VMware Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

VMware
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Shropshire 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 18 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
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 19 7
Rank change year-on-year -29 -12 +97
Contract jobs citing VMware 1 7 10
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 0.46% 7.29% 18.87%
As % of the Vendors category 0.83% 10.77% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 5
10th Percentile - £299 -
25th Percentile - £300 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £300 £500
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -40.00% +42.86%
75th Percentile - £466 -
90th Percentile - £469 £553
West Midlands median daily rate £578 £570 £450
% change year-on-year +1.40% +26.67% +12.50%

All Vendors
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 120 65 30
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 55.56% 67.71% 56.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 58 15
10th Percentile £350 £193 £373
25th Percentile £430 £319 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £410 £500
Median % change year-on-year +25.61% -18.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £538 £515 £573
90th Percentile £552 £567 £588
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £465
% change year-on-year - +7.53% -6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £23.60 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £26.13 £23.00
% change year-on-year +14.83% +13.59% +39.39%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

VMware job vacancy trend in Shropshire

VMware
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing VMware

VMware
Hourly Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing VMware

VMware
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 18 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
Shrewsbury - 1 £400 - 1
VMware
West Midlands

VMware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure