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 18 August 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
18 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 43 29
Rank change year-on-year +16 -14 +7
Contract jobs citing VMware 7 16 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 2.86% 3.55% 5.06%
As % of the Vendors category 6.67% 9.88% 13.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 13 13
10th Percentile £574 £268 £371
25th Percentile £606 £460 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £470 £500
Median % change year-on-year +32.98% -6.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £900 £563 £575
90th Percentile - £575 £658
South West median daily rate £600 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +14.29% - +5.00%

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 105 162 177
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 42.86% 35.92% 37.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 92 101
10th Percentile £184 £339 £360
25th Percentile £238 £460 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £531 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.24% +6.25% +5.26%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £650
90th Percentile £708 £694 £701
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 9 16
10th Percentile £18.44 £29.50 £20.88
25th Percentile £31.50 £33.00 £30.94
Median hourly rate £36.00 £70.00 £47.28
Median % change year-on-year -48.57% +48.07% +103.33%
75th Percentile £69.69 - £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 - £76.25
South West median hourly rate £22.50 £67.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year -66.67% +19.49% +12.75%

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

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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 18 August 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 18 August 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 +27 3 £584 +6.14% 2
Gloucester +1 2 £900 +91.49% 4
Filton - 2 £625 -
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 1 (14.29%) Confluence
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Stack
2 2 (28.57%) IaaS
2 2 (28.57%) PaaS
3 1 (14.29%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) DHCP
1 2 (28.57%) DNS
2 1 (14.29%) HTTP
2 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Chief Technology Officer
2 1 (14.29%) Chief Systems Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) IT Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) Project Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Project Leader
2 1 (14.29%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (28.57%) Onboarding
1 2 (28.57%) Private Cloud
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (28.57%) Analytics
2 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (28.57%) Data Analytics
2 2 (28.57%) Integration Testing
2 2 (28.57%) Software Testing
2 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (28.57%) Systems Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (14.29%) Agile
3 1 (14.29%) API Integration
3 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Migration
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Release Management
3 1 (14.29%) Storage Management
3 1 (14.29%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Bash
1 1 (14.29%) Java
1 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
1 1 (14.29%) Python
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (71.43%) DV Cleared
2 5 (71.43%) SC Cleared
3 2 (28.57%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Def Stans
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (42.86%) Hyper-V
3 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
3 1 (14.29%) Docker
3 1 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (14.29%) VMware NSX
3 1 (14.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Ansible
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Puppet
2 1 (14.29%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) Red Hat