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 19 April 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
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 38 51
Rank change year-on-year -22 +13 -17
Contract jobs citing VMware 63 60 79
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 3.40% 5.19% 3.87%
As % of the Vendors category 6.45% 10.12% 7.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 30 40
10th Percentile £350 £378 £315
25th Percentile £359 £406 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £539 £501
Median % change year-on-year -16.51% +7.58% -12.87%
75th Percentile £518 £589 £608
90th Percentile £613 £651 -
South East median daily rate £550 £575 £513
% change year-on-year -4.35% +12.20% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile £74.80 - £23.56
25th Percentile £82.00 - £30.46
Median hourly rate £90.00 - £41.98
75th Percentile £97.50 - £53.49
90th Percentile £102.60 - £60.40
South East median hourly rate £87.00 £80.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +8.75% +23.08% +3.17%

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 977 593 1,016
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 52.78% 51.34% 49.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 674 370 578
10th Percentile £306 £350 £213
25th Percentile £413 £450 £363
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 £668 £700 £688
South East median daily rate £513 £513 £500
% change year-on-year - +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 14 46
10th Percentile £20.79 £18.92 £17.30
25th Percentile £55.63 £25.75 £46.72
Median hourly rate £85.00 £42.78 £58.30
Median % change year-on-year +98.71% -26.63% -0.77%
75th Percentile £88.00 £65.62 £61.60
90th Percentile £95.00 £84.09 £64.15
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £24.66 £47.50
% change year-on-year +92.62% -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 19 April 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 19 April 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 19 April 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 30 £400 -25.65% 2
Reading -17 21 £500 -11.11% 7
Bracknell +3 8 £563 +4.65% 4
Slough +8 1 £475 +26.67%
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:

Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 32 (50.79%) Azure
2 17 (26.98%) Entra ID
3 15 (23.81%) AWS
4 6 (9.52%) OpenShift
5 4 (6.35%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (6.35%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.59%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (1.59%) Datadog
6 1 (1.59%) GCP
6 1 (1.59%) IaaS
6 1 (1.59%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 23 (36.51%) DNS
2 21 (33.33%) DHCP
3 16 (25.40%) Firewall
4 15 (23.81%) FTP
5 5 (7.94%) SSL
5 5 (7.94%) VPN
6 4 (6.35%) NAS
6 4 (6.35%) SAN
6 4 (6.35%) TCP/IP
7 3 (4.76%) LAN
7 3 (4.76%) SD-WAN
7 3 (4.76%) WAN
8 2 (3.17%) Network Security
8 2 (3.17%) SMTP
8 2 (3.17%) Telnet
9 1 (1.59%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (1.59%) DMVPN
9 1 (1.59%) MPLS
9 1 (1.59%) NetScaler
9 1 (1.59%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.59%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 1 (1.59%) GitLab
1 1 (1.59%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.59%) JIRA
General
1 16 (25.40%) Social Skills
2 5 (7.94%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (6.35%) Public Sector
3 4 (6.35%) Retail
4 3 (4.76%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.59%) Legal
5 1 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.59%) Police
5 1 (1.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (19.05%) Architect
2 10 (15.87%) Analyst
2 10 (15.87%) Wintel Analyst
3 8 (12.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (9.52%) Senior
5 5 (7.94%) Technical Architect
6 4 (6.35%) Infrastructure Architect
6 4 (6.35%) Lead
6 4 (6.35%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (4.76%) Systems Engineer
8 2 (3.17%) Administrator
8 2 (3.17%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (3.17%) DevOps Engineer
8 2 (3.17%) Network Administrator
8 2 (3.17%) Network Architect
8 2 (3.17%) Network Engineer
8 2 (3.17%) Site Engineer
8 2 (3.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
8 2 (3.17%) Systems Administrator
9 1 (1.59%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.35%) Loki
1 4 (6.35%) Software Packaging
2 1 (1.59%) OAuth
2 1 (1.59%) OAuth2
2 1 (1.59%) OpenID
2 1 (1.59%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.87%) Cloud Native
2 8 (12.70%) Data Centre
3 4 (6.35%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (6.35%) PKI
3 4 (6.35%) Virtual Team
4 3 (4.76%) Replication
5 2 (3.17%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (3.17%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.59%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.59%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.59%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 29 (46.03%) Windows
2 23 (36.51%) Linux
3 17 (26.98%) Windows Server
4 12 (19.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (6.35%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.59%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (26.98%) DevSecOps
3 15 (23.81%) Cybersecurity
4 14 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 10 (15.87%) Agile
5 10 (15.87%) CI/CD
6 9 (14.29%) ITIL
6 9 (14.29%) Service Design
7 8 (12.70%) Architectural Design
7 8 (12.70%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (12.70%) SIEM
8 7 (11.11%) High Availability
9 6 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (9.52%) Platform Engineering
9 6 (9.52%) Roadmaps
9 6 (9.52%) Technical Leadership
9 6 (9.52%) Validation
10 5 (7.94%) Containerisation
10 5 (7.94%) Observability
10 5 (7.94%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 9 (14.29%) Bash
1 9 (14.29%) Python
2 7 (11.11%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 38 (60.32%) Security Cleared
2 32 (50.79%) SC Cleared
3 9 (14.29%) AWS Certification
4 5 (7.94%) Azure Certification
5 4 (6.35%) TOGAF Certification
6 3 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (4.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (1.59%) CCIE
7 1 (1.59%) CCNP
7 1 (1.59%) CCSM
7 1 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.59%) Degree
7 1 (1.59%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.59%) OCP
7 1 (1.59%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (1.59%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.59%) PMP
7 1 (1.59%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (3.17%) NIST
2 1 (1.59%) GDPR
System Software
1 41 (65.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 28 (44.44%) Active Directory
3 14 (22.22%) Hyper-V
4 6 (9.52%) VMware NSX
4 6 (9.52%) vSphere
5 5 (7.94%) Docker
6 4 (6.35%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (6.35%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (4.76%) Firmware
7 3 (4.76%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (3.17%) NFS
Systems Management
1 14 (22.22%) Ansible
1 14 (22.22%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (15.87%) Kubernetes
3 8 (12.70%) Red Hat Satellite
4 6 (9.52%) Terraform
5 5 (7.94%) Argo
5 5 (7.94%) Grafana
5 5 (7.94%) Prometheus
5 5 (7.94%) SCCM
5 5 (7.94%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (6.35%) Kustomize
7 1 (1.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (1.59%) Avamar
7 1 (1.59%) Fluentd
7 1 (1.59%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.59%) SCOM
7 1 (1.59%) SCSM
7 1 (1.59%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 18 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 15 (23.81%) Citrix
3 14 (22.22%) Red Hat
4 9 (14.29%) ServiceNow
5 8 (12.70%) Cisco
6 5 (7.94%) Palo Alto
7 4 (6.35%) Zscaler
8 2 (3.17%) Fortinet
8 2 (3.17%) NetApp
9 1 (1.59%) Avaya
9 1 (1.59%) CheckPoint
9 1 (1.59%) Ericsson
9 1 (1.59%) F5
9 1 (1.59%) Google
9 1 (1.59%) IBM
9 1 (1.59%) Juniper
9 1 (1.59%) Nokia
9 1 (1.59%) Oracle
9 1 (1.59%) Trend Micro
9 1 (1.59%) Veeam