vSphere Contracts in Hampshire

VMware vSphere
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire 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 47 76 77
Rank change year-on-year +29 +1 +4
Contract jobs citing vSphere 22 19 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 2.95% 1.18% 1.57%
As % of the System Software category 14.01% 6.91% 7.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 5 13
10th Percentile £538 £310 £410
25th Percentile £550 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £438 £475
Median % change year-on-year +37.14% -7.89% -25.49%
75th Percentile £661 £488 £638
90th Percentile £675 £495 £738
South East median daily rate £575 £475 £425
% change year-on-year +21.05% +11.76% -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £52.15
25th Percentile - - £52.38
Median hourly rate - - £53.50
75th Percentile - - £56.25
90th Percentile - - £57.45
South East median hourly rate - - £54.50
% change year-on-year - - -35.88%

All System Software Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 157 275 282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 21.05% 17.08% 20.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 122 155
10th Percentile £288 £201 £294
25th Percentile £468 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.74% -2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £675 £650 £688
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 24 29
10th Percentile £39.99 £17.69 £17.57
25th Percentile £51.06 £43.42 £18.25
Median hourly rate £57.50 £57.44 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% +9.40% +144.19%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.06 £67.50
90th Percentile £74.25 £70.00 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £57.50 £50.75 £54.03
% change year-on-year +13.30% -6.07% +170.15%

vSphere
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for vSphere in Hampshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Daily rate trend for vSphere in Hampshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing vSphere in Hampshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for vSphere in Hampshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing vSphere in Hampshire.

Hourly rate trend for vSphere in Hampshire

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Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing vSphere within the Hampshire 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
Basingstoke +28 8 £619 +30.26% 6
Winchester -2 3 £616 +146.50%
Eastleigh -3 1 £500 -
vSphere
South East

vSphere
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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 8 (36.36%) OpenShift
2 7 (31.82%) Azure
2 7 (31.82%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (31.82%) SaaS
3 2 (9.09%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (36.36%) iSCSI
2 7 (31.82%) DNS
3 4 (18.18%) DHCP
3 4 (18.18%) Fibre Channel
3 4 (18.18%) SAN
3 4 (18.18%) VLAN
4 3 (13.64%) VSAN
5 2 (9.09%) Software-Defined Networking
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Git
General
1 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
1 2 (9.09%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.55%) Electronics
2 1 (4.55%) Finance
2 1 (4.55%) Manufacturing
2 1 (4.55%) Marketing
2 1 (4.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (31.82%) Senior
2 7 (31.82%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (27.27%) Architect
3 6 (27.27%) Infrastructure Architect
3 6 (27.27%) VMware Architect
4 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 3 (13.64%) Designer
6 2 (9.09%) Technical Specialist
6 2 (9.09%) VMware Specialist
7 1 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (31.82%) Hybrid Cloud
1 7 (31.82%) Public Cloud
2 4 (18.18%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (13.64%) Clustering
4 2 (9.09%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 15 (68.18%) Windows
1 15 (68.18%) Windows Server
2 12 (54.55%) Linux
3 8 (36.36%) CentOS
3 8 (36.36%) Ubuntu
3 8 (36.36%) Windows Server 2016
3 8 (36.36%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (13.64%) Windows 10
5 1 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (40.91%) Agile
2 8 (36.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 7 (31.82%) Application Packaging
3 7 (31.82%) Change Control
3 7 (31.82%) DevSecOps
4 4 (18.18%) Edge Virtualization
4 4 (18.18%) Performance Analysis
4 4 (18.18%) RBAC
5 3 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (9.09%) Power Management
7 1 (4.55%) Antivirus Management
7 1 (4.55%) Business Intelligence
7 1 (4.55%) CI/CD
7 1 (4.55%) Digital Marketing
7 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure as Code
7 1 (4.55%) Platform Engineering
7 1 (4.55%) Programme Management
7 1 (4.55%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 12 (54.55%) PowerShell
2 4 (18.18%) SQL
3 3 (13.64%) Python
4 1 (4.55%) Bash
Qualifications
1 20 (90.91%) Security Cleared
2 11 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 10 (45.45%) SC Cleared
4 6 (27.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 4 (18.18%) MCSE
5 4 (18.18%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (18.18%) VCP5
5 4 (18.18%) VCP6
6 2 (9.09%) VCAP
System Software
1 13 (59.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (18.18%) NFS
2 4 (18.18%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (13.64%) Active Directory
3 3 (13.64%) Hyper-V
4 2 (9.09%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 10 (45.45%) vCenter Server
2 8 (36.36%) Ansible
3 7 (31.82%) Kubernetes
3 7 (31.82%) Nessus
3 7 (31.82%) Terraform
4 3 (13.64%) Failover Clustering
4 3 (13.64%) Norton AntiVirus
4 3 (13.64%) WSUS
5 2 (9.09%) vRealize
5 2 (9.09%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 17 (77.27%) VMware
2 11 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 9 (40.91%) Red Hat
4 4 (18.18%) NetApp
4 4 (18.18%) Splunk
4 4 (18.18%) Veeam
5 3 (13.64%) Symantec
6 2 (9.09%) Juniper
6 2 (9.09%) NETGEAR
6 2 (9.09%) SolarWinds
6 2 (9.09%) TP-LINK
7 1 (4.55%) SAP