GemFire Contract Job Trends

Pivotal GemFire (formerly VMware vFabric GemFire)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring GemFire skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 554 567 -
Rank change year-on-year +13 - -
Contract jobs citing GemFire 5 6 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.015% 0.016% -
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.14% 0.15% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 0
10th Percentile - £202 -
25th Percentile £470 £419 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £475 -
Median % change year-on-year +57.89% - -
75th Percentile £775 £488 -
90th Percentile - £675 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £456 -
% change year-on-year +3.01% - -

All Application Platform Skills
UK

GemFire falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 3,566 4,108 5,167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.83% 10.74% 10.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,310 2,704 3,481
10th Percentile £277 £264 £256
25th Percentile £388 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.10% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £643
90th Percentile £706 £825 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £463 £475
% change year-on-year -2.70% -2.63% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 86 161
10th Percentile £17.40 £17.08 £16.25
25th Percentile £24.25 £23.80 £20.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £38.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.95% -27.62% +141.38%
75th Percentile £65.06 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.03 £48.56 £46.09
% change year-on-year -21.68% +5.36% +142.58%

GemFire
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing GemFire as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for GemFire in the UK

GemFire
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing GemFire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing GemFire

GemFire
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing GemFire over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for GemFire in the UK

GemFire
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing GemFire within the UK over the 6 months to 17 September 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
England +33 3 £750 -
London +27 3 £750 -
Work from Home +9 3 £750 +203.18%
UK excluding London -2 2 £470 +3.01%
Northern Ireland -6 2 £470 +3.01%

GemFire
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle Coherence
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (40.00%) Apache Ignite
2 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Banking
3 2 (40.00%) Finance
3 2 (40.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
1 3 (60.00%) Java Developer
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle Developer
1 3 (60.00%) Senior
1 3 (60.00%) Senior Developer
1 3 (60.00%) Senior Java Developer
1 3 (60.00%) Senior Oracle Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Java Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Java Software Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) .NET
1 3 (60.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (60.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (40.00%) Kafka
2 2 (40.00%) Spring
2 2 (40.00%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (60.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (60.00%) Mathematics
2 3 (60.00%) Performance Tuning
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (40.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Degree
1 3 (60.00%) Numerate Degree
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle