VMware Infrastructure Contracts in the Midlands

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for VMware Infrastructure skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited VMware Infrastructure over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 89 74 100
Rank change year-on-year -15 +26 +1
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 45 99 104
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.65% 2.90% 2.07%
As % of the System Software category 17.72% 20.45% 15.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 67 75
10th Percentile £200 £358 £213
25th Percentile £299 £409 £294
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £500 £375
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% +33.33% +9.49%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £481
90th Percentile £804 £706 £575
England median daily rate £500 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £12.40
25th Percentile - - £15.25
Median hourly rate £19.95 £20.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.25% - -57.89%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £40.13 £65.00 £49.84
% change year-on-year -38.27% +30.42% -1.31%

All System Software Skills
Midlands

VMware Infrastructure is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 254 484 678
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 9.29% 14.18% 13.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 343 475
10th Percentile £150 £158 £132
25th Percentile £210 £250 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £450 £375
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% +15.38%
75th Percentile £547 £567 £500
90th Percentile £638 £690 £588
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 26 39
10th Percentile £14.77 £12.60 £11.10
25th Percentile £15.74 £15.25 £13.50
Median hourly rate £17.98 £19.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.62% +10.00% +16.67%
75th Percentile £22.80 £48.13 £20.51
90th Percentile £37.83 £65.00 £23.75
England median hourly rate £21.00 £50.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -58.00% +150.00% +2.56%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing VMware Infrastructure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for VMware Infrastructure in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for VMware Infrastructure in the Midlands

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in the Midlands over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for VMware Infrastructure in the Midlands

VMware Infrastructure
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware Infrastructure within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 May 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
West Midlands +7 34 £531 +18.06% 39
East Midlands -6 10 £550 -14.73% 32
VMware Infrastructure
England

VMware Infrastructure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (4.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
1 2 (4.44%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 15 (33.33%) Azure
2 10 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (6.67%) AWS
3 3 (6.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 16 (35.56%) WAN
2 15 (33.33%) DNS
3 14 (31.11%) DHCP
4 13 (28.89%) LAN
5 12 (26.67%) TCP/IP
6 10 (22.22%) Firewall
6 10 (22.22%) SAN
7 7 (15.56%) Remote Desktop
7 7 (15.56%) VPN
8 5 (11.11%) Fibre Channel
8 5 (11.11%) Internet
9 4 (8.89%) MPLS
9 4 (8.89%) SD-WAN
10 3 (6.67%) VLAN
10 3 (6.67%) VoIP
10 3 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
11 1 (2.22%) Multicast
11 1 (2.22%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.22%) SQL Server
General
1 13 (28.89%) Social Skills
2 10 (22.22%) Public Sector
3 4 (8.89%) Finance
4 3 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (4.44%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.44%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (26.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (22.22%) Architect
3 8 (17.78%) Administrator
4 5 (11.11%) 1st/2nd Line Support
4 5 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support
4 5 (11.11%) Principal Engineer
4 5 (11.11%) Server Administrator
4 5 (11.11%) Support Officer
4 5 (11.11%) Technical Support
4 5 (11.11%) Technical Support Officer
4 5 (11.11%) VMWare Administrator
5 3 (6.67%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) Infrastructure Architect
5 3 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (6.67%) Support Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 2 (4.44%) Server Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.22%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (22.22%) Data Centre
2 5 (11.11%) PKI
3 4 (8.89%) Clustering
4 3 (6.67%) Driving Licence
5 1 (2.22%) Grid Computing
5 1 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.22%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 31 (68.89%) Windows
2 20 (44.44%) Windows Server
3 12 (26.67%) Linux
4 11 (24.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (15.56%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (13.33%) Windows 10
6 6 (13.33%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (11.11%) Unix
7 5 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
8 4 (8.89%) CentOS
8 4 (8.89%) Ubuntu
9 3 (6.67%) Mac OS
9 3 (6.67%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (26.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (24.44%) Cybersecurity
3 8 (17.78%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (15.56%) Virtual Environments
5 5 (11.11%) Information Management
5 5 (11.11%) Load Balancing
5 5 (11.11%) Security Hardening
5 5 (11.11%) Security Monitoring
5 5 (11.11%) SIEM
5 5 (11.11%) Systems Engineering
5 5 (11.11%) Virtual Infrastructure
5 5 (11.11%) Visualisation
6 4 (8.89%) Change Control
6 4 (8.89%) Decision-Making
6 4 (8.89%) Mobile Device Management
6 4 (8.89%) Network Virtualisation
6 4 (8.89%) Patch Management
6 4 (8.89%) Task Automation
7 3 (6.67%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 8 (17.78%) PowerShell
2 5 (11.11%) C#
2 5 (11.11%) Java
3 4 (8.89%) Bash
4 3 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 7 (15.56%) SC Cleared
3 6 (13.33%) Degree
4 5 (11.11%) DV Cleared
5 2 (4.44%) Master's Degree
5 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (4.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.11%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (37.78%) Active Directory
2 14 (31.11%) Hyper-V
3 12 (26.67%) VMware NSX
4 11 (24.44%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (17.78%) Virtual Servers
6 7 (15.56%) vSphere
7 5 (11.11%) VMware Server
8 2 (4.44%) Docker
8 2 (4.44%) Terminal Services
8 2 (4.44%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 11 (24.44%) vCenter Server
2 8 (17.78%) SCCM
3 5 (11.11%) Kubernetes
4 3 (6.67%) Autotask
4 3 (6.67%) Failover Clustering
4 3 (6.67%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (4.44%) SCOM
5 2 (4.44%) VxRail
6 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (2.22%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 45 (100.00%) VMware
2 19 (42.22%) Microsoft
3 6 (13.33%) Cisco
4 5 (11.11%) Veeam
5 3 (6.67%) Apple
5 3 (6.67%) Datto
6 2 (4.44%) Bloomberg
6 2 (4.44%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.22%) Citrix
7 1 (2.22%) Commvault
7 1 (2.22%) Dell
7 1 (2.22%) EMC
7 1 (2.22%) Juniper
7 1 (2.22%) NetApp
7 1 (2.22%) Sophos