vSphere Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

VMware vSphere
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring vSphere skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited vSphere over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 264 291 347
Rank change year-on-year +27 +56 +82
Contract jobs citing vSphere 40 54 131
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.40% 0.35% 0.51%
As % of the System Software category 3.42% 3.72% 4.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 42 89
10th Percentile £365 £413 £350
25th Percentile £481 £450 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +2.50% +17.65%
75th Percentile £572 £594 £575
90th Percentile £648 £644 £615
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £480
% change year-on-year +10.00% +4.15% +6.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 10
10th Percentile - - £20.00
25th Percentile - - £55.31
Median hourly rate - - £69.50
75th Percentile - - £77.63
90th Percentile - - £78.60
UK median hourly rate - £70.66 £55.50
% change year-on-year - +27.32% +61.45%

All System Software Skills
Work from Home

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,169 1,452 3,207
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.80% 9.46% 12.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 868 1,058 2,296
10th Percentile £358 £263 £300
25th Percentile £425 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.68% -3.84% -
75th Percentile £625 £618 £633
90th Percentile £775 £677 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 34 101
10th Percentile £25.25 £15.50 £19.00
25th Percentile £52.44 £15.88 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.50 £43.32 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.20% -33.35% +165.31%
75th Percentile £79.38 £65.00 £70.25
90th Percentile £92.50 £84.57 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £22.50 £53.43
% change year-on-year +22.22% -57.88% +167.13%

vSphere
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing vSphere as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

vSphere trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

vSphere
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing vSphere.

vSphere daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

vSphere
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing vSphere over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

vSphere daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

vSphere
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing vSphere.

vSphere hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

vSphere
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 6 (15.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (10.00%) IIS
3 2 (5.00%) Confluence
3 2 (5.00%) OpenStack
4 1 (2.50%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.50%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 21 (52.50%) Azure
2 9 (22.50%) IaaS
3 8 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (12.50%) Entra ID
5 3 (7.50%) GitHub
6 2 (5.00%) AWS
6 2 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (5.00%) OpenShift
7 1 (2.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (2.50%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (2.50%) Cohesity
7 1 (2.50%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (22.50%) Firewall
2 8 (20.00%) DNS
3 6 (15.00%) DHCP
3 6 (15.00%) Network Security
3 6 (15.00%) VSAN
4 5 (12.50%) Intrusion Detection
5 4 (10.00%) TCP/IP
6 3 (7.50%) SAN
6 3 (7.50%) VPN
7 2 (5.00%) BGP
7 2 (5.00%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (5.00%) Ethernet VPN
7 2 (5.00%) Multicast
7 2 (5.00%) NetScaler
7 2 (5.00%) NX-OS
7 2 (5.00%) OSPF
7 2 (5.00%) SMTP
7 2 (5.00%) VXLAN
8 1 (2.50%) Skype
8 1 (2.50%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (7.50%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.00%) Git
2 2 (5.00%) JIRA
2 2 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (2.50%) GitLab
General
1 9 (22.50%) Finance
2 6 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (12.50%) Law
4 4 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 4 (10.00%) Telecoms
5 3 (7.50%) Banking
6 2 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (5.00%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 6 (15.00%) Architect
1 6 (15.00%) Migration Engineer
1 6 (15.00%) VMware Engineer
2 5 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
2 5 (12.50%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (12.50%) Consultant
2 5 (12.50%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 4 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (7.50%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (7.50%) Cloud Specialist
4 3 (7.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (7.50%) Migration Specialist
4 3 (7.50%) Windows Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.00%) Lead
5 2 (5.00%) Technical Leader
5 2 (5.00%) VMware Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 3 (7.50%) PKI
3 2 (5.00%) Clustering
3 2 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (2.50%) Blackberry
4 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.50%) NHS
4 1 (2.50%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.50%) Replication
4 1 (2.50%) RSA SecurID
4 1 (2.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 18 (45.00%) Windows
2 12 (30.00%) Windows Server
3 7 (17.50%) Linux
4 4 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (7.50%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (7.50%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (7.50%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (5.00%) Android
6 2 (5.00%) Apple iOS
6 2 (5.00%) Unix
6 2 (5.00%) Windows 10
6 2 (5.00%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (2.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (30.00%) Change Management
2 10 (25.00%) Migration
3 7 (17.50%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (15.00%) Business Continuity
5 5 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (12.50%) ITIL
5 5 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (10.00%) CI/CD
6 4 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (10.00%) Project Management
6 4 (10.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
7 3 (7.50%) DevOps
7 3 (7.50%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (7.50%) Enterprise Architecture
7 3 (7.50%) High Availability
7 3 (7.50%) ITSM
7 3 (7.50%) Security Patching
7 3 (7.50%) Service Management
7 3 (7.50%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 15 (37.50%) PowerShell
2 5 (12.50%) Python
3 2 (5.00%) Bash
3 2 (5.00%) Java
3 2 (5.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (5.00%) VBScript
4 1 (2.50%) C
4 1 (2.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (12.50%) Azure Certification
1 5 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
1 5 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.50%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.00%) CCIE
3 2 (5.00%) CCIE Data Center
3 2 (5.00%) CCNP
3 2 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (5.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (2.50%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.50%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.50%) SLA
2 1 (2.50%) GDPR
2 1 (2.50%) HIPAA
2 1 (2.50%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (42.50%) Active Directory
1 17 (42.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (17.50%) VMware NSX
3 6 (15.00%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (7.50%) DFS Replication
5 2 (5.00%) Hyper-V
5 2 (5.00%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (5.00%) XenApp
5 2 (5.00%) XenDesktop
6 1 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (22.50%) Ansible
3 5 (12.50%) Terraform
3 5 (12.50%) WSUS
4 3 (7.50%) PowerCLI
4 3 (7.50%) vCenter Server
5 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Clustering
5 2 (5.00%) Packer
5 2 (5.00%) Progress Chef
5 2 (5.00%) vRealize Orchestrator
6 1 (2.50%) Grafana
6 1 (2.50%) Kubernetes
6 1 (2.50%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.50%) SCOM
6 1 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (2.50%) SysTrack
6 1 (2.50%) vRealize
6 1 (2.50%) VxRail
Vendors
1 29 (72.50%) VMware
2 18 (45.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (12.50%) Red Hat
4 4 (10.00%) Cisco
4 4 (10.00%) Citrix
5 3 (7.50%) Dell
5 3 (7.50%) HP
5 3 (7.50%) Oracle
6 2 (5.00%) CyberArk
7 1 (2.50%) Google
7 1 (2.50%) NetApp
7 1 (2.50%) Remedy
7 1 (2.50%) ServiceNow
7 1 (2.50%) Zerto