VMware Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 7 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
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 101 68
Rank change year-on-year +4 -33 +31
Contract jobs citing VMware 254 330 867
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.58% 2.17% 3.40%
As % of the Vendors category 5.63% 5.13% 7.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 220 601
10th Percentile £363 £300 £334
25th Percentile £419 £400 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% +13.79%
75th Percentile £600 £564 £600
90th Percentile £675 £646 £676
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 50
10th Percentile £65.63 £37.63 £47.50
25th Percentile £66.56 £42.01 £61.63
Median hourly rate £68.75 £50.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -24.24% +8.34%
75th Percentile £71.56 £63.00 £79.69
90th Percentile £72.88 £73.80 £85.25
UK median hourly rate £72.50 £46.39 £65.00
% change year-on-year +56.28% -28.63% +37.30%

All Vendors
Work from Home

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 with a remote or hybrid options requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 4,511 6,435 10,967
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 45.74% 42.27% 42.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,944 4,009 7,366
10th Percentile £325 £325 £328
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -0.43% -1.48% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 219 258
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.85 £17.50
25th Percentile £20.58 £16.67 £31.04
Median hourly rate £53.50 £32.12 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +66.59% -40.53% +54.29%
75th Percentile £68.00 £58.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £86.00 £70.00 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £22.08 £42.50
% change year-on-year +19.82% -48.06% +98.60%

VMware
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing VMware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

VMware trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing VMware.

VMware daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing VMware over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

VMware daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing VMware.

VMware hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 25 (9.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (7.09%) SharePoint
3 16 (6.30%) Confluence
4 5 (1.97%) IIS
4 5 (1.97%) OpenStack
5 3 (1.18%) Skype for Business
6 2 (0.79%) Apache
6 2 (0.79%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.39%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.39%) CMS
7 1 (0.39%) Exchange Server 2013
7 1 (0.39%) nginx
Applications
1 15 (5.91%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.79%) Weka
Business Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Distributed Ledger
1 1 (0.39%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 82 (32.28%) Azure
2 40 (15.75%) AWS
3 36 (14.17%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (7.87%) Entra ID
5 18 (7.09%) IaaS
6 9 (3.54%) OpenShift
7 8 (3.15%) GCP
8 7 (2.76%) SaaS
9 6 (2.36%) GitHub
9 6 (2.36%) Nutanix
9 6 (2.36%) PaaS
10 4 (1.57%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (1.57%) Rubrik
11 3 (1.18%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (1.18%) AWS CloudFormation
11 3 (1.18%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 2 (0.79%) Cohesity
12 2 (0.79%) Mimecast
12 2 (0.79%) OneDrive
12 2 (0.79%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 52 (20.47%) DNS
2 45 (17.72%) Firewall
3 43 (16.93%) DHCP
4 22 (8.66%) TCP/IP
5 17 (6.69%) Network Security
6 16 (6.30%) VPN
7 13 (5.12%) SAN
8 12 (4.72%) VSAN
9 11 (4.33%) Intrusion Detection
9 11 (4.33%) WAN
10 9 (3.54%) SD-WAN
11 8 (3.15%) BGP
12 7 (2.76%) LAN
13 6 (2.36%) MPLS
13 6 (2.36%) OSPF
14 5 (1.97%) Cisco Nexus
14 5 (1.97%) NX-OS
14 5 (1.97%) SMTP
14 5 (1.97%) VLAN
15 4 (1.57%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (7.09%) SQL Server
2 8 (3.15%) Oracle Database
3 6 (2.36%) MongoDB
4 4 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.18%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.18%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.79%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (0.79%) Couchbase
6 2 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.79%) MariaDB
6 2 (0.79%) OLTP
6 2 (0.79%) Power BI
7 1 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.39%) MySQL
7 1 (0.39%) Redis
7 1 (0.39%) Sybase ASE
7 1 (0.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 18 (7.09%) JIRA
2 10 (3.94%) Git
3 5 (1.97%) GitLab
4 4 (1.57%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.18%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.79%) Sonatype Nexus
7 1 (0.39%) Introscope
7 1 (0.39%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.39%) Postman
7 1 (0.39%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.39%) TeamCity
General
1 57 (22.44%) Social Skills
2 31 (12.20%) Finance
3 28 (11.02%) Public Sector
4 15 (5.91%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (3.94%) Telecoms
6 8 (3.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.36%) Banking
8 6 (2.36%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (1.97%) Law
10 3 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.79%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.79%) Legal
12 1 (0.39%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.39%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.39%) Fire and Rescue
12 1 (0.39%) Military
12 1 (0.39%) Police
12 1 (0.39%) Retail
Job Titles
1 55 (21.65%) Architect
2 36 (14.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 18 (7.09%) Senior
4 17 (6.69%) Lead
5 16 (6.30%) Consultant
6 14 (5.51%) Linux Engineer
6 14 (5.51%) Solutions Architect
7 13 (5.12%) Technical Architect
8 12 (4.72%) Virtualisation Engineer
9 11 (4.33%) Infrastructure Architect
10 9 (3.54%) Administrator
10 9 (3.54%) VMware Engineer
10 9 (3.54%) Windows Engineer
11 8 (3.15%) Network Architect
11 8 (3.15%) Systems Engineer
12 7 (2.76%) DevOps Engineer
12 7 (2.76%) Infrastructure Specialist
12 7 (2.76%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
12 7 (2.76%) Network Engineer
12 7 (2.76%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.94%) Flash
2 7 (2.76%) Kafka
3 4 (1.57%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (1.57%) LDAP
4 3 (1.18%) REST
5 2 (0.79%) HTML
5 2 (0.79%) Loki
5 2 (0.79%) Middleware
6 1 (0.39%) .NET
6 1 (0.39%) CSS
6 1 (0.39%) J2EE
6 1 (0.39%) Node.js
6 1 (0.39%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.39%) SAML
6 1 (0.39%) SOAP
6 1 (0.39%) Web Services
6 1 (0.39%) WF
Miscellaneous
1 43 (16.93%) Data Centre
2 15 (5.91%) Clustering
2 15 (5.91%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (4.33%) Data Protection Act
3 11 (4.33%) Private Cloud
4 10 (3.94%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.15%) Enterprise Storage
5 8 (3.15%) PKI
6 7 (2.76%) Public Cloud
7 6 (2.36%) Cyber Threat
7 6 (2.36%) Replication
8 5 (1.97%) Cloud Native
8 5 (1.97%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.97%) Operational Technology
9 4 (1.57%) SCADA
10 3 (1.18%) Blackberry
10 3 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (0.79%) iPad
11 2 (0.79%) RSA SecurID
11 2 (0.79%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 102 (40.16%) Windows
2 78 (30.71%) Linux
3 61 (24.02%) Windows Server
4 28 (11.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (6.69%) Windows Server 2019
6 14 (5.51%) Unix
7 12 (4.72%) Windows Server 2016
8 9 (3.54%) Windows Server 2012
9 8 (3.15%) VMS
10 7 (2.76%) AIX
11 6 (2.36%) Windows 10
12 5 (1.97%) Amazon Linux
13 4 (1.57%) CentOS
14 3 (1.18%) Solaris
14 3 (1.18%) Ubuntu
14 3 (1.18%) Windows Server 2003
15 2 (0.79%) SUSE
15 2 (0.79%) Windows 7
15 2 (0.79%) Windows XP
16 1 (0.39%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (24.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 47 (18.50%) Migration
3 38 (14.96%) ITIL
4 32 (12.60%) Agile
5 30 (11.81%) High Availability
6 29 (11.42%) Problem-Solving
7 25 (9.84%) Infrastructure as Code
8 22 (8.66%) DevOps
9 21 (8.27%) Service Management
10 20 (7.87%) Roadmaps
11 17 (6.69%) Disaster Recovery
12 16 (6.30%) Cybersecurity
12 16 (6.30%) Network Virtualisation
12 16 (6.30%) Technical Leadership
13 15 (5.91%) CI/CD
13 15 (5.91%) Containerisation
14 14 (5.51%) ITSM
14 14 (5.51%) Root Cause Analysis
14 14 (5.51%) Stakeholder Management
15 13 (5.12%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 34 (13.39%) PowerShell
2 32 (12.60%) Python
3 19 (7.48%) Bash
4 10 (3.94%) SQL
5 6 (2.36%) Java
6 5 (1.97%) Shell Script
7 2 (0.79%) C
7 2 (0.79%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.79%) Perl
7 2 (0.79%) Scala
7 2 (0.79%) VBScript
8 1 (0.39%) C#
8 1 (0.39%) Go
Qualifications
1 92 (36.22%) Security Cleared
2 75 (29.53%) SC Cleared
3 21 (8.27%) Cisco Certification
3 21 (8.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 16 (6.30%) DV Cleared
5 15 (5.91%) CCNA
6 14 (5.51%) Degree
7 11 (4.33%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (3.94%) Master's Degree
9 8 (3.15%) Azure Certification
9 8 (3.15%) CCNP
10 4 (1.57%) CCIE
10 4 (1.57%) MCSE
11 3 (1.18%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.18%) MCP
11 3 (1.18%) RHCSA
11 3 (1.18%) VCAP
12 2 (0.79%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.79%) CCIE Data Center
12 2 (0.79%) OCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.76%) NCSC
2 6 (2.36%) NIST
2 6 (2.36%) SLA
3 5 (1.97%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.18%) GDPR
5 2 (0.79%) Def Stans
5 2 (0.79%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.79%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.79%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.79%) QA
6 1 (0.39%) PMO
6 1 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 147 (57.87%) VMware Infrastructure
2 79 (31.10%) Active Directory
3 39 (15.35%) VMware ESXi
4 37 (14.57%) VMware NSX
5 30 (11.81%) vSphere
6 23 (9.06%) Hyper-V
7 13 (5.12%) Docker
7 13 (5.12%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (1.18%) DFS Replication
8 3 (1.18%) Veritas Cluster Server
8 3 (1.18%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (1.18%) XenDesktop
9 2 (0.79%) Apache ZooKeeper
9 2 (0.79%) NFS
9 2 (0.79%) Samba
9 2 (0.79%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 2 (0.79%) XenApp
10 1 (0.39%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.39%) VMware Server
10 1 (0.39%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 49 (19.29%) Ansible
2 30 (11.81%) Terraform
3 28 (11.02%) vCenter Server
4 19 (7.48%) Kubernetes
4 19 (7.48%) Microsoft Intune
5 11 (4.33%) Progress Chef
5 11 (4.33%) SCCM
5 11 (4.33%) WSUS
6 7 (2.76%) Prometheus
7 6 (2.36%) FortiGate
7 6 (2.36%) NetBackup
8 5 (1.97%) Grafana
8 5 (1.97%) PowerCLI
8 5 (1.97%) Puppet
8 5 (1.97%) Tivoli
8 5 (1.97%) vRealize Orchestrator
9 4 (1.57%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 3 (1.18%) Nagios
10 3 (1.18%) Red Hat Satellite
10 3 (1.18%) vRealize
Vendors
1 69 (27.17%) Microsoft
2 47 (18.50%) Cisco
3 33 (12.99%) Red Hat
4 16 (6.30%) Oracle
5 13 (5.12%) HP
6 12 (4.72%) Dell
6 12 (4.72%) SolarWinds
7 11 (4.33%) Atlassian
8 10 (3.94%) Citrix
8 10 (3.94%) Fortinet
8 10 (3.94%) NetApp
9 9 (3.54%) Broadcom
9 9 (3.54%) Splunk
9 9 (3.54%) Veritas
10 8 (3.15%) IBM
10 8 (3.15%) Palo Alto
11 6 (2.36%) F5
11 6 (2.36%) Google
11 6 (2.36%) Veeam
12 5 (1.97%) ServiceNow