VMware Contracts in the UK excluding London

VMware
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for knowledge and experience of VMware products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited VMware over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 43 33 47
Rank change year-on-year -10 +14 -6
Contract jobs citing VMware 837 1,333 1,425
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.11% 5.67% 4.65%
As % of the Vendors category 9.61% 12.75% 11.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 596 953 1,042
10th Percentile £263 £307 £230
25th Percentile £368 £387 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £427
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +19.44% +1.67%
75th Percentile £575 £619 £550
90th Percentile £655 £700 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 88 48
10th Percentile £39.29 £25.75 £13.00
25th Percentile £40.00 £40.13 £20.00
Median hourly rate £46.29 £57.13 £42.25
Median % change year-on-year -18.98% +35.21% +5.63%
75th Percentile £75.75 £65.81 £60.92
90th Percentile £88.75 £80.25 £69.05
UK median hourly rate £46.39 £65.00 £47.42
% change year-on-year -28.63% +37.07% -7.92%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

VMware is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 8,713 10,454 12,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 42.76% 44.48% 39.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,220 7,184 8,264
10th Percentile £206 £205 £185
25th Percentile £363 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +7.53% +9.41%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £690 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 954 479 634
10th Percentile £11.80 £14.25 £10.77
25th Percentile £14.16 £17.61 £14.00
Median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £18.70
Median % change year-on-year -42.77% +100.53% +1.08%
75th Percentile £59.50 £62.50 £35.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.05 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £42.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -48.24% +97.67% -2.27%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing VMware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for VMware in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for VMware in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VMware in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for VMware in the UK excluding London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VMware in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for VMware in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 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
South East -1 353 £513 - 149
South West -5 164 £505 -8.18% 92
North of England -9 137 £375 -12.79% 127
North West -20 75 £350 -22.22% 76
Midlands -21 72 £500 - 114
Scotland +6 69 £550 +10.00% 15
Yorkshire +22 50 £375 -11.24% 37
West Midlands -18 48 £425 -8.60% 58
East of England -48 34 £550 -4.35% 74
East Midlands -12 22 £550 +10.00% 56
North East +13 12 £538 +65.38% 16
Wales -5 8 £225 -57.14% 10
Northern Ireland +6 1 £525 - 5
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 90 (10.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 37 (4.42%) Confluence
3 32 (3.82%) SharePoint
4 15 (1.79%) IIS
5 8 (0.96%) nginx
6 7 (0.84%) SharePoint 2010
6 7 (0.84%) SharePoint Server
7 4 (0.48%) Skype for Business
8 2 (0.24%) Apache
8 2 (0.24%) IBM Domino
8 2 (0.24%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.24%) Traefik
8 2 (0.24%) WordPress
9 1 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2007
9 1 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2010
9 1 (0.12%) JBoss
9 1 (0.12%) MQSeries
9 1 (0.12%) Site Server
9 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
Applications
1 32 (3.82%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 7 (0.84%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.36%) Sage X3
3 2 (0.24%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
3 2 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.24%) RMDS
4 1 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 194 (23.18%) Azure
2 122 (14.58%) Microsoft 365
3 83 (9.92%) AWS
4 29 (3.46%) Entra ID
5 28 (3.35%) IaaS
6 22 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (2.51%) PaaS
8 20 (2.39%) GCP
9 19 (2.27%) OpenShift
10 15 (1.79%) OCI
11 14 (1.67%) GitHub
12 12 (1.43%) SaaS
13 11 (1.31%) OneDrive
14 8 (0.96%) Nutanix
15 6 (0.72%) Cloud Computing
16 5 (0.60%) Amazon EC2
16 5 (0.60%) Azure Logic Apps
17 4 (0.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 4 (0.48%) Dynamics 365
17 4 (0.48%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 161 (19.24%) DNS
2 160 (19.12%) Firewall
3 136 (16.25%) SAN
4 127 (15.17%) DHCP
5 86 (10.27%) WAN
6 82 (9.80%) LAN
7 66 (7.89%) TCP/IP
8 64 (7.65%) VPN
9 57 (6.81%) VSAN
10 41 (4.90%) Wi-Fi
11 36 (4.30%) NAS
12 28 (3.35%) Wireless
13 24 (2.87%) VLAN
14 19 (2.27%) Network Security
15 16 (1.91%) MPLS
16 15 (1.79%) Remote Desktop
17 14 (1.67%) Internet
17 14 (1.67%) VoIP
18 13 (1.55%) Fibre Channel
19 10 (1.19%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (5.97%) SQL Server
2 21 (2.51%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (2.27%) MySQL
4 13 (1.55%) MongoDB
5 9 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (1.08%) Oracle Database
6 7 (0.84%) Metadata
6 7 (0.84%) PowerPivot
6 7 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 6 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (0.72%) Microsoft Power View
8 5 (0.60%) RDBMS
8 5 (0.60%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.36%) Power BI
10 2 (0.24%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.24%) CouchDB
11 1 (0.12%) Big Data
11 1 (0.12%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.12%) Oracle Database 11g
11 1 (0.12%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 49 (5.85%) JIRA
2 28 (3.35%) GitLab
3 21 (2.51%) Robot Framework
4 18 (2.15%) Git
5 15 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
6 12 (1.43%) Bitbucket
7 11 (1.31%) Jenkins
8 7 (0.84%) Rational DOORS
8 7 (0.84%) Selenium
9 6 (0.72%) Artifactory
10 4 (0.48%) CppUnit
10 4 (0.48%) PVCS
11 3 (0.36%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.36%) Subversion
11 3 (0.36%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (0.24%) Snyk
13 1 (0.12%) Cypress.io
13 1 (0.12%) Maven
13 1 (0.12%) Oracle APEX
General
1 211 (25.21%) Social Skills
2 82 (9.80%) Analytical Skills
3 79 (9.44%) Public Sector
4 29 (3.46%) Finance
5 25 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
6 19 (2.27%) Military
7 16 (1.91%) Banking
7 16 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
8 14 (1.67%) Aerospace
8 14 (1.67%) Legal
8 14 (1.67%) Manufacturing
8 14 (1.67%) Telecoms
9 12 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (0.84%) Marketing
11 6 (0.72%) Publishing
12 5 (0.60%) Billing
13 4 (0.48%) Electronics
14 3 (0.36%) Advertising
14 3 (0.36%) Back Office
14 3 (0.36%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 191 (22.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 86 (10.27%) Architect
3 69 (8.24%) Senior
4 65 (7.77%) Network Engineer
5 63 (7.53%) VMware Engineer
6 48 (5.73%) Storage Engineer
7 43 (5.14%) Support Engineer
8 40 (4.78%) Analyst
9 36 (4.30%) Consultant
10 32 (3.82%) Developer
11 31 (3.70%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 30 (3.58%) Python Developer
13 28 (3.35%) Integration Engineer
14 27 (3.23%) Solutions Architect
15 26 (3.11%) Linux Engineer
16 25 (2.99%) Lead
17 24 (2.87%) Administrator
17 24 (2.87%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
17 24 (2.87%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
17 24 (2.87%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.03%) .NET
2 10 (1.19%) HTML
2 10 (1.19%) LDAP
3 9 (1.08%) CSS
3 9 (1.08%) Middleware
3 9 (1.08%) YAML
4 7 (0.84%) Web Services
5 6 (0.72%) EDI
6 5 (0.60%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (0.60%) Flash
7 4 (0.48%) ModSecurity
7 4 (0.48%) Node.js
7 4 (0.48%) REST
8 3 (0.36%) .NET Core
8 3 (0.36%) .NET Framework
8 3 (0.36%) AngularJS
8 3 (0.36%) J2EE
8 3 (0.36%) React
8 3 (0.36%) Vue
8 3 (0.36%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 130 (15.53%) Data Centre
2 81 (9.68%) PKI
3 53 (6.33%) Clustering
4 34 (4.06%) Client/Server
5 28 (3.35%) Private Cloud
6 23 (2.75%) Replication
7 21 (2.51%) Linux Command Line
7 21 (2.51%) Public Cloud
8 15 (1.79%) NHS
9 13 (1.55%) Driving Licence
10 12 (1.43%) Management Information System
10 12 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (0.84%) CCTV
13 6 (0.72%) Security Posture
13 6 (0.72%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 6 (0.72%) VxBlock/Vblock
14 5 (0.60%) Enterprise Storage
14 5 (0.60%) Fat Client
14 5 (0.60%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 410 (48.98%) Windows
2 281 (33.57%) Windows Server
3 255 (30.47%) Linux
4 95 (11.35%) Windows Server 2012
5 80 (9.56%) Windows Server 2019
6 68 (8.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 66 (7.89%) Windows 10
8 49 (5.85%) Windows Server 2016
9 46 (5.50%) Unix
10 40 (4.78%) Ubuntu
11 26 (3.11%) Debian
12 25 (2.99%) Windows Server 2008
13 18 (2.15%) VMS
14 16 (1.91%) Windows XP
15 14 (1.67%) CentOS
16 13 (1.55%) Solaris
17 11 (1.31%) Mac OS
18 10 (1.19%) Windows Server 2003
19 9 (1.08%) Windows 7
20 7 (0.84%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (29.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 135 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
3 132 (15.77%) Agile
4 116 (13.86%) ITIL
5 113 (13.50%) Migration
6 72 (8.60%) DevOps
7 55 (6.57%) Customer Service
8 51 (6.09%) Cybersecurity
8 51 (6.09%) High Availability
9 46 (5.50%) Data Protection
9 46 (5.50%) Infrastructure as Code
9 46 (5.50%) Project Delivery
10 40 (4.78%) Change Management
10 40 (4.78%) CI/CD
11 39 (4.66%) Containerisation
11 39 (4.66%) Disaster Recovery
12 38 (4.54%) Configuration Management
12 38 (4.54%) Decision-Making
13 37 (4.42%) Computer Science
14 36 (4.30%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 164 (19.59%) PowerShell
2 119 (14.22%) Python
3 52 (6.21%) SQL
4 47 (5.62%) Bash
5 20 (2.39%) VBScript
6 14 (1.67%) Java
7 13 (1.55%) C#
8 12 (1.43%) JavaScript
9 11 (1.31%) Shell Script
10 9 (1.08%) Perl
11 7 (0.84%) C++
11 7 (0.84%) Go
12 6 (0.72%) Ruby
13 4 (0.48%) C
14 3 (0.36%) Bicep
14 3 (0.36%) PHP
14 3 (0.36%) VB.NET
15 1 (0.12%) Elixir
15 1 (0.12%) VB
Qualifications
1 413 (49.34%) Security Cleared
2 220 (26.28%) SC Cleared
3 203 (24.25%) DV Cleared
4 105 (12.54%) Degree
5 64 (7.65%) Cisco Certification
6 54 (6.45%) CCNA
6 54 (6.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 51 (6.09%) Microsoft Certification
8 37 (4.42%) MCSE
9 35 (4.18%) CCNP
10 25 (2.99%) MCSA
11 16 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
12 13 (1.55%) ITIL Certification
12 13 (1.55%) Master's Degree
13 10 (1.19%) Azure Certification
14 8 (0.96%) Network+ Certification
14 8 (0.96%) VCAP
15 7 (0.84%) A+ Certification
15 7 (0.84%) DBS Check
16 6 (0.72%) RHCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (2.63%) SLA
2 14 (1.67%) NIST
3 9 (1.08%) NCSC
4 7 (0.84%) RMADS
5 6 (0.72%) GDPR
6 5 (0.60%) Disclosure Scotland
6 5 (0.60%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.60%) PMO
6 5 (0.60%) QA
7 3 (0.36%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 513 (61.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 318 (37.99%) Active Directory
3 146 (17.44%) Hyper-V
4 133 (15.89%) VMware NSX
5 126 (15.05%) VMware ESXi
6 124 (14.81%) vSphere
7 38 (4.54%) Virtual Machines
8 28 (3.35%) Docker
9 23 (2.75%) Virtual Servers
10 21 (2.51%) VMware Workstation
11 19 (2.27%) KVM
12 15 (1.79%) XenApp
13 11 (1.31%) Terminal Services
14 10 (1.19%) Firmware
14 10 (1.19%) vCloud
15 7 (0.84%) BitLocker
15 7 (0.84%) VMware Server
16 6 (0.72%) Microsoft App-V
16 6 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
17 3 (0.36%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 131 (15.65%) vCenter Server
2 95 (11.35%) SCCM
3 88 (10.51%) Ansible
4 64 (7.65%) Kubernetes
5 55 (6.57%) Terraform
6 51 (6.09%) WSUS
7 34 (4.06%) Microsoft Intune
7 34 (4.06%) vRealize
8 31 (3.70%) SCOM
9 29 (3.46%) NetBackup
10 27 (3.23%) VxRail
11 16 (1.91%) EMC NetWorker
12 13 (1.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 13 (1.55%) Microsoft Clustering
12 13 (1.55%) vMotion
13 12 (1.43%) Red Hat Satellite
14 10 (1.19%) Puppet
15 9 (1.08%) Nessus
15 9 (1.08%) Packer
15 9 (1.08%) Rancher
Vendors
1 292 (34.89%) Microsoft
2 106 (12.66%) Cisco
3 81 (9.68%) Red Hat
4 73 (8.72%) Dell
5 64 (7.65%) Veeam
6 53 (6.33%) Citrix
7 52 (6.21%) Oracle
8 39 (4.66%) Palo Alto
9 38 (4.54%) HP
10 31 (3.70%) EMC
11 25 (2.99%) Juniper
12 23 (2.75%) SolarWinds
12 23 (2.75%) Symantec
13 20 (2.39%) NetApp
14 17 (2.03%) Aruba
15 16 (1.91%) 3PAR
15 16 (1.91%) Atlassian
16 15 (1.79%) Google
16 15 (1.79%) ServiceNow
17 14 (1.67%) Splunk