Hybrid/Remote VxRail Contract Job Trends

Dell EMC VxRail
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring VxRail skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 317 313 354
Rank change year-on-year -4 +41 +180
Contract jobs citing VxRail 8 4 27
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.078% 0.035% 0.16%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.48% 0.24% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 22
10th Percentile £298 - £300
25th Percentile £310 £384 £301
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £377 £398 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.28% -20.45% -7.41%
75th Percentile £473 £407 £574
90th Percentile £504 - £638
UK median daily rate £425 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -10.53% - -5.00%

All Systems Management Skills
Work from Home

VxRail falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 1,674 1,645 2,311
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 16.42% 14.21% 13.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,112 1,077 1,707
10th Percentile £358 £363 £357
25th Percentile £425 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.41% -3.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £640
90th Percentile £675 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £509 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -3.05% -2.33% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 11 48
10th Percentile £29.60 £12.18 £20.65
25th Percentile £34.50 £25.75 £37.74
Median hourly rate £54.50 £27.25 £62.75
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -56.57% +9.13%
75th Percentile £68.50 £61.25 £77.67
90th Percentile £95.60 £65.00 £83.25
UK median hourly rate £42.69 £24.84 £46.18
% change year-on-year +71.84% -46.21% +31.94%

VxRail
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

VxRail job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

VxRail
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

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

VxRail
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing VxRail over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

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

VxRail
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 3 (37.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (37.50%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) AWS
2 4 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) Datadog
3 1 (12.50%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) VSAN
2 1 (12.50%) DHCP
2 1 (12.50%) DNS
General
1 3 (37.50%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Analyst
2 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 4 (50.00%) Storage Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Engineering Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Server Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Storage Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (37.50%) Capacity Planning
3 3 (37.50%) Decision-Making
3 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (12.50%) Coaching
4 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (12.50%) People Management
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Management
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (12.50%) Strategic Thinking
4 1 (12.50%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
1 1 (12.50%) VB
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
1 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
1 1 (12.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (100.00%) vSphere
2 6 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (12.50%) GPFS
3 1 (12.50%) NFS
3 1 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (12.50%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) vRealize
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Avamar
2 1 (12.50%) EMC NetWorker
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) VMware
2 7 (87.50%) Dell
3 5 (62.50%) Cisco
3 5 (62.50%) IBM
4 4 (50.00%) AppDynamics
4 4 (50.00%) Commvault
4 4 (50.00%) HP
4 4 (50.00%) SolarWinds
5 1 (12.50%) Isilon
5 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
5 1 (12.50%) Oracle
5 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow
5 1 (12.50%) Veeam