vCloud Contract Job Trends in the South East

VMware vCloud Suite
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring vCloud skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 194 - 187
Rank change year-on-year - - +11
Contract jobs citing vCloud 20 0 10
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.33% - 0.18%
As % of the System Software category 3.03% - 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £519 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - -
75th Percentile £725 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £700 £700 £610
% change year-on-year - +14.75% +34.07%

All System Software Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 660 429 775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.04% 14.71% 14.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 498 317 490
10th Percentile £250 £208 £203
25th Percentile £406 £325 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £606 £603 £608
90th Percentile £704 £688 £650
England median daily rate £500 £523 £500
% change year-on-year -4.31% +4.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 10 48
10th Percentile £17.73 £27.20 £17.69
25th Percentile £43.81 £32.25 £17.80
Median hourly rate £48.72 £56.25 £54.88
Median % change year-on-year -13.39% +2.51% +0.58%
75th Percentile £53.75 £61.91 £65.00
90th Percentile £60.00 £67.13 £70.00
England median hourly rate £52.50 £28.41 £22.00
% change year-on-year +84.79% +29.14% -56.00%

vCloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing vCloud relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

vCloud job vacancy trend in the South East

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Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing vCloud.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing vCloud

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing vCloud in the South East over the 6 months to 23 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for vCloud in the South East

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing vCloud.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing vCloud

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing vCloud within the South East region over the 6 months to 23 May 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
Hampshire - 18 £700 -
Buckinghamshire - 2 £525 -
Thames Valley - 2 £525 -
vCloud
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 12 (60.00%) IaaS
1 12 (60.00%) PaaS
2 2 (10.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (40.00%) DNS
2 2 (10.00%) BGP
2 2 (10.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (10.00%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (10.00%) NX-OS
2 2 (10.00%) VXLAN
General
1 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) Architect
1 10 (50.00%) VMware Architect
2 7 (35.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 7 (35.00%) Support Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Network Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (10.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (40.00%) Windows
1 8 (40.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (90.00%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (50.00%) Agile
2 10 (50.00%) Architecture Governance
2 10 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 8 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
4 6 (30.00%) Change Management
4 6 (30.00%) ITSM
5 5 (25.00%) Service Management
6 3 (15.00%) Software Distribution
7 2 (10.00%) Knowledge Transfer
7 2 (10.00%) Use Case
8 1 (5.00%) Critical Thinking
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) PowerShell
1 8 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 20 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 10 (50.00%) VMware NSX
2 8 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 8 (40.00%) VMware ESXi
2 8 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (90.00%) vCenter Server
2 8 (40.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 20 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (10.00%) Cisco