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 13 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 116 124
Rank change year-on-year -13 +8 +45
Contract jobs citing vSphere 3 3 3
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.14% 0.17% 0.13%
As % of the System Software category 1.86% 1.52% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 £606 £219
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £613 £238
Median % change year-on-year -22.45% +157.89% -54.00%
75th Percentile £501 £619 £256
90th Percentile £510 - -
Central London median daily rate £493 £613 £238
% change year-on-year -19.59% +157.89% -54.00%

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 161 197 250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 7.29% 11.29% 11.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 136 184
10th Percentile £245 £253 £250
25th Percentile £406 £411 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £488
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +12.82% -14.29%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £680 £722 £738
Central London median daily rate £525 £539 £475
% change year-on-year -2.64% +13.53% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile £24.32 - -
25th Percentile £29.57 £162.50 £21.25
Median hourly rate £40.02 £175.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -77.13% +337.50% +136.20%
75th Percentile £50.72 £187.50 -
90th Percentile £56.12 - £46.15
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £26.45 £40.00
% change year-on-year -3.71% -33.88% +81.82%

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
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) VSAN
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) NAS
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security
2 1 (33.33%) SAN
2 1 (33.33%) VLAN
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Migration Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior VMware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Clustering
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (33.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) VMS
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (33.33%) SUSE
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
2 1 (33.33%) Converged Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Remediation Plan
2 1 (33.33%) Resource Allocation
2 1 (33.33%) Server Management
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) VCAP
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 3 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) VMware NSX
3 1 (33.33%) Docker
3 1 (33.33%) Firmware
3 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) vCenter Server
2 2 (66.67%) Ansible
2 2 (66.67%) PowerCLI
3 1 (33.33%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Clustering
3 1 (33.33%) Terraform
3 1 (33.33%) VxRail
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Dell