VMware Infrastructure Contracts in Dorset

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Dorset requiring VMware Infrastructure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VMware Infrastructure over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 26 20
Rank change year-on-year +12 -6 0
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 10 2 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Dorset 10.20% 1.21% 6.94%
As % of the System Software category 31.25% 25.00% 30.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 6
10th Percentile £220 £408 £450
25th Percentile £223 £420 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £456 £525
Median % change year-on-year +17.81% -13.10% +31.25%
75th Percentile £575 £483 £538
90th Percentile - £489 £556
South West median daily rate £575 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +6.98% -2.27% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 8
10th Percentile - - £56.76
25th Percentile - - £60.48
Median hourly rate - - £62.00
75th Percentile - - £63.23
90th Percentile - - £67.06
South West median hourly rate - £40.00 £63.23
% change year-on-year - -36.74% +9.97%

All System Software Skills
Dorset

VMware Infrastructure falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 32 8 50
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 32.65% 4.85% 23.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 3 28
10th Percentile £223 £238 £200
25th Percentile £409 £299 £317
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +26.47% -5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £472 £520
90th Percentile £675 £485 £538
South West median daily rate £550 £508 £500
% change year-on-year +8.37% +1.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 19
10th Percentile £15.45 - £13.25
25th Percentile £15.90 £14.00 £17.06
Median hourly rate £16.78 £42.33 £54.83
Median % change year-on-year -60.36% -22.80% +8.00%
75th Percentile £17.65 £70.66 £61.35
90th Percentile £18.08 - £63.23
South West median hourly rate £40.63 £68.75 £60.00
% change year-on-year -40.91% +14.58% +21.24%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware Infrastructure in Dorset

VMware Infrastructure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Daily rate trend for VMware Infrastructure in Dorset

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Histogram in Dorset

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in Dorset over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure in Dorset

VMware Infrastructure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Hourly rate trend for VMware Infrastructure in Dorset

VMware Infrastructure
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware Infrastructure within the Dorset 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
Blandford Forum - 6 £550 -
Bournemouth - 1 - - 2
VMware Infrastructure
South West

VMware Infrastructure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Dorset 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 4 (40.00%) Confluence
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (30.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (80.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (30.00%) OneDrive
3 1 (10.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) VLAN
1 4 (40.00%) VoIP
1 4 (40.00%) VPN
2 3 (30.00%) DHCP
2 3 (30.00%) DNS
2 3 (30.00%) LAN
2 3 (30.00%) WAN
2 3 (30.00%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (20.00%) Firewall
4 1 (10.00%) NAS
4 1 (10.00%) Network Security
4 1 (10.00%) SAN
4 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (10.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (10.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Support Engineer
1 4 (40.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Desktop Support
2 2 (20.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) IT Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) IT Support
3 1 (10.00%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Clustering
2 1 (10.00%) CESG
2 1 (10.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (60.00%) Windows
2 5 (50.00%) Windows 10
3 2 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (10.00%) VMS
4 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (50.00%) Agile
3 4 (40.00%) Computer Science
3 4 (40.00%) Critical Thinking
3 4 (40.00%) High Availability
3 4 (40.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 4 (40.00%) NsoIT
3 4 (40.00%) Power Management
3 4 (40.00%) Service Management
3 4 (40.00%) System Testing
3 4 (40.00%) Validation
3 4 (40.00%) Waterfall
4 3 (30.00%) Customer Service
5 1 (10.00%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (10.00%) Remote Monitoring and Management
5 1 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (10.00%) Scrum
5 1 (10.00%) Server Building
5 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (10.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (50.00%) CCNA
2 5 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (40.00%) Degree
3 4 (40.00%) Master's Degree
3 4 (40.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (10.00%) CCNP
5 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) JSP 440
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (40.00%) VMware NSX
3 2 (20.00%) Hyper-V
4 1 (10.00%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (10.00%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) SCCM
1 4 (40.00%) vCenter Server
2 3 (30.00%) AppManager
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (10.00%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) VMware
2 5 (50.00%) Cisco
2 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (40.00%) Atlassian
4 3 (30.00%) Ivanti