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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 439 359 382
Rank change year-on-year -80 +23 +34
Contract jobs citing Virtual Servers 13 8 11
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.064% 0.059% 0.068%
As % of the System Software category 0.71% 0.53% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 6 6
10th Percentile £313 £394 £506
25th Percentile £404 £425 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £488 £568
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -14.10% +8.10%
75th Percentile £575 £673 £615
90th Percentile - £719 £620
England median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -4.76%

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 1,827 1,513 1,703
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.98% 11.23% 10.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,252 939 1,161
10th Percentile £251 £299 £260
25th Percentile £413 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £713 £749
England median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.86% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 29 16
10th Percentile £16.45 £22.40 £21.90
25th Percentile £24.01 £22.50 £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 £58.75
90th Percentile £67.60 £52.40 £102.25
England median hourly rate £65.00 £34.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +88.41% +25.45% -40.22%

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 1 October 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
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 1 October 2026. 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 London +4 1 £525 - 1
Central London -31 1 - -
Virtual Servers
England

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 (7.69%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 8 (61.54%) Azure
2 5 (38.46%) AWS
3 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (7.69%) GitHub
3 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (69.23%) DNS
2 8 (61.54%) DHCP
3 1 (7.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.69%) Power BI
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 6 (46.15%) Finance
2 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Banking
4 1 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Server Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Lead
3 2 (15.38%) Lead Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (7.69%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Active Directory Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Deployment Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Deployment Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Windows Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Support Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Windows Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Clustering
1 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
1 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (7.69%) PKI
1 1 (7.69%) Replication
1 1 (7.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (84.62%) Windows
1 11 (84.62%) Windows Server
2 9 (69.23%) Linux
3 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (7.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (53.85%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (38.46%) ITIL
3 5 (38.46%) Migration
3 5 (38.46%) Patch Management
3 5 (38.46%) Root Cause Analysis
3 5 (38.46%) Security Hardening
4 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (23.08%) Runbook
5 3 (23.08%) Server Building
5 3 (23.08%) Server Management
5 3 (23.08%) Server Patching
5 3 (23.08%) Service Management
5 3 (23.08%) Virtual Environments
6 2 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
6 2 (15.38%) Performance Optimisation
6 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) PowerShell
2 2 (15.38%) Bash
3 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) SC Cleared
1 6 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) AWS Certification
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification
3 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.69%) Degree
3 1 (7.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) SOC 2
2 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 10 (76.92%) Active Directory
2 8 (61.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (53.85%) vSphere
4 5 (38.46%) Hyper-V
5 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft Intune
1 5 (38.46%) SCCM
2 1 (7.69%) Ansible
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (7.69%) SCOM
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) VMware
2 6 (46.15%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.69%) BMC
3 1 (7.69%) Commvault
3 1 (7.69%) Remedy