VxRail Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Dell EMC VxRail
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring VxRail skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 - 92
Rank change year-on-year - - +75
Contract jobs citing VxRail 12 0 21
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.55% - 1.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 2.83% - 8.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 10
10th Percentile £299 - £319
25th Percentile £304 - £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £310 - £450
75th Percentile £317 - £525
90th Percentile £349 - £575
England median daily rate £364 £400 £500
% change year-on-year -8.94% -20.00% -

All Systems Management Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 424 216 246
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 19.46% 11.87% 13.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 140 184
10th Percentile £288 £257 £275
25th Percentile £420 £387 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £500 £438
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +14.29% -8.09%
75th Percentile £578 £603 £570
90th Percentile £660 £672 £688
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £39.98 - -
25th Percentile £45.94 - -
Median hourly rate £56.25 £12.18 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +361.82% -77.85% +221.45%
75th Percentile £66.94 £14.67 -
90th Percentile £73.13 £16.16 -
England median hourly rate £39.75 £35.08 £46.18
% change year-on-year +13.30% -24.03% +52.66%

VxRail
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

VxRail job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

VxRail
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing VxRail

VxRail
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VxRail in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 3 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VxRail in the West Midlands

VxRail
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 VxRail within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 3 December 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
Coventry - 9 £310 - 1
VxRail
England

VxRail
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (50.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (50.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 11 (91.67%) AWS
1 11 (91.67%) Azure
1 11 (91.67%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 11 (91.67%) VSAN
General
1 3 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (100.00%) Analyst
2 11 (91.67%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 3 (25.00%) Storage Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 11 (91.67%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 11 (91.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Agile
2 7 (58.33%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
3 3 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 3 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Degree
2 2 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 12 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 12 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (100.00%) vRealize
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) Cisco
1 12 (100.00%) VMware
2 11 (91.67%) AppDynamics
2 11 (91.67%) Commvault
2 11 (91.67%) Dell
2 11 (91.67%) IBM
2 11 (91.67%) SolarWinds
3 9 (75.00%) HP
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft