vSphere Contracts in the East of England

VMware vSphere
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring vSphere skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited vSphere over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 - 105
Rank change year-on-year - - 0
Contract jobs citing vSphere 8 0 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.85% - 0.87%
As % of the System Software category 5.52% - 5.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 17
10th Percentile £534 - £525
25th Percentile £540 - £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £750
Median % change year-on-year - - +76.47%
75th Percentile - - £813
90th Percentile - - £838
England median daily rate £569 £508 £455
% change year-on-year +12.02% +11.54% +0.55%

All System Software Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 145 163 357
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 15.46% 8.54% 17.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 88 244
10th Percentile £178 £175 £165
25th Percentile £243 £225 £239
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £425 £430
Median % change year-on-year +10.59% -1.16% +1.18%
75th Percentile £570 £556 £587
90th Percentile £613 £713 £700
England median daily rate £525 £494 £525
% change year-on-year +6.33% -5.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 39 41
10th Percentile - - £14.25
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £21.46 £14.16 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +51.55% -42.49% +58.84%
75th Percentile £65.63 £18.00 £65.75
90th Percentile £88.45 £81.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £27.94 £21.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +33.05% -58.00% +163.16%

vSphere
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing vSphere as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for vSphere in the East of England

vSphere
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing vSphere in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for vSphere in the East of England

vSphere
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing vSphere in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for vSphere in the East of England

vSphere
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing vSphere within the East of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cambridgeshire - 6 £550 - 3
Essex - 1 - - 1
Hertfordshire - 1 - -
vSphere
England

vSphere
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (12.50%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 4 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Cohesity
2 1 (12.50%) IaaS
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) Firewall
1 5 (62.50%) VSAN
2 4 (50.00%) Network Security
3 1 (12.50%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (12.50%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) GitLab
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Systems Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) VMware Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Storage Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) VMware Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Blackberry
2 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 1 (12.50%) PKI
2 1 (12.50%) Replication
2 1 (12.50%) RSA SecurID
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
1 2 (25.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (12.50%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (50.00%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 4 (50.00%) Waterfall
2 4 (50.00%) Zero Trust
3 2 (25.00%) Task Automation
4 1 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (12.50%) Converged Infrastructure
4 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (12.50%) High Availability
4 1 (12.50%) Network Architecture
4 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) VCAP
2 3 (37.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (50.00%) VMware NSX
3 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Ansible
2 4 (50.00%) PowerCLI
2 4 (50.00%) Terraform
2 4 (50.00%) vCenter Server
2 4 (50.00%) VxRail
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (12.50%) SCOM
3 1 (12.50%) WSUS
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Dell
1 6 (75.00%) VMware
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Veeam
3 1 (12.50%) HP
3 1 (12.50%) Red Hat