VMware Contracts 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 13 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
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 11 8
Rank change year-on-year -5 -3 +9
Contract jobs citing VMware 8 17 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Dorset 8.51% 10.63% 13.89%
As % of the Vendors category 19.05% 29.31% 29.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 15 18
10th Percentile £361 - £159
25th Percentile £491 £175 £160
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £185 £268
Median % change year-on-year +197.60% -30.97% -17.62%
75th Percentile £575 £201 £450
90th Percentile - £476 £538
South West median daily rate £575 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 9
10th Percentile - - £43.54
25th Percentile - - £59.80
Median hourly rate - £70.66 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year - +13.97% +7.83%
75th Percentile - - £63.23
90th Percentile - - £65.78
South West median hourly rate - £40.00 £63.00
% change year-on-year - -36.51% +3.41%

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 42 58 101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 44.68% 36.25% 46.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 28 67
10th Percentile £287 £175 £160
25th Percentile £438 £175 £233
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £375 £500
Median % change year-on-year +46.67% -25.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £650 £519 £610
90th Percentile £738 £630 £670
South West median daily rate £514 £503 £525
% change year-on-year +2.19% -4.24% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 21 18
10th Percentile £36.25 - £18.55
25th Percentile £53.13 £13.69 £49.16
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.39 £56.33
Median % change year-on-year +40.12% -17.64% +10.95%
75th Percentile £67.50 £57.33 £61.68
90th Percentile - £63.75 £63.23
South West median hourly rate £36.00 £47.50 £60.70
% change year-on-year -24.21% -21.75% +32.17%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware in Dorset

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Daily rate trend for VMware in Dorset

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Daily Rate Histogram in Dorset

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware in Dorset over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware in Dorset

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Hourly rate trend for VMware in Dorset

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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 13 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 -2 6 £550 +10.00%
Bournemouth -8 1 - - 3
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South West

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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 (50.00%) Confluence
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (75.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
2 1 (12.50%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Firewall
1 2 (25.00%) VLAN
1 2 (25.00%) VoIP
1 2 (25.00%) VPN
2 1 (12.50%) DHCP
2 1 (12.50%) DNS
2 1 (12.50%) LAN
2 1 (12.50%) NAS
2 1 (12.50%) Network Security
2 1 (12.50%) SAN
2 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
2 1 (12.50%) WAN
2 1 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (12.50%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 4 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (50.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (12.50%) Military
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Desktop Support
3 1 (12.50%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) IT Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) IT Support
3 1 (12.50%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Clustering
2 1 (12.50%) CESG
2 1 (12.50%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
2 3 (37.50%) Windows 10
3 2 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (12.50%) VMS
4 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (62.50%) Agile
3 4 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 4 (50.00%) Critical Thinking
3 4 (50.00%) High Availability
3 4 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 4 (50.00%) NsoIT
3 4 (50.00%) Power Management
3 4 (50.00%) Service Management
3 4 (50.00%) System Testing
3 4 (50.00%) Validation
3 4 (50.00%) Waterfall
4 1 (12.50%) Customer Service
4 1 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (12.50%) Remote Monitoring and Management
4 1 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) Scrum
4 1 (12.50%) Server Building
4 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (12.50%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (62.50%) CCNA
2 5 (62.50%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (50.00%) Degree
3 4 (50.00%) Master's Degree
3 4 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (12.50%) CCNP
5 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) JSP 440
System Software
1 8 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (62.50%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (50.00%) VMware NSX
4 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
4 2 (25.00%) Hyper-V
5 1 (12.50%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (12.50%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) vCenter Server
2 2 (25.00%) SCCM
3 1 (12.50%) AppManager
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (12.50%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Cisco
2 4 (50.00%) Atlassian
3 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
4 1 (12.50%) Ivanti