VMware Contracts 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 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 44 33
Rank change year-on-year +5 -11 -5
Contract jobs citing VMware 55 83 108
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 4.69% 4.18% 5.97%
As % of the Vendors category 8.93% 8.55% 11.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 45 75
10th Percentile £381 £319 £350
25th Percentile £450 £363 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £501 £575
Median % change year-on-year +7.78% -12.87% +18.19%
75th Percentile £590 £608 £641
90th Percentile £653 - £708
South East median daily rate £575 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +14.77% -4.57% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 12
10th Percentile - - £48.40
25th Percentile - - £53.02
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year - -1.52% -12.00%
75th Percentile - - £76.88
90th Percentile - - £81.26
South East median hourly rate £55.25 £67.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year -18.15% +12.50% +200.00%

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 616 971 930
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 52.51% 48.94% 51.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 384 559 595
10th Percentile £350 £211 £350
25th Percentile £450 £359 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -6.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £608 £644
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
South East median daily rate £514 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.80% - +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 46 36
10th Percentile £18.92 £17.30 £19.00
25th Percentile £25.75 £51.66 £31.31
Median hourly rate £42.78 £58.30 £60.88
Median % change year-on-year -26.63% -4.23% +21.75%
75th Percentile £65.62 £61.60 £71.25
90th Percentile £84.09 £64.15 £80.25
South East median hourly rate £24.66 £48.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year -49.42% +8.33% +130.53%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for VMware in Berkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware in Berkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend for VMware in Berkshire

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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 1 May 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 0 18 £538 +72.16% 2
Reading +1 10 £631 +4.34% 15
Maidenhead +4 9 - - 2
Bracknell +3 6 £550 +38.36% 6
Slough -4 4 £375 - 2
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 5 (9.09%) IIS
2 4 (7.27%) Apache
3 2 (3.64%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 14 (25.45%) Azure
2 6 (10.91%) AWS
3 5 (9.09%) Entra ID
3 5 (9.09%) PaaS
4 4 (7.27%) OpenShift
4 4 (7.27%) SaaS
5 3 (5.45%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (3.64%) GCP
7 1 (1.82%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.82%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (25.45%) DNS
2 9 (16.36%) DHCP
2 9 (16.36%) SMTP
3 5 (9.09%) Firewall
3 5 (9.09%) NetScaler
3 5 (9.09%) SD-WAN
4 4 (7.27%) 3G
4 4 (7.27%) 3GPP
4 4 (7.27%) 4G
4 4 (7.27%) FTP
4 4 (7.27%) LTE
4 4 (7.27%) TCP/IP
4 4 (7.27%) tcpdump
4 4 (7.27%) Telnet
5 3 (5.45%) iSCSI
5 3 (5.45%) Network Security
5 3 (5.45%) NGFW
5 3 (5.45%) VSAN
6 2 (3.64%) 5G
6 2 (3.64%) MVNO
Development Applications
1 2 (3.64%) JIRA
General
1 10 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 6 (10.91%) Telecoms
3 5 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (7.27%) Finance
4 4 (7.27%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.64%) Electronics
5 2 (3.64%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.64%) Marketing
6 1 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.82%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (27.27%) Architect
2 14 (25.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (12.73%) Lead
4 4 (7.27%) Administrator
4 4 (7.27%) Linux Administrator
4 4 (7.27%) Technical Design Authority
5 3 (5.45%) Infrastructure Architect
5 3 (5.45%) VMware Engineer
6 2 (3.64%) Lead Architect
6 2 (3.64%) Lead Solutions Architect
6 2 (3.64%) Product Architect
6 2 (3.64%) Security Architect
6 2 (3.64%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (3.64%) Technical Architect
6 2 (3.64%) Technical Design Architect
7 1 (1.82%) Consultant
7 1 (1.82%) Coordinator
7 1 (1.82%) Data Architect
7 1 (1.82%) Migration Engineer
7 1 (1.82%) Technical Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.09%) LDAP
2 3 (5.45%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (23.64%) Onboarding
2 10 (18.18%) Data Centre
3 7 (12.73%) PKI
4 5 (9.09%) Clustering
4 5 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (7.27%) Enterprise Storage
6 3 (5.45%) Replication
7 2 (3.64%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (3.64%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.82%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 28 (50.91%) Windows
2 22 (40.00%) Windows Server
3 16 (29.09%) Linux
4 10 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (16.36%) Windows 10
6 5 (9.09%) Windows Server 2003
7 4 (7.27%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (3.64%) AIX
8 2 (3.64%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (32.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (18.18%) Project Management
3 9 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (16.36%) Roadmaps
4 8 (14.55%) Migration
5 7 (12.73%) High Availability
5 7 (12.73%) Root Cause Analysis
5 7 (12.73%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (10.91%) Agile
6 6 (10.91%) Infrastructure Automation
6 6 (10.91%) SIEM
7 5 (9.09%) Business Analysis
7 5 (9.09%) Data Protection
7 5 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
7 5 (9.09%) Product Management
7 5 (9.09%) Product Roadmap
7 5 (9.09%) Vulnerability Management
8 4 (7.27%) Decision-Making
8 4 (7.27%) Performance Monitoring
8 4 (7.27%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 17 (30.91%) PowerShell
2 5 (9.09%) Shell Script
3 1 (1.82%) Bash
3 1 (1.82%) Python
3 1 (1.82%) SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (54.55%) Security Cleared
2 15 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 14 (25.45%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.64%) CISM
4 2 (3.64%) CISSP
5 1 (1.82%) MCSE
5 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.82%) VCAP
5 1 (1.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.64%) NIST
System Software
1 23 (41.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 21 (38.18%) Active Directory
3 18 (32.73%) VMware ESXi
4 9 (16.36%) vSphere
5 8 (14.55%) VMware NSX
6 7 (12.73%) NFS
7 5 (9.09%) XenApp
7 5 (9.09%) XenDesktop
8 4 (7.27%) Hyper-V
8 4 (7.27%) Samba
9 2 (3.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (14.55%) Ansible
2 7 (12.73%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (10.91%) Kubernetes
3 6 (10.91%) yum
4 5 (9.09%) Microsoft Clustering
4 5 (9.09%) WSUS
5 4 (7.27%) NetBackup
5 4 (7.27%) vRealize
6 3 (5.45%) Progress Chef
6 3 (5.45%) Puppet
6 3 (5.45%) vCenter Server
6 3 (5.45%) vRealize Orchestrator
7 2 (3.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (3.64%) SCCM
8 1 (1.82%) PowerCLI
8 1 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (1.82%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (32.73%) Dell
2 14 (25.45%) HP
3 13 (23.64%) Microsoft
4 10 (18.18%) Red Hat
5 9 (16.36%) Wyse
6 5 (9.09%) Citrix
7 4 (7.27%) 3PAR
7 4 (7.27%) Veritas
8 2 (3.64%) Cisco
8 2 (3.64%) SAP
9 1 (1.82%) Dynatrace
9 1 (1.82%) IBM
9 1 (1.82%) Intel
9 1 (1.82%) NetApp
9 1 (1.82%) Oracle
9 1 (1.82%) Palo Alto
9 1 (1.82%) Sophos
9 1 (1.82%) Splunk
9 1 (1.82%) Veeam
9 1 (1.82%) Zerto