Virtual Servers Contracts in the West Midlands

Virtual Servers
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 108 141 160
Rank change year-on-year +33 +19 -34
Contract jobs citing Virtual Servers 4 2 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.21% 0.084% 0.22%
As % of the System Software category 2.52% 0.66% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 6
10th Percentile - £326 £281
25th Percentile £475 £347 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £388 £310
Median % change year-on-year +29.03% +25.00% -4.62%
75th Percentile £601 £422 £331
90th Percentile £646 £439 £344
England median daily rate £537 £525 £450
% change year-on-year +2.19% +16.67% +12.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £20.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 £26.00 £39.73
% change year-on-year +53.85% -34.55% -

All System Software Skills
West Midlands

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 advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 159 302 457
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 8.25% 12.63% 12.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 203 322
10th Percentile £178 £158 £164
25th Percentile £231 £263 £227
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £403
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +17.94% +15.07%
75th Percentile £566 £551 £538
90th Percentile £675 £698 £624
England median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 25
10th Percentile £14.41 £14.42 £11.75
25th Percentile £15.21 £15.98 £13.75
Median hourly rate £17.80 £17.72 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.47% +7.38% +10.00%
75th Percentile £20.90 £51.19 £20.00
90th Percentile £22.61 £52.50 £22.45
England median hourly rate £21.00 £50.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -58.00% +163.16% -

Virtual Servers
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Virtual Servers as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Virtual Servers in the West Midlands

Virtual Servers
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Virtual Servers in the West Midlands

Virtual Servers
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Virtual Servers in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Virtual Servers in the West Midlands

Virtual Servers
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Virtual Servers in the West Midlands

Virtual Servers
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
Warwickshire - 3 £500 - 2
Birmingham - 1 - - 1
Virtual Servers
England

Virtual Servers
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Server Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Operations Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Edge Computing
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Server Management
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Hyper-V
2 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft