VMware Contract Job Trends in Devon

VMware
South West > Devon

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Devon 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 16 September 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
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 31 29
Rank change year-on-year +7 -2 -9
Contract jobs citing VMware 1 5 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Devon 0.66% 2.19% 0.55%
As % of the Vendors category 3.03% 6.58% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 £525 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £325
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +69.23% -21.21%
75th Percentile £488 £600 £338
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £575 £530 £538
% change year-on-year +8.49% -1.40% +2.38%

All Vendors
Devon

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 Devon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 33 76 47
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Devon 21.71% 33.33% 25.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 52 35
10th Percentile £273 £164 £223
25th Percentile £275 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% -20.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £521 £600 £675
90th Percentile £539 £683 £705
South West median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £19.60 - £19.49
25th Percentile £21.68 - £29.57
Median hourly rate £25.15 - £47.76
Median % change year-on-year - - +298.02%
75th Percentile £26.97 - £64.57
90th Percentile £28.06 - £73.83
South West median hourly rate £20.69 £70.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -70.45% +23.92% +4.61%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in Devon

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware in Devon

VMware
Daily Rate Trend in Devon

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Devon citing VMware

VMware
Hourly Rate Trend in Devon

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Devon citing VMware

VMware
Contract Job Locations in Devon

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware within the Devon region over the 6 months to 16 September 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
Plymouth -2 1 £475 -20.83%
VMware
South West

VMware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Devon 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 1 (100.00%) OpenShift
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat