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 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 396 349 373
Rank change year-on-year -47 +24 +103
Contract jobs citing Virtual Servers 9 8 24
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.058% 0.059% 0.13%
As % of the System Software category 0.52% 0.56% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 8
10th Percentile £368 £339 £300
25th Percentile £382 £378 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -10.53% -20.83%
75th Percentile £484 £463 £584
90th Percentile £494 £543 £695
England median daily rate £468 £425 £530
% change year-on-year +10.00% -19.81% +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 - - +1.91%

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 1,729 1,425 1,915
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.06% 10.52% 10.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,154 952 1,349
10th Percentile £325 £255 £209
25th Percentile £425 £425 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +13.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £625
90th Percentile £738 £812 £720
England median daily rate £500 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 17 35
10th Percentile £21.00 £20.60 £16.34
25th Percentile £21.30 £23.59 £21.63
Median hourly rate £25.31 £28.41 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% +13.64% -18.70%
75th Percentile £49.97 £62.50 £48.37
90th Percentile £67.70 £112.00 £61.50
England median hourly rate £31.86 £29.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +9.86% -27.50% +1.91%

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 20 February 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 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Serverless
2 3 (33.33%) IaaS
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon MSK
3 2 (22.22%) AWS
3 2 (22.22%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (22.22%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (22.22%) Azure
3 2 (22.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) Firewall
1 3 (33.33%) Network Security
2 2 (22.22%) DNS
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (11.11%) LAN
3 1 (11.11%) SNMP
3 1 (11.11%) VoIP
3 1 (11.11%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (22.22%) Bitbucket
2 2 (22.22%) Git
2 2 (22.22%) GitLab
2 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 2 (22.22%) JIRA
General
1 3 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (22.22%) Banking
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Marketing
3 1 (11.11%) Police
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Network Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Automation Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (11.11%) iPhone
1 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Windows
1 6 (66.67%) Windows Server
2 5 (55.56%) Linux
3 1 (11.11%) Windows 10
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) DevOps
2 4 (44.44%) Test Automation
3 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 3 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
3 3 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (33.33%) Performance Testing
3 3 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 3 (33.33%) Secrets Management
3 3 (33.33%) Technology Roadmap
4 2 (22.22%) Agile
4 2 (22.22%) Configuration Management
4 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Monitoring
4 2 (22.22%) Microservices
4 2 (22.22%) Software Delivery
4 2 (22.22%) Stress Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Thought Leadership
4 2 (22.22%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 2 (22.22%) Java
2 2 (22.22%) Perl
2 2 (22.22%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) Ruby
3 1 (11.11%) ActionScript
3 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) AWS Certification
1 2 (22.22%) DV Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (22.22%) Docker
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Terraform
2 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
3 1 (11.11%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco
2 1 (11.11%) F5
2 1 (11.11%) Infoblox
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Palo Alto
2 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow