VMware Contracts in Blandford Forum

VMware
Dorset > Blandford Forum

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Blandford Forum 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 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 2 6
Rank change year-on-year -2 +4 -
Contract jobs citing VMware 6 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Blandford Forum 60.00% 25.00% 16.67%
As % of the Vendors category 60.00% 100.00% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 1
10th Percentile £491 - -
25th Percentile £520 £450 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £575 £550 £538
90th Percentile - - -
Dorset median daily rate £538 £185 £375
% change year-on-year +190.84% -50.72% +15.38%

All Vendors
Blandford Forum

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 Blandford Forum.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 10 1 12
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Blandford Forum 100.00% 25.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 8
10th Percentile £496 - £574
25th Percentile £522 £450 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £610
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -18.03% -
75th Percentile £575 £550 £613
90th Percentile £580 - £626
Dorset median daily rate £519 £400 £475
% change year-on-year +29.69% -15.79% +5.56%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in Blandford Forum

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware in Blandford Forum

VMware
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Blandford Forum

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

Daily rate trend for VMware in Blandford Forum

VMware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Blandford Forum 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 4 (66.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) JIRA
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (66.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (16.67%) Military
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Virtualisation Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Clustering
2 1 (16.67%) CESG
2 1 (16.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) VMS
2 1 (16.67%) Windows 10
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (83.33%) Agile
3 4 (66.67%) Computer Science
3 4 (66.67%) Critical Thinking
3 4 (66.67%) High Availability
3 4 (66.67%) Network Virtualisation
3 4 (66.67%) NsoIT
3 4 (66.67%) Power Management
3 4 (66.67%) Service Management
3 4 (66.67%) System Testing
3 4 (66.67%) Validation
3 4 (66.67%) Waterfall
4 1 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) Scrum
4 1 (16.67%) Server Building
4 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (16.67%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (83.33%) CCNA
2 5 (83.33%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (66.67%) Degree
3 4 (66.67%) Master's Degree
3 4 (66.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (16.67%) CCNP
4 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) JSP 440
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (83.33%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (66.67%) VMware NSX
4 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
4 1 (16.67%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) vCenter Server
2 1 (16.67%) PowerCLI
2 1 (16.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Cisco
2 4 (66.67%) Atlassian
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft