vSphere Contract Job Trends in Coventry

VMware vSphere
West Midlands > Coventry

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Coventry requiring vSphere skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 - 28
Rank change year-on-year - - 0
Contract jobs citing vSphere 6 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in Coventry 4.32% - 2.04%
As % of the System Software category 46.15% - 10.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £263 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 - £475
75th Percentile £288 - £488
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £275 £635 £338
% change year-on-year -56.69% +88.15% -20.59%

All System Software Skills
Coventry

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 Coventry.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 13 11 37
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry 9.35% 11.83% 18.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 24
10th Percentile £244 £167 £210
25th Percentile £263 £199 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £416 £300 £425
Median % change year-on-year +38.75% -29.41% -10.53%
75th Percentile £537 £378 £488
90th Percentile £664 £475 £500
West Midlands median daily rate £510 £490 £418
% change year-on-year +4.08% +17.37% +4.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £26.00
Median hourly rate - - £27.00
75th Percentile - - £28.00
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £56.50 £16.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year +253.13% -15.79% +11.05%

vSphere
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

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

vSphere job vacancy trend in Coventry

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Daily Rate Trend in Coventry

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing vSphere

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Hourly Rate Trend in Coventry

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing vSphere

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Coventry 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 4 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (66.67%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Storage Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
2 2 (33.33%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) 3rd Line Server Support
2 2 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support
2 2 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Firewall Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Firewall Support
2 2 (33.33%) Server Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Server Support
2 2 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Linux Command Line
1 4 (66.67%) Replication
2 2 (33.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (33.33%) Windows
2 2 (33.33%) Windows 10
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) Migration
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (66.67%) GPFS
2 4 (66.67%) NFS
2 4 (66.67%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 2 (33.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) vRealize
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (33.33%) SCCM
2 2 (33.33%) SCOM
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) VMware
2 4 (66.67%) Cisco
2 4 (66.67%) IBM
2 4 (66.67%) Oracle
2 4 (66.67%) ServiceNow
3 2 (33.33%) CheckPoint
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft