vCloud Contracts in England

VMware vCloud Suite
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring vCloud skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited vCloud over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 478 527 628
Rank change year-on-year +49 +101 +81
Contract jobs citing vCloud 7 15 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.029% 0.040% 0.050%
As % of the System Software category 0.23% 0.37% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 19
10th Percentile - £400 £410
25th Percentile £513 £605 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £610 £455
Median % change year-on-year +0.41% +34.07% -14.35%
75th Percentile £700 £615 £458
90th Percentile - - £725
UK median daily rate £613 £593 £455
% change year-on-year +3.38% +30.22% -17.83%

All System Software Skills
England

vCloud falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 3,088 4,031 6,595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.68% 10.84% 13.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,136 2,794 4,778
10th Percentile £213 £190 £204
25th Percentile £400 £325 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £494 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.33% -5.95% -
75th Percentile £625 £600 £650
90th Percentile £725 £688 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 209 243
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.06 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £14.48 £17.72
Median hourly rate £27.94 £21.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.05% -58.00% +163.16%
75th Percentile £64.50 £58.69 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.65 £72.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £22.50 £53.43
% change year-on-year +22.22% -57.88% +167.13%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing vCloud as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for vCloud in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing vCloud in England.

Daily rate trend for vCloud in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for vCloud in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing vCloud in England.

Hourly rate trend for vCloud in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing vCloud within the England 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
South West - 4 £525 -
London +36 3 £700 +14.75%
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 3 (42.86%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Big Data
1 3 (42.86%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Bitbucket
1 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
1 3 (42.86%) SonarQube
1 3 (42.86%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (42.86%) Law
1 3 (42.86%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Architect
2 3 (42.86%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (14.29%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) .NET
1 3 (42.86%) Apache NiFi
1 3 (42.86%) ASP.NET
1 3 (42.86%) ASP.NET Core
1 3 (42.86%) CSS
1 3 (42.86%) HTML
1 3 (42.86%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Private Cloud
1 3 (42.86%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) CentOS
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
1 3 (42.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
1 3 (42.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Architectural Design
1 3 (42.86%) DevOps
1 3 (42.86%) High Availability
1 3 (42.86%) Requirements Workshops
1 3 (42.86%) SIEM
1 3 (42.86%) Workshop Facilitation
2 1 (14.29%) Customer Requirements
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) C#
1 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (57.14%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) VMware NSX
2 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 3 (42.86%) Docker
2 3 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (42.86%) VMware Workstation
2 3 (42.86%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (42.86%) Kibana
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft