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 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 564 558 625
Rank change year-on-year -6 +67 +135
Contract jobs citing vCloud 1 5 17
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.003% 0.013% 0.036%
As % of the System Software category 0.025% 0.12% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 9
10th Percentile - - £455
25th Percentile - - £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +75.00% -20.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile - £488 £538
90th Percentile - - £546
UK excluding London median daily rate - £475 £490
% change year-on-year - -3.06% +15.29%

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 4,071 4,312 6,201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.24% 11.46% 13.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,579 2,811 4,206
10th Percentile £208 £213 £198
25th Percentile £375 £370 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £625
90th Percentile £670 £700 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 90 267
10th Percentile £14.74 £15.38 £15.38
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.05 £18.27
Median hourly rate £28.50 £30.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.56% -39.00% +124.72%
75th Percentile £67.00 £68.20 £66.00
90th Percentile £88.15 £80.13 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £54.00 £50.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +8.00% +25.00% +100.00%

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
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 2 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 16 October 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
London +19 1 £700 +75.00%
England +17 1 £700 +75.00% 2

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Big Data
1 1 (100.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
1 1 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (100.00%) Law
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET Core
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Private Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) CentOS
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Workstation
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kibana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) VMware