VMware Contract Job Trends in Staffordshire

VMware
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Staffordshire 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 15 July 2026, 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
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 - 14
Rank change year-on-year - - +1
Contract jobs citing VMware 3 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in Staffordshire 2.97% - 4.13%
As % of the Vendors category 6.67% - 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile - - £277
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 - £298
Median % change year-on-year - - -29.88%
75th Percentile £344 - £380
90th Percentile £430 - £497
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% +29.41%

All Vendors
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 45 32 45
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 44.55% 54.24% 37.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 13 27
10th Percentile £200 - £149
25th Percentile £323 £140 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £411 £350 £425
Median % change year-on-year +17.50% -17.65% +3.03%
75th Percentile £497 £488 £481
90th Percentile £894 £496 £600
West Midlands median daily rate £469 £460 £450
% change year-on-year +1.96% +2.22% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 11 7
10th Percentile - £12.25 £13.20
25th Percentile - £21.39 £14.71
Median hourly rate - £30.00 £15.61
Median % change year-on-year - +92.25% -
75th Percentile - £31.00 £27.63
90th Percentile - £37.50 £50.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.98 £30.00 £16.82
% change year-on-year +13.27% +78.36% -17.36%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

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

VMware job vacancy trend in Staffordshire

VMware
Daily Rate Trend in Staffordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing VMware.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing VMware

VMware
Daily Rate Histogram in Staffordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware in Staffordshire over the 6 months to 15 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VMware in Staffordshire

VMware
Hourly Rate Trend in Staffordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing VMware.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing VMware

VMware
Contract Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 15 July 2026. 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
Uttoxeter - 2 £200 -
VMware
West Midlands

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) SSL
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Windows Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) Storage Management
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (66.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) NetApp