VMware Contracts in Birmingham

VMware
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring knowledge or experience of VMware products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VMware over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two 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 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 47 26
Rank change year-on-year +16 -21 +37
Contract jobs citing VMware 21 14 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 4.09% 1.90% 6.52%
As % of the Vendors category 8.68% 4.56% 14.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 13 32
10th Percentile £280 £190 £351
25th Percentile £525 £200 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £689 £425 £453
Median % change year-on-year +62.12% -6.08% +5.23%
75th Percentile £700 £690 £652
90th Percentile - £965 £731
West Midlands median daily rate £501 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +17.88% -5.56% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £19.95 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £36.65 £19.95 £66.00
% change year-on-year +83.68% -69.77% +300.00%

All Vendors
Birmingham

VMware falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 242 307 391
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 47.08% 41.71% 44.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 205 227
10th Percentile £151 £263 £257
25th Percentile £323 £350 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +13.89% -7.69% +2.63%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £631
90th Percentile £689 £700 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £476 £450 £492
% change year-on-year +5.67% -8.44% +3.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 23 18
10th Percentile £19.06 £11.55 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.88 £14.00 £13.73
Median hourly rate £22.50 £24.65 £19.60
Median % change year-on-year -8.72% +25.75% +5.96%
75th Percentile £42.19 £33.13 £51.88
90th Percentile £53.25 £53.10 £97.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.32 £18.39 £20.71
% change year-on-year -0.35% -11.21% +19.82%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware in Birmingham

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for VMware in Birmingham

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Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware in Birmingham over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware in Birmingham

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for VMware in Birmingham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 1 (4.76%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (9.52%) Azure
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (4.76%) AWS
2 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
2 1 (4.76%) Nutanix
2 1 (4.76%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (19.05%) iSCSI
2 2 (9.52%) DHCP
2 2 (9.52%) DNS
3 1 (4.76%) Firewall
3 1 (4.76%) HTTP
3 1 (4.76%) OpenLDAP
3 1 (4.76%) SAN
3 1 (4.76%) SSL
3 1 (4.76%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Git
1 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.76%) JIRA
1 1 (4.76%) Maven
1 1 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (38.10%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (23.81%) Architect
2 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) 2nd Line Support
3 2 (9.52%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Support Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) VMware Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) 1st/2nd Line Support
4 1 (4.76%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Field Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Field Support Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Support
4 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Nutanix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) LDAP
1 1 (4.76%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) SCADA
2 1 (4.76%) Driving Licence
2 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (19.05%) VMS
1 4 (19.05%) Windows
2 1 (4.76%) CentOS
2 1 (4.76%) Debian
2 1 (4.76%) Linux
2 1 (4.76%) Ubuntu
2 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) Network Monitoring
2 5 (23.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (23.81%) Performance Metrics
3 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (19.05%) ITSM
3 4 (19.05%) Service Management
3 4 (19.05%) Storage Management
3 4 (19.05%) Storage Virtualisation
4 2 (9.52%) Migration
4 2 (9.52%) Validation
5 1 (4.76%) Agile
5 1 (4.76%) Asset Management
5 1 (4.76%) Capacity Management
5 1 (4.76%) DevOps
5 1 (4.76%) High Availability
5 1 (4.76%) Log Aggregation
5 1 (4.76%) Patch Management
5 1 (4.76%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (4.76%) Project Delivery
5 1 (4.76%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.76%) Python
1 1 (4.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (61.90%) Security Cleared
2 11 (52.38%) SC Cleared
3 4 (19.05%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 14 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (14.29%) vSphere
3 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
3 1 (4.76%) Docker
3 1 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (19.05%) Ansible
1 4 (19.05%) Terraform
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (4.76%) Nessus
2 1 (4.76%) Puppet
2 1 (4.76%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) SolarWinds
2 4 (19.05%) Broadcom
2 4 (19.05%) Foundry
3 1 (4.76%) Cisco
3 1 (4.76%) Sophos