vSphere Contracts in the North of England

VMware vSphere
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 139 180 205
Rank change year-on-year +41 +25 +7
Contract jobs citing vSphere 27 5 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.82% 0.10% 0.26%
As % of the System Software category 5.34% 0.89% 1.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 5 15
10th Percentile £370 £253 -
25th Percentile £423 £363 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £520 £350
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +48.57% +40.00%
75th Percentile £513 £613 £438
90th Percentile £560 £628 £468
England median daily rate £569 £508 £455
% change year-on-year +12.02% +11.54% +0.55%

All System Software Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 506 559 840
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 15.36% 11.72% 14.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 337 405 631
10th Percentile £184 £178 £178
25th Percentile £263 £275 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £430 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.07% -14.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £578
90th Percentile £603 £650 £670
England median daily rate £525 £494 £525
% change year-on-year +6.33% -5.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 50 36
10th Percentile £33.73 - £14.13
25th Percentile £40.81 £14.06 £17.44
Median hourly rate £55.75 £16.00 £26.75
Median % change year-on-year +248.44% -40.19% +52.86%
75th Percentile £73.81 £18.56 £64.06
90th Percentile £82.78 £43.21 £65.38
England median hourly rate £27.94 £21.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +33.05% -58.00% +163.16%

vSphere
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing vSphere as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for vSphere in the North of England

vSphere
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing vSphere in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for vSphere in the North of England

vSphere
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for vSphere in the North of England

vSphere
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing vSphere in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for vSphere in the North of England

vSphere
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing vSphere within the North of England 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
Yorkshire +22 15 £475 +26.67% 5
North West +28 12 £510 -11.30% 13
vSphere
England

vSphere
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 14 (51.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (14.81%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.70%) BizTalk Server
Cloud Services
1 15 (55.56%) Azure
2 14 (51.85%) Entra ID
2 14 (51.85%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (48.15%) IaaS
4 3 (11.11%) PaaS
5 2 (7.41%) OCI
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 14 (51.85%) Firewall
1 14 (51.85%) Network Security
2 11 (40.74%) Intrusion Detection
3 4 (14.81%) DNS
3 4 (14.81%) NAS
3 4 (14.81%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (44.44%) SQL Server
2 8 (29.63%) Oracle Database
3 1 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.70%) GIS
3 1 (3.70%) MSDE
3 1 (3.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (40.74%) Jenkins
2 4 (14.81%) Git
2 4 (14.81%) GitLab
General
1 11 (40.74%) Telecoms
2 8 (29.63%) Social Skills
3 4 (14.81%) Finance
4 3 (11.11%) Local Government
5 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.70%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (22.22%) Database Engineer
1 6 (22.22%) Infrastructure Specialist
1 6 (22.22%) Oracle Database Engineer
2 5 (18.52%) Analyst
2 5 (18.52%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) IT Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Automation Specialist
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) DevOps Automation Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Specialist
5 1 (3.70%) Oracle Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Virtualisation Consultant
5 1 (3.70%) Virtualisation Specialist
5 1 (3.70%) VMware Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.81%) Middleware
2 1 (3.70%) .NET
2 1 (3.70%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (7.41%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.70%) Clustering
4 1 (3.70%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.70%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 16 (59.26%) Windows
1 16 (59.26%) Windows Server
2 5 (18.52%) Linux
3 1 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (59.26%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (40.74%) Business Continuity
2 11 (40.74%) Change Management
2 11 (40.74%) Infrastructure Automation
2 11 (40.74%) Vulnerability Scanning
3 10 (37.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 9 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
4 9 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
5 8 (29.63%) BCP
5 8 (29.63%) Business Continuity Planning
5 8 (29.63%) CI/CD
5 8 (29.63%) Enterprise Architecture
5 8 (29.63%) High Availability
5 8 (29.63%) Information Security
5 8 (29.63%) Risk Assessment
6 7 (25.93%) Line Management
6 7 (25.93%) Project Delivery
6 7 (25.93%) Web Operations
7 6 (22.22%) Performance Tuning
8 5 (18.52%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 16 (59.26%) PowerShell
2 7 (25.93%) Python
2 7 (25.93%) Shell Script
3 1 (3.70%) SQL
3 1 (3.70%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (40.74%) Azure Certification
2 10 (37.04%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (18.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 4 (14.81%) OCP
4 4 (14.81%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (11.11%) CCNA
5 3 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (7.41%) Degree
System Software
1 21 (77.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (66.67%) Active Directory
3 4 (14.81%) VMware NSX
4 3 (11.11%) Docker
4 3 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (51.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (44.44%) Ansible
3 4 (14.81%) vCenter Server
3 4 (14.81%) vRealize
4 3 (11.11%) Kubernetes
4 3 (11.11%) SCCM
5 1 (3.70%) Perfmon
5 1 (3.70%) SCOM
5 1 (3.70%) vRealize Orchestrator
5 1 (3.70%) VxRail
Vendors
1 26 (96.30%) VMware
2 15 (55.56%) Microsoft
3 8 (29.63%) Oracle
4 3 (11.11%) Cisco
4 3 (11.11%) Meraki
4 3 (11.11%) Palo Alto
4 3 (11.11%) Veeam
5 1 (3.70%) Red Hat