vSphere Contracts in the North West

VMware vSphere
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 133 139 166
Rank change year-on-year +6 +27 -38
Contract jobs citing vSphere 2 11 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.072% 0.37% 0.40%
As % of the System Software category 0.73% 2.27% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 10 15
10th Percentile £346 £295 £224
25th Percentile £378 £350 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £361 £250
Median % change year-on-year +24.65% +44.40% -48.19%
75th Percentile £541 £425 £347
90th Percentile £584 £458 £675
England median daily rate £515 £455 £475
% change year-on-year +13.08% -4.12% +8.94%

All System Software Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 273 484 582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 9.78% 16.07% 14.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 345 434
10th Percentile £201 £200 £159
25th Percentile £325 £325 £230
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +20.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £670 £650 £638
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 23 27
10th Percentile - £13.96 £12.63
25th Percentile £15.50 £15.86 £15.13
Median hourly rate £17.72 £17.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.26% - -1.73%
75th Percentile £42.88 £34.18 £20.00
90th Percentile £46.18 £52.13 £24.57
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 North West

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

Job vacancy trend for vSphere in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for vSphere in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for vSphere in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for vSphere in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +4 1 £325 -13.33% 4
Cheshire - 1 £575 -
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (100.00%) VSAN
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Server Building
1 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (50.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) vCenter Server
2 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds Orion
2 1 (50.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (50.00%) Symantec
2 1 (50.00%) Veeam