vSphere Contracts in the Thames Valley

VMware vSphere
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 109 125 152
Rank change year-on-year +16 +27 -3
Contract jobs citing vSphere 21 17 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.98% 0.64% 0.93%
As % of the System Software category 6.71% 4.96% 6.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 15 33
10th Percentile £327 £416 £412
25th Percentile £335 £458 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £510 £550
Median % change year-on-year -31.37% -7.27% +46.67%
75th Percentile - £588 £613
90th Percentile £380 £595 £690
South East median daily rate £475 £560 £500
% change year-on-year -15.23% +12.06% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £35.58 - -
Median hourly rate £36.17 - -
75th Percentile £36.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £36.17 £76.53 -
% change year-on-year -52.74% - -

All System Software Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 313 343 606
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.63% 12.91% 15.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 207 252 452
10th Percentile £311 £163 £185
25th Percentile £400 £258 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £478 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% -4.44% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £588
90th Percentile £657 £661 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 10 18
10th Percentile £47.76 £19.22 £11.00
25th Percentile £55.87 £19.75 £12.44
Median hourly rate £56.75 £39.84 £15.44
Median % change year-on-year +42.44% +158.01% -60.91%
75th Percentile £58.49 £65.75 £65.52
90th Percentile £62.97 £68.63 £98.88
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 the Thames Valley

Job postings citing vSphere as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for vSphere in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing vSphere in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for vSphere in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing vSphere in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for vSphere in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing vSphere within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +20 20 £350 -39.13%
Buckinghamshire +3 1 - - 2
vSphere
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (4.76%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 6 (28.57%) DHCP
1 6 (28.57%) DNS
Development Applications
1 20 (95.24%) MSI
General
1 1 (4.76%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (90.48%) Analyst
2 18 (85.71%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 11 (52.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 9 (42.86%) Wintel Analyst
Operating Systems
1 21 (100.00%) Windows
2 14 (66.67%) VMS
3 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (95.24%) Application Packaging
1 20 (95.24%) Software Deployment
2 11 (52.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (23.81%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (23.81%) High Availability
4 4 (19.05%) Release Management
4 4 (19.05%) Server Hardening
5 3 (14.29%) ITIL
6 1 (4.76%) Change Management
6 1 (4.76%) Commercial Awareness
6 1 (4.76%) Mentoring
6 1 (4.76%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (4.76%) Project Management
6 1 (4.76%) Server Building
6 1 (4.76%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (4.76%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 20 (95.24%) SC Cleared
1 20 (95.24%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) PMO
System Software
1 21 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (95.24%) VMware ESXi
2 20 (95.24%) XenApp
2 20 (95.24%) XenDesktop
3 18 (85.71%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (28.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 20 (95.24%) SCCM
2 1 (4.76%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 21 (100.00%) VMware
2 20 (95.24%) Citrix
3 1 (4.76%) BMC