Microsoft Virtual Server Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Virtual Server
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Microsoft Virtual Server skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Microsoft Virtual Server over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 329 395 426
Rank change year-on-year +66 +31 +63
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Virtual Server 10 4 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.078% 0.019% 0.088%
As % of the System Software category 0.55% 0.16% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 16
10th Percentile £208 £558 £444
25th Percentile £287 £569 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £638 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.80% +15.91% +29.41%
75th Percentile £611 £713 £800
90th Percentile £619 - £838
UK median daily rate £575 £675 £550
% change year-on-year -14.81% +22.73% +18.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £26.00
UK median hourly rate - - £26.00
% change year-on-year - - +30.00%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,809 2,459 3,638
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.14% 11.85% 15.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,241 1,646 2,641
10th Percentile £190 £175 £180
25th Percentile £325 £275 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £463 £480
Median % change year-on-year +3.68% -3.65% +6.67%
75th Percentile £588 £584 £588
90th Percentile £663 £650 £676
UK median daily rate £525 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 194 187
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.02 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.39 £14.16 £16.69
Median hourly rate £28.00 £22.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -45.00% +120.81%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £86.60 £79.40 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £22.50 £53.75
% change year-on-year +22.22% -58.14% +168.75%

Microsoft Virtual Server
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Microsoft Virtual Server as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Virtual Server in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Virtual Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Virtual Server in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Virtual Server in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Virtual Server
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Virtual Server in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Virtual Server in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Virtual Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Virtual Server in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Virtual Server in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Virtual Server
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Virtual Server within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 May 2025. 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
South West +45 6 £588 -7.84% 2
North of England - 3 £215 - 1
North West - 3 £215 -
East of England - 1 £550 - 2
Microsoft Virtual Server
UK

Microsoft Virtual Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 9 (90.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (60.00%) SharePoint
3 5 (50.00%) Skype for Business
4 3 (30.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (80.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (30.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (10.00%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 7 (70.00%) DNS
2 6 (60.00%) DHCP
2 6 (60.00%) Skype
3 5 (50.00%) Unified Communications
4 4 (40.00%) Firewall
4 4 (40.00%) LAN
4 4 (40.00%) WAN
5 3 (30.00%) Internet
5 3 (30.00%) iSCSI
5 3 (30.00%) Remote Desktop
5 3 (30.00%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (30.00%) Wireless
6 1 (10.00%) SAN
6 1 (10.00%) SMTP
6 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Bitbucket
1 3 (30.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Technical Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Technical Support
2 2 (20.00%) Technical Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Support
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Wintel Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) PKI
2 3 (30.00%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Windows
1 10 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 9 (90.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 4 (40.00%) Windows 10
4 3 (30.00%) Android
4 3 (30.00%) Linux
5 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) ITIL
2 6 (60.00%) Information Security
2 6 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (40.00%) Agile
3 4 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (40.00%) Service Management
4 3 (30.00%) BCP
4 3 (30.00%) Critical Thinking
4 3 (30.00%) Customer Service
4 3 (30.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 3 (30.00%) Service Delivery
4 3 (30.00%) System Testing
4 3 (30.00%) Two-Factor Authentication
4 3 (30.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 3 (30.00%) Waterfall
5 1 (10.00%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (10.00%) Proactive Monitoring
5 1 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (10.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) SQL
2 5 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (60.00%) Degree
2 6 (60.00%) DV Cleared
3 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 10 (100.00%) Virtual Servers
2 5 (50.00%) Hyper-V
3 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (10.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) WSUS
2 2 (20.00%) SCCM
3 1 (10.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (10.00%) Ansible
3 1 (10.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (50.00%) Veeam
3 3 (30.00%) Apple
3 3 (30.00%) Atlassian
4 2 (20.00%) VMware
5 1 (10.00%) NetApp
5 1 (10.00%) Remedy
5 1 (10.00%) SolarWinds
5 1 (10.00%) Splunk