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 18 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
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 53 29
Rank change year-on-year -30 -24 +5
Contract jobs citing VMware 89 55 93
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 2.60% 3.41% 4.63%
As % of the Vendors category 5.82% 7.36% 10.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 29 72
10th Percentile £261 £281 £298
25th Percentile £346 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £462 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.74% -13.64% +29.41%
75th Percentile £538 £689 £635
90th Percentile £574 £700 £676
England median daily rate £525 £550 £510
% change year-on-year -4.55% +7.84% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.43 £31.32 -
Median hourly rate £63.14 £36.65 -
Median % change year-on-year +72.29% - -
75th Percentile £67.84 £41.97 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £54.87 £34.71 £40.13
% change year-on-year +58.09% -13.50% -24.25%

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 1,530 747 904
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 44.68% 46.28% 45.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,052 467 617
10th Percentile £315 £208 £250
25th Percentile £401 £325 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £460 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £645 £680 £688
England median daily rate £510 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -0.49% -0.49% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 31 44
10th Percentile £18.00 £15.13 £11.06
25th Percentile £21.25 £24.83 £13.19
Median hourly rate £30.50 £30.00 £16.51
Median % change year-on-year +1.67% +81.76% -20.28%
75th Percentile £51.25 £42.61 £29.63
90th Percentile £65.25 £50.00 £56.25
England median hourly rate £35.50 £25.15 £26.00
% change year-on-year +41.15% -3.27% -30.67%

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 18 July 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 18 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
Birmingham -7 42 £530 -23.08% 3
Warwickshire -3 30 £474 -0.21% 2
Coventry -19 6 £265 -6.19%
Herefordshire -4 3 - - 2
Staffordshire - 3 £200 - 5
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 4 (4.49%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.25%) Apache
2 2 (2.25%) CloudStack
2 2 (2.25%) IIS
2 2 (2.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (2.25%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 23 (25.84%) Azure
2 22 (24.72%) AWS
3 12 (13.48%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (7.87%) GCP
4 7 (7.87%) OpenShift
4 7 (7.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 6 (6.74%) Entra ID
5 6 (6.74%) GitHub
6 4 (4.49%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (4.49%) Amazon S3
6 4 (4.49%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (2.25%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (2.25%) IaaS
8 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (1.12%) Nutanix
8 1 (1.12%) OneDrive
8 1 (1.12%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.12%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 37 (41.57%) DNS
2 23 (25.84%) SSL
3 20 (22.47%) BIG-IP
3 20 (22.47%) HTTP
4 19 (21.35%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 19 (21.35%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 19 (21.35%) Wireshark
5 17 (19.10%) TCP/IP
6 12 (13.48%) Firewall
7 10 (11.24%) DHCP
8 7 (7.87%) HTTPS
9 6 (6.74%) LAN
9 6 (6.74%) WAN
10 5 (5.62%) SAN
10 5 (5.62%) VPN
11 4 (4.49%) Cisco ASA
11 4 (4.49%) Cisco Nexus
11 4 (4.49%) IPsec
11 4 (4.49%) NAS
11 4 (4.49%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.49%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.12%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (17.98%) Fiddler
2 3 (3.37%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.12%) MSI
General
1 22 (24.72%) Social Skills
2 16 (17.98%) Banking
2 16 (17.98%) Investment Banking
3 11 (12.36%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (7.87%) Finance
5 2 (2.25%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.12%) Law
6 1 (1.12%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 21 (23.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 19 (21.35%) Network Engineer
3 16 (17.98%) Blue Coat Engineer
3 16 (17.98%) IP Network Engineer
3 16 (17.98%) Web Engineer
4 13 (14.61%) Architect
5 6 (6.74%) Consultant
5 6 (6.74%) Infrastructure Architect
6 5 (5.62%) Analyst
6 5 (5.62%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (5.62%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (5.62%) Senior
6 5 (5.62%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (5.62%) VMware Consultant
7 4 (4.49%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 4 (4.49%) Storage Analyst
7 4 (4.49%) VMware Architect
7 4 (4.49%) VMware Engineer
8 3 (3.37%) Lead
8 3 (3.37%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.74%) Flash
2 4 (4.49%) LDAP
2 4 (4.49%) SAML
3 3 (3.37%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (2.25%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 20 (22.47%) Management Information System
2 12 (13.48%) Data Centre
3 10 (11.24%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (8.99%) Replication
5 6 (6.74%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (3.37%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (3.37%) Cloud Native
6 3 (3.37%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (3.37%) Enterprise Storage
6 3 (3.37%) PKI
6 3 (3.37%) Public Cloud
6 3 (3.37%) SCADA
6 3 (3.37%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.25%) Clustering
7 2 (2.25%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (2.25%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.12%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 32 (35.96%) Windows
2 22 (24.72%) Linux
2 22 (24.72%) Windows Server
3 5 (5.62%) AIX
4 3 (3.37%) Unix
4 3 (3.37%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (3.37%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (2.25%) Apple iOS
5 2 (2.25%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.25%) Ubuntu
5 2 (2.25%) VMS
5 2 (2.25%) Windows 10
5 2 (2.25%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.12%) CatOS
6 1 (1.12%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (28.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 22 (24.72%) Load Balancing
3 19 (21.35%) Migration
3 19 (21.35%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (17.98%) Data Loss Prevention
4 16 (17.98%) High Availability
4 16 (17.98%) Malware Detection/Protection
5 14 (15.73%) Performance Tuning
6 13 (14.61%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (12.36%) Disaster Recovery
8 10 (11.24%) DevOps
8 10 (11.24%) ITIL
9 9 (10.11%) Agile
9 9 (10.11%) Problem Management
9 9 (10.11%) Root Cause Analysis
9 9 (10.11%) Service Management
10 7 (7.87%) Data Centre Operations
10 7 (7.87%) Incident Management
10 7 (7.87%) Infrastructure Automation
10 7 (7.87%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 9 (10.11%) PowerShell
2 8 (8.99%) Python
3 7 (7.87%) Bash
4 6 (6.74%) SQL
5 3 (3.37%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.12%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 20 (22.47%) Security Cleared
2 19 (21.35%) SC Cleared
3 10 (11.24%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 6 (6.74%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (5.62%) Azure Certification
6 4 (4.49%) AWS Certification
6 4 (4.49%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (4.49%) MCSE
6 4 (4.49%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (3.37%) CCNA
7 3 (3.37%) Degree
7 3 (3.37%) DV Cleared
7 3 (3.37%) RHCA
8 2 (2.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (2.25%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.37%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (3.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.12%) QA
System Software
1 68 (76.40%) VMware Infrastructure
2 30 (33.71%) vSphere
3 24 (26.97%) Active Directory
4 23 (25.84%) VMware ESXi
5 17 (19.10%) Firmware
6 14 (15.73%) Hyper-V
6 14 (15.73%) VMware NSX
7 7 (7.87%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (6.74%) GPFS
8 6 (6.74%) NFS
9 3 (3.37%) Docker
10 2 (2.25%) BitLocker
10 2 (2.25%) KVM
10 2 (2.25%) XenApp
10 2 (2.25%) XenDesktop
11 1 (1.12%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (1.12%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (1.12%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 12 (13.48%) Ansible
1 12 (13.48%) Kubernetes
2 11 (12.36%) Terraform
3 9 (10.11%) vCenter Server
4 7 (7.87%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (7.87%) SCCM
4 7 (7.87%) vRealize
5 6 (6.74%) PowerCLI
6 5 (5.62%) Grafana
7 4 (4.49%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (4.49%) vMotion
7 4 (4.49%) VxRail
8 3 (3.37%) Argo
8 3 (3.37%) Podman
9 2 (2.25%) AirWatch
9 2 (2.25%) Check_MK
9 2 (2.25%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (2.25%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (2.25%) Prometheus
9 2 (2.25%) SCOM
Vendors
1 26 (29.21%) Cisco
1 26 (29.21%) Microsoft
2 23 (25.84%) F5
3 19 (21.35%) NetApp
4 16 (17.98%) Blue Coat
4 16 (17.98%) McAfee
5 9 (10.11%) Oracle
6 8 (8.99%) ServiceNow
6 8 (8.99%) Veeam
7 7 (7.87%) IBM
7 7 (7.87%) Red Hat
8 6 (6.74%) CheckPoint
9 5 (5.62%) Citrix
10 4 (4.49%) 3PAR
10 4 (4.49%) Nimble Storage
10 4 (4.49%) Palo Alto
11 3 (3.37%) Fortinet
11 3 (3.37%) Pure Storage
11 3 (3.37%) SolarWinds
11 3 (3.37%) Splunk