vSphere Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

VMware vSphere
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring vSphere skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 24 -
Rank change year-on-year -6 - -
Contract jobs citing vSphere 3 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 1.33% 1.57% -
As % of the System Software category 13.64% 6.06% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £468 £452 -
25th Percentile £475 £454 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £468 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.95% - -
75th Percentile £525 £489 -
90th Percentile £533 £497 -
South East median daily rate £550 £475 £560
% change year-on-year +15.79% -15.23% +13.19%

All System Software Skills
West Sussex

vSphere falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in West Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 22 33 24
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 9.78% 25.98% 9.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 27 20
10th Percentile £197 £170 £211
25th Percentile £200 £180 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £282 £213 £290
Median % change year-on-year +32.59% -26.72% -27.95%
75th Percentile £463 £445 £488
90th Percentile £553 £552 £538
South East median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +4.17%

vSphere
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

vSphere job vacancy trend in West Sussex

vSphere
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing vSphere.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing vSphere

vSphere
Hourly Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing vSphere.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing vSphere

vSphere
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

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 Sussex region over the 6 months to 4 November 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
Worthing - 3 £500 - 2
vSphere
South East

vSphere
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex 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 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) Remote Desktop
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Subversion
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Wintel Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Solaris
2 1 (33.33%) Unix
2 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) High Availability
2 2 (66.67%) Product Roadmap
2 2 (66.67%) Project Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Remediation Plan
2 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) Runbook
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Patch Management
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Perl
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
1 1 (33.33%) VCAP
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Satellite
1 1 (33.33%) SELinux
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 1 (33.33%) SolarWinds
2 1 (33.33%) Symantec
2 1 (33.33%) Veritas