Virtual Servers Contracts in the East of England

Virtual Servers
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring Virtual Servers skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Servers over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 - 108
Rank change year-on-year - - +13
Contract jobs citing Virtual Servers 1 0 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.11% - 0.73%
As % of the System Software category 0.69% - 4.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 13
10th Percentile - - £406
25th Percentile £525 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £775
Median % change year-on-year - - +93.75%
75th Percentile £575 - £838
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £550 £537 £525
% change year-on-year +2.52% +2.19% +16.67%

All System Software Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 145 163 357
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 15.46% 8.54% 17.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 88 244
10th Percentile £178 £175 £165
25th Percentile £243 £225 £239
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £425 £430
Median % change year-on-year +10.59% -1.16% +1.18%
75th Percentile £570 £556 £587
90th Percentile £613 £713 £700
England median daily rate £525 £494 £525
% change year-on-year +6.33% -5.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 39 41
10th Percentile - - £14.25
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £21.46 £14.16 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +51.55% -42.49% +58.84%
75th Percentile £65.63 £18.00 £65.75
90th Percentile £88.45 £81.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £27.94 £21.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +33.05% -58.00% +163.16%

Virtual Servers
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Virtual Servers as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Servers in the East of England

Virtual Servers
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtual Servers in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Virtual Servers in the East of England

Virtual Servers
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Virtual Servers in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Servers in the East of England

Virtual Servers
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Hertfordshire - 1 £550 - 2
Virtual Servers
England

Virtual Servers
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 1 (100.00%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Build Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Operations Management
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
1 1 (100.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) NetApp
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) VMware