VMware Infrastructure Contracts in Reading

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading requiring VMware Infrastructure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VMware Infrastructure 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 55 54 36
Rank change year-on-year -1 -18 +13
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 5 37 54
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.84% 3.10% 5.19%
As % of the System Software category 6.67% 21.02% 45.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 25 43
10th Percentile £438 £455 £390
25th Percentile £503 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £605 £613
Median % change year-on-year +3.31% -1.22% -0.41%
75th Percentile £644 £608 £688
90th Percentile £648 - £748
Berkshire median daily rate £550 £501 £590
% change year-on-year +9.78% -15.08% +31.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £47.68
25th Percentile - - £47.95
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
75th Percentile - - £66.94
90th Percentile - - £75.60
Berkshire median hourly rate - - £56.66
% change year-on-year - - -12.84%

All System Software Skills
Reading

VMware Infrastructure 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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 75 176 120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 12.56% 14.77% 11.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 131 90
10th Percentile £301 £205 £373
25th Percentile £494 £525 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £634 £605 £569
Median % change year-on-year +4.75% +6.37% +13.75%
75th Percentile £700 £614 £675
90th Percentile - £675 £701
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £575 £534
% change year-on-year -10.83% +7.73% +12.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 6
10th Percentile - - £32.61
25th Percentile - - £47.73
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +23.81% +425.00%
75th Percentile - - £66.88
90th Percentile - - £75.69
Berkshire median hourly rate - £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +18.18% +33.33%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing VMware Infrastructure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for VMware Infrastructure in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for VMware Infrastructure in Reading

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Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

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

Daily rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for VMware Infrastructure in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (80.00%) AWS
3 3 (60.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (40.00%) GCP
4 2 (40.00%) SaaS
5 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Network Security
1 2 (40.00%) NGFW
1 2 (40.00%) SSL
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (40.00%) Linux
4 1 (20.00%) AIX
4 1 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Migration
1 3 (60.00%) TOGAF
2 2 (40.00%) Application Security
2 2 (40.00%) Data Security
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Microservices
2 2 (40.00%) Network Load Balancing
2 2 (40.00%) RBAC
2 2 (40.00%) Security Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) SIEM
3 1 (20.00%) Architectural Design
3 1 (20.00%) Coaching
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) High Availability
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) Bash
2 1 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) CISM
1 2 (40.00%) CISSP
2 1 (20.00%) MCSE
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 2 (40.00%) Ansible
1 2 (40.00%) Progress Chef
1 2 (40.00%) Puppet
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (20.00%) SCCM
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (100.00%) VMware