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 22 May 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
22 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 46 48
Rank change year-on-year -26 +2 -24
Contract jobs citing VMware 45 46 81
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 2.48% 4.02% 4.25%
As % of the Vendors category 5.08% 7.31% 8.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 20 43
10th Percentile £350 £331 £317
25th Percentile £375 £391 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £539 £501
Median % change year-on-year -22.31% +7.58% -12.87%
75th Percentile £482 £588 £608
90th Percentile £514 £630 -
South East median daily rate £550 £569 £513
% change year-on-year -3.25% +10.93% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
South East median hourly rate £48.72 £55.25 £70.00
% change year-on-year -11.82% -21.07% +11.11%

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 886 629 925
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 48.92% 54.93% 48.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 594 385 525
10th Percentile £306 £350 £213
25th Percentile £408 £450 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +7.32% -6.82%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £608
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
South East median daily rate £513 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 15 46
10th Percentile £30.45 £19.06 £14.50
25th Percentile £67.00 £26.83 £30.94
Median hourly rate £88.00 £45.00 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +95.56% -22.81% -8.67%
75th Percentile - £65.62 £61.60
90th Percentile £106.35 £83.11 £63.75
South East median hourly rate £47.52 £24.66 £47.50
% change year-on-year +92.70% -48.08% +5.56%

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 22 May 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
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 22 May 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 -9 30 £402 -25.42% 1
Reading -19 8 £490 - 11
Bracknell -4 3 £500 -11.11% 1
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 (4.44%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 23 (51.11%) Azure
2 15 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 4 (8.89%) Azure Logic Apps
4 3 (6.67%) AWS
4 3 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (4.44%) Rubrik
6 1 (2.22%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (2.22%) Datadog
6 1 (2.22%) IaaS
6 1 (2.22%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 14 (31.11%) DHCP
1 14 (31.11%) DNS
2 12 (26.67%) FTP
3 9 (20.00%) Firewall
4 5 (11.11%) SSL
5 3 (6.67%) LAN
5 3 (6.67%) SD-WAN
5 3 (6.67%) WAN
6 2 (4.44%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (4.44%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 2 (4.44%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 2 (4.44%) MPLS
6 2 (4.44%) NAS
6 2 (4.44%) Network Security
6 2 (4.44%) SAN
6 2 (4.44%) VLAN
6 2 (4.44%) VPN
7 1 (2.22%) SMTP
7 1 (2.22%) SNMP
7 1 (2.22%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.44%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.22%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 1 (2.22%) JIRA
General
1 7 (15.56%) Social Skills
2 3 (6.67%) Public Sector
3 2 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.44%) Retail
4 1 (2.22%) Legal
4 1 (2.22%) Police
4 1 (2.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (20.00%) Analyst
2 7 (15.56%) Wintel Analyst
3 5 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (6.67%) Architect
4 3 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
4 3 (6.67%) Network Engineer
4 3 (6.67%) Senior
4 3 (6.67%) Systems Engineer
5 2 (4.44%) Administrator
5 2 (4.44%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (4.44%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 2 (4.44%) Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (4.44%) Lead
5 2 (4.44%) Network Administrator
5 2 (4.44%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 2 (4.44%) Systems Administrator
6 1 (2.22%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (2.22%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (2.22%) Senior Network Engineer
6 1 (2.22%) Virtualisation Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.89%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.78%) Data Centre
2 4 (8.89%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (4.44%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (4.44%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.44%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.22%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.22%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 27 (60.00%) Windows
2 16 (35.56%) Windows Server
3 12 (26.67%) Linux
4 8 (17.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (8.89%) Mac OS
6 1 (2.22%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (37.78%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 9 (20.00%) ITIL
4 8 (17.78%) Architectural Design
4 8 (17.78%) DevSecOps
5 6 (13.33%) High Availability
5 6 (13.33%) Migration
6 4 (8.89%) Analytics
6 4 (8.89%) Compatibility Testing
6 4 (8.89%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (8.89%) Decision-Making
6 4 (8.89%) DevOps
6 4 (8.89%) Operational Stability
6 4 (8.89%) Patch Management
6 4 (8.89%) Software Testing
6 4 (8.89%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (8.89%) Validation
6 4 (8.89%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 3 (6.67%) Server Management
7 3 (6.67%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 22 (48.89%) Security Cleared
2 19 (42.22%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.22%) Degree
3 1 (2.22%) OCP
3 1 (2.22%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (2.22%) PMI Certification
3 1 (2.22%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (4.44%) NIST
2 1 (2.22%) GDPR
System Software
1 30 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 25 (55.56%) Active Directory
3 12 (26.67%) Hyper-V
4 6 (13.33%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (13.33%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (6.67%) Firmware
5 3 (6.67%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (6.67%) vSphere
6 2 (4.44%) VMware NSX
7 1 (2.22%) NFS
Systems Management
1 12 (26.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (17.78%) Ansible
2 8 (17.78%) Red Hat Satellite
3 7 (15.56%) SCCM
4 3 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (4.44%) Avamar
5 2 (4.44%) FortiGate
6 1 (2.22%) Fluentd
6 1 (2.22%) Grafana
6 1 (2.22%) Kubernetes
6 1 (2.22%) Prometheus
6 1 (2.22%) SCOM
6 1 (2.22%) SCSM
6 1 (2.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (24.44%) Citrix
3 9 (20.00%) Red Hat
4 7 (15.56%) ServiceNow
5 6 (13.33%) Cisco
6 2 (4.44%) F5
6 2 (4.44%) Fortinet
6 2 (4.44%) Juniper
6 2 (4.44%) Nokia
6 2 (4.44%) Palo Alto
6 2 (4.44%) Zscaler
7 1 (2.22%) Arista
7 1 (2.22%) Avaya
7 1 (2.22%) Ericsson
7 1 (2.22%) IBM
7 1 (2.22%) Mavenir
7 1 (2.22%) Okta
7 1 (2.22%) Oracle
7 1 (2.22%) Trend Micro
7 1 (2.22%) Veeam