VMware Infrastructure Contracts in the South East

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for VMware Infrastructure skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited VMware Infrastructure over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 38 42 51
Rank change year-on-year +4 +9 0
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 231 283 328
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 4.19% 4.99% 4.30%
As % of the System Software category 29.69% 34.64% 26.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 209 239
10th Percentile £331 £305 £249
25th Percentile £413 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £460
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +13.04% +5.50%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £608 £675 £675
England median daily rate £500 £549 £475
% change year-on-year -8.95% +15.61% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 14 6
10th Percentile £66.50 £44.88 -
25th Percentile £68.75 £48.40 £20.00
Median hourly rate £75.00 £56.66 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +32.38% +33.31% +25.00%
75th Percentile £78.75 £71.97 £67.31
90th Percentile £79.50 £85.66 £67.76
England median hourly rate £40.00 £65.00 £48.43
% change year-on-year -38.46% +34.23% -3.15%

All System Software Skills
South East

VMware Infrastructure is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 778 817 1,256
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 14.10% 14.41% 16.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 492 572 867
10th Percentile £200 £205 £164
25th Percentile £363 £350 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 46 55
10th Percentile £17.26 £15.88 £12.52
25th Percentile £17.80 £18.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £53.19 £54.56 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.52% +172.80% -9.09%
75th Percentile £64.06 £69.38 £24.13
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £67.81
England median hourly rate £21.00 £50.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -58.00% +163.16% -5.00%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing VMware Infrastructure as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for VMware Infrastructure in the South East

VMware Infrastructure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in the South East.

Daily rate trend for VMware Infrastructure in the South East

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in the South East over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure in the South East

VMware Infrastructure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for VMware Infrastructure in the South East

VMware Infrastructure
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware Infrastructure within the South East region over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. 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
Hampshire -4 88 £550 -3.51% 34
Thames Valley -23 84 £501 -2.10% 28
Berkshire -17 70 £526 -6.58% 15
West Sussex +10 27 £450 -22.81% 6
Surrey +21 23 £380 +22.58% 8
Oxfordshire +10 8 £483 +12.87% 9
Kent +5 7 £338 -2.53% 13
Buckinghamshire 0 6 £488 +7.14% 4
East Sussex +6 2 £475 +19.87% 7
VMware Infrastructure
England

VMware Infrastructure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 20 (8.66%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (5.63%) Confluence
3 5 (2.16%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.87%) IBM Domino
5 1 (0.43%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 4 (1.73%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (3.03%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 56 (24.24%) Azure
2 24 (10.39%) AWS
3 15 (6.49%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (6.06%) OCI
5 12 (5.19%) IaaS
5 12 (5.19%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (3.46%) GitHub
7 7 (3.03%) GCP
8 6 (2.60%) PaaS
8 6 (2.60%) SaaS
9 5 (2.16%) Entra ID
10 4 (1.73%) OneDrive
11 3 (1.30%) Azure API Management
11 3 (1.30%) Azure Event Grid
11 3 (1.30%) Azure Logic Apps
11 3 (1.30%) Nutanix
11 3 (1.30%) WhatsApp
12 2 (0.87%) Amazon EC2
12 2 (0.87%) Google Workspace
12 2 (0.87%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 73 (31.60%) DNS
2 60 (25.97%) DHCP
3 52 (22.51%) Firewall
4 32 (13.85%) SAN
5 20 (8.66%) VPN
6 19 (8.23%) WAN
7 16 (6.93%) VSAN
8 13 (5.63%) NAS
8 13 (5.63%) Wireless
9 12 (5.19%) LAN
9 12 (5.19%) TCP/IP
10 9 (3.90%) VLAN
10 9 (3.90%) Wi-Fi
11 8 (3.46%) Network Security
12 6 (2.60%) Cisco Nexus
13 5 (2.16%) Fibre Channel
13 5 (2.16%) iSCSI
14 4 (1.73%) Cisco ASA
14 4 (1.73%) SSL
14 4 (1.73%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (3.46%) SQL Server
3 7 (3.03%) MongoDB
4 5 (2.16%) MySQL
5 4 (1.73%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.87%) CouchDB
6 2 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.43%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.43%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 20 (8.66%) Robot Framework
2 16 (6.93%) JIRA
3 14 (6.06%) Sonatype Nexus
4 12 (5.19%) GitLab
5 6 (2.60%) Selenium
6 4 (1.73%) Git
7 3 (1.30%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.87%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.43%) MSI
9 1 (0.43%) Subversion
General
1 69 (29.87%) Social Skills
2 32 (13.85%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (3.90%) Military
4 8 (3.46%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (2.16%) Public Sector
6 3 (1.30%) Front Office
6 3 (1.30%) Marketing
6 3 (1.30%) Telecoms
7 2 (0.87%) Back Office
7 2 (0.87%) Finance
7 2 (0.87%) Manufacturing
7 2 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.43%) Advertising
8 1 (0.43%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.43%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.43%) Legal
Job Titles
1 64 (27.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 27 (11.69%) Architect
3 21 (9.09%) Integration Engineer
4 17 (7.36%) Storage Engineer
5 16 (6.93%) Senior
6 13 (5.63%) Analyst
6 13 (5.63%) VMware Engineer
7 12 (5.19%) Network Engineer
7 12 (5.19%) Security Architect
8 10 (4.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 10 (4.33%) Test Engineer
8 10 (4.33%) Wintel Engineer
9 9 (3.90%) Linux Engineer
9 9 (3.90%) Test and Integration Engineer
10 8 (3.46%) Server Engineer
10 8 (3.46%) Support Engineer
10 8 (3.46%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (3.03%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 7 (3.03%) Security Engineer
11 7 (3.03%) VMware Expert
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.60%) .NET
2 3 (1.30%) EDI
2 3 (1.30%) Web Services
2 3 (1.30%) XMPP
3 2 (0.87%) AngularJS
3 2 (0.87%) CSS
3 2 (0.87%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (0.87%) HTML
3 2 (0.87%) Node.js
3 2 (0.87%) React
3 2 (0.87%) Vue
3 2 (0.87%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (11.69%) PKI
2 24 (10.39%) Data Centre
3 20 (8.66%) Client/Server
4 12 (5.19%) Linux Command Line
5 9 (3.90%) Clustering
6 8 (3.46%) Replication
7 6 (2.60%) Public Cloud
8 5 (2.16%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.73%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.30%) CCTV
10 3 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.30%) Operational Technology
10 3 (1.30%) SCADA
11 2 (0.87%) Fat Client
11 2 (0.87%) Thin Client
12 1 (0.43%) CMDB
12 1 (0.43%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.43%) Smart Meter
12 1 (0.43%) Smartphone
12 1 (0.43%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 140 (60.61%) Windows
2 114 (49.35%) Windows Server
3 84 (36.36%) Linux
4 45 (19.48%) Windows Server 2012
5 43 (18.61%) Windows Server 2019
6 28 (12.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 28 (12.12%) Windows 10
7 21 (9.09%) Windows Server 2016
8 14 (6.06%) Windows XP
9 13 (5.63%) Unix
10 7 (3.03%) Windows Server 2008
11 5 (2.16%) Solaris
11 5 (2.16%) Ubuntu
11 5 (2.16%) VMS
12 2 (0.87%) Oracle Linux
13 1 (0.43%) Android
13 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.43%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (33.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 52 (22.51%) Agile
3 46 (19.91%) Problem-Solving
4 33 (14.29%) Migration
5 29 (12.55%) DevOps
5 29 (12.55%) Disaster Recovery
6 27 (11.69%) ITIL
7 25 (10.82%) Storage Management
8 23 (9.96%) Performance Tuning
9 22 (9.52%) Test Automation
10 19 (8.23%) Patch Management
10 19 (8.23%) Release Management
10 19 (8.23%) Server Management
11 18 (7.79%) Application Packaging
11 18 (7.79%) Application Virtualisation
11 18 (7.79%) Proactive Monitoring
11 18 (7.79%) Project Delivery
12 17 (7.36%) Change Management
12 17 (7.36%) Converged Infrastructure
13 16 (6.93%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 79 (34.20%) PowerShell
2 48 (20.78%) Python
3 19 (8.23%) Bash
3 19 (8.23%) VBScript
4 12 (5.19%) SQL
5 5 (2.16%) C#
5 5 (2.16%) Java
5 5 (2.16%) Shell Script
6 3 (1.30%) C++
6 3 (1.30%) PHP
6 3 (1.30%) Ruby
6 3 (1.30%) VB.NET
7 2 (0.87%) Go
7 2 (0.87%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.43%) Perl
Qualifications
1 119 (51.52%) Security Cleared
2 60 (25.97%) DV Cleared
3 44 (19.05%) SC Cleared
4 36 (15.58%) Degree
5 25 (10.82%) Cisco Certification
6 22 (9.52%) CCNA
7 21 (9.09%) CCNP
8 20 (8.66%) Microsoft Certification
8 20 (8.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 14 (6.06%) MCSE
10 10 (4.33%) MCSA
11 6 (2.60%) VCAP
12 5 (2.16%) Azure Certification
12 5 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (2.16%) DBS Check
13 3 (1.30%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (1.30%) Network+ Certification
14 2 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 2 (0.87%) Master's Degree
14 2 (0.87%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.46%) SLA
2 7 (3.03%) RMADS
3 4 (1.73%) GDPR
3 4 (1.73%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.30%) ISO 9001
4 3 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 107 (46.32%) Active Directory
2 53 (22.94%) Hyper-V
3 37 (16.02%) vSphere
4 33 (14.29%) VMware NSX
5 27 (11.69%) VMware ESXi
6 15 (6.49%) XenApp
7 14 (6.06%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (3.90%) vCloud
9 5 (2.16%) Docker
10 4 (1.73%) Firmware
10 4 (1.73%) KVM
11 3 (1.30%) XenDesktop
12 2 (0.87%) BitLocker
12 2 (0.87%) Ceph
12 2 (0.87%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 2 (0.87%) VirtualBox
13 1 (0.43%) DFS Replication
13 1 (0.43%) Terminal Services
13 1 (0.43%) UAG
13 1 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 42 (18.18%) WSUS
2 36 (15.58%) Ansible
2 36 (15.58%) SCCM
3 32 (13.85%) vCenter Server
4 27 (11.69%) Terraform
5 19 (8.23%) Kubernetes
6 18 (7.79%) SCOM
7 14 (6.06%) EMC NetWorker
7 14 (6.06%) NetBackup
8 7 (3.03%) Nessus
8 7 (3.03%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 6 (2.60%) Rancher
10 5 (2.16%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (2.16%) Red Hat Satellite
10 5 (2.16%) vRealize
11 4 (1.73%) Avamar
12 3 (1.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 3 (1.30%) AppManager
12 3 (1.30%) Packer
12 3 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 231 (100.00%) VMware
2 80 (34.63%) Microsoft
3 32 (13.85%) Cisco
4 28 (12.12%) Oracle
5 22 (9.52%) Dell
6 19 (8.23%) EMC
6 19 (8.23%) HP
6 19 (8.23%) Red Hat
6 19 (8.23%) Veeam
7 18 (7.79%) Citrix
7 18 (7.79%) Palo Alto
8 16 (6.93%) Symantec
9 15 (6.49%) Juniper
10 14 (6.06%) 3PAR
10 14 (6.06%) Extreme Networks
11 12 (5.19%) Ivanti
12 11 (4.76%) SolarWinds
13 7 (3.03%) Splunk
14 6 (2.60%) Google
14 6 (2.60%) Meraki