VMware Workstation Contracts

VMware Workstation
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring VMware Workstation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VMware Workstation over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 513 576 701
Rank change year-on-year +63 +125 +119
Contract jobs citing VMware Workstation 6 24 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.055% 0.020%
As % of the System Software category 0.16% 0.51% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 13 10
10th Percentile - - £350
25th Percentile - £235 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £305 £550
Median % change year-on-year +129.51% -44.55% -10.20%
75th Percentile - £360 £606
90th Percentile - £368 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate - £286 £550
% change year-on-year - -47.95% +28.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 0
Median hourly rate - £40.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £40.00 -

All System Software Skills
UK

VMware Workstation falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 3,664 4,691 7,882
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.53% 10.76% 13.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,498 3,206 5,629
10th Percentile £214 £198 £205
25th Percentile £400 £331 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £623 £600 £638
90th Percentile £700 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £460 £483
% change year-on-year +3.26% -4.69% +7.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 233 280
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.06 £14.95
25th Percentile £16.25 £15.50 £18.25
Median hourly rate £27.72 £22.50 £53.43
Median % change year-on-year +23.20% -57.88% +167.13%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £77.90 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.50 £22.00 £41.88
% change year-on-year +29.55% -47.46% +131.16%

VMware Workstation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing VMware Workstation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for VMware Workstation in the UK

VMware Workstation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware Workstation.

Daily rate trend for VMware Workstation in the UK

VMware Workstation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware Workstation.

Hourly rate trend for VMware Workstation in the UK

VMware Workstation
Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware Workstation within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 2025. 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
England +46 6 £700 +129.51% 9
London +39 5 £700 +75.00% 5
South West +37 1 - - 1
UK excluding London +33 1 - - 4

VMware Workstation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (50.00%) Apache
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) DNS
1 3 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) NAS
2 1 (16.67%) Network Security
2 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (16.67%) VLAN
2 1 (16.67%) VoIP
2 1 (16.67%) VPN
2 1 (16.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Big Data
1 3 (50.00%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Bitbucket
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (50.00%) SonarQube
1 3 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (50.00%) Law
1 3 (50.00%) Legal
2 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Architect
1 3 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Administrator
2 2 (33.33%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) IT Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) IT Support
3 1 (16.67%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) .NET
1 3 (50.00%) Apache NiFi
1 3 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (50.00%) ASP.NET Core
1 3 (50.00%) CSS
1 3 (50.00%) HTML
1 3 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Private Cloud
1 3 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (66.67%) Windows Server
3 3 (50.00%) CentOS
3 3 (50.00%) Linux
3 3 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (16.67%) Windows 10
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps
1 3 (50.00%) High Availability
1 3 (50.00%) SIEM
2 2 (33.33%) ITIL
2 2 (33.33%) ITSM
2 2 (33.33%) Problem Management
2 2 (33.33%) Service Management
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
3 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Remote Monitoring and Management
3 1 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (16.67%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) C#
1 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) SC Cleared
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 6 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (50.00%) Docker
2 3 (50.00%) vCloud
2 3 (50.00%) vSphere
3 1 (16.67%) Firmware
3 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kibana
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (100.00%) VMware