vSphere Contract Job Trends in the North West

VMware vSphere
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring vSphere skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 116 139
Rank change year-on-year -10 +23 +5
Contract jobs citing vSphere 11 9 8
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.49% 0.38% 0.28%
As % of the System Software category 4.00% 3.64% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 7
10th Percentile £551 £351 £338
25th Percentile £591 £391 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £654 £425 £438
Median % change year-on-year +53.82% -2.86% +4.48%
75th Percentile £694 £438 £484
90th Percentile £713 - £500
England median daily rate £545 £480 £538
% change year-on-year +13.54% -10.70% +7.50%

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 275 247 415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 12.17% 10.30% 14.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 140 301
10th Percentile £205 £213 £200
25th Percentile £319 £400 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £500 £438
Median % change year-on-year -13.50% +14.29% -2.51%
75th Percentile £510 £581 £538
90th Percentile £650 £657 £650
England median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 13 34
10th Percentile - £17.09 £15.75
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.44 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.31 £22.09 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.11% +19.41% -8.10%
75th Percentile £19.25 £28.75 £40.14
90th Percentile £39.75 £73.34 £58.97
England median hourly rate £32.77 £50.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -34.46% +5.26% +111.11%

vSphere
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing vSphere relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

vSphere job vacancy trend in the North West

vSphere
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing vSphere.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing vSphere

vSphere
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing vSphere in the North West over the 6 months to 18 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for vSphere in the North West

vSphere
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing vSphere.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing vSphere

vSphere
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 18 October 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 +2 8 £654 +53.82% 4
vSphere
England

vSphere
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 4 (36.36%) OpenStack
2 1 (9.09%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) AWS
1 5 (45.45%) Azure
1 5 (45.45%) GCP
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (63.64%) Firewall
2 3 (27.27%) VSAN
3 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
3 1 (9.09%) VLAN
3 1 (9.09%) VoIP
3 1 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
1 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Virtualisation Engineer
2 5 (45.45%) Platform Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) Consultant
3 3 (27.27%) VMware Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior
4 1 (9.09%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Cloud Native
1 2 (18.18%) Data Centre
1 2 (18.18%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Clustering
2 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (9.09%) IBM XIV
2 1 (9.09%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (63.64%) Linux
2 4 (36.36%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (72.73%) CI/CD
2 8 (72.73%) DevOps
3 7 (63.64%) Containerisation
3 7 (63.64%) Infrastructure Automation
4 4 (36.36%) Incident Response
4 4 (36.36%) Observability
4 4 (36.36%) Platform Engineering
4 4 (36.36%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 3 (27.27%) Security Hardening
6 2 (18.18%) Edge Computing
6 2 (18.18%) Minimum Viable Product
6 2 (18.18%) Validation
6 2 (18.18%) Zero Trust
7 1 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
7 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) Bash
1 7 (63.64%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 1 (9.09%) VCAP
3 1 (9.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (90.91%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (63.64%) Docker
3 3 (27.27%) VMware NSX
4 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (90.91%) Terraform
2 8 (72.73%) Kubernetes
3 3 (27.27%) Ansible
4 2 (18.18%) PowerCLI
4 2 (18.18%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (9.09%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) VMware
2 4 (36.36%) F5
2 4 (36.36%) Palo Alto
3 1 (9.09%) Citrix
3 1 (9.09%) IBM
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft