vSphere Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

VMware vSphere
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring vSphere skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing vSphere 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 0.50% - -
As % of the System Software category 3.57% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £531 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 - -
75th Percentile £594 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £563 - -

All System Software Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 28 9 21
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 14.07% 5.66% 10.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 4 11
10th Percentile - £443 £155
25th Percentile £406 £480 £235
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £550 £250
Median % change year-on-year +0.09% +120.00% -41.18%
75th Percentile £619 £606 £509
90th Percentile £645 £618 £536
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £445 £470 £250
% change year-on-year -5.22% +87.80% -45.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.00 £21.46 £14.00
% change year-on-year -25.44% +53.29% -3.45%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

vSphere job vacancy trend in Cambridge

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Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing vSphere

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Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing vSphere

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) NX-OS
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) vCenter Server
1 1 (100.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Dell
1 1 (100.00%) Veeam
1 1 (100.00%) VMware