Virtual Servers Contracts in London

Virtual Servers
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Virtual Servers skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Servers over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 347 371 466
Rank change year-on-year +24 +95 +82
Contract jobs citing Virtual Servers 6 20 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.048% 0.11% 0.100%
As % of the System Software category 0.43% 1.13% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 10
10th Percentile £330 £300 £292
25th Percentile £356 £314 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £400 £498
Median % change year-on-year - -19.60% +4.74%
75th Percentile £719 £472 £604
90th Percentile - £695 £653
England median daily rate £550 £537 £525
% change year-on-year +2.52% +2.19% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £17.00 -
England median hourly rate - £40.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year - +53.85% -34.55%

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 1,384 1,777 3,145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.03% 9.97% 11.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 973 1,262 2,297
10th Percentile £300 £213 £250
25th Percentile £438 £363 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +2.22%
75th Percentile £671 £615 £688
90th Percentile £800 £719 £775
England median daily rate £525 £494 £525
% change year-on-year +6.33% -5.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 35 42
10th Percentile £22.64 £17.23 £15.73
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.50 £22.85
Median hourly rate £28.41 £22.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.27% -50.00% +83.67%
75th Percentile £35.75 £25.00 £73.63
90th Percentile £91.50 £48.89 £85.00
England median hourly rate £27.94 £21.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +33.05% -58.00% +163.16%

Virtual Servers
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Servers in London

Virtual Servers
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Servers in London

Virtual Servers
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Servers in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Servers in London

Virtual Servers
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Servers in London

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 May 2025. 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
Central London +3 1 - - 2
Virtual Servers
England

Virtual Servers
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) DHCP
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
1 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
General
1 5 (83.33%) Banking
1 5 (83.33%) Finance
2 3 (50.00%) Legal
3 1 (16.67%) Financial Institution
3 1 (16.67%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Business Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Business IT Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Facilities Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) IT Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) IT Business Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) IT Manager
1 2 (33.33%) IT Operations Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) IT Services Manager
1 2 (33.33%) Migration Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Operations Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Operations Business Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Service Continuity Manager
1 2 (33.33%) Service Manager
1 2 (33.33%) Testing Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Business Continuity Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Business Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Resilience Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Replication
2 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Project Management
2 3 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (50.00%) ITIL
2 3 (50.00%) PRINCE2
2 3 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 2 (33.33%) Fintech
3 2 (33.33%) ITSM
3 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 2 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
3 2 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
3 2 (33.33%) Waterfall
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
4 1 (16.67%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (16.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (16.67%) PRINCE2 Certification
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (16.67%) SolarWinds
2 1 (16.67%) VMware