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 5 July 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
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 57 33
Rank change year-on-year +22 -24 +13
Contract jobs citing VMware 54 55 112
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 4.72% 2.89% 5.61%
As % of the Vendors category 8.88% 7.46% 13.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 45 78
10th Percentile £398 £241 £371
25th Percentile £525 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year - -12.00% +47.06%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £700
90th Percentile - £698 £741
England median daily rate £550 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +8.37% -3.33% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £65.50
25th Percentile - - £70.00
Median hourly rate - - £90.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £32.77 £40.00 £53.16
% change year-on-year -18.08% -24.76% +26.57%

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 608 737 830
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 53.19% 38.69% 41.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 300 339 530
10th Percentile £225 £200 £190
25th Percentile £400 £342 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £588 £580 £600
90th Percentile £653 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £518 £525
% change year-on-year -0.97% -1.43% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 250 91
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.29
25th Percentile £15.99 £15.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.28 £17.40 £19.81
Median % change year-on-year +22.30% -12.17% +1.59%
75th Percentile £59.50 £57.04 £49.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £73.43 £65.75
England median hourly rate £25.50 £25.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year +2.00% -22.60% +50.23%

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

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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 5 July 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 5 July 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
Hertfordshire +16 26 £550 - 48
Cambridgeshire +34 20 £530 +120.83% 29
Bedfordshire -4 3 £95 -77.65% 12
Suffolk -5 3 £425 -19.05% 12
Essex +10 2 £219 -5.41% 34
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England

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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 5 (9.26%) OpenStack
2 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.85%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.85%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 21 (38.89%) Cohesity
2 7 (12.96%) AWS
3 6 (11.11%) Azure
4 5 (9.26%) Cloud Computing
4 5 (9.26%) GitHub
5 4 (7.41%) Nutanix
6 3 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.85%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.85%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.85%) GCP
7 1 (1.85%) IaaS
7 1 (1.85%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.85%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (55.56%) DNS
2 26 (48.15%) SAN
3 9 (16.67%) Firewall
4 5 (9.26%) iSCSI
4 5 (9.26%) Network Security
4 5 (9.26%) VSAN
5 4 (7.41%) Fibre Channel
5 4 (7.41%) LAN
5 4 (7.41%) VPN
5 4 (7.41%) WAN
6 2 (3.70%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (3.70%) DHCP
6 2 (3.70%) VLAN
6 2 (3.70%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (3.70%) WLAN
7 1 (1.85%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (1.85%) NAS
7 1 (1.85%) Skype
7 1 (1.85%) SNA
7 1 (1.85%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (11.11%) GitLab
1 6 (11.11%) JIRA
2 5 (9.26%) TeamCity
3 1 (1.85%) Jenkins
General
1 16 (29.63%) Social Skills
2 2 (3.70%) Legal
2 2 (3.70%) Public Sector
3 1 (1.85%) Finance
3 1 (1.85%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 11 (20.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (9.26%) Administrator
2 5 (9.26%) Architect
2 5 (9.26%) VMware Engineer
3 4 (7.41%) Linux Administrator
3 4 (7.41%) Senior
3 4 (7.41%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (7.41%) Technical Architect
4 3 (5.56%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 3 (5.56%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (5.56%) Systems Administrator
4 3 (5.56%) Systems Engineer
4 3 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (3.70%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 2 (3.70%) Network Engineer
5 2 (3.70%) Support Engineer
5 2 (3.70%) VMware Specialist
6 1 (1.85%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 1 (1.85%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (1.85%) Nutanix Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.96%) Data Centre
2 4 (7.41%) Enterprise Storage
2 4 (7.41%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (7.41%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (7.41%) Replication
3 3 (5.56%) Clustering
4 2 (3.70%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.85%) Blackberry
5 1 (1.85%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.85%) NHS
5 1 (1.85%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.85%) PKI
5 1 (1.85%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.85%) RSA SecurID
Operating Systems
1 30 (55.56%) Windows
2 27 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 21 (38.89%) Windows Server 2016
3 21 (38.89%) Windows Server 2019
4 9 (16.67%) Linux
5 4 (7.41%) CentOS
5 4 (7.41%) Ubuntu
6 2 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.85%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.85%) Unix
7 1 (1.85%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (38.89%) SIEM
2 20 (37.04%) Build Automation
2 20 (37.04%) Deployment Automation
2 20 (37.04%) Operations Management
3 14 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 10 (18.52%) Containerisation
6 8 (14.81%) CI/CD
6 8 (14.81%) ITSM
7 6 (11.11%) Agile
7 6 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
7 6 (11.11%) Waterfall
7 6 (11.11%) Zero Trust
8 5 (9.26%) Computer Science
8 5 (9.26%) Customer Service
8 5 (9.26%) Project Delivery
9 4 (7.41%) Capacity Management
9 4 (7.41%) High Availability
9 4 (7.41%) ITIL
9 4 (7.41%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 31 (57.41%) PowerShell
2 12 (22.22%) Python
3 8 (14.81%) Shell Script
4 2 (3.70%) Bash
5 1 (1.85%) SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (59.26%) Security Cleared
2 28 (51.85%) DV Cleared
3 8 (14.81%) SC Cleared
4 6 (11.11%) VCAP
5 5 (9.26%) Degree
6 3 (5.56%) Azure Certification
6 3 (5.56%) DBS Check
6 3 (5.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.26%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 40 (74.07%) VMware Infrastructure
2 38 (70.37%) Active Directory
3 20 (37.04%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 20 (37.04%) Virtual Servers
4 13 (24.07%) VMware NSX
5 12 (22.22%) Hyper-V
6 5 (9.26%) Docker
6 5 (9.26%) vSphere
7 3 (5.56%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (3.70%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (1.85%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 34 (62.96%) Ansible
2 22 (40.74%) SCCM
2 22 (40.74%) WSUS
3 9 (16.67%) Terraform
4 7 (12.96%) VxRail
5 6 (11.11%) vCenter Server
6 4 (7.41%) PowerCLI
7 3 (5.56%) Failover Clustering
7 3 (5.56%) Podman
8 2 (3.70%) Avamar
8 2 (3.70%) FortiGate
8 2 (3.70%) Kubernetes
8 2 (3.70%) Progress Chef
8 2 (3.70%) Puppet
8 2 (3.70%) vRealize
9 1 (1.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (1.85%) AppManager
9 1 (1.85%) Salt
9 1 (1.85%) SCOM
Vendors
1 34 (62.96%) Microsoft
2 22 (40.74%) NetApp
3 21 (38.89%) Splunk
4 7 (12.96%) Dell
4 7 (12.96%) ServiceNow
5 4 (7.41%) Citrix
6 3 (5.56%) LogicMonitor
6 3 (5.56%) Red Hat
7 2 (3.70%) Cisco
7 2 (3.70%) HP
7 2 (3.70%) LogRhythm
7 2 (3.70%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.85%) Aruba
8 1 (1.85%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.85%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.85%) Ivanti
8 1 (1.85%) Tenable
8 1 (1.85%) Veeam