Virtual Servers Contract Job Trends in London

Virtual Servers
England > London

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

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 372 347 370
Rank change year-on-year -25 +23 +140
Contract jobs citing Virtual Servers 8 9 24
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.055% 0.065% 0.13%
As % of the System Software category 0.48% 0.64% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 9
10th Percentile £368 £339 £266
25th Percentile £382 £378 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -19.05% -1.18%
75th Percentile £484 £463 £550
90th Percentile £494 £543 £603
England median daily rate £475 £400 £525
% change year-on-year +18.75% -23.81% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.00
Median hourly rate - - £17.00
75th Percentile - - £18.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - - £40.00
% change year-on-year - - -14.05%

All System Software Skills
London

Virtual Servers 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 1,666 1,413 1,929
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.43% 10.18% 10.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,118 924 1,373
10th Percentile £325 £255 £213
25th Percentile £428 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +7.32% -10.87%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £638
90th Percentile £750 £810 £725
England median daily rate £500 £525 £490
% change year-on-year -4.76% +7.14% -7.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 17 26
10th Percentile £21.00 £20.60 £16.43
25th Percentile £21.91 £23.59 £21.44
Median hourly rate £25.31 £23.80 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.34% -25.63% +16.36%
75th Percentile £34.47 £35.75 £57.47
90th Percentile £67.70 £101.80 £68.75
England median hourly rate £41.94 £28.71 £43.84
% change year-on-year +46.11% -34.52% +13.87%

Virtual Servers
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Virtual Servers job vacancy trend in London

Virtual Servers
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Virtual Servers

Virtual Servers
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Servers in London over the 6 months to 21 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Servers in London

Virtual Servers
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Virtual Servers

Virtual Servers
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Serverless
2 3 (37.50%) IaaS
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (25.00%) Amazon MSK
3 2 (25.00%) AWS
3 2 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (25.00%) Azure
3 2 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) Network Security
2 2 (25.00%) DNS
2 2 (25.00%) Firewall
3 1 (12.50%) LAN
3 1 (12.50%) VoIP
3 1 (12.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (25.00%) Git
1 2 (25.00%) GitLab
1 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
1 2 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (37.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (25.00%) Banking
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Marketing
3 1 (12.50%) Police
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Windows
1 6 (75.00%) Windows Server
2 5 (62.50%) Linux
3 1 (12.50%) Windows 10
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
2 3 (37.50%) Continuous Delivery
2 3 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Automation
2 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (37.50%) Performance Testing
2 3 (37.50%) Roadmaps
2 3 (37.50%) Secrets Management
2 3 (37.50%) Technology Roadmap
2 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
3 2 (25.00%) Microservices
3 2 (25.00%) Software Delivery
3 2 (25.00%) Stress Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Thought Leadership
3 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (12.50%) IT Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
2 2 (25.00%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) Perl
2 2 (25.00%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Ruby
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 2 (25.00%) Docker
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Terraform
2 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow