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 5 November 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
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 27 24
Rank change year-on-year -4 -3 +7
Contract jobs citing VMware 6 1 5
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 3.02% 0.52% 2.39%
As % of the Vendors category 5.71% 1.56% 8.20%
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 105 64 61
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 52.76% 32.99% 29.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 20 23
10th Percentile £363 £305 £129
25th Percentile £438 £405 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £447 £475
Median % change year-on-year +23.04% -5.89% -
75th Percentile £625 £591 £555
90th Percentile £700 £626 £665
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £525 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 2
10th Percentile £18.18 £36.25 £15.60
25th Percentile £22.19 £51.25 £15.76
Median hourly rate £29.75 £57.50 £16.47
Median % change year-on-year -48.26% +249.17% -1.60%
75th Percentile £37.69 £75.00 £17.12
90th Percentile £41.93 - £17.24
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £37.50 £16.23 £14.50
% change year-on-year +131.05% +11.93% -6.45%

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 5 November 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 3 (50.00%) OpenStack
2 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
1 3 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) DNS
1 4 (66.67%) SAN
2 3 (50.00%) Firewall
2 3 (50.00%) iSCSI
3 2 (33.33%) VLAN
3 2 (33.33%) Wireless
4 1 (16.67%) DHCP
4 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) GitLab
1 3 (50.00%) JIRA
1 3 (50.00%) TeamCity
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Administrator
2 3 (50.00%) Linux Administrator
2 3 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps Administrator
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Linux Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 3 (50.00%) Enterprise Storage
1 3 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Linux
2 4 (66.67%) CentOS
2 4 (66.67%) Ubuntu
3 3 (50.00%) Windows
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (50.00%) ITSM
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) Network Management
2 2 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (33.33%) Server Management
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Python
1 3 (50.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (66.67%) Hyper-V
3 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) ServiceNow
3 2 (33.33%) Cisco
3 2 (33.33%) Dell
3 2 (33.33%) Intel
3 2 (33.33%) Palo Alto