VMware Contract Job Trends in Watford

VMware
Hertfordshire > Watford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Watford 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 6 September 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
6 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 16 16
Rank change year-on-year +4 0 -
Contract jobs citing VMware 1 2 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Watford 2.17% 2.35% 5.17%
As % of the Vendors category 4.17% 5.26% 8.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 £248 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £255 £425
Median % change year-on-year +86.27% -40.00% -
75th Percentile £488 £263 £456
90th Percentile - - £468
Hertfordshire median daily rate £550 £550 £625
% change year-on-year - -12.00% +13.64%

All Vendors
Watford

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 Watford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 24 38 72
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Watford 52.17% 44.71% 62.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 23 51
10th Percentile £405 £251 £165
25th Percentile £425 £306 £202
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £350 £425
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -17.65% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £475 £656
90th Percentile - £515 £750
Hertfordshire median daily rate £550 £550 £500
% change year-on-year - +10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 5
10th Percentile - - £18.30
25th Percentile - £13.69 £21.00
Median hourly rate - £14.31 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year - -34.94% -37.14%
75th Percentile - £14.81 £23.00
90th Percentile - £14.93 £24.91
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £23.13 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -64.42% +13.04% +4.55%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in Watford

Job postings citing VMware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Watford.

Job vacancy trend for VMware in Watford

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Daily Rate Trend in Watford

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Watford citing VMware

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Hourly Rate Trend in Watford

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Watford citing VMware

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Watford 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) IT Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior IT Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Environments
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure