VMware Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

VMware
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridge 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 14 December 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
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 25 25
Rank change year-on-year -5 0 +3
Contract jobs citing VMware 8 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 3.85% 0.62% 2.19%
As % of the Vendors category 7.55% 1.64% 8.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £443 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 - -
75th Percentile £530 - -
90th Percentile £580 - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £473 £500 £200
% change year-on-year -5.50% +150.00% -52.94%

All Vendors
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 106 61 47
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 50.96% 37.65% 25.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 22 16
10th Percentile £300 £316 £120
25th Percentile £431 £408 £228
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 £484
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -6.98% +7.50%
75th Percentile £624 £588 £564
90th Percentile £675 £611 £719
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £490 £454 £475
% change year-on-year +7.93% -4.42% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile £18.57 - -
25th Percentile £23.16 £65.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £23.83 £70.00 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year -65.96% +337.50% -9.71%
75th Percentile £24.49 £75.00 £16.50
90th Percentile £36.65 - -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £23.83 £16.23 £14.16
% change year-on-year +46.80% +14.62% -8.65%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

VMware job vacancy trend in Cambridge

VMware
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing VMware.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing VMware

VMware
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridge

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware in Cambridge over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware in Cambridge

VMware
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing VMware.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing VMware

VMware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) OpenStack
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
1 1 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) Firewall
2 2 (25.00%) DNS
2 2 (25.00%) SAN
2 2 (25.00%) VLAN
2 2 (25.00%) Wireless
3 1 (12.50%) DHCP
3 1 (12.50%) iSCSI
3 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) GitLab
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
1 1 (12.50%) TeamCity
General
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Consultant
1 4 (50.00%) VMware Consultant
2 3 (37.50%) Administrator
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps Administrator
3 2 (25.00%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Linux Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Linux
2 3 (37.50%) Windows
3 2 (25.00%) CentOS
3 2 (25.00%) Ubuntu
4 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
4 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 4 (50.00%) Security Hardening
2 2 (25.00%) DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) Network Management
2 2 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (25.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (25.00%) Server Management
3 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
3 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
1 1 (12.50%) Python
1 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) DV Cleared
1 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (87.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (50.00%) VMware NSX
3 2 (25.00%) Hyper-V
3 2 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Cisco
1 2 (25.00%) Dell
1 2 (25.00%) Intel
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (25.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow