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 16 May 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 26 38
Rank change year-on-year -4 +12 +12
Contract jobs citing VMware 165 238 190
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 5.23% 6.86% 5.21%
As % of the Vendors category 12.94% 17.26% 13.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 175 124
10th Percentile £179 £300 £278
25th Percentile £453 £450 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.64% +15.79% +25.00%
75th Percentile £572 £675 £588
90th Percentile £701 £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 22 10
10th Percentile - £22.07 £49.03
25th Percentile - £60.00 £51.33
Median hourly rate £40.00 £63.00 £60.93
Median % change year-on-year -36.51% +3.41% +23.16%
75th Percentile £70.66 £65.00 £69.05
90th Percentile £71.13 £83.75 -
England median hourly rate £46.18 £60.70 £42.00
% change year-on-year -23.92% +44.52% -16.00%

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 1,275 1,379 1,382
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 40.45% 39.73% 37.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 812 1,036 969
10th Percentile £200 £250 £214
25th Percentile £400 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £613 £635 £588
90th Percentile £725 £714 £666
England median daily rate £520 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -3.26% +2.38% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 75 55
10th Percentile £13.74 £17.90 £15.10
25th Percentile £36.25 £49.84 £35.00
Median hourly rate £48.25 £62.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.18% +30.53% +11.28%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £57.10
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.75 £68.30
England median hourly rate £22.00 £36.00 £21.45
% change year-on-year -38.89% +67.83% +2.14%

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 16 May 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 16 May 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 16 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
Wiltshire -7 81 £525 -4.55% 28
Bristol +7 37 £500 -25.93% 21
Dorset -2 18 £185 -50.72% 4
Gloucestershire -14 14 £500 - 12
Somerset +6 9 - - 10
Devon -7 4 £550 +57.14% 4
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 27 (16.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (12.73%) Confluence
3 5 (3.03%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.21%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.61%) Apache
5 1 (0.61%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.61%) nginx
5 1 (0.61%) OpenStack
Applications
1 11 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.21%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 39 (23.64%) Azure
2 25 (15.15%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (9.70%) AWS
4 10 (6.06%) PaaS
5 8 (4.85%) OpenShift
6 7 (4.24%) GCP
7 5 (3.03%) Entra ID
8 4 (2.42%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (2.42%) GitHub
8 4 (2.42%) SaaS
9 2 (1.21%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.21%) Azure AKS
9 2 (1.21%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.21%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (1.21%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (1.21%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.21%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.21%) OneDrive
9 2 (1.21%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.61%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 47 (28.48%) Firewall
2 27 (16.36%) DNS
2 27 (16.36%) SAN
3 22 (13.33%) DHCP
4 21 (12.73%) VSAN
5 16 (9.70%) WAN
6 15 (9.09%) LAN
7 8 (4.85%) MPLS
7 8 (4.85%) Wi-Fi
8 7 (4.24%) FTP
9 6 (3.64%) VPN
10 5 (3.03%) NAS
10 5 (3.03%) Skype
10 5 (3.03%) TCP/IP
11 4 (2.42%) Network Security
11 4 (2.42%) PBX
11 4 (2.42%) VoIP
12 3 (1.82%) Internet
13 2 (1.21%) Cisco ISE
13 2 (1.21%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.21%) MySQL
2 2 (1.21%) Power BI
3 1 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 24 (14.55%) JIRA
2 6 (3.64%) Bitbucket
2 6 (3.64%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.42%) GitLab
4 3 (1.82%) Rational DOORS
5 2 (1.21%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (1.21%) Git
5 2 (1.21%) Snyk
5 2 (1.21%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.61%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.61%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.61%) GoCD
6 1 (0.61%) JMeter
6 1 (0.61%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.61%) Selenium
6 1 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 38 (23.03%) Social Skills
2 29 (17.58%) Public Sector
3 28 (16.97%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (6.67%) Military
5 9 (5.45%) Aerospace
6 8 (4.85%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.42%) Legal
7 4 (2.42%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (1.82%) Digital Economy
8 3 (1.82%) Electronics
8 3 (1.82%) Finance
8 3 (1.82%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.82%) Marketing
9 1 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (23.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 30 (18.18%) Network Engineer
3 23 (13.94%) VMware Engineer
4 14 (8.48%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 12 (7.27%) Architect
5 12 (7.27%) Infrastructure Technician
6 11 (6.67%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 10 (6.06%) Analyst
8 9 (5.45%) IT Analyst
9 8 (4.85%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 8 (4.85%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
9 8 (4.85%) Senior
10 7 (4.24%) Integration Engineer
10 7 (4.24%) Lead
10 7 (4.24%) Test and Integration Engineer
10 7 (4.24%) Test Engineer
10 7 (4.24%) Wintel Engineer
11 6 (3.64%) Backup Engineer
11 6 (3.64%) Storage Engineer
11 6 (3.64%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.03%) Flash
2 4 (2.42%) .NET
2 4 (2.42%) ModSecurity
2 4 (2.42%) REST
3 3 (1.82%) .NET Framework
4 2 (1.21%) .NET Core
4 2 (1.21%) 802.1X
5 1 (0.61%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (0.61%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.61%) Keycloak
5 1 (0.61%) LDAP
5 1 (0.61%) React
5 1 (0.61%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 48 (29.09%) Data Centre
2 32 (19.39%) PKI
3 20 (12.12%) Private Cloud
4 16 (9.70%) Clustering
5 12 (7.27%) NHS
6 8 (4.85%) Client/Server
6 8 (4.85%) Replication
7 5 (3.03%) Public Cloud
8 4 (2.42%) Blackberry
8 4 (2.42%) Security Posture
8 4 (2.42%) Video Conferencing
9 3 (1.82%) Enterprise Storage
10 2 (1.21%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (1.21%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.21%) Product Ownership
10 2 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.61%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.61%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Licensing
Operating Systems
1 71 (43.03%) Windows
2 49 (29.70%) Windows Server
3 44 (26.67%) Linux
4 16 (9.70%) Windows Server 2012
5 14 (8.48%) Unix
6 7 (4.24%) Windows 10
7 4 (2.42%) VMS
8 3 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (1.21%) Windows 2000
9 2 (1.21%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (1.21%) Windows XP
10 1 (0.61%) Android
10 1 (0.61%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.61%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.61%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.61%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (37.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 29 (17.58%) Agile
3 28 (16.97%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (15.76%) Cybersecurity
5 22 (13.33%) Network Management
6 21 (12.73%) ITIL
7 20 (12.12%) Virtual Infrastructure
8 18 (10.91%) Resource Management
9 16 (9.70%) Decision-Making
9 16 (9.70%) DevOps
9 16 (9.70%) Migration
10 15 (9.09%) Critical Thinking
10 15 (9.09%) Penetration Testing
11 13 (7.88%) CI/CD
11 13 (7.88%) Containerisation
11 13 (7.88%) Converged Infrastructure
11 13 (7.88%) Vulnerability Scanning
12 12 (7.27%) Data Protection
12 12 (7.27%) Server Management
13 11 (6.67%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 24 (14.55%) PowerShell
2 15 (9.09%) SQL
3 8 (4.85%) Python
4 6 (3.64%) Bash
5 2 (1.21%) Bicep
5 2 (1.21%) C#
5 2 (1.21%) Java
5 2 (1.21%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.21%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 121 (73.33%) Security Cleared
2 71 (43.03%) SC Cleared
3 57 (34.55%) DV Cleared
4 26 (15.76%) Degree
5 19 (11.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 12 (7.27%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (6.67%) MCSE
7 11 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (5.45%) Master's Degree
9 8 (4.85%) CCNA
9 8 (4.85%) MCSA
10 6 (3.64%) CCNP
11 4 (2.42%) Chartered Engineer
12 3 (1.82%) HND
12 3 (1.82%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (1.82%) TOGAF Certification
13 2 (1.21%) MCP
14 1 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
14 1 (0.61%) GIAC
14 1 (0.61%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.03%) SLA
2 2 (1.21%) NIST
System Software
1 92 (55.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 47 (28.48%) VMware NSX
3 43 (26.06%) Active Directory
4 40 (24.24%) vSphere
5 38 (23.03%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (7.27%) Virtual Servers
7 11 (6.67%) Hyper-V
8 10 (6.06%) Docker
9 8 (4.85%) VMware Workstation
10 3 (1.82%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (1.21%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.61%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.61%) NFS
12 1 (0.61%) Samba
12 1 (0.61%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 37 (22.42%) vCenter Server
2 18 (10.91%) Ansible
3 16 (9.70%) Kubernetes
3 16 (9.70%) SCCM
4 9 (5.45%) Microsoft Clustering
4 9 (5.45%) NetBackup
4 9 (5.45%) Terraform
5 8 (4.85%) Nagios
6 6 (3.64%) OPNET
7 5 (3.03%) VxRail
8 4 (2.42%) PowerCLI
8 4 (2.42%) SCOM
8 4 (2.42%) vRealize
9 3 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (1.82%) WSUS
10 2 (1.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (1.21%) Argo
10 2 (1.21%) Puppet
10 2 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.61%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 49 (29.70%) Microsoft
2 23 (13.94%) Veeam
3 20 (12.12%) Cisco
4 16 (9.70%) Atlassian
5 15 (9.09%) Dell
6 13 (7.88%) Palo Alto
7 8 (4.85%) Hitachi
7 8 (4.85%) NetApp
8 7 (4.24%) CheckPoint
8 7 (4.24%) Google
8 7 (4.24%) Juniper
9 5 (3.03%) Avaya
10 4 (2.42%) Citrix
10 4 (2.42%) CyberArk
10 4 (2.42%) Ericsson
10 4 (2.42%) HP
10 4 (2.42%) Nokia
10 4 (2.42%) Ribbon
10 4 (2.42%) SolarWinds
11 3 (1.82%) ServiceNow