Microsoft Virtual Server Contracts in Merseyside

Microsoft Virtual Server
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside requiring Microsoft Virtual Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Microsoft Virtual Server 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 26 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Virtual Server 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 1.79% - -
As % of the System Software category 10.71% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £208 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £215 - -
75th Percentile £223 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £215 - -

All System Software Skills
Merseyside

Microsoft Virtual Server 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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 28 28 50
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 16.67% 12.28% 14.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 18 39
10th Percentile £133 £143 £140
25th Percentile £143 £161 £249
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £154 £225 £425
Median % change year-on-year -31.67% -47.06% +54.55%
75th Percentile £223 £246 £641
90th Percentile £413 £314 £679
North West median daily rate £425 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 5
10th Percentile - - £16.21
25th Percentile - £15.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate - £16.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year - -8.57% +16.67%
75th Percentile - £17.63 £18.75
90th Percentile - £18.80 £19.05
North West median hourly rate £55.75 £17.72 £22.41
% change year-on-year +214.62% -20.93% +23.71%

Microsoft Virtual Server
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

Job postings citing Microsoft Virtual Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Merseyside.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Virtual Server in Merseyside

Microsoft Virtual Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Virtual Server in Merseyside.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Virtual Server in Merseyside

Microsoft Virtual Server
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Virtual Server within the Merseyside 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
Prescot - 3 £215 -
Microsoft Virtual Server
North West

Microsoft Virtual Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) Internet
1 3 (100.00%) iSCSI
1 3 (100.00%) LAN
1 3 (100.00%) Remote Desktop
1 3 (100.00%) WAN
1 3 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (100.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Support
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Support Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Support
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Android
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) BCP
1 3 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 3 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (100.00%) Information Security
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 3 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) Virtual Servers
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Apple
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft