vCloud Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

VMware vCloud Suite
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring vCloud skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 390 334 384
Rank change year-on-year -56 +50 +93
Contract jobs citing vCloud 6 6 4
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.033% 0.043% 0.020%
As % of the System Software category 0.26% 0.31% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 3
10th Percentile £578 - -
25th Percentile £675 £513 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +5.00% +9.89%
75th Percentile £725 £538 £540
90th Percentile - - £564
UK median daily rate £700 £525 £548
% change year-on-year +33.33% -4.11% +9.50%

All System Software Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 2,300 1,929 2,733
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.77% 13.89% 14.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,592 1,245 1,831
10th Percentile £190 £185 £170
25th Percentile £316 £313 £269
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £463 £461
Median % change year-on-year +2.70% +0.29% -0.28%
75th Percentile £573 £581 £585
90th Percentile £643 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £501 £500
% change year-on-year -0.10% +0.10% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 66 188
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.36 £14.80
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.26 £18.19
Median hourly rate £58.50 £35.00 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year +67.14% -34.58% +167.50%
75th Percentile £75.00 £64.50 £69.62
90th Percentile £90.30 £75.00 £78.60
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £28.41 £52.50
% change year-on-year +67.19% -45.89% +75.00%

vCloud
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing vCloud relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

vCloud job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

vCloud
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing vCloud.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing vCloud

vCloud
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing vCloud in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for vCloud in the UK excluding London

vCloud
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing vCloud.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing vCloud

vCloud
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing vCloud within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 January 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
South East - 6 £700 - 3
vCloud
UK

vCloud
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 6 (100.00%) IaaS
1 6 (100.00%) PaaS
2 2 (33.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) BGP
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (33.33%) Ethernet VPN
1 2 (33.33%) NX-OS
1 2 (33.33%) VXLAN
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Architect
1 4 (66.67%) VMware Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
1 4 (66.67%) Architecture Governance
1 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 2 (33.33%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (33.33%) Use Case
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (33.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco