Microsoft Virtual Server Contracts in England

Microsoft Virtual Server
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Microsoft Virtual Server skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft Virtual Server over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 533 606 760
Rank change year-on-year +73 +154 -136
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Virtual Server 4 25 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.011% 0.052% 0.027%
As % of the System Software category 0.10% 0.41% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 19 16
10th Percentile - £461 £194
25th Percentile £638 £463 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £550 £425
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% +29.41% +4.62%
75th Percentile £713 £725 £546
90th Percentile - £838 £675
UK median daily rate £675 £520 £450
% change year-on-year +29.81% +15.56% +18.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Median hourly rate - £26.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +30.00% -
UK median hourly rate - £26.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +30.00% -

All System Software Skills
England

Microsoft Virtual Server is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 3,999 6,154 9,653
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.98% 12.86% 13.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,809 4,436 7,006
10th Percentile £200 £203 £196
25th Percentile £350 £387 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +6.06%
75th Percentile £606 £650 £632
90th Percentile £688 £738 £706
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 217 271
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.93 £13.00
25th Percentile £14.48 £17.50 £14.81
Median hourly rate £22.00 £50.00 £18.60
Median % change year-on-year -56.00% +168.82% -7.00%
75th Percentile £58.69 £65.75 £28.75
90th Percentile £76.80 £76.19 £52.50
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £54.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -58.33% +184.21% -11.63%

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
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 23 May 2024. 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
London +92 2 £675 +29.81% 6
South West +7 2 £675 +28.57%
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 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (75.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) LAN
1 4 (100.00%) WAN
2 3 (75.00%) DHCP
2 3 (75.00%) DNS
2 3 (75.00%) Firewall
2 3 (75.00%) Skype
2 3 (75.00%) SMTP
2 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (25.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (75.00%) Military
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Service Desk Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Wintel Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) IT Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
1 3 (75.00%) Windows 10
1 3 (75.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 4 (100.00%) ITIL
1 4 (100.00%) Service Management
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Change Management
2 3 (75.00%) ITSM
2 3 (75.00%) Matrix Management
2 3 (75.00%) Office Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 3 (75.00%) PRINCE2
2 3 (75.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Project Management
2 3 (75.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (75.00%) Statistical Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (100.00%) Virtual Servers
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (75.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 3 (75.00%) OPNET
1 3 (75.00%) SCCM
1 3 (75.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (75.00%) Remedy
2 3 (75.00%) SolarWinds