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 30 December 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
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 26 34
Rank change year-on-year -11 +8 +24
Contract jobs citing VMware 77 92 98
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 5.16% 6.36% 5.75%
As % of the Vendors category 8.32% 13.26% 10.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 59 61
10th Percentile £219 £350 £263
25th Percentile £350 £369 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.27% +4.76% -8.30%
75th Percentile £519 £638 £608
90th Percentile £588 £700 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 5
10th Percentile £74.80 - £34.87
25th Percentile £82.00 - £58.75
Median hourly rate £90.00 - £65.00
75th Percentile £97.50 - £68.63
90th Percentile £102.60 - -
South East median hourly rate £90.00 £81.25 £67.95
% change year-on-year +10.77% +19.58% +2.95%

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 925 694 923
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 62.04% 47.99% 54.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 656 436 574
10th Percentile £293 £313 £205
25th Percentile £413 £430 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.13% +10.05% -6.10%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £620
90th Percentile £658 £688 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £510
% change year-on-year -2.44% +0.49% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 11 39
10th Percentile £14.55 £26.25 £24.90
25th Percentile £17.79 £35.75 £54.78
Median hourly rate £22.00 £56.75 £61.79
Median % change year-on-year -61.23% -8.16% +16.58%
75th Percentile £81.00 £64.09 £67.09
90th Percentile £95.00 £65.62 £75.42
South East median hourly rate £22.00 £42.50 £56.40
% change year-on-year -48.24% -24.65% +108.97%

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 30 December 2025.

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 30 December 2025.

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 30 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 -15 40 £450 +28.57% 3
Reading -12 23 £550 -12.00% 6
Bracknell 0 11 £500 -9.09%
Slough -4 3 £475 +17.57% 27
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 6 (7.79%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 36 (46.75%) AWS
1 36 (46.75%) Azure
2 20 (25.97%) OpenShift
3 7 (9.09%) IaaS
4 6 (7.79%) Entra ID
5 4 (5.19%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (3.90%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.30%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 28 (36.36%) DNS
2 21 (27.27%) DHCP
3 15 (19.48%) TCP/IP
4 11 (14.29%) VLAN
5 9 (11.69%) Firewall
6 6 (7.79%) BGP
6 6 (7.79%) FTP
6 6 (7.79%) LAN
6 6 (7.79%) MPLS
6 6 (7.79%) OSPF
6 6 (7.79%) SNMP
6 6 (7.79%) TACACS
6 6 (7.79%) WAN
6 6 (7.79%) Wireless
7 4 (5.19%) VPN
8 2 (2.60%) NAS
8 2 (2.60%) SAN
9 1 (1.30%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (1.30%) Fibre Channel
9 1 (1.30%) NetScaler
Development Applications
1 6 (7.79%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.30%) GitLab
General
1 23 (29.87%) Social Skills
2 15 (19.48%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
3 7 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 3 (3.90%) Aerospace
4 3 (3.90%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (3.90%) Retail
5 1 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 22 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 17 (22.08%) Infrastructure Support
2 17 (22.08%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 17 (22.08%) Support Engineer
3 14 (18.18%) Architect
4 7 (9.09%) Senior
5 6 (7.79%) Analyst
5 6 (7.79%) Designer
5 6 (7.79%) IP Designer
5 6 (7.79%) Wintel Analyst
6 5 (6.49%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (6.49%) Site Engineer
6 5 (6.49%) Site Reliability Engineer
6 5 (6.49%) Technical Architect
6 5 (6.49%) VMware Engineer
7 3 (3.90%) Infrastructure Manager
7 3 (3.90%) Lead
8 2 (2.60%) Infrastructure Architect
9 1 (1.30%) GCP DevOps Engineer
9 1 (1.30%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.39%) Loki
2 1 (1.30%) OAuth
2 1 (1.30%) OAuth2
2 1 (1.30%) OpenID
2 1 (1.30%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 12 (15.58%) Data Centre
3 11 (14.29%) Analytical Mindset
4 9 (11.69%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (10.39%) Virtual Team
6 4 (5.19%) PKI
7 3 (3.90%) Replication
8 1 (1.30%) FlexPod
8 1 (1.30%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 43 (55.84%) Linux
2 22 (28.57%) Windows
3 20 (25.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (37.66%) Problem-Solving
2 27 (35.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 23 (29.87%) ITIL
4 21 (27.27%) DevSecOps
5 19 (24.68%) CI/CD
6 14 (18.18%) Agile
6 14 (18.18%) Disaster Recovery
7 12 (15.58%) Architectural Design
7 12 (15.58%) Cybersecurity
7 12 (15.58%) Infrastructure as Code
7 12 (15.58%) Validation
8 11 (14.29%) Infrastructure Management
8 11 (14.29%) Preventative Maintenance
8 11 (14.29%) Service Management
8 11 (14.29%) Virtual Infrastructure
9 10 (12.99%) Containerisation
10 9 (11.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 8 (10.39%) Load Balancing
11 8 (10.39%) Observability
11 8 (10.39%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 25 (32.47%) Python
2 18 (23.38%) Bash
3 6 (7.79%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 48 (62.34%) Security Cleared
2 39 (50.65%) SC Cleared
3 16 (20.78%) Azure Certification
4 15 (19.48%) AWS Certification
5 12 (15.58%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (14.29%) Network+ Certification
6 11 (14.29%) Server+ Certification
7 7 (9.09%) CCIE
7 7 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (7.79%) DV Cleared
8 6 (7.79%) JNCIE
9 4 (5.19%) TOGAF Certification
9 4 (5.19%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (3.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (1.30%) CCNP
11 1 (1.30%) CCSM
11 1 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (1.30%) Degree
11 1 (1.30%) VCAP
11 1 (1.30%) VCDX
System Software
1 49 (63.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (24.68%) vSphere
3 18 (23.38%) Hyper-V
4 17 (22.08%) VMware NSX
5 14 (18.18%) Active Directory
6 10 (12.99%) Docker
7 5 (6.49%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (1.30%) NFS
Systems Management
1 29 (37.66%) Ansible
2 18 (23.38%) Kubernetes
3 17 (22.08%) Terraform
4 14 (18.18%) Argo
5 12 (15.58%) Red Hat Satellite
6 8 (10.39%) Grafana
6 8 (10.39%) Kustomize
6 8 (10.39%) Prometheus
7 6 (7.79%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (7.79%) vCenter Server
8 4 (5.19%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (1.30%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (1.30%) vRealize
9 1 (1.30%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 25 (32.47%) Red Hat
2 19 (24.68%) Microsoft
3 13 (16.88%) Cisco
4 7 (9.09%) Citrix
5 6 (7.79%) F5
5 6 (7.79%) Fortinet
5 6 (7.79%) Juniper
5 6 (7.79%) Pure Storage
6 5 (6.49%) ServiceNow
7 4 (5.19%) Palo Alto
8 3 (3.90%) NetApp
8 3 (3.90%) Zscaler
9 1 (1.30%) CheckPoint
9 1 (1.30%) Commvault
9 1 (1.30%) Google