Microsoft Virtual Server Contracts in England

Microsoft Virtual Server
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Microsoft Virtual Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Microsoft Virtual Server 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 475 537 623
Rank change year-on-year +62 +86 +134
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Virtual Server 10 5 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.041% 0.013% 0.059%
As % of the System Software category 0.32% 0.12% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 24
10th Percentile £208 £560 £463
25th Percentile £287 £575 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year -14.81% +12.50% +17.65%
75th Percentile £611 £713 £788
90th Percentile £619 - £838
UK median daily rate £575 £675 £550
% change year-on-year -14.81% +22.73% +18.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £26.00
UK median hourly rate - - £26.00
% change year-on-year - - +30.00%

All System Software Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 3,088 4,031 6,595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.68% 10.84% 13.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,136 2,794 4,778
10th Percentile £213 £190 £204
25th Percentile £400 £325 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £494 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.33% -5.95% -
75th Percentile £625 £600 £650
90th Percentile £725 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 209 243
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.06 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £14.48 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.94 £21.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.05% -58.00% +163.16%
75th Percentile £64.50 £58.69 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.65 £72.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £22.50 £53.43
% change year-on-year +22.22% -57.88% +167.13%

Microsoft Virtual Server
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Microsoft Virtual Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Virtual Server in England

Microsoft Virtual Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Virtual Server in England.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Virtual Server in England

Microsoft Virtual Server
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Virtual Server in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Virtual Server in England

Microsoft Virtual Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Virtual Server in England.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Virtual Server in England

Microsoft Virtual Server
Contract Job Locations in England

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 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
South West +48 6 £588 -7.84% 2
North West - 3 £215 -
North of England - 3 £215 -
East of England - 1 £550 - 2
Microsoft Virtual Server
UK

Microsoft Virtual Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (90.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (60.00%) SharePoint
3 5 (50.00%) Skype for Business
4 3 (30.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (80.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (30.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (10.00%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 7 (70.00%) DNS
2 6 (60.00%) DHCP
2 6 (60.00%) Skype
3 5 (50.00%) Unified Communications
4 4 (40.00%) Firewall
4 4 (40.00%) LAN
4 4 (40.00%) WAN
5 3 (30.00%) Internet
5 3 (30.00%) iSCSI
5 3 (30.00%) Remote Desktop
5 3 (30.00%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (30.00%) Wireless
6 1 (10.00%) SAN
6 1 (10.00%) SMTP
6 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Bitbucket
1 3 (30.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Technical Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Technical Support
2 2 (20.00%) Technical Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Support
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Wintel Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) PKI
2 3 (30.00%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Windows
1 10 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 9 (90.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 4 (40.00%) Windows 10
4 3 (30.00%) Android
4 3 (30.00%) Linux
5 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) ITIL
2 6 (60.00%) Information Security
2 6 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (40.00%) Agile
3 4 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (40.00%) Service Management
4 3 (30.00%) BCP
4 3 (30.00%) Critical Thinking
4 3 (30.00%) Customer Service
4 3 (30.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 3 (30.00%) Service Delivery
4 3 (30.00%) System Testing
4 3 (30.00%) Two-Factor Authentication
4 3 (30.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 3 (30.00%) Waterfall
5 1 (10.00%) Build Automation
5 1 (10.00%) Office Automation
5 1 (10.00%) Performance Monitoring
5 1 (10.00%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) SQL
2 5 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (60.00%) Degree
2 6 (60.00%) DV Cleared
3 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 10 (100.00%) Virtual Servers
2 5 (50.00%) Hyper-V
3 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (10.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) WSUS
2 2 (20.00%) SCCM
3 1 (10.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (10.00%) Ansible
3 1 (10.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (50.00%) Veeam
3 3 (30.00%) Apple
3 3 (30.00%) Atlassian
4 2 (20.00%) VMware
5 1 (10.00%) NetApp
5 1 (10.00%) Remedy
5 1 (10.00%) SolarWinds
5 1 (10.00%) Splunk