vSphere Contracts in Gloucestershire

VMware vSphere
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire 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 39 50 45
Rank change year-on-year +11 -5 +8
Contract jobs citing vSphere 2 8 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 0.73% 1.86% 3.81%
As % of the System Software category 2.90% 10.26% 12.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 9
10th Percentile - - £435
25th Percentile £460 £575 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -21.67% +20.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £480 £776 £588
90th Percentile - - £590
South West median daily rate £478 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -5.91% +1.50% +13.64%

All System Software Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 69 78 148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 25.18% 18.18% 31.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 61 112
10th Percentile £227 £210 £275
25th Percentile £425 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £700 £625 £600
90th Percentile £775 £725 £711
South West median daily rate £550 £508 £500
% change year-on-year +8.37% +1.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £24.95
25th Percentile - - £45.88
Median hourly rate - - £66.50
75th Percentile - - £76.13
90th Percentile - - £77.25
South West median hourly rate £40.63 £68.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year -40.91% +14.58% +21.24%

vSphere
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

Job postings citing vSphere as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

Job vacancy trend for vSphere in Gloucestershire

vSphere
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing vSphere in Gloucestershire.

Daily rate trend for vSphere in Gloucestershire

vSphere
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing vSphere within the Gloucestershire 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
Gloucester -4 1 £470 -21.67%
vSphere
South West

vSphere
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Remote Desktop
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Wintel Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Desktop Virtualisation
1 2 (100.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) VMware