Microsoft Virtual Server Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Microsoft Virtual Server
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Microsoft Virtual Server skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Virtual Server 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.12% - -
As % of the System Software category 1.14% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - -
North West median daily rate £325 - -

All System Software Skills
Cheshire

Microsoft Virtual Server 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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 88 82 51
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 10.93% 13.33% 10.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 57 30
10th Percentile £224 £214 £385
25th Percentile £316 £308 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £439 £388 £538
Median % change year-on-year +13.16% -27.97% +3.46%
75th Percentile £610 £495 £606
90th Percentile £653 £606 £715
North West median daily rate £450 £450 £500
% change year-on-year - -10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.93 - -
Median hourly rate £16.87 - -
75th Percentile £17.80 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £74.26 £82.50 £29.25
% change year-on-year -9.99% +182.05% +56.00%

Microsoft Virtual Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microsoft Virtual Server relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Microsoft Virtual Server job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Microsoft Virtual Server
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Microsoft Virtual Server.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing Microsoft Virtual Server

Microsoft Virtual Server
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 13 August 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
Warrington - 1 £325 -
Microsoft Virtual Server
North West

Microsoft Virtual Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Rubrik
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Implementation Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cyber Resilience
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Project Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Servers
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) VMware