vSphere Contracts in the North West

VMware vSphere
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for vSphere skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited vSphere over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 132 149 158
Rank change year-on-year +17 +9 -18
Contract jobs citing vSphere 2 9 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.072% 0.28% 0.40%
As % of the System Software category 0.77% 1.79% 2.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 9 15
10th Percentile £504 £330 £203
25th Percentile £509 £350 £226
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £365 £250
Median % change year-on-year +47.26% +46.00% -30.56%
75th Percentile £584 £456 -
90th Percentile £601 £495 £540
England median daily rate £500 £455 £453
% change year-on-year +9.89% +0.55% +5.85%

All System Software Skills
North West

vSphere is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 260 504 565
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 9.36% 15.78% 13.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 366 419
10th Percentile £178 £200 £159
25th Percentile £302 £325 £229
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +20.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £606
90th Percentile £670 £650 £650
England median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 29 26
10th Percentile - £13.99 £15.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £17.72 £22.41 £18.12
Median % change year-on-year -20.93% +23.71% -56.61%
75th Percentile £26.38 £52.13 £20.00
90th Percentile £46.18 £65.00 £34.75
England median hourly rate £21.00 £50.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -58.00% +163.16% -

vSphere
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for vSphere in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for vSphere in the North West

vSphere
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for vSphere in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. 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
Manchester +12 1 £500 +15.94% 2
Cheshire - 1 £575 -
vSphere
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
1 1 (50.00%) VSAN
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior VMware Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Server Building
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds Orion
1 1 (50.00%) vCenter Server
1 1 (50.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) 3PAR
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (50.00%) Symantec
2 1 (50.00%) Veeam