vSphere Contracts in the North West

VMware vSphere
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 108 136 148
Rank change year-on-year +28 +12 +10
Contract jobs citing vSphere 12 1 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.61% 0.036% 0.28%
As % of the System Software category 4.33% 0.39% 1.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 9
10th Percentile £348 - £330
25th Percentile £399 £538 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £575 £365
Median % change year-on-year -11.30% +57.53% +46.00%
75th Percentile £517 £613 £456
90th Percentile £540 - £495
England median daily rate £569 £508 £455
% change year-on-year +12.02% +11.54% +0.55%

All System Software Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 277 256 504
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 14.08% 9.29% 15.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 182 366
10th Percentile £157 £178 £200
25th Percentile £250 £299 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £575
90th Percentile £564 £670 £650
England median daily rate £525 £494 £525
% change year-on-year +6.33% -5.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 26 29
10th Percentile £33.73 - £13.99
25th Percentile £40.81 £15.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £55.75 £17.72 £22.41
Median % change year-on-year +214.62% -20.93% +23.71%
75th Percentile £73.81 £26.38 £52.13
90th Percentile £82.78 £46.18 £65.00
England median hourly rate £27.94 £21.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +33.05% -58.00% +163.16%

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for vSphere in the North West

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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 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
Manchester - 11 £510 - 12
Cheshire 0 1 £320 -44.35%
vSphere
England

vSphere
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:

Application Platforms
1 11 (91.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (8.33%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (100.00%) Azure
2 11 (91.67%) Entra ID
2 11 (91.67%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (83.33%) IaaS
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 11 (91.67%) Firewall
1 11 (91.67%) Intrusion Detection
1 11 (91.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (8.33%) GIS
2 1 (8.33%) MSDE
2 1 (8.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 11 (91.67%) Telecoms
2 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 5 (41.67%) Analyst
2 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Administrator
3 1 (8.33%) DBA
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) SQL DBA
3 1 (8.33%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) .NET
1 1 (8.33%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Clustering
1 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (8.33%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Windows
1 12 (100.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (8.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Business Continuity
1 11 (91.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 10 (83.33%) Change Management
3 9 (75.00%) Cybersecurity
3 9 (75.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 8 (66.67%) BCP
4 8 (66.67%) Business Continuity Planning
4 8 (66.67%) Enterprise Architecture
4 8 (66.67%) High Availability
4 8 (66.67%) Information Security
4 8 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (66.67%) Risk Assessment
5 7 (58.33%) Line Management
5 7 (58.33%) Project Delivery
5 7 (58.33%) Web Operations
6 5 (41.67%) Analytics
6 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 1 (8.33%) Capacity Planning
7 1 (8.33%) Performance Management
7 1 (8.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (8.33%) SQL
2 1 (8.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (91.67%) Azure Certification
2 10 (83.33%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 11 (91.67%) Active Directory
2 10 (83.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (91.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (8.33%) Perfmon
2 1 (8.33%) SCOM
2 1 (8.33%) VxRail
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 12 (100.00%) VMware