vSphere Contract Job Trends in the City of London

VMware vSphere
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring vSphere skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 122 123
Rank change year-on-year -9 +1 +26
Contract jobs citing vSphere 8 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.35% 0.056% 0.19%
As % of the System Software category 4.40% 0.72% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 4
10th Percentile - - £598
25th Percentile £463 £559 £631
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £568 £654
Median % change year-on-year +10.13% -13.16% +0.54%
75th Percentile £638 £576 £668
90th Percentile £690 - £687
Central London median daily rate £550 £568 £654
% change year-on-year -3.08% -13.16% +0.54%

All System Software Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 182 139 254
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 7.98% 7.73% 12.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 95 177
10th Percentile £225 £263 £345
25th Percentile £411 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.65% -1.74%
75th Percentile £638 £657 £688
90th Percentile £679 £688 £730
Central London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile £20.20 £22.48 -
25th Percentile £21.63 £23.19 £77.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £25.25 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.95% -70.29% +134.48%
75th Percentile £27.50 £28.19 £92.50
90th Percentile £29.60 £29.43 -
Central London median hourly rate £27.00 £26.45 £85.00
% change year-on-year +2.08% -68.88% +134.48%

vSphere
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

vSphere job vacancy trend in the City of London

vSphere
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing vSphere.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing vSphere

vSphere
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing vSphere in the City of London over the 6 months to 10 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for vSphere in the City of London

vSphere
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing vSphere.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing vSphere

vSphere
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Stack
2 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
2 1 (12.50%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) VSAN
2 2 (25.00%) Firewall
3 1 (12.50%) DNS
3 1 (12.50%) Network Security
3 1 (12.50%) SAN
3 1 (12.50%) VLAN
3 1 (12.50%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) GitLab
1 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Financial Institution
3 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (12.50%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Architect
1 2 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Migration Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Project Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Security Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) Senior VMware Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Clustering
1 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
1 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Storage
1 1 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (12.50%) Private Cloud
1 1 (12.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
2 3 (37.50%) Windows Server
3 2 (25.00%) Linux
3 2 (25.00%) VMS
4 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (12.50%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) High Availability
1 3 (37.50%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (25.00%) Migration
2 2 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 2 (25.00%) User Experience
3 1 (12.50%) Business Continuity
3 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
3 1 (12.50%) Incident Management
3 1 (12.50%) Information Security
3 1 (12.50%) Load Balancing
3 1 (12.50%) Problem Management
3 1 (12.50%) Risk Management
3 1 (12.50%) Security Architecture
3 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (12.50%) TOGAF
3 1 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
1 1 (12.50%) Python
1 1 (12.50%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 2 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
4 1 (12.50%) CCNA
4 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (12.50%) CISSP
4 1 (12.50%) Degree
4 1 (12.50%) MCSE
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (12.50%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) GRC
System Software
1 7 (87.50%) VMware ESXi
1 7 (87.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (25.00%) Firmware
2 2 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (25.00%) VMware NSX
3 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
3 1 (12.50%) UAG
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) vCenter Server
2 3 (37.50%) Ansible
3 2 (25.00%) PowerCLI
4 1 (12.50%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (12.50%) VxRail
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (25.00%) Dell
2 2 (25.00%) EMC
3 1 (12.50%) NetApp
3 1 (12.50%) Pure Storage
3 1 (12.50%) Red Hat