VMware Contracts in Kent

VMware
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Kent 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 9 21 8
Rank change year-on-year +12 -13 +11
Contract jobs citing VMware 12 8 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Kent 11.43% 3.96% 12.79%
As % of the Vendors category 22.22% 10.13% 23.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 8 28
10th Percentile - - £333
25th Percentile £329 £203 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £451 £338 £350
Median % change year-on-year +33.48% -3.57% -26.32%
75th Percentile £608 £356 £355
90th Percentile £623 £411 £356
South East median daily rate £575 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +14.77% -4.57% +10.53%

All Vendors
Kent

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 Kent.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 54 79 120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent 51.43% 39.11% 54.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 65 103
10th Percentile £200 £203 £181
25th Percentile £206 £205 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £263 £333 £350
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% -5.00% +7.69%
75th Percentile £438 £438 £419
90th Percentile £603 £518 £650
South East median daily rate £514 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.80% - +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £22.39 - -
25th Percentile £31.45 - -
Median hourly rate £47.38 £11.45 £66.74
Median % change year-on-year +313.80% -82.84% +314.28%
75th Percentile £64.17 - -
90th Percentile £73.73 - -
South East median hourly rate £24.66 £48.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year -49.42% +8.33% +130.53%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware in Kent

VMware
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Kent

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

Daily rate trend for VMware in Kent

VMware
Daily Rate Histogram in Kent

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

Daily rate histogram for VMware in Kent

VMware
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Kent

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

Hourly rate trend for VMware in Kent

VMware
Contract Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware within the Kent 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
Maidstone - 8 £451 - 7
VMware
South East

VMware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) Azure
1 6 (50.00%) IaaS
2 3 (25.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (50.00%) DHCP
1 6 (50.00%) DNS
1 6 (50.00%) Firewall
1 6 (50.00%) SAN
2 3 (25.00%) Fibre Channel
Job Titles
1 12 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
2 6 (50.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (50.00%) VMware Engineer
2 6 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (33.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 4 (33.33%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (25.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
4 3 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support
4 3 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Support
4 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 3 (25.00%) Support Engineer
4 3 (25.00%) VMware Support Engineer
5 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 2 (16.67%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (8.33%) SAN Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 6 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 6 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 6 (50.00%) ITIL
2 6 (50.00%) Security Patching
3 5 (41.67%) DevOps
4 3 (25.00%) Email Migration
4 3 (25.00%) Migration
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (50.00%) DFS Replication
2 6 (50.00%) vSphere
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Citrix
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft