Virtual Servers Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Virtual Servers
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Virtual Servers skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 - 60
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Virtual Servers 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.11% - 0.14%
As % of the System Software category 0.81% - 2.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
West Midlands median daily rate - - £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%

All System Software Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 124 60 45
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 13.42% 11.67% 6.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 44 35
10th Percentile £190 £106 £188
25th Percentile £281 £184 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £438 £350
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +25.00% -17.65%
75th Percentile £525 £689 £525
90th Percentile £568 £700 £677
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £476 £400
% change year-on-year -0.11% +18.88% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £14.31
25th Percentile £65.00 - £14.94
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £16.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.91%
75th Percentile £75.00 - £17.98
90th Percentile - - £19.16
West Midlands median hourly rate £63.14 £18.13 £16.00
% change year-on-year +248.23% +13.31% -13.51%

Virtual Servers
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Virtual Servers job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Virtual Servers
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

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

Virtual Servers
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

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

Virtual Servers
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) NAS
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Project Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Server Management
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware