vSphere Contracts in the Midlands

VMware vSphere
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 128 137 185
Rank change year-on-year +9 +48 -39
Contract jobs citing vSphere 10 31 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.37% 0.92% 0.28%
As % of the System Software category 4.07% 6.49% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 25 10
10th Percentile £299 £280 £298
25th Percentile £300 £313 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £350 £453
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -22.65% +14.56%
75th Percentile £825 £406 £543
90th Percentile £1,000 £460 £596
England median daily rate £500 £455 £468
% change year-on-year +9.84% -2.73% +8.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £38.50 -
England median hourly rate £70.66 £62.00 £27.38
% change year-on-year +13.97% +126.48% -39.50%

All System Software Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 246 478 669
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 9.06% 14.23% 13.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 332 464
10th Percentile £150 £158 £130
25th Percentile £207 £250 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £445 £375
Median % change year-on-year -19.55% +18.67% +7.53%
75th Percentile £550 £569 £498
90th Percentile £646 £690 £585
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 26 42
10th Percentile £14.77 £12.60 £10.58
25th Percentile £15.74 £15.50 £13.50
Median hourly rate £17.98 £22.50 £16.75
Median % change year-on-year -20.11% +34.33% +24.07%
75th Percentile £22.80 £48.13 £20.45
90th Percentile £37.83 £65.00 £23.73
England median hourly rate £21.00 £50.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -58.00% +163.16% -5.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for vSphere in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for vSphere in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing vSphere in the Midlands over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for vSphere in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for vSphere in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing vSphere within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 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
West Midlands +12 9 £550 +69.23% 9
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England

vSphere
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (20.00%) IIS
2 2 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (20.00%) WordPress
3 1 (10.00%) nginx
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (20.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 10 (100.00%) SAN
2 7 (70.00%) DNS
2 7 (70.00%) Fibre Channel
3 5 (50.00%) DHCP
3 5 (50.00%) LAN
3 5 (50.00%) Remote Desktop
3 5 (50.00%) WAN
4 3 (30.00%) Firewall
4 3 (30.00%) VPN
4 3 (30.00%) Wireless
5 2 (20.00%) iSCSI
5 2 (20.00%) NAS
6 1 (10.00%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (10.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (10.00%) MySQL
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Administrator
1 5 (50.00%) Server Administrator
1 5 (50.00%) VMWare Administrator
2 2 (20.00%) Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Lead
3 1 (10.00%) Security Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) LAMP
2 1 (10.00%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) PKI
2 2 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (20.00%) Replication
3 1 (10.00%) CCTV
3 1 (10.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (80.00%) Windows
1 8 (80.00%) Windows Server
2 7 (70.00%) Linux
2 7 (70.00%) Ubuntu
3 5 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (40.00%) CentOS
5 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (20.00%) VMS
6 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (10.00%) Android
7 1 (10.00%) Mac OS
7 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 5 (50.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
3 4 (40.00%) Change Control
3 4 (40.00%) Patch Management
3 4 (40.00%) Task Automation
4 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (30.00%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
5 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
5 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (20.00%) Migration
5 2 (20.00%) Test Strategy
6 1 (10.00%) Coaching
6 1 (10.00%) IT Strategy
6 1 (10.00%) ITIL
6 1 (10.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (40.00%) Bash
3 3 (30.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
1 2 (20.00%) Master's Degree
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 10 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (70.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (50.00%) VMware NSX
3 5 (50.00%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) vCenter Server
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (30.00%) SCCM
3 1 (10.00%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) VMware
2 9 (90.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (30.00%) Aruba
3 3 (30.00%) Veeam
4 2 (20.00%) Palo Alto
4 2 (20.00%) ProCurve
4 2 (20.00%) Synology
4 2 (20.00%) Zerto
5 1 (10.00%) Cisco
5 1 (10.00%) HP
5 1 (10.00%) Nimble Storage
5 1 (10.00%) Red Hat
5 1 (10.00%) Sage
5 1 (10.00%) WatchGuard