contract jobs citing Virtual Servers 16 28 59
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.11% 0.11% 0.13%
As % of the System Software category 1.11% 0.90% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 20 47
10th Percentile £310 £413 £305
25th Percentile £400 £463 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £510 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.84% +7.37% +15.15%
75th Percentile £582 £538 £581
90th Percentile £588 £578 £606
UK median daily rate £530 £525 £450
% change year-on-year +0.95% +16.67% +12.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £51.00 -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £38.50 £42.21
% change year-on-year +3.90% -8.78% -

All System Software Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,438 3,118 5,423
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 9.54% 12.43% 12.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,056 2,232 4,034
10th Percentile £273 £300 £322
25th Percentile £405 £417 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £619 £631 £625
90th Percentile £688 £718 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 101 103
10th Percentile £15.50 £19.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £15.88 £47.50 £17.75
Median hourly rate £43.32 £65.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.35% +165.31% -38.75%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £54.25
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.00 £65.91
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £54.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -58.33% +170.00% -2.44%

Virtual Servers
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Virtual Servers as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Virtual Servers trend for jobs with a WFH option

Virtual Servers
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Virtual Servers.

Virtual Servers daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Virtual Servers
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Virtual Servers over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Virtual Servers daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Virtual Servers
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Virtual Servers.

Virtual Servers hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Virtual Servers
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (18.75%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) Azure
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (18.75%) OneDrive
3 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
3 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (37.50%) TCP/IP
2 5 (31.25%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 5 (31.25%) Internet
2 5 (31.25%) NetScaler
3 4 (25.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 1 (6.25%) DNS
4 1 (6.25%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
General
1 6 (37.50%) Public Sector
2 3 (18.75%) Banking
3 2 (12.50%) Finance
4 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Support Officer
1 5 (31.25%) Technical Support
1 5 (31.25%) Technical Support Officer
2 3 (18.75%) Analyst
2 3 (18.75%) Business Analyst
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft 365 Business Analyst
2 3 (18.75%) Senior
3 2 (12.50%) Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Business Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Network Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Network Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Data Centre Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Data Centre Business Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) SharePoint Business Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Infrastructure Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Data Centre
2 5 (31.25%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 10 (62.50%) Windows
2 3 (18.75%) VMS
3 2 (12.50%) Linux
4 1 (6.25%) Unix
4 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) Migration
2 3 (18.75%) Agile
2 3 (18.75%) Requirements Gathering
2 3 (18.75%) Waterfall
3 2 (12.50%) Fintech
3 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (12.50%) Project Management
3 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (12.50%) Workshop Facilitation
4 1 (6.25%) Application Discovery
4 1 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (6.25%) Server Management
4 1 (6.25%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) ActionScript
2 1 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (6.25%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (12.50%) Hyper-V
3 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) F5
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
1 5 (31.25%) VMware
2 1 (6.25%) Cisco
2 1 (6.25%) Google
2 1 (6.25%) Meraki