vSphere Contract Job Trends in Bristol

VMware vSphere
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bristol requiring vSphere skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 60 77
Rank change year-on-year -22 +17 +10
Contract jobs citing vSphere 1 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.078% 0.17% 0.28%
As % of the System Software category 1.04% 1.49% 2.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £569 £566
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £588 £583
Median % change year-on-year +2.13% +0.86% +16.50%
75th Percentile - £606 £599
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £525 £575 £508
% change year-on-year -8.70% +13.30% +1.50%

All System Software Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 96 67 106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 7.48% 11.69% 9.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 49 74
10th Percentile £263 £196 £240
25th Percentile £413 £235 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £440 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.95% -16.19% +23.53%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £597
90th Percentile £613 £625 £714
South West median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 2 18
10th Percentile £13.65 £78.83 £66.11
25th Percentile £19.25 £79.03 £69.09
Median hourly rate £65.00 £79.35 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.08% -0.81% +23.08%
75th Percentile - £79.68 £90.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.87 -
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £48.48 £68.75
% change year-on-year +18.62% -29.49% +13.92%

vSphere
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

vSphere job vacancy trend in Bristol

vSphere
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bristol citing vSphere

vSphere
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Calico
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Management
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) SBOM
1 1 (100.00%) Secrets Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) CCSK
1 1 (100.00%) CCSP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISM
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Government Security Classifications
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NCSC
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) KVM
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Istio
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware