VMware Contract Job Trends in Oxfordshire

VMware
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire 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 16 October 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
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 17 8
Rank change year-on-year -9 -9 +20
Contract jobs citing VMware 2 2 18
As % of all contract jobs in Oxfordshire 1.34% 1.36% 8.18%
As % of the Vendors category 2.60% 4.35% 19.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 16
10th Percentile £361 - £186
25th Percentile £367 - £256
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £381 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +78.57%
75th Percentile £392 - £625
90th Percentile £397 - £675
South East median daily rate £525 £550 £513
% change year-on-year -4.55% +7.32% +2.50%

All Vendors
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 77 46 93
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 51.68% 31.29% 42.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 27 70
10th Percentile £163 £160 £180
25th Percentile £199 £325 £278
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -26.32% +5.56% +2.27%
75th Percentile £475 £519 £584
90th Percentile £575 £650 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £508
% change year-on-year -2.91% +1.38% +1.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 5
10th Percentile £20.75 £30.50 -
25th Percentile £37.06 £42.50 £32.30
Median hourly rate £83.32 £65.00 £32.32
Median % change year-on-year +28.18% +101.11% +90.12%
75th Percentile £89.63 £80.63 -
90th Percentile - £88.50 £48.63
South East median hourly rate £20.00 £57.25 £51.96
% change year-on-year -65.07% +10.18% +136.18%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VMware relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire.

VMware job vacancy trend in Oxfordshire

VMware
Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing VMware.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing VMware

VMware
Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing VMware.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxfordshire citing VMware

VMware
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 16 October 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
Abingdon - 1 £363 - 1
Oxford - 1 £400 - 4
VMware
South East

VMware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxfordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) VLAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Rocky
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat