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 7 July 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
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 37 13
Rank change year-on-year -3 -24 +16
Contract jobs citing VMware 27 16 46
As % of all contract jobs in Warwickshire 3.56% 3.78% 10.82%
As % of the Vendors category 9.34% 7.55% 24.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 12 32
10th Percentile £325 £414 £525
25th Percentile £342 £425 £570
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £625
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -24.00% +11.16%
75th Percentile £488 £516 £661
90th Percentile £550 £541 £686
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% +29.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £36.65 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £63.14 £36.65 £19.95
% change year-on-year +72.29% +83.68% -69.77%

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 289 212 190
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Warwickshire 38.13% 50.12% 44.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 130 120
10th Percentile £347 £235 £318
25th Percentile £406 £394 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £579
Median % change year-on-year - -13.57% +1.49%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £661
90th Percentile £760 £671 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £469 £460 £450
% change year-on-year +1.96% +2.22% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 13 6
10th Percentile £24.30 £25.44 £17.13
25th Percentile £32.13 £29.33 £21.25
Median hourly rate £33.99 £36.65 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.25% +62.87% +11.11%
75th Percentile - £50.00 £23.75
90th Percentile - - £25.36
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.98 £30.00 £18.39
% change year-on-year +13.27% +63.18% -18.29%

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 7 July 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 7 July 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 -8 23 £450 -5.26%
Gaydon - 2 £320 -
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 (7.41%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (7.41%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 14 (51.85%) Azure
2 9 (33.33%) AWS
3 7 (25.93%) GCP
4 2 (7.41%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (7.41%) Amazon S3
4 2 (7.41%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (7.41%) Entra ID
4 2 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (7.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (3.70%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (44.44%) DNS
2 9 (33.33%) DHCP
3 6 (22.22%) Firewall
4 5 (18.52%) SSL
5 4 (14.81%) LAN
5 4 (14.81%) WAN
6 2 (7.41%) BIG-IP
6 2 (7.41%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (7.41%) Ethereal
6 2 (7.41%) HTTP
6 2 (7.41%) HTTPS
6 2 (7.41%) IPsec
6 2 (7.41%) PBX
6 2 (7.41%) Unified Communications
6 2 (7.41%) VoIP
6 2 (7.41%) VPN
6 2 (7.41%) WAAS
6 2 (7.41%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (7.41%) Wireless
6 2 (7.41%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.41%) Amazon RDS
General
1 10 (37.04%) Social Skills
2 6 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.41%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (37.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (18.52%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (18.52%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Architect
3 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure Architect
4 3 (11.11%) Administrator
4 3 (11.11%) Lead
4 3 (11.11%) Senior
4 3 (11.11%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Citrix Administrator
5 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
5 2 (7.41%) Network Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (7.41%) VMware Expert
6 1 (3.70%) AWS Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Backup Administrator
6 1 (3.70%) Consultant
6 1 (3.70%) IBM Storage Administrator
6 1 (3.70%) SAN Storage Administrator
6 1 (3.70%) Windows Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) LDAP
1 2 (7.41%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.93%) Data Centre
2 5 (18.52%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (11.11%) SCADA
4 2 (7.41%) Clustering
4 2 (7.41%) PKI
4 2 (7.41%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (3.70%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (3.70%) Operational Technology
5 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.70%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 17 (62.96%) Windows
2 13 (48.15%) Windows Server
3 5 (18.52%) Linux
4 3 (11.11%) AIX
4 3 (11.11%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (7.41%) Apple iOS
5 2 (7.41%) Mac OS
5 2 (7.41%) Windows 10
5 2 (7.41%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (3.70%) CatOS
6 1 (3.70%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (37.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 10 (37.04%) Performance Tuning
1 10 (37.04%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (29.63%) High Availability
2 8 (29.63%) ITIL
2 8 (29.63%) Migration
3 7 (25.93%) Cost Management
3 7 (25.93%) Cost Optimisation
3 7 (25.93%) Infrastructure as Code
3 7 (25.93%) Root Cause Analysis
3 7 (25.93%) Service Management
4 6 (22.22%) Incident Management
5 5 (18.52%) Cost Control
5 5 (18.52%) Data Centre Operations
5 5 (18.52%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (18.52%) Technical Leadership
5 5 (18.52%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure Automation
6 4 (14.81%) Knowledge Transfer
6 4 (14.81%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (11.11%) PL/SQL
1 3 (11.11%) PowerShell
1 3 (11.11%) SQL
2 1 (3.70%) Bash
2 1 (3.70%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (25.93%) SC Cleared
1 7 (25.93%) Security Cleared
2 4 (14.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 2 (7.41%) AWS Certification
3 2 (7.41%) Azure Certification
3 2 (7.41%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 17 (62.96%) Active Directory
1 17 (62.96%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (44.44%) vSphere
3 11 (40.74%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (25.93%) Hyper-V
5 4 (14.81%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (7.41%) BitLocker
6 2 (7.41%) VMware NSX
6 2 (7.41%) XenApp
6 2 (7.41%) XenDesktop
7 1 (3.70%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (14.81%) Ansible
1 4 (14.81%) PowerCLI
1 4 (14.81%) SCCM
1 4 (14.81%) vMotion
2 2 (7.41%) AirWatch
2 2 (7.41%) Failover Clustering
2 2 (7.41%) Jamf Pro
2 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (7.41%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (7.41%) Terraform
2 2 (7.41%) WSUS
3 1 (3.70%) Proxmox
3 1 (3.70%) SCOM
3 1 (3.70%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 18 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 8 (29.63%) Cisco
3 4 (14.81%) 3PAR
3 4 (14.81%) CheckPoint
3 4 (14.81%) Nimble Storage
4 3 (11.11%) Oracle
5 2 (7.41%) Citrix
5 2 (7.41%) F5
5 2 (7.41%) MobileIron
5 2 (7.41%) Palo Alto
5 2 (7.41%) Red Hat
6 1 (3.70%) Brocade
6 1 (3.70%) IBM
6 1 (3.70%) SolarWinds