vSphere Contracts in the South West

VMware vSphere
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 92 126 140
Rank change year-on-year +34 +14 -14
Contract jobs citing vSphere 67 33 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.03% 0.97% 0.77%
As % of the System Software category 16.34% 6.38% 4.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 21 22
10th Percentile - £413 £348
25th Percentile £463 £450 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% -2.44% +16.48%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £638
90th Percentile £663 £600 £649
England median daily rate £515 £455 £475
% change year-on-year +13.08% -4.12% +8.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £70.66 - -
England median hourly rate £70.66 £68.50 £27.38
% change year-on-year +3.15% +150.23% -38.09%

All System Software Skills
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 410 517 584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 12.43% 15.26% 15.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 297 380 423
10th Percentile £183 £200 £180
25th Percentile £450 £363 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £506 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.17% +6.58% +7.95%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £575
90th Percentile £672 £719 £656
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 38 18
10th Percentile - £13.25 £15.93
25th Percentile £40.00 £17.00 £19.44
Median hourly rate £70.00 £60.00 £48.38
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +24.03% +22.47%
75th Percentile £87.50 £73.13 £56.48
90th Percentile £90.00 £88.25 £58.53
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 South West

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

Job vacancy trend for vSphere in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for vSphere in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for vSphere in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for vSphere in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South 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
Wiltshire +45 54 £525 +5.00% 4
Gloucestershire -8 6 £600 +20.00%
Bristol +6 3 £583 - 2
Dorset +1 2 - - 1
Devon - 2 £600 - 3
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (5.97%) Confluence
2 2 (2.99%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (8.96%) Azure
2 4 (5.97%) AWS
3 2 (2.99%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (1.49%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.49%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 22 (32.84%) Firewall
2 21 (31.34%) VSAN
3 10 (14.93%) NX-OS
3 10 (14.93%) SD-WAN
4 4 (5.97%) TCP/IP
5 3 (4.48%) Remote Desktop
5 3 (4.48%) SAN
6 2 (2.99%) DHCP
6 2 (2.99%) DNS
6 2 (2.99%) Internet
7 1 (1.49%) NAS
7 1 (1.49%) Skype
Development Applications
1 6 (8.96%) JIRA
2 4 (5.97%) Bitbucket
General
1 10 (14.93%) Public Sector
2 6 (8.96%) Social Skills
3 2 (2.99%) Military
Job Titles
1 25 (37.31%) VMware Engineer
2 17 (25.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 17 (25.37%) Network Engineer
3 14 (20.90%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 10 (14.93%) Architect
4 10 (14.93%) Network Architect
4 10 (14.93%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 6 (8.96%) Senior
6 4 (5.97%) Integration Engineer
6 4 (5.97%) Senior Integration Engineer
6 4 (5.97%) Senior Test and Integration Engineer
6 4 (5.97%) Senior Test Engineer
6 4 (5.97%) Test and Integration Engineer
6 4 (5.97%) Test Engineer
6 4 (5.97%) Wintel Engineer
7 2 (2.99%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 2 (2.99%) Lead
7 2 (2.99%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 2 (2.99%) Systems Engineer
7 2 (2.99%) Test Leader
Miscellaneous
1 49 (73.13%) Data Centre
2 25 (37.31%) PKI
3 17 (25.37%) Private Cloud
4 8 (11.94%) Cloud Native
5 4 (5.97%) Clustering
6 3 (4.48%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.49%) Fat Client
7 1 (1.49%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 27 (40.30%) Linux
2 14 (20.90%) Windows
3 4 (5.97%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.99%) Unix
4 2 (2.99%) VMS
4 2 (2.99%) Windows 2000
4 2 (2.99%) Windows XP
5 1 (1.49%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (1.49%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (34.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 22 (32.84%) Converged Infrastructure
3 18 (26.87%) Virtual Infrastructure
4 17 (25.37%) Cybersecurity
4 17 (25.37%) Resource Management
5 15 (22.39%) Penetration Testing
6 14 (20.90%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (19.40%) Vulnerability Scanning
8 10 (14.93%) Network Packet Capture
8 10 (14.93%) Network Virtualisation
9 9 (13.43%) Computer Security
9 9 (13.43%) Incident Response
9 9 (13.43%) Password Management
10 5 (7.46%) Infrastructure as Code
11 4 (5.97%) Requirements Analysis
12 3 (4.48%) Desktop Virtualisation
12 3 (4.48%) High Availability
12 3 (4.48%) Project Management
12 3 (4.48%) Task Automation
13 2 (2.99%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (14.93%) PowerShell
2 7 (10.45%) Python
3 5 (7.46%) Bash
4 4 (5.97%) C
5 2 (2.99%) Shell Script
5 2 (2.99%) SQL
Qualifications
1 61 (91.04%) Security Cleared
2 33 (49.25%) DV Cleared
3 30 (44.78%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.99%) MCSE
4 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (2.99%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 36 (53.73%) VMware Infrastructure
1 36 (53.73%) VMware NSX
2 29 (43.28%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (7.46%) Active Directory
3 5 (7.46%) Hyper-V
4 3 (4.48%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 18 (26.87%) vCenter Server
2 9 (13.43%) CSIRT
3 7 (10.45%) Ansible
4 6 (8.96%) Terraform
5 3 (4.48%) SCCM
6 2 (2.99%) Kubernetes
6 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Clustering
6 2 (2.99%) VxRail
7 1 (1.49%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 61 (91.04%) VMware
2 9 (13.43%) Cisco
3 8 (11.94%) Microsoft
4 4 (5.97%) Atlassian
5 3 (4.48%) Citrix
6 2 (2.99%) Fortinet
6 2 (2.99%) HP
6 2 (2.99%) Juniper
7 1 (1.49%) Dell
7 1 (1.49%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.49%) Veeam
7 1 (1.49%) Veritas