vSphere Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

VMware vSphere
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring vSphere skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 - 68
Rank change year-on-year - - +13
Contract jobs citing vSphere 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.28% - 0.14%
As % of the System Software category 1.57% - 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £538 - £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £295
Median % change year-on-year - - -15.71%
75th Percentile £613 - £303
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £309 - £475
% change year-on-year - - +5.56%

All System Software Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 127 59 83
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 17.61% 8.55% 11.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 48 60
10th Percentile £175 £157 £200
25th Percentile £360 £186 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £290 £419
Median % change year-on-year +63.79% -30.75% +19.64%
75th Percentile £540 £552 £528
90th Percentile £617 £700 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £520 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +15.56% +5.88% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £19.25
Median hourly rate - - £19.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -76.99%
75th Percentile - - £19.75
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £56.50 £24.35 £18.50
% change year-on-year +132.08% +31.59% -23.71%

vSphere
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing vSphere relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

vSphere job vacancy trend in Birmingham

vSphere
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing vSphere.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing vSphere

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Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing vSphere.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing vSphere

vSphere
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) VSAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Specialist
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Impact Assessments
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (50.00%) VMware NSX
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware