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 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 73 58 77
Rank change year-on-year -15 +19 -8
Contract jobs citing VMware 1,213 2,222 2,808
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.85% 3.90% 3.21%
As % of the Vendors category 6.70% 9.08% 8.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 827 1,564 2,039
10th Percentile £273 £316 £264
25th Percentile £380 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +7.95%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £663
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £513 £426
% change year-on-year -2.44% +20.31% +1.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 119 67
10th Percentile £23.80 £27.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £40.00 £44.38 £20.00
Median hourly rate £46.39 £63.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.37% +40.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £71.25 £68.75 £61.97
90th Percentile £80.00 £82.75 £68.43
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.18 £53.96 £28.41
% change year-on-year -14.41% +89.92% -28.98%

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 18,107 24,474 35,023
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.55% 42.96% 40.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,238 16,399 23,314
10th Percentile £263 £269 £300
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £630 £644 £638
90th Percentile £738 £741 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £465
% change year-on-year - +7.53% +8.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,113 668 887
10th Percentile £12.04 £15.21 £12.03
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.74 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.50 £41.98 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.78% +95.24% -2.27%
75th Percentile £57.33 £65.00 £47.96
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.23 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -42.77% +97.37% +2.70%

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 16 May 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 16 May 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 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
England -11 1,096 £500 -4.76% 634
UK excluding London -10 825 £500 -2.44% 507
South East -4 354 £513 -1.44% 131
London -11 320 £500 -5.66% 138
Work from Home -43 310 £475 -8.65% 198
South West -4 165 £503 -8.64% 76
North of England -18 127 £380 -11.63% 119
North West -29 76 £350 -22.22% 66
Midlands -21 74 £500 +3.09% 106
Scotland -10 61 £484 -3.30% 16
West Midlands -11 50 £425 -5.56% 57
Yorkshire +5 42 £380 -8.71% 42
East of England -44 36 £550 -8.33% 56
East Midlands -13 23 £550 +10.00% 49
North East +7 9 £550 +29.41% 13
Wales -10 8 £225 -57.14% 9
Northern Ireland +4 1 £525 - 6

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
1 139 (11.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 53 (4.37%) Confluence
3 51 (4.20%) SharePoint
4 18 (1.48%) Exchange Server 2010
4 18 (1.48%) IIS
5 17 (1.40%) OpenStack
6 14 (1.15%) Exchange Server 2013
7 7 (0.58%) SharePoint 2010
7 7 (0.58%) SharePoint Server
8 6 (0.49%) Exchange Server 2007
9 5 (0.41%) nginx
10 4 (0.33%) IBM Domino
10 4 (0.33%) MQSeries
11 3 (0.25%) Skype for Business
11 3 (0.25%) WordPress
12 2 (0.16%) Apache
12 2 (0.16%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.16%) Traefik
13 1 (0.082%) Site Server
13 1 (0.082%) WebSphere
Applications
1 40 (3.30%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.082%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.082%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.082%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.16%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
3 2 (0.16%) RMDS
3 2 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.16%) SystmOne
4 1 (0.082%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.082%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.082%) Eikon
4 1 (0.082%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.082%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 316 (26.05%) Azure
2 185 (15.25%) Microsoft 365
3 170 (14.01%) AWS
4 53 (4.37%) Entra ID
5 46 (3.79%) IaaS
6 38 (3.13%) GCP
7 35 (2.89%) PaaS
8 32 (2.64%) Azure DevOps
9 27 (2.23%) Nutanix
10 24 (1.98%) GitHub
10 24 (1.98%) SaaS
11 23 (1.90%) Cloud Computing
12 22 (1.81%) OpenShift
13 16 (1.32%) OCI
13 16 (1.32%) OneDrive
14 14 (1.15%) Amazon EC2
15 11 (0.91%) Mimecast
15 11 (0.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 9 (0.74%) Rubrik
16 9 (0.74%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 225 (18.55%) Firewall
2 212 (17.48%) DNS
3 163 (13.44%) SAN
4 151 (12.45%) DHCP
5 105 (8.66%) WAN
6 97 (8.00%) LAN
7 92 (7.58%) VPN
8 77 (6.35%) TCP/IP
9 65 (5.36%) VSAN
10 55 (4.53%) NAS
11 43 (3.54%) Wi-Fi
12 39 (3.22%) Wireless
13 35 (2.89%) VLAN
14 31 (2.56%) Network Security
15 29 (2.39%) MPLS
16 22 (1.81%) SD-WAN
17 20 (1.65%) VoIP
18 18 (1.48%) Remote Desktop
19 17 (1.40%) Cisco Nexus
19 17 (1.40%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (6.10%) SQL Server
2 25 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (1.73%) Oracle Database
4 20 (1.65%) MySQL
5 15 (1.24%) MongoDB
6 14 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
7 13 (1.07%) Elasticsearch
8 8 (0.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 7 (0.58%) Metadata
9 7 (0.58%) PowerPivot
10 6 (0.49%) Microsoft Power View
10 6 (0.49%) RDBMS
10 6 (0.49%) Relational Database
11 4 (0.33%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (0.33%) Power BI
12 3 (0.25%) DB2
13 2 (0.16%) CouchDB
13 2 (0.16%) Electronic Patient Records
13 2 (0.16%) SAP HANA
14 1 (0.082%) Navicat
Development Applications
1 79 (6.51%) JIRA
2 41 (3.38%) GitLab
3 36 (2.97%) Jenkins
4 32 (2.64%) Git
5 22 (1.81%) Robot Framework
6 16 (1.32%) Sonatype Nexus
7 13 (1.07%) Bitbucket
8 8 (0.66%) Artifactory
8 8 (0.66%) Selenium
8 8 (0.66%) TeamCity
9 6 (0.49%) Rational DOORS
10 3 (0.25%) CppUnit
10 3 (0.25%) PVCS
10 3 (0.25%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.25%) Subversion
10 3 (0.25%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.16%) Octopus Deploy
11 2 (0.16%) Snyk
12 1 (0.082%) GoCD
General
1 274 (22.59%) Social Skills
2 108 (8.90%) Analytical Skills
3 101 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 90 (7.42%) Finance
5 37 (3.05%) Documentation Skills
6 33 (2.72%) Banking
7 23 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
8 22 (1.81%) Military
9 18 (1.48%) Legal
9 18 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
9 18 (1.48%) Telecoms
10 15 (1.24%) Manufacturing
11 13 (1.07%) Aerospace
12 10 (0.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 10 (0.82%) Marketing
13 7 (0.58%) Financial Institution
14 6 (0.49%) Billing
14 6 (0.49%) French Language
14 6 (0.49%) Publishing
15 5 (0.41%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 259 (21.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 134 (11.05%) Architect
3 98 (8.08%) VMware Engineer
4 93 (7.67%) Senior
5 81 (6.68%) Consultant
5 81 (6.68%) Network Engineer
6 56 (4.62%) Storage Engineer
7 55 (4.53%) Support Engineer
8 48 (3.96%) Administrator
8 48 (3.96%) Solutions Architect
9 45 (3.71%) Analyst
10 38 (3.13%) VMware Consultant
10 38 (3.13%) Wintel Engineer
11 36 (2.97%) Linux Engineer
12 35 (2.89%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 35 (2.89%) VMware Architect
13 33 (2.72%) Integration Engineer
14 32 (2.64%) Cloud Engineer
14 32 (2.64%) DevOps Engineer
15 30 (2.47%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (2.23%) LDAP
2 20 (1.65%) .NET
3 13 (1.07%) Elastic Stack
4 12 (0.99%) Middleware
4 12 (0.99%) YAML
5 11 (0.91%) Node.js
6 9 (0.74%) CSS
6 9 (0.74%) HTML
6 9 (0.74%) Web Services
7 8 (0.66%) REST
8 6 (0.49%) JSON
9 5 (0.41%) Flash
9 5 (0.41%) RESTful
10 4 (0.33%) .NET Core
10 4 (0.33%) EDI
10 4 (0.33%) ModSecurity
10 4 (0.33%) XML
11 3 (0.25%) Apache NiFi
11 3 (0.25%) J2EE
11 3 (0.25%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 180 (14.84%) Data Centre
2 97 (8.00%) PKI
3 66 (5.44%) Clustering
4 36 (2.97%) Client/Server
4 36 (2.97%) Replication
5 31 (2.56%) Private Cloud
5 31 (2.56%) Public Cloud
6 27 (2.23%) Management Information System
7 23 (1.90%) Linux Command Line
8 20 (1.65%) NHS
9 18 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
10 14 (1.15%) Driving Licence
10 14 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
11 13 (1.07%) Onboarding
11 13 (1.07%) VxBlock/Vblock
12 9 (0.74%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 9 (0.74%) Fat Client
12 9 (0.74%) Thin Client
13 8 (0.66%) CMDB
13 8 (0.66%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 583 (48.06%) Windows
2 392 (32.32%) Windows Server
3 362 (29.84%) Linux
4 114 (9.40%) Windows Server 2012
5 100 (8.24%) Windows 10
6 96 (7.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 88 (7.25%) Windows Server 2019
8 70 (5.77%) Unix
9 60 (4.95%) Windows Server 2016
10 37 (3.05%) Windows Server 2008
11 36 (2.97%) VMS
12 34 (2.80%) Ubuntu
13 28 (2.31%) Solaris
14 23 (1.90%) CentOS
15 22 (1.81%) Windows 7
16 21 (1.73%) Debian
17 17 (1.40%) Mac OS
17 17 (1.40%) Windows XP
18 16 (1.32%) Oracle Linux
19 9 (0.74%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 331 (27.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 185 (15.25%) Problem-Solving
3 174 (14.34%) Agile
4 156 (12.86%) ITIL
4 156 (12.86%) Migration
5 104 (8.57%) DevOps
6 81 (6.68%) High Availability
7 78 (6.43%) Disaster Recovery
8 70 (5.77%) Customer Service
9 69 (5.69%) Infrastructure as Code
10 65 (5.36%) CI/CD
11 59 (4.86%) Cybersecurity
11 59 (4.86%) Data Protection
12 55 (4.53%) Project Delivery
13 54 (4.45%) Computer Science
14 51 (4.20%) Change Management
14 51 (4.20%) Server Management
15 49 (4.04%) Vulnerability Management
16 47 (3.87%) Configuration Management
17 46 (3.79%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 220 (18.14%) PowerShell
2 165 (13.60%) Python
3 85 (7.01%) SQL
4 62 (5.11%) Bash
5 21 (1.73%) Java
5 21 (1.73%) Shell Script
5 21 (1.73%) VBScript
6 15 (1.24%) C#
7 13 (1.07%) Go
7 13 (1.07%) JavaScript
8 11 (0.91%) Perl
9 10 (0.82%) Ruby
10 7 (0.58%) C++
11 5 (0.41%) C
12 3 (0.25%) Bicep
12 3 (0.25%) PHP
12 3 (0.25%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.082%) Elixir
13 1 (0.082%) Groovy
13 1 (0.082%) Korn
Qualifications
1 489 (40.31%) Security Cleared
2 259 (21.35%) SC Cleared
3 249 (20.53%) DV Cleared
4 133 (10.96%) Degree
5 81 (6.68%) Cisco Certification
6 73 (6.02%) Microsoft Certification
7 56 (4.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 53 (4.37%) CCNA
9 47 (3.87%) CCNP
10 43 (3.54%) MCSE
11 33 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
12 30 (2.47%) Azure Certification
13 29 (2.39%) MCSA
14 15 (1.24%) Master's Degree
15 14 (1.15%) ITIL Certification
16 12 (0.99%) CCIE
17 8 (0.66%) Network+ Certification
17 8 (0.66%) VCAP
18 7 (0.58%) DBS Check
19 6 (0.49%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (3.13%) SLA
2 16 (1.32%) NIST
3 14 (1.15%) GDPR
4 12 (0.99%) PMO
5 10 (0.82%) NCSC
6 7 (0.58%) RMADS
7 6 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.41%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.41%) QA
9 4 (0.33%) Disclosure Scotland
10 3 (0.25%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 2 (0.16%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.082%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.082%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.082%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 746 (61.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 425 (35.04%) Active Directory
3 206 (16.98%) Hyper-V
4 188 (15.50%) VMware NSX
5 177 (14.59%) vSphere
6 133 (10.96%) VMware ESXi
7 61 (5.03%) Docker
8 50 (4.12%) Virtual Machines
9 33 (2.72%) KVM
10 30 (2.47%) Virtual Servers
11 19 (1.57%) Firmware
11 19 (1.57%) XenApp
12 18 (1.48%) VMware Workstation
13 16 (1.32%) vCloud
14 13 (1.07%) Virtual Desktop
15 12 (0.99%) Terminal Services
16 11 (0.91%) BitLocker
17 9 (0.74%) VMware Server
18 7 (0.58%) Microsoft App-V
19 4 (0.33%) Samba
Systems Management
1 140 (11.54%) SCCM
2 139 (11.46%) vCenter Server
3 137 (11.29%) Ansible
4 108 (8.90%) Kubernetes
5 102 (8.41%) Terraform
6 62 (5.11%) WSUS
7 52 (4.29%) SCOM
8 44 (3.63%) Microsoft Intune
9 36 (2.97%) VxRail
10 35 (2.89%) vRealize
11 34 (2.80%) NetBackup
12 22 (1.81%) EMC NetWorker
13 20 (1.65%) Puppet
14 18 (1.48%) Red Hat Satellite
15 17 (1.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 14 (1.15%) Microsoft Clustering
16 14 (1.15%) Nagios
16 14 (1.15%) Prometheus
17 13 (1.07%) Nessus
18 12 (0.99%) Rancher
Vendors
1 403 (33.22%) Microsoft
2 161 (13.27%) Cisco
3 115 (9.48%) Dell
4 107 (8.82%) Red Hat
5 87 (7.17%) Citrix
6 85 (7.01%) Veeam
7 82 (6.76%) Oracle
8 57 (4.70%) Palo Alto
9 49 (4.04%) HP
10 43 (3.54%) EMC
11 37 (3.05%) Juniper
12 34 (2.80%) ServiceNow
13 33 (2.72%) SolarWinds
14 27 (2.23%) NetApp
14 27 (2.23%) Qualys
14 27 (2.23%) Splunk
15 23 (1.90%) Google
15 23 (1.90%) IBM
16 21 (1.73%) Symantec
17 20 (1.65%) F5