VMware Contract Job Trends 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 19 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
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 37 40 20
Rank change year-on-year +3 -20 +26
Contract jobs citing VMware 1 3 36
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 0.34% 0.84% 8.93%
As % of the Vendors category 0.79% 2.22% 17.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 31
10th Percentile - £189 £300
25th Percentile £406 £194 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £205 £550
Median % change year-on-year +101.22% -62.73% +22.22%
75th Percentile £419 £214 £613
90th Percentile - £218 £638
Wales median daily rate £413 £205 £525
% change year-on-year +101.22% -60.95% +16.67%

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 127 135 203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 42.62% 37.82% 50.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 84 150
10th Percentile £190 £160 £190
25th Percentile £288 £210 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £394 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.94% -21.25% -
75th Percentile £489 £545 £600
90th Percentile £611 £594 £650
Wales median daily rate £325 £450 £488
% change year-on-year -27.78% -7.69% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 7 8
10th Percentile £13.47 £24.36 £16.00
25th Percentile £15.74 £25.60 £17.50
Median hourly rate £20.50 £50.00 £23.92
Median % change year-on-year -59.00% +109.07% +32.86%
75th Percentile £20.75 £51.88 £26.31
90th Percentile £27.85 £54.25 £65.87
Wales median hourly rate £20.50 £30.00 £23.92
% change year-on-year -31.67% +25.44% +38.64%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

VMware job vacancy trend in South Wales

VMware
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing VMware.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing VMware

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Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing VMware.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing VMware

VMware
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 19 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
Newport +6 1 £413 +117.11% 3
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Wales

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Rubrik
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Database Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle