VMware Contract Job Trends in Peterborough

VMware
Cambridgeshire > Peterborough

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Peterborough 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 21 August 2026, 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
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 24 -
Rank change year-on-year +10 - -
Contract jobs citing VMware 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Peterborough 2.90% 1.08% -
As % of the Vendors category 22.22% 1.92% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £510 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -7.27% +10.00% +19.40%

All Vendors
Peterborough

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 Peterborough.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 9 52 119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Peterborough 13.04% 55.91% 60.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 3
10th Percentile £201 £185 £391
25th Percentile £258 £263 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -6.61% +5.88% +21.43%
75th Percentile £578 - £544
90th Percentile £584 £545 £593
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £510 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -0.49% +2.50% +16.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 34 111
10th Percentile £28.79 £14.84 £14.16
25th Percentile £29.98 £14.99 £15.00
Median hourly rate £32.96 £16.23 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year +103.05% - +11.93%
75th Percentile £34.93 £18.85 £16.85
90th Percentile £35.52 £43.75 £21.37
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £22.75 £16.30 £16.23
% change year-on-year +39.57% +0.43% +11.93%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in Peterborough

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

VMware job vacancy trend in Peterborough

VMware
Daily Rate Trend in Peterborough

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Peterborough citing VMware

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Hourly Rate Trend in Peterborough

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Peterborough citing VMware

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Peterborough 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%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Operations Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Network Design
2 1 (50.00%) Patch Management
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Runbook
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) vSphere
2 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (50.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) vCenter Server
1 1 (50.00%) vRealize
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) F5