vRealize Contracts

VMware vRealize Suite
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring vRealize skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited vRealize 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 484 548 524
Rank change year-on-year +64 -24 +181
Contract jobs citing vRealize 35 52 189
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.12% 0.32%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.76% 1.01% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 28 136
10th Percentile £376 £475 £450
25th Percentile £481 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +19.05% -
75th Percentile £597 £650 £636
90th Percentile £648 £668 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £613 £513
% change year-on-year -10.20% +19.40% +5.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 15
10th Percentile - £51.00 £59.10
25th Percentile - £52.50 £65.38
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year - -16.67% -
75th Percentile - £57.50 £77.00
90th Percentile - £59.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £60.00 £70.50
% change year-on-year - -14.89% -

All Systems Management Skills
UK

vRealize 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 4,603 5,146 9,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 15.74% 11.80% 16.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,154 3,676 6,945
10th Percentile £313 £257 £356
25th Percentile £419 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £563
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -8.43% -0.44%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £675
90th Percentile £725 £700 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 127 209
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.00 £16.48
25th Percentile £20.13 £17.77 £22.75
Median hourly rate £26.45 £30.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.83% -47.83% +155.56%
75th Percentile £51.75 £54.38 £71.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.50 £82.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.34 £38.50 £43.75
% change year-on-year -34.18% -12.00% +118.75%

vRealize
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for vRealize in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for vRealize in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for vRealize in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for vRealize in the UK

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Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing vRealize 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 +52 30 £550 -12.00% 8
UK excluding London +41 24 £550 -10.20% 8
South West +48 7 - -
London +31 7 - -
North of England +31 7 £390 -25.36%
South East +28 7 £575 -7.07% 6
Yorkshire - 7 £390 -
Work from Home +45 4 £525 -11.02% 3
East of England - 2 £550 -
Scotland +3 1 - -

vRealize
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 (2.86%) JBoss
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 7 (20.00%) AWS
2 6 (17.14%) Azure
3 5 (14.29%) GCP
4 4 (11.43%) PaaS
5 2 (5.71%) IaaS
5 2 (5.71%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.86%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (2.86%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.86%) GitHub
6 1 (2.86%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (20.00%) VSAN
2 6 (17.14%) SAN
2 6 (17.14%) Software-Defined Networking
3 5 (14.29%) DNS
3 5 (14.29%) Firewall
4 4 (11.43%) iSCSI
4 4 (11.43%) NAS
5 1 (2.86%) HTTPS
5 1 (2.86%) Network Security
5 1 (2.86%) SNA
5 1 (2.86%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (2.86%) Oracle Database
1 1 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (2.86%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (17.14%) Git
1 6 (17.14%) Jenkins
2 4 (11.43%) GitLab
3 3 (8.57%) JIRA
4 2 (5.71%) Selenium
4 2 (5.71%) TestNG
General
1 7 (20.00%) Billing
1 7 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (17.14%) Public Sector
3 4 (11.43%) Finance
4 3 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (8.57%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (5.71%) Electronics
5 2 (5.71%) Manufacturing
5 2 (5.71%) Marketing
5 2 (5.71%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.86%) Legal
Job Titles
1 15 (42.86%) Consultant
2 10 (28.57%) VMware Consultant
3 6 (17.14%) VMware Engineer
4 5 (14.29%) Architect
5 4 (11.43%) Automation Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) Infrastructure Architect
5 4 (11.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (11.43%) VMware Architect
6 3 (8.57%) Platform Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (5.71%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 2 (5.71%) VMware Specialist
8 1 (2.86%) Automation Specialist
8 1 (2.86%) DevOps Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) Operations Consultant
8 1 (2.86%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) Virtualisation Consultant
8 1 (2.86%) Virtualisation Engineer
8 1 (2.86%) Virtualisation Specialist
8 1 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (14.29%) Middleware
2 2 (5.71%) pytest
2 2 (5.71%) REST
2 2 (5.71%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.86%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (5.71%) Data Centre
2 2 (5.71%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (5.71%) EMC VMAX
2 2 (5.71%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (2.86%) Private Cloud
3 1 (2.86%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (17.14%) Windows
1 6 (17.14%) Windows Server
2 5 (14.29%) Linux
3 1 (2.86%) Amazon Linux
3 1 (2.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.86%) Unix
3 1 (2.86%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (2.86%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (31.43%) Infrastructure Automation
2 7 (20.00%) Agile
2 7 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 7 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 7 (20.00%) High Availability
2 7 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (17.14%) Validation
4 5 (14.29%) Migration
5 4 (11.43%) Containerisation
5 4 (11.43%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (11.43%) Kanban
5 4 (11.43%) Knowledge Transfer
5 4 (11.43%) Runbook
5 4 (11.43%) Scrum
5 4 (11.43%) SIEM
5 4 (11.43%) Use Case
6 3 (8.57%) Dashboard Development
6 3 (8.57%) Infrastructure Management
6 3 (8.57%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 13 (37.14%) Python
2 12 (34.29%) PowerShell
3 4 (11.43%) Shell Script
4 3 (8.57%) Bash
5 1 (2.86%) ActionScript
5 1 (2.86%) ActionScript 2.0
Qualifications
1 24 (68.57%) Security Cleared
2 14 (40.00%) DV Cleared
3 12 (34.29%) SC Cleared
4 7 (20.00%) VCAP
5 3 (8.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (5.71%) Degree
7 1 (2.86%) IBM Certification
System Software
1 27 (77.14%) VMware NSX
2 17 (48.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (37.14%) vSphere
4 10 (28.57%) Active Directory
5 6 (17.14%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (11.43%) NFS
8 1 (2.86%) Docker
8 1 (2.86%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 15 (42.86%) Ansible
2 9 (25.71%) PowerCLI
3 8 (22.86%) Terraform
3 8 (22.86%) vRealize Orchestrator
4 6 (17.14%) vCenter Server
4 6 (17.14%) VxRail
5 5 (14.29%) Kubernetes
6 3 (8.57%) Progress Chef
6 3 (8.57%) Puppet
7 1 (2.86%) Avamar
7 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 35 (100.00%) VMware
2 4 (11.43%) Google
3 3 (8.57%) Cisco
3 3 (8.57%) EMC
3 3 (8.57%) Infoblox
3 3 (8.57%) ServiceNow
4 2 (5.71%) 3PAR
4 2 (5.71%) Brocade
4 2 (5.71%) Dell
4 2 (5.71%) HP
4 2 (5.71%) LogRhythm
4 2 (5.71%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.71%) SAP
4 2 (5.71%) SolarWinds
4 2 (5.71%) Veeam
5 1 (2.86%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.86%) IBM
5 1 (2.86%) IBM Sterling
5 1 (2.86%) Oracle
5 1 (2.86%) Red Hat