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 2 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
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 31 27
Rank change year-on-year -36 -4 +59
Contract jobs citing VMware 75 123 187
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.02% 4.65% 6.02%
As % of the Vendors category 6.65% 10.22% 12.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 91 128
10th Percentile £366 £300 £263
25th Percentile £434 £380 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £425
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +23.53% -
75th Percentile £582 £586 £602
90th Percentile £631 £660 £725
England median daily rate £550 £513 £513
% change year-on-year +7.32% - +3.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £24.60
25th Percentile - - £31.50
Median hourly rate - - £43.00
75th Percentile - - £54.50
90th Percentile - - £61.40
England median hourly rate £32.77 £67.50 £54.56
% change year-on-year -51.45% +23.72% +33.72%

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 1,127 1,204 1,553
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 45.41% 45.49% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 714 835 1,042
10th Percentile £208 £259 £207
25th Percentile £325 £358 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - -
75th Percentile £574 £600 £594
90th Percentile £648 £683 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 40 40
10th Percentile £13.81 £12.66 £13.00
25th Percentile £15.74 £13.19 £15.98
Median hourly rate £25.00 £15.83 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +57.98% -29.67% +21.62%
75th Percentile £31.00 £33.56 £65.25
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.13 £93.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £29.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -13.28% -17.14% +55.56%

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

VMware
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 2 August 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 2 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
West Midlands -25 59 £563 +2.27% 54
East Midlands -17 16 £550 +22.36% 11
VMware
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 1 (1.33%) IIS
1 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 12 (16.00%) SaaS
2 11 (14.67%) Azure
3 5 (6.67%) GitHub
3 5 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (5.33%) AWS
5 3 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (4.00%) PaaS
6 2 (2.67%) Azure Stack
6 2 (2.67%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.67%) IaaS
6 2 (2.67%) Nutanix
7 1 (1.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.33%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.33%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (1.33%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.33%) AWS CloudTrail
7 1 (1.33%) AWS KMS
7 1 (1.33%) GCP
7 1 (1.33%) Route 53
7 1 (1.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 14 (18.67%) DNS
2 9 (12.00%) SAN
3 7 (9.33%) FTP
4 6 (8.00%) SMTP
5 5 (6.67%) DKIM
5 5 (6.67%) DMARC
5 5 (6.67%) Internet
6 4 (5.33%) Cisco ISE
6 4 (5.33%) Network Security
7 3 (4.00%) DHCP
7 3 (4.00%) DMZ
7 3 (4.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
7 3 (4.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 3 (4.00%) LAN
7 3 (4.00%) NAS
8 2 (2.67%) TCP/IP
8 2 (2.67%) VLAN
8 2 (2.67%) VSAN
9 1 (1.33%) IP Telephony
9 1 (1.33%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.33%) Oracle Database
2 1 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.33%) SQL Server
General
1 33 (44.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (4.00%) Banking
3 3 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (4.00%) Investment Banking
4 2 (2.67%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.33%) Finance
5 1 (1.33%) Legal
5 1 (1.33%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (28.00%) Architect
2 13 (17.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 9 (12.00%) VMware Engineer
4 5 (6.67%) Consultant
5 4 (5.33%) Administrator
5 4 (5.33%) Linux Engineer
5 4 (5.33%) Systems Administrator
5 4 (5.33%) Systems Architect
5 4 (5.33%) Unix Administrator
5 4 (5.33%) Unix Systems Administrator
5 4 (5.33%) VMware Architect
5 4 (5.33%) VMware Consultant
6 3 (4.00%) Application Integration Engineer
6 3 (4.00%) Applications Engineer
6 3 (4.00%) Deployment Engineer
6 3 (4.00%) Integration Engineer
6 3 (4.00%) Lead
6 3 (4.00%) Operations Engineer
6 3 (4.00%) Service Architect
6 3 (4.00%) Windows Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.33%) Data Centre
2 4 (5.33%) SCADA
3 3 (4.00%) Client/Server
3 3 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (4.00%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.00%) PKI
3 3 (4.00%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.67%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.67%) Private Cloud
4 2 (2.67%) Replication
5 1 (1.33%) Clustering
5 1 (1.33%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.33%) Educational Technology
5 1 (1.33%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.33%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 33 (44.00%) Windows
2 19 (25.33%) Linux
3 17 (22.67%) Windows Server
4 9 (12.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 6 (8.00%) AIX
5 6 (8.00%) Unix
5 6 (8.00%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (6.67%) Windows 10
7 3 (4.00%) Windows 7
7 3 (4.00%) Windows XP
8 2 (2.67%) Ubuntu
9 1 (1.33%) Debian
9 1 (1.33%) Mac OS
9 1 (1.33%) SUSE
9 1 (1.33%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (1.33%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (1.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (26.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (14.67%) ITIL
3 10 (13.33%) Validation
4 7 (9.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (8.00%) Configuration Management
5 6 (8.00%) Storage Management
6 5 (6.67%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (5.33%) Application Packaging
7 4 (5.33%) Business Strategy
7 4 (5.33%) DevOps
7 4 (5.33%) Reverse Engineering
7 4 (5.33%) Service Management
7 4 (5.33%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (4.00%) Agile
8 3 (4.00%) Change Control
8 3 (4.00%) Design Patterns
8 3 (4.00%) ITSM
8 3 (4.00%) Load Balancing
8 3 (4.00%) Scrum
9 2 (2.67%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 12 (16.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (6.67%) Python
3 3 (4.00%) VBScript
4 1 (1.33%) Bash
4 1 (1.33%) Shell Script
4 1 (1.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 32 (42.67%) Security Cleared
2 21 (28.00%) SC Cleared
3 14 (18.67%) DV Cleared
4 4 (5.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (2.67%) Degree
7 1 (1.33%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.33%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
7 1 (1.33%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.33%) CCNA
7 1 (1.33%) CCNP
7 1 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.33%) Citrix Certification
7 1 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.33%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.33%) SLA
2 1 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.33%) GDPR
2 1 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 52 (69.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 24 (32.00%) Active Directory
3 12 (16.00%) VMware ESXi
4 11 (14.67%) Hyper-V
5 10 (13.33%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (10.67%) vSphere
7 5 (6.67%) Dovecot
7 5 (6.67%) Postfix
8 3 (4.00%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (1.33%) Docker
9 1 (1.33%) Firmware
9 1 (1.33%) VMware NSX
9 1 (1.33%) XenApp
9 1 (1.33%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 8 (10.67%) SCCM
2 6 (8.00%) Terraform
3 5 (6.67%) Ansible
4 4 (5.33%) Tivoli
4 4 (5.33%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 3 (4.00%) vCenter Server
6 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.33%) Kubernetes
7 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (1.33%) Podman
7 1 (1.33%) PowerCLI
7 1 (1.33%) VxRail
7 1 (1.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 21 (28.00%) Broadcom
2 12 (16.00%) Microsoft
3 7 (9.33%) Cisco
4 6 (8.00%) Red Hat
5 5 (6.67%) Veeam
6 4 (5.33%) Dell
6 4 (5.33%) IBM
6 4 (5.33%) Oracle
7 3 (4.00%) Citrix
7 3 (4.00%) F5
8 2 (2.67%) ArcSight
9 1 (1.33%) Aruba
9 1 (1.33%) EMC
9 1 (1.33%) Google
9 1 (1.33%) HP
9 1 (1.33%) Meraki
9 1 (1.33%) ServiceNow
9 1 (1.33%) Zerto
9 1 (1.33%) Zscaler