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 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 338 385 422
Rank change year-on-year +47 +37 +81
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Virtual Server 26 2 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.010% 0.065%
As % of the System Software category 1.37% 0.081% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 2 10
10th Percentile - £242 £462
25th Percentile £525 £260 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £295 £775
Median % change year-on-year +86.44% -61.94% +69.86%
75th Percentile £575 £325 £838
90th Percentile £609 £340 £839
UK median daily rate £550 £295 £520
% change year-on-year +86.44% -43.27% +12.43%
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 1,903 2,482 3,417
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.81% 12.17% 14.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,255 1,680 2,344
10th Percentile £200 £190 £180
25th Percentile £313 £340 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £580
90th Percentile £650 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 169 176
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.06 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.39 £14.16 £16.28
Median hourly rate £61.50 £22.40 £27.25
Median % change year-on-year +174.55% -17.80% +43.42%
75th Percentile £82.00 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £91.50 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £33.39 £23.80 £50.00
% change year-on-year +40.27% -52.40% +139.61%

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
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 17 July 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
East of England +34 20 £550 +57.14% 12
South West - 6 £588 - 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 6 (23.08%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (23.08%) SharePoint
2 5 (19.23%) Skype for Business
3 3 (11.54%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (19.23%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 20 (76.92%) Cohesity
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 26 (100.00%) DNS
2 20 (76.92%) SAN
3 6 (23.08%) DHCP
3 6 (23.08%) Skype
4 5 (19.23%) Unified Communications
5 1 (3.85%) Firewall
5 1 (3.85%) LAN
5 1 (3.85%) SMTP
5 1 (3.85%) TCP/IP
5 1 (3.85%) WAN
Development Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Bitbucket
1 3 (11.54%) JIRA
General
1 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (11.54%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.85%) Military
Job Titles
1 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (3.85%) Wintel Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 26 (100.00%) Windows
1 26 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 25 (96.15%) Windows Server 2016
3 20 (76.92%) Windows Server 2019
4 4 (15.38%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (76.92%) Build Automation
1 20 (76.92%) Deployment Automation
1 20 (76.92%) Operations Management
1 20 (76.92%) SIEM
2 5 (19.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (15.38%) Agile
3 4 (15.38%) ITIL
3 4 (15.38%) Service Management
4 3 (11.54%) Critical Thinking
4 3 (11.54%) Information Security
4 3 (11.54%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 3 (11.54%) System Testing
4 3 (11.54%) Two-Factor Authentication
4 3 (11.54%) Waterfall
5 1 (3.85%) Office Automation
5 1 (3.85%) Performance Monitoring
5 1 (3.85%) Proactive Monitoring
5 1 (3.85%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (3.85%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (3.85%) Statistical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 24 (92.31%) PowerShell
2 6 (23.08%) SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 25 (96.15%) DV Cleared
3 6 (23.08%) Degree
4 4 (15.38%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 26 (100.00%) Virtual Servers
2 21 (80.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (19.23%) Hyper-V
4 1 (3.85%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 25 (96.15%) WSUS
2 21 (80.77%) SCCM
3 20 (76.92%) Ansible
4 1 (3.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (3.85%) SCOM
Vendors
1 26 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 21 (80.77%) VMware
3 20 (76.92%) NetApp
3 20 (76.92%) Splunk
4 5 (19.23%) Veeam
5 3 (11.54%) Atlassian
6 1 (3.85%) Remedy
6 1 (3.85%) SolarWinds