vCloud Contract Job Trends

VMware vCloud Suite
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring vCloud skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 613 523 563
Rank change year-on-year -90 +40 +116
Contract jobs citing vCloud 15 7 20
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.032% 0.024% 0.046%
As % of the System Software category 0.31% 0.19% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 6 8
10th Percentile £469 - £429
25th Percentile £558 £513 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £613 £593
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +3.38% +30.22%
75th Percentile £725 £700 £615
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £700 £525 -
% change year-on-year +33.33% - -

All System Software Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,888 3,646 4,670
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.31% 12.45% 10.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,297 2,484 3,195
10th Percentile £213 £215 £200
25th Percentile £400 £400 £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £594 £619 £600
90th Percentile £688 £700 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £479 £461
% change year-on-year -0.84% +3.85% -3.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 180 90 234
10th Percentile £16.25 £14.99 £14.06
25th Percentile £21.97 £15.49 £15.50
Median hourly rate £52.75 £27.97 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +88.59% +24.31% -57.88%
75th Percentile £74.00 £64.50 £60.75
90th Percentile £92.50 £88.00 £79.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £28.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +84.21% +32.56% -46.25%

vCloud
Job Vacancy Trend

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

vCloud job vacancy trend in the UK

vCloud
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

vCloud
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing vCloud over the 6 months to 3 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for vCloud in the UK

vCloud
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

vCloud
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 vCloud within the UK over the 6 months to 3 May 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
England -104 15 £700 +14.29% 8
UK excluding London -90 13 £700 +33.33% 5
South East - 13 £700 - 5
London -62 2 £400 -42.86% 2
Work from Home - 1 - - 3

vCloud
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 12 (80.00%) IaaS
1 12 (80.00%) PaaS
2 2 (13.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) BGP
1 2 (13.33%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (13.33%) Ethernet VPN
1 2 (13.33%) NX-OS
1 2 (13.33%) VSAN
1 2 (13.33%) VXLAN
2 1 (6.67%) DNS
General
1 2 (13.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (66.67%) Architect
1 10 (66.67%) VMware Architect
2 2 (13.33%) Network Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) VMware Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
1 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (66.67%) Agile
2 10 (66.67%) Architecture Governance
2 10 (66.67%) Roadmaps
3 2 (13.33%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (13.33%) Use Case
3 2 (13.33%) Virtual Environments
4 1 (6.67%) Change Management
4 1 (6.67%) ITSM
4 1 (6.67%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (6.67%) Service Management
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) C
2 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (86.67%) DV Cleared
1 13 (86.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 5 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (33.33%) VMware NSX
2 2 (13.33%) vSphere
3 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 11 (73.33%) vCenter Server
2 1 (6.67%) SCOM
Vendors
1 15 (100.00%) VMware
2 4 (26.67%) Cisco
3 2 (13.33%) Dell