Server Virtualisation Contracts in the North of England

Server Virtualization
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Server Virtualisation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Server Virtualisation over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 173 211 243
Rank change year-on-year +38 +32 -62
Contract jobs citing Server Virtualisation 10 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.21% 0.018% 0.071%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.019% 0.080%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 4
10th Percentile £266 - -
25th Percentile £275 £319 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £338 £275
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +22.73% -31.25%
75th Percentile £325 £356 £363
90th Percentile £516 - £408
England median daily rate £300 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -33.33% +5.88% +2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £15.04
Median hourly rate - - £15.86
75th Percentile - - £16.68
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £19.95 £18.50 £15.86
% change year-on-year +7.84% +16.65% -29.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Server Virtualisation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,003 5,154 6,266
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.61% 90.64% 88.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,440 3,571 4,590
10th Percentile £300 £300 £250
25th Percentile £400 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £564
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 362 201 250
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.75 £12.84
Median hourly rate £17.72 £29.00 £18.59
Median % change year-on-year -38.90% +55.98% +2.00%
75th Percentile £45.00 £47.00 £31.00
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £52.57
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.30 £24.50
% change year-on-year -2.14% +52.24% +4.26%

Server Virtualisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Server Virtualisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Server Virtualisation in the North of England

Server Virtualisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Server Virtualisation in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Server Virtualisation in the North of England

Server Virtualisation
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Server Virtualisation in the North of England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Server Virtualisation in the North of England

Server Virtualisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Server Virtualisation in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Server Virtualisation in the North of England

Server Virtualisation
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Server Virtualisation within the North of England region over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. 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
Yorkshire - 7 £300 -
North West +16 2 £563 +66.67% 3
North East - 1 £180 -
Server Virtualisation
England

Server Virtualisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 7 (70.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 7 (70.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (10.00%) Site Server
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (70.00%) Firewall
1 7 (70.00%) VPN
2 2 (20.00%) SAN
3 1 (10.00%) DHCP
3 1 (10.00%) DNS
3 1 (10.00%) NAS
3 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (10.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
General
1 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
1 7 (70.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 7 (70.00%) IT Support
2 2 (20.00%) Server Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) 1st Line Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) 1st Line Support
3 1 (10.00%) 1st Line Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Server Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Client/Server
1 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
1 1 (10.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Windows
2 9 (90.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (10.00%) Linux
3 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (10.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (10.00%) ITIL
2 1 (10.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (10.00%) Performance Metrics
2 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (10.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) C#
2 1 (10.00%) Java
2 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (10.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) MCSE
2 1 (10.00%) RHCE
System Software
1 8 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (10.00%) Firmware
3 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (10.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) VMware
3 1 (10.00%) Citrix
3 1 (10.00%) Dell
3 1 (10.00%) Red Hat