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 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 117 134
Rank change year-on-year -4 +17 +65
Contract jobs citing vSphere 4 4 11
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.22% 0.19% 0.41%
As % of the System Software category 2.42% 1.65% 3.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile £516 £588 £243
25th Percentile £532 £606 £279
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £650 £340
Median % change year-on-year -12.69% +91.18% -36.74%
75th Percentile £601 £681 £495
90th Percentile £615 £693 £588
Central London median daily rate £559 £650 £340
% change year-on-year -14.04% +91.18% -35.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.25
Median hourly rate - £112.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year - +397.78% -
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - £112.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year - +397.78% -

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 165 243 313
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.25% 11.41% 11.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 156 229
10th Percentile £285 £313 £260
25th Percentile £413 £418 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £558 £520
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% +7.36% -9.57%
75th Percentile £651 £645 £675
90th Percentile £690 £728 £813
Central London median daily rate £546 £550 £513
% change year-on-year -0.68% +7.32% -8.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - £84.40 -
25th Percentile - £94.75 £21.25
Median hourly rate - £112.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year - +397.78% +9.76%
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £112.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -77.26% +397.78% +9.76%

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 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) GCP
3 1 (25.00%) IaaS
3 1 (25.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) NAS
1 1 (25.00%) SAN
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Deployment Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Manager
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) High Availability
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) RBAC
2 1 (25.00%) Resource Allocation
2 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) SIEM
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) VCAP
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (50.00%) VMware NSX
2 1 (25.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
2 2 (50.00%) PowerCLI
2 2 (50.00%) Terraform
3 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (25.00%) vCenter Server
3 1 (25.00%) vRealize
3 1 (25.00%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) LogRhythm
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Pure Storage