vRealize Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

VMware vRealize Suite
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring vRealize skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 342 336 351
Rank change year-on-year -6 +15 +65
Contract jobs citing vRealize 49 10 52
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.073% 0.27%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.81% 0.50% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 10 30
10th Percentile £290 £463 £300
25th Percentile £305 £503 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £407 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -25.95% +4.76% +3.96%
75th Percentile £500 £607 £608
90th Percentile £633 £725 £668
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
UK median hourly rate - - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - -15.19%

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,709 2,000 2,509
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.09% 14.53% 12.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,912 1,289 1,763
10th Percentile £263 £230 £213
25th Percentile £400 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £585 £600
90th Percentile £660 £656 £693
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -6.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 41 121
10th Percentile £16.72 £12.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.09 £19.64 £20.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £24.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +127.46% -47.64% +23.15%
75th Percentile £65.75 £44.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £68.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £24.84 £46.18
% change year-on-year +111.35% -46.21% +31.94%

vRealize
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

vRealize job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

vRealize
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

vRealize
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing vRealize in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for vRealize in the UK excluding London

vRealize
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

vRealize
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 vRealize within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
Midlands - 30 £310 - 3
West Midlands - 30 £310 - 3
South East -15 8 £600 +8.60% 1
North of England -43 5 £500 - 1
Yorkshire -35 4 £500 - 1
Scotland - 3 £500 - 1
East of England - 2 £563 -
South West -18 1 £488 +2.63% 4
North West - 1 - -
vRealize
UK

vRealize
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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (18.37%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (14.29%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 30 (61.22%) AWS
2 14 (28.57%) Azure
3 13 (26.53%) Datadog
4 2 (4.08%) IaaS
4 2 (4.08%) PaaS
5 1 (2.04%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 14 (28.57%) VSAN
2 2 (4.08%) iSCSI
2 2 (4.08%) Software-Defined Networking
Development Applications
1 2 (4.08%) GitLab
2 1 (2.04%) GoCD
2 1 (2.04%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (18.37%) Finance
2 7 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 6 (12.24%) Social Skills
4 4 (8.16%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (8.16%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.04%) Electronics
6 1 (2.04%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.04%) Marketing
6 1 (2.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (53.06%) Analyst
2 23 (46.94%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 16 (32.65%) Storage Analyst
4 4 (8.16%) Storage Engineer
4 4 (8.16%) VMware Engineer
5 3 (6.12%) Automation Engineer
5 3 (6.12%) Linux Engineer
5 3 (6.12%) VMware Specialist
5 3 (6.12%) Windows Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) Architect
6 2 (4.08%) Consultant
6 2 (4.08%) VMware Architect
6 2 (4.08%) VMware Consultant
7 1 (2.04%) Automation Consultant
7 1 (2.04%) Automation Specialist
7 1 (2.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (2.04%) Site Engineer
7 1 (2.04%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 1 (2.04%) Virtualisation Specialist
7 1 (2.04%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (28.57%) Flash
2 1 (2.04%) REST
2 1 (2.04%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 27 (55.10%) Linux Command Line
2 14 (28.57%) Replication
3 6 (12.24%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.08%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.04%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 31 (63.27%) Linux
2 4 (8.16%) Windows
3 3 (6.12%) Windows Server
4 2 (4.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (67.35%) Agile
2 12 (24.49%) CI/CD
3 11 (22.45%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (20.41%) Infrastructure Automation
4 10 (20.41%) Ticket Management
5 6 (12.24%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (10.20%) Capacity Planning
7 4 (8.16%) Decision-Making
7 4 (8.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (8.16%) Mentoring
7 4 (8.16%) Security Hardening
8 3 (6.12%) Infrastructure Transformation
9 2 (4.08%) Benchmarking
9 2 (4.08%) Infrastructure as Code
9 2 (4.08%) Pair Programming
9 2 (4.08%) Server Building
9 2 (4.08%) SIEM
9 2 (4.08%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 2 (4.08%) Unit Testing
9 2 (4.08%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 10 (20.41%) Python
2 9 (18.37%) PowerShell
3 8 (16.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.04%) Bash
4 1 (2.04%) Go
4 1 (2.04%) Java
4 1 (2.04%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (26.53%) Security Cleared
2 7 (14.29%) DV Cleared
3 5 (10.20%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (10.20%) SC Cleared
4 4 (8.16%) Degree
4 4 (8.16%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (4.08%) VCAP
6 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 38 (77.55%) VMware Infrastructure
2 34 (69.39%) vSphere
3 16 (32.65%) NFS
3 16 (32.65%) VMware ESXi
4 14 (28.57%) GPFS
5 5 (10.20%) VMware NSX
6 2 (4.08%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (2.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (28.57%) VxRail
2 10 (20.41%) vRealize Orchestrator
3 2 (4.08%) Ansible
3 2 (4.08%) Rundeck
4 1 (2.04%) FreeIPA
4 1 (2.04%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.04%) Proxmox
4 1 (2.04%) Salt
4 1 (2.04%) SCOM
4 1 (2.04%) Terraform
Vendors
1 49 (100.00%) VMware
2 30 (61.22%) Cisco
3 27 (55.10%) IBM
4 14 (28.57%) Oracle
4 14 (28.57%) ServiceNow
5 13 (26.53%) AppDynamics
5 13 (26.53%) Commvault
5 13 (26.53%) SolarWinds
6 12 (24.49%) Dell
7 11 (22.45%) HP
8 3 (6.12%) Microsoft
9 2 (4.08%) Red Hat
10 1 (2.04%) Citrix
10 1 (2.04%) SAP