VMware Contract Job Trends in Somerset

VMware
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Somerset 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 14 November 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
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 9 19
Rank change year-on-year -14 +10 +11
Contract jobs citing VMware 8 22 12
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 4.57% 11.89% 6.38%
As % of the Vendors category 9.30% 30.99% 18.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 9 5
10th Percentile £500 £462 £298
25th Percentile £525 £525 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £633 £633 £400
Median % change year-on-year - +58.13% -11.11%
75th Percentile £649 £825 £450
90th Percentile - £888 £743
South West median daily rate £550 £538 £513
% change year-on-year +2.33% +4.88% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £23.90
25th Percentile - £15.50 £32.19
Median hourly rate - £16.00 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year - -65.22% -
75th Percentile - £16.50 £46.09
90th Percentile - - £46.14
South West median hourly rate - £16.00 £65.98
% change year-on-year - -75.75% +4.73%

All Vendors
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 86 71 64
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 49.14% 38.38% 34.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 40 36
10th Percentile £186 £224 £168
25th Percentile £225 £444 £211
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £550 £306
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +79.59% -27.94%
75th Percentile £550 £649 £463
90th Percentile £649 £833 £575
South West median daily rate £513 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 3
10th Percentile £47.70 - £23.90
25th Percentile £54.00 £12.50 £32.19
Median hourly rate £61.50 £14.50 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year +324.14% -68.48% -8.00%
75th Percentile £66.50 £18.63 £46.09
90th Percentile £70.10 £22.45 £46.14
South West median hourly rate £23.50 £67.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -65.19% +22.73% -15.38%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

VMware job vacancy trend in Somerset

VMware
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing VMware

VMware
Hourly Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing VMware

VMware
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 14 November 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
Bath -6 4 £633 -
Taunton +1 3 £550 -
VMware
South West

VMware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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 4 (50.00%) Confluence
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (87.50%) DNS
2 6 (75.00%) VPN
3 4 (50.00%) BGP
3 4 (50.00%) IPsec
3 4 (50.00%) MPLS
3 4 (50.00%) Unified Communications
4 3 (37.50%) DHCP
5 2 (25.00%) TCP/IP
5 2 (25.00%) WAN
6 1 (12.50%) LAN
6 1 (12.50%) NAS
6 1 (12.50%) SAN
6 1 (12.50%) SD-WAN
6 1 (12.50%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 4 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (12.50%) Electronics
4 1 (12.50%) Finance
4 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
4 1 (12.50%) Marketing
4 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Switch Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Telephony Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Architect
3 1 (12.50%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (12.50%) IT Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Network Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Network Security Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Security Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Storage Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) NETCONF
1 4 (50.00%) RESTCONF
2 1 (12.50%) .NET
2 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
2 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (12.50%) Bootstrap
2 1 (12.50%) Express.js
2 1 (12.50%) Middleware
2 1 (12.50%) React
2 1 (12.50%) SOAP
2 1 (12.50%) WCF
2 1 (12.50%) Web Services
2 1 (12.50%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) PKI
2 1 (12.50%) CMDB
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
2 3 (37.50%) Windows Server
3 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Critical Thinking
1 4 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
1 4 (50.00%) NsoIT
1 4 (50.00%) Service Management
1 4 (50.00%) System Testing
1 4 (50.00%) Validation
2 2 (25.00%) Agile
2 2 (25.00%) BCP
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (25.00%) ITIL
2 2 (25.00%) Scrum
2 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (12.50%) Configuration Management
3 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (12.50%) MODAF
3 1 (12.50%) Project Management
3 1 (12.50%) SOA
3 1 (12.50%) TDD
3 1 (12.50%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) Bicep
2 1 (12.50%) C#
2 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
2 1 (12.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (87.50%) Security Cleared
2 5 (62.50%) SC Cleared
3 4 (50.00%) CCNP
3 4 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (50.00%) Degree
4 2 (25.00%) DV Cleared
5 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Government Security Classifications
1 1 (12.50%) NCSC
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) VMware ESXi
1 5 (62.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
3 2 (25.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Atlassian
2 4 (50.00%) Cisco
3 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
4 1 (12.50%) ESRI
4 1 (12.50%) F5
4 1 (12.50%) SAP