vSphere Contracts in the Thames Valley

VMware vSphere
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 134 130 131
Rank change year-on-year -4 +1 0
Contract jobs citing vSphere 9 18 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.34% 0.61% 0.95%
As % of the System Software category 2.61% 5.07% 6.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 15 27
10th Percentile £323 £410 £376
25th Percentile £325 £431 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £455 £460
Median % change year-on-year -5.23% -1.09% +21.45%
75th Percentile £500 £458 £500
90th Percentile £650 £542 -
South East median daily rate £475 £425 £460
% change year-on-year +11.76% -7.61% +6.98%
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
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 345 355 523
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 12.91% 12.08% 15.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 265 391
10th Percentile £175 £230 £150
25th Percentile £310 £365 £341
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £481 £453
Median % change year-on-year +9.25% +6.20% +3.43%
75th Percentile £608 £575 £588
90th Percentile £650 £675 £656
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 16 14
10th Percentile £16.25 £18.86 £10.92
25th Percentile £46.25 £48.18 £12.44
Median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £14.85
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +270.37% -36.81%
75th Percentile £65.00 £71.25 £20.00
90th Percentile - £78.56 £53.25
South East median hourly rate £50.75 £54.03 £20.00
% change year-on-year -6.07% +170.15% -4.76%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for vSphere in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for vSphere in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing vSphere in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for vSphere in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for vSphere in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing vSphere within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Berkshire -2 5 £350 -38.86%
Buckinghamshire +16 4 £466 +2.33% 1
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South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (22.22%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) VSAN
2 1 (11.11%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) MongoDB
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle Database
1 2 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) GitLab
General
1 2 (22.22%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Virtualisation Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Operations Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Security Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) VMware Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior
4 1 (11.11%) Senior VMware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Linux Command Line
1 2 (22.22%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
1 2 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (22.22%) Unix
1 2 (22.22%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (44.44%) Agile
2 4 (44.44%) ITIL
2 4 (44.44%) ITSM
2 4 (44.44%) Release Management
2 4 (44.44%) Virtual Environments
3 2 (22.22%) Containerisation
3 2 (22.22%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (22.22%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Bash
1 2 (22.22%) Python
1 2 (22.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 6 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (44.44%) VCAP
2 4 (44.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 2 (22.22%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 9 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (44.44%) VMware NSX
3 2 (22.22%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
4 1 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Ansible
1 2 (22.22%) Kubernetes
1 2 (22.22%) Packer
1 2 (22.22%) vRealize
2 1 (11.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) Oracle
2 2 (22.22%) Red Hat
3 1 (11.11%) Citrix