vSphere Contract Job Trends in Wokingham

VMware vSphere
Berkshire > Wokingham

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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 27 20
Rank change year-on-year -19 -7 -
Contract jobs citing vSphere 6 5 3
As % of all contract jobs in Wokingham 1.52% 2.82% 5.00%
As % of the System Software category 6.25% 15.63% 37.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 2
10th Percentile £301 - £324
25th Percentile £303 £513 £336
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 £532 £358
Median % change year-on-year -41.20% +48.67% -
75th Percentile £384 £539 £379
90th Percentile £424 £539 £392
Berkshire median daily rate £381 £540 £375
% change year-on-year -29.40% +44.00% -33.04%

All System Software Skills
Wokingham

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 Wokingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 96 32 8
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wokingham 24.37% 18.08% 13.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 20 7
10th Percentile £306 £325 £306
25th Percentile £383 £350 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £400 £350
Median % change year-on-year +5.63% +14.29% -34.88%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £425
90th Percentile £596 £538 £465
Berkshire median daily rate £460 £500 £605
% change year-on-year -8.00% -17.36% +11.47%

vSphere
Job Vacancy Trend in Wokingham

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

vSphere job vacancy trend in Wokingham

vSphere
Daily Rate Trend in Wokingham

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wokingham citing vSphere

vSphere
Daily Rate Histogram in Wokingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing vSphere in Wokingham over the 6 months to 10 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for vSphere in Wokingham

vSphere
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wokingham 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 2 (33.33%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (83.33%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (33.33%) Rubrik
4 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) DHCP
1 3 (50.00%) DNS
1 3 (50.00%) NetScaler
2 1 (16.67%) FTP
2 1 (16.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Administrator
1 3 (50.00%) Wintel Administrator
2 2 (33.33%) Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Active Directory Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Virtualisation Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Virtualisation Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
1 6 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) ITSM
1 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 2 (33.33%) Customer-Centric Approach
2 2 (33.33%) Customer-Centricity
2 2 (33.33%) Desktop Virtualisation
2 2 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 2 (33.33%) Migration
2 2 (33.33%) Patch Management
2 2 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
2 2 (33.33%) Security Hardening
2 2 (33.33%) User Experience
2 2 (33.33%) Vulnerability Remediation
3 1 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (16.67%) High Availability
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Problem Management
3 1 (16.67%) Resource Allocation
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) CCA
1 3 (50.00%) Citrix Certification
1 3 (50.00%) MCSA
1 3 (50.00%) MCSE
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 6 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 6 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (83.33%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
3 1 (16.67%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) SCCM
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (50.00%) SCOM
2 3 (50.00%) vCenter Server
3 2 (33.33%) vMotion
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (50.00%) Citrix
2 3 (50.00%) Remedy
2 3 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 3 (50.00%) SolarWinds
3 2 (33.33%) Cisco