VMware Contracts in South Wales

VMware
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 3 May 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
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 36 32
Rank change year-on-year +15 -4 -11
Contract jobs citing VMware 13 6 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 5.42% 1.79% 4.62%
As % of the Vendors category 12.75% 4.58% 10.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 6 22
10th Percentile £185 £203 £334
25th Percentile £186 £220 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £290 £285 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.75% -45.71% +16.41%
75th Percentile £373 £367 £550
90th Percentile £475 £405 £627
Wales median daily rate £290 £225 £525
% change year-on-year +28.89% -57.14% +16.15%

All Vendors
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 102 131 237
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 42.50% 39.10% 45.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 98 177
10th Percentile £180 £207 £198
25th Percentile £236 £434 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -22.33% +3.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £475 £570 £573
90th Percentile £545 £625 £634
Wales median daily rate £400 £513 £475
% change year-on-year -21.95% +7.89% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 10 4
10th Percentile £12.97 £11.00 £16.26
25th Percentile £16.00 £11.95 £17.40
Median hourly rate £22.50 £72.00 £32.78
Median % change year-on-year -68.75% +119.65% +57.98%
75th Percentile £41.25 £87.35 £49.06
90th Percentile - £87.82 £49.63
Wales median hourly rate £21.76 £39.50 £24.53
% change year-on-year -44.92% +61.03% +9.02%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Job postings citing VMware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Job vacancy trend for VMware in South Wales

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware in South Wales.

Daily rate trend for VMware in South Wales

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Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware in South Wales over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware in South Wales

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware in South Wales.

Hourly rate trend for VMware in South Wales

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Contract Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
Newport +11 7 £290 -20.55% 3
Cardiff +8 3 £450 +104.55% 4
Gwent - 1 £290 - 2
Torfaen - 1 £200 -
Bridgend - 1 £238 - 4
Caerphilly - 1 £180 - 1
VMware
Wales

VMware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.69%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (7.69%) Exchange Server 2007
1 1 (7.69%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) MS Visio
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) Azure
2 4 (30.77%) AWS
3 2 (15.38%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
4 1 (7.69%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 6 (46.15%) BGP
1 6 (46.15%) OSPF
1 6 (46.15%) Wireless
2 5 (38.46%) Firewall
3 4 (30.77%) Cisco IOS
3 4 (30.77%) IPsec
3 4 (30.77%) Network Security
3 4 (30.77%) SD-WAN
3 4 (30.77%) VPN
4 2 (15.38%) 802.11
4 2 (15.38%) Cisco Firepower
4 2 (15.38%) DHCP
4 2 (15.38%) DNS
4 2 (15.38%) HSRP
4 2 (15.38%) IPv4
4 2 (15.38%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) MySQL
1 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (7.69%) Power BI
1 1 (7.69%) Tableau
General
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Network Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Analyst
2 3 (23.08%) Senior
3 2 (15.38%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) IT Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) IT Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) IT Support
3 2 (15.38%) IT Support Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Network Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Support Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Support Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (7.69%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Support Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Data Centre
1 2 (15.38%) NHS
1 2 (15.38%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) Windows
1 5 (38.46%) Windows Server 2012
2 4 (30.77%) Windows Server
2 4 (30.77%) Windows Server 2016
2 4 (30.77%) Windows Server 2019
3 3 (23.08%) Windows 10
4 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (7.69%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (7.69%) Windows Vista
4 1 (7.69%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) ITIL
1 5 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (30.77%) Computer Science
2 4 (30.77%) Network Design
3 2 (15.38%) High Availability
3 2 (15.38%) Incident Management
3 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (15.38%) Migration
3 2 (15.38%) Network Optimisation
3 2 (15.38%) Performance Metrics
3 2 (15.38%) Service Delivery
3 2 (15.38%) Statistics
4 1 (7.69%) Analytics
4 1 (7.69%) Asset Management
4 1 (7.69%) Business Continuity
4 1 (7.69%) Data Analytics
4 1 (7.69%) Data Modelling
4 1 (7.69%) Information Security
4 1 (7.69%) Line Management
4 1 (7.69%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) Python
1 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) CCNP
1 6 (46.15%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (38.46%) Degree
3 4 (30.77%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (15.38%) CCIE
5 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
5 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (61.54%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (38.46%) Active Directory
3 1 (7.69%) Hyper-V
3 1 (7.69%) Terminal Services
3 1 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (7.69%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) Cacti
2 2 (15.38%) Cisco Prime
3 1 (7.69%) Sysprep
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Cisco
2 4 (30.77%) SolarWinds
3 2 (15.38%) Ekahau
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 2 (15.38%) Palo Alto
4 1 (7.69%) Citrix
4 1 (7.69%) Oracle