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 2 November 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
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 34 31
Rank change year-on-year -1 -3 +17
Contract jobs citing VMware 70 90 115
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 5.37% 5.61% 6.45%
As % of the Vendors category 8.59% 11.11% 12.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 57 68
10th Percentile £219 £342 £263
25th Percentile £270 £350 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.27% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £537 £638 £628
90th Percentile £603 £700 £675
South East median daily rate £519 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -5.68% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £33.19
25th Percentile - - £54.56
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
75th Percentile - - £68.63
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £96.39 £36.17 £63.63
% change year-on-year +166.51% -43.17% +149.54%

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 815 810 958
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 62.55% 50.47% 53.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 546 461 564
10th Percentile £293 £330 £205
25th Percentile £425 £430 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £503
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +9.34% -3.87%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £625
90th Percentile £652 £700 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £520 £513
% change year-on-year -3.85% +1.46% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 25 35
10th Percentile £14.50 £16.20 £18.68
25th Percentile £14.75 £26.25 £45.21
Median hourly rate £20.79 £58.30 £61.79
Median % change year-on-year -64.34% -5.65% +43.88%
75th Percentile £38.98 £61.60 £68.63
90th Percentile £65.70 £64.62 £76.63
South East median hourly rate £20.00 £57.65 £45.21
% change year-on-year -65.31% +27.51% +96.57%

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 2 November 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 2 November 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 -12 32 £483 +37.86% 1
Bracknell +6 15 £500 -16.67% 3
Reading -9 14 £555 -8.26% 7
Maidenhead +3 3 - - 4
Slough -2 2 £475 +11.24% 6
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 (8.57%) OpenStack
2 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.43%) Anypoint
Cloud Services
1 26 (37.14%) AWS
2 23 (32.86%) Azure
3 20 (28.57%) OpenShift
4 7 (10.00%) IaaS
5 4 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.43%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (1.43%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 20 (28.57%) DNS
2 13 (18.57%) DHCP
3 12 (17.14%) VLAN
4 11 (15.71%) TCP/IP
5 7 (10.00%) BGP
5 7 (10.00%) OSPF
5 7 (10.00%) TACACS
6 6 (8.57%) LAN
6 6 (8.57%) MPLS
6 6 (8.57%) SNMP
6 6 (8.57%) WAN
6 6 (8.57%) Wireless
7 3 (4.29%) Firewall
7 3 (4.29%) NAS
7 3 (4.29%) SAN
8 2 (2.86%) Fibre Channel
8 2 (2.86%) iSCSI
8 2 (2.86%) VSAN
9 1 (1.43%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (1.43%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (8.57%) Jenkins
General
1 23 (32.86%) Social Skills
2 14 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (12.86%) Public Sector
4 7 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (32.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 17 (24.29%) Infrastructure Support
2 17 (24.29%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 17 (24.29%) Support Engineer
3 12 (17.14%) VMware Engineer
4 10 (14.29%) Architect
5 6 (8.57%) Designer
5 6 (8.57%) IP Designer
6 5 (7.14%) Site Engineer
6 5 (7.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 3 (4.29%) Infrastructure Architect
7 3 (4.29%) Senior
8 2 (2.86%) 1st Line Engineer
8 2 (2.86%) Infrastructure Manager
9 1 (1.43%) Consultant
9 1 (1.43%) Integration Engineer
9 1 (1.43%) Network Engineer
9 1 (1.43%) Project Coordinator
9 1 (1.43%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 1 (1.43%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.43%) Loki
2 2 (2.86%) Middleware
3 1 (1.43%) OAuth
3 1 (1.43%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.43%) OpenID
3 1 (1.43%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.71%) Analytical Mindset
1 11 (15.71%) Data Centre
2 8 (11.43%) Cloud Native
2 8 (11.43%) Virtual Team
3 7 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (4.29%) Replication
5 2 (2.86%) Clustering
5 2 (2.86%) Fat Client
5 2 (2.86%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.86%) Thin Client
6 1 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.43%) FlexPod
6 1 (1.43%) Life Science
6 1 (1.43%) PKI
6 1 (1.43%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 38 (54.29%) Linux
2 19 (27.14%) Windows
3 17 (24.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (5.71%) Windows 10
4 4 (5.71%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.86%) CentOS
5 2 (2.86%) Ubuntu
5 2 (2.86%) Windows 7
6 1 (1.43%) Unix
6 1 (1.43%) VMS
6 1 (1.43%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (45.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 23 (32.86%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (28.57%) ITIL
4 16 (22.86%) Disaster Recovery
4 16 (22.86%) Validation
5 14 (20.00%) CI/CD
6 11 (15.71%) Infrastructure Management
6 11 (15.71%) Preventative Maintenance
6 11 (15.71%) Service Management
6 11 (15.71%) Virtual Infrastructure
7 10 (14.29%) Agile
8 9 (12.86%) Architectural Design
9 8 (11.43%) DevSecOps
9 8 (11.43%) Infrastructure as Code
9 8 (11.43%) Observability
9 8 (11.43%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 7 (10.00%) Load Balancing
10 7 (10.00%) RBAC
11 6 (8.57%) Containerisation
11 6 (8.57%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 21 (30.00%) Python
2 14 (20.00%) Bash
3 4 (5.71%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.43%) SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (64.29%) Security Cleared
2 26 (37.14%) SC Cleared
3 16 (22.86%) DV Cleared
4 14 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 12 (17.14%) Azure Certification
6 11 (15.71%) Network+ Certification
6 11 (15.71%) Server+ Certification
7 7 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (8.57%) AWS Certification
8 6 (8.57%) CCIE
8 6 (8.57%) JNCIE
9 3 (4.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (1.43%) CCNA
10 1 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (1.43%) Degree
10 1 (1.43%) MCSE
10 1 (1.43%) VCAP
10 1 (1.43%) VCP5
10 1 (1.43%) VCP6
System Software
1 44 (62.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 28 (40.00%) vSphere
3 17 (24.29%) Hyper-V
3 17 (24.29%) VMware ESXi
4 14 (20.00%) VMware NSX
5 10 (14.29%) Active Directory
6 6 (8.57%) Docker
7 2 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (1.43%) NFS
Systems Management
1 20 (28.57%) Ansible
2 14 (20.00%) Argo
2 14 (20.00%) Kubernetes
3 12 (17.14%) Terraform
4 8 (11.43%) Grafana
4 8 (11.43%) Kustomize
4 8 (11.43%) Prometheus
4 8 (11.43%) Red Hat Satellite
5 7 (10.00%) vCenter Server
6 2 (2.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (2.86%) SCVMM
7 1 (1.43%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (1.43%) SCCM
7 1 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.43%) vRealize
7 1 (1.43%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 21 (30.00%) Red Hat
2 19 (27.14%) Microsoft
3 8 (11.43%) Cisco
4 6 (8.57%) F5
4 6 (8.57%) Fortinet
4 6 (8.57%) Juniper
4 6 (8.57%) Pure Storage
5 4 (5.71%) NetApp
6 2 (2.86%) Dell
6 2 (2.86%) Wyse
7 1 (1.43%) Commvault
7 1 (1.43%) IBM
7 1 (1.43%) Intel
7 1 (1.43%) Meraki
7 1 (1.43%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.43%) Splunk
7 1 (1.43%) Veeam