Microsoft Virtual Server Contract Job Trends in the South East

Microsoft Virtual Server
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Microsoft Virtual Server skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 220 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Virtual Server 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.030% - -
As % of the System Software category 0.25% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £588 £550 £350
% change year-on-year +6.82% +57.14% -43.78%

All System Software Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 790 462 744
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.81% 13.10% 15.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 537 327 485
10th Percentile £263 £200 £231
25th Percentile £415 £323 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -7.41% +8.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £608
90th Percentile £675 £663 £652
England median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.95% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 12 44
10th Percentile £16.00 £28.48 £17.69
25th Percentile £43.81 £46.49 £21.14
Median hourly rate £52.50 £67.25 £54.88
Median % change year-on-year -21.93% +22.55% +4.52%
75th Percentile £67.47 £81.50 £69.77
90th Percentile £77.50 £88.97 £70.00
England median hourly rate £60.17 £40.00 £24.18
% change year-on-year +50.41% +65.43% -37.28%

Microsoft Virtual Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microsoft Virtual Server relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Microsoft Virtual Server job vacancy trend in the South East

Microsoft Virtual Server
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Microsoft Virtual Server.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Microsoft Virtual Server

Microsoft Virtual Server
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Microsoft Virtual Server.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Microsoft Virtual Server

Microsoft Virtual Server
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Agile Delivery Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) High Availability
1 2 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Service Management
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap
1 2 (100.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) JSP 440
1 2 (100.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Servers
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 2 (100.00%) VMware