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 5 October 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
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 60 36
Rank change year-on-year -20 -24 -9
Contract jobs citing VMware 95 61 86
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 2.68% 3.30% 4.53%
As % of the Vendors category 6.17% 6.30% 9.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 31 58
10th Percentile £308 £400 £300
25th Percentile £413 £547 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £581 £573
Median % change year-on-year -18.42% +1.48% +27.22%
75th Percentile £537 £625 £628
90th Percentile £565 £651 £660
England median daily rate £527 £550 £519
% change year-on-year -4.18% +6.02% +3.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.43 - -
Median hourly rate £63.14 - £35.00
75th Percentile £67.84 - £47.50
90th Percentile - - £55.00
England median hourly rate £68.75 £34.00 £40.58
% change year-on-year +102.21% -16.22% -38.49%

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 1,540 968 904
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 43.42% 52.41% 47.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,000 621 588
10th Percentile £313 £244 £213
25th Percentile £402 £386 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.20% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £584 £613
90th Percentile £675 £650 £713
England median daily rate £515 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +1.48% -3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 35 14
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.34 £14.48
25th Percentile £17.48 £19.13 £17.32
Median hourly rate £20.62 £30.00 £28.81
Median % change year-on-year -31.28% +4.12% +25.27%
75th Percentile £33.99 £36.25 £42.88
90th Percentile £53.75 £50.00 £56.63
England median hourly rate £26.00 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +3.38% -28.14% -20.16%

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 5 October 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 5 October 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 +8 43 £481 -8.33% 17
Warwickshire -2 32 £462 -19.90% 9
Staffordshire - 7 £340 - 5
Herefordshire +5 5 - - 1
Coventry -25 2 £263 -4.48% 1
Shropshire - 2 £525 - 4
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 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.11%) Apache
2 2 (2.11%) CloudStack
2 2 (2.11%) IIS
2 2 (2.11%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.11%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 1 (1.05%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 27 (28.42%) Azure
2 26 (27.37%) AWS
3 14 (14.74%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (11.58%) Entra ID
5 7 (7.37%) GCP
5 7 (7.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 6 (6.32%) GitHub
7 4 (4.21%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (4.21%) Amazon S3
7 4 (4.21%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (2.11%) Amazon SQS
8 2 (2.11%) IaaS
8 2 (2.11%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 39 (41.05%) DNS
2 18 (18.95%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 18 (18.95%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 17 (17.89%) DHCP
4 15 (15.79%) SSL
5 14 (14.74%) BIG-IP
5 14 (14.74%) HTTP
5 14 (14.74%) TCP/IP
5 14 (14.74%) Wireshark
6 13 (13.68%) Firewall
7 9 (9.47%) Network Security
8 8 (8.42%) VSAN
9 7 (7.37%) DMZ
10 6 (6.32%) LAN
10 6 (6.32%) SAN
10 6 (6.32%) WAN
11 5 (5.26%) BGP
11 5 (5.26%) Ethernet VPN
12 4 (4.21%) NetScaler
12 4 (4.21%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.26%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.21%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 11 (11.58%) Fiddler
2 3 (3.16%) Git
2 3 (3.16%) GitLab
General
1 17 (17.89%) Social Skills
2 11 (11.58%) Banking
2 11 (11.58%) Investment Banking
3 10 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (5.26%) Telecoms
5 3 (3.16%) Finance
6 1 (1.05%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.05%) Law
Job Titles
1 30 (31.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 17 (17.89%) Architect
3 14 (14.74%) Network Engineer
4 11 (11.58%) Blue Coat Engineer
4 11 (11.58%) IP Network Engineer
4 11 (11.58%) VMware Engineer
4 11 (11.58%) Web Engineer
5 6 (6.32%) Cloud Engineer
5 6 (6.32%) Infrastructure Architect
6 5 (5.26%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (5.26%) Consultant
6 5 (5.26%) Platform Engineer
6 5 (5.26%) VMware Consultant
6 5 (5.26%) Windows Engineer
6 5 (5.26%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (4.21%) Azure Engineer
7 4 (4.21%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (4.21%) Senior
7 4 (4.21%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (3.16%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (15.79%) Terraform
2 4 (4.21%) Flash
3 3 (3.16%) JSON
3 3 (3.16%) LDAP
3 3 (3.16%) REST
3 3 (3.16%) SAML
3 3 (3.16%) YAML
4 2 (2.11%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.05%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 18 (18.95%) Management Information System
2 15 (15.79%) Data Centre
3 11 (11.58%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (6.32%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (5.26%) Enterprise Storage
5 5 (5.26%) PKI
5 5 (5.26%) Replication
6 3 (3.16%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (3.16%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (3.16%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.11%) Clustering
7 2 (2.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 2 (2.11%) Private Cloud
7 2 (2.11%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.05%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.05%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 45 (47.37%) Windows
2 31 (32.63%) Windows Server
3 25 (26.32%) Linux
4 6 (6.32%) AIX
5 5 (5.26%) Ubuntu
6 3 (3.16%) CentOS
6 3 (3.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (3.16%) Unix
6 3 (3.16%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (3.16%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (2.11%) Solaris
7 2 (2.11%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 2 (2.11%) VMS
7 2 (2.11%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (1.05%) CatOS
8 1 (1.05%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (36.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 31 (32.63%) Migration
3 24 (25.26%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (23.16%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (21.05%) Load Balancing
6 16 (16.84%) Root Cause Analysis
7 13 (13.68%) Technical Leadership
8 11 (11.58%) Data Loss Prevention
8 11 (11.58%) ITIL
8 11 (11.58%) Malware Detection/Protection
9 10 (10.53%) High Availability
9 10 (10.53%) Performance Tuning
10 9 (9.47%) Service Management
11 8 (8.42%) Capacity Planning
11 8 (8.42%) CI/CD
11 8 (8.42%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (8.42%) Infrastructure Automation
11 8 (8.42%) Observability
11 8 (8.42%) Stakeholder Management
12 7 (7.37%) Cost Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (6.32%) PowerShell
1 6 (6.32%) Python
2 3 (3.16%) Bash
2 3 (3.16%) SQL
Qualifications
1 25 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 20 (21.05%) SC Cleared
3 9 (9.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 8 (8.42%) Azure Certification
5 6 (6.32%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (6.32%) DV Cleared
6 4 (4.21%) AWS Certification
7 3 (3.16%) CCNA
7 3 (3.16%) MCSE
7 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (3.16%) RHCA
8 2 (2.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (2.11%) CCNP
9 1 (1.05%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.16%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (3.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.05%) NIST
2 1 (1.05%) NIST 800
2 1 (1.05%) QA
System Software
1 69 (72.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 34 (35.79%) vSphere
3 28 (29.47%) VMware ESXi
4 26 (27.37%) Active Directory
5 20 (21.05%) VMware NSX
6 17 (17.89%) Hyper-V
7 11 (11.58%) Firmware
8 7 (7.37%) Docker
9 4 (4.21%) GPFS
9 4 (4.21%) NFS
10 3 (3.16%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (2.11%) XenApp
11 2 (2.11%) XenDesktop
12 1 (1.05%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (1.05%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 11 (11.58%) Ansible
2 10 (10.53%) Kubernetes
3 8 (8.42%) SCCM
4 7 (7.37%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (6.32%) PowerCLI
6 5 (5.26%) vCenter Server
6 5 (5.26%) vMotion
7 4 (4.21%) vRealize
8 3 (3.16%) Podman
8 3 (3.16%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (3.16%) VxRail
9 2 (2.11%) Check_MK
9 2 (2.11%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (2.11%) Grafana
9 2 (2.11%) NetBackup
9 2 (2.11%) Prometheus
9 2 (2.11%) WSUS
Vendors
1 30 (31.58%) Microsoft
2 24 (25.26%) Cisco
3 22 (23.16%) F5
4 17 (17.89%) NetApp
5 11 (11.58%) Blue Coat
5 11 (11.58%) McAfee
6 8 (8.42%) ServiceNow
6 8 (8.42%) Veeam
7 6 (6.32%) Red Hat
8 5 (5.26%) Palo Alto
9 4 (4.21%) 3PAR
9 4 (4.21%) CheckPoint
9 4 (4.21%) Fortinet
9 4 (4.21%) IBM
9 4 (4.21%) Nimble Storage
9 4 (4.21%) Oracle
10 3 (3.16%) Atlassian
10 3 (3.16%) Citrix
10 3 (3.16%) Infoblox
11 2 (2.11%) EMC