vCloud Contracts

VMware vCloud Suite
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring vCloud skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited vCloud over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 511 580 687
Rank change year-on-year +69 +107 +87
Contract jobs citing vCloud 8 20 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.027% 0.046% 0.044%
As % of the System Software category 0.22% 0.43% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 19
10th Percentile - £429 £410
25th Percentile £513 £556 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £593 £455
Median % change year-on-year +3.38% +30.22% -17.83%
75th Percentile £700 £615 £458
90th Percentile - - £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 - £455

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 3,664 4,691 7,882
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.53% 10.76% 13.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,498 3,206 5,629
10th Percentile £214 £198 £205
25th Percentile £400 £331 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £623 £600 £638
90th Percentile £700 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £460 £483
% change year-on-year +3.26% -4.69% +7.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 233 280
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.06 £14.95
25th Percentile £16.25 £15.50 £18.25
Median hourly rate £27.72 £22.50 £53.43
Median % change year-on-year +23.20% -57.88% +167.13%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £77.90 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.50 £22.00 £41.88
% change year-on-year +29.55% -47.46% +131.16%

vCloud
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for vCloud in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for vCloud in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing vCloud over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for vCloud in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for vCloud in the UK

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Top 4 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 30 April 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 +56 8 £613 +0.41% 1
UK excluding London +49 5 £525 - 1
South West - 5 £525 -
London +33 3 £700 +14.75%

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 3 (37.50%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Big Data
1 3 (37.50%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Bitbucket
1 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
1 3 (37.50%) SonarQube
1 3 (37.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (37.50%) Law
1 3 (37.50%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Architect
2 3 (37.50%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (25.00%) VMware Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Senior
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Senior VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) .NET
1 3 (37.50%) Apache NiFi
1 3 (37.50%) ASP.NET
1 3 (37.50%) ASP.NET Core
1 3 (37.50%) CSS
1 3 (37.50%) HTML
1 3 (37.50%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Private Cloud
1 3 (37.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) CentOS
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
1 3 (37.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
1 3 (37.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Architectural Design
1 3 (37.50%) DevOps
1 3 (37.50%) High Availability
1 3 (37.50%) Requirements Workshops
1 3 (37.50%) SIEM
1 3 (37.50%) Workshop Facilitation
2 2 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) C#
1 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 8 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (62.50%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) VMware NSX
2 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 3 (37.50%) Docker
2 3 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (37.50%) VMware Workstation
2 3 (37.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (37.50%) Kibana
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft