vSphere Contracts in the South East

VMware vSphere
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 119 143 165
Rank change year-on-year +24 +22 +1
Contract jobs citing vSphere 40 62 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.33% 1.12% 0.98%
As % of the System Software category 9.20% 7.94% 6.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 44 45
10th Percentile £520 £278 £305
25th Percentile £538 £391 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% +11.76% -10.53%
75th Percentile £650 £506 £458
90th Percentile £667 £588 £633
England median daily rate £569 £508 £455
% change year-on-year +12.02% +11.54% +0.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £52.23
25th Percentile - - £52.56
Median hourly rate - - £54.50
75th Percentile - - £62.63
90th Percentile - - £70.50
England median hourly rate - £70.66 £54.50
% change year-on-year - +29.65% +99.09%

All System Software Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 435 781 852
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.45% 14.05% 14.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 319 490 600
10th Percentile £250 £200 £205
25th Percentile £363 £350 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £608 £600
90th Percentile £688 £646 £675
England median daily rate £525 £494 £525
% change year-on-year +6.33% -5.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 48 46
10th Percentile £28.00 £17.26 £17.28
25th Percentile £36.50 £17.80 £18.25
Median hourly rate £57.50 £50.75 £54.03
Median % change year-on-year +13.30% -6.07% +170.15%
75th Percentile £63.75 £62.81 £69.38
90th Percentile £71.25 £65.00 £75.00
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 South East

Job postings citing vSphere as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for vSphere in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing vSphere in the South East.

Daily rate trend for vSphere in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for vSphere in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing vSphere in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for vSphere in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing vSphere within the South East 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
Hampshire +29 22 £600 +37.14% 12
Thames Valley +44 10 £539 +25.00% 11
Berkshire +35 9 £539 +54.00% 9
Kent - 6 £592 - 1
West Sussex -6 2 £550 +15.79% 3
Oxfordshire - 1 - - 4
vSphere
England

vSphere
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 5 (12.50%) IIS
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.50%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 21 (52.50%) Azure
2 8 (20.00%) IaaS
2 8 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (20.00%) OpenShift
3 7 (17.50%) SaaS
4 3 (7.50%) AWS
4 3 (7.50%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (50.00%) DNS
2 12 (30.00%) DHCP
3 11 (27.50%) Firewall
3 11 (27.50%) SAN
4 8 (20.00%) iSCSI
5 7 (17.50%) Fibre Channel
6 6 (15.00%) NetScaler
6 6 (15.00%) VSAN
7 5 (12.50%) SMTP
8 4 (10.00%) VLAN
9 2 (5.00%) Software-Defined Networking
10 1 (2.50%) Intrusion Detection
10 1 (2.50%) LAN
10 1 (2.50%) NAS
10 1 (2.50%) SD-WAN
10 1 (2.50%) Skype
10 1 (2.50%) TCP/IP
10 1 (2.50%) Unified Communications
10 1 (2.50%) WAN
10 1 (2.50%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Git
2 2 (5.00%) Subversion
General
1 6 (15.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (7.50%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.50%) Electronics
4 1 (2.50%) Finance
4 1 (2.50%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.50%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 14 (35.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (22.50%) VMware Engineer
3 7 (17.50%) Senior
3 7 (17.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (15.00%) Architect
4 6 (15.00%) Azure Engineer
4 6 (15.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (15.00%) Infrastructure Architect
4 6 (15.00%) VMware Architect
4 6 (15.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (12.50%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 4 (10.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
7 3 (7.50%) 3rd Line Support
7 3 (7.50%) Designer
7 3 (7.50%) Infrastructure Support
7 3 (7.50%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) Support Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) VMware Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.00%) Clustering
2 7 (17.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (17.50%) Public Cloud
3 5 (12.50%) PKI
4 4 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (7.50%) Data Centre
6 2 (5.00%) Replication
7 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 27 (67.50%) Windows
2 21 (52.50%) Windows Server
3 14 (35.00%) Linux
4 8 (20.00%) CentOS
4 8 (20.00%) Ubuntu
4 8 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 8 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
5 5 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (7.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (7.50%) Windows 10
7 2 (5.00%) Solaris
7 2 (5.00%) Unix
8 1 (2.50%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (35.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (22.50%) Agile
3 7 (17.50%) Application Packaging
3 7 (17.50%) Change Control
3 7 (17.50%) Cybersecurity
3 7 (17.50%) DevSecOps
3 7 (17.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (17.50%) ITIL
4 6 (15.00%) Security Patching
5 5 (12.50%) DevOps
5 5 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (10.00%) Edge Virtualization
6 4 (10.00%) Performance Analysis
6 4 (10.00%) RBAC
7 3 (7.50%) Network Virtualisation
8 2 (5.00%) Data Loss Prevention
8 2 (5.00%) Product Roadmap
8 2 (5.00%) Remediation Plan
8 2 (5.00%) Roadmaps
8 2 (5.00%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 18 (45.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (12.50%) Python
2 5 (12.50%) Shell Script
2 5 (12.50%) SQL
3 3 (7.50%) Bash
4 2 (5.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 25 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 14 (35.00%) DV Cleared
3 12 (30.00%) SC Cleared
4 7 (17.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 5 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (10.00%) MCSE
6 4 (10.00%) VCP5
6 4 (10.00%) VCP6
7 3 (7.50%) VCAP
8 1 (2.50%) A+ Certification
8 1 (2.50%) Degree
8 1 (2.50%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.00%) SLA
2 2 (5.00%) GDPR
2 2 (5.00%) QA
3 1 (2.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 26 (65.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (37.50%) Active Directory
3 9 (22.50%) VMware ESXi
4 6 (15.00%) DFS Replication
4 6 (15.00%) XenApp
5 5 (12.50%) VMware NSX
5 5 (12.50%) XenDesktop
6 4 (10.00%) Hyper-V
6 4 (10.00%) NFS
Systems Management
1 13 (32.50%) vCenter Server
2 10 (25.00%) Ansible
3 8 (20.00%) WSUS
4 7 (17.50%) Kubernetes
4 7 (17.50%) Nessus
4 7 (17.50%) Terraform
5 5 (12.50%) Microsoft Clustering
5 5 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (7.50%) Failover Clustering
6 3 (7.50%) Norton AntiVirus
6 3 (7.50%) vRealize
7 2 (5.00%) Red Hat Satellite
7 2 (5.00%) SELinux
7 2 (5.00%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 1 (2.50%) PowerCLI
8 1 (2.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 35 (87.50%) VMware
2 23 (57.50%) Microsoft
3 11 (27.50%) Red Hat
4 6 (15.00%) Citrix
5 5 (12.50%) Dell
5 5 (12.50%) HP
5 5 (12.50%) NetApp
5 5 (12.50%) Symantec
5 5 (12.50%) Veeam
6 4 (10.00%) SolarWinds
6 4 (10.00%) Splunk
7 2 (5.00%) Juniper
7 2 (5.00%) NETGEAR
7 2 (5.00%) TP-LINK
7 2 (5.00%) Veritas
8 1 (2.50%) Cisco
8 1 (2.50%) F5
8 1 (2.50%) SAP
8 1 (2.50%) Zerto