vSphere Contract Job Trends in London

VMware vSphere
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring vSphere skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 354 353 346
Rank change year-on-year -1 -7 +118
Contract jobs citing vSphere 27 28 57
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.19% 0.18% 0.30%
As % of the System Software category 1.65% 1.76% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 17 38
10th Percentile £493 £275 £219
25th Percentile £515 £325 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £400 £525
Median % change year-on-year +31.25% -23.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £575 £488 £600
90th Percentile £618 £600 £650
England median daily rate £525 £470 £510
% change year-on-year +11.70% -7.84% -0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.25
Median hourly rate - £112.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year - +397.78% -10.00%
75th Percentile - - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £97.50 £93.50 £76.53
% change year-on-year +4.28% +22.17% +141.04%

All System Software Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,632 1,587 2,154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 11.44% 10.39% 11.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,056 1,050 1,533
10th Percentile £325 £260 £213
25th Percentile £425 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £640 £661 £645
90th Percentile £725 £788 £750
England median daily rate £500 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -3.38% +3.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 16 23
10th Percentile £21.00 £20.50 £22.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £23.75 £25.38
Median hourly rate £24.00 £23.80 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year +0.84% -45.71% +51.16%
75th Percentile £26.00 £70.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £55.85 £103.50 £74.50
England median hourly rate £47.50 £32.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +46.15% -18.75% +60.00%

vSphere
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

vSphere job vacancy trend in London

vSphere
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing vSphere

vSphere
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing vSphere in London over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for vSphere in London

vSphere
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing vSphere

vSphere
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing vSphere within the London region over the 6 months to 14 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
Central London +4 5 £559 -6.88% 3
West London - 1 - - 1
vSphere
England

vSphere
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (22.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (7.41%) Confluence
3 1 (3.70%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) MS Visio
1 1 (3.70%) OmniGraffle
Cloud Services
1 9 (33.33%) Azure
2 6 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (18.52%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 4 (14.81%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (11.11%) OpenShift
6 2 (7.41%) AWS
6 2 (7.41%) GitHub
6 2 (7.41%) Nutanix
7 1 (3.70%) GCP
7 1 (3.70%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (29.63%) VSAN
2 6 (22.22%) VPN
3 5 (18.52%) DNS
4 4 (14.81%) WAN
5 3 (11.11%) DHCP
6 2 (7.41%) Firewall
6 2 (7.41%) VLAN
7 1 (3.70%) Calico
7 1 (3.70%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (3.70%) Cisco Wireless
7 1 (3.70%) Ethernet
7 1 (3.70%) FTP
7 1 (3.70%) HTTPS
7 1 (3.70%) NAS
7 1 (3.70%) Network Security
7 1 (3.70%) NX-OS
7 1 (3.70%) RTP
7 1 (3.70%) SAN
7 1 (3.70%) SSH
7 1 (3.70%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.70%) GitLab
General
1 9 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.41%) Banking
3 2 (7.41%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (7.41%) French Language
3 2 (7.41%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (7.41%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.70%) Finance
4 1 (3.70%) Police
Job Titles
1 8 (29.63%) Architect
2 5 (18.52%) Senior
2 5 (18.52%) Senior Wintel Engineer
2 5 (18.52%) VMware Engineer
2 5 (18.52%) Wintel Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) VMware Architect
4 3 (11.11%) Azure Architect
4 3 (11.11%) Consultant
4 3 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (7.41%) VMware Consultant
6 1 (3.70%) Automation Consultant
6 1 (3.70%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Cloud Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Cloud Specialist
6 1 (3.70%) DevOps Architect
6 1 (3.70%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Lead DevOps Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Support Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) VMware Specialist
6 1 (3.70%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (3.70%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 6 (22.22%) PKI
2 5 (18.52%) Data Centre
2 5 (18.52%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (18.52%) Replication
3 3 (11.11%) Cloud Native
4 2 (7.41%) Onboarding
4 2 (7.41%) Public Cloud
5 1 (3.70%) BYOD
5 1 (3.70%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.70%) Private Cloud
5 1 (3.70%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 8 (29.63%) Windows
2 7 (25.93%) Windows Server
3 3 (11.11%) VMS
4 2 (7.41%) Linux
5 1 (3.70%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (25.93%) High Availability
1 7 (25.93%) Migration
2 6 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (18.52%) CI/CD
4 4 (14.81%) DevOps
4 4 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (11.11%) Containerisation
5 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (11.11%) ITIL
5 3 (11.11%) Knowledge Transfer
5 3 (11.11%) Network Virtualisation
5 3 (11.11%) Performance Optimisation
5 3 (11.11%) Service Delivery
5 3 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (7.41%) Data Protection
6 2 (7.41%) ITSM
6 2 (7.41%) Load Balancing
6 2 (7.41%) Observability
6 2 (7.41%) RBAC
6 2 (7.41%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 3 (11.11%) Python
2 2 (7.41%) Bash
2 2 (7.41%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.70%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (25.93%) Microsoft Certification
1 7 (25.93%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 5 (18.52%) Security Cleared
3 3 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 3 (11.11%) VCAP
4 2 (7.41%) CCNP
4 2 (7.41%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (7.41%) DV Cleared
4 2 (7.41%) VCDX
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.70%) CCDP
5 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.70%) Degree
5 1 (3.70%) MCP
5 1 (3.70%) Postgraduate
System Software
1 15 (55.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (44.44%) VMware NSX
3 6 (22.22%) Active Directory
3 6 (22.22%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (18.52%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (3.70%) Docker
5 1 (3.70%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (25.93%) vCenter Server
2 6 (22.22%) SCOM
2 6 (22.22%) Terraform
3 5 (18.52%) Ansible
4 4 (14.81%) Kubernetes
5 3 (11.11%) PowerCLI
5 3 (11.11%) vRealize
6 2 (7.41%) Argo
6 2 (7.41%) Grafana
7 1 (3.70%) Istio
7 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (3.70%) vRealize Orchestrator
7 1 (3.70%) VxRail
Vendors
1 27 (100.00%) VMware
2 12 (44.44%) Microsoft
3 8 (29.63%) Dell
4 5 (18.52%) NetApp
5 3 (11.11%) Cisco
5 3 (11.11%) Pure Storage
5 3 (11.11%) Red Hat
6 2 (7.41%) Splunk
7 1 (3.70%) Arista
7 1 (3.70%) Dynatrace
7 1 (3.70%) Isilon
7 1 (3.70%) LogRhythm
7 1 (3.70%) Veeam
7 1 (3.70%) Wind River