VMware Contract Job Trends 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 19 October 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
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 4 1 3
Rank change year-on-year -3 +2 -2
Contract jobs citing VMware 1 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in Blandford Forum 16.67% 100.00% 33.33%
As % of the Vendors category 100.00% 100.00% 40.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - - £423
25th Percentile £525 £513 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +10.53% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £513
90th Percentile - - £528
Dorset median daily rate £205 £475 £302
% change year-on-year -56.84% +57.40% +14.97%

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 1 2 5
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Blandford Forum 16.67% 100.00% 83.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 £513 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £325
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +61.54% -23.53%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £438
90th Percentile - - £498
Dorset median daily rate £463 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -9.76% +2.50% +11.11%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in Blandford Forum

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VMware relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Blandford Forum.

VMware job vacancy trend in Blandford Forum

VMware
Daily Rate Trend in Blandford Forum

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Blandford Forum citing VMware.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Blandford Forum citing VMware

VMware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Blandford Forum by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Packer
1 1 (100.00%) Podman
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Proxmox
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform