VxRail Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Dell EMC VxRail
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring VxRail skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 147 - 113
Rank change year-on-year - - +70
Contract jobs citing VxRail 13 0 23
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.42% - 0.86%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.58% - 6.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 10
10th Percentile £299 - £319
25th Percentile £304 - £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £310 - £450
75th Percentile £317 - £525
90th Percentile £349 - £575
England median daily rate £364 £400 £500
% change year-on-year -8.94% -20.00% -

All Systems Management Skills
Midlands

VxRail falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 504 277 332
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 16.38% 10.92% 12.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 350 174 251
10th Percentile £263 £202 £220
25th Percentile £405 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £445
Median % change year-on-year - +12.36% -6.32%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £572
90th Percentile £650 £661 £688
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 3
10th Percentile £20.20 - £15.34
25th Percentile £26.13 £12.18 £16.24
Median hourly rate £36.00 £12.85 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +180.16% -27.48% -
75th Percentile £56.63 £14.43 £36.36
90th Percentile £69.00 £16.07 £47.54
England median hourly rate £39.75 £35.08 £46.18
% change year-on-year +13.30% -24.03% +52.66%

VxRail
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

VxRail job vacancy trend in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing VxRail.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing VxRail

VxRail
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VxRail in the Midlands over the 6 months to 3 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VxRail in the Midlands

VxRail
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VxRail within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 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
West Midlands - 12 £310 - 1
East Midlands - 1 - -
VxRail
England

VxRail
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (46.15%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (46.15%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 12 (92.31%) Azure
2 11 (84.62%) AWS
2 11 (84.62%) Datadog
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (92.31%) VSAN
2 1 (7.69%) DNS
2 1 (7.69%) SSL
2 1 (7.69%) VLAN
General
1 3 (23.08%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 12 (92.31%) Analyst
2 11 (84.62%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 3 (23.08%) Storage Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (84.62%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (7.69%) PKI
2 1 (7.69%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (84.62%) Linux
2 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) Agile
2 7 (53.85%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (23.08%) Capacity Planning
3 3 (23.08%) Decision-Making
3 3 (23.08%) Mentoring
4 1 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (7.69%) IT Audit
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Degree
2 2 (15.38%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 13 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (92.31%) vSphere
3 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
3 1 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (7.69%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 12 (92.31%) vRealize
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) VMware
2 12 (92.31%) Cisco
2 12 (92.31%) Dell
3 11 (84.62%) AppDynamics
3 11 (84.62%) Commvault
3 11 (84.62%) IBM
3 11 (84.62%) SolarWinds
4 9 (69.23%) HP
5 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
5 1 (7.69%) Veeam
5 1 (7.69%) Zerto