VMware Contract Job Trends in Wales

VMware
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales 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 20 December 2025, 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
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 40 30
Rank change year-on-year -1 -10 +21
Contract jobs citing VMware 5 9 23
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 1.05% 2.13% 5.35%
As % of the Vendors category 2.81% 5.20% 11.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 19
10th Percentile £430 £185 £210
25th Percentile £466 £186 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £238 £313
Median % change year-on-year +131.58% -24.00% -13.79%
75th Percentile £575 £373 £499
90th Percentile - £414 £608
UK median daily rate £525 £508 £500
% change year-on-year +3.45% +1.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £75.75 - -
25th Percentile £76.88 £21.25 -
Median hourly rate £82.50 £22.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +266.67% - -
75th Percentile £86.88 £23.75 -
90th Percentile £87.25 - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £50.00 £65.98
% change year-on-year +40.00% -24.22% +1.51%

All Vendors
Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 178 173 192
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 37.39% 40.90% 44.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 118 134
10th Percentile £160 £166 £180
25th Percentile £283 £211 £222
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £394 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - -
75th Percentile £536 £550 £600
90th Percentile £600 £627 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 12 5
10th Percentile £13.91 £22.62 £18.43
25th Percentile £17.94 £25.12 £22.06
Median hourly rate £20.75 £28.75 £23.92
Median % change year-on-year -27.83% +20.22% +32.86%
75th Percentile £22.51 £43.44 £27.25
90th Percentile £61.63 £53.38 £104.50
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £29.00 £45.11
% change year-on-year -17.84% -35.71% +76.74%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

VMware job vacancy trend in Wales

VMware
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing VMware

VMware
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware in Wales over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware in Wales

VMware
Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing VMware

VMware
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware within the Wales region over the 6 months to 20 December 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
South Wales +2 5 £550 +131.58% 7
VMware
UK

VMware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) IaaS
1 1 (20.00%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) LAN
1 2 (40.00%) VSAN
1 2 (40.00%) WAN
2 1 (20.00%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) MariaDB
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (20.00%) PKI
2 1 (20.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (40.00%) Linux
3 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Release Management
2 2 (40.00%) SIEM
3 1 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 1 (20.00%) Availability Management
3 1 (20.00%) Capacity Management
3 1 (20.00%) Database Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Impact Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Network Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Patch Management
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Runbook
3 1 (20.00%) Security Operations
3 1 (20.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Bash
3 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (40.00%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
4 1 (20.00%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Check_MK
1 2 (40.00%) Nessus
1 2 (40.00%) vCenter Server
1 2 (40.00%) WSUS
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco
1 2 (40.00%) Fortinet
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) Palo Alto
1 2 (40.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (40.00%) Splunk
1 2 (40.00%) Tenable
2 1 (20.00%) McAfee
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Veeam