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 6 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 390 350 371
Rank change year-on-year -40 +21 +112
Contract jobs citing Virtual Servers 7 8 25
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.043% 0.060% 0.14%
As % of the System Software category 0.40% 0.56% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 9
10th Percentile - £339 £300
25th Percentile £368 £378 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £427 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +0.35% +6.25% -33.33%
75th Percentile £491 £463 £550
90th Percentile £496 £543 £693
England median daily rate £485 £463 £530
% change year-on-year +4.86% -12.74% +0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
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 - - +53.85%

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 1,752 1,431 1,838
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.76% 10.70% 10.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,182 969 1,297
10th Percentile £325 £263 £208
25th Percentile £425 £425 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £625
90th Percentile £738 £813 £725
England median daily rate £500 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 14 33
10th Percentile £21.00 £21.95 £16.17
25th Percentile £21.61 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £28.71 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.38% +14.82% -18.70%
75th Percentile £42.94 £80.19 £46.86
90th Percentile £67.70 £112.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £32.93 £32.50 £27.38
% change year-on-year +1.32% +18.69% -28.88%

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 6 March 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 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon MSK
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Serverless
2 2 (28.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) Firewall
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (28.57%) DNS
2 2 (28.57%) SNMP
3 1 (14.29%) LAN
3 1 (14.29%) VoIP
3 1 (14.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (28.57%) Bitbucket
2 2 (28.57%) Git
2 2 (28.57%) GitLab
2 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 2 (28.57%) JIRA
General
1 2 (28.57%) Banking
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Police
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Network Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Senior
1 2 (28.57%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Automation Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (28.57%) Onboarding
2 1 (14.29%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
1 3 (42.86%) Windows Server
2 2 (28.57%) Linux
3 1 (14.29%) Windows 10
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Client Onboarding
1 2 (28.57%) Configuration Management
1 2 (28.57%) Data Protection
1 2 (28.57%) DevOps
1 2 (28.57%) Knowledge Transfer
1 2 (28.57%) Microservices
1 2 (28.57%) Task Automation
2 1 (14.29%) Asset Management
2 1 (14.29%) Build Automation
2 1 (14.29%) Change Management
2 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (14.29%) IT Asset Management
2 1 (14.29%) ITSM
2 1 (14.29%) Runbook
2 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
2 1 (14.29%) Service Management
2 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
2 1 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) PowerShell
2 2 (28.57%) ActionScript
2 2 (28.57%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) Perl
2 2 (28.57%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) Ruby
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) AWS Certification
1 2 (28.57%) DV Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 2 (28.57%) Docker
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Ansible
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco
1 2 (28.57%) F5
1 2 (28.57%) Infoblox
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle
1 2 (28.57%) Palo Alto
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow