VMware Infrastructure Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring VMware Infrastructure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 48 69
Rank change year-on-year -16 +21 +11
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 50 66 57
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 3.36% 4.49% 3.35%
As % of the System Software category 26.88% 28.95% 22.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 41 39
10th Percentile £219 £330 £310
25th Percentile £268 £350 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £400 £525
Median % change year-on-year +15.63% -23.81% -13.40%
75th Percentile £548 £581 £591
90th Percentile £611 £638 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £546 £525
% change year-on-year -8.47% +4.05% -4.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £71.20 - £22.93
25th Percentile £73.00 - £28.90
Median hourly rate £79.50 - £39.48
75th Percentile £84.50 - £50.68
90th Percentile £85.40 - £57.02
South East median hourly rate £75.00 - £63.63
% change year-on-year - - +6.05%

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 186 228 256
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 12.49% 15.51% 15.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 140 192
10th Percentile £230 £232 £148
25th Percentile £338 £375 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £525 £480
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% +9.38% -
75th Percentile £538 £638 £591
90th Percentile £610 £671 £636
South East median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 7
10th Percentile £74.80 - £22.19
25th Percentile £82.00 £55.87 £41.55
Median hourly rate £90.00 £56.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +58.60% -12.70% +18.18%
75th Percentile £100.00 £57.62 £67.94
90th Percentile £103.30 - £68.63
South East median hourly rate £81.00 £57.25 £60.00
% change year-on-year +41.48% -4.58% +150.00%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VMware Infrastructure relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

VMware Infrastructure job vacancy trend in Berkshire

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing VMware Infrastructure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing VMware Infrastructure

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in Berkshire over the 6 months to 23 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure in Berkshire

VMware Infrastructure
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing VMware Infrastructure.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing VMware Infrastructure

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 23 December 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
Wokingham -23 27 £350 -
Reading +7 18 £575 +4.55% 1
Slough -5 3 £475 +17.57% 5
Bracknell -7 2 £625 +13.64%
VMware Infrastructure
South East

VMware Infrastructure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (12.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 30 (60.00%) Azure
2 29 (58.00%) AWS
3 18 (36.00%) OpenShift
4 7 (14.00%) Entra ID
5 6 (12.00%) IaaS
6 4 (8.00%) AWS CloudFormation
7 3 (6.00%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (2.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 27 (54.00%) DNS
2 21 (42.00%) DHCP
3 15 (30.00%) TCP/IP
4 11 (22.00%) VLAN
5 8 (16.00%) Firewall
6 6 (12.00%) BGP
6 6 (12.00%) FTP
6 6 (12.00%) LAN
6 6 (12.00%) MPLS
6 6 (12.00%) OSPF
6 6 (12.00%) SNMP
6 6 (12.00%) TACACS
6 6 (12.00%) WAN
6 6 (12.00%) Wireless
7 2 (4.00%) NAS
7 2 (4.00%) SAN
8 1 (2.00%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (2.00%) Fibre Channel
8 1 (2.00%) iSCSI
8 1 (2.00%) NetScaler
Development Applications
1 5 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (28.00%) Analytical Skills
1 14 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.00%) Documentation Skills
3 6 (12.00%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.00%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.00%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 16 (32.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 11 (22.00%) Infrastructure Support
2 11 (22.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 11 (22.00%) Support Engineer
3 9 (18.00%) Architect
4 7 (14.00%) Senior
5 6 (12.00%) Analyst
5 6 (12.00%) Designer
5 6 (12.00%) IP Designer
5 6 (12.00%) Wintel Analyst
6 5 (10.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) Site Engineer
7 4 (8.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) Infrastructure Manager
9 2 (4.00%) Infrastructure Architect
10 1 (2.00%) Consultant
10 1 (2.00%) Network Architect
10 1 (2.00%) Solutions Architect
10 1 (2.00%) Solutions Consultant
10 1 (2.00%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.00%) Loki
2 1 (2.00%) OAuth
2 1 (2.00%) OAuth2
2 1 (2.00%) OpenID
2 1 (2.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (22.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 10 (20.00%) Data Centre
3 8 (16.00%) Cloud Native
4 7 (14.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 7 (14.00%) Virtual Team
5 4 (8.00%) PKI
6 3 (6.00%) Replication
7 1 (2.00%) FlexPod
7 1 (2.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 29 (58.00%) Linux
2 22 (44.00%) Windows
3 7 (14.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (14.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (34.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 16 (32.00%) CI/CD
2 16 (32.00%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (28.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 11 (22.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (22.00%) ITIL
4 11 (22.00%) Preventative Maintenance
4 11 (22.00%) Service Management
4 11 (22.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
5 10 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
6 9 (18.00%) Containerisation
7 8 (16.00%) Agile
7 8 (16.00%) Validation
8 7 (14.00%) Load Balancing
8 7 (14.00%) Observability
8 7 (14.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 6 (12.00%) Incident Response
9 6 (12.00%) Migration
9 6 (12.00%) Network Virtualisation
9 6 (12.00%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 23 (46.00%) Python
2 16 (32.00%) Bash
3 6 (12.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 32 (64.00%) Security Cleared
2 28 (56.00%) SC Cleared
3 13 (26.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 12 (24.00%) Azure Certification
5 11 (22.00%) Network+ Certification
5 11 (22.00%) Server+ Certification
6 10 (20.00%) AWS Certification
7 7 (14.00%) CCIE
7 7 (14.00%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (12.00%) JNCIE
9 5 (10.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (6.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (2.00%) CCNP
11 1 (2.00%) CCSM
11 1 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (2.00%) Degree
11 1 (2.00%) DV Cleared
11 1 (2.00%) VCAP
11 1 (2.00%) VCDX
System Software
1 19 (38.00%) Hyper-V
2 15 (30.00%) Active Directory
3 14 (28.00%) VMware NSX
3 14 (28.00%) vSphere
4 9 (18.00%) Docker
5 1 (2.00%) NFS
Systems Management
1 16 (32.00%) Kubernetes
2 15 (30.00%) Ansible
2 15 (30.00%) Terraform
3 12 (24.00%) Argo
4 7 (14.00%) Grafana
4 7 (14.00%) Kustomize
4 7 (14.00%) Prometheus
5 6 (12.00%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (10.00%) vCenter Server
7 2 (4.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (2.00%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (2.00%) vRealize
8 1 (2.00%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 50 (100.00%) VMware
2 20 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 12 (24.00%) Red Hat
4 8 (16.00%) Cisco
5 7 (14.00%) Citrix
6 6 (12.00%) F5
6 6 (12.00%) Fortinet
6 6 (12.00%) Juniper
7 5 (10.00%) Pure Storage
7 5 (10.00%) ServiceNow
8 3 (6.00%) NetApp
9 1 (2.00%) CheckPoint
9 1 (2.00%) Commvault
9 1 (2.00%) Palo Alto