VxRail Contracts

Dell EMC VxRail
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 491 545 640
Rank change year-on-year +54 +95 +138
Contract jobs citing VxRail 28 55 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.096% 0.13% 0.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.61% 1.07% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 40 46
10th Percentile £447 £385 £372
25th Percentile £517 £458 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £638
Median % change year-on-year - -13.73% +27.50%
75th Percentile - £644 £719
90th Percentile £597 £669 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £550 £660
% change year-on-year -2.27% -16.67% +38.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 9
10th Percentile - £23.80 -
25th Percentile - £33.79 £20.22
Median hourly rate - £67.50 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year - +226.01% -
75th Percentile - £71.25 £21.67
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £20.98

All Systems Management Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 4,603 5,146 9,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.74% 11.80% 16.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,154 3,676 6,945
10th Percentile £313 £257 £356
25th Percentile £419 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £563
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -8.43% -0.44%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £675
90th Percentile £725 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 127 209
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.00 £16.48
25th Percentile £20.13 £17.77 £22.75
Median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%
75th Percentile £51.75 £54.38 £71.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.50 £82.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.34 £38.50 £43.75
% change year-on-year -34.18% -12.00% +118.75%

VxRail
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing VxRail as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for VxRail in the UK

VxRail
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VxRail.

Daily rate trend for VxRail in the UK

VxRail
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VxRail over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VxRail in the UK

VxRail
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VxRail.

Hourly rate trend for VxRail in the UK

VxRail
Top 10 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +41 28 £550 - 18
UK excluding London +37 15 £538 -2.27% 13
London +21 9 £575 +4.55% 5
East of England - 7 £550 -
South West +44 4 £485 +5.43% 6
North of England +26 4 £451 -14.94% 4
Work from Home +38 3 £530 -3.64% 3
North West +8 2 £429 -16.10% 2
North East - 2 £495 - 1
Yorkshire +15 1 £625 +13.64% 2

VxRail
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (3.57%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (3.57%) JBoss
1 1 (3.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (32.14%) Azure
2 7 (25.00%) Azure Stack
3 5 (17.86%) GitHub
4 3 (10.71%) AWS
4 3 (10.71%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (7.14%) IaaS
5 2 (7.14%) PaaS
6 1 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (3.57%) GCP
6 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
6 1 (3.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (28.57%) VSAN
2 6 (21.43%) Firewall
3 5 (17.86%) Network Security
4 2 (7.14%) DNS
5 1 (3.57%) HTTPS
5 1 (3.57%) SNA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.57%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (3.57%) GIS
1 1 (3.57%) MSDE
1 1 (3.57%) Oracle Database
1 1 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (3.57%) Power BI
1 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
1 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.57%) JIRA
General
1 7 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.71%) Billing
2 3 (10.71%) Public Sector
3 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Electronics
4 1 (3.57%) Finance
4 1 (3.57%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.57%) Marketing
4 1 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (32.14%) Architect
1 9 (32.14%) Consultant
2 8 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (25.00%) Infrastructure Architect
4 4 (14.29%) Azure Architect
4 4 (14.29%) VMware Architect
5 3 (10.71%) Senior
5 3 (10.71%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Systems Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) VMware Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Administrator
6 1 (3.57%) DBA
6 1 (3.57%) Implementation Specialist
6 1 (3.57%) Lead
6 1 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.57%) SQL DBA
6 1 (3.57%) SQL Server DBA
6 1 (3.57%) Storage Architect
6 1 (3.57%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.57%) .NET
1 1 (3.57%) ASP.NET
1 1 (3.57%) Middleware
1 1 (3.57%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (21.43%) Data Centre
2 4 (14.29%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (7.14%) Onboarding
3 2 (7.14%) Private Cloud
3 2 (7.14%) Public Cloud
4 1 (3.57%) Clustering
4 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.57%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 10 (35.71%) Windows
2 8 (28.57%) Windows Server
3 2 (7.14%) Linux
4 1 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.57%) Ubuntu
4 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (32.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (21.43%) Agile
3 6 (21.43%) Project Delivery
3 6 (21.43%) Waterfall
3 6 (21.43%) Zero Trust
4 5 (17.86%) CI/CD
4 5 (17.86%) Network Virtualisation
5 3 (10.71%) Converged Infrastructure
5 3 (10.71%) Dashboard Development
5 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (10.71%) TOGAF
6 2 (7.14%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (7.14%) Data Protection
6 2 (7.14%) High Availability
6 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Management
6 2 (7.14%) ITSM
6 2 (7.14%) Network Architecture
6 2 (7.14%) Service Management
7 1 (3.57%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (28.57%) SQL
2 5 (17.86%) PowerShell
2 5 (17.86%) Python
3 1 (3.57%) ActionScript
3 1 (3.57%) ActionScript 2.0
3 1 (3.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (64.29%) Security Cleared
2 13 (46.43%) DV Cleared
3 9 (32.14%) SC Cleared
4 3 (10.71%) VCAP
4 3 (10.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (3.57%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 20 (71.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (42.86%) VMware NSX
3 10 (35.71%) Active Directory
4 9 (32.14%) vSphere
5 1 (3.57%) Docker
5 1 (3.57%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (3.57%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (21.43%) vRealize
2 5 (17.86%) Ansible
2 5 (17.86%) Terraform
2 5 (17.86%) vCenter Server
3 4 (14.29%) PowerCLI
4 2 (7.14%) Avamar
4 2 (7.14%) Kubernetes
5 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (3.57%) Nessus
5 1 (3.57%) Perfmon
5 1 (3.57%) Progress Chef
5 1 (3.57%) Puppet
5 1 (3.57%) SCCM
5 1 (3.57%) SCOM
5 1 (3.57%) WSUS
Vendors
1 28 (100.00%) VMware
2 9 (32.14%) Dell
3 8 (28.57%) Oracle
4 7 (25.00%) Red Hat
5 6 (21.43%) EMC
6 4 (14.29%) Microsoft
7 3 (10.71%) Infoblox
7 3 (10.71%) ServiceNow
8 2 (7.14%) LogRhythm
8 2 (7.14%) SolarWinds
9 1 (3.57%) AppDynamics
9 1 (3.57%) Atlassian
9 1 (3.57%) Cisco
9 1 (3.57%) F5
9 1 (3.57%) IBM
9 1 (3.57%) IBM Sterling
9 1 (3.57%) SAP
9 1 (3.57%) ScienceLogic
9 1 (3.57%) Splunk