VMware Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

VMware
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 22 January 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
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 56 38
Rank change year-on-year +3 -18 +13
Contract jobs citing VMware 98 50 81
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 4.15% 3.15% 4.53%
As % of the Vendors category 7.99% 6.36% 9.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 30 65
10th Percentile £263 £158 £343
25th Percentile £305 £374 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £588 £450
Median % change year-on-year -31.91% +30.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £580 £689 £544
90th Percentile £625 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
10th Percentile - - £17.97
25th Percentile - - £18.30
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £19.23
Median % change year-on-year - +82.05% -70.87%
75th Percentile - £41.25 £19.78
90th Percentile - £52.50 £19.88
England median hourly rate £70.00 £68.75 £65.98
% change year-on-year +1.82% +4.20% +1.51%

All Vendors
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,226 786 837
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 51.86% 49.50% 46.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 791 505 503
10th Percentile £263 £208 £219
25th Percentile £400 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £512 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +7.79% -4.04%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £600
90th Percentile £650 £711 £679
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 22 37
10th Percentile £14.43 £12.48 £11.25
25th Percentile £17.10 £18.13 £17.50
Median hourly rate £22.00 £21.80 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -3.11% +32.86%
75th Percentile £27.21 £30.68 £26.98
90th Percentile £62.99 £35.00 £42.05
England median hourly rate £23.75 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.83% -14.29% +7.69%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

VMware job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

VMware
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing VMware.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing VMware

VMware
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 22 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VMware in the West Midlands

VMware
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing VMware.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing VMware

VMware
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 22 January 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
Coventry - 40 £310 - 3
Birmingham +6 33 £588 -14.73% 6
Warwickshire -12 8 £500 -15.40% 4
Worcestershire - 5 £600 - 3
Shropshire -41 2 £400 -13.51% 1
Wolverhampton - 2 £488 - 1
VMware
England

VMware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 8 (8.16%) Confluence
2 1 (1.02%) OpenStack
Applications
1 12 (12.24%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 42 (42.86%) AWS
2 32 (32.65%) Azure
3 13 (13.27%) Datadog
4 5 (5.10%) GCP
4 5 (5.10%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (4.08%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 4 (4.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (2.04%) AWS Direct Connect
6 2 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.04%) GitHub
6 2 (2.04%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.02%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.02%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.02%) Nutanix
7 1 (1.02%) PaaS
7 1 (1.02%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 38 (38.78%) DNS
2 26 (26.53%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 24 (24.49%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 19 (19.39%) Firewall
5 17 (17.35%) BIG-IP
5 17 (17.35%) HTTP
5 17 (17.35%) SSL
5 17 (17.35%) Wireshark
6 15 (15.31%) VSAN
7 13 (13.27%) DMZ
7 13 (13.27%) Network Security
7 13 (13.27%) TCP/IP
8 11 (11.22%) VPN
9 9 (9.18%) Cisco ASA
9 9 (9.18%) LAN
9 9 (9.18%) WAN
9 9 (9.18%) Wireless
10 8 (8.16%) DHCP
11 5 (5.10%) HTTPS
11 5 (5.10%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.06%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (12.24%) Fiddler
2 2 (2.04%) GitLab
2 2 (2.04%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (1.02%) Git
3 1 (1.02%) Jaeger
General
1 26 (26.53%) Banking
2 24 (24.49%) Investment Banking
3 12 (12.24%) Social Skills
4 11 (11.22%) Documentation Skills
4 11 (11.22%) Finance
5 7 (7.14%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.10%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (3.06%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.06%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.04%) Legal
9 1 (1.02%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 34 (34.69%) Analyst
2 27 (27.55%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 19 (19.39%) Storage Analyst
4 17 (17.35%) Network Engineer
5 12 (12.24%) Blue Coat Engineer
5 12 (12.24%) IP Network Engineer
5 12 (12.24%) Operations Engineer
5 12 (12.24%) Web Engineer
6 6 (6.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (5.10%) Architect
8 4 (4.08%) Network Architect
8 4 (4.08%) Storage Engineer
9 3 (3.06%) Application Integration Engineer
9 3 (3.06%) Applications Engineer
9 3 (3.06%) Integration Engineer
9 3 (3.06%) Server Engineer
9 3 (3.06%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (3.06%) Support Engineer
9 3 (3.06%) VMware Specialist
10 2 (2.04%) Cloud Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (17.35%) Flash
2 5 (5.10%) LDAP
2 5 (5.10%) SAML
3 1 (1.02%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 30 (30.61%) Linux Command Line
2 24 (24.49%) Management Information System
3 17 (17.35%) Replication
4 7 (7.14%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.06%) Client/Server
5 3 (3.06%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.04%) NHS
6 2 (2.04%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.04%) PKI
6 2 (2.04%) SCADA
7 1 (1.02%) CCTV
7 1 (1.02%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.02%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.02%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 36 (36.73%) Linux
2 12 (12.24%) Windows
3 10 (10.20%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.06%) CatOS
4 3 (3.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (3.06%) Windows 10
5 2 (2.04%) VMS
6 1 (1.02%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.02%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.02%) Unix
6 1 (1.02%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (38.78%) Agile
2 28 (28.57%) Load Balancing
3 17 (17.35%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (15.31%) Business Strategy
5 13 (13.27%) Ticket Management
6 12 (12.24%) Data Loss Prevention
6 12 (12.24%) Design Patterns
6 12 (12.24%) Malware Detection/Protection
7 10 (10.20%) Cybersecurity
8 9 (9.18%) Mentoring
9 7 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 7 (7.14%) ITIL
10 6 (6.12%) DevOps
10 6 (6.12%) Migration
10 6 (6.12%) Network Virtualisation
10 6 (6.12%) Stakeholder Management
11 5 (5.10%) Capacity Planning
11 5 (5.10%) Computer Science
11 5 (5.10%) High Availability
11 5 (5.10%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 10 (10.20%) Python
2 8 (8.16%) PowerShell
3 5 (5.10%) Bash
4 3 (3.06%) VBScript
5 1 (1.02%) Go
5 1 (1.02%) VBA
Qualifications
1 15 (15.31%) Security Cleared
2 9 (9.18%) BPSS Clearance
2 9 (9.18%) Degree
3 5 (5.10%) DV Cleared
3 5 (5.10%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.08%) AWS Certification
4 4 (4.08%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 3 (3.06%) CCIE
5 3 (3.06%) CCIE Security
5 3 (3.06%) CCNP
5 3 (3.06%) CCSP
5 3 (3.06%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (3.06%) CISSP
6 2 (2.04%) JNCIE
6 2 (2.04%) JNCIP
7 1 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.02%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.02%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.08%) GDPR
1 4 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (4.08%) NIST
1 4 (4.08%) PCI DSS
2 2 (2.04%) PMO
3 1 (1.02%) SLA
System Software
1 84 (85.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 37 (37.76%) vSphere
3 18 (18.37%) VMware ESXi
4 17 (17.35%) GPFS
4 17 (17.35%) NFS
5 13 (13.27%) VMware NSX
6 12 (12.24%) Active Directory
6 12 (12.24%) Firmware
7 7 (7.14%) Hyper-V
8 3 (3.06%) Docker
9 1 (1.02%) BitLocker
9 1 (1.02%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 33 (33.67%) vRealize
2 15 (15.31%) VxRail
3 8 (8.16%) Ansible
4 6 (6.12%) Terraform
5 5 (5.10%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (3.06%) FortiGate
6 3 (3.06%) Kubernetes
6 3 (3.06%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (3.06%) SCCM
7 2 (2.04%) Grafana
7 2 (2.04%) Prometheus
7 2 (2.04%) SCOM
8 1 (1.02%) AirWatch
8 1 (1.02%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (1.02%) Nessus
8 1 (1.02%) SolarWinds Orion
8 1 (1.02%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 47 (47.96%) Cisco
2 33 (33.67%) F5
3 30 (30.61%) IBM
4 21 (21.43%) SolarWinds
5 18 (18.37%) ServiceNow
6 17 (17.35%) Oracle
7 16 (16.33%) Microsoft
8 15 (15.31%) Dell
9 14 (14.29%) Commvault
10 13 (13.27%) AppDynamics
10 13 (13.27%) NetApp
11 12 (12.24%) Blue Coat
11 12 (12.24%) HP
11 12 (12.24%) McAfee
12 9 (9.18%) Palo Alto
13 8 (8.16%) CheckPoint
14 4 (4.08%) Broadcom
14 4 (4.08%) Fortinet
14 4 (4.08%) Meraki
15 2 (2.04%) ArcSight