VMware Infrastructure Contract Job Trends in Reading

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Reading requiring VMware Infrastructure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 70 40
Rank change year-on-year +16 -30 +26
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 10 26 49
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 1.71% 2.40% 4.47%
As % of the System Software category 12.66% 19.12% 35.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 13 36
10th Percentile £523 £503 £379
25th Percentile £538 £521 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £583 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.37% +6.00% -7.56%
75th Percentile £625 £608 £619
90th Percentile £648 - £681
Berkshire median daily rate £270 £425 £550
% change year-on-year -36.47% -22.73% -1.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £48.63
25th Percentile - - £50.31
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £59.06
90th Percentile - - £60.38
Berkshire median hourly rate - - £54.56

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 79 136 139
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 13.53% 12.56% 12.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 86 110
10th Percentile £209 £506 £205
25th Percentile £255 £603 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +13.64% +14.58%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £615
90th Percentile £663 £675 £642
Berkshire median daily rate £475 £605 £500
% change year-on-year -21.49% +20.94% +4.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - £59.55 £48.63
25th Percentile - £61.13 £50.31
Median hourly rate - £63.93 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +16.24% -
75th Percentile - £66.89 £59.06
90th Percentile - £68.57 £60.38
Berkshire median hourly rate - £57.62 £60.00
% change year-on-year - -3.97% -35.14%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VMware Infrastructure relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading.

VMware Infrastructure job vacancy trend in Reading

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing VMware Infrastructure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing VMware Infrastructure

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in Reading over the 6 months to 14 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure in Reading

VMware Infrastructure
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing VMware Infrastructure.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing VMware Infrastructure

VMware Infrastructure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 (60.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) OpenShift
2 6 (60.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (10.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (60.00%) BGP
1 6 (60.00%) LAN
1 6 (60.00%) MPLS
1 6 (60.00%) OSPF
1 6 (60.00%) SNMP
1 6 (60.00%) TACACS
1 6 (60.00%) WAN
1 6 (60.00%) Wireless
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (10.00%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (10.00%) iSCSI
2 1 (10.00%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (10.00%) VSAN
General
1 7 (70.00%) Documentation Skills
1 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Designer
1 6 (60.00%) IP Designer
2 2 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Solutions Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) VMware Architect
3 1 (10.00%) VMware Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) VMware Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Loki
Miscellaneous
1 9 (90.00%) Data Centre
2 7 (70.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (10.00%) FlexPod
3 1 (10.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Incident Response
1 6 (60.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 6 (60.00%) Validation
2 2 (20.00%) Agile
2 2 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (10.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (10.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
3 1 (10.00%) Observability
3 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) Bash
2 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) AWS Certification
1 6 (60.00%) CCIE
1 6 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
1 6 (60.00%) JNCIE
2 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (10.00%) Degree
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) VCAP
System Software
1 8 (80.00%) VMware NSX
2 3 (30.00%) vSphere
3 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Ansible
1 6 (60.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (10.00%) Argo
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (10.00%) Grafana
2 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Kustomize
2 1 (10.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (10.00%) vRealize
2 1 (10.00%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) VMware
2 7 (70.00%) Cisco
3 6 (60.00%) F5
3 6 (60.00%) Fortinet
3 6 (60.00%) Juniper
4 1 (10.00%) Commvault
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (10.00%) NetApp
4 1 (10.00%) Red Hat