VMware Contracts in the Midlands

VMware
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 44 62 39
Rank change year-on-year +18 -23 +22
Contract jobs citing VMware 72 72 174
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.76% 2.61% 5.06%
As % of the Vendors category 8.35% 6.08% 10.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 57 119
10th Percentile £258 £258 £335
25th Percentile £375 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +33.33%
75th Percentile £630 £575 £663
90th Percentile £700 £780 £715
England median daily rate £550 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 7
10th Percentile - - £18.50
25th Percentile £31.32 - £28.38
Median hourly rate £36.65 £19.95 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +83.68% -48.18% +133.33%
75th Percentile £41.97 - £53.13
90th Percentile - - £66.00
England median hourly rate £72.50 £46.18 £63.00
% change year-on-year +56.99% -26.70% +76.84%

All Vendors
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 862 1,185 1,730
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 45.04% 42.98% 50.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 564 750 1,154
10th Percentile £200 £212 £209
25th Percentile £326 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.50% -5.21% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £575
90th Percentile £661 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £518 £538
% change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 78 58
10th Percentile £13.25 £10.92 £13.13
25th Percentile £13.81 £12.75 £15.25
Median hourly rate £18.13 £15.61 £20.20
Median % change year-on-year +16.18% -22.75% +18.82%
75th Percentile £23.00 £26.50 £37.69
90th Percentile £31.33 £47.42 £65.30
England median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
% change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for VMware in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for VMware in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for VMware in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware within the Midlands 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
West Midlands +17 52 £501 +8.32% 53
East Midlands +8 20 £550 - 41
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England

VMware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (2.78%) Confluence
1 2 (2.78%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.39%) IIS
2 1 (1.39%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (9.72%) AWS
1 7 (9.72%) Azure
2 6 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (4.17%) GCP
4 2 (2.78%) Entra ID
4 2 (2.78%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 13 (18.06%) SAN
2 7 (9.72%) LAN
3 6 (8.33%) Firewall
4 5 (6.94%) DNS
5 4 (5.56%) Cisco ISE
5 4 (5.56%) DHCP
5 4 (5.56%) HTTP
5 4 (5.56%) iSCSI
5 4 (5.56%) NAS
6 3 (4.17%) WAN
7 2 (2.78%) OpenLDAP
7 2 (2.78%) SSL
7 2 (2.78%) TCP/IP
7 2 (2.78%) VLAN
8 1 (1.39%) 4G
8 1 (1.39%) NetScaler
8 1 (1.39%) NX-OS
8 1 (1.39%) SMTP
8 1 (1.39%) VPN
8 1 (1.39%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.94%) Oracle Database
2 2 (2.78%) MongoDB
2 2 (2.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.78%) Git
1 2 (2.78%) Introscope
1 2 (2.78%) Jenkins
1 2 (2.78%) JIRA
1 2 (2.78%) LoadRunner
1 2 (2.78%) Maven
1 2 (2.78%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (13.89%) Social Skills
2 5 (6.94%) Organisational Skills
3 4 (5.56%) Manufacturing
4 2 (2.78%) Banking
5 1 (1.39%) Automotive
5 1 (1.39%) Finance
5 1 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.39%) Law
5 1 (1.39%) Legal
5 1 (1.39%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (18.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 12 (16.67%) Architect
3 9 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
4 6 (8.33%) VMware Architect
5 5 (6.94%) Administrator
5 5 (6.94%) Consultant
5 5 (6.94%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (6.94%) Systems Administrator
5 5 (6.94%) Windows Engineer
6 4 (5.56%) Storage Engineer
6 4 (5.56%) Support Engineer
6 4 (5.56%) Unix Administrator
6 4 (5.56%) Unix Systems Administrator
6 4 (5.56%) VMware Consultant
6 4 (5.56%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (4.17%) Deployment Engineer
7 3 (4.17%) Lead
8 2 (2.78%) Linux Support
8 2 (2.78%) Python Developer
8 2 (2.78%) Unix Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.78%) .NET
1 2 (2.78%) HTML
1 2 (2.78%) J2EE
1 2 (2.78%) LDAP
1 2 (2.78%) Web Services
1 2 (2.78%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.89%) Data Centre
2 5 (6.94%) SCADA
3 3 (4.17%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.78%) Distributed Applications
4 2 (2.78%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.39%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.39%) Clustering
5 1 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.39%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.39%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.39%) PKI
5 1 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 27 (37.50%) Windows
2 17 (23.61%) Linux
3 12 (16.67%) Windows Server
4 8 (11.11%) AIX
4 8 (11.11%) Unix
5 5 (6.94%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (5.56%) Debian
6 4 (5.56%) Ubuntu
6 4 (5.56%) VMS
7 3 (4.17%) Windows 10
7 3 (4.17%) Windows 7
7 3 (4.17%) Windows XP
8 2 (2.78%) CentOS
8 2 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (1.39%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (20.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 13 (18.06%) ITIL
3 12 (16.67%) Network Monitoring
3 12 (16.67%) Storage Management
4 11 (15.28%) Service Management
5 10 (13.89%) ITSM
6 8 (11.11%) Agile
7 7 (9.72%) Performance Metrics
7 7 (9.72%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (5.56%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (5.56%) Storage Virtualisation
9 3 (4.17%) Asset Management
9 3 (4.17%) Break/Fix
9 3 (4.17%) Change Control
9 3 (4.17%) DevOps
9 3 (4.17%) Stakeholder Management
10 2 (2.78%) Business Development
10 2 (2.78%) Migration
10 2 (2.78%) Performance Testing
10 2 (2.78%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 7 (9.72%) Python
2 6 (8.33%) PowerShell
3 4 (5.56%) Shell Script
4 2 (2.78%) C
4 2 (2.78%) Java
4 2 (2.78%) SQL
5 1 (1.39%) Bash
Qualifications
1 35 (48.61%) Security Cleared
2 31 (43.06%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 3 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.78%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.78%) RHCE
5 2 (2.78%) RHCSA
6 1 (1.39%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.39%) Degree
6 1 (1.39%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.94%) SLA
System Software
1 52 (72.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (19.44%) Active Directory
3 8 (11.11%) Hyper-V
3 8 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (5.56%) Virtual Servers
5 3 (4.17%) Docker
5 3 (4.17%) vSphere
6 2 (2.78%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.39%) Firmware
7 1 (1.39%) VMware NSX
7 1 (1.39%) XenApp
7 1 (1.39%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 8 (11.11%) Ansible
1 8 (11.11%) Terraform
2 6 (8.33%) SCCM
3 4 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (5.56%) Tivoli
3 4 (5.56%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 3 (4.17%) SCOM
5 2 (2.78%) CA Wily
5 2 (2.78%) Nessus
5 2 (2.78%) Puppet
5 2 (2.78%) SELinux
6 1 (1.39%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.39%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (1.39%) Podman
6 1 (1.39%) SolarWinds Orion
6 1 (1.39%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.39%) WSUS
Vendors
1 13 (18.06%) Microsoft
2 12 (16.67%) Broadcom
3 10 (13.89%) Cisco
4 6 (8.33%) Dell
4 6 (8.33%) SolarWinds
5 5 (6.94%) Oracle
6 4 (5.56%) Foundry
6 4 (5.56%) IBM
6 4 (5.56%) Red Hat
7 3 (4.17%) Google
7 3 (4.17%) Veeam
8 2 (2.78%) AppDynamics
8 2 (2.78%) HP
8 2 (2.78%) NetApp
8 2 (2.78%) Sophos
8 2 (2.78%) Splunk
9 1 (1.39%) Aruba
9 1 (1.39%) EMC
9 1 (1.39%) Meraki
9 1 (1.39%) ServiceNow