vSphere Contracts in the West Midlands

VMware vSphere
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for vSphere skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited vSphere over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 109 123 160
Rank change year-on-year +14 +37 -45
Contract jobs citing vSphere 5 19 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.26% 0.79% 0.17%
As % of the System Software category 3.11% 6.25% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 18 3
10th Percentile - £268 £281
25th Percentile £775 £300 £283
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £900 £369 £300
Median % change year-on-year +144.07% +22.92% -26.83%
75th Percentile £1,000 £475 £494
90th Percentile - - £603
England median daily rate £500 £455 £455
% change year-on-year +9.89% - +5.81%

All System Software Skills
West Midlands

vSphere is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 161 304 457
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 8.34% 12.66% 12.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 204 322
10th Percentile £178 £158 £164
25th Percentile £238 £268 £227
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £403
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +17.94% +15.07%
75th Percentile £559 £553 £538
90th Percentile £675 £696 £624
England median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 25
10th Percentile £14.41 £14.70 £11.75
25th Percentile £15.21 £16.23 £13.75
Median hourly rate £17.80 £17.72 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.45% +7.39% +10.00%
75th Percentile £20.90 £50.75 £20.00
90th Percentile £22.61 £52.50 £22.45
England median hourly rate £22.00 £50.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -56.00% +163.16% -1.30%

vSphere
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing vSphere as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for vSphere in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing vSphere in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for vSphere in the West Midlands

vSphere
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing vSphere in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for vSphere in the West Midlands

vSphere
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing vSphere in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for vSphere in the West Midlands

vSphere
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing vSphere within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. 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
Birmingham +4 2 £1,000 +171.19%
Warwickshire - 2 £800 -
Shropshire - 1 - -
vSphere
England

vSphere
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (40.00%) IIS
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (40.00%) SharePoint
1 2 (40.00%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (40.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) SAN
2 3 (60.00%) DNS
2 3 (60.00%) Fibre Channel
3 2 (40.00%) Firewall
3 2 (40.00%) iSCSI
3 2 (40.00%) NAS
3 2 (40.00%) VPN
3 2 (40.00%) Wireless
4 1 (20.00%) DHCP
4 1 (20.00%) LAN
4 1 (20.00%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (20.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (40.00%) Influencing Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Server Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) VMWare Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Linux Command Line
1 2 (40.00%) Replication
2 1 (20.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
1 3 (60.00%) Ubuntu
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
1 3 (60.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (40.00%) VMS
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (20.00%) CentOS
3 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) Change Control
3 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
3 1 (20.00%) Patch Management
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Bash
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
1 2 (40.00%) Master's Degree
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (20.00%) VMware NSX
3 1 (20.00%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (40.00%) SCCM
2 1 (20.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) Aruba
2 2 (40.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (40.00%) ProCurve
2 2 (40.00%) Synology
2 2 (40.00%) Veeam
2 2 (40.00%) Zerto