vSphere Contracts in the UK excluding London

VMware vSphere
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 250 218 269
Rank change year-on-year -32 +51 +6
Contract jobs citing vSphere 105 177 173
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.74% 0.84% 0.75%
As % of the System Software category 5.59% 6.89% 5.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 134 143
10th Percentile £463 £318 £301
25th Percentile £516 £456 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £572 £500 £455
Median % change year-on-year +14.35% +9.78% +1.21%
75th Percentile £647 £596 £575
90th Percentile £650 £650 £698
UK median daily rate £550 £508 £488
% change year-on-year +8.37% +4.10% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £53.41 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +167.06% -76.47%
UK median hourly rate - £53.41 £62.50
% change year-on-year - -14.54% -0.79%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,879 2,570 3,392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.28% 12.13% 14.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,255 1,736 2,357
10th Percentile £200 £188 £180
25th Percentile £313 £325 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £479
Median % change year-on-year - -0.84% +6.44%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £650 £650 £676
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 183 176
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.06 £14.13
25th Percentile £15.44 £14.32 £16.25
Median hourly rate £54.88 £24.18 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +126.94% -22.00% +67.57%
75th Percentile £81.00 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £91.50 £70.53 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £23.80 £53.35
% change year-on-year +17.65% -55.39% +166.75%

vSphere
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing vSphere as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for vSphere in the UK excluding London

vSphere
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing vSphere in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for vSphere in the UK excluding London

vSphere
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing vSphere in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for vSphere in the UK excluding London

vSphere
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing vSphere in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for vSphere in the UK excluding London

vSphere
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing vSphere within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 July 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
South East +18 61 £580 +22.11% 39
North of England +27 24 £475 +5.56% 10
Yorkshire - 18 £475 - 4
Midlands -1 7 £543 -17.18% 12
East of England - 7 £550 - 13
North West +11 6 £510 +13.33% 6
West Midlands -7 6 £543 -17.18% 8
South West -30 6 £575 +6.98% 6
East Midlands +3 1 - - 4
vSphere
UK

vSphere
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 11 (10.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (6.67%) Confluence
3 6 (5.71%) IIS
4 5 (4.76%) OpenStack
5 4 (3.81%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.95%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.95%) Apache
6 1 (0.95%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 33 (31.43%) Azure
2 20 (19.05%) IaaS
3 10 (9.52%) AWS
3 10 (9.52%) Entra ID
3 10 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (9.52%) PaaS
4 4 (3.81%) GitHub
5 2 (1.90%) OCI
6 1 (0.95%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (0.95%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.95%) Cohesity
6 1 (0.95%) Nutanix
6 1 (0.95%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 34 (32.38%) DNS
2 28 (26.67%) Firewall
3 19 (18.10%) DHCP
4 18 (17.14%) Fibre Channel
4 18 (17.14%) VSAN
5 15 (14.29%) SAN
6 14 (13.33%) iSCSI
7 13 (12.38%) Network Security
8 7 (6.67%) Intrusion Detection
9 6 (5.71%) NetScaler
9 6 (5.71%) TCP/IP
9 6 (5.71%) VLAN
10 5 (4.76%) NAS
10 5 (4.76%) SMTP
10 5 (4.76%) SSL
10 5 (4.76%) VPN
11 2 (1.90%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 2 (1.90%) Skype
11 2 (1.90%) Software-Defined Networking
12 1 (0.95%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.62%) Oracle Database
1 8 (7.62%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (12.38%) Jenkins
2 7 (6.67%) Git
2 7 (6.67%) JIRA
3 5 (4.76%) GitLab
4 2 (1.90%) Subversion
General
1 32 (30.48%) Social Skills
2 12 (11.43%) Telecoms
3 6 (5.71%) Finance
4 5 (4.76%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.86%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (2.86%) Billing
5 3 (2.86%) Local Government
6 1 (0.95%) Banking
Job Titles
1 29 (27.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 27 (25.71%) VMware Engineer
3 17 (16.19%) Architect
4 16 (15.24%) VMware Architect
5 15 (14.29%) Infrastructure Architect
6 13 (12.38%) Azure Engineer
6 13 (12.38%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 13 (12.38%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
7 9 (8.57%) Support Engineer
8 6 (5.71%) Analyst
8 6 (5.71%) Consultant
8 6 (5.71%) Database Engineer
8 6 (5.71%) Infrastructure Specialist
8 6 (5.71%) Oracle Database Engineer
9 5 (4.76%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 5 (4.76%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (4.76%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 5 (4.76%) Windows Engineer
9 5 (4.76%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.71%) Middleware
2 1 (0.95%) LDAP
2 1 (0.95%) SOAP
2 1 (0.95%) XML
2 1 (0.95%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.48%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (8.57%) Clustering
3 8 (7.62%) PKI
4 5 (4.76%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.86%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.90%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.90%) Replication
7 1 (0.95%) Blackberry
7 1 (0.95%) RSA SecurID
Operating Systems
1 54 (51.43%) Windows
2 36 (34.29%) Windows Server
3 21 (20.00%) Linux
4 19 (18.10%) Windows Server 2019
5 11 (10.48%) Windows Server 2003
6 6 (5.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (4.76%) Ubuntu
8 4 (3.81%) CentOS
9 3 (2.86%) Unix
9 3 (2.86%) Windows 10
9 3 (2.86%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (1.90%) Solaris
10 2 (1.90%) VMS
10 2 (1.90%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.95%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.95%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (43.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 24 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (17.14%) CI/CD
4 15 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
5 13 (12.38%) DevOps
5 13 (12.38%) Project Delivery
6 12 (11.43%) Agile
6 12 (11.43%) Infrastructure Automation
7 10 (9.52%) Edge Virtualization
7 10 (9.52%) High Availability
7 10 (9.52%) Performance Analysis
7 10 (9.52%) Validation
8 9 (8.57%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (8.57%) ITIL
9 8 (7.62%) Change Management
9 8 (7.62%) Disaster Recovery
9 8 (7.62%) Network Virtualisation
9 8 (7.62%) Security Patching
10 7 (6.67%) Mentoring
10 7 (6.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 28 (26.67%) PowerShell
2 21 (20.00%) Python
3 14 (13.33%) SQL
4 12 (11.43%) Shell Script
5 8 (7.62%) Bash
6 2 (1.90%) Perl
7 1 (0.95%) Java
Qualifications
1 48 (45.71%) Security Cleared
2 35 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 25 (23.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 21 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 17 (16.19%) SC Cleared
6 13 (12.38%) MCSE
7 11 (10.48%) VCP5
7 11 (10.48%) VCP6
8 8 (7.62%) VCAP
9 7 (6.67%) Azure Certification
10 4 (3.81%) OCP
10 4 (3.81%) Oracle Certification
11 3 (2.86%) CCNA
11 3 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (2.86%) Degree
12 2 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
13 1 (0.95%) A+ Certification
13 1 (0.95%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.57%) SLA
2 2 (1.90%) GDPR
2 2 (1.90%) QA
3 1 (0.95%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 63 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 40 (38.10%) Active Directory
3 34 (32.38%) VMware ESXi
4 20 (19.05%) VMware NSX
5 13 (12.38%) Hyper-V
5 13 (12.38%) NFS
6 9 (8.57%) DFS Replication
7 6 (5.71%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (5.71%) XenApp
8 5 (4.76%) XenDesktop
9 3 (2.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 25 (23.81%) Ansible
2 20 (19.05%) vCenter Server
3 14 (13.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (9.52%) vRealize
4 10 (9.52%) WSUS
5 9 (8.57%) Kubernetes
5 9 (8.57%) VxRail
6 7 (6.67%) PowerCLI
6 7 (6.67%) SCCM
6 7 (6.67%) Terraform
7 6 (5.71%) Microsoft Clustering
8 5 (4.76%) Tivoli
9 3 (2.86%) Failover Clustering
9 3 (2.86%) Norton AntiVirus
9 3 (2.86%) vRealize Orchestrator
10 2 (1.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (1.90%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (1.90%) SELinux
11 1 (0.95%) Nessus
11 1 (0.95%) SCOM
Vendors
1 95 (90.48%) VMware
2 40 (38.10%) Microsoft
3 24 (22.86%) Veeam
4 14 (13.33%) Dell
4 14 (13.33%) NetApp
5 13 (12.38%) Splunk
6 11 (10.48%) Citrix
7 9 (8.57%) Oracle
7 9 (8.57%) SolarWinds
8 7 (6.67%) HP
8 7 (6.67%) Red Hat
9 5 (4.76%) Cisco
9 5 (4.76%) Symantec
10 3 (2.86%) F5
10 3 (2.86%) Infoblox
10 3 (2.86%) Juniper
10 3 (2.86%) Meraki
10 3 (2.86%) Palo Alto
10 3 (2.86%) Veritas
11 2 (1.90%) TP-LINK