vSphere Contract Job Trends in Kent

VMware vSphere
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Kent requiring vSphere skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing vSphere 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Kent 2.08% - -
As % of the System Software category 15.79% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £560 - -
25th Percentile £561 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £606 - -
90th Percentile £618 - -
South East median daily rate £550 £480 £550
% change year-on-year +14.58% -12.73% +11.11%

All System Software Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 19 7 35
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent 13.19% 5.00% 17.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 4 32
10th Percentile £147 £151 £164
25th Percentile £153 £163 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £180 £245 £365
Median % change year-on-year -26.53% -32.88% +4.29%
75th Percentile £506 £332 £535
90th Percentile £579 £335 £588
South East median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.25
Median hourly rate - - £20.50
75th Percentile - - £20.75
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £81.00 £59.88 £60.00
% change year-on-year +35.28% -0.21% +150.00%

vSphere
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

vSphere job vacancy trend in Kent

vSphere
Daily Rate Trend in Kent

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing vSphere

vSphere
Hourly Rate Trend in Kent

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing vSphere.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing vSphere

vSphere
Contract Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing vSphere within the Kent region over the 6 months to 21 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
Maidstone - 1 £568 - 1
West Malling - 1 £575 - 3
vSphere
South East

vSphere
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Kent 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) IaaS
2 2 (66.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) DHCP
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) SAN
2 2 (66.67%) Fibre Channel
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Specialist
3 1 (33.33%) VMware Specialist
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
1 3 (100.00%) Security Patching
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) DFS Replication
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) VMware