Virtual Servers Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Virtual Servers
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Virtual Servers skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 152 - 125
Rank change year-on-year - - +13
Contract jobs citing Virtual Servers 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.097% - 0.045%
As % of the System Software category 0.80% - 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £241 - -
25th Percentile £286 - £561
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - £573
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.25%
75th Percentile £419 - £584
90th Percentile £438 - -
South East median daily rate £450 - £573
% change year-on-year - - +9.05%

All System Software Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 374 201 286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 12.06% 12.28% 12.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 247 105 193
10th Percentile £332 £190 £313
25th Percentile £440 £250 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -14.29% +10.53%
75th Percentile £603 £538 £608
90th Percentile £645 £642 £651
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 2 6
10th Percentile £33.70 £72.86 £25.79
25th Percentile £43.81 £75.66 £40.66
Median hourly rate £52.50 £83.32 £57.62
Median % change year-on-year -36.99% +44.60% +19.04%
75th Percentile £77.50 £87.97 £58.49
90th Percentile £82.50 £88.97 £64.09
South East median hourly rate £60.00 £81.00 £54.88
% change year-on-year -25.93% +47.61% +0.17%

Virtual Servers
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Virtual Servers job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Virtual Servers
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Virtual Servers.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Virtual Servers

Virtual Servers
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Servers in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 16 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Servers in the Thames Valley

Virtual Servers
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Virtual Servers.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Virtual Servers

Virtual Servers
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 16 September 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
Berkshire - 3 £375 - 3
Virtual Servers
South East

Virtual Servers
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 3 (100.00%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) BGP
2 2 (66.67%) BIG-IP
2 2 (66.67%) HSRP
2 2 (66.67%) LAN
2 2 (66.67%) OSPF
2 2 (66.67%) SSL
2 2 (66.67%) VLAN
2 2 (66.67%) VPN
2 2 (66.67%) WAN
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (33.33%) EIGRP
3 1 (33.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 1 (33.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 1 (33.33%) Multicast
3 1 (33.33%) SD-WAN
3 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (33.33%) VRRP
3 1 (33.33%) VXLAN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Network Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) IP Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) IP Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) IP Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior IP Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior IP Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Network Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Switch Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Analytics
1 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
1 1 (33.33%) High Availability
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL
1 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) Network Architecture
1 1 (33.33%) Validation
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) CCNP
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) CCNA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
1 3 (100.00%) F5
2 1 (33.33%) CheckPoint
2 1 (33.33%) Dell
2 1 (33.33%) Ekahau
2 1 (33.33%) Fortinet
2 1 (33.33%) HP
2 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow