VMware Contracts in the UK excluding London

VMware
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 5 June 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
5 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 37 32 45
Rank change year-on-year -5 +13 0
Contract jobs citing VMware 890 1,328 1,436
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.27% 5.88% 4.70%
As % of the Vendors category 10.09% 13.10% 11.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 631 931 1,054
10th Percentile £263 £313 £255
25th Percentile £400 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £513 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.98% +13.89% +9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £615 £550
90th Percentile £650 £700 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +7.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 73 42
10th Percentile £38.10 £25.75 £13.00
25th Percentile £40.00 £36.75 £16.25
Median hourly rate £46.18 £52.13 £24.25
Median % change year-on-year -11.41% +114.97% -36.60%
75th Percentile £73.13 £66.00 £50.46
90th Percentile £80.47 £81.15 £67.43
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £62.50 £44.06
% change year-on-year -26.11% +41.85% -6.26%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 8,817 10,137 12,414
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 42.25% 44.91% 40.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,277 6,914 8,430
10th Percentile £208 £205 £190
25th Percentile £370 £363 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £658
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +8.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 990 431 644
10th Percentile £12.00 £14.25 £11.32
25th Percentile £14.26 £17.60 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.50 £37.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.67% +92.31% +8.33%
75th Percentile £59.50 £60.00 £38.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £56.00
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -47.06% +97.67% +4.88%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing VMware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for VMware in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for VMware in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VMware in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for VMware in the UK excluding London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VMware in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 5 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for VMware in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 5 June 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
South East -1 401 £525 +1.06% 141
South West -2 196 £525 -4.55% 67
North of England -19 122 £380 -11.63% 108
Midlands -2 107 £538 +11.98% 85
North West -29 78 £350 -22.22% 60
West Midlands +3 76 £550 +29.41% 46
Scotland -18 46 £438 -12.40% 18
East of England -39 42 £550 -8.33% 46
Yorkshire +4 36 £380 -8.71% 39
East Midlands -8 30 £488 -2.50% 39
North East +3 8 £500 +53.85% 10
Wales -12 8 £220 -58.10% 13
Northern Ireland -5 1 £525 +23.53% 3
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UK

VMware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 87 (9.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 39 (4.38%) Confluence
3 34 (3.82%) SharePoint
4 12 (1.35%) IIS
5 8 (0.90%) SharePoint Server
6 7 (0.79%) SharePoint 2010
7 5 (0.56%) nginx
8 4 (0.45%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.22%) IBM Domino
9 2 (0.22%) Skype for Business
9 2 (0.22%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.22%) Traefik
9 2 (0.22%) WordPress
10 1 (0.11%) Apache
10 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2013
10 1 (0.11%) JBoss
10 1 (0.11%) Site Server
10 1 (0.11%) WildFly
Applications
1 33 (3.71%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.11%) PTC Creo
3 1 (0.11%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 7 (0.79%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 185 (20.79%) Azure
2 117 (13.15%) Microsoft 365
3 84 (9.44%) AWS
4 27 (3.03%) Entra ID
5 25 (2.81%) PaaS
6 24 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (2.70%) IaaS
7 21 (2.36%) OpenShift
8 19 (2.13%) GCP
9 15 (1.69%) OCI
10 14 (1.57%) GitHub
10 14 (1.57%) SaaS
11 10 (1.12%) OneDrive
12 6 (0.67%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (0.67%) Nutanix
13 5 (0.56%) Azure Logic Apps
13 5 (0.56%) Cloud Computing
13 5 (0.56%) Dynamics 365
14 4 (0.45%) Power Platform
14 4 (0.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 150 (16.85%) Firewall
2 147 (16.52%) DNS
3 124 (13.93%) SAN
4 121 (13.60%) DHCP
5 78 (8.76%) WAN
6 71 (7.98%) LAN
7 63 (7.08%) VPN
8 62 (6.97%) TCP/IP
9 52 (5.84%) VSAN
10 38 (4.27%) NAS
11 34 (3.82%) Wi-Fi
12 32 (3.60%) VLAN
13 27 (3.03%) Wireless
14 22 (2.47%) SD-WAN
15 21 (2.36%) Remote Desktop
16 19 (2.13%) Network Security
17 15 (1.69%) MPLS
17 15 (1.69%) VoIP
18 14 (1.57%) Fibre Channel
19 12 (1.35%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (5.17%) SQL Server
2 21 (2.36%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (1.57%) MySQL
4 12 (1.35%) MongoDB
5 9 (1.01%) Oracle Database
6 7 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (0.79%) Metadata
6 7 (0.79%) PowerPivot
6 7 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 6 (0.67%) Microsoft Power View
8 5 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (0.56%) RDBMS
8 5 (0.56%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.34%) Power BI
10 2 (0.22%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.22%) CouchDB
11 1 (0.11%) Big Data
11 1 (0.11%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.11%) Navicat
11 1 (0.11%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 50 (5.62%) JIRA
2 33 (3.71%) GitLab
3 28 (3.15%) Git
4 22 (2.47%) Robot Framework
5 15 (1.69%) Sonatype Nexus
6 13 (1.46%) Bitbucket
7 9 (1.01%) Jenkins
8 7 (0.79%) Artifactory
8 7 (0.79%) Selenium
9 5 (0.56%) Rational DOORS
10 3 (0.34%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.34%) Subversion
10 3 (0.34%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.22%) CppUnit
11 2 (0.22%) PVCS
11 2 (0.22%) Snyk
12 1 (0.11%) Cucumber
12 1 (0.11%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 1 (0.11%) TeamCity
General
1 202 (22.70%) Social Skills
2 90 (10.11%) Public Sector
3 86 (9.66%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (2.81%) Documentation Skills
4 25 (2.81%) Finance
5 22 (2.47%) Military
6 17 (1.91%) Telecoms
7 16 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
8 14 (1.57%) Manufacturing
9 13 (1.46%) Aerospace
9 13 (1.46%) Legal
10 10 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (0.90%) Banking
11 8 (0.90%) Marketing
12 7 (0.79%) Publishing
13 5 (0.56%) Billing
13 5 (0.56%) Electronics
14 4 (0.45%) Back Office
14 4 (0.45%) Financial Institution
15 3 (0.34%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 195 (21.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 96 (10.79%) Architect
3 76 (8.54%) VMware Engineer
4 62 (6.97%) Network Engineer
5 57 (6.40%) Senior
6 55 (6.18%) Storage Engineer
7 45 (5.06%) Support Engineer
8 40 (4.49%) Analyst
9 37 (4.16%) Wintel Engineer
10 36 (4.04%) Consultant
11 33 (3.71%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 28 (3.15%) Integration Engineer
12 28 (3.15%) Linux Engineer
13 24 (2.70%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
13 24 (2.70%) Solutions Architect
14 22 (2.47%) Developer
14 22 (2.47%) IT Engineer
14 22 (2.47%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 22 (2.47%) Server Engineer
15 21 (2.36%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (2.36%) YAML
2 17 (1.91%) .NET
3 9 (1.01%) CSS
3 9 (1.01%) HTML
4 8 (0.90%) Web Services
5 7 (0.79%) Middleware
6 6 (0.67%) LDAP
6 6 (0.67%) ModSecurity
7 5 (0.56%) .NET Framework
7 5 (0.56%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (0.45%) Flash
8 4 (0.45%) Node.js
8 4 (0.45%) REST
9 3 (0.34%) AngularJS
9 3 (0.34%) EDI
9 3 (0.34%) J2EE
9 3 (0.34%) React
9 3 (0.34%) Vue
9 3 (0.34%) XMPP
10 2 (0.22%) cloud-init
Miscellaneous
1 138 (15.51%) Data Centre
2 88 (9.89%) PKI
3 45 (5.06%) Clustering
4 36 (4.04%) Client/Server
5 25 (2.81%) Replication
6 22 (2.47%) Private Cloud
7 20 (2.25%) Linux Command Line
8 18 (2.02%) Public Cloud
9 15 (1.69%) NHS
10 13 (1.46%) Driving Licence
11 11 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (1.12%) Cloud Native
12 10 (1.12%) Management Information System
13 7 (0.79%) Grid Computing
13 7 (0.79%) Security Posture
14 6 (0.67%) Data Protection Act
14 6 (0.67%) Fat Client
14 6 (0.67%) Onboarding
14 6 (0.67%) Thin Client
14 6 (0.67%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 435 (48.88%) Windows
2 287 (32.25%) Windows Server
3 273 (30.67%) Linux
4 95 (10.67%) Windows Server 2012
5 89 (10.00%) Windows Server 2019
6 86 (9.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 65 (7.30%) Windows 10
8 57 (6.40%) Windows Server 2016
9 46 (5.17%) Unix
10 29 (3.26%) Ubuntu
11 19 (2.13%) Debian
12 18 (2.02%) VMS
13 17 (1.91%) Windows Server 2008
14 16 (1.80%) Solaris
14 16 (1.80%) Windows XP
15 14 (1.57%) CentOS
16 9 (1.01%) Mac OS
17 7 (0.79%) AIX
18 5 (0.56%) Windows Server 2003
19 3 (0.34%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 259 (29.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 136 (15.28%) Problem-Solving
3 128 (14.38%) Agile
4 110 (12.36%) Migration
5 100 (11.24%) ITIL
6 68 (7.64%) DevOps
7 58 (6.52%) Infrastructure as Code
8 51 (5.73%) Cybersecurity
9 50 (5.62%) High Availability
10 44 (4.94%) Customer Service
10 44 (4.94%) Project Delivery
10 44 (4.94%) Virtual Infrastructure
11 43 (4.83%) Change Management
11 43 (4.83%) Configuration Management
12 41 (4.61%) Data Protection
13 40 (4.49%) CI/CD
13 40 (4.49%) Converged Infrastructure
14 39 (4.38%) Validation
15 38 (4.27%) Disaster Recovery
16 36 (4.04%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 196 (22.02%) PowerShell
2 110 (12.36%) Python
3 53 (5.96%) SQL
4 40 (4.49%) Bash
5 22 (2.47%) VBScript
6 15 (1.69%) Java
7 14 (1.57%) C#
8 11 (1.24%) JavaScript
8 11 (1.24%) Shell Script
9 7 (0.79%) Go
9 7 (0.79%) Perl
10 5 (0.56%) C++
10 5 (0.56%) Ruby
11 3 (0.34%) Bicep
11 3 (0.34%) PHP
11 3 (0.34%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.22%) C
13 1 (0.11%) VB
Qualifications
1 485 (54.49%) Security Cleared
2 248 (27.87%) SC Cleared
3 233 (26.18%) DV Cleared
4 99 (11.12%) Degree
5 54 (6.07%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 51 (5.73%) Microsoft Certification
7 49 (5.51%) Cisco Certification
8 43 (4.83%) CCNA
9 36 (4.04%) MCSE
10 27 (3.03%) CCNP
11 26 (2.92%) MCSA
12 14 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
13 13 (1.46%) ITIL Certification
13 13 (1.46%) Master's Degree
14 10 (1.12%) Azure Certification
14 10 (1.12%) VCAP
15 6 (0.67%) RHCT
16 5 (0.56%) DBS Check
16 5 (0.56%) Network+ Certification
17 4 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (2.47%) SLA
2 11 (1.24%) NIST
3 7 (0.79%) RMADS
4 6 (0.67%) GDPR
4 6 (0.67%) NCSC
4 6 (0.67%) PCI DSS
5 5 (0.56%) PMO
6 4 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
7 3 (0.34%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 3 (0.34%) QA
8 2 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 566 (63.60%) VMware Infrastructure
2 304 (34.16%) Active Directory
3 151 (16.97%) VMware NSX
4 150 (16.85%) Hyper-V
5 145 (16.29%) vSphere
6 123 (13.82%) VMware ESXi
7 49 (5.51%) Virtual Machines
8 25 (2.81%) Docker
9 21 (2.36%) Virtual Servers
10 16 (1.80%) KVM
10 16 (1.80%) VMware Workstation
10 16 (1.80%) XenApp
11 12 (1.35%) Virtual Desktop
12 11 (1.24%) Firmware
13 10 (1.12%) vCloud
14 9 (1.01%) Terminal Services
15 8 (0.90%) BitLocker
15 8 (0.90%) VMFS
16 7 (0.79%) VMware Server
17 4 (0.45%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 110 (12.36%) vCenter Server
2 102 (11.46%) Ansible
3 95 (10.67%) SCCM
4 70 (7.87%) Terraform
5 63 (7.08%) Kubernetes
6 57 (6.40%) WSUS
7 40 (4.49%) SCOM
8 30 (3.37%) Microsoft Intune
9 29 (3.26%) NetBackup
10 26 (2.92%) vRealize
10 26 (2.92%) VxRail
11 21 (2.36%) Puppet
12 18 (2.02%) Red Hat Satellite
13 16 (1.80%) Progress Chef
14 14 (1.57%) EMC NetWorker
15 13 (1.46%) Nessus
15 13 (1.46%) Rancher
15 13 (1.46%) Salt
16 11 (1.24%) Microsoft Clustering
16 11 (1.24%) Nagios
Vendors
1 287 (32.25%) Microsoft
2 116 (13.03%) Cisco
3 89 (10.00%) Red Hat
4 75 (8.43%) Dell
5 60 (6.74%) Veeam
6 52 (5.84%) Citrix
7 51 (5.73%) Oracle
8 39 (4.38%) Palo Alto
9 35 (3.93%) HP
10 29 (3.26%) EMC
10 29 (3.26%) NetApp
11 25 (2.81%) Juniper
12 24 (2.70%) SolarWinds
13 21 (2.36%) Symantec
14 17 (1.91%) Google
15 16 (1.80%) 3PAR
15 16 (1.80%) F5
16 15 (1.69%) Atlassian
17 14 (1.57%) Aruba
17 14 (1.57%) Extreme Networks