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 14 November 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
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 35 23
Rank change year-on-year -20 -12 +36
Contract jobs citing VMware 93 85 132
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 4.43% 4.45% 6.86%
As % of the Vendors category 8.20% 9.24% 13.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 56 97
10th Percentile £290 £374 £300
25th Percentile £323 £442 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £573 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.84% +27.22% +12.50%
75th Percentile £586 £627 £575
90th Percentile £633 £660 £725
England median daily rate £529 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +0.81% +5.00% -
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 £34.00 £50.00 £65.98
% change year-on-year -32.00% -24.22% +4.35%

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 1,134 920 984
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 54.03% 48.22% 51.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 737 604 638
10th Percentile £263 £233 £220
25th Percentile £400 £380 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £465
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% +7.53% -6.06%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £588
90th Percentile £653 £713 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 18 20
10th Percentile £16.13 £14.15 £17.50
25th Percentile £20.44 £23.70 £17.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £30.23 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.74% +31.41% +41.67%
75th Percentile £38.94 £35.00 £29.63
90th Percentile £50.00 £52.13 £43.53
England median hourly rate £25.00 £33.75 £44.50
% change year-on-year -25.93% -24.16% +73.08%

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 14 November 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 14 November 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 +22 32 £575 +215.07% 7
Coventry +9 22 £310 +45.88% 8
Warwickshire -24 21 £573 -5.68% 8
Worcestershire - 7 £617 - 3
Shropshire -35 2 £400 -13.51% 1
Wolverhampton - 2 £488 -
Herefordshire - 2 £900 - 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 6 (6.45%) Confluence
2 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.08%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (5.38%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 29 (31.18%) AWS
2 28 (30.11%) Azure
3 12 (12.90%) SaaS
4 9 (9.68%) Datadog
5 7 (7.53%) GitHub
6 5 (5.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (4.30%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 4 (4.30%) GCP
8 3 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (3.23%) PaaS
9 2 (2.15%) AWS Direct Connect
9 2 (2.15%) Azure Stack
9 2 (2.15%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (2.15%) IaaS
10 1 (1.08%) Amazon EventBridge
10 1 (1.08%) AWS KMS
10 1 (1.08%) Nutanix
10 1 (1.08%) Route 53
10 1 (1.08%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 35 (37.63%) DNS
2 21 (22.58%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 19 (20.43%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 15 (16.13%) Network Security
5 14 (15.05%) DMZ
6 11 (11.83%) Firewall
6 11 (11.83%) VSAN
7 9 (9.68%) DHCP
8 8 (8.60%) TCP/IP
9 7 (7.53%) FTP
9 7 (7.53%) VPN
10 6 (6.45%) BIG-IP
10 6 (6.45%) HTTP
10 6 (6.45%) SSL
10 6 (6.45%) VLAN
10 6 (6.45%) Wireshark
11 5 (5.38%) Internet
11 5 (5.38%) LAN
11 5 (5.38%) SMTP
11 5 (5.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.30%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 6 (6.45%) Fiddler
2 2 (2.15%) GitLab
2 2 (2.15%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (1.08%) Git
3 1 (1.08%) Jaeger
General
1 31 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 21 (22.58%) Banking
3 19 (20.43%) Investment Banking
4 9 (9.68%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (7.53%) Finance
6 5 (5.38%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.30%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.15%) Legal
10 1 (1.08%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (20.43%) Architect
2 18 (19.35%) Analyst
3 15 (16.13%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 13 (13.98%) Operations Engineer
5 9 (9.68%) Storage Analyst
6 6 (6.45%) Blue Coat Engineer
6 6 (6.45%) IP Network Engineer
6 6 (6.45%) Network Engineer
6 6 (6.45%) VMware Engineer
6 6 (6.45%) Web Engineer
7 5 (5.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (4.30%) Network Architect
8 4 (4.30%) Storage Engineer
8 4 (4.30%) Systems Architect
9 3 (3.23%) Application Integration Engineer
9 3 (3.23%) Integration Engineer
9 3 (3.23%) Server Engineer
9 3 (3.23%) Solutions Architect
9 3 (3.23%) Support Engineer
9 3 (3.23%) VMware Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.68%) Flash
2 1 (1.08%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 19 (20.43%) Linux Command Line
1 19 (20.43%) Management Information System
2 10 (10.75%) Replication
3 4 (4.30%) Data Centre
3 4 (4.30%) Onboarding
3 4 (4.30%) SCADA
4 3 (3.23%) Client/Server
4 3 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (3.23%) PKI
5 2 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.15%) NHS
5 2 (2.15%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.08%) CCTV
6 1 (1.08%) Educational Technology
6 1 (1.08%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.08%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 30 (32.26%) Linux
2 18 (19.35%) Windows
3 11 (11.83%) Windows Server
4 9 (9.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.15%) VMS
5 2 (2.15%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.08%) SUSE
6 1 (1.08%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (25.81%) Agile
2 23 (24.73%) Load Balancing
3 16 (17.20%) Business Strategy
4 13 (13.98%) Design Patterns
5 11 (11.83%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (9.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 9 (9.68%) Validation
7 8 (8.60%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (8.60%) Mentoring
8 6 (6.45%) Configuration Management
8 6 (6.45%) Data Loss Prevention
8 6 (6.45%) DevOps
8 6 (6.45%) ITIL
8 6 (6.45%) Malware Detection/Protection
8 6 (6.45%) Migration
8 6 (6.45%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (5.38%) Scrum
9 5 (5.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 5 (5.38%) Ticket Management
10 4 (4.30%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (9.68%) Python
2 8 (8.60%) PowerShell
3 4 (4.30%) Bash
4 3 (3.23%) VBScript
5 1 (1.08%) Go
5 1 (1.08%) SQL
5 1 (1.08%) VBA
Qualifications
1 26 (27.96%) Security Cleared
2 14 (15.05%) DV Cleared
3 11 (11.83%) SC Cleared
4 6 (6.45%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (6.45%) Degree
5 4 (4.30%) AWS Certification
5 4 (4.30%) CCNP
5 4 (4.30%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (3.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 3 (3.23%) Azure Certification
6 3 (3.23%) CCIE
6 3 (3.23%) CCIE Security
6 3 (3.23%) CCSP
6 3 (3.23%) CISSP
7 2 (2.15%) JNCIE
7 2 (2.15%) JNCIP
7 2 (2.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (1.08%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
8 1 (1.08%) CCNA
8 1 (1.08%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.30%) GDPR
1 4 (4.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (4.30%) NIST
1 4 (4.30%) PCI DSS
2 2 (2.15%) PMO
3 1 (1.08%) SLA
System Software
1 71 (76.34%) VMware Infrastructure
2 27 (29.03%) vSphere
3 16 (17.20%) VMware ESXi
4 13 (13.98%) Active Directory
5 9 (9.68%) GPFS
5 9 (9.68%) NFS
6 8 (8.60%) Hyper-V
7 6 (6.45%) Firmware
7 6 (6.45%) VMware NSX
8 5 (5.38%) Dovecot
8 5 (5.38%) Postfix
9 2 (2.15%) Docker
10 1 (1.08%) Terminal Services
10 1 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (21.51%) vRealize
2 12 (12.90%) Ansible
3 11 (11.83%) Terraform
4 10 (10.75%) VxRail
5 2 (2.15%) Grafana
5 2 (2.15%) Kubernetes
5 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (2.15%) Prometheus
5 2 (2.15%) SCCM
5 2 (2.15%) SCOM
5 2 (2.15%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.08%) Nessus
6 1 (1.08%) PowerCLI
6 1 (1.08%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 27 (29.03%) Cisco
2 23 (24.73%) F5
3 18 (19.35%) IBM
4 17 (18.28%) Broadcom
5 14 (15.05%) SolarWinds
6 12 (12.90%) Dell
7 10 (10.75%) ServiceNow
8 9 (9.68%) AppDynamics
8 9 (9.68%) Commvault
8 9 (9.68%) Microsoft
8 9 (9.68%) Oracle
9 8 (8.60%) HP
10 7 (7.53%) NetApp
11 6 (6.45%) Blue Coat
11 6 (6.45%) McAfee
12 5 (5.38%) Red Hat
13 4 (4.30%) Fortinet
13 4 (4.30%) Meraki
13 4 (4.30%) Palo Alto
14 2 (2.15%) Veeam