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 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 480 536 617
Rank change year-on-year +56 +81 +159
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Virtual Server 27 5 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.099% 0.014% 0.038%
As % of the System Software category 0.82% 0.12% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 1 12
10th Percentile - - £463
25th Percentile £525 - £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £350 £623
Median % change year-on-year +57.14% -43.78% +20.00%
75th Percentile £575 - £838
90th Percentile £609 - -
UK median daily rate £550 £295 £520
% change year-on-year +86.44% -43.27% +12.43%
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 3,288 4,157 6,134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.09% 11.37% 12.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,152 2,884 4,331
10th Percentile £220 £213 £200
25th Percentile £375 £375 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £507 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.38% -3.43% -
75th Percentile £600 £608 £650
90th Percentile £700 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 189 220
10th Percentile £15.14 £14.06 £14.60
25th Percentile £22.50 £14.48 £17.50
Median hourly rate £34.50 £22.15 £44.88
Median % change year-on-year +55.76% -50.64% +123.65%
75th Percentile £79.03 £58.49 £65.75
90th Percentile £90.19 £70.00 £77.55
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £23.80 £50.00
% change year-on-year +26.05% -52.40% +139.61%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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
East of England +35 20 £550 +57.14% 2
South West - 6 £588 - 1
London +38 1 £525 - 4
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 6 (22.22%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (22.22%) SharePoint
2 5 (18.52%) Skype for Business
3 3 (11.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (18.52%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 20 (74.07%) Cohesity
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 26 (96.30%) DNS
2 20 (74.07%) SAN
3 6 (22.22%) DHCP
3 6 (22.22%) Skype
4 5 (18.52%) Unified Communications
5 1 (3.70%) Firewall
5 1 (3.70%) Internet
5 1 (3.70%) LAN
5 1 (3.70%) SMTP
5 1 (3.70%) TCP/IP
5 1 (3.70%) WAN
Development Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Bitbucket
1 3 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 4 (14.81%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (3.70%) Military
Job Titles
1 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (3.70%) Architect
2 1 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (3.70%) Wintel Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (22.22%) PKI
2 1 (3.70%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 26 (96.30%) Windows
1 26 (96.30%) Windows Server
2 25 (92.59%) Windows Server 2016
3 20 (74.07%) Windows Server 2019
4 4 (14.81%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (74.07%) Build Automation
1 20 (74.07%) Deployment Automation
1 20 (74.07%) Operations Management
1 20 (74.07%) SIEM
2 5 (18.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (14.81%) Agile
3 4 (14.81%) ITIL
3 4 (14.81%) Service Management
4 3 (11.11%) Critical Thinking
4 3 (11.11%) Information Security
4 3 (11.11%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 3 (11.11%) System Testing
4 3 (11.11%) Two-Factor Authentication
4 3 (11.11%) Waterfall
5 1 (3.70%) Knowledge Transfer
5 1 (3.70%) Office Automation
5 1 (3.70%) Performance Monitoring
5 1 (3.70%) Proactive Monitoring
5 1 (3.70%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (3.70%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 24 (88.89%) PowerShell
2 6 (22.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (96.30%) Security Cleared
2 25 (92.59%) DV Cleared
3 6 (22.22%) Degree
4 4 (14.81%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.70%) CCNA
5 1 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 27 (100.00%) Virtual Servers
2 22 (81.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (18.52%) Hyper-V
4 1 (3.70%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 25 (92.59%) WSUS
2 21 (77.78%) SCCM
3 20 (74.07%) Ansible
4 1 (3.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (3.70%) SCOM
Vendors
1 27 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 22 (81.48%) VMware
3 20 (74.07%) NetApp
3 20 (74.07%) Splunk
4 5 (18.52%) Veeam
5 3 (11.11%) Atlassian
6 1 (3.70%) Remedy
6 1 (3.70%) SolarWinds