VMware Infrastructure Contracts in Berkshire

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring VMware Infrastructure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VMware Infrastructure over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 56 42
Rank change year-on-year -14 -14 +2
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 23 69 84
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 1.96% 3.48% 4.64%
As % of the System Software category 14.02% 26.95% 42.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 41 61
10th Percentile £363 £325 £358
25th Percentile £397 £386 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £501 £590
Median % change year-on-year +9.78% -15.08% +31.11%
75th Percentile £590 £608 £675
90th Percentile £633 - £713
South East median daily rate £575 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +15.00% -4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 8
10th Percentile - - £48.13
25th Percentile - - £48.40
Median hourly rate - - £56.66
75th Percentile - - £77.16
90th Percentile - - £83.21
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £70.00 £58.75
% change year-on-year -60.00% +19.15% -2.85%

All System Software Skills
Berkshire

VMware Infrastructure 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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 164 256 197
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 13.98% 12.90% 10.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 180 136
10th Percentile £275 £205 £320
25th Percentile £400 £345 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £575 £534
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% +7.73% +12.37%
75th Percentile £661 £608 £638
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 15
10th Percentile - - £18.63
25th Percentile - - £47.95
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +18.18% +33.33%
75th Percentile - - £72.50
90th Percentile - - £79.12
South East median hourly rate £57.50 £50.75 £54.03
% change year-on-year +13.30% -6.07% +170.15%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025. 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 -1 5 £625 +3.31% 11
Bracknell +7 4 £550 +38.36% 3
Slough -4 4 £375 - 2
Wokingham -11 4 £400 +29.03% 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 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 8 (34.78%) Azure
2 5 (21.74%) AWS
2 5 (21.74%) Entra ID
3 4 (17.39%) PaaS
3 4 (17.39%) SaaS
4 3 (13.04%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (8.70%) GCP
6 1 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (4.35%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (21.74%) SD-WAN
2 4 (17.39%) Firewall
3 3 (13.04%) VSAN
4 2 (8.70%) iSCSI
4 2 (8.70%) Network Security
4 2 (8.70%) NGFW
4 2 (8.70%) SSL
5 1 (4.35%) DHCP
5 1 (4.35%) DNS
5 1 (4.35%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) JIRA
General
1 7 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Finance
3 3 (13.04%) Public Sector
4 2 (8.70%) Electronics
4 2 (8.70%) Manufacturing
4 2 (8.70%) Marketing
4 2 (8.70%) Telecoms
5 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (52.17%) Architect
2 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (13.04%) VMware Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Architect
3 2 (8.70%) Lead
3 2 (8.70%) Lead Architect
3 2 (8.70%) Lead Solutions Architect
3 2 (8.70%) Product Architect
3 2 (8.70%) Security Architect
3 2 (8.70%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.35%) Coordinator
4 1 (4.35%) Data Architect
4 1 (4.35%) Data Centre Architect
4 1 (4.35%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Network Architect
4 1 (4.35%) Project Coordinator
4 1 (4.35%) Storage Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Technical Coordinator
4 1 (4.35%) Technical Project Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Data Centre
1 5 (21.74%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (13.04%) Replication
3 2 (8.70%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (8.70%) PKI
4 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (30.43%) Windows
2 5 (21.74%) Linux
3 4 (17.39%) Windows Server
4 1 (4.35%) AIX
4 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (4.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (30.43%) Roadmaps
2 6 (26.09%) Agile
2 6 (26.09%) Migration
2 6 (26.09%) Project Management
2 6 (26.09%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (21.74%) Business Analysis
3 5 (21.74%) Data Protection
3 5 (21.74%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (21.74%) Product Management
3 5 (21.74%) Product Roadmap
4 4 (17.39%) Business Continuity
4 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure Automation
4 4 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (17.39%) SIEM
4 4 (17.39%) TOGAF
5 3 (13.04%) High Availability
5 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (13.04%) Network Virtualisation
6 2 (8.70%) Decision-Making
6 2 (8.70%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.04%) PowerShell
2 1 (4.35%) Bash
2 1 (4.35%) Python
2 1 (4.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (26.09%) Security Cleared
2 3 (13.04%) DV Cleared
2 3 (13.04%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.70%) CISM
3 2 (8.70%) CISSP
4 1 (4.35%) MCSE
4 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (4.35%) VCAP
4 1 (4.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (26.09%) VMware ESXi
1 6 (26.09%) VMware NSX
2 4 (17.39%) Active Directory
2 4 (17.39%) vSphere
3 3 (13.04%) Hyper-V
4 2 (8.70%) NFS
5 1 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (13.04%) Ansible
1 3 (13.04%) vCenter Server
1 3 (13.04%) vRealize
2 2 (8.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (8.70%) Progress Chef
2 2 (8.70%) Puppet
2 2 (8.70%) vRealize Orchestrator
3 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (4.35%) PowerCLI
3 1 (4.35%) SCCM
3 1 (4.35%) Terraform
3 1 (4.35%) yum
Vendors
1 23 (100.00%) VMware
2 7 (30.43%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.70%) Cisco
3 2 (8.70%) SAP
4 1 (4.35%) Dynatrace
4 1 (4.35%) HP
4 1 (4.35%) IBM
4 1 (4.35%) Intel
4 1 (4.35%) NetApp
4 1 (4.35%) Oracle
4 1 (4.35%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.35%) Sophos
4 1 (4.35%) Veeam
4 1 (4.35%) Zerto