VMware Contract Job Trends in Taunton

VMware
Somerset > Taunton

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Taunton 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 27 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
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 - 10
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing VMware 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Taunton 0.92% - 3.03%
As % of the Vendors category 2.27% - 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
Somerset median daily rate £670 £633 -
% change year-on-year +5.93% - -

All Vendors
Taunton

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 Taunton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 44 6 9
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Taunton 40.37% 35.29% 27.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 6 5
10th Percentile £406 £613 £308
25th Percentile £425 £684 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £713 £588
Median % change year-on-year -36.84% +21.28% -3.57%
75th Percentile £633 £715 £606
90th Percentile £730 - £610
Somerset median daily rate £498 £513 £450
% change year-on-year -2.93% +13.89% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £12.50
Median hourly rate - - £13.00
75th Percentile - - £13.50
90th Percentile - - -
Somerset median hourly rate £57.50 £17.72 £13.00
% change year-on-year +224.58% +36.27% -71.79%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in Taunton

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

VMware job vacancy trend in Taunton

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Daily Rate Trend in Taunton

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing VMware

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Hourly Rate Trend in Taunton

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing VMware

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Taunton 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%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Test Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Principle of Least Privilege
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VirtualBox
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform