vSphere Contracts in Berkshire

VMware vSphere
South East > Berkshire

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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 108 117
Rank change year-on-year -11 +9 -17
Contract jobs citing vSphere 5 4 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.25% 0.22% 0.67%
As % of the System Software category 1.95% 2.02% 4.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 10
10th Percentile £319 £520 -
25th Percentile £325 £536 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £573 £438
Median % change year-on-year -38.86% +30.86% +15.51%
75th Percentile £650 £611 £528
90th Percentile - £627 £761
South East median daily rate £475 £425 £468
% change year-on-year +11.76% -9.09% +9.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £65.25 £82.50
Median hourly rate - £70.50 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year - -17.06% -
75th Percentile - £75.75 £87.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - £54.50 £85.00
% change year-on-year - -35.88% +150.00%

All System Software Skills
Berkshire

vSphere 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 Berkshire with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 257 198 323
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 13.00% 11.04% 13.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 138 235
10th Percentile £205 £315 £150
25th Percentile £353 £410 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +10.53% +4.11%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £623
90th Percentile £675 £700 £665
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 14 4
10th Percentile - £28.25 £11.70
25th Percentile - £48.40 £14.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £56.88 £41.25
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +37.88% -31.25%
75th Percentile - £73.75 £72.50
90th Percentile - £79.68 £81.50
South East median hourly rate £50.75 £54.03 £20.00
% change year-on-year -6.07% +170.15% -9.09%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing vSphere as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for vSphere in Berkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing vSphere in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for vSphere in Berkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing vSphere in Berkshire over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for vSphere in Berkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing vSphere in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for vSphere in Berkshire

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Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing vSphere within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 2 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
Reading -8 4 £500 -20.00%
Wokingham - 1 £315 -
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South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Database
1 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) GitLab
General
1 2 (40.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Linux Command Line
1 2 (40.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Unix
1 2 (40.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Bash
1 2 (40.00%) Python
1 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (40.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Ansible
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (40.00%) Packer
1 2 (40.00%) vRealize
2 1 (20.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) Oracle
2 2 (40.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (20.00%) Citrix