Virtual Servers Contracts with Work from Home 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 16 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 323 427 561
Rank change year-on-year +104 +134 -83
Contract jobs citing Virtual Servers 18 30 62
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.12% 0.13% 0.14%
As % of the System Software category 1.26% 1.02% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 22 51
10th Percentile £327 £401 £350
25th Percentile £400 £458 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £488 £452
Median % change year-on-year +13.85% +7.85% +9.58%
75th Percentile £592 £538 £594
90th Percentile £615 £571 £615
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -2.38% +16.67% +27.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £51.00 -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £47.83 £20.00
% change year-on-year -16.37% +139.15% -74.36%

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 1,433 2,944 5,279
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 9.71% 12.33% 12.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,065 2,081 3,926
10th Percentile £293 £285 £319
25th Percentile £410 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £619 £633 £625
90th Percentile £686 £715 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 113 87
10th Percentile - £18.22 £15.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £47.50 £18.55
Median hourly rate £40.25 £65.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.08% +136.36% +13.40%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £59.84
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.60 £66.40
UK median hourly rate £24.18 £54.56 £20.00
% change year-on-year -55.68% +172.80% -

Virtual Servers
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Virtual Servers as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Virtual Servers trend for jobs with a WFH option

Virtual Servers
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Virtual Servers over the 6 months to 16 June 2024.

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 a work from home option 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 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (16.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (38.89%) Azure
2 4 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (16.67%) AWS
3 3 (16.67%) OneDrive
4 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
4 1 (5.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (27.78%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 5 (27.78%) Internet
1 5 (27.78%) NetScaler
1 5 (27.78%) TCP/IP
2 4 (22.22%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 1 (5.56%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
General
1 6 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (11.11%) Banking
2 2 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Architect
1 5 (27.78%) Support Officer
1 5 (27.78%) Technical Support
1 5 (27.78%) Technical Support Officer
2 3 (16.67%) Analyst
2 3 (16.67%) Business Analyst
2 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Architect
2 3 (16.67%) Microsoft 365 Business Analyst
2 3 (16.67%) Senior
3 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Business Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Network Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Senior Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Senior Network Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.56%) IT Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) SharePoint Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 5 (27.78%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 13 (72.22%) Windows
2 4 (22.22%) Linux
3 3 (16.67%) VMS
4 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Migration
2 3 (16.67%) Agile
2 3 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
2 3 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
2 3 (16.67%) Roadmaps
2 3 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
2 3 (16.67%) Technology Roadmap
2 3 (16.67%) Waterfall
3 2 (11.11%) Fintech
3 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (11.11%) Project Management
3 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (11.11%) Workshop Facilitation
4 1 (5.56%) Application Discovery
4 1 (5.56%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (5.56%) Server Management
4 1 (5.56%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) ActionScript
2 3 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (5.56%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (27.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (11.11%) Hyper-V
3 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 5 (27.78%) F5
2 5 (27.78%) VMware
3 1 (5.56%) Cisco
3 1 (5.56%) Google
3 1 (5.56%) Meraki