VMware Contracts 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 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 63 47
Rank change year-on-year +17 -16 +31
Contract jobs citing VMware 52 48 106
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.87% 2.47% 4.45%
As % of the Vendors category 8.28% 5.71% 9.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 40 67
10th Percentile £225 £200 £345
25th Percentile £375 £338 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £463 £465
Median % change year-on-year +8.32% -0.54% +24.00%
75th Percentile £675 £575 £553
90th Percentile £700 £825 £713
England median daily rate £550 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £31.32 - -
Median hourly rate £36.65 £19.95 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +83.68% -69.77% +300.00%
75th Percentile £41.97 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £72.50 £46.18 £63.00
% change year-on-year +56.99% -26.70% +76.84%

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 628 841 1,169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 46.69% 43.19% 49.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 410 538 735
10th Percentile £185 £250 £213
25th Percentile £320 £350 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.33% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £688
England median daily rate £525 £518 £538
% change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 53 29
10th Percentile £12.25 £11.07 £13.15
25th Percentile £14.86 £13.25 £15.10
Median hourly rate £18.51 £19.95 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.22% +7.84% +7.06%
75th Percentile £29.25 £28.75 £52.50
90th Percentile £31.43 £55.00 £72.30
England median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
% change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for VMware in the West Midlands

VMware
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for VMware in the West Midlands

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 1 May 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 +10 21 £501 -13.89% 3
Birmingham +22 19 £689 +62.12% 14
Solihull - 6 £375 - 2
Coventry +6 2 £283 -29.38% 2
Herefordshire - 2 £400 - 4
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 2 (3.85%) Confluence
2 1 (1.92%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 5 (9.62%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (7.69%) Azure
3 3 (5.77%) AWS
4 2 (3.85%) Nutanix
5 1 (1.92%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 11 (21.15%) SAN
2 6 (11.54%) Firewall
3 4 (7.69%) iSCSI
3 4 (7.69%) LAN
3 4 (7.69%) NAS
4 3 (5.77%) DNS
5 2 (3.85%) DHCP
5 2 (3.85%) HTTP
5 2 (3.85%) OpenLDAP
5 2 (3.85%) SSL
5 2 (3.85%) VLAN
6 1 (1.92%) 4G
6 1 (1.92%) NetScaler
6 1 (1.92%) NX-OS
6 1 (1.92%) SMTP
6 1 (1.92%) VPN
6 1 (1.92%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.69%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Git
1 2 (3.85%) Jenkins
1 2 (3.85%) JIRA
1 2 (3.85%) Maven
1 2 (3.85%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (19.23%) Social Skills
2 5 (9.62%) Organisational Skills
3 4 (7.69%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.92%) Finance
4 1 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (1.92%) Legal
4 1 (1.92%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (17.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 9 (17.31%) Linux Engineer
2 6 (11.54%) Architect
3 5 (9.62%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (7.69%) Administrator
4 4 (7.69%) Storage Engineer
4 4 (7.69%) Support Engineer
4 4 (7.69%) Systems Administrator
4 4 (7.69%) Unix Administrator
4 4 (7.69%) Unix Systems Administrator
4 4 (7.69%) Windows Engineer
4 4 (7.69%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (5.77%) Deployment Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) Linux Support
6 2 (3.85%) Linux Support Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) Unix Engineer
6 2 (3.85%) Unix Support
6 2 (3.85%) Unix Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.85%) LDAP
1 2 (3.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.54%) Data Centre
2 5 (9.62%) SCADA
3 3 (5.77%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.85%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.92%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.92%) Clustering
5 1 (1.92%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.92%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.92%) PKI
5 1 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 18 (34.62%) Windows
2 14 (26.92%) Linux
3 7 (13.46%) Windows Server
4 6 (11.54%) AIX
4 6 (11.54%) Unix
5 4 (7.69%) VMS
6 3 (5.77%) Windows 10
6 3 (5.77%) Windows 7
6 3 (5.77%) Windows XP
7 2 (3.85%) CentOS
7 2 (3.85%) Debian
7 2 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (3.85%) Ubuntu
8 1 (1.92%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (23.08%) Network Monitoring
1 12 (23.08%) Storage Management
2 11 (21.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 10 (19.23%) ITSM
3 10 (19.23%) Service Management
4 9 (17.31%) ITIL
5 5 (9.62%) Performance Metrics
5 5 (9.62%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (7.69%) Storage Virtualisation
7 3 (5.77%) Agile
7 3 (5.77%) Asset Management
7 3 (5.77%) Break/Fix
7 3 (5.77%) Change Control
7 3 (5.77%) DevOps
7 3 (5.77%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (3.85%) Capacity Management
8 2 (3.85%) Migration
8 2 (3.85%) Patch Management
8 2 (3.85%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (9.62%) PowerShell
2 4 (7.69%) Shell Script
3 2 (3.85%) Python
Qualifications
1 21 (40.38%) Security Cleared
2 17 (32.69%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (3.85%) RHCE
4 2 (3.85%) RHCSA
5 1 (1.92%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.92%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.62%) SLA
System Software
1 38 (73.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (15.38%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (11.54%) Active Directory
4 4 (7.69%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (3.85%) Docker
5 2 (3.85%) Hyper-V
5 2 (3.85%) vSphere
6 1 (1.92%) Firmware
6 1 (1.92%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.92%) VMware NSX
6 1 (1.92%) XenApp
6 1 (1.92%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 8 (15.38%) Ansible
1 8 (15.38%) Terraform
2 4 (7.69%) Tivoli
2 4 (7.69%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 3 (5.77%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (3.85%) Nessus
4 2 (3.85%) Puppet
4 2 (3.85%) SELinux
5 1 (1.92%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (1.92%) SCCM
5 1 (1.92%) SolarWinds Orion
5 1 (1.92%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.92%) WSUS
Vendors
1 12 (23.08%) Broadcom
2 8 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 6 (11.54%) Dell
3 6 (11.54%) SolarWinds
4 5 (9.62%) Cisco
5 4 (7.69%) Foundry
5 4 (7.69%) IBM
5 4 (7.69%) Oracle
6 3 (5.77%) Veeam
7 2 (3.85%) Red Hat
7 2 (3.85%) Sophos
8 1 (1.92%) Aruba
8 1 (1.92%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.92%) Citrix
8 1 (1.92%) EMC
8 1 (1.92%) HP
8 1 (1.92%) Meraki
8 1 (1.92%) ServiceNow