VMware Contracts in the South West

VMware
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for knowledge and experience of VMware products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited VMware over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within VMware, Inc.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 28 42
Rank change year-on-year -5 +14 +11
Contract jobs citing VMware 166 245 184
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 5.24% 6.73% 4.94%
As % of the Vendors category 12.86% 16.59% 13.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 181 121
10th Percentile £208 £263 £263
25th Percentile £450 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.73% +15.79% +25.00%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £568
90th Percentile £724 £719 £638
England median daily rate £500 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 23 11
10th Percentile - £25.14 £49.25
25th Percentile - £60.00 £50.76
Median hourly rate £40.00 £63.23 £60.92
Median % change year-on-year -36.74% +3.79% +23.15%
75th Percentile £70.66 £65.00 £69.05
90th Percentile £71.13 £82.74 -
England median hourly rate £46.18 £63.00 £35.63
% change year-on-year -26.70% +76.84% -25.00%

All Vendors
South West

VMware is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,291 1,477 1,392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 40.76% 40.57% 37.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 825 1,112 976
10th Percentile £194 £241 £215
25th Percentile £400 £400 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £575
90th Percentile £725 £715 £654
England median daily rate £520 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -3.26% +2.38% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 85 55
10th Percentile £13.69 £18.05 £15.00
25th Percentile £27.50 £49.68 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £63.00 £46.71
Median % change year-on-year -24.60% +34.87% +3.80%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £56.67
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.75 £68.75
England median hourly rate £22.40 £39.55 £21.00
% change year-on-year -43.36% +88.33% -4.55%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing VMware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for VMware in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware in the South West.

Daily rate trend for VMware in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware in the South West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VMware in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for VMware in the South West

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VMware in the South West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for VMware in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware within the South West region 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
Wiltshire -9 78 £525 -4.55% 23
Bristol +9 40 £500 -25.93% 20
Dorset -5 16 £185 -50.72% 5
Gloucestershire -7 16 £500 - 22
Somerset +5 9 - - 11
Devon -7 5 £550 +57.14% 5
Cornwall - 1 £225 -
VMware
England

VMware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 31 (18.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (12.65%) Confluence
3 10 (6.02%) SharePoint
4 5 (3.01%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.60%) Apache
5 1 (0.60%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.60%) nginx
5 1 (0.60%) OpenStack
Applications
1 15 (9.04%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.20%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 41 (24.70%) Azure
2 29 (17.47%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (9.64%) AWS
4 8 (4.82%) PaaS
5 7 (4.22%) Entra ID
5 7 (4.22%) OpenShift
6 6 (3.61%) GCP
7 4 (2.41%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (2.41%) GitHub
7 4 (2.41%) OneDrive
8 3 (1.81%) SaaS
9 2 (1.20%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.20%) Azure AKS
9 2 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.20%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (1.20%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (1.20%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.20%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.20%) IaaS
9 2 (1.20%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 50 (30.12%) Firewall
2 29 (17.47%) SAN
3 28 (16.87%) DNS
4 23 (13.86%) DHCP
5 22 (13.25%) VSAN
6 19 (11.45%) WAN
7 18 (10.84%) LAN
8 10 (6.02%) Skype
9 9 (5.42%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (4.82%) MPLS
11 7 (4.22%) FTP
11 7 (4.22%) NAS
12 6 (3.61%) Network Security
12 6 (3.61%) VPN
13 5 (3.01%) TCP/IP
14 3 (1.81%) Internet
14 3 (1.81%) PBX
14 3 (1.81%) Software-Defined Networking
14 3 (1.81%) Unified Communications
14 3 (1.81%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.63%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.20%) MySQL
2 2 (1.20%) Power BI
3 1 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 24 (14.46%) JIRA
2 6 (3.61%) Bitbucket
2 6 (3.61%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.41%) GitLab
4 3 (1.81%) Rational DOORS
5 2 (1.20%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (1.20%) Git
5 2 (1.20%) Snyk
5 2 (1.20%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.60%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.60%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.60%) GoCD
6 1 (0.60%) JMeter
6 1 (0.60%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.60%) Selenium
6 1 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 41 (24.70%) Social Skills
2 33 (19.88%) Public Sector
3 29 (17.47%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (6.02%) Military
5 9 (5.42%) Aerospace
6 7 (4.22%) Telecoms
7 6 (3.61%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (3.01%) Legal
9 4 (2.41%) Finance
9 4 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.81%) Digital Economy
10 3 (1.81%) Electronics
10 3 (1.81%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.81%) Marketing
11 1 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 43 (25.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 30 (18.07%) Network Engineer
3 22 (13.25%) VMware Engineer
4 14 (8.43%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 13 (7.83%) Architect
6 11 (6.63%) Infrastructure Technician
6 11 (6.63%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 10 (6.02%) Analyst
8 9 (5.42%) IT Analyst
8 9 (5.42%) Wintel Engineer
9 8 (4.82%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 8 (4.82%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
9 8 (4.82%) Senior
9 8 (4.82%) Support Engineer
10 7 (4.22%) Lead
10 7 (4.22%) Solutions Architect
10 7 (4.22%) Virtualisation Engineer
11 6 (3.61%) Platform Engineer
11 6 (3.61%) Test and Integration Engineer
11 6 (3.61%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.61%) Flash
2 4 (2.41%) .NET
2 4 (2.41%) REST
3 3 (1.81%) .NET Framework
3 3 (1.81%) ModSecurity
4 2 (1.20%) .NET Core
4 2 (1.20%) 802.1X
5 1 (0.60%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (0.60%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.60%) Keycloak
5 1 (0.60%) LDAP
5 1 (0.60%) React
5 1 (0.60%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 47 (28.31%) Data Centre
2 32 (19.28%) PKI
3 20 (12.05%) Private Cloud
4 19 (11.45%) Clustering
5 11 (6.63%) NHS
6 8 (4.82%) Client/Server
6 8 (4.82%) Replication
7 4 (2.41%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.41%) Public Cloud
7 4 (2.41%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.81%) Blackberry
8 3 (1.81%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.81%) Video Conferencing
9 2 (1.20%) Enterprise Storage
9 2 (1.20%) Fat Client
9 2 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (1.20%) Thin Client
10 1 (0.60%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.60%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Licensing
Operating Systems
1 74 (44.58%) Windows
2 50 (30.12%) Windows Server
3 43 (25.90%) Linux
4 17 (10.24%) Windows Server 2012
5 14 (8.43%) Unix
6 8 (4.82%) Windows 10
7 4 (2.41%) VMS
8 2 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (1.20%) Windows 2000
8 2 (1.20%) Windows 7
8 2 (1.20%) Windows Server 2003
8 2 (1.20%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (1.20%) Windows XP
9 1 (0.60%) Android
9 1 (0.60%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.60%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.60%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (38.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 29 (17.47%) Agile
2 29 (17.47%) ITIL
2 29 (17.47%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (13.86%) Cybersecurity
4 21 (12.65%) Network Management
4 21 (12.65%) Virtual Infrastructure
5 19 (11.45%) Decision-Making
6 17 (10.24%) Resource Management
7 16 (9.64%) Critical Thinking
7 16 (9.64%) DevOps
7 16 (9.64%) Migration
7 16 (9.64%) Service Management
8 15 (9.04%) Penetration Testing
9 14 (8.43%) Containerisation
10 13 (7.83%) Converged Infrastructure
10 13 (7.83%) Server Management
10 13 (7.83%) Vulnerability Scanning
11 12 (7.23%) CI/CD
11 12 (7.23%) NsoIT
Programming Languages
1 26 (15.66%) PowerShell
2 17 (10.24%) SQL
3 7 (4.22%) Bash
3 7 (4.22%) Python
4 2 (1.20%) Bicep
4 2 (1.20%) C#
4 2 (1.20%) Java
4 2 (1.20%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.20%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 120 (72.29%) Security Cleared
2 69 (41.57%) SC Cleared
3 58 (34.94%) DV Cleared
4 27 (16.27%) Degree
5 18 (10.84%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 15 (9.04%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (7.23%) CCNA
7 12 (7.23%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (6.63%) MCSE
9 9 (5.42%) Master's Degree
10 8 (4.82%) MCSA
11 6 (3.61%) CCNP
12 5 (3.01%) ITIL Certification
12 5 (3.01%) MCP
13 4 (2.41%) Chartered Engineer
14 3 (1.81%) HND
14 3 (1.81%) TOGAF Certification
15 1 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 1 (0.60%) Azure Certification
15 1 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (4.22%) SLA
2 2 (1.20%) NIST
System Software
1 98 (59.04%) VMware Infrastructure
2 49 (29.52%) Active Directory
3 48 (28.92%) VMware NSX
4 41 (24.70%) vSphere
5 39 (23.49%) VMware ESXi
6 13 (7.83%) Virtual Servers
7 12 (7.23%) Hyper-V
8 9 (5.42%) VMware Workstation
9 8 (4.82%) Docker
10 4 (2.41%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (1.81%) Virtual Machines
12 2 (1.20%) Virtual Desktop
13 1 (0.60%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.60%) NFS
13 1 (0.60%) Samba
13 1 (0.60%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 39 (23.49%) vCenter Server
2 20 (12.05%) SCCM
3 19 (11.45%) Ansible
4 15 (9.04%) Kubernetes
5 11 (6.63%) Microsoft Clustering
6 8 (4.82%) Nagios
6 8 (4.82%) NetBackup
6 8 (4.82%) Terraform
7 5 (3.01%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (3.01%) OPNET
7 5 (3.01%) VxRail
8 4 (2.41%) SCOM
8 4 (2.41%) vRealize
8 4 (2.41%) WSUS
9 3 (1.81%) PowerCLI
9 3 (1.81%) Puppet
10 2 (1.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (1.20%) Argo
10 2 (1.20%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 55 (33.13%) Microsoft
2 24 (14.46%) Veeam
3 23 (13.86%) Cisco
4 17 (10.24%) Atlassian
5 15 (9.04%) Dell
6 13 (7.83%) Palo Alto
7 8 (4.82%) Hitachi
7 8 (4.82%) NetApp
8 7 (4.22%) CheckPoint
8 7 (4.22%) Google
8 7 (4.22%) Juniper
9 6 (3.61%) Citrix
9 6 (3.61%) SolarWinds
10 4 (2.41%) Avaya
10 4 (2.41%) CyberArk
10 4 (2.41%) HP
10 4 (2.41%) Nokia
11 3 (1.81%) IBM
11 3 (1.81%) Ribbon
11 3 (1.81%) Splunk