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 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 373 365 388
Rank change year-on-year -8 +23 +134
Contract jobs citing Virtual Servers 8 12 21
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.056% 0.077% 0.11%
As % of the System Software category 0.49% 0.75% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 9
10th Percentile £368 £374 £436
25th Percentile £397 £419 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -11.90% +5.53%
75th Percentile £494 £538 £550
90th Percentile £515 £558 £555
England median daily rate £475 £425 £525
% change year-on-year +11.76% -19.05% +5.00%

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 1,633 1,609 2,210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.42% 10.31% 11.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,053 1,069 1,570
10th Percentile £311 £262 £213
25th Percentile £425 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £638 £653 £650
90th Percentile £720 £788 £750
England median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 15 24
10th Percentile £21.00 £20.40 £22.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £23.70 £25.56
Median hourly rate £23.00 £23.80 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% -45.71% +39.17%
75th Percentile £25.47 £77.50 £65.03
90th Percentile £42.75 £105.20 £75.88
England median hourly rate £34.00 £35.33 £40.00
% change year-on-year -3.77% -11.67% +58.42%

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 8 December 2025.

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 8 December 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
East London - 1 £525 -
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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Serverless
2 3 (37.50%) IaaS
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%) Microsoft 365
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%) Internet
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 4 (50.00%) 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
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Linux
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
1 5 (62.50%) Windows Server
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%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Java
1 2 (25.00%) Perl
1 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (25.00%) Python
1 2 (25.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) CCNA
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 2 (25.00%) Docker
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
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%) VMware