vSphere Contracts with Work from Home Options

VMware vSphere
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 293 339 421
Rank change year-on-year +46 +82 -29
Contract jobs citing vSphere 54 127 208
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.36% 0.51% 0.47%
As % of the System Software category 3.75% 4.09% 3.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 88 141
10th Percentile £334 £350 £256
25th Percentile £441 £425 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +17.65% -5.56%
75th Percentile £594 £575 £575
90th Percentile £644 £625 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £493 £455
% change year-on-year +1.52% +8.24% +7.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 5
10th Percentile - £20.00 £22.95
25th Percentile - £65.31 £24.38
Median hourly rate - £69.50 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year - +10.32% +186.36%
75th Percentile - £77.63 £66.00
90th Percentile - £78.60 £78.90
UK median hourly rate £70.66 £66.00 £34.38
% change year-on-year +7.06% +92.00% -24.03%

All System Software Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,440 3,105 5,418
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 9.57% 12.39% 12.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,062 2,222 4,025
10th Percentile £271 £300 £322
25th Percentile £405 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £619 £631 £625
90th Percentile £683 £724 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 100 102
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.90 £15.00
25th Percentile £15.88 £47.50 £17.75
Median hourly rate £43.32 £65.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.35% +165.31% -38.75%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £53.44
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.00 £65.95
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £54.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -58.33% +170.00% -6.98%

vSphere
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing vSphere as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

vSphere trend for jobs with a WFH option

vSphere
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing vSphere.

vSphere daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

vSphere
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing vSphere over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

vSphere daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

vSphere
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing vSphere.

vSphere hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

vSphere
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (9.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (7.41%) Confluence
3 1 (1.85%) IIS
Business Applications
1 3 (5.56%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 18 (33.33%) Azure
2 3 (5.56%) AWS
3 2 (3.70%) IaaS
3 2 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (1.85%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (14.81%) DHCP
1 8 (14.81%) DNS
2 7 (12.96%) Firewall
2 7 (12.96%) TCP/IP
3 5 (9.26%) SAN
3 5 (9.26%) VSAN
4 3 (5.56%) VPN
5 2 (3.70%) LAN
5 2 (3.70%) NAS
5 2 (3.70%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (3.70%) WAN
6 1 (1.85%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (1.85%) HTTPS
6 1 (1.85%) NetScaler
6 1 (1.85%) SD-WAN
6 1 (1.85%) Unified Communications
6 1 (1.85%) VLAN
6 1 (1.85%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.70%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (3.70%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.85%) Power BI
2 1 (1.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (1.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 12 (22.22%) JIRA
2 4 (7.41%) Bitbucket
2 4 (7.41%) Git
3 3 (5.56%) GitLab
3 3 (5.56%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.85%) Robot Framework
4 1 (1.85%) Subversion
General
1 18 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 8 (14.81%) Banking
2 8 (14.81%) Finance
3 5 (9.26%) Billing
4 4 (7.41%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (7.41%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (7.41%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (3.70%) Front Office
5 2 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (3.70%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.85%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.85%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 15 (27.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (12.96%) Consultant
2 7 (12.96%) Senior
3 6 (11.11%) Architect
4 5 (9.26%) Azure Engineer
4 5 (9.26%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (9.26%) Cloud Engineer
4 5 (9.26%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (9.26%) Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (9.26%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (9.26%) VMware Consultant
5 4 (7.41%) Active Directory Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) Data Centre Architect
5 4 (7.41%) Data Consultant
5 4 (7.41%) Integration Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) Migration Consultant
5 4 (7.41%) Senior Test and Integration Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) Senior Test Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) Test Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.26%) .NET
1 5 (9.26%) YAML
2 3 (5.56%) JSON
2 3 (5.56%) Node.js
2 3 (5.56%) REST
2 3 (5.56%) RESTful
2 3 (5.56%) SOAP
2 3 (5.56%) XML
3 2 (3.70%) .NET Core
3 2 (3.70%) Middleware
4 1 (1.85%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (22.22%) Data Centre
2 4 (7.41%) VxBlock/Vblock
3 2 (3.70%) CMDB
3 2 (3.70%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (3.70%) Public Cloud
3 2 (3.70%) Tandem
4 1 (1.85%) Clustering
4 1 (1.85%) FMCG
4 1 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.85%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.85%) PKI
4 1 (1.85%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 25 (46.30%) Windows
2 13 (24.07%) Windows Server
3 12 (22.22%) Linux
4 5 (9.26%) Unix
5 3 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (5.56%) Ubuntu
5 3 (5.56%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (5.56%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (3.70%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.85%) Android
7 1 (1.85%) CentOS
7 1 (1.85%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.85%) Solaris
7 1 (1.85%) VMS
7 1 (1.85%) Windows 2000
7 1 (1.85%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (1.85%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (27.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 14 (25.93%) Migration
3 10 (18.52%) Data Migration
4 8 (14.81%) Agile
4 8 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (12.96%) DevOps
6 6 (11.11%) Enterprise Architecture
6 6 (11.11%) Project Delivery
7 5 (9.26%) Business Impact Analysis
7 5 (9.26%) Computer Science
7 5 (9.26%) Impact Analysis
7 5 (9.26%) Patch Management
7 5 (9.26%) Process Improvement
7 5 (9.26%) Software Delivery
8 4 (7.41%) Capacity Management
8 4 (7.41%) Cybersecurity
8 4 (7.41%) Data Protection
8 4 (7.41%) Security Patching
8 4 (7.41%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 15 (27.78%) PowerShell
2 10 (18.52%) Python
3 6 (11.11%) Bash
4 4 (7.41%) C
5 3 (5.56%) Go
5 3 (5.56%) Ruby
5 3 (5.56%) SQL
6 2 (3.70%) C++
6 2 (3.70%) VB.NET
7 1 (1.85%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.85%) Perl
7 1 (1.85%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (18.52%) Degree
2 6 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 4 (7.41%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.70%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (3.70%) Master's Degree
4 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (3.70%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.85%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.26%) PMO
2 2 (3.70%) ISO 9001
2 2 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 2 (3.70%) SLA
3 1 (1.85%) GDPR
System Software
1 30 (55.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 21 (38.89%) Active Directory
3 19 (35.19%) VMware NSX
4 13 (24.07%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (18.52%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (12.96%) Hyper-V
7 5 (9.26%) vCloud
8 3 (5.56%) VMware Server
9 2 (3.70%) Ceph
9 2 (3.70%) Docker
9 2 (3.70%) Terminal Services
9 2 (3.70%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 1 (1.85%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (1.85%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 15 (27.78%) Ansible
2 10 (18.52%) Terraform
3 9 (16.67%) vCenter Server
4 4 (7.41%) vRealize
4 4 (7.41%) VxRail
4 4 (7.41%) WSUS
5 3 (5.56%) Autotask
5 3 (5.56%) Progress Chef
5 3 (5.56%) Puppet
5 3 (5.56%) SCCM
6 2 (3.70%) Kubernetes
6 2 (3.70%) Nessus
6 2 (3.70%) Pacemaker
6 2 (3.70%) Podman
7 1 (1.85%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (1.85%) SCOM
7 1 (1.85%) SCVMM
7 1 (1.85%) SELinux
7 1 (1.85%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 44 (81.48%) VMware
2 18 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 9 (16.67%) Dell
4 8 (14.81%) Cisco
5 5 (9.26%) HP
6 4 (7.41%) Atlassian
6 4 (7.41%) Red Hat
7 3 (5.56%) Arista
7 3 (5.56%) BMC
7 3 (5.56%) Citrix
7 3 (5.56%) Qualys
7 3 (5.56%) Remedy
7 3 (5.56%) TOWER Software
8 2 (3.70%) Juniper
8 2 (3.70%) Sun
9 1 (1.85%) Apple
9 1 (1.85%) Avaya
9 1 (1.85%) Oracle
9 1 (1.85%) Symantec
9 1 (1.85%) Veritas