VMware vSphere
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 403 407 449
Rank change year-on-year +4 +42 -14
Contract jobs citing vSphere 198 336 478
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.46% 0.56% 0.54%
As % of the System Software category 4.26% 4.25% 3.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 250 342
10th Percentile £325 £313 £279
25th Percentile £452 £410 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £451
Median % change year-on-year +4.16% +6.44% +6.12%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £631 £683 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £455 £450
% change year-on-year +4.40% +1.11% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 16 8
10th Percentile - £20.00 £21.41
25th Percentile - £36.75 £23.78
Median hourly rate £70.66 £54.50 £34.38
Median % change year-on-year +29.65% +58.55% -25.27%
75th Percentile - £75.94 £63.75
90th Percentile - £78.00 £72.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.66 £38.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year +83.53% +16.67% -2.94%

All System Software Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,653 7,900 12,040
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.75% 13.21% 13.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,179 5,646 8,623
10th Percentile £197 £205 £200
25th Percentile £331 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +9.38%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £485 £450
% change year-on-year -5.13% +7.75% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 284 318
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.83 £13.21
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.25 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £53.75 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.14% +168.75% -
75th Percentile £60.19 £66.00 £44.07
90th Percentile £77.95 £75.35 £60.92
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.50 £44.93 £18.12
% change year-on-year -52.15% +148.01% +2.06%

vSphere
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for vSphere in the UK

vSphere
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for vSphere in the UK

vSphere
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing vSphere over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for vSphere in the UK

vSphere
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for vSphere in the UK

vSphere
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing vSphere within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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
England +49 172 £500 +9.89% 74
UK excluding London +9 133 £475 +4.40% 56
South East +32 62 £475 +11.76% 20
Work from Home +55 55 £500 - 23
London +88 51 £525 +2.44% 19
South West +31 45 £508 +1.50% 9
Scotland +17 13 £488 -2.50% 1
North of England +23 6 £510 +45.71% 8
Midlands -7 6 £800 +128.57% 15
West Midlands +18 5 £900 +157.14% 9
North East - 3 £520 - 2
North West +8 2 £538 +47.26% 4
Yorkshire +15 1 £375 +11.11% 2
Wales +4 1 £425 -22.73%

vSphere
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 20 (10.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (3.03%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.53%) Confluence
3 5 (2.53%) IIS
4 4 (2.02%) IBM Domino
5 3 (1.52%) WordPress
6 2 (1.01%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.51%) nginx
7 1 (0.51%) Site Server
Applications
1 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (3.54%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.52%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.51%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.51%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 40 (20.20%) Azure
2 22 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
3 20 (10.10%) AWS
4 10 (5.05%) GitHub
5 9 (4.55%) IaaS
5 9 (4.55%) Nutanix
6 7 (3.54%) Cloud Computing
6 7 (3.54%) Entra ID
7 3 (1.52%) OneDrive
8 2 (1.01%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.01%) GCP
8 2 (1.01%) Rubrik
8 2 (1.01%) Slack
8 2 (1.01%) WhatsApp
9 1 (0.51%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.51%) OCI
9 1 (0.51%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 38 (19.19%) Firewall
2 37 (18.69%) SAN
3 36 (18.18%) DNS
3 36 (18.18%) VSAN
4 30 (15.15%) DHCP
5 19 (9.60%) NAS
6 16 (8.08%) VPN
7 12 (6.06%) iSCSI
7 12 (6.06%) TCP/IP
8 10 (5.05%) VLAN
9 9 (4.55%) Fibre Channel
10 6 (3.03%) Cisco Nexus
10 6 (3.03%) LAN
10 6 (3.03%) WAN
11 5 (2.53%) Wireless
12 4 (2.02%) NetScaler
12 4 (2.02%) Software-Defined Networking
12 4 (2.02%) SSL
12 4 (2.02%) VoIP
13 2 (1.01%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (7.58%) PostgreSQL
1 15 (7.58%) SQL Server
2 10 (5.05%) MongoDB
3 6 (3.03%) MySQL
4 5 (2.53%) RDBMS
4 5 (2.53%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.01%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.51%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 19 (9.60%) GitLab
2 18 (9.09%) JIRA
3 11 (5.56%) Git
4 4 (2.02%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.52%) Jenkins
6 2 (1.01%) Subversion
7 1 (0.51%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.51%) Robot Framework
General
1 60 (30.30%) Social Skills
2 13 (6.57%) Public Sector
3 12 (6.06%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (4.55%) Banking
4 9 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
4 9 (4.55%) Finance
5 6 (3.03%) Billing
6 4 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (1.52%) Front Office
7 3 (1.52%) Legal
7 3 (1.52%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.01%) Marketing
8 2 (1.01%) Military
9 1 (0.51%) Back Office
9 1 (0.51%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.51%) Local Government
9 1 (0.51%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 59 (29.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 32 (16.16%) VMware Engineer
3 28 (14.14%) Senior
4 25 (12.63%) Network Engineer
5 18 (9.09%) Architect
6 16 (8.08%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 15 (7.58%) Consultant
8 13 (6.57%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 12 (6.06%) Wintel Engineer
10 11 (5.56%) Linux Engineer
10 11 (5.56%) VMware Consultant
11 10 (5.05%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
11 10 (5.05%) Solutions Architect
11 10 (5.05%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (4.04%) Data Centre Engineer
12 8 (4.04%) Platform Engineer
12 8 (4.04%) Systems Engineer
13 7 (3.54%) Cloud Engineer
13 7 (3.54%) Database Specialist
13 7 (3.54%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.55%) .NET
2 5 (2.53%) YAML
3 3 (1.52%) .NET Core
3 3 (1.52%) JSON
3 3 (1.52%) LAMP
3 3 (1.52%) Node.js
3 3 (1.52%) REST
3 3 (1.52%) RESTful
3 3 (1.52%) SOAP
3 3 (1.52%) XML
4 2 (1.01%) Middleware
5 1 (0.51%) EDI
5 1 (0.51%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 61 (30.81%) Data Centre
2 24 (12.12%) PKI
3 19 (9.60%) Linux Command Line
4 18 (9.09%) Clustering
5 16 (8.08%) Private Cloud
6 13 (6.57%) Replication
7 7 (3.54%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (3.03%) VxBlock/Vblock
9 5 (2.53%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.52%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.52%) Smart Meter
11 2 (1.01%) Client/Server
11 2 (1.01%) CMDB
11 2 (1.01%) Fat Client
11 2 (1.01%) Tandem
11 2 (1.01%) Thin Client
12 1 (0.51%) CCTV
12 1 (0.51%) LIMS
12 1 (0.51%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 70 (35.35%) Windows
2 69 (34.85%) Linux
3 48 (24.24%) Windows Server
4 18 (9.09%) Unix
5 15 (7.58%) VMS
6 13 (6.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (5.56%) Windows Server 2012
7 11 (5.56%) Windows Server 2016
7 11 (5.56%) Windows Server 2019
8 8 (4.04%) Ubuntu
9 4 (2.02%) Android
9 4 (2.02%) Apple iOS
9 4 (2.02%) Mac OS
10 3 (1.52%) Windows 10
10 3 (1.52%) Windows Server 2003
11 2 (1.01%) Mac OS X
11 2 (1.01%) Solaris
11 2 (1.01%) Windows 2000
11 2 (1.01%) Windows XP
12 1 (0.51%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 45 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
3 32 (16.16%) Migration
4 27 (13.64%) Agile
5 22 (11.11%) Data Migration
5 22 (11.11%) Virtual Infrastructure
6 19 (9.60%) Cybersecurity
6 19 (9.60%) ITIL
7 18 (9.09%) Resource Management
8 17 (8.59%) High Availability
8 17 (8.59%) Project Delivery
9 16 (8.08%) Computer Science
10 15 (7.58%) Infrastructure as Code
10 15 (7.58%) Platform Engineering
11 14 (7.07%) Disaster Recovery
11 14 (7.07%) Penetration Testing
12 13 (6.57%) Capacity Management
12 13 (6.57%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (6.57%) Vulnerability Scanning
13 12 (6.06%) Converged Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 36 (18.18%) PowerShell
2 33 (16.67%) Python
3 31 (15.66%) Bash
4 14 (7.07%) SQL
5 6 (3.03%) C
5 6 (3.03%) Shell Script
6 5 (2.53%) Ruby
7 4 (2.02%) Go
8 3 (1.52%) VB.NET
9 2 (1.01%) C#
9 2 (1.01%) C++
9 2 (1.01%) Java
9 2 (1.01%) Perl
10 1 (0.51%) JavaScript
10 1 (0.51%) VB
Qualifications
1 91 (45.96%) Security Cleared
2 60 (30.30%) SC Cleared
3 33 (16.67%) DV Cleared
4 32 (16.16%) Degree
5 17 (8.59%) Microsoft Certification
5 17 (8.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 12 (6.06%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
8 8 (4.04%) MCSE
9 6 (3.03%) CCNP
9 6 (3.03%) VCAP
10 5 (2.53%) Azure Certification
11 4 (2.02%) CCNA
12 3 (1.52%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (1.01%) CCIE
13 2 (1.01%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.03%) PMO
2 5 (2.53%) SLA
3 3 (1.52%) ISO 9001
3 3 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 2 (1.01%) GDPR
5 1 (0.51%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 119 (60.10%) VMware Infrastructure
2 58 (29.29%) VMware NSX
3 57 (28.79%) Active Directory
4 39 (19.70%) VMware ESXi
5 21 (10.61%) Hyper-V
6 13 (6.57%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (3.54%) Docker
8 6 (3.03%) Firmware
8 6 (3.03%) KVM
8 6 (3.03%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (2.53%) vCloud
10 4 (2.02%) Terminal Services
11 3 (1.52%) UAG
12 2 (1.01%) Ceph
12 2 (1.01%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 2 (1.01%) VMware Server
13 1 (0.51%) VMware Workstation
13 1 (0.51%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 45 (22.73%) vCenter Server
2 41 (20.71%) Ansible
3 24 (12.12%) Terraform
4 16 (8.08%) vRealize
5 15 (7.58%) Kubernetes
6 12 (6.06%) SCCM
7 11 (5.56%) VxRail
7 11 (5.56%) WSUS
8 8 (4.04%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 8 (4.04%) SCOM
9 7 (3.54%) Packer
10 6 (3.03%) Microsoft Clustering
10 6 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
11 4 (2.02%) Failover Clustering
12 3 (1.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (1.52%) Autotask
12 3 (1.52%) Progress Chef
12 3 (1.52%) Puppet
12 3 (1.52%) vRealize Orchestrator
13 2 (1.01%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 181 (91.41%) VMware
2 58 (29.29%) Microsoft
3 27 (13.64%) Cisco
3 27 (13.64%) Dell
4 18 (9.09%) Oracle
5 17 (8.59%) Red Hat
6 14 (7.07%) SolarWinds
7 13 (6.57%) HP
8 10 (5.05%) Veritas
9 9 (4.55%) Citrix
10 8 (4.04%) Veeam
11 6 (3.03%) Atlassian
12 5 (2.53%) Arqiva
12 5 (2.53%) Aruba
12 5 (2.53%) Symantec
13 4 (2.02%) Juniper
13 4 (2.02%) Palo Alto
14 3 (1.52%) Apple
14 3 (1.52%) BMC
14 3 (1.52%) IBM