Server Virtualisation Contracts in the UK excluding London

Server Virtualization
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Server Virtualisation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Server Virtualisation over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 381 432 486
Rank change year-on-year +51 +54 -70
Contract jobs citing Server Virtualisation 12 19 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.058% 0.080% 0.081%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.069% 0.089% 0.091%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 15 15
10th Percentile - £341 £179
25th Percentile £275 £438 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -36.84% +11.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £406 £563 £481
90th Percentile £488 £575 £545
UK median daily rate £300 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -33.33% - +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £15.53
25th Percentile - £17.75 £16.27
Median hourly rate £19.95 £18.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.84% +5.71% -21.94%
75th Percentile - £19.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £19.95 £18.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year +7.84% +5.71% -21.94%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Server Virtualisation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,416 21,395 27,498
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.70% 89.57% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,404 14,844 19,217
10th Percentile £250 £256 £233
25th Percentile £375 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,048 1,307 1,356
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.05
25th Percentile £15.22 £15.56 £14.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.31
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%

Server Virtualisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Server Virtualisation in the UK excluding London

Server Virtualisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Server Virtualisation in the UK excluding London

Server Virtualisation
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Server Virtualisation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Server Virtualisation in the UK excluding London

Server Virtualisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Server Virtualisation in the UK excluding London

Server Virtualisation
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 Server Virtualisation within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 May 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
North of England +40 9 £300 -11.11% 2
Yorkshire - 7 £300 -
Scotland +41 2 £475 -5.00%
North West +27 1 £625 +85.19% 2
Midlands +25 1 - - 1
West Midlands +19 1 - -
North East - 1 £180 -
Server Virtualisation
UK

Server Virtualisation
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 7 (58.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 7 (58.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (8.33%) Site Server
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (33.33%) Azure
3 2 (16.67%) AWS
4 1 (8.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 9 (75.00%) Firewall
2 7 (58.33%) VPN
3 3 (25.00%) SAN
4 1 (8.33%) LAN
4 1 (8.33%) NAS
4 1 (8.33%) WAN
General
1 10 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Banking
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
1 7 (58.33%) 3rd Line Support
1 7 (58.33%) IT Support
2 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Senior
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) 1st Line Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) 1st Line Support
4 1 (8.33%) 1st Line Support Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Server Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Server Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Client/Server
1 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (91.67%) Windows
2 8 (66.67%) Windows Server
3 3 (25.00%) Linux
4 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Customer Service
2 3 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (16.67%) Information Security
3 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (16.67%) Software Deployment
4 1 (8.33%) Antivirus Management
4 1 (8.33%) ITIL
4 1 (8.33%) Server Management
4 1 (8.33%) Server Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) C#
1 1 (8.33%) Java
1 1 (8.33%) SQL
1 1 (8.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) MCSE
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (8.33%) RHCE
System Software
1 8 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 3 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (8.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (8.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (8.33%) Citrix
3 1 (8.33%) Commvault
3 1 (8.33%) Dell
3 1 (8.33%) NetApp
3 1 (8.33%) Red Hat
3 1 (8.33%) Sophos