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 September 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 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 34 30
Rank change year-on-year -29 -4 +49
Contract jobs citing VMware 60 85 135
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.31% 4.46% 6.39%
As % of the Vendors category 6.67% 9.64% 12.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 59 91
10th Percentile £349 £300 £300
25th Percentile £416 £425 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £557 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% +23.78% +12.50%
75th Percentile £591 £627 £594
90th Percentile £645 £661 £725
England median daily rate £550 £515 £500
% change year-on-year +6.80% +3.00% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £37.50 -
25th Percentile - £41.25 £17.75
Median hourly rate - £47.50 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year - +156.76% +21.31%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £19.25
90th Percentile - £57.50 -
England median hourly rate £33.39 £43.08 £63.00
% change year-on-year -22.51% -31.62% +36.45%

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 899 882 1,059
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 49.67% 46.32% 50.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 592 589 665
10th Percentile £235 £250 £213
25th Percentile £379 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -4.04%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £600
90th Percentile £638 £713 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 13 18
10th Percentile £14.59 £14.40 £17.35
25th Percentile £28.11 £15.22 £17.88
Median hourly rate £30.00 £31.50 £22.75
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +38.46% +37.88%
75th Percentile £46.63 £48.75 £32.88
90th Percentile £50.00 £59.00 £45.70
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -17.65% +77.75%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing VMware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for VMware 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 September 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 September 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
Warwickshire -19 22 £573 -3.98% 2
Birmingham +10 17 £450 -3.23% 4
Coventry +3 7 £275 +29.41% 3
Worcestershire +2 7 £617 +12.18%
Herefordshire - 2 £900 -
Wolverhampton - 2 £488 - 2
Solihull -5 1 £375 -16.48% 1
VMware
England

VMware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.67%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 14 (23.33%) Azure
2 12 (20.00%) SaaS
3 8 (13.33%) AWS
4 7 (11.67%) GitHub
5 4 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (5.00%) PaaS
7 2 (3.33%) Azure Stack
7 2 (3.33%) Entra ID
7 2 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (3.33%) IaaS
8 1 (1.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.67%) Amazon EventBridge
8 1 (1.67%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.67%) AWS CloudTrail
8 1 (1.67%) AWS KMS
8 1 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.67%) Nutanix
8 1 (1.67%) Route 53
8 1 (1.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 16 (26.67%) DNS
2 7 (11.67%) FTP
2 7 (11.67%) Network Security
3 6 (10.00%) DMZ
3 6 (10.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 6 (10.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 5 (8.33%) DKIM
4 5 (8.33%) DMARC
4 5 (8.33%) Firewall
4 5 (8.33%) Internet
4 5 (8.33%) SMTP
5 3 (5.00%) DHCP
6 2 (3.33%) NAS
6 2 (3.33%) SAN
6 2 (3.33%) TCP/IP
6 2 (3.33%) VLAN
6 2 (3.33%) VoIP
7 1 (1.67%) IP Telephony
7 1 (1.67%) iSCSI
7 1 (1.67%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (3.33%) GitLab
1 2 (3.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (1.67%) Git
2 1 (1.67%) Jaeger
General
1 29 (48.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (11.67%) Banking
2 7 (11.67%) Documentation Skills
3 6 (10.00%) Investment Banking
4 2 (3.33%) Finance
5 1 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.67%) Legal
5 1 (1.67%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (25.00%) Architect
2 8 (13.33%) VMware Engineer
3 6 (10.00%) Operations Engineer
4 4 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (6.67%) Server Engineer
4 4 (6.67%) Storage Engineer
4 4 (6.67%) Systems Architect
5 3 (5.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 3 (5.00%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
5 3 (5.00%) Application Integration Engineer
5 3 (5.00%) Applications Engineer
5 3 (5.00%) Deployment Engineer
5 3 (5.00%) Integration Engineer
6 2 (3.33%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
6 2 (3.33%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
6 2 (3.33%) 3rd Line Server Support
6 2 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (3.33%) Lead
6 2 (3.33%) Service Architect
6 2 (3.33%) Windows Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.67%) Flash
2 1 (1.67%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 5 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
2 5 (8.33%) Replication
3 4 (6.67%) SCADA
4 3 (5.00%) Client/Server
4 3 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (5.00%) PKI
5 2 (3.33%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.33%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.67%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.67%) Educational Technology
6 1 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.67%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.67%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 21 (35.00%) Windows
2 15 (25.00%) Linux
3 10 (16.67%) Windows Server
4 9 (15.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (5.00%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.67%) SUSE
6 1 (1.67%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.67%) Unix
6 1 (1.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (18.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (16.67%) Validation
3 8 (13.33%) Agile
3 8 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (10.00%) Business Strategy
4 6 (10.00%) Configuration Management
4 6 (10.00%) Design Patterns
4 6 (10.00%) DevOps
4 6 (10.00%) Load Balancing
5 4 (6.67%) Reverse Engineering
5 4 (6.67%) Scrum
6 3 (5.00%) Application Packaging
6 3 (5.00%) Migration
6 3 (5.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (5.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 2 (3.33%) Change Management
7 2 (3.33%) CI/CD
7 2 (3.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 2 (3.33%) SIEM
7 2 (3.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (11.67%) PowerShell
2 5 (8.33%) Python
3 3 (5.00%) VBScript
4 2 (3.33%) Bash
5 1 (1.67%) Go
5 1 (1.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (38.33%) Security Cleared
2 15 (25.00%) DV Cleared
3 10 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 4 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.67%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.67%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
5 1 (1.67%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.67%) CCNA
5 1 (1.67%) CCNP
5 1 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.67%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.67%) Degree
5 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.67%) PMO
1 1 (1.67%) SLA
System Software
1 40 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (30.00%) Active Directory
3 12 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
4 11 (18.33%) vSphere
5 7 (11.67%) Hyper-V
6 5 (8.33%) Dovecot
6 5 (8.33%) Postfix
6 5 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (6.67%) GPFS
7 4 (6.67%) NFS
8 2 (3.33%) Docker
9 1 (1.67%) Firmware
9 1 (1.67%) Terminal Services
9 1 (1.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (11.67%) Terraform
2 6 (10.00%) Ansible
3 4 (6.67%) SCCM
3 4 (6.67%) vRealize
4 2 (3.33%) Grafana
4 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (3.33%) Prometheus
4 2 (3.33%) SCOM
5 1 (1.67%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.67%) Nessus
5 1 (1.67%) PowerCLI
5 1 (1.67%) SolarWinds Orion
5 1 (1.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 21 (35.00%) Broadcom
2 8 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 7 (11.67%) Cisco
4 6 (10.00%) F5
5 5 (8.33%) Red Hat
5 5 (8.33%) ServiceNow
5 5 (8.33%) Veeam
6 4 (6.67%) IBM
6 4 (6.67%) Oracle
7 2 (3.33%) ArcSight
7 2 (3.33%) CheckPoint
7 2 (3.33%) Dell
8 1 (1.67%) Citrix
8 1 (1.67%) HP
8 1 (1.67%) NetApp
8 1 (1.67%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.67%) Splunk