Virtual Servers Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Virtual Servers
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Virtual Servers skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Virtual Servers 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.33% - -
As % of the System Software category 3.41% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £286 - -
25th Percentile £376 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £439 - -
75th Percentile £449 - -
90th Percentile £538 - -
South East median daily rate £450 - -

All System Software Skills
Berkshire

Virtual Servers falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 176 157 213
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 9.69% 12.92% 12.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 88 131
10th Percentile £349 £197 £313
25th Percentile £425 £255 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £605
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -21.49% +20.76%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £638
90th Percentile £636 £646 £671
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £505
% change year-on-year +5.00% -0.99% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 5
10th Percentile £49.60 - -
25th Percentile £61.74 - £55.87
Median hourly rate £68.11 - £58.49
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.88%
75th Percentile £84.06 - -
90th Percentile £91.75 - £65.21
South East median hourly rate £60.00 £81.00 £57.00
% change year-on-year -25.93% +42.11% +3.63%

Virtual Servers
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Virtual Servers relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Virtual Servers job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Virtual Servers
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Virtual Servers.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Virtual Servers

Virtual Servers
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Servers in Berkshire over the 6 months to 30 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Servers in Berkshire

Virtual Servers
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Virtual Servers.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Virtual Servers

Virtual Servers
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 30 September 2026. 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
Reading - 2 £413 -
Wokingham - 2 £439 - 2
Virtual Servers
South East

Virtual Servers
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) DNS
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) BGP
2 2 (33.33%) BIG-IP
2 2 (33.33%) DHCP
2 2 (33.33%) HSRP
2 2 (33.33%) LAN
2 2 (33.33%) OSPF
2 2 (33.33%) SSL
2 2 (33.33%) VLAN
2 2 (33.33%) VPN
2 2 (33.33%) WAN
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (16.67%) EIGRP
3 1 (16.67%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (16.67%) Network Security
3 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (16.67%) VRRP
3 1 (16.67%) WLAN
General
1 1 (16.67%) Police
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Security Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) IP Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) IP Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) IP Security Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior IP Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior IP Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Network Security Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Security Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Switch Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Clustering
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (16.67%) PKI
2 1 (16.67%) Replication
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) High Availability
2 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 2 (33.33%) Business Continuity
3 2 (33.33%) Change Management
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
3 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 2 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (33.33%) Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) Server Patching
3 2 (33.33%) Technology Roadmap
3 2 (33.33%) Virtual Environments
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (33.33%) CCNP
3 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (16.67%) CCNA
4 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 3 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (16.67%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Cisco
1 3 (50.00%) F5
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) CheckPoint
2 1 (16.67%) Dell
2 1 (16.67%) Ekahau
2 1 (16.67%) Fortinet
2 1 (16.67%) HP
2 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow