VMware Infrastructure Contracts in the South West

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 62 69 76
Rank change year-on-year +7 +7 -1
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 94 120 106
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.96% 3.33% 2.83%
As % of the System Software category 26.70% 21.24% 16.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 78 60
10th Percentile £393 £325 £263
25th Percentile £467 £452 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +15.79% +18.75%
75th Percentile £575 £618 £540
90th Percentile £726 £729 £626
England median daily rate £500 £549 £475
% change year-on-year -8.97% +15.64% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 17 9
10th Percentile - £59.92 £48.80
25th Percentile - £60.70 £49.28
Median hourly rate £40.00 £63.23 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.74% +9.97% +23.66%
75th Percentile £43.20 £65.00 £60.93
90th Percentile £71.25 £80.59 £69.05
England median hourly rate £40.13 £65.00 £49.21
% change year-on-year -38.27% +32.09% -2.55%

All System Software Skills
South West

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 West with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 352 565 633
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 11.07% 15.67% 16.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 264 427 449
10th Percentile £155 £200 £185
25th Percentile £299 £363 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.39% +2.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £588 £623 £575
90th Percentile £698 £725 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 40 21
10th Percentile - £13.25 £15.88
25th Percentile £40.00 £17.22 £42.33
Median hourly rate £68.75 £60.00 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% +18.81% +26.79%
75th Percentile £86.25 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £90.00 £78.95 £60.93
England median hourly rate £21.00 £50.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -58.00% +150.00% +2.56%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware Infrastructure in the South West

VMware Infrastructure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for VMware Infrastructure in the South West

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in the South West over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure in the South West

VMware Infrastructure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for VMware Infrastructure in the South West

VMware Infrastructure
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VMware Infrastructure in the South West over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure in the South West

VMware Infrastructure
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 5 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
Wiltshire +6 51 £538 -2.27% 27
Bristol +14 20 £500 -23.08% 13
Somerset - 9 - - 7
Gloucestershire -13 7 £659 +9.79% 19
Devon -6 4 £550 +57.14% 4
Dorset -7 2 £456 -13.10% 5
Cornwall - 1 £225 -
VMware Infrastructure
England

VMware Infrastructure
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 27 (28.72%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (18.09%) Confluence
3 7 (7.45%) SharePoint
4 3 (3.19%) Skype for Business
5 1 (1.06%) MQSeries
5 1 (1.06%) nginx
Applications
1 11 (11.70%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.13%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 17 (18.09%) Azure
2 10 (10.64%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (8.51%) AWS
4 7 (7.45%) OpenShift
5 6 (6.38%) PaaS
6 5 (5.32%) Entra ID
7 4 (4.26%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (3.19%) GCP
8 3 (3.19%) SaaS
9 2 (2.13%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (2.13%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (2.13%) GitHub
9 2 (2.13%) OneDrive
9 2 (2.13%) Power Platform
10 1 (1.06%) IaaS
10 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 40 (42.55%) Firewall
2 23 (24.47%) SAN
3 21 (22.34%) DNS
4 20 (21.28%) DHCP
5 13 (13.83%) WAN
6 12 (12.77%) LAN
7 8 (8.51%) MPLS
7 8 (8.51%) Skype
7 8 (8.51%) VSAN
7 8 (8.51%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (6.38%) NAS
9 5 (5.32%) TCP/IP
9 5 (5.32%) VPN
10 3 (3.19%) FTP
10 3 (3.19%) PBX
10 3 (3.19%) VoIP
11 2 (2.13%) Cisco ISE
11 2 (2.13%) SMTP
11 2 (2.13%) Software-Defined Networking
12 1 (1.06%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.64%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.13%) MySQL
2 2 (2.13%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 19 (20.21%) JIRA
2 5 (5.32%) Bitbucket
3 3 (3.19%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.19%) Rational DOORS
4 2 (2.13%) Artifactory
4 2 (2.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.06%) Git
General
1 33 (35.11%) Social Skills
2 25 (26.60%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (24.47%) Public Sector
4 9 (9.57%) Aerospace
5 8 (8.51%) Military
6 5 (5.32%) Telecoms
7 3 (3.19%) Digital Economy
7 3 (3.19%) Finance
7 3 (3.19%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.13%) Electronics
8 2 (2.13%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.13%) Marketing
9 1 (1.06%) Legal
9 1 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 34 (36.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 22 (23.40%) Network Engineer
3 14 (14.89%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 11 (11.70%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 9 (9.57%) Analyst
5 9 (9.57%) IT Analyst
5 9 (9.57%) VMware Engineer
6 8 (8.51%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 8 (8.51%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
6 8 (8.51%) Wintel Engineer
7 7 (7.45%) Architect
8 6 (6.38%) Integration Engineer
8 6 (6.38%) Test and Integration Engineer
8 6 (6.38%) Test Engineer
8 6 (6.38%) Virtualisation Engineer
9 5 (5.32%) Lead
9 5 (5.32%) Platform Engineer
9 5 (5.32%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (4.26%) Backup Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (4.26%) Storage and Backup Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.32%) Flash
2 4 (4.26%) REST
3 3 (3.19%) .NET
3 3 (3.19%) ModSecurity
4 2 (2.13%) .NET Core
4 2 (2.13%) .NET Framework
4 2 (2.13%) 802.1X
5 1 (1.06%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.06%) LDAP
5 1 (1.06%) React
5 1 (1.06%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 32 (34.04%) Data Centre
2 20 (21.28%) Private Cloud
3 17 (18.09%) Clustering
4 15 (15.96%) PKI
5 8 (8.51%) Client/Server
6 4 (4.26%) Public Cloud
6 4 (4.26%) Replication
7 3 (3.19%) Blackberry
7 3 (3.19%) Security Posture
7 3 (3.19%) Video Conferencing
8 2 (2.13%) Fat Client
8 2 (2.13%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (2.13%) Management Information System
8 2 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (2.13%) Thin Client
9 1 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (1.06%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Licensing
9 1 (1.06%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 41 (43.62%) Windows
2 27 (28.72%) Windows Server
3 21 (22.34%) Linux
4 14 (14.89%) Unix
5 9 (9.57%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (5.32%) Windows 10
7 4 (4.26%) VMS
8 2 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (2.13%) Windows 2000
8 2 (2.13%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (2.13%) Windows XP
9 1 (1.06%) Android
9 1 (1.06%) Apple iOS
9 1 (1.06%) Windows 7
9 1 (1.06%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (46.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 26 (27.66%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (23.40%) Agile
4 21 (22.34%) Virtual Infrastructure
5 20 (21.28%) Cybersecurity
6 19 (20.21%) ITIL
7 18 (19.15%) Resource Management
8 15 (15.96%) Penetration Testing
9 14 (14.89%) Decision-Making
10 13 (13.83%) Critical Thinking
10 13 (13.83%) Service Management
10 13 (13.83%) Vulnerability Scanning
11 12 (12.77%) Containerisation
11 12 (12.77%) Server Management
12 11 (11.70%) Migration
13 10 (10.64%) Computer Science
13 10 (10.64%) Infrastructure as Code
13 10 (10.64%) Network Management
13 10 (10.64%) NsoIT
14 9 (9.57%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 22 (23.40%) PowerShell
2 14 (14.89%) SQL
3 6 (6.38%) Python
4 5 (5.32%) Bash
5 2 (2.13%) C#
5 2 (2.13%) Java
5 2 (2.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 67 (71.28%) Security Cleared
2 49 (52.13%) SC Cleared
3 24 (25.53%) DV Cleared
4 23 (24.47%) Degree
5 17 (18.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 11 (11.70%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (10.64%) MCSE
7 10 (10.64%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (8.51%) CCNA
9 7 (7.45%) Master's Degree
9 7 (7.45%) MCSA
10 5 (5.32%) CCNP
11 4 (4.26%) Chartered Engineer
11 4 (4.26%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (3.19%) HND
12 3 (3.19%) MCP
12 3 (3.19%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
13 1 (1.06%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.26%) SLA
2 2 (2.13%) NIST
System Software
1 35 (37.23%) Active Directory
2 28 (29.79%) vSphere
3 22 (23.40%) VMware NSX
4 19 (20.21%) VMware ESXi
5 12 (12.77%) Virtual Servers
6 8 (8.51%) VMware Workstation
7 7 (7.45%) Hyper-V
8 6 (6.38%) Docker
9 3 (3.19%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (3.19%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (2.13%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (1.06%) Citrix Hypervisor
11 1 (1.06%) Samba
11 1 (1.06%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 31 (32.98%) vCenter Server
2 18 (19.15%) SCCM
3 14 (14.89%) Ansible
4 11 (11.70%) Kubernetes
5 10 (10.64%) Microsoft Clustering
6 8 (8.51%) Nagios
6 8 (8.51%) NetBackup
7 5 (5.32%) OPNET
8 4 (4.26%) Terraform
9 3 (3.19%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (3.19%) PowerCLI
9 3 (3.19%) SCOM
10 2 (2.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 2 (2.13%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (2.13%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
10 2 (2.13%) Puppet
10 2 (2.13%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (2.13%) WSUS
11 1 (1.06%) Dell DRAC
11 1 (1.06%) VxRail
Vendors
1 94 (100.00%) VMware
2 32 (34.04%) Microsoft
3 14 (14.89%) Cisco
4 13 (13.83%) Atlassian
5 8 (8.51%) Dell
5 8 (8.51%) Hitachi
5 8 (8.51%) NetApp
6 7 (7.45%) Veeam
7 6 (6.38%) Google
8 5 (5.32%) Juniper
9 4 (4.26%) Avaya
9 4 (4.26%) Citrix
9 4 (4.26%) CyberArk
9 4 (4.26%) SolarWinds
10 3 (3.19%) Ericsson
10 3 (3.19%) Fortinet
10 3 (3.19%) HP
10 3 (3.19%) IBM
10 3 (3.19%) Nokia
10 3 (3.19%) Ribbon