vSphere Contract Job Trends in Wiltshire

VMware vSphere
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wiltshire requiring vSphere skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 52 68
Rank change year-on-year -10 +16 +18
Contract jobs citing vSphere 3 4 5
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 0.47% 0.90% 0.64%
As % of the System Software category 4.05% 4.40% 5.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 2
10th Percentile £453 - £465
25th Percentile £458 £425 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £460 £491
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -6.36% -24.42%
75th Percentile £483 £504 £509
90th Percentile £489 £547 £515
South West median daily rate £540 £470 £671
% change year-on-year +14.89% -29.98% +27.86%

All System Software Skills
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 74 91 88
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 11.64% 20.50% 11.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 66 70
10th Percentile £425 £356 £200
25th Percentile £525 £489 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £689 £619 £650
90th Percentile £716 £716 £714
South West median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £14.25
Median hourly rate - - £14.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -75.83%
75th Percentile - - £14.75
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £66.50 £37.00 £65.98
% change year-on-year +79.73% -43.92% +9.97%

vSphere
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

vSphere job vacancy trend in Wiltshire

vSphere
Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing vSphere.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing vSphere

vSphere
Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing vSphere.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing vSphere

vSphere
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing vSphere within the Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 10 January 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
Corsham -19 1 £450 -4.26% 2
Swindon - 1 - -
vSphere
South West

vSphere
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) NGFW
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Artifactory
1 1 (33.33%) GoCD
1 1 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (33.33%) Electronics
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
1 1 (33.33%) Marketing
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) CMDB
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (33.33%) Programme Management
2 1 (33.33%) Security Hardening
2 1 (33.33%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) DV Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) CCA
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
2 1 (33.33%) FortiGate
2 1 (33.33%) FreeIPA
2 1 (33.33%) Packer
2 1 (33.33%) SCOM
2 1 (33.33%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) vRealize
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Citrix
2 1 (33.33%) CyberArk
2 1 (33.33%) SAP