Server Virtualisation Contracts in the UK excluding London

Server Virtualization
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Server Virtualisation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Server Virtualisation over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 332 387 443
Rank change year-on-year +55 +56 +45
Contract jobs citing Server Virtualisation 4 12 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.031% 0.058% 0.079%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.035% 0.068% 0.088%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 15
10th Percentile £316 - £294
25th Percentile £332 £275 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £345 £300 £475
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -36.84% +11.76%
75th Percentile £372 £406 £563
90th Percentile £411 £488 £575
UK median daily rate £381 £300 £450
% change year-on-year +27.08% -33.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.75
Median hourly rate - £19.95 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year - +7.84% +5.71%
75th Percentile - - £19.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £19.95 £18.50
% change year-on-year - +7.84% +5.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Server Virtualisation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

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
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 1 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 - 2 £326 - 11
North West +17 1 £425 -32.00% 8
North of England +11 1 £425 +41.67% 17
South East - 1 £350 - 20
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 1 (25.00%) IIS
Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Nutanix
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) DNS
2 2 (50.00%) DHCP
2 2 (50.00%) SSL
2 2 (50.00%) VPN
3 1 (25.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Coordinator
2 1 (25.00%) Hardware Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) HP Storage Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Project Coordinator
2 1 (25.00%) SCCM Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) SCCM Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Server Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Storage Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Coordinator
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Project Coordinator
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (25.00%) Clustering
2 1 (25.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (50.00%) Windows 10
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (25.00%) CentOS
3 1 (25.00%) Linux
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Change Management
1 3 (75.00%) ITIL
1 3 (75.00%) Patch Management
2 2 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 2 (50.00%) ITSM
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 2 (50.00%) Project Management
2 2 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
2 2 (50.00%) Server Building
2 2 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) Software Deployment
2 2 (50.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Budget Management
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Network Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (75.00%) Hyper-V
3 2 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (25.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) SCCM
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Nagios
2 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) HP
2 2 (50.00%) Remedy
2 2 (50.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) Dell
3 1 (25.00%) IBM
3 1 (25.00%) Intel
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds