vSphere Contract Job Trends in Swindon

VMware vSphere
Wiltshire > Swindon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Swindon requiring vSphere skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 16 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing vSphere 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Swindon 4.27% - -
As % of the System Software category 20.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £96 - -
25th Percentile £166 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £288 - -
75th Percentile £416 - -
90th Percentile £489 - -
Wiltshire median daily rate £488 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +8.33% -5.26% -26.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £46.80 - -
25th Percentile £48.00 - -
Median hourly rate £50.00 - -
75th Percentile £50.50 - -
90th Percentile £50.80 - -
Wiltshire median hourly rate £50.00 - -

All System Software Skills
Swindon

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 Swindon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 25 6 10
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Swindon 21.37% 8.33% 8.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 6 8
10th Percentile £365 £340 £131
25th Percentile £425 £500 £140
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £225
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +144.44% -57.14%
75th Percentile £550 £681 £368
90th Percentile £563 £719 £591
Wiltshire median daily rate £550 £551 £506
% change year-on-year -0.18% +8.84% -11.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.00 - -
Median hourly rate £48.50 - -
75th Percentile £50.25 - -
90th Percentile £50.70 - -
Wiltshire median hourly rate £48.50 - £14.50
% change year-on-year - - -80.00%

vSphere
Job Vacancy Trend in Swindon

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

vSphere job vacancy trend in Swindon

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Daily Rate Trend in Swindon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Swindon citing vSphere.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Swindon citing vSphere

vSphere
Daily Rate Histogram in Swindon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing vSphere in Swindon over the 6 months to 14 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for vSphere in Swindon

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Hourly Rate Trend in Swindon

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Swindon citing vSphere.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Swindon citing vSphere

vSphere
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swindon 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) NonStop SQL
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) VMware Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Support
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) VMware Consultant
3 1 (20.00%) VMware Support Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) VMware Technical Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Runbook
3 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Operational Stability
3 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Security Hardening
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 5 (100.00%) VMware NSX
2 4 (80.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) NetBackup
1 5 (100.00%) vRealize
2 4 (80.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Veritas
1 5 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) Zerto