Server Virtualisation Contracts in the UK excluding London

Server Virtualization
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Server Virtualisation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Server Virtualisation over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 381 430 473
Rank change year-on-year +49 +43 -59
Contract jobs citing Server Virtualisation 13 16 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.064% 0.069% 0.085%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.076% 0.077% 0.095%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 14 16
10th Percentile - £336 £184
25th Percentile £275 £431 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £463 £438
Median % change year-on-year -35.14% +5.71% +9.38%
75th Percentile £488 £541 £490
90th Percentile £499 £575 £575
UK median daily rate £300 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -33.33% - +6.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £15.53
25th Percentile - £17.75 £16.27
Median hourly rate £19.95 £18.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.84% +5.71% -21.94%
75th Percentile - £19.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £19.95 £18.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year +7.84% +5.71% -21.94%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Server Virtualisation is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,076 20,688 27,368
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.26% 89.44% 89.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,209 14,247 19,122
10th Percentile £250 £258 £235
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,062 1,260 1,365
10th Percentile £12.34 £10.63 £12.30
25th Percentile £15.31 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.71 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%

Server Virtualisation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Server Virtualisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Server Virtualisation in the UK excluding London

Server Virtualisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Server Virtualisation in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Server Virtualisation in the UK excluding London

Server Virtualisation
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Server Virtualisation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Server Virtualisation in the UK excluding London

Server Virtualisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Server Virtualisation in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Server Virtualisation in the UK excluding London

Server Virtualisation
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Server Virtualisation within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 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
North of England +39 10 £300 -11.11% 5
Yorkshire - 7 £300 -
Scotland +41 2 £475 -5.00% 2
North West +17 2 £563 +66.67% 5
West Midlands +17 1 - -
Midlands +14 1 - - 4
North East - 1 £180 -
Server Virtualisation
UK

Server Virtualisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 7 (53.85%) Microsoft Exchange
1 7 (53.85%) SharePoint
2 1 (7.69%) Site Server
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (30.77%) Azure
3 2 (15.38%) AWS
4 1 (7.69%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 9 (69.23%) Firewall
2 7 (53.85%) VPN
3 3 (23.08%) SAN
4 1 (7.69%) DHCP
4 1 (7.69%) DNS
4 1 (7.69%) LAN
4 1 (7.69%) NAS
4 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
4 1 (7.69%) VLAN
4 1 (7.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
General
1 10 (76.92%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Banking
2 2 (15.38%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
1 7 (53.85%) 3rd Line Support
1 7 (53.85%) IT Support
2 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Senior
4 2 (15.38%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Server Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) 1st Line Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) 1st Line Support
5 1 (7.69%) 1st Line Support Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Server Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Support Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Windows Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Client/Server
1 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
1 1 (7.69%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (92.31%) Windows
2 9 (69.23%) Windows Server
3 3 (23.08%) Linux
4 1 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (7.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Customer Service
2 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (23.08%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (15.38%) Information Security
4 2 (15.38%) Software Deployment
5 1 (7.69%) Antivirus Management
5 1 (7.69%) ITIL
5 1 (7.69%) Network Virtualisation
5 1 (7.69%) Performance Metrics
5 1 (7.69%) Server Management
5 1 (7.69%) Server Monitoring
5 1 (7.69%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) SQL
2 1 (7.69%) C#
2 1 (7.69%) Java
2 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.69%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) MCSE
2 1 (7.69%) RHCE
System Software
1 9 (69.23%) Active Directory
2 4 (30.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (7.69%) Firmware
3 1 (7.69%) Hyper-V
3 1 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (7.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) WSUS
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (30.77%) VMware
3 1 (7.69%) Citrix
3 1 (7.69%) Commvault
3 1 (7.69%) Dell
3 1 (7.69%) NetApp
3 1 (7.69%) Red Hat
3 1 (7.69%) Sophos