vRealize Orchestrator Contract Job Trends

VMware vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) formerly vCenter Orchestrator
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring vRealize Orchestrator skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 552 536 593
Rank change year-on-year -16 +57 +185
Contract jobs citing vRealize Orchestrator 13 27 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.039% 0.070% 0.090%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.25% 0.52% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 13 23
10th Percentile £550 £470 £472
25th Percentile £556 £500 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +21.95% -6.82%
75th Percentile £610 £638 £638
90th Percentile £650 £718 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £625 £513
% change year-on-year -8.00% +21.95% +2.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - £61.50
25th Percentile - - £63.75
Median hourly rate - - £66.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £71.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £80.00

All Systems Management Skills
UK

vRealize Orchestrator falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,214 5,199 7,467
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.79% 13.48% 15.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,432 3,560 5,237
10th Percentile £300 £306 £325
25th Percentile £410 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £669
90th Percentile £685 £703 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.00% -4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 61 174
10th Percentile £13.75 £20.00 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £24.18 £32.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £38.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.08% -30.00% +130.03%
75th Percentile £63.40 £60.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £77.74 £74.00 £79.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.39 £39.25 £46.18
% change year-on-year -12.39% -15.01% +114.79%

vRealize Orchestrator
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for vRealize Orchestrator in the UK

vRealize Orchestrator
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing vRealize Orchestrator

vRealize Orchestrator
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing vRealize Orchestrator

vRealize Orchestrator
Top 7 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing vRealize Orchestrator within the UK over the 6 months to 11 September 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 +9 8 £588 -6.00% 8
UK excluding London -15 6 £575 -8.00% 7
South East +6 5 £575 -8.00%
Work from Home +21 2 £620 +52.15% 1
London +15 1 £620 +30.53% 1
Yorkshire - 1 - - 3
North of England - 1 - - 5

vRealize Orchestrator
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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) IaaS
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (7.69%) DNS
2 1 (7.69%) NAS
2 1 (7.69%) SAN
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) GitLab
2 1 (7.69%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Consultant
1 5 (38.46%) VMware Consultant
2 3 (23.08%) VMware Specialist
3 2 (15.38%) Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Specialist
3 2 (15.38%) Virtualisation Specialist
3 2 (15.38%) VMware Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Automation Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Data Centre
2 2 (15.38%) Private Cloud
3 1 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) Unix
2 1 (7.69%) Linux
2 1 (7.69%) Windows
2 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (38.46%) Agile
3 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (15.38%) Computer Science
4 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (7.69%) CI/CD
5 1 (7.69%) Clean Code
5 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Transformation
5 1 (7.69%) Kanban
5 1 (7.69%) Migration
5 1 (7.69%) Observability
5 1 (7.69%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) Python
2 5 (38.46%) PowerShell
3 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (69.23%) Security Cleared
2 5 (38.46%) SC Cleared
2 5 (38.46%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 4 (30.77%) VCAP
4 3 (23.08%) DV Cleared
5 2 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (15.38%) Degree
System Software
1 10 (76.92%) VMware NSX
2 7 (53.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (46.15%) vSphere
4 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
4 1 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (61.54%) vRealize
2 5 (38.46%) PowerCLI
3 3 (23.08%) Terraform
4 2 (15.38%) Ansible
5 1 (7.69%) Packer
5 1 (7.69%) Rundeck
5 1 (7.69%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) VMware