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 19 October 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
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 40 21
Rank change year-on-year -4 -19 +31
Contract jobs citing VMware 1 5 39
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 0.25% 1.15% 8.13%
As % of the Vendors category 0.63% 2.86% 15.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 33
10th Percentile - £189 £300
25th Percentile £406 £194 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £205 £525
Median % change year-on-year +101.22% -60.95% +16.67%
75th Percentile £419 £214 £600
90th Percentile - £218 £635
UK median daily rate £525 £519 £500
% change year-on-year +1.20% +3.75% +3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £22.50 -
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £36.17 £65.98
% change year-on-year -5.99% -45.19% +51.31%

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 159 175 248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 40.36% 40.14% 51.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 109 173
10th Percentile £188 £156 £180
25th Percentile £236 £210 £273
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year -27.78% -7.69% -2.50%
75th Percentile £488 £544 £588
90th Percentile £623 £594 £649
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 11 8
10th Percentile £15.04 £22.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £18.13 £24.63 £17.50
Median hourly rate £20.50 £30.00 £23.92
Median % change year-on-year -31.67% +25.44% +38.64%
75th Percentile £21.50 £50.00 £26.31
90th Percentile £28.57 £53.75 £65.87
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £32.50 £43.85
% change year-on-year -26.15% -25.88% +82.71%

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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

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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

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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

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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 19 October 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 +3 1 £413 +101.22% 10
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UK

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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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) IaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Rubrik
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Database Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle