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

6 months to
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 508 493 521
Rank change year-on-year -15 +28 +202
Contract jobs citing VxRail 14 39 71
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.050% 0.12% 0.17%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.31% 0.87% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 22 36
10th Percentile £503 £364 £319
25th Percentile £525 £388 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £458 £500
Median % change year-on-year +20.22% -8.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile - £508 £575
90th Percentile £564 £573 £669
UK median daily rate £550 £458 £450
% change year-on-year +20.22% +1.67% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
Median hourly rate - £23.80 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year - -70.25% +102.53%
UK median hourly rate - £23.80 £80.00
% change year-on-year - -70.25% +102.53%

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 4,480 4,479 6,163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.96% 13.82% 14.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,964 2,984 4,421
10th Percentile £300 £313 £320
25th Percentile £410 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £630 £675
90th Percentile £688 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 53 161
10th Percentile £17.67 £20.17 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.04 £23.80 £35.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £38.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -27.62% +119.57%
75th Percentile £63.40 £64.50 £76.00
90th Percentile £70.33 £74.89 £78.75
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £37.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -30.67% -31.82% +130.03%

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 4 October 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 4 October 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
South East +7 5 £550 +10.00% 4
South West +18 3 - - 1
London +17 3 £525 +31.25% 5
Midlands -18 1 - -
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
1 1 (7.14%) Azure
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (7.14%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 6 (42.86%) VSAN
2 2 (14.29%) DNS
3 1 (7.14%) BGP
3 1 (7.14%) DHCP
3 1 (7.14%) DMZ
3 1 (7.14%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (7.14%) Firewall
3 1 (7.14%) NAS
3 1 (7.14%) Network Security
3 1 (7.14%) SAN
3 1 (7.14%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (7.14%) SSL
3 1 (7.14%) VLAN
3 1 (7.14%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Redis
1 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) GitLab
General
1 3 (21.43%) Billing
1 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Consultant
2 3 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Server Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Storage Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Architect
3 1 (7.14%) Engineering Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Technical Architect
3 1 (7.14%) VMware Consultant
3 1 (7.14%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Data Centre
2 2 (14.29%) PKI
3 1 (7.14%) Fat Client
3 1 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
3 1 (7.14%) Private Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) Replication
3 1 (7.14%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Windows
1 4 (28.57%) Windows Server
2 3 (21.43%) Linux
2 3 (21.43%) Ubuntu
2 3 (21.43%) Windows Server 2016
2 3 (21.43%) Windows Server 2019
3 2 (14.29%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (21.43%) Dashboard Development
2 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (14.29%) Actionable Insight
3 2 (14.29%) Converged Infrastructure
4 1 (7.14%) Coaching
4 1 (7.14%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (7.14%) High Availability
4 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (7.14%) IT Audit
4 1 (7.14%) Mentoring
4 1 (7.14%) Observability
4 1 (7.14%) Operational Stability
4 1 (7.14%) People Management
4 1 (7.14%) Performance Analysis
4 1 (7.14%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (7.14%) Virtual Environments
4 1 (7.14%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.14%) Bash
2 1 (7.14%) Python
2 1 (7.14%) SQL
2 1 (7.14%) VB
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 4 (28.57%) DV Cleared
3 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
4 1 (7.14%) CCNP
4 1 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (7.14%) CISSP
4 1 (7.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) GDPR
1 1 (7.14%) NCSC
1 1 (7.14%) NIST
1 1 (7.14%) NIST 800
1 1 (7.14%) PCI DSS
1 1 (7.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (71.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (57.14%) Active Directory
3 7 (50.00%) vSphere
4 2 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (14.29%) VMware NSX
5 1 (7.14%) Docker
5 1 (7.14%) Firmware
5 1 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (7.14%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (7.14%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Ansible
1 2 (14.29%) Terraform
1 2 (14.29%) vCenter Server
2 1 (7.14%) Avamar
2 1 (7.14%) EMC NetWorker
2 1 (7.14%) FortiGate
2 1 (7.14%) Grafana
2 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.14%) Prometheus
2 1 (7.14%) vRealize
Vendors
1 14 (100.00%) VMware
2 5 (35.71%) Dell
3 3 (21.43%) EMC
3 3 (21.43%) Veeam
4 2 (14.29%) Red Hat
5 1 (7.14%) Infoblox
5 1 (7.14%) Isilon
5 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
5 1 (7.14%) NVIDIA
5 1 (7.14%) Palo Alto
5 1 (7.14%) Splunk
5 1 (7.14%) Zerto