vSphere Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

VMware vSphere
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

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

6 months to
3 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing vSphere 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 1.03% - -
As % of the System Software category 4.62% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £406 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 - -
75th Percentile £460 - -
90th Percentile £484 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £430 - -

All System Software Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 130 84 40
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 22.30% 20.05% 9.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 59 27
10th Percentile £369 £452 £211
25th Percentile £413 £471 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £551
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -0.24% +5.02%
75th Percentile £550 £631 £653
90th Percentile £640 £655 £693
South Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £490
% change year-on-year -9.09% +12.24% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - - £18.65
25th Percentile - £20.50 £18.88
Median hourly rate - £21.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% +9.09%
75th Percentile - £21.75 £19.88
90th Percentile - £21.90 £19.95
South Yorkshire median hourly rate - £21.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year - +7.69% +9.09%

vSphere
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

vSphere job vacancy trend in Sheffield

vSphere
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing vSphere.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing vSphere

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Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing vSphere.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing vSphere

vSphere
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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 2 (33.33%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) DNS
2 3 (50.00%) Firewall
2 3 (50.00%) NAS
2 3 (50.00%) SAN
3 2 (33.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (50.00%) Git
2 3 (50.00%) GitLab
3 2 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Migration Specialist
1 3 (50.00%) Server Migration Specialist
1 3 (50.00%) Server Specialist
2 2 (33.33%) VMware Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps Automation Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Linux
2 3 (50.00%) VMS
2 3 (50.00%) Windows
2 3 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Agile
1 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure Automation
2 3 (50.00%) Kanban
2 3 (50.00%) Migration
2 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (50.00%) Scrum
2 3 (50.00%) Server Migrations
3 2 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Transformation
4 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) PowerShell
2 4 (66.67%) Python
3 3 (50.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 2 (33.33%) VCAP
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (83.33%) VMware NSX
3 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (50.00%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) vCenter Server
2 4 (66.67%) Ansible
3 3 (50.00%) vRealize
4 2 (33.33%) PowerCLI
4 2 (33.33%) Terraform
5 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) VMware
2 5 (83.33%) F5
3 2 (33.33%) Broadcom
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (16.67%) Oracle
4 1 (16.67%) Red Hat