vSphere Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

VMware vSphere
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring vSphere skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 - 59
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing vSphere 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.40% - 0.18%
As % of the System Software category 3.16% - 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £285 - -
25th Percentile £319 - £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - £575
75th Percentile £406 - £613
90th Percentile £425 - -
North West median daily rate £458 £510 £450
% change year-on-year -10.20% +13.33% +24.65%

All System Software Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 95 64 61
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 12.79% 12.14% 11.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 46 31
10th Percentile £313 £230 £325
25th Percentile £413 £318 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £391 £530
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -26.23% -1.40%
75th Percentile £638 £471 £599
90th Percentile £653 £537 £638
North West median daily rate £450 £446 £475
% change year-on-year +0.90% -6.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £17.16
25th Percentile £15.93 - -
Median hourly rate £16.87 - £17.72
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.66%
75th Percentile £17.80 - -
90th Percentile - - £17.75
North West median hourly rate £74.26 £82.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -9.99% +365.58% +1.26%

vSphere
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

vSphere job vacancy trend in Cheshire

vSphere
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing vSphere

vSphere
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing vSphere in Cheshire over the 6 months to 24 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for vSphere in Cheshire

vSphere
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing vSphere

vSphere
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing vSphere within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 24 June 2026. 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
Chester - 1 £275 - 1
Knutsford - 1 £375 -
Warrington - 1 £425 - 1
vSphere
North West

vSphere
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) IBM Watson
1 1 (33.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) SD-WAN
2 1 (33.33%) SNMP
2 1 (33.33%) WAN
2 1 (33.33%) Wireless
2 1 (33.33%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Network Support
1 1 (33.33%) Network Support Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Server Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) VMS
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (33.33%) AI
1 1 (33.33%) AIOps
1 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
1 1 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (33.33%) Generative AI
1 1 (33.33%) High Availability
1 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) Patch Management
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) OCP
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
1 1 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (33.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) vCenter Server
2 1 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) Argo
2 1 (33.33%) Grafana
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) Splunk
3 1 (33.33%) Arista
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco
3 1 (33.33%) IBM
3 1 (33.33%) NetScout
3 1 (33.33%) Pure Storage
3 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
3 1 (33.33%) SevOne