VMware Contract Job Trends in Dorset

VMware
South West > Dorset

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Dorset 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 14 December 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
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 10 18
Rank change year-on-year 0 +8 -11
Contract jobs citing VMware 3 13 17
As % of all contract jobs in Dorset 3.45% 12.38% 7.36%
As % of the Vendors category 10.34% 25.00% 16.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 4
10th Percentile - - £164
25th Percentile £513 £223 £171
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £350 £189
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% +84.88% -12.96%
75th Percentile £556 £488 £279
90th Percentile £568 £503 £408
South West median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 10
10th Percentile - - £64.78
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £65.98
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £66.45
South West median hourly rate - £16.00 £65.98
% change year-on-year - -75.75% +4.54%

All Vendors
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 29 52 106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 33.33% 49.52% 45.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 24 50
10th Percentile £231 £223 £179
25th Percentile £366 £355 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £540 £559 £638
90th Percentile £558 £684 -
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 36
10th Percentile - - £23.43
25th Percentile - - £55.87
Median hourly rate £20.00 - £56.49
Median % change year-on-year - - +254.45%
75th Percentile - - £65.98
90th Percentile - - £69.62
South West median hourly rate £23.50 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -63.85% +18.18% -15.38%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VMware relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset.

VMware job vacancy trend in Dorset

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Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing VMware

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Hourly Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing VMware

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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 within the Dorset region over the 6 months to 14 December 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 -2 3 £525 -
VMware
South West

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset 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:

Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Git
1 3 (100.00%) GitLab
1 3 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Bash
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Docker
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Ansible
1 3 (100.00%) Grafana
1 3 (100.00%) Packer
1 3 (100.00%) Podman
1 3 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 3 (100.00%) Proxmox
1 3 (100.00%) Terraform