vSphere Contract Job Trends in Farnborough

VMware vSphere
Hampshire > Farnborough

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Farnborough requiring vSphere skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 25 24
Rank change year-on-year -9 -1 +10
Contract jobs citing vSphere 2 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Farnborough 1.20% 1.01% 0.78%
As % of the System Software category 7.41% 3.57% 3.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £515 - -
25th Percentile £533 £538 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £578 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year +0.43% -11.54% +31.31%
75th Percentile £633 £613 £675
90th Percentile £658 - -
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £575 £438
% change year-on-year -4.35% +31.43% -27.08%

All System Software Skills
Farnborough

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 Farnborough.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 27 28 32
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Farnborough 16.27% 28.28% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 16 21
10th Percentile £368 £519 -
25th Percentile £411 £568 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £519 £688 £600
90th Percentile £606 £731 £675
Hampshire median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £74.00
25th Percentile - £77.50 £76.25
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +33.33%
75th Percentile - £82.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median hourly rate £48.72 £65.00 £58.75
% change year-on-year -25.05% +10.64% +144.79%

vSphere
Job Vacancy Trend in Farnborough

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

vSphere job vacancy trend in Farnborough

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Daily Rate Trend in Farnborough

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing vSphere

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Daily Rate Histogram in Farnborough

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing vSphere in Farnborough over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for vSphere in Farnborough

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Farnborough 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%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) CentOS
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Application Packaging
1 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) vCenter Server
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Nessus
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft