VMware Contracts in England

VMware
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for knowledge and experience of VMware products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited VMware over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 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
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 68 58 72
Rank change year-on-year -10 +14 -3
Contract jobs citing VMware 1,093 1,826 2,319
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 3.01% 3.78% 3.30%
As % of the Vendors category 7.14% 9.02% 8.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 755 1,301 1,696
10th Percentile £270 £313 £256
25th Percentile £380 £406 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £594
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +7.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 94 53
10th Percentile £23.05 £26.45 £13.00
25th Percentile £40.00 £41.25 £20.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £60.35 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.48% +45.42% -17.00%
75th Percentile £71.25 £70.19 £60.92
90th Percentile £80.29 £82.16 £69.05
UK median hourly rate £46.39 £63.00 £44.75
% change year-on-year -26.37% +40.78% -13.11%

All Vendors
England

VMware is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 15,315 20,235 27,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 42.12% 41.91% 39.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,726 13,929 18,958
10th Percentile £263 £263 £275
25th Percentile £404 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £535 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% +1.90% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,016 576 790
10th Percentile £12.13 £15.21 £11.99
25th Percentile £14.41 £18.50 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.08 £37.50 £21.40
Median % change year-on-year -41.13% +75.27% +1.88%
75th Percentile £56.31 £63.36 £47.39
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £63.03
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £42.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -49.41% +97.67% -3.00%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware in England

VMware
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for VMware in England

VMware
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware in England over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VMware in England

VMware
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for VMware in England

VMware
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VMware in England over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for VMware in England

VMware
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 15 May 2024. 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
South East 0 350 £511 -0.92% 137
London -8 323 £500 -5.66% 139
South West -3 166 £500 -9.09% 77
North of England -17 126 £380 -11.63% 115
North West -24 75 £350 -22.22% 65
Midlands -22 73 £500 +3.63% 109
West Midlands -13 50 £425 -5.56% 60
Yorkshire +10 42 £380 -8.71% 40
East of England -45 35 £550 -8.33% 63
East Midlands -14 22 £550 +10.00% 49
North East +8 9 £550 +29.41% 12
VMware
UK

VMware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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
1 134 (12.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 52 (4.76%) Confluence
2 52 (4.76%) SharePoint
3 20 (1.83%) Exchange Server 2010
4 16 (1.46%) Exchange Server 2013
5 15 (1.37%) OpenStack
6 11 (1.01%) IIS
7 7 (0.64%) SharePoint 2010
7 7 (0.64%) SharePoint Server
8 6 (0.55%) Exchange Server 2007
9 5 (0.46%) nginx
10 4 (0.37%) IBM Domino
10 4 (0.37%) MQSeries
10 4 (0.37%) Skype for Business
11 3 (0.27%) WordPress
12 2 (0.18%) Traefik
13 1 (0.091%) Apache
13 1 (0.091%) Site Server
13 1 (0.091%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.091%) WebSphere
Applications
1 38 (3.48%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.091%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.091%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (0.64%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.18%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
3 2 (0.18%) RMDS
3 2 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.18%) SystmOne
4 1 (0.091%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.091%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.091%) Eikon
4 1 (0.091%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.091%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 296 (27.08%) Azure
2 176 (16.10%) Microsoft 365
3 161 (14.73%) AWS
4 50 (4.57%) Entra ID
5 40 (3.66%) IaaS
6 37 (3.39%) GCP
7 31 (2.84%) Azure DevOps
7 31 (2.84%) PaaS
8 26 (2.38%) Nutanix
9 24 (2.20%) GitHub
9 24 (2.20%) SaaS
10 22 (2.01%) Cloud Computing
11 21 (1.92%) OpenShift
12 16 (1.46%) OCI
12 16 (1.46%) OneDrive
13 14 (1.28%) Amazon EC2
14 11 (1.01%) Mimecast
15 9 (0.82%) Rubrik
15 9 (0.82%) Slack
15 9 (0.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 204 (18.66%) Firewall
2 202 (18.48%) DNS
3 160 (14.64%) SAN
4 142 (12.99%) DHCP
5 100 (9.15%) WAN
6 90 (8.23%) LAN
7 81 (7.41%) VPN
8 71 (6.50%) TCP/IP
9 55 (5.03%) NAS
10 53 (4.85%) VSAN
11 44 (4.03%) Wi-Fi
12 40 (3.66%) Wireless
13 32 (2.93%) VLAN
14 29 (2.65%) Network Security
15 28 (2.56%) MPLS
16 20 (1.83%) SD-WAN
16 20 (1.83%) VoIP
17 17 (1.56%) Internet
18 16 (1.46%) Remote Desktop
19 15 (1.37%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (6.40%) SQL Server
2 24 (2.20%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (1.74%) MySQL
4 16 (1.46%) Oracle Database
5 14 (1.28%) MongoDB
6 12 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 7 (0.64%) Metadata
9 7 (0.64%) PowerPivot
10 6 (0.55%) Microsoft Power View
10 6 (0.55%) RDBMS
10 6 (0.55%) Relational Database
11 4 (0.37%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.27%) Power BI
13 2 (0.18%) CouchDB
13 2 (0.18%) DB2
13 2 (0.18%) Electronic Patient Records
13 2 (0.18%) SAP HANA
14 1 (0.091%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 69 (6.31%) JIRA
2 36 (3.29%) GitLab
3 31 (2.84%) Jenkins
4 29 (2.65%) Git
5 21 (1.92%) Robot Framework
6 16 (1.46%) Sonatype Nexus
7 12 (1.10%) Bitbucket
8 8 (0.73%) Artifactory
8 8 (0.73%) Selenium
8 8 (0.73%) TeamCity
9 6 (0.55%) Rational DOORS
10 3 (0.27%) CppUnit
10 3 (0.27%) PVCS
10 3 (0.27%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.27%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.18%) Octopus Deploy
11 2 (0.18%) Snyk
11 2 (0.18%) Subversion
12 1 (0.091%) Vagrant
General
1 249 (22.78%) Social Skills
2 108 (9.88%) Analytical Skills
3 93 (8.51%) Public Sector
4 85 (7.78%) Finance
5 37 (3.39%) Documentation Skills
6 24 (2.20%) Banking
7 22 (2.01%) Military
8 19 (1.74%) Legal
9 18 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
10 17 (1.56%) Telecoms
11 15 (1.37%) Manufacturing
12 13 (1.19%) Aerospace
13 11 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
14 10 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 10 (0.91%) Marketing
15 7 (0.64%) Financial Institution
16 6 (0.55%) French Language
16 6 (0.55%) Publishing
17 5 (0.46%) Electronics
17 5 (0.46%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 244 (22.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 118 (10.80%) Architect
3 84 (7.69%) Senior
4 83 (7.59%) VMware Engineer
5 80 (7.32%) Network Engineer
6 55 (5.03%) Storage Engineer
7 53 (4.85%) Support Engineer
8 50 (4.57%) Consultant
9 47 (4.30%) Administrator
10 45 (4.12%) Solutions Architect
11 43 (3.93%) Analyst
12 36 (3.29%) Linux Engineer
13 33 (3.02%) Integration Engineer
13 33 (3.02%) Wintel Engineer
14 31 (2.84%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 31 (2.84%) Cloud Engineer
15 29 (2.65%) Systems Administrator
16 27 (2.47%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
16 27 (2.47%) VMware Architect
17 26 (2.38%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (2.10%) LDAP
2 16 (1.46%) .NET
3 13 (1.19%) Elastic Stack
4 9 (0.82%) CSS
4 9 (0.82%) HTML
4 9 (0.82%) YAML
5 8 (0.73%) Node.js
6 6 (0.55%) Web Services
7 5 (0.46%) Flash
7 5 (0.46%) REST
8 4 (0.37%) EDI
8 4 (0.37%) Middleware
8 4 (0.37%) ModSecurity
9 3 (0.27%) .NET Core
9 3 (0.27%) .NET Framework
9 3 (0.27%) JSON
9 3 (0.27%) LAMP
9 3 (0.27%) OAuth
9 3 (0.27%) Vue
9 3 (0.27%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 160 (14.64%) Data Centre
2 90 (8.23%) PKI
3 60 (5.49%) Clustering
4 34 (3.11%) Replication
5 33 (3.02%) Client/Server
6 30 (2.74%) Public Cloud
7 28 (2.56%) Management Information System
7 28 (2.56%) Private Cloud
8 23 (2.10%) Linux Command Line
9 20 (1.83%) NHS
10 15 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
11 14 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
12 13 (1.19%) Driving Licence
13 12 (1.10%) Onboarding
14 9 (0.82%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
14 9 (0.82%) Fat Client
14 9 (0.82%) Thin Client
14 9 (0.82%) Video Conferencing
15 8 (0.73%) Security Posture
15 8 (0.73%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 551 (50.41%) Windows
2 366 (33.49%) Windows Server
3 332 (30.38%) Linux
4 105 (9.61%) Windows Server 2012
5 98 (8.97%) Windows 10
6 93 (8.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 80 (7.32%) Windows Server 2019
8 67 (6.13%) Unix
9 48 (4.39%) Windows Server 2016
10 36 (3.29%) VMS
11 33 (3.02%) Ubuntu
11 33 (3.02%) Windows Server 2008
12 28 (2.56%) Solaris
13 24 (2.20%) Windows 7
14 17 (1.56%) Windows XP
15 16 (1.46%) CentOS
15 16 (1.46%) Oracle Linux
16 15 (1.37%) Debian
17 14 (1.28%) Mac OS
18 6 (0.55%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 315 (28.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 174 (15.92%) Problem-Solving
3 155 (14.18%) Agile
3 155 (14.18%) ITIL
4 133 (12.17%) Migration
5 89 (8.14%) DevOps
6 75 (6.86%) Disaster Recovery
7 70 (6.40%) Customer Service
8 66 (6.04%) High Availability
9 63 (5.76%) Infrastructure as Code
10 61 (5.58%) CI/CD
11 54 (4.94%) Computer Science
11 54 (4.94%) Cybersecurity
12 51 (4.67%) Data Protection
13 50 (4.57%) Server Management
14 49 (4.48%) Change Management
14 49 (4.48%) Vulnerability Management
15 47 (4.30%) Project Delivery
16 42 (3.84%) Configuration Management
16 42 (3.84%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 204 (18.66%) PowerShell
2 148 (13.54%) Python
3 80 (7.32%) SQL
4 59 (5.40%) Bash
5 20 (1.83%) Shell Script
5 20 (1.83%) VBScript
6 19 (1.74%) Java
7 15 (1.37%) C#
8 12 (1.10%) JavaScript
9 8 (0.73%) Go
10 7 (0.64%) C++
11 6 (0.55%) Ruby
12 5 (0.46%) C
13 4 (0.37%) Perl
14 3 (0.27%) Bicep
14 3 (0.27%) PHP
14 3 (0.27%) VB.NET
15 1 (0.091%) Ada
15 1 (0.091%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.091%) VB
Qualifications
1 465 (42.54%) Security Cleared
2 248 (22.69%) SC Cleared
3 229 (20.95%) DV Cleared
4 124 (11.34%) Degree
5 73 (6.68%) Cisco Certification
6 65 (5.95%) Microsoft Certification
7 55 (5.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 51 (4.67%) CCNA
9 39 (3.57%) CCNP
10 36 (3.29%) MCSE
11 32 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
12 29 (2.65%) Azure Certification
13 23 (2.10%) MCSA
14 15 (1.37%) ITIL Certification
14 15 (1.37%) Master's Degree
15 8 (0.73%) Network+ Certification
15 8 (0.73%) VCAP
16 6 (0.55%) A+ Certification
16 6 (0.55%) CCIE
16 6 (0.55%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (3.20%) SLA
2 16 (1.46%) NIST
3 14 (1.28%) GDPR
4 9 (0.82%) NCSC
5 7 (0.64%) PMO
5 7 (0.64%) RMADS
6 6 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (0.46%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.46%) QA
8 3 (0.27%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 2 (0.18%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.091%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.091%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.091%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 677 (61.94%) VMware Infrastructure
2 397 (36.32%) Active Directory
3 173 (15.83%) Hyper-V
4 155 (14.18%) VMware NSX
4 155 (14.18%) vSphere
5 117 (10.70%) VMware ESXi
6 59 (5.40%) Docker
7 48 (4.39%) Virtual Machines
8 29 (2.65%) Virtual Servers
9 26 (2.38%) KVM
10 19 (1.74%) Firmware
10 19 (1.74%) XenApp
11 17 (1.56%) VMware Workstation
12 12 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
13 11 (1.01%) vCloud
14 9 (0.82%) VMware Server
15 7 (0.64%) BitLocker
16 6 (0.55%) Terminal Services
17 4 (0.37%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 4 (0.37%) Samba
Systems Management
1 135 (12.35%) SCCM
2 128 (11.71%) Ansible
3 119 (10.89%) vCenter Server
4 102 (9.33%) Kubernetes
5 95 (8.69%) Terraform
6 60 (5.49%) WSUS
7 49 (4.48%) SCOM
8 42 (3.84%) Microsoft Intune
9 33 (3.02%) NetBackup
10 31 (2.84%) VxRail
11 25 (2.29%) vRealize
12 22 (2.01%) EMC NetWorker
13 17 (1.56%) Red Hat Satellite
14 15 (1.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 14 (1.28%) Prometheus
16 13 (1.19%) Microsoft Clustering
16 13 (1.19%) Nessus
17 12 (1.10%) Puppet
17 12 (1.10%) Rancher
18 11 (1.01%) Grafana
Vendors
1 374 (34.22%) Microsoft
2 141 (12.90%) Cisco
3 101 (9.24%) Dell
4 97 (8.87%) Red Hat
5 83 (7.59%) Veeam
6 75 (6.86%) Citrix
7 74 (6.77%) Oracle
8 51 (4.67%) Palo Alto
9 49 (4.48%) HP
10 43 (3.93%) EMC
11 35 (3.20%) Juniper
12 33 (3.02%) ServiceNow
12 33 (3.02%) SolarWinds
13 27 (2.47%) Qualys
13 27 (2.47%) Splunk
14 26 (2.38%) NetApp
15 24 (2.20%) IBM
16 22 (2.01%) Google
17 21 (1.92%) Symantec
18 19 (1.74%) F5