Virtual Servers Contracts

Virtual Servers
UK

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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 535 624 704
Rank change year-on-year +89 +80 -61
Contract jobs citing Virtual Servers 56 94 150
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.16% 0.17%
As % of the System Software category 1.20% 1.20% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 62 118
10th Percentile £300 £401 £242
25th Percentile £400 £452 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% +16.67% +16.20%
75th Percentile £606 £643 £539
90th Percentile £698 £788 £634
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £525 £438
% change year-on-year +4.76% +20.00% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 6
10th Percentile £16.00 £28.50 £20.00
25th Percentile - £32.25 £24.31
Median hourly rate £40.00 £38.50 £42.21
Median % change year-on-year +3.90% -8.78% -
75th Percentile - £44.75 £46.80
90th Percentile - £48.50 £53.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £26.00 £29.86
% change year-on-year +53.85% -12.93% -

All System Software Skills
UK

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 4,663 7,805 12,018
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.81% 13.20% 13.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,191 5,580 8,602
10th Percentile £200 £204 £200
25th Percentile £339 £400 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £480 £450
% change year-on-year -4.17% +6.67% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 233 277 318
10th Percentile £14.06 £15.23 £13.25
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.25 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £54.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.33% +170.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £60.75 £66.00 £45.19
90th Percentile £79.60 £75.20 £60.92
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.98 £44.93 £18.12
% change year-on-year -53.31% +148.01% +2.93%

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 4 May 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Virtual Servers over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Virtual Servers in the UK

Virtual Servers
Top 12 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 4 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 +80 53 £530 +0.95% 56
UK excluding London +49 35 £550 +4.76% 42
London +95 20 £400 -15.79% 17
Work from Home +116 15 £550 +10.00% 62
South West +14 13 £600 +14.29% 9
Midlands +37 9 £500 +11.11% 10
South East +24 9 £550 +15.79% 10
East Midlands - 5 - - 4
West Midlands +28 4 £500 +11.11% 6
North of England +23 2 £188 -60.53% 5
North West +16 2 £188 -60.53% 3
Scotland - 2 £619 - 3

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 15 (26.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (12.50%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.57%) Apache
3 2 (3.57%) nginx
4 1 (1.79%) Confluence
4 1 (1.79%) IIS
4 1 (1.79%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (5.36%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (5.36%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 10 (17.86%) Azure
1 10 (17.86%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (10.71%) AWS
3 3 (5.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (5.36%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (5.36%) Amazon S3
3 3 (5.36%) CloudFront
3 3 (5.36%) OneDrive
3 3 (5.36%) Route 53
3 3 (5.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (3.57%) Datadog
4 2 (3.57%) Entra ID
4 2 (3.57%) Fastly
4 2 (3.57%) GitHub
5 1 (1.79%) Azure Stack
5 1 (1.79%) GCP
5 1 (1.79%) IaaS
5 1 (1.79%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (37.50%) WAN
2 20 (35.71%) DNS
3 19 (33.93%) LAN
4 17 (30.36%) DHCP
5 13 (23.21%) Firewall
5 13 (23.21%) TCP/IP
6 9 (16.07%) SAN
6 9 (16.07%) VPN
7 8 (14.29%) MPLS
7 8 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (10.71%) Internet
9 5 (8.93%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 5 (8.93%) NetScaler
10 4 (7.14%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 4 (7.14%) Skype
11 3 (5.36%) SMTP
12 1 (1.79%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (16.07%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.36%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (5.36%) Bitbucket
1 3 (5.36%) Git
2 1 (1.79%) JIRA
2 1 (1.79%) Subversion
General
1 24 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 10 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (14.29%) Aerospace
3 8 (14.29%) Mandarin Language
3 8 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 4 (7.14%) Banking
4 4 (7.14%) Finance
5 3 (5.36%) Military
6 2 (3.57%) Cantonese Language
6 2 (3.57%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (21.43%) Analyst
2 10 (17.86%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 9 (16.07%) IT Analyst
4 8 (14.29%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
5 5 (8.93%) Automation Engineer
5 5 (8.93%) Support Officer
5 5 (8.93%) Technical Support
5 5 (8.93%) Technical Support Officer
5 5 (8.93%) VMware Engineer
6 4 (7.14%) Desktop Support
6 4 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
6 4 (7.14%) Wintel Engineer
7 3 (5.36%) Architect
7 3 (5.36%) Business Analyst
7 3 (5.36%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (5.36%) Developer
7 3 (5.36%) IT Engineer
7 3 (5.36%) IT Support
7 3 (5.36%) Microsoft 365 Business Analyst
7 3 (5.36%) Service Desk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.71%) LDAP
2 4 (7.14%) JSON
3 2 (3.57%) Django
3 2 (3.57%) HornetQ
3 2 (3.57%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (3.57%) VCL
4 1 (1.79%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 17 (30.36%) Data Centre
2 8 (14.29%) Client/Server
2 8 (14.29%) Clustering
2 8 (14.29%) Video Conferencing
3 6 (10.71%) CMDB
4 5 (8.93%) Onboarding
5 4 (7.14%) PKI
6 1 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.79%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.79%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.79%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.79%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 36 (64.29%) Windows
2 16 (28.57%) Windows Server
3 12 (21.43%) Windows 10
4 9 (16.07%) Unix
5 8 (14.29%) Mac OS
6 7 (12.50%) Linux
7 4 (7.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (5.36%) Debian
8 3 (5.36%) VMS
8 3 (5.36%) Windows 7
9 1 (1.79%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (1.79%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (1.79%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (37.50%) ITIL
2 15 (26.79%) Server Management
3 14 (25.00%) Migration
4 10 (17.86%) Asset Management
5 9 (16.07%) Customer Service
5 9 (16.07%) Data Protection
6 8 (14.29%) Application Packaging
6 8 (14.29%) Business Transformation
6 8 (14.29%) Capacity Management
6 8 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
6 8 (14.29%) Data Migration
6 8 (14.29%) Decision-Making
6 8 (14.29%) Network Management
6 8 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (12.50%) Agile
7 7 (12.50%) SDLC
8 6 (10.71%) Infrastructure Automation
8 6 (10.71%) Product Management
8 6 (10.71%) Project Management
8 6 (10.71%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 13 (23.21%) PowerShell
2 10 (17.86%) SQL
3 6 (10.71%) Java
4 4 (7.14%) ActionScript
4 4 (7.14%) Python
5 3 (5.36%) Bash
6 2 (3.57%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.79%) Perl
Qualifications
1 15 (26.79%) Degree
2 5 (8.93%) SC Cleared
2 5 (8.93%) Security Cleared
3 4 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.79%) CCNA
4 1 (1.79%) CCNP
4 1 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.79%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.79%) MCSE
4 1 (1.79%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.36%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (55.36%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (32.14%) Active Directory
3 8 (14.29%) VMware Workstation
4 6 (10.71%) Hyper-V
5 4 (7.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 3 (5.36%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (3.57%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 12 (21.43%) SCCM
2 8 (14.29%) Microsoft Clustering
2 8 (14.29%) Nagios
2 8 (14.29%) NetBackup
3 4 (7.14%) Ansible
3 4 (7.14%) Kubernetes
3 4 (7.14%) SCOM
3 4 (7.14%) vRealize Orchestrator
4 3 (5.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 3 (5.36%) OPNET
4 3 (5.36%) Terraform
5 2 (3.57%) HAProxy
5 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (3.57%) WSUS
6 1 (1.79%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.79%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.79%) Puppet
6 1 (1.79%) vRealize
Vendors
1 31 (55.36%) VMware
2 13 (23.21%) Microsoft
3 12 (21.43%) Cisco
4 8 (14.29%) Hitachi
4 8 (14.29%) NetApp
5 6 (10.71%) TOWER Software
6 5 (8.93%) F5
7 4 (7.14%) Red Hat
7 4 (7.14%) SolarWinds
8 3 (5.36%) Remedy
9 1 (1.79%) Atlassian
9 1 (1.79%) Citrix
9 1 (1.79%) Google
9 1 (1.79%) Veeam