VMware Contracts in the South East

VMware
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 11 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
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 23 32
Rank change year-on-year 0 +9 -2
Contract jobs citing VMware 358 436 468
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 6.49% 7.71% 6.13%
As % of the Vendors category 13.77% 15.53% 13.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 315 348
10th Percentile £350 £313 £249
25th Percentile £414 £384 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +7.89% +5.56%
75th Percentile £583 £600 £601
90th Percentile £619 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 21 14
10th Percentile - £47.50 £12.48
25th Percentile £65.00 £52.75 £13.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £60.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +200.00% +54.08%
75th Percentile £77.50 £80.25 £67.89
90th Percentile £79.00 £81.37 £83.38
England median hourly rate £46.18 £62.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -25.52% +49.40% -17.00%

All Vendors
South East

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 East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 2,600 2,807 3,413
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 47.11% 49.63% 44.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,592 1,926 2,319
10th Percentile £213 £205 £188
25th Percentile £388 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year - +3.09% +7.72%
75th Percentile £600 £605 £600
90th Percentile £688 £694 £675
England median daily rate £518 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -3.18% +1.90% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 185 132 138
10th Percentile £12.00 £16.28 £10.77
25th Percentile £17.00 £20.23 £12.71
Median hourly rate £47.50 £45.00 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +130.53% -2.40%
75th Percentile £61.30 £62.63 £35.00
90th Percentile £66.21 £75.00 £58.81
England median hourly rate £22.50 £38.50 £21.39
% change year-on-year -41.56% +79.99% +1.86%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for VMware in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware in the South East over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VMware in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for VMware in the South East

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VMware in the South East over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for VMware in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 East region over the 6 months to 11 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
Thames Valley -4 144 £525 +2.94% 32
Hampshire -4 126 £550 - 52
Berkshire -20 81 £501 -8.91% 17
Buckinghamshire +20 47 £550 +20.82% 6
West Sussex +5 41 £463 -20.67% 10
Surrey +21 32 £403 +27.27% 10
Oxfordshire +14 16 £500 +23.46% 9
Kent -12 8 £338 -3.57% 17
Middlesex - 4 £275 -
East Sussex +4 3 £475 +19.87% 7
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England

VMware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 24 (6.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (4.47%) Confluence
3 6 (1.68%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.56%) IBM Domino
4 2 (0.56%) nginx
5 1 (0.28%) IIS
5 1 (0.28%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 4 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (1.96%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.56%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 81 (22.63%) Azure
2 38 (10.61%) AWS
3 26 (7.26%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (5.03%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (5.03%) IaaS
5 14 (3.91%) OCI
6 11 (3.07%) Entra ID
7 10 (2.79%) GitHub
8 8 (2.23%) OpenShift
8 8 (2.23%) SaaS
9 7 (1.96%) GCP
9 7 (1.96%) PaaS
10 4 (1.12%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (1.12%) Nutanix
10 4 (1.12%) OneDrive
11 3 (0.84%) Azure API Management
11 3 (0.84%) Azure Event Grid
11 3 (0.84%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (0.84%) WhatsApp
12 2 (0.56%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 80 (22.35%) DNS
2 64 (17.88%) DHCP
2 64 (17.88%) Firewall
3 63 (17.60%) SAN
4 32 (8.94%) TCP/IP
5 30 (8.38%) WAN
6 24 (6.70%) NAS
7 23 (6.42%) VSAN
8 22 (6.15%) VPN
9 20 (5.59%) LAN
10 16 (4.47%) Wireless
11 13 (3.63%) Wi-Fi
12 12 (3.35%) Network Security
13 9 (2.51%) VLAN
14 6 (1.68%) Cisco Nexus
14 6 (1.68%) Fibre Channel
15 5 (1.40%) Cisco ASA
15 5 (1.40%) iSCSI
15 5 (1.40%) SD-WAN
16 4 (1.12%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (5.59%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (4.47%) SQL Server
3 13 (3.63%) MySQL
4 11 (3.07%) MongoDB
5 7 (1.96%) Oracle Database
6 5 (1.40%) RDBMS
6 5 (1.40%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
8 2 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.56%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 21 (5.87%) GitLab
2 20 (5.59%) Robot Framework
3 19 (5.31%) JIRA
4 14 (3.91%) Sonatype Nexus
5 13 (3.63%) Git
6 6 (1.68%) Bitbucket
6 6 (1.68%) Selenium
7 4 (1.12%) Artifactory
8 3 (0.84%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.56%) Jenkins
9 2 (0.56%) Subversion
10 1 (0.28%) MSI
10 1 (0.28%) Oracle APEX
10 1 (0.28%) SonarQube
General
1 84 (23.46%) Social Skills
2 39 (10.89%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (5.87%) Public Sector
4 13 (3.63%) Documentation Skills
5 9 (2.51%) Military
6 6 (1.68%) Legal
7 4 (1.12%) Marketing
7 4 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (1.12%) Telecoms
8 3 (0.84%) Finance
8 3 (0.84%) Front Office
8 3 (0.84%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.56%) Advertising
9 2 (0.56%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.56%) Back Office
10 1 (0.28%) Electronics
10 1 (0.28%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 82 (22.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 43 (12.01%) Architect
3 36 (10.06%) Senior
4 22 (6.15%) Network Engineer
4 22 (6.15%) Storage Engineer
5 21 (5.87%) Integration Engineer
6 20 (5.59%) Developer
6 20 (5.59%) Python Developer
7 19 (5.31%) VMware Engineer
8 17 (4.75%) Linux Engineer
8 17 (4.75%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 16 (4.47%) Analyst
10 14 (3.91%) Solutions Architect
11 12 (3.35%) Security Architect
11 12 (3.35%) VMware Architect
12 11 (3.07%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 11 (3.07%) Security Engineer
12 11 (3.07%) Server Engineer
13 10 (2.79%) Consultant
13 10 (2.79%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.23%) YAML
2 7 (1.96%) .NET
3 5 (1.40%) EDI
4 4 (1.12%) Node.js
5 3 (0.84%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (0.84%) Web Services
5 3 (0.84%) XMPP
6 2 (0.56%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.56%) CSS
6 2 (0.56%) HTML
6 2 (0.56%) LDAP
6 2 (0.56%) Middleware
6 2 (0.56%) React
6 2 (0.56%) Vue
7 1 (0.28%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 39 (10.89%) Data Centre
2 29 (8.10%) PKI
3 20 (5.59%) Client/Server
4 17 (4.75%) Linux Command Line
5 11 (3.07%) Clustering
5 11 (3.07%) Public Cloud
6 8 (2.23%) Replication
7 7 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (1.68%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.40%) CCTV
10 4 (1.12%) Driving Licence
10 4 (1.12%) Fat Client
10 4 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (1.12%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.12%) Thin Client
11 3 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.84%) Operational Technology
11 3 (0.84%) SCADA
11 3 (0.84%) Smart Meter
12 2 (0.56%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 168 (46.93%) Windows
2 132 (36.87%) Windows Server
3 126 (35.20%) Linux
4 51 (14.25%) Windows Server 2019
5 49 (13.69%) Windows Server 2012
6 43 (12.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 31 (8.66%) Windows 10
8 24 (6.70%) Ubuntu
9 22 (6.15%) Windows Server 2016
10 20 (5.59%) Unix
11 14 (3.91%) Windows XP
12 13 (3.63%) Debian
13 10 (2.79%) Windows Server 2008
14 9 (2.51%) VMS
15 8 (2.23%) Solaris
16 3 (0.84%) Android
17 2 (0.56%) Mac OS
17 2 (0.56%) Oracle Linux
18 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
18 1 (0.28%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (27.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 81 (22.63%) Agile
3 52 (14.53%) Problem-Solving
4 47 (13.13%) ITIL
4 47 (13.13%) Migration
5 37 (10.34%) DevOps
6 29 (8.10%) Disaster Recovery
7 28 (7.82%) Project Delivery
8 25 (6.98%) Storage Management
8 25 (6.98%) Test Automation
9 23 (6.42%) High Availability
9 23 (6.42%) Performance Tuning
10 22 (6.15%) Scrum
11 21 (5.87%) Patch Management
11 21 (5.87%) Server Management
12 20 (5.59%) Converged Infrastructure
12 20 (5.59%) Infrastructure as Code
12 20 (5.59%) Release Management
13 19 (5.31%) Application Packaging
13 19 (5.31%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 90 (25.14%) PowerShell
2 82 (22.91%) Python
3 27 (7.54%) Bash
4 21 (5.87%) SQL
5 19 (5.31%) VBScript
6 6 (1.68%) Shell Script
7 5 (1.40%) C#
7 5 (1.40%) Java
8 3 (0.84%) C++
8 3 (0.84%) Go
8 3 (0.84%) PHP
8 3 (0.84%) Ruby
8 3 (0.84%) VB.NET
9 2 (0.56%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.56%) Perl
Qualifications
1 196 (54.75%) Security Cleared
2 97 (27.09%) SC Cleared
3 96 (26.82%) DV Cleared
4 45 (12.57%) Degree
5 29 (8.10%) Cisco Certification
6 24 (6.70%) CCNP
7 23 (6.42%) Microsoft Certification
8 22 (6.15%) CCNA
9 20 (5.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 17 (4.75%) MCSE
11 10 (2.79%) MCSA
12 9 (2.51%) Azure Certification
13 8 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
14 6 (1.68%) VCAP
15 5 (1.40%) DBS Check
16 3 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
16 3 (0.84%) Network+ Certification
16 3 (0.84%) RHCSA
17 2 (0.56%) Master's Degree
17 2 (0.56%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.23%) SLA
2 7 (1.96%) RMADS
3 6 (1.68%) NCSC
3 6 (1.68%) NIST
4 5 (1.40%) GDPR
5 4 (1.12%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.84%) ISO 9001
6 3 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 231 (64.53%) VMware Infrastructure
2 135 (37.71%) Active Directory
3 59 (16.48%) Hyper-V
4 58 (16.20%) VMware NSX
5 57 (15.92%) vSphere
6 33 (9.22%) VMware ESXi
7 18 (5.03%) Virtual Machines
8 15 (4.19%) XenApp
9 10 (2.79%) vCloud
10 8 (2.23%) Docker
11 4 (1.12%) Firmware
11 4 (1.12%) KVM
12 3 (0.84%) XenDesktop
13 2 (0.56%) BitLocker
13 2 (0.56%) Ceph
13 2 (0.56%) Terminal Services
13 2 (0.56%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 2 (0.56%) VirtualBox
14 1 (0.28%) UAG
14 1 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 55 (15.36%) Ansible
2 48 (13.41%) SCCM
3 46 (12.85%) WSUS
4 40 (11.17%) vCenter Server
5 34 (9.50%) Terraform
6 29 (8.10%) Kubernetes
7 23 (6.42%) SCOM
8 19 (5.31%) vRealize
9 16 (4.47%) EMC NetWorker
10 14 (3.91%) NetBackup
11 11 (3.07%) VxRail
12 10 (2.79%) Red Hat Satellite
13 9 (2.51%) Nessus
14 7 (1.96%) Microsoft Intune
14 7 (1.96%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
14 7 (1.96%) Packer
14 7 (1.96%) Rancher
15 6 (1.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 5 (1.40%) Avamar
16 5 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 113 (31.56%) Microsoft
2 52 (14.53%) Red Hat
3 43 (12.01%) Cisco
4 38 (10.61%) Oracle
5 32 (8.94%) Dell
6 27 (7.54%) HP
7 26 (7.26%) Veeam
8 25 (6.98%) EMC
9 24 (6.70%) Palo Alto
10 20 (5.59%) Citrix
11 17 (4.75%) Juniper
11 17 (4.75%) SolarWinds
11 17 (4.75%) Symantec
12 14 (3.91%) 3PAR
12 14 (3.91%) Extreme Networks
13 13 (3.63%) Aruba
14 12 (3.35%) Ivanti
15 10 (2.79%) ServiceNow
16 8 (2.23%) F5
17 7 (1.96%) Splunk