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 8 December 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
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 58 25
Rank change year-on-year +12 -33 +40
Contract jobs citing VMware 110 54 131
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 4.98% 2.99% 6.88%
As % of the Vendors category 9.37% 6.39% 13.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 35 98
10th Percentile £285 £181 £300
25th Percentile £310 £425 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £468 £450
Median % change year-on-year +12.30% +3.89% +5.88%
75th Percentile £584 £605 £584
90th Percentile £625 £652 £725
England median daily rate £527 £520 £500
% change year-on-year +1.35% +4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 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 - £41.25 £19.25
90th Percentile - £52.50 -
England median hourly rate £68.25 £55.00 £65.98
% change year-on-year +24.09% -16.64% +1.51%

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 1,174 845 991
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 53.12% 46.74% 52.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 762 551 639
10th Percentile £275 £213 £213
25th Percentile £400 £372 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £500 £465
Median % change year-on-year +1.10% +7.53% -6.06%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £597
90th Percentile £650 £713 £682
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 18 22
10th Percentile £15.36 £12.18 £17.53
25th Percentile £17.89 £16.42 £17.88
Median hourly rate £27.21 £29.50 £22.75
Median % change year-on-year -7.76% +29.67% +32.96%
75th Percentile £31.00 £34.31 £26.94
90th Percentile £50.00 £39.13 £41.48
England median hourly rate £23.83 £31.63 £44.50
% change year-on-year -24.68% -28.92% +71.15%

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 8 December 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 8 December 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 +18 35 £575 +248.48% 11
Coventry - 34 £309 - 12
Warwickshire -5 22 £573 -5.68% 4
Worcestershire - 6 £609 - 12
Shropshire -38 2 £400 -13.51% 5
Wolverhampton - 2 £488 - 4
Herefordshire - 1 £900 - 2
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 (7.27%) Confluence
2 1 (0.91%) OpenStack
Applications
1 10 (9.09%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 38 (34.55%) AWS
2 33 (30.00%) Azure
3 13 (11.82%) Datadog
4 12 (10.91%) SaaS
5 7 (6.36%) GitHub
6 5 (4.55%) GCP
6 5 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (3.64%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 4 (3.64%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (2.73%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.82%) AWS Direct Connect
9 2 (1.82%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.82%) PaaS
10 1 (0.91%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.91%) Amazon EventBridge
10 1 (0.91%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.91%) AWS KMS
10 1 (0.91%) Azure Stack
10 1 (0.91%) Nutanix
10 1 (0.91%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 40 (36.36%) DNS
2 24 (21.82%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 22 (20.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 17 (15.45%) Firewall
5 16 (14.55%) Network Security
6 15 (13.64%) DMZ
6 15 (13.64%) VSAN
7 11 (10.00%) BIG-IP
7 11 (10.00%) HTTP
7 11 (10.00%) SSL
7 11 (10.00%) Wireshark
8 10 (9.09%) TCP/IP
8 10 (9.09%) VPN
9 9 (8.18%) DHCP
10 8 (7.27%) LAN
10 8 (7.27%) WAN
11 7 (6.36%) Cisco ASA
11 7 (6.36%) FTP
11 7 (6.36%) Wireless
12 6 (5.45%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.64%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 8 (7.27%) Fiddler
2 2 (1.82%) GitLab
2 2 (1.82%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.91%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (0.91%) Git
3 1 (0.91%) Jaeger
General
1 30 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 24 (21.82%) Banking
3 22 (20.00%) Investment Banking
4 10 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
4 10 (9.09%) Finance
5 8 (7.27%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.73%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (2.73%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.82%) Legal
9 1 (0.91%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.91%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (26.36%) Analyst
2 26 (23.64%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 19 (17.27%) Architect
4 14 (12.73%) Operations Engineer
4 14 (12.73%) Storage Analyst
5 11 (10.00%) Network Engineer
6 8 (7.27%) Blue Coat Engineer
6 8 (7.27%) IP Network Engineer
6 8 (7.27%) Web Engineer
7 7 (6.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (3.64%) Network Architect
8 4 (3.64%) Storage Engineer
8 4 (3.64%) Systems Architect
9 3 (2.73%) Application Integration Engineer
9 3 (2.73%) Applications Engineer
9 3 (2.73%) Integration Engineer
9 3 (2.73%) Server Engineer
9 3 (2.73%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (2.73%) Support Engineer
9 3 (2.73%) VMware Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (10.91%) Flash
2 3 (2.73%) LDAP
2 3 (2.73%) SAML
3 1 (0.91%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 26 (23.64%) Linux Command Line
2 22 (20.00%) Management Information System
3 13 (11.82%) Replication
4 7 (6.36%) Data Centre
5 6 (5.45%) SCADA
6 3 (2.73%) Client/Server
6 3 (2.73%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.73%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.73%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.73%) PKI
7 2 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.82%) NHS
8 1 (0.91%) CCTV
8 1 (0.91%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.91%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.91%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.91%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 37 (33.64%) Linux
2 18 (16.36%) Windows
3 12 (10.91%) Windows Server
4 9 (8.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.82%) CatOS
5 2 (1.82%) VMS
5 2 (1.82%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.91%) SUSE
6 1 (0.91%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.91%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (29.09%) Agile
2 26 (23.64%) Load Balancing
3 17 (15.45%) Business Strategy
4 16 (14.55%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (12.73%) Design Patterns
6 10 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 9 (8.18%) Mentoring
8 8 (7.27%) Cybersecurity
8 8 (7.27%) Data Loss Prevention
8 8 (7.27%) Malware Detection/Protection
8 8 (7.27%) Ticket Management
8 8 (7.27%) Validation
9 7 (6.36%) DevOps
9 7 (6.36%) Infrastructure as Code
10 6 (5.45%) Configuration Management
10 6 (5.45%) ITIL
10 6 (5.45%) Migration
10 6 (5.45%) Network Virtualisation
10 6 (5.45%) Stakeholder Management
11 5 (4.55%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (9.09%) Python
2 8 (7.27%) PowerShell
3 5 (4.55%) Bash
4 3 (2.73%) VBScript
5 1 (0.91%) Go
5 1 (0.91%) SQL
5 1 (0.91%) VBA
Qualifications
1 26 (23.64%) Security Cleared
2 13 (11.82%) SC Cleared
3 10 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (8.18%) Degree
4 9 (8.18%) DV Cleared
5 5 (4.55%) AWS Certification
6 4 (3.64%) Azure Certification
6 4 (3.64%) CCNP
6 4 (3.64%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (2.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 3 (2.73%) CCIE
7 3 (2.73%) CCIE Security
7 3 (2.73%) CCSP
7 3 (2.73%) CISSP
8 2 (1.82%) JNCIE
8 2 (1.82%) JNCIP
8 2 (1.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.91%) CCNA
9 1 (0.91%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.64%) GDPR
1 4 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (3.64%) NIST
1 4 (3.64%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.82%) PMO
3 1 (0.91%) SLA
System Software
1 90 (81.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 34 (30.91%) vSphere
3 16 (14.55%) Active Directory
3 16 (14.55%) VMware ESXi
4 12 (10.91%) GPFS
4 12 (10.91%) NFS
4 12 (10.91%) VMware NSX
5 9 (8.18%) Hyper-V
6 8 (7.27%) Firmware
7 5 (4.55%) Dovecot
7 5 (4.55%) Postfix
8 3 (2.73%) Docker
9 1 (0.91%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (25.45%) vRealize
2 14 (12.73%) VxRail
3 13 (11.82%) Ansible
4 11 (10.00%) Terraform
5 3 (2.73%) FortiGate
5 3 (2.73%) Kubernetes
5 3 (2.73%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (1.82%) Grafana
6 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.82%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.82%) SCCM
6 2 (1.82%) SCOM
6 2 (1.82%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.91%) Nessus
7 1 (0.91%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.91%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 40 (36.36%) Cisco
2 29 (26.36%) F5
3 25 (22.73%) IBM
4 20 (18.18%) Broadcom
4 20 (18.18%) SolarWinds
5 15 (13.64%) Dell
6 14 (12.73%) Commvault
6 14 (12.73%) Microsoft
7 13 (11.82%) AppDynamics
7 13 (11.82%) ServiceNow
8 12 (10.91%) HP
8 12 (10.91%) Oracle
9 9 (8.18%) NetApp
10 8 (7.27%) Blue Coat
10 8 (7.27%) McAfee
11 7 (6.36%) Palo Alto
12 5 (4.55%) CheckPoint
12 5 (4.55%) Red Hat
13 4 (3.64%) Fortinet
13 4 (3.64%) Meraki