vSphere Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

VMware vSphere
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 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 66 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing vSphere 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 0.94% - -
As % of the System Software category 4.58% - -
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 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £447 - £338
% change year-on-year - - -15.63%

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 131 94 47
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 20.57% 20.30% 10.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 69 33
10th Percentile £372 £412 £175
25th Percentile £414 £472 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £490
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +12.24% -2.00%
75th Percentile £569 £622 £619
90th Percentile £650 £651 £685
Yorkshire median daily rate £472 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -0.63% +5.56% +11.11%
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
Yorkshire median hourly rate - £21.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%

vSphere
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

vSphere job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

vSphere
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing vSphere.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing vSphere

vSphere
Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing vSphere.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing vSphere

vSphere
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 3 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
Sheffield - 6 £430 - 1
vSphere
Yorkshire

vSphere
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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