VMware Contract Job Trends in Warwickshire

VMware
West Midlands > Warwickshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Warwickshire 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 5 September 2026, 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
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 31 16
Rank change year-on-year -2 -15 +9
Contract jobs citing VMware 32 23 42
As % of all contract jobs in Warwickshire 4.48% 4.52% 10.05%
As % of the Vendors category 11.64% 9.47% 20.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 17 30
10th Percentile £325 £450 £547
25th Percentile £375 £558 £570
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £573 £596
Median % change year-on-year -21.40% -3.98% -0.58%
75th Percentile £512 £582 £639
90th Percentile £545 £584 £675
West Midlands median daily rate £474 £581 £550
% change year-on-year -18.42% +5.64% +25.71%

All Vendors
Warwickshire

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 Warwickshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 275 243 202
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Warwickshire 38.52% 47.74% 48.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 154 115
10th Percentile £349 £316 £400
25th Percentile £400 £400 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £500 £583
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% -14.24% +6.00%
75th Percentile £577 £600 £650
90th Percentile £740 £710 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £469 £483 £500
% change year-on-year -2.90% -3.40% +4.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 15 0
10th Percentile £13.50 £14.13 -
25th Percentile £20.31 £26.11 -
Median hourly rate £32.13 £34.98 -
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% - -
75th Percentile £33.99 £50.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £23.00 £30.00 £28.81
% change year-on-year -23.33% +4.12% +44.06%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in Warwickshire

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

VMware job vacancy trend in Warwickshire

VMware
Daily Rate Trend in Warwickshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Warwickshire citing VMware

VMware
Daily Rate Histogram in Warwickshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware in Warwickshire over the 6 months to 5 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VMware in Warwickshire

VMware
Hourly Rate Trend in Warwickshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Warwickshire citing VMware

VMware
Contract Job Locations in Warwickshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware within the Warwickshire region over the 6 months to 5 September 2026. 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
Warwick +2 25 £475 -18.24% 2
Gaydon - 1 £300 -
Stratford-upon-Avon - 1 - -
VMware
West Midlands

VMware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Warwickshire 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 2 (6.25%) IIS
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 17 (53.13%) Azure
2 14 (43.75%) AWS
3 7 (21.88%) GCP
4 5 (15.63%) Entra ID
5 4 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (12.50%) Amazon S3
5 4 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (6.25%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 14 (43.75%) DNS
2 13 (40.63%) DHCP
3 8 (25.00%) Firewall
4 4 (12.50%) NetScaler
4 4 (12.50%) SSL
5 3 (9.38%) ICMP
5 3 (9.38%) LAN
5 3 (9.38%) SNMP
5 3 (9.38%) WAN
6 2 (6.25%) PBX
6 2 (6.25%) SD-WAN
6 2 (6.25%) Unified Communications
6 2 (6.25%) VoIP
6 2 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (3.13%) BIG-IP
7 1 (3.13%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (3.13%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (3.13%) IPsec
7 1 (3.13%) WAAS
7 1 (3.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
General
1 9 (28.13%) Social Skills
2 6 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.25%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.13%) Aerospace
4 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (31.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (18.75%) Architect
2 6 (18.75%) Infrastructure Architect
3 5 (15.63%) Cloud Engineer
3 5 (15.63%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Lead
4 3 (9.38%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Administrator
5 2 (6.25%) Citrix Administrator
5 2 (6.25%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
5 2 (6.25%) Senior
5 2 (6.25%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (6.25%) VMware Expert
6 1 (3.13%) AWS Architect
6 1 (3.13%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
6 1 (3.13%) Network Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) Server Administrator
6 1 (3.13%) Windows Administrator
6 1 (3.13%) Windows Server Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (3.13%) LDAP
2 1 (3.13%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (18.75%) Data Centre
3 3 (9.38%) PKI
3 3 (9.38%) SCADA
4 2 (6.25%) Clustering
4 2 (6.25%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 22 (68.75%) Windows
2 17 (53.13%) Windows Server
3 8 (25.00%) Linux
4 4 (12.50%) AIX
5 3 (9.38%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (6.25%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (6.25%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (3.13%) Apple iOS
7 1 (3.13%) CentOS
7 1 (3.13%) Mac OS
7 1 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (3.13%) Ubuntu
7 1 (3.13%) VMS
7 1 (3.13%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (43.75%) Root Cause Analysis
2 13 (40.63%) Infrastructure as Code
3 12 (37.50%) Performance Tuning
3 12 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (31.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 10 (31.25%) Migration
5 8 (25.00%) ITIL
6 7 (21.88%) Cost Management
6 7 (21.88%) Cost Optimisation
6 7 (21.88%) Knowledge Transfer
6 7 (21.88%) Service Management
6 7 (21.88%) Technical Leadership
7 6 (18.75%) High Availability
7 6 (18.75%) Incident Management
8 5 (15.63%) Capacity Planning
8 5 (15.63%) Cost Control
8 5 (15.63%) Disaster Recovery
8 5 (15.63%) Observability
8 5 (15.63%) Vulnerability Remediation
8 5 (15.63%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (9.38%) PL/SQL
1 3 (9.38%) SQL
2 1 (3.13%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 9 (28.13%) SC Cleared
3 4 (12.50%) Azure Certification
3 4 (12.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (6.25%) AWS Certification
5 1 (3.13%) Degree
5 1 (3.13%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.13%) QA
System Software
1 21 (65.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (59.38%) Active Directory
3 16 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
3 16 (50.00%) vSphere
4 7 (21.88%) Hyper-V
5 5 (15.63%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (12.50%) VMware NSX
7 2 (6.25%) XenApp
7 2 (6.25%) XenDesktop
8 1 (3.13%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 4 (12.50%) Ansible
1 4 (12.50%) PowerCLI
1 4 (12.50%) vMotion
2 3 (9.38%) SCCM
3 2 (6.25%) Failover Clustering
3 2 (6.25%) WSUS
4 1 (3.13%) AirWatch
4 1 (3.13%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 8 (25.00%) Cisco
3 4 (12.50%) 3PAR
3 4 (12.50%) Nimble Storage
4 3 (9.38%) CheckPoint
4 3 (9.38%) Oracle
5 2 (6.25%) Citrix
5 2 (6.25%) Palo Alto
5 2 (6.25%) Red Hat
6 1 (3.13%) EMC
6 1 (3.13%) F5
6 1 (3.13%) Fortinet
6 1 (3.13%) MobileIron
6 1 (3.13%) NetApp
6 1 (3.13%) SolarWinds