VMware Contracts in Berkshire

VMware
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring knowledge or experience of VMware products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VMware over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within VMware, Inc.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 49 26
Rank change year-on-year +10 -23 +2
Contract jobs citing VMware 55 73 138
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 4.67% 3.70% 7.55%
As % of the Vendors category 8.15% 7.46% 14.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 38 92
10th Percentile £350 £325 £308
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £501 £550
Median % change year-on-year +8.78% -8.91% +10.00%
75th Percentile £590 £608 £638
90th Percentile £660 - £700
South East median daily rate £569 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +8.29% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 9
10th Percentile - - £48.22
25th Percentile - - £48.40
Median hourly rate - - £54.56
75th Percentile - - £66.00
90th Percentile - - £80.47
South East median hourly rate £30.39 £53.08 £54.56
% change year-on-year -42.76% -2.71% +172.80%

All Vendors
Berkshire

VMware falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 675 978 940
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 57.35% 49.54% 51.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 409 520 570
10th Percentile £350 £231 £325
25th Percentile £450 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £539
Median % change year-on-year - -2.55% +7.75%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £638
90th Percentile £690 £701 £721
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 53 34
10th Percentile £14.75 £14.50 £17.34
25th Percentile £17.84 £20.75 £24.50
Median hourly rate £30.28 £58.30 £54.78
Median % change year-on-year -48.07% +6.43% +28.89%
75th Percentile £49.00 £61.60 £66.21
90th Percentile £71.66 £65.20 £80.25
South East median hourly rate £20.33 £48.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year -58.30% +8.33% +125.00%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware in Berkshire

VMware
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for VMware in Berkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware in Berkshire over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware in Berkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for VMware in Berkshire

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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 within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 3 July 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 -2 14 £539 +43.73% 1
Bracknell +9 13 £575 +43.75% 16
Maidenhead +6 12 - - 1
Reading -2 2 £650 +7.44% 14
Slough -4 2 £375 -16.67% 4
VMware
South East

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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 4 (7.27%) IIS
2 3 (5.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.82%) Anypoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (21.82%) Azure
2 4 (7.27%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (7.27%) PaaS
3 3 (5.45%) AWS
3 3 (5.45%) Entra ID
4 2 (3.64%) SaaS
5 1 (1.82%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (1.82%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (20.00%) DNS
2 7 (12.73%) DHCP
3 5 (9.09%) Firewall
3 5 (9.09%) SD-WAN
3 5 (9.09%) VSAN
4 4 (7.27%) NetScaler
4 4 (7.27%) SMTP
4 4 (7.27%) TCP/IP
5 2 (3.64%) VLAN
6 1 (1.82%) BGP
6 1 (1.82%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (1.82%) EIGRP
6 1 (1.82%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (1.82%) iSCSI
6 1 (1.82%) NAS
6 1 (1.82%) Network Security
6 1 (1.82%) OSPF
6 1 (1.82%) SAN
6 1 (1.82%) VPN
6 1 (1.82%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.64%) SQL Server
General
1 11 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (5.45%) Public Sector
3 2 (3.64%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (3.64%) Retail
4 1 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (30.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 12 (21.82%) VMware Engineer
3 9 (16.36%) Architect
4 8 (14.55%) Lead
5 3 (5.45%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (3.64%) 1st Line Engineer
6 2 (3.64%) Coordinator
6 2 (3.64%) Lead Architect
6 2 (3.64%) Lead Solutions Architect
6 2 (3.64%) Project Coordinator
6 2 (3.64%) Technical Coordinator
6 2 (3.64%) Technical Project Coordinator
7 1 (1.82%) Azure Architect
7 1 (1.82%) Azure Consultant
7 1 (1.82%) Data Centre Architect
7 1 (1.82%) Linux Engineer
7 1 (1.82%) Product Architect
7 1 (1.82%) Solutions Consultant
7 1 (1.82%) VMware Architect
7 1 (1.82%) VMware Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.64%) Middleware
2 1 (1.82%) LDAP
2 1 (1.82%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 11 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 7 (12.73%) PKI
3 6 (10.91%) Clustering
4 4 (7.27%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (7.27%) Enterprise Storage
5 3 (5.45%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (3.64%) Fat Client
6 2 (3.64%) Replication
6 2 (3.64%) Thin Client
7 1 (1.82%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.82%) Life Science
7 1 (1.82%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 30 (54.55%) Windows
2 21 (38.18%) Windows Server
3 13 (23.64%) Linux
3 13 (23.64%) Windows 10
4 7 (12.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (9.09%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (7.27%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (3.64%) CentOS
7 2 (3.64%) Ubuntu
7 2 (3.64%) Windows 7
8 1 (1.82%) Unix
8 1 (1.82%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (47.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (12.73%) Disaster Recovery
3 7 (12.73%) Project Management
3 7 (12.73%) Roadmaps
4 6 (10.91%) Agile
4 6 (10.91%) High Availability
4 6 (10.91%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (9.09%) ITIL
5 5 (9.09%) Migration
5 5 (9.09%) Validation
6 4 (7.27%) Business Analysis
6 4 (7.27%) Data Protection
6 4 (7.27%) DevSecOps
6 4 (7.27%) Product Management
6 4 (7.27%) Product Roadmap
6 4 (7.27%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (7.27%) Technical Leadership
7 3 (5.45%) Budget Management
7 3 (5.45%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 17 (30.91%) PowerShell
2 4 (7.27%) Shell Script
3 1 (1.82%) Bash
3 1 (1.82%) Python
3 1 (1.82%) SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 23 (41.82%) DV Cleared
3 9 (16.36%) SC Cleared
4 3 (5.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.82%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.82%) CCNA
6 1 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.82%) MCSE
6 1 (1.82%) VCAP
6 1 (1.82%) VCP5
6 1 (1.82%) VCP6
System Software
1 29 (52.73%) VMware ESXi
2 23 (41.82%) Active Directory
3 22 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (30.91%) vSphere
5 6 (10.91%) VMware NSX
6 5 (9.09%) Hyper-V
7 4 (7.27%) XenApp
7 4 (7.27%) XenDesktop
8 2 (3.64%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (1.82%) NFS
Systems Management
1 4 (7.27%) Microsoft Clustering
1 4 (7.27%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (7.27%) NetBackup
1 4 (7.27%) vCenter Server
1 4 (7.27%) WSUS
2 3 (5.45%) Ansible
3 2 (3.64%) SCVMM
3 2 (3.64%) yum
4 1 (1.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (1.82%) PowerCLI
4 1 (1.82%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.82%) Puppet
4 1 (1.82%) SCCM
4 1 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.82%) Terraform
4 1 (1.82%) vRealize
Vendors
1 19 (34.55%) Dell
2 12 (21.82%) Microsoft
3 11 (20.00%) Wyse
4 9 (16.36%) HP
5 6 (10.91%) Red Hat
6 4 (7.27%) 3PAR
6 4 (7.27%) Citrix
6 4 (7.27%) Veritas
7 2 (3.64%) Cisco
7 2 (3.64%) IBM
7 2 (3.64%) Intel
7 2 (3.64%) Splunk
7 2 (3.64%) Veeam
8 1 (1.82%) Dynatrace
8 1 (1.82%) Meraki
8 1 (1.82%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.82%) NetApp
8 1 (1.82%) Oracle
8 1 (1.82%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.82%) Sophos