VxRail Contract Job Trends in the South East

Dell EMC VxRail
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring VxRail skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 164 171 198
Rank change year-on-year +7 +27 +62
Contract jobs citing VxRail 5 6 15
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.14% 0.14% 0.27%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.93% 0.96% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 10
10th Percentile - £413 £296
25th Percentile £525 £472 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile - £540 £631
90th Percentile - £602 £690
England median daily rate £550 £458 £500
% change year-on-year +20.22% -8.50% -4.76%

All Systems Management Skills
South East

VxRail falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 535 622 712
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.97% 14.22% 12.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 357 464 493
10th Percentile £250 £278 £208
25th Percentile £393 £403 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% -6.98% +7.50%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £640
90th Percentile £620 £688 £723
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 26
10th Percentile £18.87 £20.38 £23.50
25th Percentile £19.00 £28.06 £42.10
Median hourly rate £20.00 £35.08 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.99% -36.21% +14.86%
75th Percentile £55.00 £41.75 £74.68
90th Percentile £84.33 £54.35 £76.53
England median hourly rate £34.00 £38.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -10.53% -27.62% +119.57%

VxRail
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VxRail relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

VxRail job vacancy trend in the South East

VxRail
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing VxRail.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing VxRail

VxRail
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 VxRail within the South East region over the 6 months to 4 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
Hampshire +10 5 £550 +10.00% 1
VxRail
England

VxRail
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) VSAN
2 1 (20.00%) DHCP
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) NAS
2 1 (20.00%) SAN
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Server Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Storage Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Engineering Manager
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
1 3 (60.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (40.00%) CentOS
2 2 (40.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Ubuntu
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Converged Infrastructure
2 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Coaching
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (20.00%) High Availability
3 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Operational Stability
3 1 (20.00%) People Management
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Management
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Virtual Environments
3 1 (20.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) Bash
2 1 (20.00%) VB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (20.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) vSphere
2 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (20.00%) Firmware
3 1 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (20.00%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) vCenter Server
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Avamar
2 1 (20.00%) EMC NetWorker
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (60.00%) EMC
3 2 (40.00%) Dell
3 2 (40.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (20.00%) Veeam