VxRail Contract Job Trends

Dell EMC VxRail
UK

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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 650 544 519
Rank change year-on-year -106 -25 +16
Contract jobs citing VxRail 38 12 36
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.069% 0.036% 0.096%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.62% 0.25% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 8 21
10th Percentile £316 £493 £363
25th Percentile £425 £525 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £697 £550 £440
Median % change year-on-year +26.64% +25.00% -2.22%
75th Percentile £800 - £500
90th Percentile £823 £591 £554
UK excluding London median daily rate £697 £550 £490
% change year-on-year +26.64% +12.24% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £98.82 - £23.80
75th Percentile £99.12 - -
90th Percentile £99.65 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £98.82 - -

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 6,143 4,747 4,612
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.12% 14.31% 12.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,068 3,066 2,996
10th Percentile £316 £275 £300
25th Percentile £425 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% -5.45%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £625
90th Percentile £700 £675 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £483 £494
% change year-on-year +3.63% -2.33% -1.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 95 57
10th Percentile £17.88 £14.70 £20.61
25th Percentile £25.75 £18.87 £23.80
Median hourly rate £63.14 £25.00 £36.17
Median % change year-on-year +152.54% -30.87% -34.25%
75th Percentile £72.81 £61.13 £60.00
90th Percentile £87.48 £67.15 £74.66
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.07 £21.39 £37.08
% change year-on-year +194.85% -42.32% -21.11%

VxRail
Job Vacancy Trend

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

VxRail job vacancy trend in the UK

VxRail
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VxRail.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VxRail

VxRail
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VxRail over the 6 months to 14 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VxRail in the UK

VxRail
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VxRail.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing VxRail

VxRail
Top 14 Contract Job 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 14 October 2026. 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 -96 37 £697 +26.64% 10
UK excluding London -78 35 £697 +26.64% 6
South West -19 17 £800 - 2
North of England - 8 £680 - 3
Midlands -47 5 £263 - 1
Work from Home -64 5 £670 +39.22% 6
East of England - 4 - -
North East - 4 £680 -
East Midlands -15 3 £327 - 1
Yorkshire - 2 £700 -
North West - 2 £316 - 3
West Midlands - 2 £263 -
South East -66 1 - -
London -102 1 - - 4

VxRail
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 17 (44.74%) AWS
2 8 (21.05%) Azure
3 3 (7.89%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (5.26%) Azure Stack
5 1 (2.63%) Cohesity
5 1 (2.63%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 25 (65.79%) VSAN
2 19 (50.00%) Firewall
3 16 (42.11%) DHCP
3 16 (42.11%) DNS
3 16 (42.11%) TCP/IP
4 4 (10.53%) Network Security
5 2 (5.26%) BGP
5 2 (5.26%) LAN
5 2 (5.26%) SAN
5 2 (5.26%) WAN
6 1 (2.63%) Ethernet
Development Applications
1 1 (2.63%) GitLab
General
1 9 (23.68%) Social Skills
2 8 (21.05%) Public Sector
3 4 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (10.53%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (5.26%) Banking
4 2 (5.26%) Finance
4 2 (5.26%) Local Government
5 1 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 10 (26.32%) Platform Engineer
2 8 (21.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (15.79%) Consultant
3 6 (15.79%) Principal Engineer
3 6 (15.79%) VMware Consultant
4 5 (13.16%) Architect
4 5 (13.16%) Cloud Engineer
5 4 (10.53%) Technical Architect
6 3 (7.89%) Analyst
6 3 (7.89%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 3 (7.89%) Senior
6 3 (7.89%) Server Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Storage Analyst
7 2 (5.26%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Cybersecurity Specialist
7 2 (5.26%) Security Specialist
7 2 (5.26%) Senior Platform Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Senior VMware Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Technical Specialist
7 2 (5.26%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (36.84%) Terraform
2 3 (7.89%) Flash
3 1 (2.63%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (2.63%) Keycloak
3 1 (2.63%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 19 (50.00%) PKI
2 16 (42.11%) Data Centre
3 7 (18.42%) Operational Technology
3 7 (18.42%) SCADA
4 5 (13.16%) Public Cloud
5 3 (7.89%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (7.89%) Replication
6 2 (5.26%) Clustering
6 2 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (5.26%) Security Posture
7 1 (2.63%) EMC VNX
7 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 26 (68.42%) Linux
2 25 (65.79%) Windows
3 6 (15.79%) Windows Server
4 3 (7.89%) Unix
5 1 (2.63%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (47.37%) Technical Leadership
2 16 (42.11%) Converged Infrastructure
2 16 (42.11%) Infrastructure as Code
3 15 (39.47%) Cybersecurity
4 14 (36.84%) DevSecOps
4 14 (36.84%) Platform Engineering
4 14 (36.84%) SIEM
5 13 (34.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 13 (34.21%) Mentoring
5 13 (34.21%) Network Virtualisation
5 13 (34.21%) Systems Engineering
6 12 (31.58%) Customer Requirements
6 12 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (23.68%) CI/CD
7 9 (23.68%) Privileged Access Management
8 6 (15.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 6 (15.79%) Validation
9 5 (13.16%) Agile
9 5 (13.16%) Migration
9 5 (13.16%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (39.47%) PowerShell
2 14 (36.84%) Bash
2 14 (36.84%) Python
Qualifications
1 32 (84.21%) Security Cleared
2 20 (52.63%) SC Cleared
3 17 (44.74%) DV Cleared
4 12 (31.58%) VCAP
5 7 (18.42%) AWS Certification
6 2 (5.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (2.63%) Degree
7 1 (2.63%) MCSA
7 1 (2.63%) MCSE
7 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.26%) NIST
1 2 (5.26%) NIST 800
System Software
1 36 (94.74%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (52.63%) VMware NSX
3 19 (50.00%) vSphere
4 17 (44.74%) Active Directory
5 14 (36.84%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (31.58%) Hyper-V
7 11 (28.95%) Docker
8 5 (13.16%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (10.53%) NFS
10 3 (7.89%) GPFS
11 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 2 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
12 1 (2.63%) EMC RecoverPoint
Systems Management
1 15 (39.47%) Kubernetes
2 14 (36.84%) Ansible
3 7 (18.42%) vRealize
4 5 (13.16%) McAfee ePO
4 5 (13.16%) Nessus
5 4 (10.53%) vCenter Server
6 2 (5.26%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (2.63%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 37 (97.37%) VMware
2 13 (34.21%) Microsoft
3 10 (26.32%) Dell
4 7 (18.42%) Fortinet
5 5 (13.16%) Carbon Black
5 5 (13.16%) McAfee
5 5 (13.16%) Tenable
6 4 (10.53%) Cisco
6 4 (10.53%) Thales
7 3 (7.89%) CyberArk
7 3 (7.89%) IBM
7 3 (7.89%) Oracle
7 3 (7.89%) ServiceNow
8 2 (5.26%) Palo Alto
9 1 (2.63%) BeyondTrust
9 1 (2.63%) Commvault
9 1 (2.63%) EMC
9 1 (2.63%) Isilon
9 1 (2.63%) Pure Storage
9 1 (2.63%) SolarWinds