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 5 June 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
5 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 42 45
Rank change year-on-year -2 +3 +38
Contract jobs citing VMware 57 76 97
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 4.02% 3.92% 4.35%
As % of the Vendors category 8.21% 9.28% 9.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 61 55
10th Percentile £269 £250 £328
25th Percentile £403 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £550 £425
Median % change year-on-year -6.91% +29.41% +13.33%
75th Percentile £689 £630 £566
90th Percentile £700 £675 £724
England median daily rate £550 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +8.91% -3.81% +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 £57.50 £43.84 £59.90
% change year-on-year +31.16% -26.81% +110.84%

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 694 819 1,063
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 48.98% 42.28% 47.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 431 537 662
10th Percentile £200 £243 £207
25th Percentile £313 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £491
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -8.40% +3.42%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £517 £515 £530
% change year-on-year +0.39% -2.83% +0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 54 26
10th Percentile £13.78 £11.08 £12.91
25th Percentile £18.13 £13.25 £15.06
Median hourly rate £24.83 £16.82 £19.60
Median % change year-on-year +47.62% -14.19% +17.03%
75th Percentile £35.61 £28.31 £51.88
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.88 £81.75
England median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £37.00
% change year-on-year +20.56% -39.19% +72.09%

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 5 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware in the West Midlands

VMware
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 5 June 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 +24 23 £689 +88.77% 33
Warwickshire -15 20 £500 -19.35% 8
Solihull - 6 £375 -
Herefordshire - 3 £650 - 2
Coventry +1 2 £283 -29.38% 12
Worcestershire -2 1 £900 +63.64% 26
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 (3.51%) Confluence
2 1 (1.75%) IIS
2 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 6 (10.53%) Azure
2 5 (8.77%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (5.26%) AWS
4 2 (3.51%) Entra ID
4 2 (3.51%) Nutanix
4 2 (3.51%) PaaS
5 1 (1.75%) Azure Stack
5 1 (1.75%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (21.05%) SAN
2 6 (10.53%) Firewall
3 5 (8.77%) DNS
3 5 (8.77%) NAS
4 4 (7.02%) iSCSI
4 4 (7.02%) LAN
5 3 (5.26%) DHCP
6 2 (3.51%) HTTP
6 2 (3.51%) OpenLDAP
6 2 (3.51%) SSL
6 2 (3.51%) VLAN
7 1 (1.75%) NetScaler
7 1 (1.75%) SMTP
7 1 (1.75%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.02%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Git
1 2 (3.51%) Jenkins
1 2 (3.51%) JIRA
1 2 (3.51%) Maven
1 2 (3.51%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 16 (28.07%) Social Skills
2 5 (8.77%) Organisational Skills
3 4 (7.02%) Manufacturing
4 2 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.75%) Finance
5 1 (1.75%) Legal
5 1 (1.75%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (17.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (15.79%) Linux Engineer
3 6 (10.53%) Architect
4 5 (8.77%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (7.02%) Administrator
5 4 (7.02%) Storage Engineer
5 4 (7.02%) Support Engineer
5 4 (7.02%) Systems Administrator
5 4 (7.02%) Unix Administrator
5 4 (7.02%) Unix Systems Administrator
5 4 (7.02%) VMware Engineer
5 4 (7.02%) Windows Engineer
5 4 (7.02%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (5.26%) Deployment Engineer
7 2 (3.51%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 2 (3.51%) Linux Support
7 2 (3.51%) Linux Support Engineer
7 2 (3.51%) Unix Engineer
7 2 (3.51%) Unix Support
7 2 (3.51%) Unix Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.51%) LDAP
1 2 (3.51%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.77%) Data Centre
1 5 (8.77%) SCADA
2 3 (5.26%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.51%) Driving Licence
3 2 (3.51%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.75%) Clustering
4 1 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.75%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.75%) PKI
4 1 (1.75%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 21 (36.84%) Windows
2 14 (24.56%) Linux
3 9 (15.79%) Windows Server
4 6 (10.53%) AIX
4 6 (10.53%) Unix
5 4 (7.02%) VMS
5 4 (7.02%) Windows 10
6 3 (5.26%) Windows 7
6 3 (5.26%) Windows XP
7 2 (3.51%) CentOS
7 2 (3.51%) Debian
7 2 (3.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (3.51%) Ubuntu
8 1 (1.75%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (26.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (21.05%) Network Monitoring
2 12 (21.05%) Storage Management
3 10 (17.54%) ITSM
3 10 (17.54%) Service Management
4 9 (15.79%) ITIL
5 5 (8.77%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (8.77%) Performance Metrics
6 4 (7.02%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (7.02%) Storage Virtualisation
7 3 (5.26%) Agile
7 3 (5.26%) Break/Fix
7 3 (5.26%) Change Control
7 3 (5.26%) DevOps
7 3 (5.26%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (5.26%) Validation
8 2 (3.51%) Asset Management
8 2 (3.51%) Capacity Management
8 2 (3.51%) Migration
8 2 (3.51%) Patch Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (10.53%) PowerShell
2 4 (7.02%) Shell Script
3 2 (3.51%) Python
Qualifications
1 25 (43.86%) Security Cleared
2 18 (31.58%) SC Cleared
3 5 (8.77%) DV Cleared
4 4 (7.02%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (3.51%) RHCE
6 2 (3.51%) RHCSA
7 1 (1.75%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.75%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.02%) SLA
System Software
1 38 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (15.79%) Active Directory
3 8 (14.04%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (8.77%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (8.77%) vSphere
5 4 (7.02%) Hyper-V
5 4 (7.02%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (3.51%) Docker
6 2 (3.51%) Firmware
7 1 (1.75%) XenApp
7 1 (1.75%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 8 (14.04%) Ansible
1 8 (14.04%) Terraform
2 4 (7.02%) Tivoli
2 4 (7.02%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (3.51%) Nessus
3 2 (3.51%) Puppet
3 2 (3.51%) SCCM
3 2 (3.51%) SELinux
4 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Clustering
4 1 (1.75%) SolarWinds Orion
4 1 (1.75%) vCenter Server
4 1 (1.75%) WSUS
Vendors
1 11 (19.30%) Broadcom
2 9 (15.79%) Microsoft
3 6 (10.53%) Dell
3 6 (10.53%) SolarWinds
4 4 (7.02%) Cisco
4 4 (7.02%) Foundry
4 4 (7.02%) IBM
4 4 (7.02%) Oracle
5 3 (5.26%) Veeam
6 2 (3.51%) Red Hat
6 2 (3.51%) Sophos
7 1 (1.75%) Aruba
7 1 (1.75%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.75%) Citrix
7 1 (1.75%) EMC
7 1 (1.75%) HP
7 1 (1.75%) Meraki
7 1 (1.75%) ServiceNow