VMware Contracts in Hampshire

VMware
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire 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 27 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
27 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 8 9
Rank change year-on-year -13 +1 +20
Contract jobs citing VMware 64 194 158
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 6.83% 12.04% 12.29%
As % of the Vendors category 13.39% 24.25% 22.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 116 89
10th Percentile £526 £461 £420
25th Percentile £550 £519 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% +7.14%
75th Percentile £650 £627 £600
90th Percentile - £672 £665
South East median daily rate £569 £538 £500
% change year-on-year +5.77% +7.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 7
10th Percentile - - £28.10
25th Percentile - - £35.00
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year - +82.86% -46.15%
75th Percentile - - £60.00
90th Percentile - - £74.00
South East median hourly rate £32.77 £36.17 £54.56
% change year-on-year -9.39% -33.72% +172.80%

All Vendors
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 478 800 706
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 51.01% 49.66% 54.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 360 458 405
10th Percentile £200 £400 £243
25th Percentile £423 £500 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £613 £660 £613
90th Percentile £650 £723 £675
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 59 60
10th Percentile £24.66 £16.25 £15.50
25th Percentile £30.87 £53.40 £17.94
Median hourly rate £33.89 £57.35 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -40.92% +11.90% +156.25%
75th Percentile £57.80 £61.30 £60.75
90th Percentile £70.45 £70.00 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £19.46 £55.80 £45.00
% change year-on-year -65.13% +24.00% +127.85%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware in Hampshire

VMware
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Daily rate trend for VMware in Hampshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware in Hampshire over the 6 months to 27 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware in Hampshire

VMware
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Hourly rate trend for VMware in Hampshire

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Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 27 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
Basingstoke +5 43 £600 +9.09% 19
Portsmouth -5 5 £525 -2.33% 6
Andover - 4 £594 -
Fleet +3 3 £537 -
Southampton -1 2 £550 +15.79% 1
Farnborough -19 2 £675 +15.98% 10
Eastleigh -1 1 £500 -
VMware
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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 14 (21.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (12.50%) Apache
3 4 (6.25%) IIS
4 1 (1.56%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (17.19%) AWS
2 10 (15.63%) GCP
2 10 (15.63%) IaaS
3 8 (12.50%) OpenShift
3 8 (12.50%) PaaS
4 3 (4.69%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (3.13%) Azure
5 2 (3.13%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 16 (25.00%) Fibre Channel
1 16 (25.00%) iSCSI
2 13 (20.31%) DNS
3 12 (18.75%) SMTP
4 10 (15.63%) Firewall
5 9 (14.06%) DHCP
6 8 (12.50%) VPN
7 2 (3.13%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (3.13%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
1 8 (12.50%) Big Data
1 8 (12.50%) Elasticsearch
2 4 (6.25%) MongoDB
3 2 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (6.25%) MSI
1 4 (6.25%) Robot Framework
1 4 (6.25%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (3.13%) GitLab
3 1 (1.56%) JIRA
General
1 13 (20.31%) Public Sector
2 8 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 2 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (3.13%) Military
Job Titles
1 29 (45.31%) Architect
2 25 (39.06%) Infrastructure Architect
3 24 (37.50%) VMware Architect
4 14 (21.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 12 (18.75%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 10 (15.63%) Integration Engineer
7 8 (12.50%) 3rd Line Support
7 8 (12.50%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 8 (12.50%) Support Engineer
8 7 (10.94%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (10.94%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
8 7 (10.94%) Infrastructure Support
8 7 (10.94%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 3 (4.69%) Lead
9 3 (4.69%) Project Engineer
9 3 (4.69%) Project Leader
10 2 (3.13%) Enterprise Architect
10 2 (3.13%) Infrastructure Specialist
10 2 (3.13%) Systems Engineer
10 2 (3.13%) VMware Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.25%) Kafka
1 4 (6.25%) YAML
2 2 (3.13%) JSON
3 1 (1.56%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 18 (28.13%) PKI
2 10 (15.63%) Data Centre
3 8 (12.50%) Clustering
4 1 (1.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 41 (64.06%) Windows
2 35 (54.69%) Windows Server
3 23 (35.94%) Windows Server 2019
4 22 (34.38%) Linux
5 7 (10.94%) CentOS
5 7 (10.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (7.81%) Windows 10
6 5 (7.81%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (4.69%) Mac OS
7 3 (4.69%) Ubuntu
7 3 (4.69%) Windows Server 2003
8 2 (3.13%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (3.13%) Solaris
8 2 (3.13%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (26.56%) DevOps
2 15 (23.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 14 (21.88%) Agile
4 13 (20.31%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (18.75%) Edge Virtualization
5 12 (18.75%) Performance Analysis
6 9 (14.06%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
7 8 (12.50%) Machine Learning
7 8 (12.50%) Prototyping
7 8 (12.50%) Software Deployment
8 6 (9.38%) Analytics
8 6 (9.38%) Test Automation
9 5 (7.81%) Decision-Making
10 4 (6.25%) Customer Requirements
10 4 (6.25%) Deployment Automation
10 4 (6.25%) Mentoring
10 4 (6.25%) Operational Stability
10 4 (6.25%) Roadmaps
10 4 (6.25%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 27 (42.19%) PowerShell
2 21 (32.81%) SQL
3 8 (12.50%) Python
4 4 (6.25%) PHP
5 2 (3.13%) Bash
5 2 (3.13%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.56%) Go
Qualifications
1 57 (89.06%) Security Cleared
2 46 (71.88%) DV Cleared
3 19 (29.69%) Microsoft Certification
4 16 (25.00%) MCSE
5 14 (21.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 12 (18.75%) VCP5
6 12 (18.75%) VCP6
7 11 (17.19%) Degree
7 11 (17.19%) SC Cleared
8 3 (4.69%) Citrix Certification
8 3 (4.69%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (4.69%) Master's Degree
9 2 (3.13%) VCAP
10 1 (1.56%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.69%) Def Stans
1 3 (4.69%) GDPR
1 3 (4.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 49 (76.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 26 (40.63%) VMware ESXi
3 22 (34.38%) vSphere
4 20 (31.25%) Active Directory
5 16 (25.00%) NFS
6 10 (15.63%) Hyper-V
7 8 (12.50%) BitLocker
7 8 (12.50%) Docker
7 8 (12.50%) Microsoft App-V
7 8 (12.50%) Terminal Services
8 2 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (3.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 20 (31.25%) Ansible
2 9 (14.06%) Kubernetes
3 8 (12.50%) Nagios
3 8 (12.50%) Puppet
3 8 (12.50%) vCenter Server
3 8 (12.50%) vMotion
4 5 (7.81%) Terraform
5 4 (6.25%) SCCM
5 4 (6.25%) WMI
6 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (3.13%) vRealize
6 2 (3.13%) vRealize Orchestrator
6 2 (3.13%) VxRail
7 1 (1.56%) Rancher
Vendors
1 33 (51.56%) Microsoft
2 17 (26.56%) NetApp
3 16 (25.00%) Splunk
3 16 (25.00%) Veeam
4 11 (17.19%) Citrix
5 8 (12.50%) Google
5 8 (12.50%) HP
5 8 (12.50%) Red Hat
5 8 (12.50%) Symantec
6 2 (3.13%) Dell
6 2 (3.13%) Oracle
7 1 (1.56%) EMC
7 1 (1.56%) Juniper
7 1 (1.56%) ServiceNow