Virtual Servers Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Virtual Servers
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 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 291 330 448
Rank change year-on-year +39 +118 +132
Contract jobs citing Virtual Servers 13 15 29
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.13% 0.098% 0.11%
As % of the System Software category 1.11% 1.03% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 9 21
10th Percentile £208 £384 £413
25th Percentile £263 £400 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £600 £584 £538
90th Percentile £610 £593 £575
UK median daily rate £450 £537 £525
% change year-on-year -16.12% +2.19% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £51.00
UK median hourly rate - £40.00 £38.50
% change year-on-year - +3.90% -8.78%

All System Software Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,169 1,452 3,207
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.80% 9.46% 12.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 868 1,058 2,296
10th Percentile £358 £263 £300
25th Percentile £425 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.68% -3.84% -
75th Percentile £625 £618 £633
90th Percentile £775 £677 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 34 101
10th Percentile £25.25 £15.50 £19.00
25th Percentile £52.44 £15.88 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.50 £43.32 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.20% -33.35% +165.31%
75th Percentile £79.38 £65.00 £70.25
90th Percentile £92.50 £84.57 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £22.50 £53.43
% change year-on-year +22.22% -57.88% +167.13%

Virtual Servers
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Virtual Servers as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Virtual Servers trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Virtual Servers
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Virtual Servers.

Virtual Servers daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Virtual Servers
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Virtual Servers over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Virtual Servers daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Virtual Servers
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Virtual Servers.

Virtual Servers hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Virtual Servers
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (38.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (15.38%) SharePoint
2 2 (15.38%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) Azure
2 6 (46.15%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (38.46%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) DHCP
1 4 (30.77%) DNS
1 4 (30.77%) Firewall
1 4 (30.77%) WAN
1 4 (30.77%) Wireless
2 3 (23.08%) Internet
2 3 (23.08%) iSCSI
2 3 (23.08%) LAN
2 3 (23.08%) Remote Desktop
2 3 (23.08%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (15.38%) Skype
3 2 (15.38%) Unified Communications
4 1 (7.69%) SD-WAN
4 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
1 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Banking
2 2 (15.38%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Administrator
2 3 (23.08%) Support Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Systems Administrator
3 2 (15.38%) Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Business Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Business IT Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Facilities Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) IT Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) IT Business Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) IT Operations Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Migration Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Operations Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Operations Business Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Technical Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Technical Support
3 2 (15.38%) Technical Support Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Support
4 1 (7.69%) IT Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) LDAP
1 3 (23.08%) X-Windows
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) IVR
2 2 (15.38%) PKI
3 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
3 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 12 (92.31%) Windows
2 9 (69.23%) Linux
3 8 (61.54%) Windows Server
4 5 (38.46%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (23.08%) Android
5 3 (23.08%) Mac OS
5 3 (23.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (46.15%) Information Security
2 6 (46.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (38.46%) Storage Management
4 4 (30.77%) Business Continuity
5 3 (23.08%) BCP
5 3 (23.08%) Capacity Planning
5 3 (23.08%) Customer Service
5 3 (23.08%) ITIL
5 3 (23.08%) Line Management
5 3 (23.08%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (23.08%) Service Delivery
5 3 (23.08%) Task Automation
5 3 (23.08%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 2 (15.38%) Fintech
6 2 (15.38%) Project Management
6 2 (15.38%) Requirements Gathering
6 2 (15.38%) Server Management
6 2 (15.38%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) PowerShell
1 4 (30.77%) Shell Script
2 2 (15.38%) SQL
3 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
1 2 (15.38%) DV Cleared
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (23.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 3 (23.08%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (76.92%) Active Directory
2 5 (38.46%) Hyper-V
2 5 (38.46%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 3 (23.08%) Docker
3 3 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) WSUS
2 1 (7.69%) Ansible
2 1 (7.69%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 10 (76.92%) Microsoft
2 3 (23.08%) Apple
2 3 (23.08%) VMware
3 2 (15.38%) Veeam
4 1 (7.69%) Cisco
4 1 (7.69%) Dell
4 1 (7.69%) Red Hat
4 1 (7.69%) SolarWinds