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 10 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 583 524 583
Rank change year-on-year -59 +59 +155
Contract jobs citing vCloud 6 8 9
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.016% 0.025% 0.021%
As % of the System Software category 0.13% 0.21% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 6
10th Percentile £578 £400 £500
25th Percentile £675 £428 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £525 £548
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -4.11% +9.50%
75th Percentile £725 £538 £575
90th Percentile - - £578
UK excluding London median daily rate £700 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +33.33% +5.00% +9.89%

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 4,459 3,777 5,216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.18% 11.84% 12.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,007 2,446 3,571
10th Percentile £213 £201 £190
25th Percentile £400 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £600
90th Percentile £700 £713 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £459 £463
% change year-on-year +3.54% -0.81% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 135 90 215
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.86 £15.50
25th Percentile £20.82 £21.10 £19.04
Median hourly rate £47.50 £27.96 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +69.92% -46.75% +96.26%
75th Percentile £74.26 £64.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £89.85 £75.25 £82.62
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.50 £35.00 £53.50
% change year-on-year +72.86% -34.58% +167.50%

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 10 January 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 4 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 10 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
England -51 6 £700 +33.33% 3
UK excluding London -55 6 £700 +33.33% 3
South East - 6 £700 - 3
Work from Home - 1 - - 1

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 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