vSphere Contracts in the North of England

VMware vSphere
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 179 195 227
Rank change year-on-year +16 +32 -53
Contract jobs citing vSphere 4 17 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.086% 0.30% 0.30%
As % of the System Software category 0.73% 2.06% 2.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 17 19
10th Percentile £235 £319 £235
25th Percentile £317 £331 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £350 £250
Median % change year-on-year +35.71% +40.00% -34.73%
75th Percentile £619 £438 £378
90th Percentile £630 £471 £465
England median daily rate £500 £455 £455
% change year-on-year +9.89% - +5.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.04
Median hourly rate - - £21.35
75th Percentile - - £22.67
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.66 £62.00 £27.38
% change year-on-year +13.97% +126.48% -39.50%

All System Software Skills
North of England

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 North of England with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 550 825 1,032
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 11.76% 14.51% 14.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 394 613 767
10th Percentile £178 £182 £156
25th Percentile £275 £308 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% +17.65% +0.72%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £550
90th Percentile £650 £675 £638
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 34 47
10th Percentile - £14.08 £15.00
25th Percentile £14.06 £16.78 £16.00
Median hourly rate £16.00 £26.75 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.19% +52.86% -7.89%
75th Percentile £18.97 £63.75 £20.00
90th Percentile £46.18 £65.53 £25.75
England median hourly rate £21.00 £50.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -58.00% +150.00% +2.56%

vSphere
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for vSphere in the North of England

vSphere
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing vSphere in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for vSphere in the North of England

vSphere
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing vSphere in the North of England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for vSphere in the North of England

vSphere
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing vSphere in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for vSphere in the North of England

vSphere
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing vSphere within the North of England region over the 6 months to 9 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 East - 2 £403 - 1
Yorkshire +15 1 £375 +11.11% 1
North West +4 1 £575 +55.41% 6
vSphere
England

vSphere
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 1 (25.00%) Site Server
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (25.00%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) DHCP
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) LAN
2 1 (25.00%) NAS
2 1 (25.00%) NetScaler
2 1 (25.00%) SAN
2 1 (25.00%) VSAN
2 1 (25.00%) WAN
2 1 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Back Office
2 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) 1st Line Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) 1st Line Support
2 1 (25.00%) 1st Line Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) 2nd/3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Client/Server
2 1 (25.00%) LIMS
2 1 (25.00%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Database Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Server Building
2 1 (25.00%) Server Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) MCSE
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (25.00%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (25.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) WSUS
2 1 (25.00%) FortiGate
2 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds Orion
2 1 (25.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (50.00%) Cisco
4 1 (25.00%) Aruba
4 1 (25.00%) Citrix
4 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
4 1 (25.00%) HP
4 1 (25.00%) NetApp
4 1 (25.00%) Oracle
4 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
4 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds
4 1 (25.00%) Sophos
4 1 (25.00%) Symantec
4 1 (25.00%) Veeam