vRealize Contracts

VMware vRealize Suite
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for vRealize skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited vRealize over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 546 531 695
Rank change year-on-year -15 +164 -181
Contract jobs citing vRealize 52 189 154
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.32% 0.17%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.02% 1.97% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 136 111
10th Percentile £475 £450 £450
25th Percentile £513 £463 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £650 £636 £641
90th Percentile £668 £719 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £613 £513 £488
% change year-on-year +19.40% +5.23% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 15 0
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 is in the Systems Management category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,089 9,618 14,243
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.75% 16.08% 16.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,637 6,947 10,288
10th Percentile £256 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £563 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.44% -0.44% +13.00%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £700 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 211 185
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.54 £13.87
25th Percentile £17.75 £24.13 £15.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £57.50 £22.28
Median % change year-on-year -47.83% +158.08% -41.37%
75th Percentile £53.75 £72.50 £47.96
90th Percentile £70.75 £82.50 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.50 £46.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -16.30% +130.00% -10.11%

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 27 April 2024.

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 9 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 27 April 2024. 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 +47 41 £625 +13.64% 5
UK excluding London +5 37 £613 +19.40% 2
South East +27 22 £619 +35.99% 2
London +82 11 £625 +13.64% 3
Work from Home +48 9 £590 +12.38% 1
Scotland +19 7 £650 +27.70%
North of England +30 4 £523 -11.06%
North East +23 4 £523 -11.06%
South West +5 4 £613 -12.66%

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 (1.92%) IIS
1 1 (1.92%) OpenStack
1 1 (1.92%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 9 (17.31%) IaaS
2 7 (13.46%) AWS
3 5 (9.62%) GitHub
4 4 (7.69%) Azure
5 3 (5.77%) Amazon Glacier
5 3 (5.77%) Amazon S3
5 3 (5.77%) Cohesity
6 1 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.92%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.92%) Nutanix
6 1 (1.92%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.92%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (38.46%) VSAN
2 11 (21.15%) SNA
3 8 (15.38%) Firewall
4 5 (9.62%) DNS
5 3 (5.77%) BGP
5 3 (5.77%) iSCSI
5 3 (5.77%) SAN
6 2 (3.85%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (1.92%) TCP/IP
7 1 (1.92%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (13.46%) MongoDB
1 7 (13.46%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (9.62%) MySQL
2 5 (9.62%) RDBMS
2 5 (9.62%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.85%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.92%) Big Data
4 1 (1.92%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (1.92%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (26.92%) Git
2 8 (15.38%) GitLab
3 4 (7.69%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.92%) JIRA
4 1 (1.92%) Oracle APEX
General
1 9 (17.31%) Public Sector
2 5 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (3.85%) Social Skills
4 1 (1.92%) Banking
4 1 (1.92%) Legal
Job Titles
1 12 (23.08%) Lead
2 7 (13.46%) Linux Engineer
2 7 (13.46%) VMware Engineer
3 6 (11.54%) Consultant
3 6 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (11.54%) Platform Engineer
4 5 (9.62%) VMware Consultant
5 3 (5.77%) Architect
6 2 (3.85%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) Senior
6 2 (3.85%) VMware Architect
6 2 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) VMware Specialist
7 1 (1.92%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 1 (1.92%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (1.92%) Automation Consultant
7 1 (1.92%) Automation Specialist
7 1 (1.92%) Senior Automation Engineer
7 1 (1.92%) Senior VMware Engineer
7 1 (1.92%) Test Practitioner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (15.38%) YAML
2 3 (5.77%) SAML
3 1 (1.92%) .NET
3 1 (1.92%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.46%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (7.69%) Clustering
2 4 (7.69%) Data Centre
3 3 (5.77%) CMDB
3 3 (5.77%) PKI
3 3 (5.77%) Smart Meter
4 2 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.85%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.92%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.92%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.92%) Replication
5 1 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (21.15%) Linux
2 10 (19.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (15.38%) VMS
4 7 (13.46%) Unix
4 7 (13.46%) Windows
4 7 (13.46%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.92%) CentOS
5 1 (1.92%) Data ONTAP
5 1 (1.92%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.92%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.92%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (34.62%) Infrastructure as Code
2 15 (28.85%) CI/CD
3 14 (26.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 11 (21.15%) Network Architecture
5 10 (19.23%) Agile
6 9 (17.31%) SDLC
7 8 (15.38%) Project Delivery
8 7 (13.46%) Containerisation
8 7 (13.46%) Infrastructure Automation
8 7 (13.46%) Scrum
9 6 (11.54%) Build Automation
9 6 (11.54%) Platform Engineering
9 6 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (11.54%) Runbook
10 5 (9.62%) DevOps
10 5 (9.62%) Migration
10 5 (9.62%) Test Automation
11 4 (7.69%) Deployment Automation
11 4 (7.69%) ITSM
11 4 (7.69%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (34.62%) Python
2 14 (26.92%) PowerShell
3 7 (13.46%) Bash
4 4 (7.69%) Shell Script
5 2 (3.85%) SQL
6 1 (1.92%) Java
6 1 (1.92%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 39 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 21 (40.38%) DV Cleared
3 20 (38.46%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.85%) Degree
4 2 (3.85%) VCAP
4 2 (3.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.92%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (59.62%) VMware NSX
2 17 (32.69%) VMware ESXi
3 16 (30.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (30.77%) vSphere
4 7 (13.46%) Active Directory
4 7 (13.46%) Hyper-V
5 3 (5.77%) NFS
6 2 (3.85%) Docker
6 2 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.92%) KVM
7 1 (1.92%) Terminal Services
7 1 (1.92%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 22 (42.31%) Ansible
1 22 (42.31%) vCenter Server
2 12 (23.08%) Terraform
3 9 (17.31%) Kubernetes
3 9 (17.31%) VxRail
4 8 (15.38%) Packer
5 7 (13.46%) vMotion
6 5 (9.62%) Puppet
7 4 (7.69%) Progress Chef
7 4 (7.69%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 1 (1.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (1.92%) McAfee ePO
8 1 (1.92%) Nagios
8 1 (1.92%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 1 (1.92%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 51 (98.08%) VMware
2 8 (15.38%) Oracle
3 5 (9.62%) Arqiva
3 5 (9.62%) Dell
3 5 (9.62%) Red Hat
3 5 (9.62%) SolarWinds
3 5 (9.62%) Veritas
4 4 (7.69%) LogRhythm
4 4 (7.69%) ServiceNow
5 3 (5.77%) Aruba
5 3 (5.77%) Nimble Storage
6 2 (3.85%) Microsoft
7 1 (1.92%) McAfee
7 1 (1.92%) NetApp
7 1 (1.92%) Veeam