vSphere Contracts in Berkshire

VMware vSphere
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring vSphere skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited vSphere over the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 116 105
Rank change year-on-year +35 -11 +18
Contract jobs citing vSphere 11 5 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.95% 0.26% 0.23%
As % of the System Software category 7.01% 2.00% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 2
10th Percentile £468 £319 £520
25th Percentile £513 £325 £536
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £350 £573
Median % change year-on-year +54.00% -38.86% +20.53%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £611
90th Percentile £590 - £627
South East median daily rate £575 £475 £425
% change year-on-year +21.05% +11.76% -12.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £65.25
Median hourly rate - - £70.50
75th Percentile - - £75.75
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - - £63.00
% change year-on-year - - -25.88%

All System Software Skills
Berkshire

vSphere falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 157 250 201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 13.57% 12.91% 11.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 177 140
10th Percentile £206 £205 £315
25th Percentile £400 £363 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.00% +9.52% +14.75%
75th Percentile £672 £608 £638
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £507 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +1.30% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 15
10th Percentile - - £31.00
25th Percentile - - £48.40
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +18.18% +33.33%
75th Percentile - - £72.50
90th Percentile - - £79.12
South East median hourly rate £57.50 £53.19 £54.56
% change year-on-year +8.11% -2.52% +172.80%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for vSphere in Berkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for vSphere in Berkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing vSphere in Berkshire over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for vSphere in Berkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for vSphere in Berkshire

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Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing vSphere within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 12 May 2025. 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
Wokingham -7 5 £532 +68.73%
Bracknell - 2 £575 - 3
Reading +38 1 - - 8
Slough - 1 £375 - 1
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South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 (45.45%) IIS
2 1 (9.09%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (45.45%) DNS
1 5 (45.45%) NetScaler
1 5 (45.45%) SMTP
2 3 (27.27%) VSAN
3 2 (18.18%) Firewall
General
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) VMware Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Migration Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Storage Engineer
2 1 (9.09%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Clustering
1 5 (45.45%) PKI
2 2 (18.18%) Replication
3 1 (9.09%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (45.45%) Windows
1 5 (45.45%) Windows Server
1 5 (45.45%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (9.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) Network Virtualisation
2 2 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (9.09%) Business Continuity
3 1 (9.09%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (9.09%) CI/CD
3 1 (9.09%) DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (9.09%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (9.09%) Migration
3 1 (9.09%) Open Source
3 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (9.09%) Validation
3 1 (9.09%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) PowerShell
2 5 (45.45%) Shell Script
3 1 (9.09%) Bash
3 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) DV Cleared
3 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
4 1 (9.09%) VCAP
4 1 (9.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) Active Directory
1 5 (45.45%) XenApp
1 5 (45.45%) XenDesktop
2 4 (36.36%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (36.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (27.27%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft Clustering
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft Intune
1 5 (45.45%) WSUS
2 3 (27.27%) vCenter Server
3 1 (9.09%) Ansible
3 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
3 1 (9.09%) PowerCLI
3 1 (9.09%) vRealize
Vendors
1 10 (90.91%) VMware
2 5 (45.45%) Citrix
2 5 (45.45%) Dell
2 5 (45.45%) HP
2 5 (45.45%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) NetApp
3 1 (9.09%) Veeam
3 1 (9.09%) Zerto