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 18 September 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
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 36 22
Rank change year-on-year -5 -14 +18
Contract jobs citing VMware 56 85 137
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 4.75% 4.96% 7.70%
As % of the Vendors category 8.30% 9.76% 15.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 50 87
10th Percentile £219 £330 £263
25th Percentile £224 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £534 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.60% +1.67% +0.96%
75th Percentile £566 £608 £619
90th Percentile £590 £638 £675
South East median daily rate £550 £538 £500
% change year-on-year +2.33% +7.50% +2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 6
10th Percentile - - £47.95
25th Percentile - - £48.40
Median hourly rate - - £52.28
75th Percentile - - £54.56
90th Percentile - - £57.91
South East median hourly rate £96.39 £29.28 £54.56
% change year-on-year +229.16% -46.33% +139.82%

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 675 871 910
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 57.30% 50.82% 51.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 474 561
10th Percentile £293 £316 £248
25th Percentile £413 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £630
90th Percentile £650 £738 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £518 £500
% change year-on-year -3.39% +3.51% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 34 28
10th Percentile £14.44 £15.70 £18.00
25th Percentile £14.75 £31.25 £41.75
Median hourly rate £19.81 £58.49 £58.03
Median % change year-on-year -66.13% +0.79% -5.64%
75th Percentile £32.12 £61.60 £66.77
90th Percentile £39.98 £75.13 £73.21
South East median hourly rate £20.00 £57.35 £52.50
% change year-on-year -65.13% +9.24% +162.50%

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
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 18 September 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
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 18 September 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 -13 16 £270 -22.86% 3
Bracknell +9 15 £538 +34.38% 1
Reading 0 9 £613 +1.24% 4
Maidenhead +2 6 - - 2
Slough -5 1 - - 1
VMware
South East

VMware
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 6 (10.71%) OpenStack
2 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.79%) Anypoint
Cloud Services
1 17 (30.36%) AWS
2 14 (25.00%) Azure
3 6 (10.71%) OpenShift
4 2 (3.57%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (3.57%) PaaS
5 1 (1.79%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (1.79%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.79%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (21.43%) DHCP
1 12 (21.43%) DNS
2 10 (17.86%) VLAN
3 9 (16.07%) TCP/IP
4 7 (12.50%) BGP
4 7 (12.50%) OSPF
4 7 (12.50%) TACACS
5 6 (10.71%) LAN
5 6 (10.71%) MPLS
5 6 (10.71%) SNMP
5 6 (10.71%) WAN
5 6 (10.71%) Wireless
6 5 (8.93%) VSAN
7 3 (5.36%) SD-WAN
8 2 (3.57%) Fibre Channel
8 2 (3.57%) Firewall
8 2 (3.57%) iSCSI
9 1 (1.79%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (1.79%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (1.79%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.57%) SQL Server
General
1 15 (26.79%) Social Skills
2 11 (19.64%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (8.93%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (41.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 15 (26.79%) VMware Engineer
3 14 (25.00%) Infrastructure Support
3 14 (25.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 14 (25.00%) Support Engineer
4 6 (10.71%) Designer
4 6 (10.71%) IP Designer
5 5 (8.93%) Architect
6 2 (3.57%) 1st Line Engineer
6 2 (3.57%) Coordinator
6 2 (3.57%) Project Coordinator
6 2 (3.57%) Technical Coordinator
6 2 (3.57%) Technical Project Coordinator
7 1 (1.79%) Azure Architect
7 1 (1.79%) Azure Consultant
7 1 (1.79%) Lead
7 1 (1.79%) Senior
7 1 (1.79%) Solutions Consultant
7 1 (1.79%) VMware Consultant
7 1 (1.79%) VMware Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.57%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 12 (21.43%) Data Centre
2 9 (16.07%) Analytical Mindset
3 7 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (8.93%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.57%) Clustering
5 2 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.57%) Fat Client
5 2 (3.57%) PKI
5 2 (3.57%) Thin Client
6 1 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.79%) FlexPod
6 1 (1.79%) Life Science
6 1 (1.79%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 21 (37.50%) Windows
2 18 (32.14%) Linux
3 7 (12.50%) Windows 10
3 7 (12.50%) Windows Server
4 6 (10.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (3.57%) CentOS
5 2 (3.57%) Ubuntu
5 2 (3.57%) Windows 7
6 1 (1.79%) Unix
6 1 (1.79%) VMS
6 1 (1.79%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (53.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 19 (33.93%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (26.79%) ITIL
4 14 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 13 (23.21%) Validation
6 9 (16.07%) Network Virtualisation
6 9 (16.07%) Preventative Maintenance
6 9 (16.07%) Service Management
6 9 (16.07%) Virtual Infrastructure
7 6 (10.71%) Architectural Design
7 6 (10.71%) Incident Response
8 5 (8.93%) DevSecOps
9 4 (7.14%) Agile
9 4 (7.14%) Project Management
10 3 (5.36%) Budget Management
10 3 (5.36%) Data Protection
10 3 (5.36%) Migration
10 3 (5.36%) Roadmaps
10 3 (5.36%) Stakeholder Management
11 2 (3.57%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 7 (12.50%) PowerShell
1 7 (12.50%) Python
2 1 (1.79%) SQL
Qualifications
1 29 (51.79%) Security Cleared
2 19 (33.93%) DV Cleared
3 11 (19.64%) Microsoft Certification
4 10 (17.86%) Azure Certification
5 9 (16.07%) Network+ Certification
5 9 (16.07%) Server+ Certification
6 8 (14.29%) SC Cleared
7 7 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (10.71%) AWS Certification
8 6 (10.71%) CCIE
8 6 (10.71%) JNCIE
9 4 (7.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (3.57%) VCAP
11 1 (1.79%) CCNA
11 1 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (1.79%) Degree
11 1 (1.79%) MCSE
11 1 (1.79%) VCP5
11 1 (1.79%) VCP6
System Software
1 32 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 24 (42.86%) VMware ESXi
3 16 (28.57%) vSphere
4 14 (25.00%) Hyper-V
5 11 (19.64%) Active Directory
5 11 (19.64%) VMware NSX
6 2 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.79%) NFS
Systems Management
1 11 (19.64%) Ansible
2 6 (10.71%) Terraform
3 5 (8.93%) Red Hat Satellite
4 4 (7.14%) vCenter Server
5 2 (3.57%) SCVMM
5 2 (3.57%) vRealize
6 1 (1.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.79%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (1.79%) PowerCLI
6 1 (1.79%) SCCM
6 1 (1.79%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 15 (26.79%) Microsoft
2 8 (14.29%) Cisco
3 6 (10.71%) F5
3 6 (10.71%) Fortinet
3 6 (10.71%) Juniper
4 5 (8.93%) Dell
4 5 (8.93%) Red Hat
4 5 (8.93%) Wyse
5 2 (3.57%) Intel
5 2 (3.57%) NetApp
5 2 (3.57%) Veeam
6 1 (1.79%) Commvault
6 1 (1.79%) IBM
6 1 (1.79%) Meraki
6 1 (1.79%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.79%) Splunk