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 1 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
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 59 33
Rank change year-on-year -18 -26 -4
Contract jobs citing VMware 96 58 92
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 2.78% 3.31% 4.83%
As % of the Vendors category 6.18% 6.87% 10.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 33 68
10th Percentile £261 £380 £300
25th Percentile £359 £525 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £581 £550
Median % change year-on-year -18.42% +5.64% +29.41%
75th Percentile £537 £625 £627
90th Percentile £565 £648 £666
England median daily rate £531 £550 £513
% change year-on-year -3.55% +7.32% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.43 - -
Median hourly rate £63.14 - -
75th Percentile £67.84 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £67.47 £31.39 £50.00
% change year-on-year +114.98% -37.23% -16.67%

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 1,553 844 863
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 45.04% 48.12% 45.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,019 545 585
10th Percentile £324 £235 £250
25th Percentile £406 £368 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.29% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £573 £575 £625
90th Percentile £675 £638 £713
England median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 26 14
10th Percentile £13.50 £16.56 £13.48
25th Percentile £17.74 £27.66 £14.44
Median hourly rate £25.00 £30.00 £25.06
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +19.70% +25.31%
75th Percentile £40.03 £48.31 £43.50
90th Percentile £60.85 £50.00 £53.13
England median hourly rate £32.00 £25.15 £30.00
% change year-on-year +27.24% -16.17% -27.71%

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 1 September 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 1 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
Birmingham +12 44 £535 +7.00% 13
Warwickshire +2 33 £462 -19.30% 6
Herefordshire +2 5 - -
Coventry -19 5 £264 -57.43% 1
Staffordshire - 5 £338 - 3
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 5 (5.21%) SharePoint
2 4 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.08%) Apache
3 2 (2.08%) CloudStack
3 2 (2.08%) IIS
4 1 (1.04%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (2.08%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 28 (29.17%) Azure
2 25 (26.04%) AWS
3 15 (15.63%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (10.42%) Entra ID
5 7 (7.29%) GCP
5 7 (7.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 5 (5.21%) GitHub
7 4 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (4.17%) Amazon S3
7 4 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (4.17%) OpenShift
8 2 (2.08%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (2.08%) IaaS
9 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (1.04%) OneDrive
9 1 (1.04%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.04%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 43 (44.79%) DNS
2 23 (23.96%) SSL
3 22 (22.92%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 22 (22.92%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 19 (19.79%) BIG-IP
4 19 (19.79%) HTTP
5 18 (18.75%) Wireshark
6 17 (17.71%) TCP/IP
7 15 (15.63%) DHCP
7 15 (15.63%) Firewall
8 8 (8.33%) Network Security
9 7 (7.29%) DMZ
9 7 (7.29%) HTTPS
10 6 (6.25%) LAN
10 6 (6.25%) WAN
11 5 (5.21%) SAN
11 5 (5.21%) VPN
12 4 (4.17%) Cisco ASA
12 4 (4.17%) IPsec
12 4 (4.17%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (3.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (15.63%) Fiddler
2 1 (1.04%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.04%) MSI
General
1 24 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 15 (15.63%) Banking
2 15 (15.63%) Investment Banking
3 12 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.13%) Finance
5 2 (2.08%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.04%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.04%) Law
6 1 (1.04%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 28 (29.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 18 (18.75%) Network Engineer
3 15 (15.63%) Blue Coat Engineer
3 15 (15.63%) IP Network Engineer
3 15 (15.63%) Web Engineer
4 12 (12.50%) Architect
5 8 (8.33%) VMware Engineer
6 6 (6.25%) Consultant
6 6 (6.25%) Infrastructure Architect
7 5 (5.21%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (5.21%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (5.21%) Senior
7 5 (5.21%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (5.21%) VMware Consultant
8 3 (3.13%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (3.13%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (3.13%) Lead
8 3 (3.13%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (3.13%) Windows Engineer
8 3 (3.13%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (14.58%) Terraform
2 5 (5.21%) Flash
3 4 (4.17%) LDAP
3 4 (4.17%) SAML
4 2 (2.08%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.04%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 23 (23.96%) Management Information System
2 11 (11.46%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (10.42%) Data Centre
4 6 (6.25%) Linux Command Line
4 6 (6.25%) Replication
5 5 (5.21%) PKI
6 4 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (4.17%) Enterprise Storage
7 3 (3.13%) Public Cloud
7 3 (3.13%) SCADA
8 2 (2.08%) Clustering
8 2 (2.08%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (2.08%) Operational Technology
8 2 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (1.04%) Cloud Native
9 1 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (1.04%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 39 (40.63%) Windows
2 30 (31.25%) Windows Server
3 25 (26.04%) Linux
4 4 (4.17%) AIX
4 4 (4.17%) Ubuntu
5 3 (3.13%) Unix
5 3 (3.13%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (3.13%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (2.08%) CentOS
6 2 (2.08%) VMS
6 2 (2.08%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.04%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.04%) CatOS
7 1 (1.04%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.04%) Windows 10
7 1 (1.04%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (34.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 24 (25.00%) Load Balancing
3 23 (23.96%) Migration
4 21 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (19.79%) Infrastructure as Code
6 15 (15.63%) Data Loss Prevention
6 15 (15.63%) Malware Detection/Protection
6 15 (15.63%) Root Cause Analysis
7 14 (14.58%) Performance Tuning
8 11 (11.46%) High Availability
9 10 (10.42%) ITIL
9 10 (10.42%) Problem Management
10 9 (9.38%) Service Management
10 9 (9.38%) Technical Leadership
11 8 (8.33%) Capacity Planning
11 8 (8.33%) DevOps
11 8 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
12 7 (7.29%) Agile
12 7 (7.29%) Incident Management
12 7 (7.29%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (8.33%) PowerShell
2 7 (7.29%) SQL
3 5 (5.21%) Bash
3 5 (5.21%) Python
4 3 (3.13%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.04%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 25 (26.04%) Security Cleared
2 22 (22.92%) SC Cleared
3 10 (10.42%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 8 (8.33%) Azure Certification
5 7 (7.29%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (6.25%) DV Cleared
7 5 (5.21%) MCSE
7 5 (5.21%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (4.17%) AWS Certification
8 4 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (4.17%) CCNA
8 4 (4.17%) RHCA
9 2 (2.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (2.08%) CCNP
9 2 (2.08%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.04%) QA
System Software
1 74 (77.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 30 (31.25%) vSphere
3 29 (30.21%) Active Directory
4 26 (27.08%) VMware ESXi
5 16 (16.67%) Hyper-V
6 15 (15.63%) Firmware
7 14 (14.58%) VMware NSX
8 6 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (5.21%) GPFS
9 5 (5.21%) NFS
10 4 (4.17%) Docker
11 2 (2.08%) XenApp
11 2 (2.08%) XenDesktop
12 1 (1.04%) BitLocker
12 1 (1.04%) KVM
12 1 (1.04%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (1.04%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (1.04%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 12 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 10 (10.42%) Ansible
3 7 (7.29%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (7.29%) SCCM
4 6 (6.25%) vCenter Server
5 5 (5.21%) PowerCLI
5 5 (5.21%) vRealize
6 4 (4.17%) Podman
6 4 (4.17%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (4.17%) vMotion
7 3 (3.13%) Grafana
8 2 (2.08%) Check_MK
8 2 (2.08%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (2.08%) Prometheus
8 2 (2.08%) VxRail
8 2 (2.08%) WSUS
9 1 (1.04%) Argo
9 1 (1.04%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (1.04%) Proxmox
9 1 (1.04%) SCOM
Vendors
1 32 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 26 (27.08%) F5
3 24 (25.00%) Cisco
4 20 (20.83%) NetApp
5 15 (15.63%) Blue Coat
5 15 (15.63%) McAfee
6 8 (8.33%) Oracle
6 8 (8.33%) Veeam
7 7 (7.29%) ServiceNow
8 6 (6.25%) CheckPoint
9 5 (5.21%) Citrix
9 5 (5.21%) IBM
9 5 (5.21%) Palo Alto
9 5 (5.21%) Red Hat
10 4 (4.17%) 3PAR
10 4 (4.17%) Atlassian
10 4 (4.17%) Fortinet
10 4 (4.17%) Nimble Storage
11 3 (3.13%) SolarWinds
12 2 (2.08%) EMC