The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Virtual Servers skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Virtual Servers over the 6 months to 29 October 2020 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.
Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.
Virtual Servers is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for system software skills.
Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills
4,769
13,253
15,610
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK
14.58%
15.58%
15.07%
Number of daily rates quoted
2,946
8,723
10,174
Median daily rate
£475
£450
£450
Median daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.56%
-
+5.88%
10th Percentile
£213
£165
£180
90th Percentile
£638
£638
£625
UK excluding London median daily rate
£425
£413
£400
% change year-on-year
+3.03%
+3.13%
+6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted
223
691
910
Median hourly rate
£19.50
£17.00
£16.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year
+14.71%
+6.25%
-4.19%
10th Percentile
£11.17
£11.17
£10.50
90th Percentile
£53.60
£47.50
£43.75
Median hourly rate
£17.75
£16.00
£15.75
% change year-on-year
+10.94%
+1.59%
+1.61%
Virtual Servers Job Vacancy Trend
Job postings citing Virtual Servers as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.
Virtual Servers Contractor Daily Rate Trend
3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Virtual Servers.
Virtual Servers Daily Rate Histogram
Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Servers over the 6 months to 29 October 2020.
Virtual Servers Contractor Hourly Rate Trend
3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Virtual Servers.
Virtual Servers Hourly Rate Histogram
Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Virtual Servers over the 6 months to 29 October 2020.
Virtual Servers Top 14 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 29 October 2020. 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
For the 6 months to 29 October 2020, IT contractor jobs citing Virtual Servers also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity.
The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads with a requirement for Virtual Servers.
Virtual Servers Co-occurring IT Skills by Category
The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category.
The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:
