Virtual Servers Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Virtual Servers
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Virtual Servers skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Virtual Servers 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.30% - -
As % of the System Software category 1.87% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £359 - -
25th Percentile £361 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 - -
75th Percentile £366 - -
90th Percentile £367 - -
North West median daily rate £422 £225 £419
% change year-on-year +87.33% -46.27% +4.69%

All System Software Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 107 67 49
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 16.02% 12.32% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 37 34
10th Percentile £207 £354 £183
25th Percentile £309 £450 £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £381 £518 £450
Median % change year-on-year -26.33% +15.00% +5.88%
75th Percentile £489 £576 £561
90th Percentile £549 £667 £583
North West median daily rate £438 £501 £440
% change year-on-year -12.72% +13.92% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.50 - -
Median hourly rate £16.88 - -
75th Percentile £18.87 - -
90th Percentile £33.38 - -
North West median hourly rate £18.31 £19.18 £18.50
% change year-on-year -4.54% +3.68% -5.13%

Virtual Servers
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings citing Virtual Servers as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Servers in Cheshire

Virtual Servers
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

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

Virtual Servers
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

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

Virtual Servers
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 Virtual Servers within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 28 September 2025. 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
Knutsford - 2 £363 -
Virtual Servers
North West

Virtual Servers
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon MSK
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Perl
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Certification
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle