VMware Contract Job Trends in Farnborough

VMware
Hampshire > Farnborough

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Farnborough 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 October 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 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 3 12
Rank change year-on-year -11 +9 +12
Contract jobs citing VMware 15 57 13
As % of all contract jobs in Farnborough 14.42% 35.19% 10.40%
As % of the Vendors category 30.00% 49.57% 23.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 43 10
10th Percentile £458 £514 £300
25th Percentile £463 £525 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £425
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +35.29% -15.00%
75th Percentile £600 £629 £565
90th Percentile £634 £674 £664
Hampshire median daily rate £575 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
Hampshire median hourly rate - - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - -20.00%

All Vendors
Farnborough

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 Farnborough.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 50 115 55
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Farnborough 48.08% 70.99% 44.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 80 36
10th Percentile £361 £475 £341
25th Percentile £413 £525 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £608 £569
Median % change year-on-year -17.70% +6.81% +8.33%
75th Percentile £604 £678 £655
90th Percentile £632 £750 £719
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 10
10th Percentile £64.50 - £16.15
25th Percentile £65.63 - £21.01
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £41.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.33%
75th Percentile £73.13 - £73.13
90th Percentile £73.50 - £80.00
Hampshire median hourly rate £22.50 £66.25 £52.50
% change year-on-year -66.04% +26.19% +138.64%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in Farnborough

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

VMware job vacancy trend in Farnborough

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Daily Rate Trend in Farnborough

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing VMware

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Daily Rate Histogram in Farnborough

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

Daily rate histogram for VMware in Farnborough

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Hourly Rate Trend in Farnborough

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing VMware

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Farnborough 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:

Applications
1 1 (6.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.67%) AWS
1 1 (6.67%) GCP
1 1 (6.67%) GitHub
1 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (6.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) Firewall
2 2 (13.33%) VLAN
2 2 (13.33%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (6.67%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) GitLab
2 1 (6.67%) Cucumber
2 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.67%) JMeter
2 1 (6.67%) JUnit
2 1 (6.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
1 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Automation Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Network Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) VMware Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Java Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Site Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) Swagger
2 2 (13.33%) RESTful
3 1 (6.67%) Hibernate
3 1 (6.67%) Kafka
3 1 (6.67%) LDAP
3 1 (6.67%) OAuth
3 1 (6.67%) REST
3 1 (6.67%) SAML
3 1 (6.67%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Private Cloud
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 8 (53.33%) Windows
2 6 (40.00%) Linux
3 2 (13.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) CI/CD
2 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure Automation
2 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (26.67%) Observability
3 3 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (13.33%) Agile
4 2 (13.33%) API Development
4 2 (13.33%) Change Control
4 2 (13.33%) Configuration Management
4 2 (13.33%) Containerisation
4 2 (13.33%) Design Patterns
4 2 (13.33%) DevOps
4 2 (13.33%) Operational Stability
5 1 (6.67%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (6.67%) High Availability
5 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (6.67%) Performance Testing
5 1 (6.67%) Test Automation
5 1 (6.67%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) PowerShell
2 6 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 6 (40.00%) Python
3 4 (26.67%) Java
3 4 (26.67%) SQL
4 3 (20.00%) Bash
4 3 (20.00%) Go
Qualifications
1 12 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (73.33%) SC Cleared
3 7 (46.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 12 (80.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (20.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (13.33%) UAG
4 1 (6.67%) Docker
4 1 (6.67%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 6 (40.00%) Ansible
2 5 (33.33%) Terraform
3 4 (26.67%) Rundeck
4 3 (20.00%) Proxmox
4 3 (20.00%) Salt
4 3 (20.00%) vRealize
5 2 (13.33%) Dell DRAC
5 2 (13.33%) FortiGate
5 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
5 2 (13.33%) vCenter Server
6 1 (6.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (6.67%) Progress Chef
6 1 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (6.67%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) Dell
2 2 (13.33%) Aruba
2 2 (13.33%) Fortinet
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) NetIQ
3 1 (6.67%) Palo Alto