Virtual Servers Contract Job Trends in the South East

Virtual Servers
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Virtual Servers skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 193 159 194
Rank change year-on-year -34 +35 +31
Contract jobs citing Virtual Servers 2 1 11
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.041% 0.032% 0.20%
As % of the System Software category 0.34% 0.21% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 9
10th Percentile - - £488
25th Percentile £313 - £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - £543
Median % change year-on-year - - +27.76%
75th Percentile £338 - £550
90th Percentile - - £571
England median daily rate £493 £463 £530
% change year-on-year +6.49% -12.74% +0.95%

All System Software Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 580 468 809
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.78% 14.95% 14.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 437 328 491
10th Percentile £200 £206 £170
25th Percentile £349 £359 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £586
90th Percentile £654 £675 £638
England median daily rate £500 £525 £478
% change year-on-year -4.76% +9.95% -9.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 13 55
10th Percentile £21.94 £45.50 £19.07
25th Percentile £32.13 £55.38 £45.42
Median hourly rate £66.75 £57.75 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.58% -7.60% +30.55%
75th Percentile £84.75 £71.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £98.50 £81.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £34.00 £30.75 £32.50
% change year-on-year +10.57% -5.38% -15.58%

Virtual Servers
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Virtual Servers job vacancy trend in the South East

Virtual Servers
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

Virtual Servers
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

Virtual Servers
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 28 February 2026. 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
Surrey - 2 £325 - 1
Virtual Servers
England

Virtual Servers
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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) VSAN
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Migration Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Application Virtualisation
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) NFS
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware