Server Virtualisation Contracts

Server Virtualization
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 574 666 795
Rank change year-on-year +92 +129 -142
Contract jobs citing Server Virtualisation 17 39 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.039% 0.067% 0.060%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.046% 0.075% 0.066%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 26 29
10th Percentile - £334 £204
25th Percentile £275 £359 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £494 £508 £488
90th Percentile £643 £575 £496
UK excluding London median daily rate £300 £463 £425
% change year-on-year -35.14% +8.82% +6.25%
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 excluding London 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

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,140 52,105 79,027
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.25% 89.83% 90.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,924 36,124 55,482
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,724 1,874
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.17 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%

Server Virtualisation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Server Virtualisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Server Virtualisation in the UK

Server Virtualisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Server Virtualisation.

Daily rate trend for Server Virtualisation in the UK

Server Virtualisation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Server Virtualisation over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Server Virtualisation in the UK

Server Virtualisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Server Virtualisation.

Hourly rate trend for Server Virtualisation in the UK

Server Virtualisation
Top 11 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 9 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
England +96 15 £300 -33.33% 18
UK excluding London +46 13 £300 -35.14% 13
North of England +38 10 £300 -11.11% 3
Yorkshire - 7 £300 -
London +74 4 £575 +43.75% 5
Work from Home +120 3 £475 - 4
Scotland +41 2 £475 -5.00% 1
North West +16 2 £563 +66.67% 3
Midlands +31 1 - - 1
West Midlands +18 1 - -
North East - 1 £180 -

Server Virtualisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (41.18%) Microsoft Exchange
1 7 (41.18%) SharePoint
2 2 (11.76%) Apache
2 2 (11.76%) Apache Solr
3 1 (5.88%) Site Server
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 7 (41.18%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (29.41%) AWS
2 5 (29.41%) Azure
3 2 (11.76%) Akamai
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (5.88%) GCP
4 1 (5.88%) IaaS
4 1 (5.88%) PaaS
4 1 (5.88%) SaaS
4 1 (5.88%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (52.94%) Firewall
2 8 (47.06%) VPN
3 3 (17.65%) DHCP
3 3 (17.65%) DNS
3 3 (17.65%) SAN
4 2 (11.76%) Internet
5 1 (5.88%) LAN
5 1 (5.88%) NAS
5 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
5 1 (5.88%) VLAN
5 1 (5.88%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) Apache Cassandra
1 2 (11.76%) Hadoop
1 2 (11.76%) MySQL
1 2 (11.76%) Redis
2 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
General
1 10 (58.82%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Finance
3 2 (11.76%) Banking
4 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
1 7 (41.18%) 3rd Line Support
1 7 (41.18%) IT Support
2 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Senior
2 4 (23.53%) Server Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) 1st Line Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) 1st Line Support
4 1 (5.88%) 1st Line Support Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Server Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Site Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Support Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Windows Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) Kafka
1 2 (11.76%) LDAP
2 1 (5.88%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.88%) Client/Server
2 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.88%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (82.35%) Windows
2 11 (64.71%) Windows Server
3 4 (23.53%) Linux
4 1 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (5.88%) VMS
4 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Customer Service
2 4 (23.53%) Information Security
2 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (17.65%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (17.65%) Server Management
4 2 (11.76%) Configuration Management
4 2 (11.76%) DevOps
4 2 (11.76%) High Availability
4 2 (11.76%) Microservices
4 2 (11.76%) Performance Monitoring
4 2 (11.76%) Server Monitoring
4 2 (11.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 2 (11.76%) Software Deployment
4 2 (11.76%) Systems Engineering
5 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (5.88%) ITIL
5 1 (5.88%) Kanban
5 1 (5.88%) Scrum
5 1 (5.88%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) Java
2 2 (11.76%) Go
2 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
2 2 (11.76%) Python
2 2 (11.76%) Ruby
2 2 (11.76%) SQL
3 1 (5.88%) C#
3 1 (5.88%) VB
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (11.76%) MCSE
3 1 (5.88%) Degree
3 1 (5.88%) MCP
3 1 (5.88%) MCSA
3 1 (5.88%) RHCE
System Software
1 10 (58.82%) Active Directory
2 5 (29.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (11.76%) Hyper-V
4 1 (5.88%) Firmware
4 1 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (5.88%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (5.88%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Ansible
1 2 (11.76%) Progress Chef
1 2 (11.76%) Puppet
2 1 (5.88%) Grafana
2 1 (5.88%) WSUS
Vendors
1 14 (82.35%) Microsoft
2 5 (29.41%) VMware
3 2 (11.76%) Adobe
3 2 (11.76%) Salesforce
3 2 (11.76%) SAP
4 1 (5.88%) Citrix
4 1 (5.88%) Commvault
4 1 (5.88%) Dell
4 1 (5.88%) NetApp
4 1 (5.88%) New Relic
4 1 (5.88%) PagerDuty
4 1 (5.88%) Red Hat
4 1 (5.88%) Sophos