Virtual Servers Contracts in England

Virtual Servers
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Virtual Servers skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Virtual Servers over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 489 568 639
Rank change year-on-year +79 +71 -53
Contract jobs citing Virtual Servers 52 77 131
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.14% 0.16% 0.19%
As % of the System Software category 1.30% 1.21% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 51 107
10th Percentile £300 £406 £208
25th Percentile £400 £453 £341
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% +16.67% +12.57%
75th Percentile £584 £663 £550
90th Percentile £703 £788 £638
UK median daily rate £530 £525 £450
% change year-on-year +0.95% +16.67% +16.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 5
10th Percentile £16.00 - -
25th Percentile - - £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £26.00 £39.73
Median % change year-on-year +53.85% -34.55% -
75th Percentile - - £44.69
90th Percentile - - £46.38
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £38.50 £42.21
% change year-on-year +3.90% -8.78% -44.28%

All System Software Skills
England

Virtual Servers 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 3,987 6,374 9,803
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 10.91% 12.96% 13.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,779 4,612 7,106
10th Percentile £200 £200 £197
25th Percentile £325 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £632
90th Percentile £688 £738 £702
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 209 229 274
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.25 £13.36
25th Percentile £14.48 £17.47 £15.00
Median hourly rate £21.00 £50.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.00% +163.16% -5.00%
75th Percentile £58.69 £65.00 £28.75
90th Percentile £72.00 £75.80 £52.50
UK median hourly rate £22.40 £54.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -58.52% +170.00% -9.09%

Virtual Servers
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Servers in England

Virtual Servers
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Servers in England

Virtual Servers
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Servers in England over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Servers in England

Virtual Servers
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Servers in England

Virtual Servers
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Virtual Servers in England over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Virtual Servers in England

Virtual Servers
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 Virtual Servers within the England region over the 6 months to 13 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 +85 19 £400 -19.60% 19
South West +8 13 £600 +14.29% 7
Midlands +41 9 £500 +11.11% 11
South East +19 9 £550 +15.79% 8
East Midlands - 5 - - 2
West Midlands +26 4 £500 +11.11% 9
North West +21 2 £188 -60.53% 2
North of England +19 2 £188 -60.53% 3
Virtual Servers
UK

Virtual Servers
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 14 (26.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (11.54%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.85%) Apache
3 2 (3.85%) nginx
4 1 (1.92%) Confluence
4 1 (1.92%) IIS
4 1 (1.92%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (5.77%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (5.77%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 9 (17.31%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (15.38%) Azure
3 5 (9.62%) AWS
4 3 (5.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (5.77%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (5.77%) Amazon S3
4 3 (5.77%) CloudFront
4 3 (5.77%) Route 53
4 3 (5.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (3.85%) Datadog
5 2 (3.85%) Entra ID
5 2 (3.85%) Fastly
5 2 (3.85%) GitHub
5 2 (3.85%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.92%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 21 (40.38%) WAN
2 19 (36.54%) LAN
3 18 (34.62%) DNS
4 16 (30.77%) DHCP
5 13 (25.00%) Firewall
6 11 (21.15%) TCP/IP
7 9 (17.31%) SAN
7 9 (17.31%) VPN
8 8 (15.38%) MPLS
8 8 (15.38%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (11.54%) Internet
10 5 (9.62%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 5 (9.62%) NetScaler
11 4 (7.69%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 4 (7.69%) Skype
12 3 (5.77%) SMTP
13 1 (1.92%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (17.31%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.77%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (5.77%) Bitbucket
1 3 (5.77%) Git
2 1 (1.92%) JIRA
2 1 (1.92%) Subversion
General
1 24 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 10 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (15.38%) Aerospace
3 8 (15.38%) Mandarin Language
3 8 (15.38%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.77%) Finance
4 3 (5.77%) Military
5 2 (3.85%) Banking
5 2 (3.85%) Cantonese Language
Job Titles
1 11 (21.15%) Analyst
2 9 (17.31%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 9 (17.31%) IT Analyst
3 8 (15.38%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
4 5 (9.62%) Support Officer
4 5 (9.62%) Technical Support
4 5 (9.62%) Technical Support Officer
5 4 (7.69%) Automation Engineer
5 4 (7.69%) Desktop Support
5 4 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (7.69%) VMware Engineer
5 4 (7.69%) Wintel Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Architect
6 3 (5.77%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Cloud Platform Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) IT Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) IT Support
6 3 (5.77%) Linux Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Service Desk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.62%) LDAP
2 4 (7.69%) JSON
3 2 (3.85%) Django
3 2 (3.85%) HornetQ
3 2 (3.85%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (3.85%) VCL
Miscellaneous
1 16 (30.77%) Data Centre
2 8 (15.38%) Client/Server
2 8 (15.38%) Clustering
2 8 (15.38%) Video Conferencing
3 5 (9.62%) CMDB
3 5 (9.62%) Onboarding
4 4 (7.69%) PKI
5 1 (1.92%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.92%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 35 (67.31%) Windows
2 16 (30.77%) Windows Server
3 12 (23.08%) Windows 10
4 8 (15.38%) Mac OS
4 8 (15.38%) Unix
5 5 (9.62%) Linux
6 4 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (5.77%) Debian
7 3 (5.77%) Windows 7
8 2 (3.85%) VMS
9 1 (1.92%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (1.92%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (1.92%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (38.46%) ITIL
2 15 (28.85%) Server Management
3 14 (26.92%) Migration
4 10 (19.23%) Asset Management
5 9 (17.31%) Customer Service
6 8 (15.38%) Application Packaging
6 8 (15.38%) Business Transformation
6 8 (15.38%) Capacity Management
6 8 (15.38%) Capacity Planning
6 8 (15.38%) Data Migration
6 8 (15.38%) Data Protection
6 8 (15.38%) Decision-Making
6 8 (15.38%) Network Management
6 8 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (11.54%) Agile
8 5 (9.62%) Change Management
8 5 (9.62%) Product Management
8 5 (9.62%) Project Management
8 5 (9.62%) SDLC
8 5 (9.62%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 13 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 9 (17.31%) SQL
3 5 (9.62%) Java
4 4 (7.69%) ActionScript
5 3 (5.77%) Bash
6 2 (3.85%) Python
6 2 (3.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 15 (28.85%) Degree
2 5 (9.62%) SC Cleared
2 5 (9.62%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.77%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.92%) CCNA
4 1 (1.92%) CCNP
4 1 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.92%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.92%) MCSE
4 1 (1.92%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.77%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (55.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (34.62%) Active Directory
3 8 (15.38%) VMware Workstation
4 6 (11.54%) Hyper-V
5 4 (7.69%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 3 (5.77%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (3.85%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 12 (23.08%) SCCM
2 8 (15.38%) Microsoft Clustering
2 8 (15.38%) Nagios
2 8 (15.38%) NetBackup
3 4 (7.69%) SCOM
3 4 (7.69%) vRealize Orchestrator
4 3 (5.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 3 (5.77%) Ansible
4 3 (5.77%) Kubernetes
4 3 (5.77%) OPNET
5 2 (3.85%) HAProxy
5 2 (3.85%) Terraform
5 2 (3.85%) WSUS
6 1 (1.92%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.92%) vRealize
Vendors
1 29 (55.77%) VMware
2 12 (23.08%) Cisco
2 12 (23.08%) Microsoft
3 8 (15.38%) Hitachi
3 8 (15.38%) NetApp
4 6 (11.54%) TOWER Software
5 5 (9.62%) F5
6 4 (7.69%) Red Hat
6 4 (7.69%) SolarWinds
7 3 (5.77%) Remedy
8 1 (1.92%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.92%) Citrix
8 1 (1.92%) Google
8 1 (1.92%) Veeam