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 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 117 140
Rank change year-on-year -3 +23 +48
Contract jobs citing vSphere 3 6 9
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.18% 0.28% 0.31%
As % of the System Software category 1.94% 2.48% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 2
10th Percentile £560 £598 £371
25th Percentile £563 £631 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £584 £654 £495
Median % change year-on-year -10.67% +32.02% -5.71%
75th Percentile £613 £668 £573
90th Percentile £620 £687 £619
Central London median daily rate £584 £654 £495
% change year-on-year -10.67% +32.02% +5.60%
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 155 242 333
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.08% 11.44% 11.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 157 231
10th Percentile £293 £318 £263
25th Percentile £463 £425 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £571 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year +3.86% +2.33% -6.52%
75th Percentile £668 £663 £700
90th Percentile £688 £730 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £538 £525
% change year-on-year +2.33% +2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile £22.48 £84.40 £23.88
25th Percentile £23.19 £94.75 £27.81
Median hourly rate £25.25 £112.00 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -77.46% +208.97% +76.83%
75th Percentile £28.19 - £45.31
90th Percentile £29.43 - £49.63
Central London median hourly rate £25.25 £112.00 £36.25
% change year-on-year -77.46% +208.97% +79.01%

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%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) IaaS
2 1 (33.33%) Nutanix
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Automation Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Deployment Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Platform Manager
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) RBAC
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) VCAP
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (33.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) PowerCLI
2 1 (33.33%) vRealize
2 1 (33.33%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) LogRhythm
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Pure Storage