Virtual Servers Contracts in the UK excluding London

Virtual Servers
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Virtual Servers skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Virtual Servers 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 308 363 412
Rank change year-on-year +55 +49 +16
Contract jobs citing Virtual Servers 28 36 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.22% 0.17% 0.21%
As % of the System Software category 1.54% 1.46% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 19 41
10th Percentile £213 £360 £363
25th Percentile £408 £495 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% +20.00%
75th Percentile £605 £627 £623
90th Percentile £612 £684 £788
UK median daily rate £450 £537 £525
% change year-on-year -16.12% +2.19% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 1
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year - +53.85% -12.93%
UK median hourly rate - £40.00 £38.50
% change year-on-year - +3.90% -8.78%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,814 2,460 3,640
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.21% 11.84% 15.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,249 1,649 2,640
10th Percentile £190 £175 £181
25th Percentile £325 £275 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £460 £483
Median % change year-on-year +4.13% -4.69% +7.26%
75th Percentile £588 £584 £588
90th Percentile £662 £650 £676
UK median daily rate £525 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 191 192
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.39 £14.16 £16.77
Median hourly rate £28.00 £22.00 £41.88
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -47.46% +131.16%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £86.60 £78.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £22.50 £53.43
% change year-on-year +22.22% -57.88% +167.13%

Virtual Servers
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Servers in the UK excluding London

Virtual Servers
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Servers in the UK excluding London

Virtual Servers
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Servers in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Servers in the UK excluding London

Virtual Servers
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Servers in the UK excluding London

Virtual Servers
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 Virtual Servers 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
Scotland +23 12 £450 -27.30% 1
South West +39 7 £588 -2.08% 6
North of England +21 4 £215 +14.67% 3
North West +19 4 £215 +14.67% 1
Midlands +17 4 - - 3
West Midlands +14 4 - - 2
East of England - 1 £550 - 3
Virtual Servers
UK

Virtual Servers
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 (32.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (21.43%) SharePoint
3 5 (17.86%) Skype for Business
4 3 (10.71%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (28.57%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 7 (25.00%) IaaS
2 4 (14.29%) Azure
2 4 (14.29%) Entra ID
2 4 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.57%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 12 (42.86%) DNS
2 11 (39.29%) DHCP
3 8 (28.57%) LAN
4 6 (21.43%) Skype
5 5 (17.86%) Firewall
5 5 (17.86%) SAN
5 5 (17.86%) Unified Communications
5 5 (17.86%) WAN
6 4 (14.29%) NAS
6 4 (14.29%) Wireless
7 3 (10.71%) Internet
7 3 (10.71%) iSCSI
7 3 (10.71%) Remote Desktop
7 3 (10.71%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (3.57%) SD-WAN
8 1 (3.57%) SMTP
8 1 (3.57%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.71%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (32.14%) JIRA
2 3 (10.71%) Bitbucket
General
1 8 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
1 8 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 6 (21.43%) Public Sector
3 5 (17.86%) Finance
4 4 (14.29%) Banking
4 4 (14.29%) Investment Banking
4 4 (14.29%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.57%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.57%) Military
Job Titles
1 11 (39.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (25.00%) Scrum Master
3 4 (14.29%) Linux Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Storage Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Windows Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Administrator
4 3 (10.71%) Support Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (7.14%) Technical Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Technical Support
5 2 (7.14%) Technical Support Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Infrastructure Support
6 1 (3.57%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) IT Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.71%) LDAP
1 3 (10.71%) X-Windows
Miscellaneous
1 6 (21.43%) PKI
2 5 (17.86%) Data Centre
2 5 (17.86%) Product Ownership
3 3 (10.71%) IVR
4 2 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (7.14%) Virtual Team
5 1 (3.57%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 19 (67.86%) Windows
2 17 (60.71%) Linux
2 17 (60.71%) Windows Server
3 9 (32.14%) Windows Server 2016
4 4 (14.29%) Windows 10
5 3 (10.71%) Android
5 3 (10.71%) Mac OS
5 3 (10.71%) Unix
6 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (39.29%) Agile
4 10 (35.71%) Service Delivery
5 9 (32.14%) Information Security
6 8 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
6 8 (28.57%) Storage Management
7 7 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (25.00%) ITIL
7 7 (25.00%) Kanban
7 7 (25.00%) Scrum
7 7 (25.00%) Waterfall
8 5 (17.86%) Conflict Resolution
8 5 (17.86%) DevOps
8 5 (17.86%) Roadmaps
8 5 (17.86%) Root Cause Analysis
8 5 (17.86%) Workflow
9 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
9 4 (14.29%) Project Management
9 4 (14.29%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 6 (21.43%) SQL
3 5 (17.86%) Shell Script
4 2 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 6 (21.43%) Degree
2 6 (21.43%) DV Cleared
3 5 (17.86%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.57%) CCNA
4 1 (3.57%) CCNP
4 1 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.29%) SLA
2 3 (10.71%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (10.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 14 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 10 (35.71%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 9 (32.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (28.57%) Hyper-V
5 3 (10.71%) Docker
6 1 (3.57%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (3.57%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (21.43%) WSUS
2 3 (10.71%) Ansible
3 2 (7.14%) SCCM
4 1 (3.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (3.57%) FortiGate
4 1 (3.57%) SCOM
Vendors
1 13 (46.43%) Microsoft
2 9 (32.14%) VMware
3 5 (17.86%) Dell
3 5 (17.86%) Veeam
4 3 (10.71%) Apple
4 3 (10.71%) Atlassian
5 2 (7.14%) Cisco
6 1 (3.57%) NetApp
6 1 (3.57%) Red Hat
6 1 (3.57%) Remedy
6 1 (3.57%) SolarWinds
6 1 (3.57%) Splunk