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 26 June 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
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 50 35
Rank change year-on-year -30 -15 +6
Contract jobs citing VMware 87 56 84
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 2.61% 3.81% 4.09%
As % of the Vendors category 5.82% 8.07% 9.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 32 67
10th Percentile £261 £265 £258
25th Percentile £333 £409 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £501 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.09% -9.00% +28.65%
75th Percentile £537 £692 £635
90th Percentile £570 £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 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 £51.00 £34.71 £40.13
% change year-on-year +46.94% -13.50% -25.63%

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 1,496 694 897
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 44.88% 47.28% 43.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,036 432 592
10th Percentile £313 £200 £250
25th Percentile £400 £313 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £465 £450
Median % change year-on-year +0.86% +3.33% -5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £645 £671 £688
England median daily rate £507 £513 £520
% change year-on-year -1.07% -1.44% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 30 52
10th Percentile £18.10 £14.99 £11.08
25th Percentile £22.50 £24.75 £13.81
Median hourly rate £33.99 £30.00 £18.39
Median % change year-on-year +13.30% +63.18% -14.89%
75th Percentile £53.75 £42.93 £28.75
90th Percentile £67.06 £50.00 £56.13
England median hourly rate £35.00 £26.45 £24.50
% change year-on-year +32.33% +7.96% -34.67%

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 26 June 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 26 June 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 -14 40 £525 -23.80% 5
Warwickshire -3 26 £450 -5.26% 2
Coventry -10 11 £275 -2.65% 2
Herefordshire -5 3 - -
Staffordshire - 2 £200 - 4
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 (4.60%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.30%) Apache
2 2 (2.30%) CloudStack
2 2 (2.30%) IIS
2 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (4.60%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 23 (26.44%) AWS
2 21 (24.14%) Azure
3 10 (11.49%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (8.05%) GCP
4 7 (8.05%) OpenShift
5 6 (6.90%) GitHub
6 4 (4.60%) Entra ID
6 4 (4.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (2.30%) IaaS
8 1 (1.15%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.15%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.15%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (1.15%) Nutanix
8 1 (1.15%) OneDrive
8 1 (1.15%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.15%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 38 (43.68%) DNS
2 25 (28.74%) SSL
3 23 (26.44%) BIG-IP
3 23 (26.44%) HTTP
4 22 (25.29%) Wireshark
5 19 (21.84%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 19 (21.84%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
6 18 (20.69%) TCP/IP
7 12 (13.79%) Firewall
8 10 (11.49%) DHCP
9 9 (10.34%) HTTPS
10 8 (9.20%) LAN
10 8 (9.20%) WAN
11 7 (8.05%) VPN
12 6 (6.90%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (6.90%) Cisco Nexus
12 6 (6.90%) IPsec
13 5 (5.75%) SAN
13 5 (5.75%) VSAN
13 5 (5.75%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (1.15%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (19.54%) Fiddler
2 3 (3.45%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.15%) MSI
General
1 23 (26.44%) Social Skills
2 17 (19.54%) Banking
2 17 (19.54%) Investment Banking
3 11 (12.64%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (9.20%) Finance
5 2 (2.30%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.15%) Law
6 1 (1.15%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 22 (25.29%) Network Engineer
2 19 (21.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 17 (19.54%) Blue Coat Engineer
3 17 (19.54%) IP Network Engineer
3 17 (19.54%) Web Engineer
4 10 (11.49%) Architect
5 9 (10.34%) Analyst
6 8 (9.20%) Storage Analyst
7 5 (5.75%) Cloud Engineer
7 5 (5.75%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (5.75%) Consultant
7 5 (5.75%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 4 (4.60%) VMware Architect
8 4 (4.60%) VMware Consultant
9 3 (3.45%) Administrator
9 3 (3.45%) Infrastructure Architect
9 3 (3.45%) Lead
9 3 (3.45%) Senior
9 3 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (3.45%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (11.49%) Flash
2 6 (6.90%) LDAP
2 6 (6.90%) SAML
3 3 (3.45%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (2.30%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 20 (22.99%) Management Information System
2 12 (13.79%) Data Centre
2 12 (13.79%) Replication
3 10 (11.49%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (11.49%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (3.45%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (3.45%) Enterprise Storage
4 3 (3.45%) Public Cloud
4 3 (3.45%) SCADA
4 3 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.30%) Clustering
5 2 (2.30%) Operational Technology
5 2 (2.30%) PKI
6 1 (1.15%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 27 (31.03%) Windows
2 23 (26.44%) Linux
3 20 (22.99%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.45%) Unix
4 3 (3.45%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (3.45%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (2.30%) AIX
5 2 (2.30%) Apple iOS
5 2 (2.30%) CatOS
5 2 (2.30%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.30%) Ubuntu
5 2 (2.30%) Windows 10
5 2 (2.30%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.15%) VMS
6 1 (1.15%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (25.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 22 (25.29%) Load Balancing
2 19 (21.84%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (20.69%) Migration
4 17 (19.54%) Data Loss Prevention
4 17 (19.54%) Malware Detection/Protection
5 16 (18.39%) High Availability
6 13 (14.94%) Agile
7 12 (13.79%) Performance Tuning
8 11 (12.64%) Disaster Recovery
9 10 (11.49%) Infrastructure as Code
9 10 (11.49%) ITIL
10 9 (10.34%) Service Management
11 8 (9.20%) Problem Management
11 8 (9.20%) Ticket Management
12 7 (8.05%) Cost Optimisation
12 7 (8.05%) Data Centre Operations
12 7 (8.05%) DevOps
12 7 (8.05%) Infrastructure Automation
12 7 (8.05%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 9 (10.34%) PowerShell
2 8 (9.20%) Python
3 7 (8.05%) Bash
4 5 (5.75%) SQL
5 3 (3.45%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.15%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 18 (20.69%) Security Cleared
2 17 (19.54%) SC Cleared
3 10 (11.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 6 (6.90%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (6.90%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (4.60%) AWS Certification
5 4 (4.60%) Azure Certification
5 4 (4.60%) MCSE
5 4 (4.60%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (3.45%) CCNA
6 3 (3.45%) Degree
6 3 (3.45%) DV Cleared
6 3 (3.45%) RHCA
7 2 (2.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (2.30%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.15%) QA
System Software
1 70 (80.46%) VMware Infrastructure
2 33 (37.93%) vSphere
3 26 (29.89%) VMware ESXi
4 24 (27.59%) Active Directory
5 18 (20.69%) Firmware
6 13 (14.94%) VMware NSX
7 12 (13.79%) Hyper-V
8 10 (11.49%) GPFS
8 10 (11.49%) NFS
9 6 (6.90%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (3.45%) Docker
11 2 (2.30%) BitLocker
11 2 (2.30%) KVM
11 2 (2.30%) XenApp
11 2 (2.30%) XenDesktop
12 1 (1.15%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (1.15%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (1.15%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 12 (13.79%) Ansible
1 12 (13.79%) Kubernetes
2 11 (12.64%) vRealize
3 8 (9.20%) Terraform
3 8 (9.20%) vCenter Server
4 6 (6.90%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (6.90%) PowerCLI
4 6 (6.90%) SCCM
4 6 (6.90%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (5.75%) Grafana
5 5 (5.75%) VxRail
6 4 (4.60%) vMotion
7 3 (3.45%) Argo
7 3 (3.45%) Podman
8 2 (2.30%) AirWatch
8 2 (2.30%) Check_MK
8 2 (2.30%) Failover Clustering
8 2 (2.30%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (2.30%) Prometheus
8 2 (2.30%) SCOM
Vendors
1 29 (33.33%) Cisco
2 26 (29.89%) Microsoft
3 25 (28.74%) F5
4 20 (22.99%) NetApp
5 17 (19.54%) Blue Coat
5 17 (19.54%) McAfee
6 13 (14.94%) Oracle
7 12 (13.79%) ServiceNow
8 11 (12.64%) IBM
9 8 (9.20%) CheckPoint
10 7 (8.05%) Red Hat
10 7 (8.05%) Veeam
11 6 (6.90%) Palo Alto
12 4 (4.60%) 3PAR
12 4 (4.60%) Citrix
12 4 (4.60%) Nimble Storage
12 4 (4.60%) SolarWinds
13 3 (3.45%) Atlassian
13 3 (3.45%) Fortinet
13 3 (3.45%) Splunk