VMware Workstation Contracts

VMware Workstation
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for VMware Workstation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited VMware Workstation over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 561 710 796
Rank change year-on-year +149 +86 -128
Contract jobs citing VMware Workstation 25 12 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.057% 0.020% 0.040%
As % of the System Software category 0.53% 0.15% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 10 33
10th Percentile £233 £350 £413
25th Percentile £235 £500 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £286 £550 £613
Median % change year-on-year -47.95% -10.20% +48.48%
75th Percentile £359 £606 £675
90th Percentile £367 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £268 £550 £427
% change year-on-year -51.36% +28.79% +43.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
Median hourly rate £40.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 - -

All System Software Skills
UK

VMware Workstation is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,700 7,960 12,026
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.77% 13.26% 13.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,215 5,688 8,602
10th Percentile £195 £205 £200
25th Percentile £325 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - +8.81%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £488 £448
% change year-on-year -5.64% +8.94% +7.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 235 293 326
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.30 £13.19
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.79 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £52.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.14% +162.50% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £66.00 £44.92
90th Percentile £76.50 £75.00 £60.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.00 £39.80 £18.12
% change year-on-year -47.24% +119.71% +2.06%

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
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Workstation over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram 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 9 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 25 April 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
England +136 24 £286 -42.75% 10
UK excluding London +88 23 £268 -51.36% 5
North of England - 11 £320 -
South West +30 9 £268 -33.13% 1
Yorkshire - 9 £338 -
East of England - 3 £240 - 1
Work from Home +126 2 £340 -32.00% 1
North West - 2 £253 -
London +100 1 £400 -27.27% 5

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 10 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (4.00%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (4.00%) AWS
2 1 (4.00%) Azure
2 1 (4.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 17 (68.00%) Wi-Fi
2 16 (64.00%) DHCP
2 16 (64.00%) DNS
3 9 (36.00%) LAN
3 9 (36.00%) WAN
4 8 (32.00%) MPLS
4 8 (32.00%) SAN
5 7 (28.00%) Remote Desktop
5 7 (28.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (32.00%) SQL Server
General
1 17 (68.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (36.00%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (32.00%) Aerospace
4 7 (28.00%) Banking
5 4 (16.00%) Finance
6 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
7 1 (4.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (32.00%) Analyst
1 8 (32.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 8 (32.00%) IT Analyst
1 8 (32.00%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
2 6 (24.00%) Data Centre Engineer
2 6 (24.00%) Support Engineer
2 6 (24.00%) Windows Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) Linux Support
3 5 (20.00%) Linux Support Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) Windows Support Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) IT Engineer
4 4 (16.00%) IT Technician
5 3 (12.00%) Data Centre Technician
5 3 (12.00%) Data Technician
5 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (8.00%) VMware Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support
7 1 (4.00%) Network Systems Engineer
7 1 (4.00%) Senior IT Support
Miscellaneous
1 15 (60.00%) Data Centre
2 13 (52.00%) Clustering
3 8 (32.00%) Client/Server
4 4 (16.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (4.00%) Driving Licence
5 1 (4.00%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (4.00%) Freedom of Information Act
5 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
5 1 (4.00%) Replication
5 1 (4.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 25 (100.00%) Windows
2 9 (36.00%) Windows 10
2 9 (36.00%) Windows Server
3 8 (32.00%) Unix
4 7 (28.00%) Windows 7
5 6 (24.00%) Linux
6 2 (8.00%) Android
7 1 (4.00%) Apple iOS
7 1 (4.00%) Mac OS
7 1 (4.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (60.00%) Migration
2 9 (36.00%) Application Packaging
2 9 (36.00%) Data Protection
2 9 (36.00%) Server Management
3 8 (32.00%) Asset Management
3 8 (32.00%) Business Transformation
3 8 (32.00%) Capacity Management
3 8 (32.00%) Capacity Planning
3 8 (32.00%) Data Migration
3 8 (32.00%) Decision-Making
3 8 (32.00%) Network Management
3 8 (32.00%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (28.00%) ITIL
4 7 (28.00%) Network Monitoring
4 7 (28.00%) Runbook
5 5 (20.00%) High Availability
5 5 (20.00%) Release Management
6 4 (16.00%) Computer Science
6 4 (16.00%) Project Management
7 3 (12.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (40.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (52.00%) Degree
2 8 (32.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 6 (24.00%) CCNA
3 6 (24.00%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (16.00%) A+ Certification
4 4 (16.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (16.00%) Network+ Certification
5 2 (8.00%) MCSE
5 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (4.00%) MCP
6 1 (4.00%) MCSA
6 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
6 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.00%) QA
System Software
1 24 (96.00%) Active Directory
2 23 (92.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (36.00%) VMware ESXi
4 8 (32.00%) Virtual Servers
5 7 (28.00%) KVM
5 7 (28.00%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (20.00%) Hyper-V
7 1 (4.00%) BitLocker
7 1 (4.00%) vCloud
7 1 (4.00%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (4.00%) VMware NSX
7 1 (4.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (32.00%) Microsoft Clustering
1 8 (32.00%) Nagios
1 8 (32.00%) NetBackup
1 8 (32.00%) SCCM
2 7 (28.00%) vCenter Server
3 1 (4.00%) Ansible
3 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (4.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 25 (100.00%) VMware
2 10 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 8 (32.00%) Hitachi
3 8 (32.00%) NetApp
4 1 (4.00%) Adobe
4 1 (4.00%) Apple
4 1 (4.00%) Citrix
4 1 (4.00%) Dell
4 1 (4.00%) EMC
4 1 (4.00%) SolarWinds
4 1 (4.00%) Veeam