vRealize Contract Job Trends in the South East

VMware vRealize Suite
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring vRealize skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 188 150 178
Rank change year-on-year -38 +28 +41
Contract jobs citing vRealize 2 4 19
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.041% 0.13% 0.35%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.29% 0.96% 2.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 9
10th Percentile - £524 £466
25th Percentile £663 £541 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% -6.78% +29.67%
75th Percentile £688 £569 £650
90th Percentile - £603 £662
England median daily rate £485 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -9.77% -2.27% -

All Systems Management Skills
South East

vRealize falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 688 417 681
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.15% 13.33% 12.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 507 299 468
10th Percentile £255 £300 £205
25th Percentile £375 £400 £279
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £563 £615 £581
90th Percentile £650 £675 £638
England median daily rate £500 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -9.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 2 33
10th Percentile £19.00 £12.80 £23.70
25th Percentile £23.50 £13.99 £30.00
Median hourly rate £48.11 £15.99 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year +200.97% -66.97% -12.00%
75th Percentile £67.50 £17.98 £68.63
90th Percentile £81.40 £19.17 £76.53
England median hourly rate £54.00 £26.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +103.77% -33.75% -23.27%

vRealize
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

vRealize job vacancy trend in the South East

vRealize
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

vRealize
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

vRealize
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 vRealize within the South East region over the 6 months to 25 February 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 -31 2 £675 +12.50%
vRealize
England

vRealize
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 2 (100.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) iSCSI
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Benchmarking
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) NFS
1 2 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (100.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware