VMware Contracts in Reading

VMware
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 50 51 32
Rank change year-on-year +1 -19 +1
Contract jobs citing VMware 10 40 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.68% 3.36% 5.76%
As % of the Vendors category 3.11% 6.96% 11.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 26 49
10th Percentile £459 £408 £397
25th Percentile £558 £507 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £631 £605 £613
Median % change year-on-year +4.34% -1.22% +2.08%
75th Percentile £652 £608 £688
90th Percentile £654 - £731
Berkshire median daily rate £540 £501 £575
% change year-on-year +7.78% -12.87% +18.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £47.68
25th Percentile - - £47.95
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +30.00% -
75th Percentile - - £66.94
90th Percentile - - £75.60
Berkshire median hourly rate - £65.00 £66.00
% change year-on-year - -1.52% -12.00%

All Vendors
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 322 575 535
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 53.94% 48.24% 51.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 358 369
10th Percentile £350 £213 £372
25th Percentile £456 £413 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +8.18% -4.35% +11.33%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £685
90th Percentile £700 £688 £725
Berkshire median daily rate £550 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +7.32% -6.82% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 23 15
10th Percentile £33.82 £52.90 £29.10
25th Percentile £41.05 £56.38 £47.95
Median hourly rate £53.10 £60.14 £64.68
Median % change year-on-year -11.71% -7.01% +115.58%
75th Percentile £65.14 £62.03 £66.21
90th Percentile £72.37 £64.66 £73.45
Berkshire median hourly rate £42.78 £58.30 £60.88
% change year-on-year -26.63% -4.23% +21.75%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for VMware in Reading

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Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

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

Daily rate histogram for VMware in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for VMware 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) Azure
2 5 (50.00%) AWS
3 4 (40.00%) OpenShift
4 3 (30.00%) Entra ID
5 2 (20.00%) GCP
5 2 (20.00%) SaaS
6 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) 3G
1 4 (40.00%) 3GPP
1 4 (40.00%) 4G
1 4 (40.00%) LTE
2 2 (20.00%) 5G
2 2 (20.00%) Diameter Protocol
2 2 (20.00%) HTTP
2 2 (20.00%) MVNO
2 2 (20.00%) Network Security
2 2 (20.00%) NGFW
2 2 (20.00%) SSL
3 1 (10.00%) Firewall
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Telecoms
3 2 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Architect
2 4 (40.00%) Technical Design Authority
3 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (20.00%) Security Architect
4 2 (20.00%) Technical Architect
4 2 (20.00%) Technical Design Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Windows
2 3 (30.00%) Linux
2 3 (30.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (20.00%) AIX
3 2 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Project Management
2 3 (30.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (30.00%) Migration
2 3 (30.00%) Project Delivery
2 3 (30.00%) TOGAF
3 2 (20.00%) Application Security
3 2 (20.00%) Coaching
3 2 (20.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (20.00%) Conflict Resolution
3 2 (20.00%) Data Security
3 2 (20.00%) Microservices
3 2 (20.00%) Network Architecture
3 2 (20.00%) Network Load Balancing
3 2 (20.00%) RBAC
3 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (20.00%) Security Architecture
3 2 (20.00%) SIEM
3 2 (20.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (10.00%) Bash
2 1 (10.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) CISM
1 2 (20.00%) CISSP
2 1 (10.00%) MCSE
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (20.00%) Docker
3 2 (20.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (30.00%) Ansible
2 3 (30.00%) Progress Chef
2 3 (30.00%) Puppet
3 2 (20.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (20.00%) SCCM
4 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft