vSphere Contracts in the South West

VMware vSphere
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 102 112 131
Rank change year-on-year +10 +19 +12
Contract jobs citing vSphere 9 45 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.54% 1.41% 0.99%
As % of the System Software category 3.19% 12.57% 6.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 38 21
10th Percentile £443 £462 £413
25th Percentile £460 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.91% +1.50% +13.64%
75th Percentile £562 £538 £550
90th Percentile £597 £625 £588
England median daily rate £569 £508 £455
% change year-on-year +12.02% +11.54% +0.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £70.66 -
England median hourly rate - £70.66 £54.50
% change year-on-year - +29.65% +99.09%

All System Software Skills
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 282 358 577
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 16.81% 11.19% 15.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 266 439
10th Percentile £213 £153 £200
25th Percentile £413 £275 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.37% +1.50% -
75th Percentile £625 £588 £623
90th Percentile £700 £700 £720
England median daily rate £525 £494 £525
% change year-on-year +6.33% -5.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 32 40
10th Percentile £16.05 - £13.25
25th Percentile £17.38 £40.00 £17.22
Median hourly rate £40.63 £68.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.91% +14.58% +21.24%
75th Percentile £68.05 £86.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.44 £90.00 £76.19
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for vSphere in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for vSphere in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for vSphere in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South 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
Wiltshire +6 6 £485 +2.11% 3
Gloucestershire +11 2 £470 -21.67% 4
Bristol +17 1 £588 +0.86% 2
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 1 (11.11%) Apache
1 1 (11.11%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) AWS
1 3 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) VSAN
2 2 (22.22%) DNS
2 2 (22.22%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (11.11%) DHCP
3 1 (11.11%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (33.33%) Billing
1 3 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Consultant
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Wintel Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Applications Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) LDAP
1 1 (11.11%) SOAP
1 1 (11.11%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (22.22%) PKI
2 1 (11.11%) Clustering
2 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Windows
2 2 (22.22%) Linux
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (11.11%) Ubuntu
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Dashboard Development
2 2 (22.22%) Desktop Virtualisation
2 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (22.22%) Task Automation
3 1 (11.11%) Benchmarking
3 1 (11.11%) Converged Infrastructure
3 1 (11.11%) Customer Service
3 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
3 1 (11.11%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (11.11%) Project Delivery
3 1 (11.11%) Project Management
3 1 (11.11%) Security Hardening
3 1 (11.11%) Virtual Infrastructure
3 1 (11.11%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
1 2 (22.22%) Python
2 1 (11.11%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 9 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 8 (88.89%) Active Directory
1 8 (88.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (44.44%) Hyper-V
2 4 (44.44%) VMware NSX
3 3 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (22.22%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) VxRail
2 3 (33.33%) vCenter Server
2 3 (33.33%) vRealize
3 2 (22.22%) SCCM
4 1 (11.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (11.11%) Nessus
4 1 (11.11%) WSUS
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (33.33%) Infoblox
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (22.22%) Citrix
4 1 (11.11%) Dell
4 1 (11.11%) Oracle
4 1 (11.11%) Veritas