VMware Contracts in Gloucestershire

VMware
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire 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 17 42 34
Rank change year-on-year +25 -8 -14
Contract jobs citing VMware 24 16 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 8.76% 3.73% 6.13%
As % of the Vendors category 18.18% 10.00% 13.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 14 23
10th Percentile £444 £181 £319
25th Percentile £598 £256 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +23.00% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £653 £726 £600
90th Percentile £775 £776 -
South West median daily rate £575 £508 £550
% change year-on-year +13.30% -7.73% +15.79%

All Vendors
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 132 160 220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 48.18% 37.30% 46.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 88 153
10th Percentile £210 £278 £275
25th Percentile £363 £386 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £588
90th Percentile £700 £725 £700
South West median daily rate £516 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +0.57% -2.29% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 11 10
10th Percentile £31.50 £15.89 £29.23
25th Percentile £33.75 £29.07 £39.55
Median hourly rate £67.50 £67.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - +3.85% +312.96%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile - £70.00 £72.45
South West median hourly rate £40.84 £47.50 £63.00
% change year-on-year -14.02% -24.60% +33.74%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware in Gloucestershire

VMware
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate trend for VMware in Gloucestershire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate histogram for VMware in Gloucestershire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Hourly rate trend for VMware in Gloucestershire

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Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware within the Gloucestershire 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
Cheltenham +15 8 £615 +11.82% 7
Gloucester +2 5 £615 +36.67% 6
Filton - 4 £300 - 1
VMware
South West

VMware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.17%) Confluence
2 1 (4.17%) IIS
2 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.17%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 20 (83.33%) Azure
2 17 (70.83%) AWS
3 15 (62.50%) OpenShift
4 3 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 18 (75.00%) DNS
2 17 (70.83%) DHCP
3 15 (62.50%) HTTP
3 15 (62.50%) TCP/IP
4 2 (8.33%) LAN
4 2 (8.33%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (8.33%) SAN
4 2 (8.33%) VLAN
4 2 (8.33%) VPN
4 2 (8.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.33%) Legal
4 1 (4.17%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 5 (20.83%) Automation Engineer
1 5 (20.83%) DevOps Engineer
1 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (8.33%) 3rd Line Support
2 2 (8.33%) Wintel Engineer
3 1 (4.17%) Administrator
3 1 (4.17%) Architect
3 1 (4.17%) Azure Architect
3 1 (4.17%) IT Engineer
3 1 (4.17%) Lead
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365 Architect
3 1 (4.17%) Project Engineer
3 1 (4.17%) Project Leader
3 1 (4.17%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (4.17%) Technical Architect
3 1 (4.17%) Test Engineer
3 1 (4.17%) VMWare Administrator
3 1 (4.17%) Wintel Administrator
3 1 (4.17%) Wintel Architect
3 1 (4.17%) Wintel Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.17%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 22 (91.67%) Windows
2 17 (70.83%) Windows Server
3 15 (62.50%) Linux
3 15 (62.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (8.33%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (8.33%) Windows Server 2016
4 2 (8.33%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (4.17%) Android
5 1 (4.17%) Apple iOS
5 1 (4.17%) Mac OS
5 1 (4.17%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (58.33%) Containerisation
2 12 (50.00%) Service Management
3 6 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 6 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
4 5 (20.83%) DevOps
4 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (12.50%) Analytics
6 3 (12.50%) Task Automation
7 2 (8.33%) Agile
7 2 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
7 2 (8.33%) Data Analytics
7 2 (8.33%) Desktop Virtualisation
7 2 (8.33%) Integration Testing
7 2 (8.33%) Root Cause Analysis
7 2 (8.33%) Server Management
7 2 (8.33%) Software Testing
7 2 (8.33%) Systems Engineering
8 1 (4.17%) Resource Management
8 1 (4.17%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 20 (83.33%) PowerShell
2 17 (70.83%) Python
3 15 (62.50%) Bash
3 15 (62.50%) Java
4 1 (4.17%) SQL
4 1 (4.17%) VB
4 1 (4.17%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 20 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 14 (58.33%) DV Cleared
3 9 (37.50%) SC Cleared
4 3 (12.50%) MCSE
4 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (8.33%) Azure Certification
6 1 (4.17%) Degree
6 1 (4.17%) MCP
6 1 (4.17%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) Def Stans
2 1 (4.17%) NCSC
2 1 (4.17%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (91.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (83.33%) Hyper-V
3 15 (62.50%) Docker
4 5 (20.83%) Active Directory
5 3 (12.50%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (8.33%) vSphere
7 1 (4.17%) BitLocker
7 1 (4.17%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (4.17%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 15 (62.50%) Ansible
1 15 (62.50%) Kubernetes
1 15 (62.50%) Puppet
1 15 (62.50%) Terraform
2 1 (4.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (4.17%) NetApp OnCommand
2 1 (4.17%) SCCM
2 1 (4.17%) vCenter Server
2 1 (4.17%) vMotion
2 1 (4.17%) WSUS
Vendors
1 15 (62.50%) Red Hat
2 7 (29.17%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.33%) Citrix
3 2 (8.33%) Veeam
4 1 (4.17%) McAfee
4 1 (4.17%) Symantec