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 30 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 163 168 186
Rank change year-on-year +5 +18 +46
Contract jobs citing vRealize 6 11 28
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.16% 0.26% 0.51%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.03% 1.79% 3.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 19
10th Percentile £500 £594 £485
25th Percentile £516 £613 £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% +23.66%
75th Percentile £625 £697 £625
90th Percentile £638 £725 £675
England median daily rate £500 £550 £547
% change year-on-year -9.09% +0.55% +1.53%

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 582 615 717
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 15.57% 14.68% 13.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 389 460 494
10th Percentile £254 £267 £205
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% -6.98% +7.50%
75th Percentile £563 £613 £634
90th Percentile £613 £685 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -5.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 7 29
10th Percentile £18.87 £18.15 £23.20
25th Percentile £18.97 £26.13 £30.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £34.00 £49.73
Median % change year-on-year -33.82% -31.63% +46.26%
75th Percentile £55.00 £37.37 £68.63
90th Percentile £86.32 £44.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £34.00 £37.50 £49.00
% change year-on-year -9.33% -23.47% +96.00%

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 30 October 2025. 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 -4 5 £575 -8.00%
Thames Valley +10 1 £575 +4.07% 1
Berkshire - 1 £575 - 1
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 (33.33%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Software-Defined Networking
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) GitLab
General
1 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Site Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Virtualisation Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) REST
1 1 (16.67%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (16.67%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (16.67%) Clean Code
4 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 1 (16.67%) Design Patterns
4 1 (16.67%) DevSecOps
4 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven
4 1 (16.67%) High Availability
4 1 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Transformation
4 1 (16.67%) Observability
4 1 (16.67%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 5 (83.33%) PowerShell
3 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
4 1 (16.67%) Bash
4 1 (16.67%) Go
4 1 (16.67%) Java
4 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (66.67%) DV Cleared
2 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (33.33%) VCAP
3 2 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (16.67%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (33.33%) VMware NSX
2 2 (33.33%) vSphere
3 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) vRealize Orchestrator
2 2 (33.33%) Rundeck
3 1 (16.67%) Ansible
3 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 1 (16.67%) Proxmox
3 1 (16.67%) Salt
3 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) VMware