vRealize Contract Job Trends in the South West

VMware vRealize Suite
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring vRealize skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 119 131 142
Rank change year-on-year +12 +11 +4
Contract jobs citing vRealize 1 2 7
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.049% 0.082% 0.22%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.30% 0.54% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £481 £463 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £556
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -14.61% -7.29%
75th Percentile £494 £488 £584
90th Percentile - - £601
England median daily rate £500 £550 £547
% change year-on-year -9.09% +0.55% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £80.00
England median hourly rate - - £63.00
% change year-on-year - - +80.00%

All Systems Management Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 330 372 459
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 16.11% 15.27% 14.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 238 350
10th Percentile £275 £363 £400
25th Percentile £450 £460 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £639 £638 £675
90th Percentile £704 £700 £738
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 18
10th Percentile £18.65 £12.50 £19.03
25th Percentile £36.00 £14.00 £64.06
Median hourly rate £63.00 £74.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.86% -5.13% +23.81%
75th Percentile £80.00 - -
90th Percentile £119.00 £74.18 £86.50
England median hourly rate £34.00 £37.75 £48.70
% change year-on-year -9.93% -22.48% +94.80%

vRealize
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

vRealize job vacancy trend in the South West

vRealize
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

vRealize
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 27 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
Wiltshire - 1 £488 -
vRealize
England

vRealize
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GoCD
1 1 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (100.00%) Electronics
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (100.00%) Marketing
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Marketing
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Programme Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) FreeIPA
1 1 (100.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) SAP
1 1 (100.00%) VMware