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 30 May 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
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 43 41
Rank change year-on-year -36 -2 +4
Contract jobs citing VMware 87 54 75
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 2.69% 3.87% 3.85%
As % of the Vendors category 6.00% 7.92% 9.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 33 60
10th Percentile £263 £267 £246
25th Percentile £325 £400 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £501 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.17% -8.91% +28.65%
75th Percentile £528 £689 £631
90th Percentile £565 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £509
% change year-on-year -4.55% +8.11% -3.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.43 £31.32 -
Median hourly rate £63.14 £36.65 £19.95
Median % change year-on-year +72.29% +83.68% -69.77%
75th Percentile £67.84 £41.97 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £63.14 £57.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +9.80% +24.51% -23.03%

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 1,449 682 818
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 44.85% 48.82% 42.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 978 434 537
10th Percentile £313 £190 £250
25th Percentile £400 £313 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.26% +5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £624
90th Percentile £645 £675 £700
England median daily rate £505 £520 £518
% change year-on-year -2.88% +0.48% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 26 55
10th Percentile £20.31 £14.45 £11.09
25th Percentile £25.00 £18.13 £13.25
Median hourly rate £33.99 £23.58 £16.82
Median % change year-on-year +44.15% +40.19% -9.08%
75th Percentile £53.75 £33.35 £27.86
90th Percentile £67.84 £45.99 £55.75
England median hourly rate £32.50 £26.75 £22.90
% change year-on-year +21.50% +16.82% -42.10%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 37 £525 -23.80% 4
Warwickshire -16 23 £450 -10.00% 2
Coventry -1 19 £290 +2.57% 1
Herefordshire -6 3 - - 1
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 4 (4.60%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.30%) Apache
2 2 (2.30%) CloudStack
2 2 (2.30%) IIS
2 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.15%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (9.20%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 23 (26.44%) AWS
2 19 (21.84%) Azure
3 8 (9.20%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (6.90%) GitHub
4 6 (6.90%) OpenShift
5 4 (4.60%) Entra ID
5 4 (4.60%) GCP
6 3 (3.45%) Datadog
6 3 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (2.30%) IaaS
8 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (1.15%) Nutanix
8 1 (1.15%) OneDrive
8 1 (1.15%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.15%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 39 (44.83%) DNS
2 29 (33.33%) SSL
3 27 (31.03%) BIG-IP
3 27 (31.03%) HTTP
4 26 (29.89%) Wireshark
5 19 (21.84%) TCP/IP
6 18 (20.69%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 18 (20.69%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 15 (17.24%) Firewall
8 12 (13.79%) HTTPS
9 10 (11.49%) VPN
10 9 (10.34%) Cisco ASA
10 9 (10.34%) Cisco Nexus
10 9 (10.34%) DHCP
10 9 (10.34%) IPsec
10 9 (10.34%) LAN
10 9 (10.34%) WAN
11 8 (9.20%) VSAN
11 8 (9.20%) Wireless
12 7 (8.05%) Ethereal
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.15%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (20.69%) Fiddler
2 3 (3.45%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.15%) MSI
General
1 20 (22.99%) Social Skills
2 18 (20.69%) Banking
2 18 (20.69%) Investment Banking
3 11 (12.64%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (10.34%) Finance
5 2 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.15%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.15%) Law
6 1 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.15%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 26 (29.89%) Network Engineer
2 18 (20.69%) Blue Coat Engineer
2 18 (20.69%) IP Network Engineer
2 18 (20.69%) Web Engineer
3 17 (19.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 15 (17.24%) Analyst
5 12 (13.79%) Storage Analyst
6 10 (11.49%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 7 (8.05%) Architect
8 4 (4.60%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (4.60%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (4.60%) Consultant
8 4 (4.60%) VMware Architect
9 3 (3.45%) Administrator
9 3 (3.45%) Lead
9 3 (3.45%) Senior
9 3 (3.45%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 3 (3.45%) Storage Engineer
9 3 (3.45%) VMware Consultant
10 2 (2.30%) Data Centre Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (13.79%) Flash
2 9 (10.34%) LDAP
2 9 (10.34%) SAML
3 3 (3.45%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (2.30%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 19 (21.84%) Management Information System
2 15 (17.24%) Linux Command Line
3 14 (16.09%) Replication
4 10 (11.49%) Data Centre
5 9 (10.34%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (3.45%) Cloud Native
6 3 (3.45%) Enterprise Storage
6 3 (3.45%) Public Cloud
6 3 (3.45%) SCADA
6 3 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.30%) Clustering
7 2 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.30%) Operational Technology
7 2 (2.30%) PKI
8 1 (1.15%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 25 (28.74%) Linux
2 23 (26.44%) Windows
3 19 (21.84%) Windows Server
4 4 (4.60%) CatOS
5 3 (3.45%) Unix
5 3 (3.45%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (3.45%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (2.30%) Apple iOS
6 2 (2.30%) Mac OS
6 2 (2.30%) Ubuntu
6 2 (2.30%) Windows 10
6 2 (2.30%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.15%) AIX
7 1 (1.15%) VMS
7 1 (1.15%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (24.14%) Load Balancing
2 19 (21.84%) Agile
3 18 (20.69%) Data Loss Prevention
3 18 (20.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 18 (20.69%) Malware Detection/Protection
4 17 (19.54%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (18.39%) High Availability
6 14 (16.09%) Migration
7 12 (13.79%) Performance Tuning
8 10 (11.49%) Disaster Recovery
8 10 (11.49%) ITIL
8 10 (11.49%) Ticket Management
9 9 (10.34%) Service Management
10 8 (9.20%) Cybersecurity
10 8 (9.20%) Infrastructure as Code
11 7 (8.05%) Containerisation
11 7 (8.05%) Data Centre Operations
11 7 (8.05%) Infrastructure Automation
11 7 (8.05%) Problem Management
12 6 (6.90%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (10.34%) PowerShell
2 8 (9.20%) Python
3 7 (8.05%) Bash
4 5 (5.75%) SQL
5 3 (3.45%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.15%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 17 (19.54%) Security Cleared
2 16 (18.39%) SC Cleared
3 10 (11.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 8 (9.20%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (6.90%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (4.60%) MCSE
6 4 (4.60%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (3.45%) CCNA
7 3 (3.45%) Degree
7 3 (3.45%) DV Cleared
7 3 (3.45%) RHCA
8 2 (2.30%) AWS Certification
8 2 (2.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (2.30%) Azure Certification
8 2 (2.30%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.15%) QA
System Software
1 74 (85.06%) VMware Infrastructure
2 37 (42.53%) vSphere
3 26 (29.89%) Active Directory
3 26 (29.89%) VMware ESXi
4 19 (21.84%) Firmware
5 15 (17.24%) VMware NSX
6 12 (13.79%) GPFS
6 12 (13.79%) NFS
7 11 (12.64%) Hyper-V
8 6 (6.90%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (3.45%) Docker
10 2 (2.30%) BitLocker
10 2 (2.30%) KVM
10 2 (2.30%) XenApp
10 2 (2.30%) XenDesktop
11 1 (1.15%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (1.15%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (1.15%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 17 (19.54%) vRealize
2 12 (13.79%) Ansible
2 12 (13.79%) Kubernetes
3 9 (10.34%) Single Sign-On
4 8 (9.20%) VxRail
5 7 (8.05%) Terraform
5 7 (8.05%) vCenter Server
6 6 (6.90%) PowerCLI
7 5 (5.75%) Grafana
8 4 (4.60%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (4.60%) SCCM
8 4 (4.60%) vMotion
9 3 (3.45%) Argo
9 3 (3.45%) Podman
10 2 (2.30%) AirWatch
10 2 (2.30%) Check_MK
10 2 (2.30%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (2.30%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (2.30%) SCOM
10 2 (2.30%) WSUS
Vendors
1 35 (40.23%) Cisco
2 27 (31.03%) F5
3 26 (29.89%) Microsoft
4 19 (21.84%) NetApp
5 18 (20.69%) Blue Coat
5 18 (20.69%) McAfee
6 16 (18.39%) IBM
7 15 (17.24%) Oracle
8 14 (16.09%) ServiceNow
9 11 (12.64%) CheckPoint
10 9 (10.34%) Palo Alto
11 8 (9.20%) SolarWinds
12 6 (6.90%) Veeam
13 5 (5.75%) Commvault
14 4 (4.60%) 3PAR
14 4 (4.60%) Citrix
14 4 (4.60%) Dell
14 4 (4.60%) Nimble Storage
14 4 (4.60%) Red Hat
15 3 (3.45%) AppDynamics