vSphere Contracts in South Yorkshire

VMware vSphere
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 36 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing vSphere 12 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 3.22% - -
As % of the System Software category 16.44% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £425 - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £500 - -
90th Percentile £590 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £375 £338
% change year-on-year +26.67% +11.11% -

All System Software Skills
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 73 105 41
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 19.57% 22.98% 7.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 75 33
10th Percentile £350 £186 £163
25th Percentile £400 £390 £235
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £430 £500
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% -14.00% +24.22%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £675
90th Percentile £650 £642 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £413 £430 £425
% change year-on-year -4.07% +1.18% +8.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.50
Median hourly rate - £22.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +15.21%
75th Percentile - - £22.50
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate - £14.63 £62.50
% change year-on-year - -76.60% +257.14%

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Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for vSphere in South Yorkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for vSphere in South Yorkshire

vSphere
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for vSphere in South Yorkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for vSphere in South Yorkshire

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Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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
Sheffield - 12 £475 -
vSphere
Yorkshire

vSphere
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) DNS
1 4 (33.33%) NAS
1 4 (33.33%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (66.67%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 11 (91.67%) Jenkins
2 4 (33.33%) Git
2 4 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 8 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Database Engineer
1 6 (50.00%) Oracle Database Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Automation Specialist
2 1 (8.33%) Consultant
2 1 (8.33%) Developer
2 1 (8.33%) DevOps Automation Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle Developer
2 1 (8.33%) Virtualisation Consultant
2 1 (8.33%) Virtualisation Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Virtualisation Specialist
2 1 (8.33%) VMware Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (16.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Linux
2 4 (33.33%) Windows
2 4 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (8.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 8 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 8 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (33.33%) Agile
4 4 (33.33%) Kanban
4 4 (33.33%) Migration
4 4 (33.33%) Scrum
5 3 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 3 (25.00%) Data Protection
5 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
6 2 (16.67%) Virtual Environments
7 1 (8.33%) Change Management
7 1 (8.33%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) Python
1 7 (58.33%) Shell Script
2 4 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 4 (33.33%) OCP
2 4 (33.33%) Oracle Certification
3 2 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (16.67%) Degree
System Software
1 11 (91.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 4 (33.33%) VMware NSX
3 3 (25.00%) Docker
3 3 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (100.00%) Ansible
2 4 (33.33%) vCenter Server
2 4 (33.33%) vRealize
3 3 (25.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (8.33%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 11 (91.67%) VMware
2 8 (66.67%) Oracle
3 1 (8.33%) Red Hat