VMware Infrastructure Contracts in Berkshire

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for VMware Infrastructure skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited VMware Infrastructure over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 55 34 49
Rank change year-on-year -21 +15 +20
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 70 95 93
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 3.61% 5.44% 3.97%
As % of the System Software category 28.00% 47.26% 31.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 68 66
10th Percentile £324 £356 £369
25th Percentile £386 £425 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £563 £425
Median % change year-on-year -6.58% +32.35% -26.09%
75th Percentile £608 £639 £625
90th Percentile - £704 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £520 £460
% change year-on-year -3.85% +13.04% +4.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 1
10th Percentile - £48.22 -
25th Percentile - £48.40 £62.50
Median hourly rate - £54.56 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -16.06% -
75th Percentile - £75.75 £67.50
90th Percentile - £82.60 -
South East median hourly rate £75.00 £56.66 £42.50
% change year-on-year +32.38% +33.31% +25.00%

All System Software Skills
Berkshire

VMware Infrastructure is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 250 201 293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 12.90% 11.51% 12.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 140 207
10th Percentile £205 £315 £150
25th Percentile £363 £412 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £458
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +14.75% -1.08%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £605
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 15 4
10th Percentile - £31.00 £11.70
25th Percentile - £48.40 £14.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £41.25
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +33.33% +8.91%
75th Percentile - £72.50 £72.50
90th Percentile - £79.12 £81.50
South East median hourly rate £53.19 £54.56 £20.00
% change year-on-year -2.52% +172.80% -9.09%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing VMware Infrastructure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for VMware Infrastructure in Berkshire

VMware Infrastructure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for VMware Infrastructure in Berkshire

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in Berkshire over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure in Berkshire

VMware Infrastructure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for VMware Infrastructure in Berkshire

VMware Infrastructure
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware Infrastructure within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 11 May 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
Reading -34 39 £605 -1.22% 8
Bracknell +1 15 £398 +44.55% 2
Maidenhead - 8 - - 1
Wokingham -4 6 £313 -44.44%
Slough +8 2 - - 1
VMware Infrastructure
South East

VMware Infrastructure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.43%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 31 (44.29%) Azure
2 14 (20.00%) OCI
3 7 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (8.57%) IaaS
5 4 (5.71%) AWS
6 3 (4.29%) Azure API Management
6 3 (4.29%) Azure Event Grid
6 3 (4.29%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (4.29%) Entra ID
6 3 (4.29%) PaaS
6 3 (4.29%) SaaS
7 2 (2.86%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (2.86%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 24 (34.29%) DHCP
1 24 (34.29%) DNS
2 23 (32.86%) Firewall
3 16 (22.86%) SAN
4 9 (12.86%) VSAN
5 7 (10.00%) Network Security
6 6 (8.57%) WAN
7 3 (4.29%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (4.29%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (4.29%) Reverse Proxy
7 3 (4.29%) VPN
8 2 (2.86%) LAN
8 2 (2.86%) NAS
8 2 (2.86%) TCP/IP
9 1 (1.43%) Junos
9 1 (1.43%) NetScaler
9 1 (1.43%) SD-WAN
9 1 (1.43%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.71%) Oracle Database
1 4 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (2.86%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (2.86%) MongoDB
2 2 (2.86%) MySQL
2 2 (2.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (4.29%) GitLab
1 3 (4.29%) Robot Framework
1 3 (4.29%) Selenium
1 3 (4.29%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.43%) JIRA
General
1 31 (44.29%) Social Skills
2 10 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (8.57%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (2.86%) Manufacturing
4 2 (2.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (47.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (14.29%) Storage Engineer
3 7 (10.00%) VMware Expert
4 6 (8.57%) Analyst
5 4 (5.71%) Architect
5 4 (5.71%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 4 (5.71%) Network Engineer
5 4 (5.71%) Server Engineer
5 4 (5.71%) Solutions Analyst
5 4 (5.71%) VMware Engineer
6 3 (4.29%) Hyper-V Engineer
6 3 (4.29%) Lead
6 3 (4.29%) Network Security Engineer
6 3 (4.29%) PowerShell Engineer
6 3 (4.29%) Security Engineer
6 3 (4.29%) Senior
6 3 (4.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (4.29%) Support Engineer
6 3 (4.29%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (2.86%) 3rd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.29%) .NET
1 3 (4.29%) EDI
1 3 (4.29%) Web Services
2 1 (1.43%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 17 (24.29%) Data Centre
2 7 (10.00%) Client/Server
3 5 (7.14%) Public Cloud
4 3 (4.29%) CCTV
4 3 (4.29%) Operational Technology
4 3 (4.29%) PKI
4 3 (4.29%) SCADA
5 2 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.86%) Fat Client
5 2 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.86%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 35 (50.00%) Windows
1 35 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 28 (40.00%) Linux
3 16 (22.86%) Windows Server 2019
4 14 (20.00%) Windows 10
4 14 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 14 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 14 (20.00%) Windows XP
5 9 (12.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (5.71%) VMS
7 2 (2.86%) Oracle Linux
7 2 (2.86%) Solaris
7 2 (2.86%) Ubuntu
7 2 (2.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (51.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 23 (32.86%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (25.71%) DevOps
4 15 (21.43%) Disaster Recovery
4 15 (21.43%) ITIL
4 15 (21.43%) Project Management
5 14 (20.00%) Break/Fix
5 14 (20.00%) Converged Infrastructure
5 14 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
5 14 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
5 14 (20.00%) Proactive Monitoring
5 14 (20.00%) Server Management
5 14 (20.00%) Storage Management
6 10 (14.29%) Migration
7 9 (12.86%) Agile
8 8 (11.43%) CI/CD
8 8 (11.43%) Infrastructure as Code
9 7 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
9 7 (10.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 7 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 26 (37.14%) PowerShell
2 13 (18.57%) Python
3 7 (10.00%) VBScript
4 3 (4.29%) C#
4 3 (4.29%) Java
4 3 (4.29%) PHP
4 3 (4.29%) Ruby
5 2 (2.86%) Bash
5 2 (2.86%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.43%) Go
Qualifications
1 34 (48.57%) Security Cleared
2 27 (38.57%) DV Cleared
3 20 (28.57%) SC Cleared
4 17 (24.29%) CCNA
4 17 (24.29%) CCNP
4 17 (24.29%) Cisco Certification
5 15 (21.43%) Degree
6 3 (4.29%) Azure Certification
6 3 (4.29%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.43%) HP ASE
7 1 (1.43%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.86%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 30 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 25 (35.71%) Hyper-V
3 17 (24.29%) VMware ESXi
4 15 (21.43%) VMware NSX
5 9 (12.86%) vCloud
6 8 (11.43%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (7.14%) vSphere
7 5 (7.14%) XenApp
8 3 (4.29%) Docker
8 3 (4.29%) XenDesktop
9 2 (2.86%) KVM
Systems Management
1 29 (41.43%) vCenter Server
2 19 (27.14%) WSUS
3 18 (25.71%) SCCM
4 15 (21.43%) Kubernetes
5 14 (20.00%) EMC NetWorker
5 14 (20.00%) NetBackup
5 14 (20.00%) SCOM
6 7 (10.00%) Ansible
7 4 (5.71%) Nessus
8 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (4.29%) Rancher
8 3 (4.29%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (2.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (2.86%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 2 (2.86%) Network Intrusion Detection System
9 2 (2.86%) Packer
9 2 (2.86%) Red Hat Satellite
9 2 (2.86%) vRealize
9 2 (2.86%) ZABBIX
10 1 (1.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 70 (100.00%) VMware
2 28 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 20 (28.57%) Oracle
4 19 (27.14%) Cisco
5 17 (24.29%) Palo Alto
6 16 (22.86%) Veeam
7 15 (21.43%) Juniper
8 14 (20.00%) 3PAR
8 14 (20.00%) Dell
8 14 (20.00%) EMC
8 14 (20.00%) Extreme Networks
8 14 (20.00%) HP
8 14 (20.00%) Symantec
9 6 (8.57%) Citrix
10 5 (7.14%) CheckPoint
11 4 (5.71%) Red Hat
11 4 (5.71%) ServiceNow
12 3 (4.29%) FireEye
12 3 (4.29%) Tanium
13 2 (2.86%) Splunk