VxRail Contract Job Trends in England

Dell EMC VxRail
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring VxRail skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 526 479 498
Rank change year-on-year -47 +19 +178
Contract jobs citing VxRail 24 34 59
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.077% 0.12% 0.16%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.48% 0.80% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 22 33
10th Percentile £303 £364 £319
25th Percentile £305 £388 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £458 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% -8.50% -
75th Percentile £538 £543 £638
90th Percentile £561 £594 £650
UK median daily rate £413 £458 £450
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% -10.00%

All Systems Management Skills
England

VxRail falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,991 4,231 5,205
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 16.05% 14.43% 13.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,406 2,715 3,754
10th Percentile £310 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -6.38%
75th Percentile £610 £645 £650
90th Percentile £700 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.78% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 57 161
10th Percentile £18.87 £15.39 £17.00
25th Percentile £21.30 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £31.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +53.23% -32.87% +37.85%
75th Percentile £66.04 £60.00 £68.63
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.66 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £27.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +48.15% -41.53% +62.04%

VxRail
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

VxRail job vacancy trend in England

VxRail
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing VxRail.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing VxRail

VxRail
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VxRail in England over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VxRail in England

VxRail
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing VxRail.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing VxRail

VxRail
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VxRail within the England region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
Midlands - 15 £310 - 1
West Midlands - 14 £310 - 1
South East +2 5 £550 +10.00% 3
South West -7 2 - -
London -19 2 £556 +26.42% 2
East Midlands - 1 - -
VxRail
UK

VxRail
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (29.17%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (29.17%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 13 (54.17%) AWS
1 13 (54.17%) Azure
2 12 (50.00%) Datadog
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (4.17%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 17 (70.83%) VSAN
2 2 (8.33%) DNS
2 2 (8.33%) Firewall
2 2 (8.33%) VLAN
3 1 (4.17%) BGP
3 1 (4.17%) DHCP
3 1 (4.17%) DMZ
3 1 (4.17%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (4.17%) NAS
3 1 (4.17%) Network Security
3 1 (4.17%) SAN
3 1 (4.17%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (4.17%) SSL
3 1 (4.17%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) Redis
1 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) GitLab
General
1 4 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (8.33%) Billing
2 2 (8.33%) Finance
2 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (8.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 14 (58.33%) Analyst
2 13 (54.17%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 5 (20.83%) Storage Analyst
4 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Server Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Storage Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Engineering Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Senior
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Technical Architect
5 1 (4.17%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (4.17%) Flash
1 1 (4.17%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 13 (54.17%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (8.33%) Data Centre
2 2 (8.33%) PKI
2 2 (8.33%) Replication
3 1 (4.17%) Fat Client
3 1 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) Private Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 15 (62.50%) Linux
2 3 (12.50%) Windows
2 3 (12.50%) Windows Server
3 2 (8.33%) Ubuntu
3 2 (8.33%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (8.33%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (4.17%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (54.17%) Agile
2 9 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (20.83%) Mentoring
4 4 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
4 4 (16.67%) Decision-Making
4 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (8.33%) Actionable Insight
5 2 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (8.33%) Converged Infrastructure
5 2 (8.33%) Dashboard Development
6 1 (4.17%) Coaching
6 1 (4.17%) High Availability
6 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Management
6 1 (4.17%) IT Audit
6 1 (4.17%) People Management
6 1 (4.17%) Performance Analysis
6 1 (4.17%) Security Architecture
6 1 (4.17%) SIEM
6 1 (4.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 1 (4.17%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.17%) Bash
2 1 (4.17%) Python
2 1 (4.17%) SQL
2 1 (4.17%) VB
Qualifications
1 6 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (12.50%) Degree
4 2 (8.33%) DV Cleared
4 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared
5 1 (4.17%) CCNP
5 1 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (4.17%) CISSP
5 1 (4.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) GDPR
1 1 (4.17%) NCSC
1 1 (4.17%) NIST
1 1 (4.17%) NIST 800
1 1 (4.17%) PCI DSS
1 1 (4.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 21 (87.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (83.33%) vSphere
3 5 (20.83%) Active Directory
4 4 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (4.17%) Docker
5 1 (4.17%) Firmware
5 1 (4.17%) GPFS
5 1 (4.17%) NFS
5 1 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (4.17%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (4.17%) VMware NSX
5 1 (4.17%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 14 (58.33%) vRealize
2 3 (12.50%) vCenter Server
3 2 (8.33%) Ansible
3 2 (8.33%) Terraform
4 1 (4.17%) Avamar
4 1 (4.17%) EMC NetWorker
4 1 (4.17%) FortiGate
4 1 (4.17%) Grafana
4 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
4 1 (4.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 23 (95.83%) VMware
2 17 (70.83%) Dell
3 14 (58.33%) Cisco
4 13 (54.17%) IBM
5 12 (50.00%) AppDynamics
5 12 (50.00%) Commvault
5 12 (50.00%) SolarWinds
6 10 (41.67%) HP
7 4 (16.67%) Veeam
8 3 (12.50%) EMC
9 2 (8.33%) Microsoft
10 1 (4.17%) Isilon
10 1 (4.17%) NVIDIA
10 1 (4.17%) Oracle
10 1 (4.17%) Palo Alto
10 1 (4.17%) Red Hat
10 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow
10 1 (4.17%) Splunk
10 1 (4.17%) Zerto