VMware Contracts in Cambridgeshire

VMware
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 52 45
Rank change year-on-year +25 -7 -15
Contract jobs citing VMware 18 3 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 6.52% 0.61% 2.19%
As % of the Vendors category 10.98% 1.70% 5.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 8
10th Percentile £463 - £311
25th Percentile £463 £235 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £240 £419
Median % change year-on-year +120.83% -42.69% -1.47%
75th Percentile £550 £245 £438
90th Percentile £555 - -
East of England median daily rate £513 £565 £600
% change year-on-year -9.21% -5.92% +48.15%

All Vendors
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 164 176 217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 59.42% 35.56% 36.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 49 108
10th Percentile £296 £220 £185
25th Percentile £379 £350 £235
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £498 £425
Median % change year-on-year -9.55% +17.06% -
75th Percentile £550 £582 £491
90th Percentile £641 £638 £568
East of England median daily rate £502 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +0.35% +11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 111 60
10th Percentile £14.84 - £13.29
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.23 £15.50 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.71% - -
75th Percentile £16.85 £21.42 £20.33
90th Percentile £21.46 £25.00 £20.56
East of England median hourly rate £21.28 £21.37 £19.81
% change year-on-year -0.42% +7.87% +24.79%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware in Cambridgeshire

VMware
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate trend for VMware in Cambridgeshire

VMware
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Hourly rate trend for VMware in Cambridgeshire

VMware
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Huntingdon - 7 £475 - 1
Cambridge +15 6 £550 +129.17% 6
VMware
East of England

VMware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (27.78%) GitHub
1 5 (27.78%) Nutanix
2 1 (5.56%) AWS
2 1 (5.56%) Azure
2 1 (5.56%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 9 (50.00%) Firewall
2 4 (22.22%) Cisco ASA
2 4 (22.22%) Fibre Channel
2 4 (22.22%) LAN
2 4 (22.22%) Network Security
2 4 (22.22%) VPN
2 4 (22.22%) VSAN
2 4 (22.22%) WAN
2 4 (22.22%) WLAN
3 2 (11.11%) DNS
4 1 (5.56%) SNA
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 8 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (55.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) VMware Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Network Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Senior
5 2 (11.11%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Cisco Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Lead
6 1 (5.56%) Nutanix Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Data Centre
2 4 (22.22%) Clustering
2 4 (22.22%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (22.22%) Replication
3 2 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Windows
1 4 (22.22%) Windows Server
2 2 (11.11%) Linux
3 1 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (5.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (44.44%) CI/CD
4 6 (33.33%) Agile
4 6 (33.33%) Waterfall
4 6 (33.33%) Zero Trust
5 5 (27.78%) Project Delivery
6 4 (22.22%) Capacity Management
6 4 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (22.22%) Customer Service
6 4 (22.22%) ITIL
6 4 (22.22%) Network Management
6 4 (22.22%) Network Monitoring
6 4 (22.22%) Network Virtualisation
6 4 (22.22%) Proactive Maintenance
6 4 (22.22%) Proactive Management
6 4 (22.22%) Problem Management
6 4 (22.22%) Virtual Environments
7 2 (11.11%) ITSM
7 2 (11.11%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) PowerShell
1 4 (22.22%) Python
1 4 (22.22%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (38.89%) Security Cleared
2 6 (33.33%) DV Cleared
3 4 (22.22%) SC Cleared
4 3 (16.67%) DBS Check
4 3 (16.67%) VCAP
4 3 (16.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 16 (88.89%) VMware NSX
2 10 (55.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (33.33%) Active Directory
4 5 (27.78%) Docker
5 4 (22.22%) Hyper-V
5 4 (22.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (38.89%) Ansible
1 7 (38.89%) VxRail
2 5 (27.78%) Terraform
3 4 (22.22%) Failover Clustering
3 4 (22.22%) FortiGate
3 4 (22.22%) Podman
3 4 (22.22%) PowerCLI
3 4 (22.22%) vCenter Server
4 2 (11.11%) Avamar
4 2 (11.11%) vRealize
5 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
5 1 (5.56%) Progress Chef
5 1 (5.56%) Puppet
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Dell
2 4 (22.22%) Cisco
2 4 (22.22%) LogicMonitor
3 2 (11.11%) LogRhythm
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.11%) Red Hat
3 2 (11.11%) ServiceNow
3 2 (11.11%) SolarWinds
4 1 (5.56%) Atlassian