Hybrid/Remote vSphere Contract Job Trends

VMware vSphere
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring vSphere skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 261 293 294
Rank change year-on-year +32 +1 +71
Contract jobs citing vSphere 47 32 79
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.46% 0.27% 0.46%
As % of the System Software category 3.69% 2.47% 4.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 22 52
10th Percentile £302 £329 £300
25th Percentile £408 £416 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +2.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £558 £680 £616
90th Percentile £609 £780 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £473 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £62.63
Median hourly rate - - £67.27
75th Percentile - - £71.90
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £97.50 £75.00 £76.53
% change year-on-year +30.00% -2.00% +141.04%

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 1,274 1,293 1,977
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 12.53% 10.98% 11.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 860 868 1,388
10th Percentile £325 £313 £275
25th Percentile £413 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.48% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £615
90th Percentile £684 £723 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 16 68
10th Percentile £29.10 £20.44 £17.53
25th Percentile £41.06 £36.31 £21.81
Median hourly rate £65.75 £61.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.91% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £67.25 £75.00 £76.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £83.75 £84.36
UK median hourly rate £45.09 £29.00 £43.84
% change year-on-year +55.49% -33.85% +75.35%

vSphere
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing vSphere and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

vSphere job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

vSphere
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing vSphere.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing vSphere

vSphere
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing vSphere over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

vSphere daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

vSphere
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing vSphere.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing vSphere

vSphere
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 5 (10.64%) Confluence
2 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.13%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (2.13%) Exchange Server 2013
3 1 (2.13%) IIS
3 1 (2.13%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (6.38%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 18 (38.30%) Azure
2 14 (29.79%) AWS
3 7 (14.89%) OpenShift
4 4 (8.51%) Datadog
4 4 (8.51%) GCP
4 4 (8.51%) IaaS
4 4 (8.51%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (4.26%) Nutanix
6 1 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.13%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 13 (27.66%) VSAN
2 12 (25.53%) DNS
3 8 (17.02%) DHCP
4 6 (12.77%) Firewall
5 2 (4.26%) NAS
5 2 (4.26%) SAN
5 2 (4.26%) TCP/IP
6 1 (2.13%) BIG-IP
6 1 (2.13%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (2.13%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (2.13%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 1 (2.13%) Network Security
6 1 (2.13%) NGFW
6 1 (2.13%) PCoIP
6 1 (2.13%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (2.13%) Structured Cabling
6 1 (2.13%) VLAN
6 1 (2.13%) VoIP
6 1 (2.13%) VPN
6 1 (2.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (8.51%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.26%) Git
3 1 (2.13%) GitLab
3 1 (2.13%) Subversion
General
1 13 (27.66%) Social Skills
2 6 (12.77%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (8.51%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (4.26%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.26%) Finance
4 2 (4.26%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.13%) Banking
5 1 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.13%) Police
Job Titles
1 10 (21.28%) VMware Engineer
2 6 (12.77%) Analyst
2 6 (12.77%) Architect
3 5 (10.64%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 5 (10.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (10.64%) Storage Analyst
4 4 (8.51%) Consultant
4 4 (8.51%) Wintel Engineer
5 3 (6.38%) Server Engineer
5 3 (6.38%) VMware Consultant
5 3 (6.38%) Windows Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) 3rd Line Support
6 2 (4.26%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Firewall Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Firewall Support
6 2 (4.26%) Platform Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Server Support
6 2 (4.26%) Support Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) VMware Specialist
6 2 (4.26%) Windows Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.38%) Loki
2 2 (4.26%) Flash
2 2 (4.26%) Middleware
2 2 (4.26%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.77%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (8.51%) Cloud Native
2 4 (8.51%) Management Information System
2 4 (8.51%) Replication
3 3 (6.38%) Data Centre
3 3 (6.38%) PKI
3 3 (6.38%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.13%) ASIC
4 1 (2.13%) Clustering
4 1 (2.13%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (2.13%) FPGA
4 1 (2.13%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.13%) IBM XIV
4 1 (2.13%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.13%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.13%) RSA SecurID
Operating Systems
1 17 (36.17%) Linux
2 10 (21.28%) Windows
2 10 (21.28%) Windows Server
3 4 (8.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (8.51%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (6.38%) VMS
4 3 (6.38%) Windows 10
4 3 (6.38%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (6.38%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (4.26%) SUSE
6 1 (2.13%) Solaris
6 1 (2.13%) Unix
6 1 (2.13%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (2.13%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (27.66%) Migration
2 12 (25.53%) CI/CD
3 10 (21.28%) Agile
3 10 (21.28%) Infrastructure as Code
3 10 (21.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 7 (14.89%) DevOps
5 6 (12.77%) Containerisation
5 6 (12.77%) Knowledge Transfer
5 6 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (10.64%) Patch Management
6 5 (10.64%) Virtual Environments
7 4 (8.51%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (8.51%) Decision-Making
7 4 (8.51%) Infrastructure Management
7 4 (8.51%) Mentoring
7 4 (8.51%) Observability
7 4 (8.51%) RBAC
7 4 (8.51%) Roadmaps
7 4 (8.51%) Site Reliability Engineering
8 3 (6.38%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 10 (21.28%) Python
2 8 (17.02%) Bash
3 5 (10.64%) PowerShell
4 2 (4.26%) VBA
5 1 (2.13%) Perl
5 1 (2.13%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.13%) VB
Qualifications
1 16 (34.04%) Security Cleared
2 12 (25.53%) SC Cleared
3 6 (12.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 5 (10.64%) DV Cleared
5 4 (8.51%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (4.26%) Azure Certification
6 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (4.26%) VCAP
7 1 (2.13%) CCNA
7 1 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (2.13%) Degree
7 1 (2.13%) MCSA
7 1 (2.13%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.26%) GDPR
1 2 (4.26%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.13%) QA
2 1 (2.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 38 (80.85%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (36.17%) VMware NSX
3 13 (27.66%) VMware ESXi
4 11 (23.40%) Active Directory
5 6 (12.77%) Hyper-V
6 5 (10.64%) Docker
7 3 (6.38%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (4.26%) GPFS
8 2 (4.26%) NFS
8 2 (4.26%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (2.13%) Firmware
9 1 (2.13%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 14 (29.79%) Ansible
1 14 (29.79%) vCenter Server
2 13 (27.66%) Terraform
3 12 (25.53%) Kubernetes
4 9 (19.15%) vRealize
5 8 (17.02%) VxRail
6 6 (12.77%) Argo
7 3 (6.38%) Grafana
7 3 (6.38%) Kustomize
7 3 (6.38%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (6.38%) Prometheus
7 3 (6.38%) SCCM
7 3 (6.38%) SCOM
8 2 (4.26%) Rancher
8 2 (4.26%) vRealize Orchestrator
9 1 (2.13%) Avamar
9 1 (2.13%) FortiGate
9 1 (2.13%) PowerCLI
9 1 (2.13%) Red Hat Satellite
9 1 (2.13%) SELinux
Vendors
1 47 (100.00%) VMware
2 11 (23.40%) Cisco
3 8 (17.02%) Dell
3 8 (17.02%) Microsoft
3 8 (17.02%) Red Hat
4 7 (14.89%) IBM
5 5 (10.64%) SolarWinds
6 4 (8.51%) AppDynamics
6 4 (8.51%) Commvault
6 4 (8.51%) HP
6 4 (8.51%) Pure Storage
7 3 (6.38%) F5
7 3 (6.38%) Veeam
8 2 (4.26%) CheckPoint
8 2 (4.26%) Oracle
8 2 (4.26%) ServiceNow
8 2 (4.26%) Symantec
9 1 (2.13%) Isilon
9 1 (2.13%) LogRhythm
9 1 (2.13%) SevOne