Virtual Servers Contracts in the South East

Virtual Servers
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 196 213 254
Rank change year-on-year +17 +41 -59
Contract jobs citing Virtual Servers 10 7 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.18% 0.12% 0.17%
As % of the System Software category 1.27% 0.79% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 13
10th Percentile £515 £375 £173
25th Percentile £535 £413 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -20.83% +50.00%
75th Percentile £584 £525 £638
90th Percentile £597 £528 £668
England median daily rate £547 £520 £449
% change year-on-year +5.10% +15.88% +15.88%

All System Software Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 786 887 1,285
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.02% 14.98% 16.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 491 629 904
10th Percentile £200 £205 £163
25th Percentile £330 £363 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £675
England median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 45 59
10th Percentile £17.26 £17.73 £12.50
25th Percentile £17.80 £18.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £52.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +160.00% -
75th Percentile £62.81 £70.00 £23.50
90th Percentile £65.00 £75.45 £65.51
England median hourly rate £21.00 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -47.50% +110.53% +2.43%

Virtual Servers
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Servers in the South East

Virtual Servers
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtual Servers in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Virtual Servers in the South East

Virtual Servers
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Servers in the South East over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Servers in the South East

Virtual Servers
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Virtual Servers in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Servers in the South East

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 19 April 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
Thames Valley +12 5 £560 +21.08% 3
Berkshire -3 5 £560 +31.76% 2
East Sussex - 3 £530 -
Surrey +11 1 - -
Hampshire +8 1 £650 +36.84% 4
Virtual Servers
England

Virtual Servers
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (20.00%) Apache
1 2 (20.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 3 (30.00%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (30.00%) Amazon S3
2 3 (30.00%) CloudFront
2 3 (30.00%) Route 53
2 3 (30.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 2 (20.00%) Datadog
3 2 (20.00%) Fastly
3 2 (20.00%) GitHub
4 1 (10.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 5 (50.00%) NetScaler
2 4 (40.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 2 (20.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (20.00%) Git
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Linux Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Senior
3 2 (20.00%) Architect
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Linux DevOps Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Linux/Unix DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Network Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Network Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Administrator
4 1 (10.00%) Linux Administrator
4 1 (10.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 1 (10.00%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) JSON
2 2 (20.00%) Django
2 2 (20.00%) HornetQ
2 2 (20.00%) RabbitMQ
2 2 (20.00%) VCL
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 5 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Linux
2 4 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (30.00%) Debian
4 1 (10.00%) Unix
4 1 (10.00%) Windows
4 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Migration
2 2 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (10.00%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) ActionScript
2 3 (30.00%) Bash
3 2 (20.00%) Python
3 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
1 1 (10.00%) RHCSA
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Varnish
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Ansible
2 2 (20.00%) HAProxy
2 2 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) F5
2 4 (40.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (20.00%) Cisco
4 1 (10.00%) VMware