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 3 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 419 338 369
Rank change year-on-year -81 +31 +99
Contract jobs citing Virtual Servers 7 5 24
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.038% 0.041% 0.14%
As % of the System Software category 0.41% 0.38% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 11
10th Percentile £201 £358 £300
25th Percentile £273 £361 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £544 £400
Median % change year-on-year -28.74% +35.94% -23.08%
75th Percentile £475 £719 £620
90th Percentile - - £688
England median daily rate £450 £550 £547
% change year-on-year -18.18% +0.64% +4.10%
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 - - +8.36%

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 1,699 1,308 1,804
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 9.26% 10.84% 10.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,144 892 1,307
10th Percentile £280 £263 £237
25th Percentile £425 £425 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £625
90th Percentile £738 £751 £725
England median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 22 35
10th Percentile £21.10 £22.65 £17.23
25th Percentile £22.41 £24.61 £20.50
Median hourly rate £28.88 £31.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.32% +40.00% -62.50%
75th Percentile £59.72 £35.75 £25.00
90th Percentile £67.70 £81.63 £48.89
England median hourly rate £53.00 £28.41 £22.23
% change year-on-year +86.55% +27.83% -57.37%

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 3 June 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%) AWS
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) DHCP
1 3 (42.86%) DNS
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (28.57%) SNMP
3 1 (14.29%) Firewall
3 1 (14.29%) LAN
3 1 (14.29%) VoIP
3 1 (14.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (28.57%) Banking
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Network Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Network Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Support Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (14.29%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Deployment Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Deployment Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Automation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (28.57%) Onboarding
3 1 (14.29%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Windows
1 5 (71.43%) Windows Server
2 4 (57.14%) 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 4 (57.14%) Runbook
2 3 (42.86%) Data Protection
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) Migration
3 2 (28.57%) Client Onboarding
3 2 (28.57%) Configuration Management
3 2 (28.57%) Information Security
3 2 (28.57%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (28.57%) Server Hardening
3 2 (28.57%) Task Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Asset Management
4 1 (14.29%) Change Management
4 1 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (14.29%) IT Asset Management
4 1 (14.29%) ITSM
4 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Server Building
4 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) Service Management
4 1 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) PowerShell
2 2 (28.57%) ActionScript
2 2 (28.57%) Bash
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco
1 2 (28.57%) F5
1 2 (28.57%) Infoblox
1 2 (28.57%) Palo Alto
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow