vSphere Contracts in Berkshire

VMware vSphere
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 90 110 123
Rank change year-on-year +20 +13 -13
Contract jobs citing vSphere 20 9 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.25% 0.50% 0.38%
As % of the System Software category 8.40% 3.77% 3.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 7 9
10th Percentile £327 £488 £378
25th Percentile £335 £538 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £575 £475
Median % change year-on-year -39.13% +21.05% +26.25%
75th Percentile - £588 £738
90th Percentile £380 £593 -
South East median daily rate £475 £560 £500
% change year-on-year -15.23% +12.06% +17.65%

All System Software Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 238 239 264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 14.87% 13.30% 11.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 170 188
10th Percentile £327 £148 £159
25th Percentile £400 £263 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% +4.17% +12.94%
75th Percentile £638 £615 £575
90th Percentile £671 £675 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 7
10th Percentile - £22.19 £15.90
25th Percentile £55.87 £39.45 £35.11
Median hourly rate £57.62 £60.00 £92.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.97% -35.14% +32.14%
75th Percentile £58.49 £67.94 £100.63
90th Percentile £64.09 £68.63 £105.00
South East median hourly rate £60.50 £55.70 £24.00
% change year-on-year +8.61% +132.08% -40.90%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing vSphere as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for vSphere in Berkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing vSphere in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for vSphere in Berkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing vSphere in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for vSphere in Berkshire

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Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing vSphere within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 31 October 2024. 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
Wokingham - 18 £350 -
Reading -3 2 - -
vSphere
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 6 (30.00%) DHCP
1 6 (30.00%) DNS
Development Applications
1 20 (100.00%) MSI
Job Titles
1 18 (90.00%) Analyst
1 18 (90.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 11 (55.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 9 (45.00%) Wintel Analyst
Operating Systems
1 20 (100.00%) Windows
2 14 (70.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) Application Packaging
1 20 (100.00%) Software Deployment
2 11 (55.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (25.00%) High Availability
4 4 (20.00%) Release Management
4 4 (20.00%) Server Hardening
5 3 (15.00%) ITIL
6 1 (5.00%) Mentoring
6 1 (5.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 20 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 20 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 20 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 20 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 20 (100.00%) XenApp
1 20 (100.00%) XenDesktop
2 18 (90.00%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (30.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 20 (100.00%) Citrix
1 20 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (5.00%) BMC