VMware Contracts in the East of England

VMware
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 73 29
Rank change year-on-year +25 -44 +20
Contract jobs citing VMware 34 39 129
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 3.62% 2.04% 6.24%
As % of the Vendors category 6.79% 5.47% 14.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 24 91
10th Percentile £248 £235 £345
25th Percentile £463 £250 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.21% -5.92% +48.15%
75th Percentile £569 £716 £700
90th Percentile £598 £725 £788
England median daily rate £550 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 11
10th Percentile - £65.25 -
25th Percentile £71.25 £86.25 £65.25
Median hourly rate £72.50 £87.50 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.14% +33.59% +130.55%
75th Percentile £73.75 £88.75 £74.50
90th Percentile - £89.50 -
England median hourly rate £72.50 £46.18 £63.00
% change year-on-year +56.99% -26.70% +76.84%

All Vendors
East of England

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 the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 501 713 916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 53.41% 37.35% 44.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 355 578
10th Percentile £225 £200 £187
25th Percentile £405 £348 £295
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.35% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £600 £588 £600
90th Percentile £676 £701 £700
England median daily rate £525 £518 £538
% change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 218 116
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.00 £13.29
25th Percentile £15.53 £14.48 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.28 £21.37 £19.81
Median % change year-on-year -0.42% +7.87% +24.79%
75th Percentile £64.38 £47.25 £64.06
90th Percentile £85.00 £76.68 £65.75
England median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
% change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing VMware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for VMware in the East of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for VMware in the East of England

VMware
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware in the East of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for VMware in the East of England

VMware
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware within the East of England 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
Cambridgeshire +25 18 £530 +120.83% 7
Hertfordshire +10 10 £550 -15.38% 18
Essex +13 4 £245 +15.29% 11
Suffolk - 2 £369 -
VMware
England

VMware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 8 (23.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (14.71%) Skype for Business
3 4 (11.76%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 4 (11.76%) Exchange Server 2013
4 3 (8.82%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (8.82%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (17.65%) Cohesity
2 5 (14.71%) GitHub
2 5 (14.71%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (14.71%) Nutanix
3 3 (8.82%) OneDrive
4 2 (5.88%) AWS
4 2 (5.88%) Azure
5 1 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.94%) Amazon ELB
5 1 (2.94%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.94%) GCP
5 1 (2.94%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (35.29%) Firewall
2 8 (23.53%) VPN
3 7 (20.59%) DNS
3 7 (20.59%) LAN
3 7 (20.59%) WAN
4 6 (17.65%) SAN
5 5 (14.71%) Network Security
5 5 (14.71%) Skype
5 5 (14.71%) VSAN
6 4 (11.76%) Cisco ASA
6 4 (11.76%) Fibre Channel
6 4 (11.76%) IMAP
6 4 (11.76%) SMTP
6 4 (11.76%) WLAN
7 3 (8.82%) DHCP
7 3 (8.82%) VLAN
7 3 (8.82%) VoIP
7 3 (8.82%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (5.88%) Intrusion Detection
9 1 (2.94%) SNA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.88%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.94%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (5.88%) GitLab
1 2 (5.88%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.94%) JIRA
General
1 11 (32.35%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.76%) Public Sector
3 3 (8.82%) Finance
3 3 (8.82%) Manufacturing
4 2 (5.88%) Electronics
4 2 (5.88%) Marketing
4 2 (5.88%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.94%) Aerospace
5 1 (2.94%) Legal
Job Titles
1 10 (29.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (17.65%) Senior
2 6 (17.65%) VMware Engineer
3 4 (11.76%) Messaging Engineer
3 4 (11.76%) Network Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Architect
4 3 (8.82%) Desktop Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Desktop Support
4 3 (8.82%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Support Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Systems Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Senior Desktop Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Senior Desktop Support
5 2 (5.88%) Senior Desktop Support Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) Senior Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.94%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.65%) Data Centre
2 5 (14.71%) Blackberry
3 4 (11.76%) Clustering
3 4 (11.76%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (11.76%) Replication
4 2 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.94%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.94%) FMCG
5 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.94%) PKI
5 1 (2.94%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.94%) RSA SecurID
Operating Systems
1 13 (38.24%) Windows
2 9 (26.47%) Windows Server
3 4 (11.76%) Linux
4 3 (8.82%) Windows 10
5 2 (5.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (5.88%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (5.88%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (2.94%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (35.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 12 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (26.47%) CI/CD
3 7 (20.59%) Customer Service
4 6 (17.65%) Agile
4 6 (17.65%) Capacity Management
4 6 (17.65%) Problem Management
4 6 (17.65%) Waterfall
4 6 (17.65%) Zero Trust
5 5 (14.71%) Project Delivery
6 4 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (11.76%) ITIL
6 4 (11.76%) Network Management
6 4 (11.76%) Network Monitoring
6 4 (11.76%) Network Virtualisation
6 4 (11.76%) Proactive Maintenance
6 4 (11.76%) Proactive Management
6 4 (11.76%) Virtual Environments
7 3 (8.82%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (8.82%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 8 (23.53%) PowerShell
2 6 (17.65%) Python
3 4 (11.76%) Shell Script
4 2 (5.88%) Bash
Qualifications
1 16 (47.06%) Security Cleared
2 13 (38.24%) DV Cleared
3 11 (32.35%) SC Cleared
4 3 (8.82%) DBS Check
4 3 (8.82%) VCAP
4 3 (8.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (2.94%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 20 (58.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 16 (47.06%) VMware NSX
4 7 (20.59%) Docker
5 6 (17.65%) vSphere
6 5 (14.71%) Hyper-V
7 4 (11.76%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (2.94%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (2.94%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 12 (35.29%) Ansible
2 7 (20.59%) VxRail
3 6 (17.65%) Terraform
4 5 (14.71%) SCCM
5 4 (11.76%) Failover Clustering
5 4 (11.76%) FortiGate
5 4 (11.76%) Podman
5 4 (11.76%) PowerCLI
5 4 (11.76%) vCenter Server
6 3 (8.82%) AppManager
6 3 (8.82%) Kubernetes
6 3 (8.82%) WSUS
7 2 (5.88%) Avamar
7 2 (5.88%) vRealize
8 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (2.94%) Progress Chef
8 1 (2.94%) Puppet
8 1 (2.94%) SCOM
Vendors
1 12 (35.29%) Microsoft
2 7 (20.59%) Dell
2 7 (20.59%) NetApp
3 5 (14.71%) Cisco
4 4 (11.76%) LogicMonitor
4 4 (11.76%) Red Hat
5 3 (8.82%) Ivanti
6 2 (5.88%) LogRhythm
6 2 (5.88%) SAP
6 2 (5.88%) ServiceNow
6 2 (5.88%) SolarWinds
6 2 (5.88%) Splunk
7 1 (2.94%) Atlassian
7 1 (2.94%) Fortinet
7 1 (2.94%) Fujitsu
7 1 (2.94%) HP
7 1 (2.94%) Tenable