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 24 March 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
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 45 53
Rank change year-on-year -17 +8 -3
Contract jobs citing VMware 100 50 60
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 3.49% 3.77% 3.05%
As % of the Vendors category 7.30% 7.70% 7.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 33 50
10th Percentile £267 £210 £245
25th Percentile £305 £425 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £394 £523 £426
Median % change year-on-year -24.71% +22.84% -5.39%
75th Percentile £500 £689 £575
90th Percentile £606 £700 £704
England median daily rate £525 £545 £500
% change year-on-year -3.67% +9.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Median hourly rate - £35.00 £19.95
Median % change year-on-year - +75.44% -69.77%
England median hourly rate £70.00 £68.75 £46.18
% change year-on-year +1.82% +48.87% -26.97%

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 1,369 649 856
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 47.72% 48.91% 43.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 898 438 547
10th Percentile £300 £200 £240
25th Percentile £400 £364 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -7.69%
75th Percentile £560 £600 £600
90th Percentile £640 £689 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% -4.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 24 56
10th Percentile £15.75 £12.25 £11.09
25th Percentile £21.38 £17.40 £13.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £19.50 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.97% +5.41% +4.40%
75th Percentile £32.25 £30.17 £26.98
90th Percentile £69.99 £34.03 £48.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £24.15
% change year-on-year -16.17% +24.25% -31.56%

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 24 March 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 24 March 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 £550 -20.17% 3
Coventry +7 36 £311 +10.18%
Warwickshire -27 11 £376 -26.51% 4
Shropshire - 2 £400 - 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 8 (8.00%) Confluence
2 3 (3.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 13 (13.00%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 39 (39.00%) AWS
2 27 (27.00%) Azure
3 13 (13.00%) Datadog
4 5 (5.00%) GCP
4 5 (5.00%) OpenShift
5 4 (4.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 4 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (4.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (3.00%) GitHub
7 2 (2.00%) AWS Direct Connect
7 2 (2.00%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (1.00%) Nutanix
8 1 (1.00%) OneDrive
8 1 (1.00%) PaaS
8 1 (1.00%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 44 (44.00%) DNS
2 29 (29.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 28 (28.00%) SSL
4 27 (27.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 26 (26.00%) BIG-IP
5 26 (26.00%) HTTP
5 26 (26.00%) Wireshark
6 20 (20.00%) TCP/IP
7 19 (19.00%) Firewall
8 17 (17.00%) VSAN
9 13 (13.00%) VPN
10 10 (10.00%) Cisco ASA
10 10 (10.00%) LAN
10 10 (10.00%) WAN
10 10 (10.00%) Wireless
11 8 (8.00%) DMZ
11 8 (8.00%) HTTPS
11 8 (8.00%) Network Security
12 7 (7.00%) DHCP
13 6 (6.00%) Ethereal
Development Applications
1 20 (20.00%) Fiddler
2 3 (3.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.00%) MSI
General
1 27 (27.00%) Banking
1 27 (27.00%) Investment Banking
2 15 (15.00%) Social Skills
3 14 (14.00%) Finance
4 8 (8.00%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.00%) Legal
8 1 (1.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 35 (35.00%) Analyst
2 29 (29.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 26 (26.00%) Network Engineer
4 21 (21.00%) Storage Analyst
5 20 (20.00%) Blue Coat Engineer
5 20 (20.00%) IP Network Engineer
5 20 (20.00%) Web Engineer
6 7 (7.00%) Architect
6 7 (7.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (7.00%) Operations Engineer
7 4 (4.00%) Network Architect
8 3 (3.00%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (3.00%) VMware Specialist
9 2 (2.00%) Cloud Specialist
9 2 (2.00%) Data Architect
9 2 (2.00%) Lead
9 2 (2.00%) Senior
9 2 (2.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 2 (2.00%) VMware Architect
10 1 (1.00%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (15.00%) Flash
2 6 (6.00%) LDAP
2 6 (6.00%) SAML
3 3 (3.00%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 28 (28.00%) Linux Command Line
2 27 (27.00%) Management Information System
3 16 (16.00%) Replication
4 9 (9.00%) Data Centre
5 6 (6.00%) Cloud Native
6 4 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (4.00%) SCADA
7 2 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.00%) NHS
7 2 (2.00%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.00%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.00%) CCTV
8 1 (1.00%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.00%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.00%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 32 (32.00%) Linux
2 10 (10.00%) Windows
3 8 (8.00%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.00%) CatOS
5 1 (1.00%) AIX
5 1 (1.00%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.00%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.00%) VMS
5 1 (1.00%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.00%) Windows 7
5 1 (1.00%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (34.00%) Load Balancing
2 32 (32.00%) Agile
3 20 (20.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 20 (20.00%) Malware Detection/Protection
4 18 (18.00%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (15.00%) Ticket Management
6 12 (12.00%) Cybersecurity
7 11 (11.00%) High Availability
8 10 (10.00%) Business Strategy
9 9 (9.00%) Mentoring
9 9 (9.00%) Migration
9 9 (9.00%) Network Virtualisation
10 8 (8.00%) ITIL
11 7 (7.00%) Design Patterns
11 7 (7.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 6 (6.00%) Change Management
12 6 (6.00%) Data Protection
12 6 (6.00%) DevOps
12 6 (6.00%) Disaster Recovery
13 5 (5.00%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 10 (10.00%) Python
2 7 (7.00%) Bash
2 7 (7.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (3.00%) SQL
4 2 (2.00%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.00%) VBA
5 1 (1.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 13 (13.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (12.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 9 (9.00%) Degree
4 8 (8.00%) SC Cleared
5 4 (4.00%) AWS Certification
5 4 (4.00%) Azure Certification
6 3 (3.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 3 (3.00%) CCIE
6 3 (3.00%) CCIE Security
6 3 (3.00%) CCNP
6 3 (3.00%) CCSP
6 3 (3.00%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (3.00%) CISSP
7 2 (2.00%) JNCIE
7 2 (2.00%) JNCIP
7 2 (2.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.00%) GDPR
1 4 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (4.00%) NIST
1 4 (4.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 93 (93.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 39 (39.00%) vSphere
3 21 (21.00%) Firmware
4 17 (17.00%) VMware ESXi
4 17 (17.00%) VMware NSX
5 15 (15.00%) GPFS
5 15 (15.00%) NFS
6 14 (14.00%) Active Directory
7 5 (5.00%) Hyper-V
8 4 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (2.00%) KVM
10 1 (1.00%) BitLocker
10 1 (1.00%) Docker
10 1 (1.00%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 32 (32.00%) vRealize
2 17 (17.00%) VxRail
3 12 (12.00%) Ansible
4 9 (9.00%) Terraform
5 6 (6.00%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (5.00%) Kubernetes
6 5 (5.00%) vCenter Server
7 3 (3.00%) Argo
7 3 (3.00%) FortiGate
7 3 (3.00%) Grafana
8 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (1.00%) AirWatch
9 1 (1.00%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (1.00%) PowerCLI
9 1 (1.00%) Proxmox
9 1 (1.00%) SCCM
9 1 (1.00%) SCOM
9 1 (1.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 47 (47.00%) Cisco
2 37 (37.00%) F5
3 29 (29.00%) IBM
4 21 (21.00%) NetApp
4 21 (21.00%) SolarWinds
5 20 (20.00%) Blue Coat
5 20 (20.00%) McAfee
6 17 (17.00%) Oracle
7 16 (16.00%) Microsoft
8 15 (15.00%) ServiceNow
9 14 (14.00%) Commvault
9 14 (14.00%) Dell
10 13 (13.00%) AppDynamics
11 11 (11.00%) HP
12 10 (10.00%) Palo Alto
13 7 (7.00%) CheckPoint
14 4 (4.00%) Fortinet
14 4 (4.00%) Meraki
14 4 (4.00%) Red Hat
15 3 (3.00%) Splunk