vSphere Contracts in the Midlands

VMware vSphere
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 121 128 191
Rank change year-on-year +7 +63 -37
Contract jobs citing vSphere 20 30 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.68% 0.93% 0.28%
As % of the System Software category 6.31% 6.51% 2.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 24 9
10th Percentile £300 £278 £311
25th Percentile £610 £309 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £350 £450
Median % change year-on-year +85.71% -22.22% +35.34%
75th Percentile £675 £364 £520
90th Percentile £895 £455 £575
England median daily rate £515 £455 £475
% change year-on-year +13.08% -4.12% +8.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £38.50 -
England median hourly rate £70.66 £68.50 £27.38
% change year-on-year +3.15% +150.23% -38.09%

All System Software Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 317 461 648
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 10.75% 14.32% 12.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 318 453
10th Percentile £160 £158 £130
25th Percentile £250 £231 £190
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £441 £375
Median % change year-on-year -9.35% +17.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £500
90th Percentile £660 £700 £580
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 23 38
10th Percentile £14.77 £12.81 £12.61
25th Percentile £15.74 £15.25 £13.56
Median hourly rate £17.98 £25.00 £17.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.10% +44.93% +27.78%
75th Percentile £22.80 £34.50 £20.45
90th Percentile £37.83 £65.00 £23.75
England median hourly rate £22.40 £50.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -55.20% +163.16% +2.43%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for vSphere in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for vSphere in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing vSphere in the Midlands over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for vSphere in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for vSphere in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing vSphere within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
West Midlands +24 20 £650 +104.72% 14
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England

vSphere
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (10.00%) IIS
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (10.00%) SharePoint
1 2 (10.00%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 4 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (10.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 11 (55.00%) NX-OS
1 11 (55.00%) SD-WAN
2 9 (45.00%) SAN
3 7 (35.00%) DNS
3 7 (35.00%) Fibre Channel
4 5 (25.00%) DHCP
4 5 (25.00%) Remote Desktop
5 4 (20.00%) LAN
5 4 (20.00%) WAN
6 2 (10.00%) Firewall
6 2 (10.00%) iSCSI
6 2 (10.00%) NAS
6 2 (10.00%) VPN
6 2 (10.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (65.00%) Architect
2 11 (55.00%) Network Architect
3 5 (25.00%) Administrator
3 5 (25.00%) Server Administrator
3 5 (25.00%) VMWare Administrator
4 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Network Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.00%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (45.00%) Cloud Native
2 8 (40.00%) Data Centre
3 5 (25.00%) PKI
4 2 (10.00%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (10.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (35.00%) Windows
1 7 (35.00%) Windows Server
2 6 (30.00%) Linux
2 6 (30.00%) Ubuntu
3 4 (20.00%) CentOS
3 4 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (10.00%) VMS
4 2 (10.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (10.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) Network Packet Capture
1 11 (55.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 10 (50.00%) Computer Security
2 10 (50.00%) Incident Response
2 10 (50.00%) Password Management
3 6 (30.00%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (25.00%) Load Balancing
4 5 (25.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
5 4 (20.00%) Change Control
5 4 (20.00%) Patch Management
5 4 (20.00%) Task Automation
6 3 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (10.00%) Computer Science
7 2 (10.00%) Enterprise Architecture
7 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 2 (10.00%) Migration
7 2 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
7 2 (10.00%) Test Strategy
8 1 (5.00%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (20.00%) Bash
3 2 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (55.00%) SC Cleared
1 11 (55.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) Degree
2 2 (10.00%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 16 (80.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 16 (80.00%) VMware NSX
2 9 (45.00%) Active Directory
3 5 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (25.00%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 10 (50.00%) CSIRT
2 5 (25.00%) vCenter Server
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (10.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 18 (90.00%) VMware
2 10 (50.00%) Cisco
3 9 (45.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (10.00%) Aruba
4 2 (10.00%) Palo Alto
4 2 (10.00%) ProCurve
4 2 (10.00%) Synology
4 2 (10.00%) Veeam
4 2 (10.00%) Zerto