vSphere Contract Job Trends in the East of England

VMware vSphere
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring vSphere skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 82 107
Rank change year-on-year -19 +25 +7
Contract jobs citing vSphere 2 1 5
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.12% 0.093% 0.27%
As % of the System Software category 1.08% 0.67% 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £531 - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - -17.24%
75th Percentile £594 - £700
90th Percentile - - £715
England median daily rate £500 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -

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 186 150 228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 10.70% 13.93% 12.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 56 146
10th Percentile £188 £183 £183
25th Percentile £213 £243 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £474 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.01% -5.25% +6.95%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £700
90th Percentile £638 £638 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £485
% change year-on-year -4.76% +8.25% -8.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 24 31
10th Percentile £11.40 £15.44 -
25th Percentile £15.50 £21.46 £14.00
Median hourly rate £21.00 £54.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -61.11% +2.86% +208.82%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.00 £84.36
90th Percentile £78.00 £75.00 £88.75
England median hourly rate £34.00 £29.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +17.24% -27.50% +3.90%

vSphere
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

vSphere job vacancy trend in the East of England

vSphere
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing vSphere.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing vSphere

vSphere
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing vSphere.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing vSphere

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 5 February 2026. 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 - 1 £563 - 2
Suffolk - 1 - -
vSphere
England

vSphere
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 1 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) NX-OS
1 1 (50.00%) VLAN
1 1 (50.00%) VSAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Consultant
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (50.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) vCenter Server
1 1 (50.00%) vRealize
1 1 (50.00%) VxRail
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Dell
2 1 (50.00%) Veeam