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 11 January 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
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 30 50
Rank change year-on-year -12 +20 +5
Contract jobs citing VMware 74 90 76
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 5.11% 6.51% 4.49%
As % of the Vendors category 8.37% 13.57% 8.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 57 44
10th Percentile £219 £350 £310
25th Percentile £350 £363 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £550 £520
Median % change year-on-year -12.27% +5.87% -13.42%
75th Percentile £519 £638 £583
90th Percentile £588 £700 £632
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 £87.00 £81.25 £67.95
% change year-on-year +7.08% +19.58% -0.08%

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 884 663 903
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 61.01% 47.97% 53.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 646 412 567
10th Percentile £293 £314 £205
25th Percentile £413 £432 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £568 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.89% +13.50% -6.10%
75th Percentile £606 £650 £620
90th Percentile £663 £688 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £511
% change year-on-year -2.91% +0.88% +2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 10 37
10th Percentile £14.50 £25.48 £24.80
25th Percentile £19.00 £32.38 £54.56
Median hourly rate £40.44 £56.75 £61.65
Median % change year-on-year -28.74% -7.95% +12.08%
75th Percentile £81.00 £63.62 £65.25
90th Percentile £96.00 £66.54 £75.59
South East median hourly rate £22.25 £40.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year -44.72% -26.82% +72.36%

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 11 January 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 11 January 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 11 January 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 -15 40 £450 +28.57% 1
Reading -6 22 £550 -12.00% 3
Bracknell -3 9 £500 -9.09%
Slough -3 3 £475 +21.95% 3
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 (8.11%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 36 (48.65%) AWS
1 36 (48.65%) Azure
2 20 (27.03%) OpenShift
3 7 (9.46%) IaaS
4 6 (8.11%) Entra ID
5 4 (5.41%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (4.05%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.35%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 28 (37.84%) DNS
2 21 (28.38%) DHCP
3 15 (20.27%) TCP/IP
4 11 (14.86%) VLAN
5 9 (12.16%) Firewall
6 6 (8.11%) BGP
6 6 (8.11%) FTP
6 6 (8.11%) LAN
6 6 (8.11%) MPLS
6 6 (8.11%) OSPF
6 6 (8.11%) SNMP
6 6 (8.11%) TACACS
6 6 (8.11%) WAN
6 6 (8.11%) Wireless
7 4 (5.41%) VPN
8 2 (2.70%) NAS
8 2 (2.70%) SAN
9 1 (1.35%) NetScaler
9 1 (1.35%) Network Security
9 1 (1.35%) Software-Defined Networking
Development Applications
1 6 (8.11%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.35%) GitLab
General
1 22 (29.73%) Social Skills
2 15 (20.27%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (9.46%) Public Sector
4 6 (8.11%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (4.05%) Aerospace
5 3 (4.05%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (4.05%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (28.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 17 (22.97%) Infrastructure Support
2 17 (22.97%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 17 (22.97%) Support Engineer
3 14 (18.92%) Architect
4 6 (8.11%) Analyst
4 6 (8.11%) Designer
4 6 (8.11%) IP Designer
4 6 (8.11%) Senior
4 6 (8.11%) Wintel Analyst
5 5 (6.76%) Site Engineer
5 5 (6.76%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 5 (6.76%) Technical Architect
6 4 (5.41%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (4.05%) Infrastructure Manager
7 3 (4.05%) Lead
7 3 (4.05%) VMware Engineer
8 2 (2.70%) Infrastructure Architect
9 1 (1.35%) Network Architect
9 1 (1.35%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.81%) Loki
2 1 (1.35%) OAuth
2 1 (1.35%) OAuth2
2 1 (1.35%) OpenID
2 1 (1.35%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (18.92%) Cloud Native
2 11 (14.86%) Analytical Mindset
2 11 (14.86%) Data Centre
3 9 (12.16%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (10.81%) Virtual Team
5 4 (5.41%) PKI
6 3 (4.05%) Replication
7 1 (1.35%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 43 (58.11%) Linux
2 22 (29.73%) Windows
3 20 (27.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 7 (9.46%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (39.19%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (33.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 23 (31.08%) ITIL
4 21 (28.38%) DevSecOps
5 19 (25.68%) CI/CD
6 14 (18.92%) Agile
6 14 (18.92%) Disaster Recovery
7 12 (16.22%) Architectural Design
7 12 (16.22%) Cybersecurity
7 12 (16.22%) Infrastructure as Code
8 11 (14.86%) Infrastructure Management
8 11 (14.86%) Preventative Maintenance
8 11 (14.86%) Service Management
8 11 (14.86%) Validation
8 11 (14.86%) Virtual Infrastructure
9 10 (13.51%) Containerisation
10 9 (12.16%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 8 (10.81%) Load Balancing
11 8 (10.81%) Observability
11 8 (10.81%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 25 (33.78%) Python
2 18 (24.32%) Bash
3 6 (8.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 46 (62.16%) Security Cleared
2 39 (52.70%) SC Cleared
3 16 (21.62%) Azure Certification
4 15 (20.27%) AWS Certification
5 12 (16.22%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (14.86%) Network+ Certification
6 11 (14.86%) Server+ Certification
7 7 (9.46%) CCIE
7 7 (9.46%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (8.11%) JNCIE
9 4 (5.41%) DV Cleared
9 4 (5.41%) TOGAF Certification
9 4 (5.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (4.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (1.35%) CCNP
11 1 (1.35%) CCSM
11 1 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (1.35%) Degree
11 1 (1.35%) VCAP
11 1 (1.35%) VCDX
System Software
1 48 (64.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (24.32%) Hyper-V
2 18 (24.32%) vSphere
3 17 (22.97%) VMware NSX
4 14 (18.92%) Active Directory
5 10 (13.51%) Docker
6 3 (4.05%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.35%) NFS
Systems Management
1 29 (39.19%) Ansible
2 18 (24.32%) Kubernetes
3 17 (22.97%) Terraform
4 14 (18.92%) Argo
5 12 (16.22%) Red Hat Satellite
6 8 (10.81%) Grafana
6 8 (10.81%) Kustomize
6 8 (10.81%) Prometheus
7 6 (8.11%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (8.11%) vCenter Server
8 4 (5.41%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (1.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (1.35%) vRealize
9 1 (1.35%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 25 (33.78%) Red Hat
2 19 (25.68%) Microsoft
3 12 (16.22%) Cisco
4 7 (9.46%) Citrix
5 6 (8.11%) F5
5 6 (8.11%) Fortinet
5 6 (8.11%) Juniper
5 6 (8.11%) Pure Storage
6 5 (6.76%) ServiceNow
7 4 (5.41%) Palo Alto
8 3 (4.05%) Zscaler
9 2 (2.70%) NetApp
10 1 (1.35%) CheckPoint
10 1 (1.35%) Google