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 7 May 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
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 46 64
Rank change year-on-year -24 +18 -19
Contract jobs citing VMware 92 52 52
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 2.89% 3.84% 2.68%
As % of the Vendors category 6.41% 8.09% 6.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 34 44
10th Percentile £263 £254 £215
25th Percentile £312 £384 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £401 £512 £425
Median % change year-on-year -21.68% +20.47% -7.10%
75th Percentile £509 £682 £575
90th Percentile £579 £700 £793
England median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.43 £31.32 -
Median hourly rate £63.14 £36.65 £19.95
Median % change year-on-year +72.29% +83.68% -69.77%
75th Percentile £67.84 £41.97 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -3.45% +56.99% -25.92%

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 1,436 643 834
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 45.17% 47.45% 43.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 963 415 534
10th Percentile £306 £184 £255
25th Percentile £400 £335 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.20% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £596 £600
90th Percentile £645 £683 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -2.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 25 53
10th Percentile £19.34 £12.25 £11.07
25th Percentile £22.50 £15.22 £13.25
Median hourly rate £33.98 £18.51 £16.82
Median % change year-on-year +83.58% +10.05% -14.19%
75th Percentile £53.75 £29.00 £26.98
90th Percentile £68.70 £31.33 £53.10
England median hourly rate £31.18 £27.13 £22.50
% change year-on-year +14.93% +20.56% -43.75%

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 7 May 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 7 May 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 -8 38 £537 -22.68% 10
Coventry +5 26 £308 +9.03%
Warwickshire -25 18 £394 -21.32% 5
Herefordshire -8 3 - - 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 4 (4.35%) Confluence
1 4 (4.35%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.17%) IIS
2 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 11 (11.96%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 22 (23.91%) AWS
2 17 (18.48%) Azure
3 9 (9.78%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (6.52%) Datadog
4 6 (6.52%) GitHub
5 5 (5.43%) OpenShift
6 4 (4.35%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.09%) GCP
7 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (1.09%) Nutanix
7 1 (1.09%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.09%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 37 (40.22%) DNS
2 31 (33.70%) SSL
3 29 (31.52%) BIG-IP
3 29 (31.52%) HTTP
4 28 (30.43%) Wireshark
5 22 (23.91%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 22 (23.91%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 21 (22.83%) TCP/IP
7 16 (17.39%) Firewall
8 12 (13.04%) HTTPS
9 10 (10.87%) VPN
9 10 (10.87%) VSAN
10 9 (9.78%) Cisco ASA
10 9 (9.78%) Cisco Nexus
10 9 (9.78%) IPsec
10 9 (9.78%) LAN
10 9 (9.78%) WAN
11 8 (8.70%) Wireless
12 7 (7.61%) Ethereal
13 3 (3.26%) SAN
Development Applications
1 20 (21.74%) Fiddler
2 3 (3.26%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.09%) MSI
General
1 22 (23.91%) Banking
1 22 (23.91%) Investment Banking
2 21 (22.83%) Social Skills
3 10 (10.87%) Finance
4 9 (9.78%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.52%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.26%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.09%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 28 (30.43%) Network Engineer
2 23 (25.00%) Analyst
3 20 (21.74%) Blue Coat Engineer
3 20 (21.74%) IP Network Engineer
3 20 (21.74%) Web Engineer
4 18 (19.57%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 15 (16.30%) Storage Analyst
6 10 (10.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 7 (7.61%) Architect
8 4 (4.35%) VMware Architect
9 3 (3.26%) Administrator
9 3 (3.26%) Lead
9 3 (3.26%) Senior
9 3 (3.26%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 2 (2.17%) Citrix Administrator
10 2 (2.17%) Data Architect
10 2 (2.17%) Operations Engineer
10 2 (2.17%) VMware Expert
11 1 (1.09%) IT Engineer
11 1 (1.09%) Windows Server Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (13.04%) Flash
2 9 (9.78%) LDAP
2 9 (9.78%) SAML
3 3 (3.26%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 23 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 18 (19.57%) Linux Command Line
3 14 (15.22%) Replication
4 9 (9.78%) Data Centre
5 6 (6.52%) Cloud Native
6 5 (5.43%) SCADA
7 4 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (3.26%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (3.26%) Operational Technology
8 3 (3.26%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (2.17%) Clustering
9 2 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (2.17%) PKI
10 1 (1.09%) Enterprise Storage
10 1 (1.09%) Product Ownership
10 1 (1.09%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 25 (27.17%) Linux
2 14 (15.22%) Windows
3 11 (11.96%) Windows Server
4 4 (4.35%) CatOS
5 3 (3.26%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (3.26%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (2.17%) Apple iOS
6 2 (2.17%) Mac OS
6 2 (2.17%) Windows 10
6 2 (2.17%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.09%) AIX
7 1 (1.09%) Unix
7 1 (1.09%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (27.17%) Load Balancing
2 22 (23.91%) Agile
2 22 (23.91%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (21.74%) Data Loss Prevention
3 20 (21.74%) Malware Detection/Protection
4 15 (16.30%) High Availability
5 12 (13.04%) Performance Tuning
6 11 (11.96%) Ticket Management
7 10 (10.87%) Cybersecurity
7 10 (10.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 10 (10.87%) ITIL
8 9 (9.78%) Service Management
9 8 (8.70%) Containerisation
10 7 (7.61%) Migration
10 7 (7.61%) Network Virtualisation
10 7 (7.61%) Problem Management
11 6 (6.52%) DevOps
11 6 (6.52%) RBAC
12 5 (5.43%) CI/CD
12 5 (5.43%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 9 (9.78%) PowerShell
1 9 (9.78%) Python
2 8 (8.70%) Bash
3 5 (5.43%) SQL
4 3 (3.26%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.09%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 22 (23.91%) Security Cleared
2 18 (19.57%) SC Cleared
3 13 (14.13%) BPSS Clearance
4 8 (8.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 6 (6.52%) Degree
6 5 (5.43%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (4.35%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (4.35%) MCSE
8 3 (3.26%) CCNA
8 3 (3.26%) DV Cleared
8 3 (3.26%) RHCA
9 1 (1.09%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (1.09%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.26%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (3.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.09%) QA
System Software
1 78 (84.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 30 (32.61%) vSphere
3 21 (22.83%) Active Directory
3 21 (22.83%) Firmware
4 18 (19.57%) VMware ESXi
5 15 (16.30%) VMware NSX
6 12 (13.04%) GPFS
6 12 (13.04%) NFS
7 7 (7.61%) Hyper-V
8 5 (5.43%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (4.35%) Docker
10 2 (2.17%) BitLocker
10 2 (2.17%) KVM
10 2 (2.17%) XenApp
10 2 (2.17%) XenDesktop
11 1 (1.09%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (1.09%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 21 (22.83%) vRealize
2 14 (15.22%) Ansible
3 11 (11.96%) VxRail
4 9 (9.78%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (8.70%) Kubernetes
5 8 (8.70%) Terraform
6 5 (5.43%) PowerCLI
7 4 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (4.35%) SCCM
7 4 (4.35%) vCenter Server
7 4 (4.35%) vMotion
8 3 (3.26%) Argo
8 3 (3.26%) FortiGate
8 3 (3.26%) Grafana
8 3 (3.26%) Podman
9 2 (2.17%) AirWatch
9 2 (2.17%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (2.17%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (2.17%) SCOM
9 2 (2.17%) WSUS
Vendors
1 39 (42.39%) Cisco
2 31 (33.70%) F5
3 21 (22.83%) NetApp
4 20 (21.74%) Blue Coat
4 20 (21.74%) McAfee
4 20 (21.74%) Microsoft
5 19 (20.65%) IBM
6 15 (16.30%) Oracle
7 13 (14.13%) ServiceNow
8 12 (13.04%) SolarWinds
9 11 (11.96%) CheckPoint
10 9 (9.78%) Palo Alto
11 7 (7.61%) Commvault
12 6 (6.52%) AppDynamics
12 6 (6.52%) Dell
12 6 (6.52%) HP
13 4 (4.35%) 3PAR
13 4 (4.35%) Citrix
13 4 (4.35%) Nimble Storage
13 4 (4.35%) Red Hat