Microsoft Virtual Server Contracts in the North West

Microsoft Virtual Server
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 117 - 156
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Virtual Server 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.15% - 0.031%
As % of the System Software category 1.08% - 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £208 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £215 - -
75th Percentile £223 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £575 £675 £600
% change year-on-year -14.81% +12.50% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £26.00
England median hourly rate - - £26.00
% change year-on-year - - +30.00%

All System Software Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 277 256 504
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 14.08% 9.29% 15.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 182 366
10th Percentile £157 £178 £200
25th Percentile £250 £299 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £575
90th Percentile £564 £670 £650
England median daily rate £525 £494 £525
% change year-on-year +6.33% -5.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 26 29
10th Percentile £33.73 - £13.99
25th Percentile £40.81 £15.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £55.75 £17.72 £22.41
Median % change year-on-year +214.62% -20.93% +23.71%
75th Percentile £73.81 £26.38 £52.13
90th Percentile £82.78 £46.18 £65.00
England median hourly rate £27.94 £21.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +33.05% -58.00% +163.16%

Microsoft Virtual Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Virtual Server in the North West

Microsoft Virtual Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Virtual Server in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Virtual Server in the North West

Microsoft Virtual Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Virtual Server in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Virtual Server in the North West

Microsoft Virtual Server
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West 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
Merseyside - 3 £215 -
Microsoft Virtual Server
England

Microsoft Virtual Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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