VMware Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

VMware
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 30 September 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
30 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 57 55
Rank change year-on-year +26 -2 -21
Contract jobs citing VMware 39 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 6.34% 0.66% 0.22%
As % of the Vendors category 11.93% 1.20% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 2 0
10th Percentile £370 £337 -
25th Percentile £402 £364 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £419 -
Median % change year-on-year +7.10% - -
75th Percentile £528 £464 -
90th Percentile £635 £486 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £447 £425 £380
% change year-on-year +5.18% +11.84% -10.59%

All Vendors
South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 327 251 171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 53.17% 55.29% 38.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 140 99
10th Percentile £290 £313 £209
25th Percentile £374 £481 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £530 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.33% -7.91% +23.59%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £625
90th Percentile £639 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £501 £500
% change year-on-year -5.09% +0.10% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 2
10th Percentile - £17.53 £18.65
25th Percentile £15.00 £20.38 £18.88
Median hourly rate £18.87 £21.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.23% +10.26% +16.42%
75th Percentile - £41.88 £19.88
90th Percentile - - £19.95
Yorkshire median hourly rate £53.90 £21.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +150.67% -2.27% +17.65%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware in South Yorkshire

VMware
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

VMware
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 30 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware in South Yorkshire

VMware
Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

VMware
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 30 September 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
Sheffield +24 39 £449 +7.10% 4
VMware
Yorkshire

VMware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 4 (10.26%) Confluence
2 2 (5.13%) CICS
2 2 (5.13%) Tomcat
2 2 (5.13%) WebSphere
3 1 (2.56%) WebSphere Application Server
Cloud Services
1 3 (7.69%) GitHub
2 2 (5.13%) AWS
2 2 (5.13%) Azure
2 2 (5.13%) GCP
3 1 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 21 (53.85%) Firewall
2 16 (41.03%) TCP/IP
3 13 (33.33%) DNS
4 10 (25.64%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 8 (20.51%) DMZ
5 8 (20.51%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 8 (20.51%) Network Security
6 4 (10.26%) NAS
6 4 (10.26%) SAN
7 1 (2.56%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (2.56%) FCoE
7 1 (2.56%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (2.56%) iSCSI
7 1 (2.56%) LAN
7 1 (2.56%) Multicast
7 1 (2.56%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (2.56%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.13%) NoSQL
1 2 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.56%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 26 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 16 (41.03%) Postman
3 14 (35.90%) Git
4 5 (12.82%) JIRA
5 4 (10.26%) GitLab
6 1 (2.56%) Jaeger
6 1 (2.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (28.21%) Banking
1 11 (28.21%) Finance
2 8 (20.51%) Investment Banking
2 8 (20.51%) Social Skills
3 5 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (30.77%) Senior
2 11 (28.21%) Technical Engineer
3 10 (25.64%) Senior Technical Engineer
4 9 (23.08%) Windows Engineer
5 8 (20.51%) Operations Engineer
6 5 (12.82%) Senior Windows Engineer
7 4 (10.26%) Administrator
7 4 (10.26%) Linux Engineer
7 4 (10.26%) VMWare Administrator
8 3 (7.69%) Automation Engineer
8 3 (7.69%) Migration Specialist
8 3 (7.69%) Senior Linux Engineer
8 3 (7.69%) Server Migration Specialist
8 3 (7.69%) Server Specialist
9 2 (5.13%) Architect
9 2 (5.13%) Infrastructure Architect
9 2 (5.13%) VMware Engineer
10 1 (2.56%) Developer
10 1 (2.56%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
10 1 (2.56%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.82%) Middleware
2 2 (5.13%) LDAP
3 1 (2.56%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 10 (25.64%) Management Information System
2 3 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (5.13%) Clustering
3 2 (5.13%) Data Centre
3 2 (5.13%) Mainframe
3 2 (5.13%) Replication
4 1 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.56%) IBM Mainframe
4 1 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.56%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 17 (43.59%) Windows
2 15 (38.46%) Linux
3 6 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (12.82%) Solaris
5 4 (10.26%) Unix
5 4 (10.26%) Windows Server
6 3 (7.69%) AIX
6 3 (7.69%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 3 (7.69%) VMS
7 2 (5.13%) zOS
8 1 (2.56%) CentOS
8 1 (2.56%) MVS
8 1 (2.56%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (2.56%) SUSE
8 1 (2.56%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (53.85%) DevOps
2 17 (43.59%) Agile
3 15 (38.46%) Configuration Management
4 13 (33.33%) Data Management
5 10 (25.64%) Infrastructure Automation
5 10 (25.64%) Migration
6 8 (20.51%) Business Strategy
6 8 (20.51%) Design Patterns
6 8 (20.51%) Load Balancing
6 8 (20.51%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (20.51%) Translating Business Requirements
7 6 (15.38%) Problem Management
8 5 (12.82%) Infrastructure Management
9 4 (10.26%) CI/CD
9 4 (10.26%) Scrum
9 4 (10.26%) Server Management
9 4 (10.26%) Test Automation
10 3 (7.69%) Data Protection
10 3 (7.69%) Kanban
10 3 (7.69%) Server Migrations
Programming Languages
1 25 (64.10%) Python
2 10 (25.64%) PowerShell
3 6 (15.38%) Bash
4 4 (10.26%) Shell Script
5 2 (5.13%) Java
6 1 (2.56%) Go
6 1 (2.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (7.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 2 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (5.13%) Degree
2 2 (5.13%) VCAP
System Software
1 34 (87.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (17.95%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 6 (15.38%) VMware NSX
3 6 (15.38%) vSphere
4 5 (12.82%) Active Directory
5 3 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (5.13%) Docker
6 2 (5.13%) Hyper-V
6 2 (5.13%) KVM
6 2 (5.13%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (2.56%) NFS
7 1 (2.56%) SRDF
7 1 (2.56%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (2.56%) Xen
Systems Management
1 27 (69.23%) Ansible
2 17 (43.59%) Puppet
3 10 (25.64%) Microsoft Clustering
4 7 (17.95%) SCCM
5 5 (12.82%) vCenter Server
6 4 (10.26%) Terraform
7 3 (7.69%) Kubernetes
7 3 (7.69%) vRealize
8 2 (5.13%) PowerCLI
9 1 (2.56%) Grafana
9 1 (2.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 16 (41.03%) MuleSoft
2 15 (38.46%) F5
3 14 (35.90%) Microsoft
4 5 (12.82%) Red Hat
5 4 (10.26%) Oracle
6 3 (7.69%) Cisco
7 2 (5.13%) Broadcom
7 2 (5.13%) EMC
7 2 (5.13%) NetApp
8 1 (2.56%) Citrix
8 1 (2.56%) Google
8 1 (2.56%) IBM
8 1 (2.56%) Pure Storage