VMware Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

VMware
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 17 December 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
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 36 -
Rank change year-on-year -15 - -
Contract jobs citing VMware 38 6 0
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 5.29% 1.92% -
As % of the Vendors category 10.27% 3.53% -
Number of daily rates quoted 12 6 0
10th Percentile £406 £386 -
25th Percentile £413 £464 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £457 £541 -
Median % change year-on-year -15.66% - -
75th Percentile £613 £613 -
90th Percentile £673 £623 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £457 £541 £300
% change year-on-year -15.66% +80.42% -27.27%

All Vendors
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 370 170 180
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 51.53% 54.49% 46.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 255 103 110
10th Percentile £314 £220 £387
25th Percentile £404 £362 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £520 £556
Median % change year-on-year -6.35% -6.39% +5.81%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £625
90th Percentile £650 £700 £720
South Yorkshire median daily rate £487 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -6.35% +4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 2
10th Percentile - £12.79 £18.65
25th Percentile - £14.35 £18.88
Median hourly rate £15.00 £18.10 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.10% -7.21% +70.53%
75th Percentile - £20.38 £19.88
90th Percentile - £21.05 £19.95
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.00 £18.10 £19.50
% change year-on-year -17.10% -7.21% +90.43%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

VMware job vacancy trend in Sheffield

VMware
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing VMware

VMware
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware in Sheffield over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware in Sheffield

VMware
Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing VMware

VMware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.26%) CICS
1 2 (5.26%) Confluence
1 2 (5.26%) Tomcat
1 2 (5.26%) WebSphere
2 1 (2.63%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 7 (18.42%) OpenShift
2 5 (13.16%) Azure
3 4 (10.53%) AWS
3 4 (10.53%) GCP
3 4 (10.53%) GitHub
4 1 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (2.63%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 21 (55.26%) DNS
2 17 (44.74%) Network Security
3 15 (39.47%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 15 (39.47%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 14 (36.84%) DMZ
5 11 (28.95%) Firewall
6 4 (10.53%) NAS
6 4 (10.53%) SAN
6 4 (10.53%) TCP/IP
7 2 (5.26%) BIG-IP
7 2 (5.26%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (5.26%) LAN
7 2 (5.26%) VPN
7 2 (5.26%) VSAN
7 2 (5.26%) WAN
8 1 (2.63%) BGP
8 1 (2.63%) Cisco Firepower
8 1 (2.63%) Multicast
8 1 (2.63%) OSPF
8 1 (2.63%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.26%) NoSQL
1 2 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (28.95%) Jenkins
2 6 (15.79%) Git
3 4 (10.53%) GitLab
4 3 (7.89%) JIRA
4 3 (7.89%) Postman
5 1 (2.63%) Jaeger
5 1 (2.63%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 18 (47.37%) Banking
2 14 (36.84%) Investment Banking
3 10 (26.32%) Social Skills
4 4 (10.53%) Finance
5 2 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.63%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 14 (36.84%) Operations Engineer
2 7 (18.42%) Architect
3 5 (13.16%) Administrator
3 5 (13.16%) Senior
4 4 (10.53%) VMWare Administrator
5 3 (7.89%) Migration Specialist
5 3 (7.89%) Senior Technical Engineer
5 3 (7.89%) Server Migration Specialist
5 3 (7.89%) Server Specialist
5 3 (7.89%) Technical Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Enterprise Architect
6 2 (5.26%) Infrastructure Architect
6 2 (5.26%) Virtualisation Architect
7 1 (2.63%) Developer
7 1 (2.63%) Integration Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) Network Architect
7 1 (2.63%) Security Architect
7 1 (2.63%) Senior Storage Engineer
7 1 (2.63%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.63%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.16%) Middleware
2 3 (7.89%) LDAP
3 2 (5.26%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (2.63%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 16 (42.11%) Management Information System
2 3 (7.89%) Data Centre
2 3 (7.89%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (5.26%) Clustering
3 2 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (5.26%) Mainframe
3 2 (5.26%) Replication
4 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (2.63%) IBM Mainframe
4 1 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.63%) RSA SecurID
4 1 (2.63%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (26.32%) Linux
2 9 (23.68%) Windows
3 3 (7.89%) Windows Server
4 2 (5.26%) Solaris
4 2 (5.26%) VMS
4 2 (5.26%) zOS
5 1 (2.63%) MVS
5 1 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (42.11%) Load Balancing
2 15 (39.47%) Business Strategy
3 14 (36.84%) Design Patterns
3 14 (36.84%) Migration
4 10 (26.32%) DevOps
5 8 (21.05%) Infrastructure Automation
6 7 (18.42%) Agile
6 7 (18.42%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (15.79%) CI/CD
8 5 (13.16%) Containerisation
8 5 (13.16%) Infrastructure Management
9 4 (10.53%) Scrum
9 4 (10.53%) Server Management
9 4 (10.53%) Test Automation
10 3 (7.89%) Configuration Management
10 3 (7.89%) Enterprise Architecture
10 3 (7.89%) High Availability
10 3 (7.89%) Kanban
10 3 (7.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 3 (7.89%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (34.21%) Python
2 8 (21.05%) PowerShell
3 7 (18.42%) Bash
4 3 (7.89%) Shell Script
5 2 (5.26%) Java
6 1 (2.63%) Go
6 1 (2.63%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (5.26%) Degree
2 1 (2.63%) CCA
2 1 (2.63%) CCIE
2 1 (2.63%) CCNP
2 1 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (2.63%) CISSP
2 1 (2.63%) Citrix Certification
System Software
1 29 (76.32%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (21.05%) VMware NSX
3 6 (15.79%) vSphere
4 5 (13.16%) Active Directory
5 3 (7.89%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (5.26%) Docker
6 2 (5.26%) Hyper-V
6 2 (5.26%) KVM
7 1 (2.63%) NFS
7 1 (2.63%) SRDF
7 1 (2.63%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (2.63%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (2.63%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (2.63%) Xen
7 1 (2.63%) XenApp
7 1 (2.63%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 18 (47.37%) Ansible
2 7 (18.42%) Terraform
3 6 (15.79%) Kubernetes
4 5 (13.16%) vCenter Server
5 4 (10.53%) Puppet
6 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Clustering
6 3 (7.89%) SCCM
6 3 (7.89%) vRealize
7 2 (5.26%) Argo
7 2 (5.26%) Grafana
8 1 (2.63%) Podman
8 1 (2.63%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 23 (60.53%) F5
2 6 (15.79%) Cisco
2 6 (15.79%) Microsoft
3 5 (13.16%) Red Hat
4 3 (7.89%) MuleSoft
4 3 (7.89%) NetApp
5 2 (5.26%) Citrix
5 2 (5.26%) EMC
5 2 (5.26%) Infoblox
5 2 (5.26%) NetScout
5 2 (5.26%) Oracle
5 2 (5.26%) Pure Storage
5 2 (5.26%) SevOne
6 1 (2.63%) Aruba
6 1 (2.63%) ForeScout
6 1 (2.63%) Google
6 1 (2.63%) IBM
6 1 (2.63%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.63%) Splunk