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 10 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 26 39
Rank change year-on-year -4 +13 +10
Contract jobs citing VMware 165 235 193
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 5.19% 6.65% 5.27%
As % of the Vendors category 12.85% 16.63% 13.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 171 128
10th Percentile £180 £275 £263
25th Percentile £450 £438 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% +21.84%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £588
90th Percentile £713 £719 £639
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 £63.12 £60.93
Median % change year-on-year -36.62% +3.59% +23.16%
75th Percentile £70.66 £65.00 £69.05
90th Percentile £71.13 £83.75 -
England median hourly rate £46.18 £62.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year -25.52% +47.62% -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 1,284 1,413 1,393
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 40.35% 39.96% 38.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 818 1,058 973
10th Percentile £197 £250 £215
25th Percentile £400 £406 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £588
90th Percentile £725 £713 £656
England median daily rate £518 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -3.18% +1.90% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 81 53
10th Percentile £13.71 £17.50 £15.05
25th Percentile £36.25 £48.99 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £62.00 £46.71
Median % change year-on-year -23.39% +32.73% +9.91%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £56.70
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.75 £68.30
England median hourly rate £22.50 £39.03 £21.35
% change year-on-year -42.34% +82.79% +1.67%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 79 £525 -4.55% 28
Bristol +5 39 £500 -25.93% 20
Dorset -4 17 £185 -30.97% 5
Gloucestershire -14 14 £500 - 18
Somerset +3 9 - - 6
Devon -9 5 £550 +57.14% 2
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 29 (17.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (12.73%) Confluence
3 6 (3.64%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.82%) 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 12 (7.27%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.21%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 41 (24.85%) Azure
2 26 (15.76%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (9.70%) AWS
4 9 (5.45%) PaaS
5 8 (4.85%) OpenShift
6 7 (4.24%) GCP
7 6 (3.64%) Entra ID
8 4 (2.42%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (2.42%) GitHub
9 3 (1.82%) OneDrive
9 3 (1.82%) SaaS
10 2 (1.21%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.21%) Azure AKS
10 2 (1.21%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (1.21%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (1.21%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (1.21%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (1.21%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.21%) IaaS
10 2 (1.21%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 49 (29.70%) Firewall
2 27 (16.36%) DNS
2 27 (16.36%) SAN
3 22 (13.33%) DHCP
4 20 (12.12%) VSAN
5 17 (10.30%) WAN
6 16 (9.70%) LAN
7 8 (4.85%) MPLS
7 8 (4.85%) Wi-Fi
8 7 (4.24%) FTP
9 6 (3.64%) Skype
9 6 (3.64%) VPN
10 5 (3.03%) NAS
10 5 (3.03%) Network Security
10 5 (3.03%) TCP/IP
11 3 (1.82%) Internet
11 3 (1.82%) PBX
11 3 (1.82%) VoIP
12 2 (1.21%) SMTP
12 2 (1.21%) Software-Defined Networking
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 39 (23.64%) Social Skills
2 28 (16.97%) Analytical Skills
2 28 (16.97%) Public Sector
3 11 (6.67%) Military
4 9 (5.45%) Aerospace
5 7 (4.24%) Telecoms
6 5 (3.03%) Legal
6 5 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (2.42%) Finance
7 4 (2.42%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.82%) Digital Economy
8 3 (1.82%) Electronics
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 22 (13.33%) VMware Engineer
4 14 (8.48%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 13 (7.88%) Architect
6 12 (7.27%) Infrastructure Technician
7 11 (6.67%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
8 10 (6.06%) Analyst
9 9 (5.45%) IT Analyst
10 8 (4.85%) Infrastructure Analyst
10 8 (4.85%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
10 8 (4.85%) Senior
11 7 (4.24%) Integration Engineer
11 7 (4.24%) Lead
11 7 (4.24%) Support Engineer
11 7 (4.24%) Test and Integration Engineer
11 7 (4.24%) Test Engineer
11 7 (4.24%) Wintel Engineer
12 6 (3.64%) Backup Engineer
12 6 (3.64%) Storage and Backup 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 31 (18.79%) PKI
3 21 (12.73%) 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%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.82%) Blackberry
9 3 (1.82%) Enterprise Storage
9 3 (1.82%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.82%) Video Conferencing
10 2 (1.21%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (1.21%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.61%) Analytical Mindset
11 1 (0.61%) Hybrid Cloud
11 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Licensing
Operating Systems
1 72 (43.64%) Windows
2 48 (29.09%) Windows Server
3 43 (26.06%) 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 24 (14.55%) ITIL
6 22 (13.33%) Network Management
7 21 (12.73%) Virtual Infrastructure
8 18 (10.91%) Resource Management
9 17 (10.30%) Decision-Making
10 16 (9.70%) DevOps
10 16 (9.70%) Migration
11 15 (9.09%) Critical Thinking
11 15 (9.09%) Penetration Testing
12 13 (7.88%) CI/CD
12 13 (7.88%) Containerisation
12 13 (7.88%) Vulnerability Scanning
13 12 (7.27%) Converged Infrastructure
13 12 (7.27%) Data Protection
13 12 (7.27%) Server Management
13 12 (7.27%) Service Management
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
1 119 (72.12%) Security Cleared
2 70 (42.42%) SC Cleared
3 55 (33.33%) DV Cleared
4 26 (15.76%) Degree
5 18 (10.91%) 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%) CCNA
8 9 (5.45%) Master's Degree
9 8 (4.85%) MCSA
10 6 (3.64%) CCNP
11 4 (2.42%) Chartered Engineer
11 4 (2.42%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (1.82%) HND
12 3 (1.82%) MCP
12 3 (1.82%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.61%) Computer Science Degree
13 1 (0.61%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.64%) SLA
2 2 (1.21%) NIST
System Software
1 93 (56.36%) VMware Infrastructure
2 46 (27.88%) VMware NSX
3 45 (27.27%) Active Directory
4 39 (23.64%) vSphere
5 37 (22.42%) 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 17 (10.30%) SCCM
4 16 (9.70%) Kubernetes
5 9 (5.45%) Microsoft Clustering
5 9 (5.45%) NetBackup
5 9 (5.45%) Terraform
6 8 (4.85%) Nagios
7 6 (3.64%) OPNET
8 5 (3.03%) VxRail
9 4 (2.42%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (2.42%) PowerCLI
9 4 (2.42%) SCOM
9 4 (2.42%) vRealize
10 3 (1.82%) WSUS
11 2 (1.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (1.21%) Argo
11 2 (1.21%) Puppet
11 2 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.61%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 52 (31.52%) Microsoft
2 23 (13.94%) Veeam
3 21 (12.73%) Cisco
4 16 (9.70%) Atlassian
5 15 (9.09%) Dell
6 12 (7.27%) Palo Alto
7 8 (4.85%) Hitachi
7 8 (4.85%) NetApp
8 7 (4.24%) CheckPoint
8 7 (4.24%) Google
9 6 (3.64%) Juniper
10 5 (3.03%) Citrix
11 4 (2.42%) Avaya
11 4 (2.42%) CyberArk
11 4 (2.42%) HP
11 4 (2.42%) SolarWinds
12 3 (1.82%) Fortinet
12 3 (1.82%) Red Hat
12 3 (1.82%) Ribbon
12 3 (1.82%) ServiceNow