vSphere Contracts in the North of England

VMware vSphere
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 181 187 220
Rank change year-on-year +6 +33 -55
Contract jobs citing vSphere 4 15 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.083% 0.28% 0.44%
As % of the System Software category 0.73% 1.90% 2.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 14 27
10th Percentile £224 £309 £246
25th Percentile £289 £331 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £350 £338
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% +3.70% -20.77%
75th Percentile £619 £384 £431
90th Percentile £630 £451 £583
England median daily rate £515 £455 £475
% change year-on-year +13.08% -4.12% +8.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.04
Median hourly rate - - £21.35
75th Percentile - - £22.67
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.66 £68.50 £27.38
% change year-on-year +3.15% +150.23% -38.09%

All System Software Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 550 788 1,050
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 11.35% 14.48% 14.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 392 571 784
10th Percentile £178 £175 £158
25th Percentile £285 £286 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £451 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.76% +0.26%
75th Percentile £579 £575 £550
90th Percentile £650 £675 £638
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 29 46
10th Percentile - £13.99 £13.87
25th Percentile £14.06 £16.19 £16.00
Median hourly rate £16.00 £20.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +14.29% +1.45%
75th Percentile £18.86 £44.50 £19.88
90th Percentile £43.87 £63.75 £22.71
England median hourly rate £22.40 £50.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -55.20% +163.16% +2.43%

vSphere
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for vSphere in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing vSphere in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for vSphere in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for vSphere in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing vSphere in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for vSphere in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing vSphere within the North of England 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
North West +6 2 £450 +24.65% 6
North East - 2 £403 - 1
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 1 (25.00%) Site Server
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) VSAN
2 1 (25.00%) DHCP
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) NAS
2 1 (25.00%) SAN
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) 1st Line Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) 1st Line Support
1 1 (25.00%) 1st Line Support Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) Server Building
2 1 (25.00%) Server Virtualisation
2 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C#
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
1 1 (25.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) MCSE
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (25.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) vCenter Server
1 2 (50.00%) WSUS
2 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco
3 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (25.00%) Symantec
3 1 (25.00%) Veeam