VMware vCloud Suite
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for vCloud skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited vCloud over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 578 693 768
Rank change year-on-year +115 +75 -115
Contract jobs citing vCloud 20 26 81
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.046% 0.043% 0.091%
As % of the System Software category 0.43% 0.33% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 19 66
10th Percentile £429 £410 £381
25th Percentile £556 £453 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £593 £455 £554
Median % change year-on-year +30.22% -17.83% +16.58%
75th Percentile £615 £458 £638
90th Percentile - £725 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate - £455 £455
% change year-on-year - - -9.00%

All System Software Skills
UK

vCloud is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,653 7,900 12,040
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.75% 13.21% 13.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,179 5,646 8,623
10th Percentile £197 £205 £200
25th Percentile £331 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +9.38%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £485 £450
% change year-on-year -5.13% +7.75% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 232 284 318
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.83 £13.21
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.25 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £53.75 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.14% +168.75% -
75th Percentile £60.19 £66.00 £44.07
90th Percentile £77.95 £75.35 £60.92
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.50 £44.93 £18.12
% change year-on-year -52.15% +148.01% +2.06%

vCloud
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for vCloud in the UK

vCloud
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing vCloud.

Daily rate trend for vCloud in the UK

vCloud
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing vCloud over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for vCloud in the UK

vCloud
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing vCloud.

Hourly rate trend for vCloud in the UK

vCloud
Top 5 Contract 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 27 April 2024. 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 +118 15 £610 +34.07% 4
UK excluding London +59 10 - - 3
South East +25 10 - -
Work from Home +125 5 £575 +26.37% 2
London +97 5 £610 -12.86% 1

vCloud
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 1 (5.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 1 (5.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (5.00%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) Azure
2 2 (10.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (5.00%) AWS
3 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 9 (45.00%) VSAN
2 1 (5.00%) Firewall
2 1 (5.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Git
1 3 (15.00%) GitLab
1 3 (15.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (15.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.00%) Robot Framework
General
1 14 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Billing
3 1 (5.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) VMware Expert
2 5 (25.00%) Architect
3 4 (20.00%) Technical Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) IT Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Site Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) VMware Architect
5 1 (5.00%) VMware Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) JSON
1 3 (15.00%) Node.js
1 3 (15.00%) REST
1 3 (15.00%) RESTful
1 3 (15.00%) SOAP
1 3 (15.00%) XML
1 3 (15.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (20.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Windows
1 2 (10.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (5.00%) Android
2 1 (5.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (5.00%) Linux
2 1 (5.00%) Mac OS
2 1 (5.00%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 10 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 9 (45.00%) DevOps
3 7 (35.00%) Collaborative Working
3 7 (35.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 7 (35.00%) Technical Leadership
3 7 (35.00%) Time Management
3 7 (35.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 5 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (20.00%) Agile
5 4 (20.00%) Computer Science
5 4 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 4 (20.00%) Network Monitoring
5 4 (20.00%) Presales
5 4 (20.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
6 3 (15.00%) Configuration Management
6 3 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (15.00%) ITSM
6 3 (15.00%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) Python
2 3 (15.00%) Go
2 3 (15.00%) Ruby
3 2 (10.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) GDPR
1 1 (5.00%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (70.00%) VMware NSX
2 12 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (25.00%) vSphere
4 1 (5.00%) Hyper-V
4 1 (5.00%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (5.00%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 10 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 9 (45.00%) vCenter Server
3 5 (25.00%) Ansible
4 3 (15.00%) Autotask
4 3 (15.00%) Progress Chef
4 3 (15.00%) Puppet
4 3 (15.00%) Terraform
5 2 (10.00%) Rancher
6 1 (5.00%) Avamar
Vendors
1 16 (80.00%) VMware
2 3 (15.00%) Arista
2 3 (15.00%) BMC
2 3 (15.00%) Remedy
2 3 (15.00%) TOWER Software
3 2 (10.00%) Citrix
4 1 (5.00%) Aruba
4 1 (5.00%) Cisco
4 1 (5.00%) EMC
4 1 (5.00%) Fortinet
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.00%) Oracle
4 1 (5.00%) Sage
4 1 (5.00%) Veeam