Server Virtualisation Contracts

Server Virtualization
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 511 565 678
Rank change year-on-year +54 +113 +129
Contract jobs citing Server Virtualisation 9 17 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.031% 0.039% 0.067%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.034% 0.045% 0.075%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 15 27
10th Percentile £323 - £306
25th Percentile £343 £275 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £381 £300 £450
Median % change year-on-year +27.08% -33.33% -
75th Percentile £433 £513 £533
90th Percentile £500 £643 £575
UK excluding London median daily rate £345 £300 £475
% change year-on-year +15.00% -36.84% +11.76%
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 excluding London median hourly rate - £19.95 £18.50
% change year-on-year - +7.84% +5.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

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 1 May 2025.

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 8 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 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
England +49 7 £381 +27.08% 11
UK excluding London +55 4 £345 +15.00% 9
Work from Home +41 3 £350 -26.32% 3
London +35 2 £525 -4.55% 3
South West - 2 £326 - 2
North West +17 1 £425 -32.00% 1
North of England +11 1 £425 +41.67% 1
South East - 1 £350 - 3

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 1 (11.11%) IIS
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (11.11%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) AWS
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
2 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
2 1 (11.11%) GitHub
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (11.11%) Nutanix
2 1 (11.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) DNS
2 2 (22.22%) DHCP
2 2 (22.22%) SSL
2 2 (22.22%) VPN
2 2 (22.22%) VSAN
3 1 (11.11%) Network Security
3 1 (11.11%) SAN
General
1 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
1 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) VMware Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Coordinator
2 1 (11.11%) Hardware Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) HP Storage Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Project Coordinator
2 1 (11.11%) SCCM Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Server Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Service Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Service Desk Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Storage Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Technical Coordinator
2 1 (11.11%) Technical Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Technical Project Coordinator
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (11.11%) Clustering
2 1 (11.11%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Windows
2 7 (77.78%) Windows Server
3 3 (33.33%) Linux
3 3 (33.33%) Windows 10
3 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (11.11%) Android
5 1 (11.11%) Apple iOS
5 1 (11.11%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) ITIL
2 3 (33.33%) Change Management
2 3 (33.33%) Patch Management
3 2 (22.22%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (22.22%) ITSM
3 2 (22.22%) Performance Monitoring
3 2 (22.22%) Project Management
3 2 (22.22%) Security Monitoring
3 2 (22.22%) Server Building
3 2 (22.22%) Service Delivery
3 2 (22.22%) Software Deployment
3 2 (22.22%) Software Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Incident Management
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (11.11%) Network Architecture
4 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (22.22%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) PCI DSS
1 1 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 6 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (44.44%) Hyper-V
2 4 (44.44%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (22.22%) vSphere
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (11.11%) VMware NSX
4 1 (11.11%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Ansible
1 3 (33.33%) SCCM
2 2 (22.22%) PowerCLI
2 2 (22.22%) vCenter Server
3 1 (11.11%) Backup Exec
3 1 (11.11%) Nagios
3 1 (11.11%) NetBackup
3 1 (11.11%) Prometheus
3 1 (11.11%) Terraform
3 1 (11.11%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) VMware
2 4 (44.44%) HP
3 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 2 (22.22%) Citrix
4 2 (22.22%) IBM
4 2 (22.22%) Remedy
4 2 (22.22%) SolarWinds
5 1 (11.11%) Dell
5 1 (11.11%) Intel
5 1 (11.11%) Juniper
5 1 (11.11%) NetApp
5 1 (11.11%) NETGEAR
5 1 (11.11%) TP-LINK