VMware
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 69 57 75
Rank change year-on-year -12 +18 -6
Contract jobs citing VMware 1,264 2,320 2,869
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.92% 3.88% 3.23%
As % of the Vendors category 6.86% 9.05% 8.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 852 1,650 2,081
10th Percentile £276 £315 £263
25th Percentile £384 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +9.83%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £663
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £513 £430
% change year-on-year -2.44% +19.19% +4.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 130 69
10th Percentile £22.19 £27.35 £13.00
25th Percentile £40.00 £47.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £48.20 £65.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.85% +36.84% -7.32%
75th Percentile £71.25 £70.19 £63.00
90th Percentile £80.29 £81.48 £69.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.29 £58.75 £34.21
% change year-on-year -21.22% +71.76% -13.95%

All Vendors
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,438 25,649 35,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.58% 42.89% 39.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,419 17,207 23,532
10th Percentile £263 £270 £290
25th Percentile £403 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £627 £650 £631
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £463
% change year-on-year - +8.11% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,097 699 889
10th Percentile £12.08 £15.25 £11.50
25th Percentile £14.48 £19.06 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £43.75 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.71% +108.33% -6.67%
75th Percentile £56.49 £65.00 £46.12
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.75 £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £38.50 £18.69
% change year-on-year -44.26% +105.96% -0.44%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing VMware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for VMware in the UK

VMware
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for VMware in the UK

VMware
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for VMware in the UK

VMware
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for VMware in the UK

VMware
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Hourly rate histogram for VMware in the UK

VMware
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 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
England -7 1,125 £500 -4.76% 659
UK excluding London -10 853 £500 -2.44% 535
South East -2 348 £506 -3.62% 156
Work from Home -32 339 £500 -3.85% 202
London -6 334 £500 -7.06% 139
South West -5 166 £508 -7.73% 83
North of England -3 147 £380 -10.80% 126
North West -21 79 £350 -20.00% 81
Scotland -3 74 £550 +10.00% 15
Midlands -29 72 £525 +5.00% 98
Yorkshire +18 55 £375 -11.76% 33
West Midlands -11 48 £463 -2.63% 60
East of England -43 38 £575 -4.17% 54
East Midlands -14 22 £550 +10.00% 38
North East +19 13 £525 +25.75% 14
Wales -5 8 £225 -57.14% 7
Northern Ireland +8 1 £525 - 7

VMware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 156 (12.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 56 (4.43%) Confluence
3 54 (4.27%) SharePoint
4 25 (1.98%) IIS
5 21 (1.66%) Exchange Server 2010
6 17 (1.34%) Exchange Server 2013
6 17 (1.34%) OpenStack
7 10 (0.79%) nginx
8 7 (0.55%) SharePoint 2010
8 7 (0.55%) SharePoint Server
9 6 (0.47%) Exchange Server 2007
9 6 (0.47%) Skype for Business
10 4 (0.32%) Apache
10 4 (0.32%) IBM Domino
10 4 (0.32%) MQSeries
10 4 (0.32%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.24%) WordPress
12 2 (0.16%) Traefik
13 1 (0.079%) JBoss
13 1 (0.079%) WildFly
Applications
1 45 (3.56%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.16%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.079%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.079%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.079%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (0.55%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.24%) Sage X3
4 2 (0.16%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
4 2 (0.16%) RMDS
4 2 (0.16%) SystmOne
5 1 (0.079%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.079%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.079%) Eikon
5 1 (0.079%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.079%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 335 (26.50%) Azure
2 206 (16.30%) Microsoft 365
3 178 (14.08%) AWS
4 57 (4.51%) Entra ID
5 48 (3.80%) IaaS
6 39 (3.09%) GCP
7 33 (2.61%) Azure DevOps
7 33 (2.61%) PaaS
8 30 (2.37%) Nutanix
9 27 (2.14%) Cloud Computing
10 26 (2.06%) GitHub
11 24 (1.90%) SaaS
12 23 (1.82%) OpenShift
13 20 (1.58%) OneDrive
14 15 (1.19%) OCI
15 13 (1.03%) Mimecast
15 13 (1.03%) Rubrik
16 11 (0.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 10 (0.79%) Amazon EC2
17 10 (0.79%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 238 (18.83%) Firewall
2 234 (18.51%) DNS
3 177 (14.00%) SAN
4 162 (12.82%) DHCP
5 112 (8.86%) WAN
6 108 (8.54%) LAN
7 92 (7.28%) VPN
8 86 (6.80%) TCP/IP
9 78 (6.17%) VSAN
10 59 (4.67%) NAS
11 48 (3.80%) Wi-Fi
12 39 (3.09%) Wireless
13 36 (2.85%) VLAN
14 32 (2.53%) Network Security
15 29 (2.29%) MPLS
16 19 (1.50%) Cisco Nexus
16 19 (1.50%) Internet
17 18 (1.42%) VoIP
18 17 (1.34%) Skype
19 16 (1.27%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (6.17%) SQL Server
2 27 (2.14%) PostgreSQL
3 23 (1.82%) MySQL
4 21 (1.66%) Oracle Database
5 16 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
6 15 (1.19%) MongoDB
7 13 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
8 7 (0.55%) Metadata
8 7 (0.55%) PowerPivot
8 7 (0.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (0.47%) Microsoft Power View
9 6 (0.47%) RDBMS
9 6 (0.47%) Relational Database
10 4 (0.32%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (0.32%) Power BI
11 2 (0.16%) CouchDB
11 2 (0.16%) Electronic Patient Records
12 1 (0.079%) Big Data
12 1 (0.079%) MariaDB
12 1 (0.079%) Navicat
Development Applications
1 80 (6.33%) JIRA
2 44 (3.48%) Jenkins
3 42 (3.32%) Git
4 41 (3.24%) GitLab
5 22 (1.74%) Robot Framework
6 16 (1.27%) Sonatype Nexus
7 13 (1.03%) Bitbucket
8 8 (0.63%) Selenium
8 8 (0.63%) TeamCity
9 7 (0.55%) Rational DOORS
10 6 (0.47%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.32%) CppUnit
11 4 (0.32%) PVCS
12 3 (0.24%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.24%) Subversion
13 2 (0.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 2 (0.16%) Snyk
13 2 (0.16%) Visual Studio
14 1 (0.079%) JUnit
14 1 (0.079%) MSI
General
1 296 (23.42%) Social Skills
2 110 (8.70%) Public Sector
3 108 (8.54%) Analytical Skills
4 90 (7.12%) Finance
5 36 (2.85%) Documentation Skills
6 35 (2.77%) Banking
7 31 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
8 20 (1.58%) Military
9 19 (1.50%) Legal
10 18 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
10 18 (1.42%) Telecoms
11 16 (1.27%) Manufacturing
12 14 (1.11%) Aerospace
13 10 (0.79%) Marketing
14 7 (0.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 7 (0.55%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (0.47%) Billing
15 6 (0.47%) Publishing
16 5 (0.40%) Electronics
16 5 (0.40%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 265 (20.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 136 (10.76%) Architect
3 106 (8.39%) Senior
4 100 (7.91%) VMware Engineer
5 87 (6.88%) Consultant
6 85 (6.72%) Network Engineer
7 65 (5.14%) Support Engineer
8 54 (4.27%) Administrator
9 49 (3.88%) Solutions Architect
10 47 (3.72%) Storage Engineer
11 46 (3.64%) Analyst
12 41 (3.24%) Lead
13 40 (3.16%) VMware Consultant
14 39 (3.09%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 37 (2.93%) Developer
15 37 (2.93%) Linux Engineer
16 36 (2.85%) Systems Administrator
17 35 (2.77%) DevOps Engineer
17 35 (2.77%) VMware Architect
17 35 (2.77%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (3.01%) LDAP
2 19 (1.50%) .NET
3 17 (1.34%) YAML
4 12 (0.95%) Elastic Stack
4 12 (0.95%) Middleware
5 11 (0.87%) Node.js
6 10 (0.79%) HTML
7 9 (0.71%) CSS
8 7 (0.55%) REST
8 7 (0.55%) Web Services
9 6 (0.47%) EDI
9 6 (0.47%) Flash
9 6 (0.47%) JSON
10 5 (0.40%) .NET Core
10 5 (0.40%) RESTful
10 5 (0.40%) SAML
11 4 (0.32%) XML
12 3 (0.24%) J2EE
12 3 (0.24%) LAMP
12 3 (0.24%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 194 (15.35%) Data Centre
2 97 (7.67%) PKI
3 75 (5.93%) Clustering
4 37 (2.93%) Replication
5 36 (2.85%) Client/Server
6 33 (2.61%) Private Cloud
7 31 (2.45%) Management Information System
8 30 (2.37%) Public Cloud
9 29 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
10 24 (1.90%) Linux Command Line
11 19 (1.50%) NHS
12 18 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
13 14 (1.11%) Driving Licence
14 13 (1.03%) VxBlock/Vblock
15 12 (0.95%) Onboarding
16 10 (0.79%) CMDB
16 10 (0.79%) Fat Client
16 10 (0.79%) Team-Oriented Environment
16 10 (0.79%) Thin Client
17 8 (0.63%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 609 (48.18%) Windows
2 418 (33.07%) Windows Server
3 368 (29.11%) Linux
4 123 (9.73%) Windows Server 2012
5 99 (7.83%) Windows 10
6 96 (7.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 96 (7.59%) Windows Server 2019
7 72 (5.70%) Unix
8 62 (4.91%) Windows Server 2016
9 45 (3.56%) Windows Server 2008
10 41 (3.24%) Ubuntu
11 37 (2.93%) VMS
12 31 (2.45%) Solaris
13 29 (2.29%) Windows 7
14 27 (2.14%) Debian
15 21 (1.66%) CentOS
16 19 (1.50%) Mac OS
16 19 (1.50%) Oracle Linux
17 16 (1.27%) Windows XP
18 12 (0.95%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 336 (26.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 188 (14.87%) Problem-Solving
3 182 (14.40%) Agile
4 173 (13.69%) ITIL
5 163 (12.90%) Migration
6 111 (8.78%) DevOps
7 83 (6.57%) High Availability
8 82 (6.49%) Disaster Recovery
9 79 (6.25%) Infrastructure as Code
10 76 (6.01%) Customer Service
11 70 (5.54%) Data Protection
12 67 (5.30%) CI/CD
13 57 (4.51%) Computer Science
14 56 (4.43%) Project Delivery
15 55 (4.35%) Cybersecurity
16 51 (4.03%) Configuration Management
17 50 (3.96%) Server Management
18 49 (3.88%) Change Management
19 48 (3.80%) Decision-Making
20 47 (3.72%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 232 (18.35%) PowerShell
2 187 (14.79%) Python
3 86 (6.80%) SQL
4 67 (5.30%) Bash
5 22 (1.74%) VBScript
6 21 (1.66%) Java
7 20 (1.58%) Shell Script
8 14 (1.11%) C#
9 13 (1.03%) JavaScript
10 12 (0.95%) Go
11 11 (0.87%) Ruby
12 10 (0.79%) Perl
13 8 (0.63%) C++
14 6 (0.47%) C
15 3 (0.24%) Bicep
15 3 (0.24%) VB.NET
16 2 (0.16%) Korn
16 2 (0.16%) PHP
17 1 (0.079%) T-SQL
17 1 (0.079%) VB
Qualifications
1 513 (40.59%) Security Cleared
2 290 (22.94%) SC Cleared
3 252 (19.94%) DV Cleared
4 138 (10.92%) Degree
5 89 (7.04%) Cisco Certification
6 72 (5.70%) Microsoft Certification
7 60 (4.75%) CCNA
7 60 (4.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 51 (4.03%) CCNP
9 42 (3.32%) MCSE
10 35 (2.77%) Computer Science Degree
11 30 (2.37%) Azure Certification
12 28 (2.22%) MCSA
13 16 (1.27%) ITIL Certification
14 15 (1.19%) Master's Degree
15 13 (1.03%) CCIE
16 10 (0.79%) Network+ Certification
17 8 (0.63%) DBS Check
17 8 (0.63%) VCAP
18 7 (0.55%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (3.16%) SLA
2 17 (1.34%) GDPR
3 14 (1.11%) NIST
4 12 (0.95%) PMO
5 11 (0.87%) NCSC
6 8 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 7 (0.55%) RMADS
8 6 (0.47%) QA
9 5 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
9 5 (0.40%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.32%) Accessibility
10 4 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 3 (0.24%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 2 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
13 1 (0.079%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.079%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 777 (61.47%) VMware Infrastructure
2 454 (35.92%) Active Directory
3 211 (16.69%) Hyper-V
4 191 (15.11%) VMware NSX
5 181 (14.32%) vSphere
6 151 (11.95%) VMware ESXi
7 63 (4.98%) Docker
8 54 (4.27%) Virtual Machines
9 38 (3.01%) KVM
10 32 (2.53%) Virtual Servers
11 24 (1.90%) VMware Workstation
12 19 (1.50%) XenApp
13 18 (1.42%) Firmware
14 16 (1.27%) vCloud
15 14 (1.11%) Terminal Services
16 13 (1.03%) Virtual Desktop
17 9 (0.71%) Microsoft App-V
18 8 (0.63%) BitLocker
19 5 (0.40%) UAG
19 5 (0.40%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 155 (12.26%) vCenter Server
2 148 (11.71%) Ansible
3 142 (11.23%) SCCM
4 112 (8.86%) Kubernetes
5 111 (8.78%) Terraform
6 57 (4.51%) WSUS
7 52 (4.11%) Microsoft Intune
8 51 (4.03%) vRealize
9 49 (3.88%) SCOM
10 40 (3.16%) VxRail
11 33 (2.61%) NetBackup
12 25 (1.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 25 (1.98%) EMC NetWorker
12 25 (1.98%) Puppet
13 17 (1.34%) Microsoft Clustering
14 16 (1.27%) Prometheus
14 16 (1.27%) Red Hat Satellite
15 14 (1.11%) Nagios
15 14 (1.11%) Progress Chef
16 13 (1.03%) vMotion
Vendors
1 426 (33.70%) Microsoft
2 177 (14.00%) Cisco
3 118 (9.34%) Dell
4 114 (9.02%) Red Hat
5 95 (7.52%) Citrix
6 85 (6.72%) Oracle
6 85 (6.72%) Veeam
7 61 (4.83%) Palo Alto
8 56 (4.43%) HP
9 50 (3.96%) EMC
10 42 (3.32%) Juniper
11 40 (3.16%) ServiceNow
11 40 (3.16%) SolarWinds
12 33 (2.61%) Splunk
13 28 (2.22%) Qualys
14 24 (1.90%) Aruba
15 23 (1.82%) Google
15 23 (1.82%) IBM
15 23 (1.82%) NetApp
15 23 (1.82%) Symantec