VMware Contracts in Bristol

VMware
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol 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 27 34 52
Rank change year-on-year +7 +18 +12
Contract jobs citing VMware 28 40 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 5.21% 3.78% 3.90%
As % of the Vendors category 11.76% 8.64% 11.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 27 36
10th Percentile £380 £345 £381
25th Percentile £458 £474 £602
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £675
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -25.93% +35.00%
75th Percentile £625 £612 £719
90th Percentile £725 £665 £772
South West median daily rate £575 £508 £550
% change year-on-year +13.30% -7.73% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 6
10th Percentile - £49.86 -
25th Percentile - £55.07 -
Median hourly rate - £67.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - +3.85% -
75th Percentile - £74.63 -
90th Percentile - £76.65 £74.38
South West median hourly rate - £40.00 £63.12
% change year-on-year - -36.62% +3.60%

All Vendors
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 238 463 422
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 44.32% 43.80% 33.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 242 298
10th Percentile £213 £201 £263
25th Percentile £335 £375 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £638
90th Percentile £674 £725 £725
South West median daily rate £516 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +0.57% -2.29% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 107 32
10th Percentile £18.17 £32.75 £16.66
25th Percentile £18.51 £43.75 £45.50
Median hourly rate £56.25 £62.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.27% -4.62% +72.07%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 -
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.00 £83.75
South West median hourly rate £40.84 £47.50 £63.00
% change year-on-year -14.02% -24.60% +33.74%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware in Bristol

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Daily rate trend for VMware in Bristol

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Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware in Bristol over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware in Bristol

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Hourly rate trend for VMware in Bristol

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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:

Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (21.43%) AWS
1 6 (21.43%) PaaS
1 6 (21.43%) SaaS
2 3 (10.71%) Azure
2 3 (10.71%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 6 (21.43%) PBX
1 6 (21.43%) VoIP
2 4 (14.29%) DNS
3 3 (10.71%) Firewall
4 1 (3.57%) 4G
4 1 (3.57%) 5G
4 1 (3.57%) DHCP
4 1 (3.57%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.71%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (21.43%) Telecoms
2 5 (17.86%) Public Sector
3 4 (14.29%) Legal
4 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (21.43%) Architect
1 6 (21.43%) Infrastructure Architect
2 4 (14.29%) Linux Engineer
3 3 (10.71%) Administrator
3 3 (10.71%) DevOps Administrator
3 3 (10.71%) Linux Administrator
3 3 (10.71%) Linux DevOps Administrator
3 3 (10.71%) Linux/Unix DevOps
4 2 (7.14%) Analyst
4 2 (7.14%) Cloud Specialist
4 2 (7.14%) Lead
4 2 (7.14%) Project Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Project Leader
4 2 (7.14%) Server Specialist
4 2 (7.14%) Service Analyst
4 2 (7.14%) Service Desk Analyst
4 2 (7.14%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Windows Server Specialist
4 2 (7.14%) Windows Specialist
5 1 (3.57%) Lead Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.71%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 6 (21.43%) Blackberry
1 6 (21.43%) Video Conferencing
2 3 (10.71%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.57%) Clustering
3 1 (3.57%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 14 (50.00%) Linux
2 11 (39.29%) Windows
3 3 (10.71%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (39.29%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (28.57%) Migration
3 7 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 7 (25.00%) Task Automation
4 6 (21.43%) Commercial Awareness
4 6 (21.43%) Impact Assessments
4 6 (21.43%) Privileged Access Management
4 6 (21.43%) Roadmaps
4 6 (21.43%) Root Cause Analysis
4 6 (21.43%) Validation
5 5 (17.86%) Cost Reduction
5 5 (17.86%) Customer Requirements
5 5 (17.86%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (17.86%) DevOps
5 5 (17.86%) Product Roadmap
5 5 (17.86%) Service Design
5 5 (17.86%) Thought Leadership
6 4 (14.29%) ITIL
7 3 (10.71%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (10.71%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (28.57%) Bash
1 8 (28.57%) Python
2 3 (10.71%) Perl
3 1 (3.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 24 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 13 (46.43%) DV Cleared
2 13 (46.43%) SC Cleared
3 6 (21.43%) CCNP
3 6 (21.43%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (21.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (7.14%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) Def Stans
System Software
1 16 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (32.14%) Active Directory
3 8 (28.57%) Docker
4 1 (3.57%) Hyper-V
4 1 (3.57%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (3.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (28.57%) Kubernetes
2 7 (25.00%) Ansible
3 3 (10.71%) Grafana
3 3 (10.71%) Prometheus
3 3 (10.71%) Terraform
4 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (3.57%) SCCM
4 1 (3.57%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 7 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (21.43%) Avaya
2 6 (21.43%) Cisco
2 6 (21.43%) Ericsson
2 6 (21.43%) F5
2 6 (21.43%) Juniper
2 6 (21.43%) Nokia
2 6 (21.43%) Palo Alto
2 6 (21.43%) Ribbon
3 5 (17.86%) Red Hat
4 4 (14.29%) NetApp
5 1 (3.57%) Veritas