Virtual Servers Contracts in the North of England

Virtual Servers
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Virtual Servers skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Servers 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 162 183 215
Rank change year-on-year +21 +32 +6
Contract jobs citing Virtual Servers 4 2 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.12% 0.042% 0.086%
As % of the System Software category 0.79% 0.36% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 3
10th Percentile - - £353
25th Percentile £208 £181 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £215 £188 £475
Median % change year-on-year +14.67% -60.53% -20.83%
75th Percentile £239 £194 £498
90th Percentile £268 - £504
England median daily rate £550 £537 £525
% change year-on-year +2.52% +2.19% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £26.00
England median hourly rate - £40.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year - +53.85% -34.55%

All System Software Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 506 559 840
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 15.36% 11.72% 14.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 337 405 631
10th Percentile £184 £178 £178
25th Percentile £263 £275 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £430 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.07% -14.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £578
90th Percentile £603 £650 £670
England median daily rate £525 £494 £525
% change year-on-year +6.33% -5.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 50 36
10th Percentile £33.73 - £14.13
25th Percentile £40.81 £14.06 £17.44
Median hourly rate £55.75 £16.00 £26.75
Median % change year-on-year +248.44% -40.19% +52.86%
75th Percentile £73.81 £18.56 £64.06
90th Percentile £82.78 £43.21 £65.38
England median hourly rate £27.94 £21.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +33.05% -58.00% +163.16%

Virtual Servers
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Servers in the North of England

Virtual Servers
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Servers in the North of England

Virtual Servers
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Servers in the North of England

Virtual Servers
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 Virtual Servers within the North of England 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
North West +19 4 £215 +14.67% 1
Virtual Servers
England

Virtual Servers
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 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) WAN
1 4 (100.00%) Wireless
2 3 (75.00%) Internet
2 3 (75.00%) iSCSI
2 3 (75.00%) LAN
2 3 (75.00%) Remote Desktop
2 3 (75.00%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (25.00%) DHCP
3 1 (25.00%) DNS
3 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Technical Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Technical Support
2 2 (50.00%) Technical Support Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Support
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) IT Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) Android
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (75.00%) BCP
2 3 (75.00%) Customer Service
2 3 (75.00%) Information Security
2 3 (75.00%) ITIL
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Service Delivery
2 3 (75.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Antivirus Management
4 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
4 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (25.00%) Patch Management
4 1 (25.00%) Storage Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Apple
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) VMware