Virtual Servers Contracts in the North West

Virtual Servers
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Virtual Servers skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Virtual Servers over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 136 156 166
Rank change year-on-year +20 +10 -31
Contract jobs citing Virtual Servers 2 5 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.075% 0.16% 0.32%
As % of the System Software category 0.78% 0.99% 2.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 9
10th Percentile - £458 £403
25th Percentile £181 £459 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £188 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year -60.53% -20.83% +114.29%
75th Percentile £194 £498 £725
90th Percentile - £504 -
England median daily rate £530 £525 £451
% change year-on-year +0.95% +16.41% +12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £37.25
Median hourly rate - £26.00 £39.73
Median % change year-on-year - -34.55% -
75th Percentile - - £42.20
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £40.00 £26.00 £39.73
% change year-on-year +53.85% -34.55% -

All System Software Skills
North West

Virtual Servers is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 255 507 563
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 9.52% 16.31% 14.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 366 417
10th Percentile £178 £200 £159
25th Percentile £301 £325 £240
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £494 £450
Median % change year-on-year -8.86% +9.72% +20.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £610
90th Percentile £670 £650 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 27 26
10th Percentile - £13.98 £15.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £17.72 £22.41 £18.12
Median % change year-on-year -20.93% +23.71% -51.69%
75th Percentile £35.81 £52.13 £20.00
90th Percentile £46.18 £65.00 £34.75
England median hourly rate £21.00 £50.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -58.00% +163.16% -5.00%

Virtual Servers
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Servers in the North West

Virtual Servers
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Servers in the North West

Virtual Servers
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Servers in the North West

Virtual Servers
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 Virtual Servers within the North West region over the 6 months to 10 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
Merseyside - 1 £188 -
Virtual Servers
England

Virtual Servers
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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Stack
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support
1 1 (50.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 1 (50.00%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) IT Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) IT Support
1 1 (50.00%) IT Support Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Support Analyst
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Time Management
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Environments
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) VMware