Microsoft Virtual Server Contract Job Trends in London

Microsoft Virtual Server
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Microsoft Virtual Server skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 447 363 381
Rank change year-on-year -84 +18 +67
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Virtual Server 1 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.005% 0.007% 0.025%
As % of the System Software category 0.056% 0.068% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 £513 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 -
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -
75th Percentile £575 £538 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £625 £550 £288
% change year-on-year +13.64% +91.30% -50.85%

All System Software Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,794 1,475 1,743
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.91% 11.03% 10.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,225 917 1,201
10th Percentile £256 £300 £262
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £630
90th Percentile £725 £700 £738
England median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 31 18
10th Percentile £16.45 £22.50 £20.00
25th Percentile £24.01 £22.75 £23.80
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £23.99
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% +4.84% -60.02%
75th Percentile £54.88 £35.75 £49.38
90th Percentile £67.60 £40.00 £98.35
England median hourly rate £65.00 £34.50 £26.25
% change year-on-year +88.41% +31.43% -44.93%

Microsoft Virtual Server
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microsoft Virtual Server relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Microsoft Virtual Server job vacancy trend in London

Microsoft Virtual Server
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Microsoft Virtual Server.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Microsoft Virtual Server

Microsoft Virtual Server
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Microsoft Virtual Server.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Microsoft Virtual Server

Microsoft Virtual Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Server Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Security Hardening
1 1 (100.00%) Server Patching
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Environments
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Servers
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) VMware