Virtual Servers Contracts

Virtual Servers
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 494 536 605
Rank change year-on-year +42 +69 +134
Contract jobs citing Virtual Servers 54 49 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.11% 0.14%
As % of the System Software category 1.41% 1.01% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 23 54
10th Percentile £403 £284 £374
25th Percentile £425 £391 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - +16.99%
75th Percentile £575 £599 £623
90th Percentile £610 £666 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 2
10th Percentile - £16.00 £28.18
25th Percentile - - £31.46
Median hourly rate - £40.00 £36.92
Median % change year-on-year - +8.36% +84.58%
75th Percentile - - £42.37
90th Percentile - - £45.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £40.00 £36.92
% change year-on-year - +8.36% +84.58%

All System Software Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 3,827 4,838 7,388
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.02% 11.17% 13.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,489 3,334 5,159
10th Percentile £225 £210 £200
25th Percentile £381 £370 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £688 £688 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £482 £479
% change year-on-year -1.45% +0.63% +6.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 216 257
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.06 £15.21
25th Percentile £16.39 £15.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £28.00 £23.80 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -55.93% +170.00%
75th Percentile £66.00 £58.69 £67.50
90th Percentile £88.75 £70.00 £76.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.88 £23.34 £27.50
% change year-on-year +135.11% -15.13% +48.65%

Virtual Servers
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Virtual Servers as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Servers in the UK

Virtual Servers
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtual Servers.

Daily rate trend for Virtual Servers in the UK

Virtual Servers
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Servers over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Servers in the UK

Virtual Servers
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Virtual Servers.

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Servers in the UK

Virtual Servers
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 6 July 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
UK excluding London +67 47 £550 - 27
England +48 41 £550 - 40
East of England +47 20 £550 +57.14% 1
Scotland +17 12 £450 +87.50%
Work from Home +26 11 £425 -23.42% 11
South West +34 7 £588 +51.61% 4
London +22 6 £525 - 19
Midlands +12 5 - - 2
West Midlands +10 4 - - 2
North of England +5 3 £275 +46.67% 6
North West +9 2 £245 +30.67% 3
East Midlands -3 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 £600 - 2

Virtual Servers
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 8 (14.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (12.96%) SharePoint
3 5 (9.26%) Skype for Business
4 3 (5.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 20 (37.04%) Cohesity
2 7 (12.96%) IaaS
3 5 (9.26%) Azure
3 5 (9.26%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (5.56%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.85%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 32 (59.26%) DNS
2 24 (44.44%) SAN
3 11 (20.37%) DHCP
4 6 (11.11%) LAN
4 6 (11.11%) Skype
5 5 (9.26%) Unified Communications
6 4 (7.41%) NAS
7 3 (5.56%) Firewall
7 3 (5.56%) WAN
8 2 (3.70%) Internet
8 2 (3.70%) Wireless
9 1 (1.85%) iSCSI
9 1 (1.85%) NetScaler
9 1 (1.85%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (1.85%) SMTP
9 1 (1.85%) SSL
9 1 (1.85%) TCP/IP
9 1 (1.85%) VLAN
9 1 (1.85%) VSAN
9 1 (1.85%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.85%) Big Data
1 1 (1.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (16.67%) JIRA
2 3 (5.56%) Bitbucket
General
1 11 (20.37%) Finance
2 10 (18.52%) Banking
3 9 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 8 (14.81%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (11.11%) Public Sector
6 4 (7.41%) Investment Banking
6 4 (7.41%) Manufacturing
7 3 (5.56%) Legal
8 2 (3.70%) Financial Institution
8 2 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.85%) International Banking
9 1 (1.85%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (12.96%) Scrum Master
3 4 (7.41%) Linux Engineer
3 4 (7.41%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (7.41%) Storage Engineer
3 4 (7.41%) Windows Engineer
3 4 (7.41%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (5.56%) Administrator
4 3 (5.56%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (3.70%) Analyst
5 2 (3.70%) Architect
5 2 (3.70%) Business Analyst
5 2 (3.70%) IT Manager
5 2 (3.70%) IT Services Manager
5 2 (3.70%) Service Continuity Manager
5 2 (3.70%) Service Manager
5 2 (3.70%) Testing Manager
6 1 (1.85%) Citrix Consultant
6 1 (1.85%) Infrastructure Architect
6 1 (1.85%) Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.56%) LDAP
1 3 (5.56%) X-Windows
2 1 (1.85%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.96%) Data Centre
1 7 (12.96%) PKI
2 5 (9.26%) Product Ownership
2 5 (9.26%) Replication
3 2 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.70%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.85%) Clustering
4 1 (1.85%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 38 (70.37%) Windows
2 34 (62.96%) Windows Server
3 27 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 21 (38.89%) Windows Server 2019
5 15 (27.78%) Linux
6 5 (9.26%) Windows 10
7 3 (5.56%) Mac OS
7 3 (5.56%) Unix
8 1 (1.85%) Android
8 1 (1.85%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (37.04%) Build Automation
1 20 (37.04%) Deployment Automation
1 20 (37.04%) Operations Management
1 20 (37.04%) SIEM
2 15 (27.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 13 (24.07%) Agile
4 11 (20.37%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (18.52%) Disaster Recovery
6 9 (16.67%) Project Management
6 9 (16.67%) Waterfall
7 8 (14.81%) ITIL
7 8 (14.81%) Service Delivery
7 8 (14.81%) Storage Management
8 7 (12.96%) Business Continuity
8 7 (12.96%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (12.96%) Information Security
8 7 (12.96%) Kanban
8 7 (12.96%) Scrum
9 6 (11.11%) Roadmaps
10 5 (9.26%) Conflict Resolution
Programming Languages
1 27 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 6 (11.11%) SQL
3 5 (9.26%) Shell Script
4 2 (3.70%) Python
Qualifications
1 27 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 25 (46.30%) DV Cleared
3 6 (11.11%) Degree
4 5 (9.26%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.70%) CCNA
5 2 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.85%) CCNP
6 1 (1.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.85%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (3.70%) SLA
System Software
1 33 (61.11%) Active Directory
2 30 (55.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (51.85%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 8 (14.81%) Hyper-V
5 3 (5.56%) Docker
6 2 (3.70%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.85%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (46.30%) WSUS
2 22 (40.74%) Ansible
3 21 (38.89%) SCCM
4 1 (1.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (1.85%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.85%) SCOM
4 1 (1.85%) VxRail
Vendors
1 33 (61.11%) Microsoft
2 30 (55.56%) VMware
3 20 (37.04%) NetApp
3 20 (37.04%) Splunk
4 6 (11.11%) Dell
4 6 (11.11%) Veeam
5 3 (5.56%) Atlassian
6 2 (3.70%) Cisco
6 2 (3.70%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.85%) Apple
7 1 (1.85%) Citrix
7 1 (1.85%) F5
7 1 (1.85%) Okta
7 1 (1.85%) OpenText
7 1 (1.85%) Oracle
7 1 (1.85%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.85%) Remedy
7 1 (1.85%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.85%) Zerto