vSphere Contracts in London

VMware vSphere
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 302 343 425
Rank change year-on-year +41 +82 +21
Contract jobs citing vSphere 40 52 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.32% 0.30% 0.23%
As % of the System Software category 3.00% 2.91% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 41 42
10th Percentile £213 £263 £350
25th Percentile £350 £513 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £519
Median % change year-on-year - +1.20% +3.75%
75th Percentile £609 £594 £585
90th Percentile £696 £625 £625
England median daily rate £557 £500 £455
% change year-on-year +11.40% +9.84% -2.73%

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 1,333 1,786 3,018
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.78% 10.18% 11.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 933 1,270 2,211
10th Percentile £280 £213 £243
25th Percentile £425 £370 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +2.22%
75th Percentile £663 £618 £676
90th Percentile £788 £725 £775
England median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 35 39
10th Percentile £23.08 £17.23 £19.05
25th Percentile £26.45 £20.50 £25.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £22.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.11% -59.09% +107.55%
75th Percentile £38.75 £25.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £89.75 £48.89 £86.00
England median hourly rate £28.21 £21.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +34.31% -58.00% +163.16%

vSphere
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for vSphere in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for vSphere in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for vSphere in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for vSphere in London

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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 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
South London +4 3 £238 +0.11% 1
Central London +2 3 £613 +157.89% 10
East London - 1 £225 - 2
North London - 1 £550 -
vSphere
England

vSphere
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (10.00%) OpenStack
3 3 (7.50%) Apache
4 1 (2.50%) Confluence
4 1 (2.50%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 14 (35.00%) Azure
2 6 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (15.00%) OpenShift
3 5 (12.50%) IaaS
4 2 (5.00%) AWS
4 2 (5.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (5.00%) Google Workspace
5 1 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.50%) Amazon ELB
5 1 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (2.50%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (2.50%) GitHub
5 1 (2.50%) Route 53
5 1 (2.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (30.00%) VSAN
2 7 (17.50%) TCP/IP
3 6 (15.00%) DNS
4 4 (10.00%) NAS
4 4 (10.00%) VLAN
4 4 (10.00%) VPN
4 4 (10.00%) VXLAN
5 3 (7.50%) BGP
5 3 (7.50%) DHCP
5 3 (7.50%) Ethernet VPN
5 3 (7.50%) Firewall
5 3 (7.50%) Multicast
5 3 (7.50%) OSPF
5 3 (7.50%) SAN
6 2 (5.00%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (5.00%) Network Security
6 2 (5.00%) NX-OS
7 1 (2.50%) 4G
7 1 (2.50%) 5G
7 1 (2.50%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (7.50%) Big Data
2 3 (7.50%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (7.50%) Bitbucket
2 3 (7.50%) Jenkins
2 3 (7.50%) SonarQube
3 1 (2.50%) Git
3 1 (2.50%) JIRA
General
1 12 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (27.50%) Finance
3 8 (20.00%) Law
4 7 (17.50%) Telecoms
5 5 (12.50%) Public Sector
6 3 (7.50%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (7.50%) Legal
7 2 (5.00%) Electronics
7 2 (5.00%) Financial Institution
7 2 (5.00%) Local Government
7 2 (5.00%) Manufacturing
7 2 (5.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 10 (25.00%) VMware Engineer
2 7 (17.50%) Cloud Engineer
3 6 (15.00%) 2nd Line Support
4 5 (12.50%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 5 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 5 (12.50%) Architect
4 5 (12.50%) Migration Engineer
4 5 (12.50%) Support Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Senior
6 3 (7.50%) Cloud Specialist
6 3 (7.50%) Consultant
6 3 (7.50%) Desktop Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Migration Specialist
6 3 (7.50%) Network Consultant
6 3 (7.50%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (5.00%) Desktop Support
7 2 (5.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Hardware Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.50%) .NET
1 3 (7.50%) Apache NiFi
1 3 (7.50%) ASP.NET
1 3 (7.50%) ASP.NET Core
1 3 (7.50%) CSS
1 3 (7.50%) HTML
1 3 (7.50%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.50%) Public Cloud
2 6 (15.00%) Data Centre
2 6 (15.00%) Private Cloud
3 3 (7.50%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.50%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 18 (45.00%) Windows
2 11 (27.50%) Linux
3 8 (20.00%) Windows 10
4 7 (17.50%) Windows Server
5 5 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (10.00%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (7.50%) Android
7 3 (7.50%) Apple iOS
7 3 (7.50%) CentOS
7 3 (7.50%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (5.00%) Mac OS X
8 2 (5.00%) Windows 8
8 2 (5.00%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (5.00%) Windows XP
9 1 (2.50%) Unix
9 1 (2.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (22.50%) Customer Service
1 9 (22.50%) High Availability
1 9 (22.50%) Migration
2 7 (17.50%) Network Virtualisation
3 6 (15.00%) Roadmaps
4 5 (12.50%) Change Management
4 5 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (12.50%) Project Management
4 5 (12.50%) Strategic Roadmap
5 4 (10.00%) Customer Requirements
5 4 (10.00%) ITSM
5 4 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (10.00%) Service Management
5 4 (10.00%) SIEM
5 4 (10.00%) Software Engineering
6 3 (7.50%) Capacity Planning
6 3 (7.50%) Collaborative Working
6 3 (7.50%) DevOps
6 3 (7.50%) Infrastructure Management
6 3 (7.50%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (10.00%) Python
2 3 (7.50%) C#
2 3 (7.50%) JavaScript
2 3 (7.50%) SQL
3 1 (2.50%) Bash
3 1 (2.50%) C
3 1 (2.50%) Java
3 1 (2.50%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 6 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.50%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.00%) CCIE
3 2 (5.00%) CCIE Data Center
3 2 (5.00%) CCNP
3 2 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (5.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (5.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (2.50%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) GDPR
1 2 (5.00%) HIPAA
2 1 (2.50%) NIST
System Software
1 27 (67.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (37.50%) Active Directory
3 10 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
4 8 (20.00%) VMware NSX
5 5 (12.50%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (7.50%) Docker
6 3 (7.50%) vCloud
6 3 (7.50%) VMware Workstation
7 2 (5.00%) Hyper-V
7 2 (5.00%) XenApp
8 1 (2.50%) NFS
8 1 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (15.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (10.00%) Ansible
2 4 (10.00%) vCenter Server
3 3 (7.50%) Kibana
3 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (7.50%) Norton AntiVirus
3 3 (7.50%) Progress Chef
4 2 (5.00%) Dell DRAC
4 2 (5.00%) McAfee ePO
4 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Clustering
4 2 (5.00%) Terraform
4 2 (5.00%) WSUS
5 1 (2.50%) Grafana
5 1 (2.50%) Istio
5 1 (2.50%) Packer
5 1 (2.50%) PowerCLI
5 1 (2.50%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.50%) SysTrack
5 1 (2.50%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 32 (80.00%) VMware
2 18 (45.00%) Microsoft
3 7 (17.50%) Cisco
4 6 (15.00%) Red Hat
5 4 (10.00%) Citrix
5 4 (10.00%) Dell
5 4 (10.00%) HP
5 4 (10.00%) McAfee
5 4 (10.00%) ServiceNow
5 4 (10.00%) Symantec
6 3 (7.50%) Ericsson
6 3 (7.50%) Google
6 3 (7.50%) Mavenir
6 3 (7.50%) Nokia
7 2 (5.00%) Barracuda Networks
7 2 (5.00%) Draytek
7 2 (5.00%) Kaspersky
7 2 (5.00%) NETGEAR
7 2 (5.00%) WatchGuard
7 2 (5.00%) Webroot