VxRail Contracts in the UK excluding London

Dell EMC VxRail
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring VxRail skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VxRail 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 321 367 415
Rank change year-on-year +46 +48 +70
Contract jobs citing VxRail 15 32 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.15% 0.20%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.80% 1.36% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 24 31
10th Percentile £350 £432 £344
25th Percentile £485 £497 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £660
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -16.67% +38.95%
75th Percentile £550 £647 £719
90th Percentile £565 £722 £727
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £638
% change year-on-year - -13.73% +27.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.22
Median hourly rate - - £20.98
75th Percentile - - £21.57
90th Percentile - - £21.67
UK median hourly rate - £67.50 £20.71
% change year-on-year - +226.01% -

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

VxRail falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,884 2,353 3,632
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 14.76% 11.33% 15.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,320 1,702 2,664
10th Percentile £235 £210 £275
25th Percentile £391 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £620
90th Percentile £657 £650 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £563
% change year-on-year +1.90% -8.41% -0.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 79 139
10th Percentile £14.86 £14.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £18.59 £17.00 £20.22
Median hourly rate £25.34 £38.50 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -34.18% -12.00% +118.75%
75th Percentile £43.69 £51.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.35 £70.25 £75.10
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%

VxRail
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for VxRail in the UK excluding London

VxRail
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for VxRail in the UK excluding London

VxRail
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VxRail in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VxRail in the UK excluding London

VxRail
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for VxRail in the UK excluding London

VxRail
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 VxRail within the UK excluding London 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
East of England - 7 £550 -
South West +45 4 £485 +5.43% 5
North of England +17 4 £451 -14.94% 4
North West +14 2 £429 -16.10% 2
North East - 2 £495 - 1
Yorkshire +8 1 £625 +13.64% 2
VxRail
UK

VxRail
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 1 (6.67%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (6.67%) Azure
2 1 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 8 (53.33%) VSAN
2 6 (40.00%) Firewall
3 4 (26.67%) Network Security
4 2 (13.33%) DNS
5 1 (6.67%) SNA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (6.67%) GIS
1 1 (6.67%) MSDE
1 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
1 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Billing
3 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Consultant
2 3 (20.00%) Senior
2 3 (20.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) VMware Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Administrator
3 1 (6.67%) Architect
3 1 (6.67%) DBA
3 1 (6.67%) Implementation Specialist
3 1 (6.67%) Lead
3 1 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (6.67%) SQL DBA
3 1 (6.67%) SQL Server DBA
3 1 (6.67%) VMware Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) .NET
1 1 (6.67%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (13.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.67%) Clustering
3 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.67%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (6.67%) Linux
2 1 (6.67%) Ubuntu
2 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
2 1 (6.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (40.00%) Agile
2 6 (40.00%) Project Delivery
2 6 (40.00%) Waterfall
2 6 (40.00%) Zero Trust
3 5 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
3 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (26.67%) CI/CD
5 3 (20.00%) Converged Infrastructure
5 3 (20.00%) Dashboard Development
6 2 (13.33%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (13.33%) ITSM
6 2 (13.33%) Network Architecture
6 2 (13.33%) Service Management
7 1 (6.67%) Benchmarking
7 1 (6.67%) CRM
7 1 (6.67%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (6.67%) ETL
7 1 (6.67%) Quality Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 4 (26.67%) Python
3 1 (6.67%) SQL
3 1 (6.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (60.00%) DV Cleared
3 7 (46.67%) SC Cleared
4 3 (20.00%) VCAP
4 3 (20.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 12 (80.00%) VMware NSX
2 10 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (60.00%) vSphere
4 6 (40.00%) Active Directory
5 1 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) Ansible
1 5 (33.33%) Terraform
1 5 (33.33%) vCenter Server
1 5 (33.33%) vRealize
2 4 (26.67%) PowerCLI
3 2 (13.33%) Avamar
4 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
4 1 (6.67%) Nessus
4 1 (6.67%) Perfmon
4 1 (6.67%) Progress Chef
4 1 (6.67%) Puppet
4 1 (6.67%) SCCM
4 1 (6.67%) SCOM
4 1 (6.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 15 (100.00%) VMware
2 9 (60.00%) Dell
3 3 (20.00%) Infoblox
3 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (13.33%) LogRhythm
4 2 (13.33%) ServiceNow
4 2 (13.33%) SolarWinds
5 1 (6.67%) Atlassian