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 14 October 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
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 37 25
Rank change year-on-year -26 -12 +52
Contract jobs citing VMware 65 87 142
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 3.45% 4.66% 7.04%
As % of the Vendors category 6.45% 9.74% 13.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 59 99
10th Percentile £403 £300 £310
25th Percentile £538 £425 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £570 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.93% +26.67% +12.50%
75th Percentile £625 £627 £575
90th Percentile £647 £660 £725
England median daily rate £535 £524 £500
% change year-on-year +2.15% +4.75% +2.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.75
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year - +89.19% +12.12%
75th Percentile - £47.50 £19.25
90th Percentile - £55.00 -
England median hourly rate £34.00 £35.58 £65.98
% change year-on-year -4.45% -46.07% +51.29%

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 1,007 893 1,019
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 53.48% 47.81% 50.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 644 581 644
10th Percentile £257 £213 £214
25th Percentile £399 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £464
Median % change year-on-year - +7.82% -6.31%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £600
90th Percentile £653 £713 £688
England median daily rate £507 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.43% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 13 20
10th Percentile £15.71 £14.40 £17.50
25th Percentile £19.69 £15.22 £17.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £26.13 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.83% +13.59% +39.39%
75th Percentile £35.63 £35.00 £34.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £57.75 £43.40
England median hourly rate £25.11 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.26% -21.35% +82.68%

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 14 October 2025.

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 14 October 2025. 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 +15 27 £525 +218.18% 11
Warwickshire -25 19 £577 -4.98% 5
Coventry -2 7 £275 +29.41% 1
Worcestershire - 7 £617 - 2
Herefordshire - 2 £900 - 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 1 (1.54%) Confluence
1 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.54%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 13 (20.00%) Azure
2 12 (18.46%) SaaS
3 7 (10.77%) AWS
3 7 (10.77%) GitHub
4 3 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (4.62%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (4.62%) PaaS
5 2 (3.08%) Azure Stack
5 2 (3.08%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (3.08%) IaaS
6 1 (1.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.54%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (1.54%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.54%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (1.54%) AWS KMS
6 1 (1.54%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.54%) Nutanix
6 1 (1.54%) Route 53
6 1 (1.54%) Serverless
6 1 (1.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 23 (35.38%) DNS
2 13 (20.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 13 (20.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 11 (16.92%) DMZ
3 11 (16.92%) Network Security
4 7 (10.77%) FTP
5 5 (7.69%) DKIM
5 5 (7.69%) DMARC
5 5 (7.69%) Firewall
5 5 (7.69%) Internet
5 5 (7.69%) SMTP
5 5 (7.69%) TCP/IP
6 3 (4.62%) BIG-IP
6 3 (4.62%) DHCP
6 3 (4.62%) HTTP
6 3 (4.62%) SSL
6 3 (4.62%) Wireshark
7 2 (3.08%) NAS
7 2 (3.08%) VLAN
7 2 (3.08%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.15%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (4.62%) Fiddler
2 2 (3.08%) GitLab
2 2 (3.08%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (1.54%) Git
3 1 (1.54%) Jaeger
General
1 29 (44.62%) Social Skills
2 15 (23.08%) Banking
3 13 (20.00%) Investment Banking
4 7 (10.77%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.08%) Finance
5 2 (3.08%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (23.08%) Architect
2 10 (15.38%) Operations Engineer
3 8 (12.31%) VMware Engineer
4 4 (6.15%) Server Engineer
4 4 (6.15%) Storage Engineer
4 4 (6.15%) Systems Architect
5 3 (4.62%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 3 (4.62%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
5 3 (4.62%) Application Integration Engineer
5 3 (4.62%) Applications Engineer
5 3 (4.62%) Blue Coat Engineer
5 3 (4.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (4.62%) Integration Engineer
5 3 (4.62%) IP Network Engineer
5 3 (4.62%) Network Engineer
5 3 (4.62%) Web Engineer
6 2 (3.08%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
6 2 (3.08%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
6 2 (3.08%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (3.08%) Service Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.15%) Flash
2 1 (1.54%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 13 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 5 (7.69%) Linux Command Line
2 5 (7.69%) Replication
3 4 (6.15%) SCADA
4 3 (4.62%) Client/Server
4 3 (4.62%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (4.62%) Onboarding
4 3 (4.62%) PKI
5 2 (3.08%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.54%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.54%) Educational Technology
6 1 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.54%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 17 (26.15%) Windows
2 15 (23.08%) Linux
3 9 (13.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (13.85%) Windows Server
4 3 (4.62%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.54%) SUSE
5 1 (1.54%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.54%) Unix
5 1 (1.54%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (20.00%) Load Balancing
2 10 (15.38%) Business Strategy
2 10 (15.38%) Design Patterns
2 10 (15.38%) Validation
3 9 (13.85%) Agile
3 9 (13.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 8 (12.31%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (9.23%) Configuration Management
6 5 (7.69%) DevOps
6 5 (7.69%) Migration
6 5 (7.69%) Scrum
7 4 (6.15%) Reverse Engineering
7 4 (6.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 3 (4.62%) Application Packaging
8 3 (4.62%) Data Loss Prevention
8 3 (4.62%) Malware Detection/Protection
8 3 (4.62%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (4.62%) Stakeholder Management
9 2 (3.08%) Release Train
9 2 (3.08%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 6 (9.23%) PowerShell
1 6 (9.23%) Python
2 3 (4.62%) VBScript
3 2 (3.08%) Bash
4 1 (1.54%) Go
4 1 (1.54%) SQL
4 1 (1.54%) VBA
Qualifications
1 24 (36.92%) Security Cleared
2 15 (23.08%) DV Cleared
3 11 (16.92%) SC Cleared
4 4 (6.15%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (3.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (1.54%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.54%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (1.54%) CCNA
6 1 (1.54%) CCNP
6 1 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.54%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.54%) Degree
6 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.08%) PMO
2 1 (1.54%) SLA
System Software
1 43 (66.15%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (21.54%) Active Directory
3 12 (18.46%) VMware ESXi
3 12 (18.46%) vSphere
4 7 (10.77%) Hyper-V
5 5 (7.69%) Dovecot
5 5 (7.69%) Postfix
6 4 (6.15%) Firmware
6 4 (6.15%) GPFS
6 4 (6.15%) NFS
7 2 (3.08%) Docker
7 2 (3.08%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (3.08%) VMware NSX
8 1 (1.54%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 7 (10.77%) Ansible
2 6 (9.23%) Terraform
3 4 (6.15%) vRealize
4 3 (4.62%) SCCM
5 2 (3.08%) Grafana
5 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (3.08%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.08%) SCOM
6 1 (1.54%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.54%) Nessus
6 1 (1.54%) PowerCLI
6 1 (1.54%) SolarWinds Orion
6 1 (1.54%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 18 (27.69%) Broadcom
2 13 (20.00%) F5
3 7 (10.77%) Cisco
3 7 (10.77%) Microsoft
4 5 (7.69%) Red Hat
4 5 (7.69%) ServiceNow
5 4 (6.15%) IBM
5 4 (6.15%) NetApp
5 4 (6.15%) Oracle
6 3 (4.62%) Blue Coat
6 3 (4.62%) McAfee
6 3 (4.62%) Veeam
7 2 (3.08%) ArcSight
7 2 (3.08%) CheckPoint
7 2 (3.08%) Dell
8 1 (1.54%) Citrix
8 1 (1.54%) HP
8 1 (1.54%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.54%) Splunk