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 8 August 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
8 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 46 41
Rank change year-on-year +15 -5 -17
Contract jobs citing VMware 15 3 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 4.49% 0.69% 1.62%
As % of the Vendors category 8.24% 1.62% 5.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 6
10th Percentile £527 - £303
25th Percentile £530 - £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £419
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +19.40% -1.47%
75th Percentile - - £438
90th Percentile £565 - -
East of England median daily rate £550 £550 £625
% change year-on-year - -12.00% +47.06%

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 182 185 171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 54.49% 42.73% 30.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 24 69
10th Percentile £255 £297 £185
25th Percentile £367 £384 £286
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £425
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +23.53% -
75th Percentile £603 £639 £506
90th Percentile £699 £738 £590
East of England median daily rate £528 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +5.60% +11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 129 44
10th Percentile £14.84 £14.16 £13.09
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.84 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.30 £16.23 £18.78
Median % change year-on-year +0.43% -13.58% +21.16%
75th Percentile £31.00 £16.85 £20.56
90th Percentile £58.38 £21.46 -
East of England median hourly rate £25.79 £16.23 £19.81
% change year-on-year +58.87% -18.07% -

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 8 August 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
Cambridge +11 11 £550 - 7
Huntingdon - 1 - - 9
Peterborough - 1 - - 2
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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (33.33%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) AWS
2 5 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
2 5 (33.33%) GitHub
3 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (6.67%) Azure
3 1 (6.67%) GCP
3 1 (6.67%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 7 (46.67%) DNS
2 5 (33.33%) Firewall
3 4 (26.67%) iSCSI
3 4 (26.67%) Network Security
3 4 (26.67%) SAN
3 4 (26.67%) VSAN
4 1 (6.67%) SNA
Development Applications
1 6 (40.00%) JIRA
2 5 (33.33%) GitLab
2 5 (33.33%) TeamCity
3 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (33.33%) Administrator
3 4 (26.67%) Linux Administrator
3 4 (26.67%) VMware Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) Systems Administrator
4 3 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 2 (13.33%) Senior
5 2 (13.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Analyst
6 1 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Lead
6 1 (6.67%) Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 4 (26.67%) Enterprise Storage
2 4 (26.67%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (26.67%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (33.33%) Linux
2 4 (26.67%) CentOS
2 4 (26.67%) Ubuntu
3 1 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (6.67%) Unix
3 1 (6.67%) Windows
3 1 (6.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 7 (46.67%) ITSM
2 6 (40.00%) Agile
2 6 (40.00%) Containerisation
2 6 (40.00%) Waterfall
2 6 (40.00%) Zero Trust
3 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 5 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (33.33%) Project Delivery
4 4 (26.67%) Network Virtualisation
5 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (13.33%) Data Science
6 2 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (13.33%) Network Architecture
6 2 (13.33%) Service Management
7 1 (6.67%) ITIL
7 1 (6.67%) Penetration Testing
7 1 (6.67%) Validation
7 1 (6.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 9 (60.00%) Python
2 5 (33.33%) Shell Script
3 4 (26.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (53.33%) Security Cleared
2 6 (40.00%) DV Cleared
3 5 (33.33%) Degree
3 5 (33.33%) SC Cleared
4 3 (20.00%) VCAP
4 3 (20.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (6.67%) CEH
5 1 (6.67%) CISSP
5 1 (6.67%) CompTIA CySA+
5 1 (6.67%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (40.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (6.67%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (53.33%) Active Directory
2 7 (46.67%) VMware NSX
3 5 (33.33%) Hyper-V
3 5 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (26.67%) vSphere
5 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (73.33%) Ansible
2 7 (46.67%) VxRail
3 6 (40.00%) Terraform
4 4 (26.67%) PowerCLI
4 4 (26.67%) vCenter Server
5 2 (13.33%) Avamar
5 2 (13.33%) Progress Chef
5 2 (13.33%) Puppet
5 2 (13.33%) vRealize
6 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
6 1 (6.67%) Salt
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) Dell
1 7 (46.67%) Microsoft
1 7 (46.67%) ServiceNow
2 2 (13.33%) LogRhythm
2 2 (13.33%) SolarWinds
3 1 (6.67%) Atlassian
3 1 (6.67%) Citrix
3 1 (6.67%) CrowdStrike
3 1 (6.67%) Red Hat
3 1 (6.67%) Tenable