VMware Contract Job Trends 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 20 August 2026, 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
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 53 37
Rank change year-on-year -5 -16 -18
Contract jobs citing VMware 64 44 82
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 3.39% 3.73% 4.85%
As % of the Vendors category 6.84% 6.51% 9.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 14 46
10th Percentile £312 £215 £328
25th Percentile £400 £363 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £550 £567
Median % change year-on-year -17.27% -2.91% +8.42%
75th Percentile £507 £589 £608
90th Percentile £625 £623 £638
South East median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £52.20 - -
25th Percentile £58.13 - -
Median hourly rate £63.48 - -
75th Percentile £70.50 - -
90th Percentile £71.06 - -
South East median hourly rate £63.48 £32.77 £36.17
% change year-on-year +93.71% -9.39% -33.72%

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 936 676 872
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 49.52% 57.29% 51.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 565 419 476
10th Percentile £313 £350 £281
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -6.52% +9.52%
75th Percentile £625 £609 £650
90th Percentile £725 £700 £738
South East median daily rate £515 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 25 40
10th Percentile £20.00 £14.48 £14.50
25th Percentile £35.22 £14.75 £19.22
Median hourly rate £85.00 £19.91 £58.40
Median % change year-on-year +326.92% -65.90% +1.72%
75th Percentile £88.00 £32.31 £61.60
90th Percentile £110.75 £51.10 £74.91
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £18.87 £57.35
% change year-on-year +178.22% -67.10% +27.44%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

VMware job vacancy trend in Berkshire

VMware
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing VMware

VMware
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware in Berkshire over the 6 months to 20 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VMware in Berkshire

VMware
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing VMware

VMware
Hourly Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VMware in Berkshire over the 6 months to 20 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for VMware in Berkshire

VMware
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 20 August 2026. 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 +16 37 £444 +18.27%
Reading -20 10 £518 -15.51% 16
Slough +9 6 £550 - 2
Bracknell -9 5 £500 -13.04% 2
VMware
South East

VMware
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 2 (3.13%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.56%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (4.69%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 34 (53.13%) Azure
2 12 (18.75%) Entra ID
3 10 (15.63%) Rubrik
4 8 (12.50%) AWS
5 6 (9.38%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (7.81%) Azure Logic Apps
6 5 (7.81%) OpenShift
7 3 (4.69%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (3.13%) GCP
9 1 (1.56%) Azure AKS
9 1 (1.56%) Azure App Service
9 1 (1.56%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (1.56%) Azure Key Vault
9 1 (1.56%) Datadog
9 1 (1.56%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (37.50%) DNS
2 21 (32.81%) DHCP
3 14 (21.88%) Firewall
4 8 (12.50%) SD-WAN
4 8 (12.50%) VPN
5 7 (10.94%) FTP
5 7 (10.94%) SSL
5 7 (10.94%) TCP/IP
6 6 (9.38%) BGP
6 6 (9.38%) WAN
7 5 (7.81%) LAN
7 5 (7.81%) VLAN
8 4 (6.25%) Network Security
9 3 (4.69%) Cisco IOS
9 3 (4.69%) EIGRP
9 3 (4.69%) MPLS
9 3 (4.69%) NetScaler
9 3 (4.69%) OSPF
10 2 (3.13%) Cisco Nexus
10 2 (3.13%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.69%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.56%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Git
1 1 (1.56%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.56%) JIRA
General
1 18 (28.13%) Social Skills
2 10 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (9.38%) Finance
4 4 (6.25%) Aerospace
5 3 (4.69%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.69%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.56%) Police
7 1 (1.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (15.63%) Administrator
2 9 (14.06%) Wintel Administrator
3 8 (12.50%) Architect
3 8 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (9.38%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 6 (9.38%) VMware Specialist
5 5 (7.81%) Azure Engineer
5 5 (7.81%) Network Engineer
5 5 (7.81%) Senior
5 5 (7.81%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (7.81%) Systems Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) Infrastructure Architect
7 3 (4.69%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 2 (3.13%) Active Directory Engineer
8 2 (3.13%) Analyst
8 2 (3.13%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 2 (3.13%) Network Architect
8 2 (3.13%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
8 2 (3.13%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (3.13%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.94%) Terraform
2 3 (4.69%) REST
3 2 (3.13%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.56%) LDAP
4 1 (1.56%) NETCONF
4 1 (1.56%) OpenConfig
4 1 (1.56%) YAML
4 1 (1.56%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.06%) Data Centre
2 7 (10.94%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (4.69%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (3.13%) CMDB
4 2 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.13%) Operational Technology
4 2 (3.13%) SCADA
5 1 (1.56%) Distributed Architecture
5 1 (1.56%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.56%) IoT
5 1 (1.56%) Life Science
5 1 (1.56%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.56%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.56%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.56%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.56%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.56%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.56%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 35 (54.69%) Windows
2 21 (32.81%) Linux
3 20 (31.25%) Windows Server
4 10 (15.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (32.81%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (25.00%) ITIL
3 14 (21.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 9 (14.06%) DevOps
4 9 (14.06%) High Availability
5 8 (12.50%) Architectural Design
5 8 (12.50%) DevSecOps
6 7 (10.94%) Change Management
6 7 (10.94%) Disaster Recovery
6 7 (10.94%) Infrastructure as Code
6 7 (10.94%) Migration
6 7 (10.94%) Patch Management
6 7 (10.94%) Technical Leadership
6 7 (10.94%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 6 (9.38%) Infrastructure Monitoring
7 6 (9.38%) Load Balancing
7 6 (9.38%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (7.81%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (7.81%) Cybersecurity
8 5 (7.81%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 8 (12.50%) Bash
2 8 (12.50%) Python
3 2 (3.13%) Bicep
4 1 (1.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 32 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 26 (40.63%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.81%) Azure Certification
3 5 (7.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 4 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (4.69%) CCA
5 3 (4.69%) CCNA
5 3 (4.69%) Citrix Certification
5 3 (4.69%) MCSA
5 3 (4.69%) MCSE
6 2 (3.13%) AWS Certification
6 2 (3.13%) Degree
6 2 (3.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.56%) CCIE
7 1 (1.56%) CCIE Service Provider
7 1 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.56%) JNCIE
7 1 (1.56%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.56%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (3.13%) NIST
2 1 (1.56%) GDPR
2 1 (1.56%) SLA
System Software
1 33 (51.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 25 (39.06%) Active Directory
3 21 (32.81%) Hyper-V
4 13 (20.31%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (15.63%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (10.94%) vSphere
7 2 (3.13%) Docker
7 2 (3.13%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (3.13%) VMware NSX
8 1 (1.56%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 15 (23.44%) Ansible
2 9 (14.06%) Kubernetes
3 8 (12.50%) Red Hat Satellite
3 8 (12.50%) SCCM
4 7 (10.94%) SCOM
5 4 (6.25%) Grafana
5 4 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (6.25%) Prometheus
5 4 (6.25%) vCenter Server
6 3 (4.69%) Nagios
7 2 (3.13%) Avamar
7 2 (3.13%) FortiGate
7 2 (3.13%) Istio
7 2 (3.13%) NetBackup
7 2 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (3.13%) vMotion
8 1 (1.56%) Rancher
8 1 (1.56%) SCSM
Vendors
1 28 (43.75%) Microsoft
2 14 (21.88%) Red Hat
3 12 (18.75%) Cisco
3 12 (18.75%) Citrix
4 9 (14.06%) SolarWinds
5 8 (12.50%) ServiceNow
6 6 (9.38%) NetApp
7 4 (6.25%) Splunk
8 3 (4.69%) CyberArk
8 3 (4.69%) Meraki
8 3 (4.69%) Remedy
8 3 (4.69%) SevOne
9 2 (3.13%) F5
9 2 (3.13%) Juniper
9 2 (3.13%) NetScout
9 2 (3.13%) Nokia
10 1 (1.56%) Palo Alto
10 1 (1.56%) Trend Micro
10 1 (1.56%) Veeam
10 1 (1.56%) Zscaler