VMware Contracts in England

VMware
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for knowledge and experience of VMware products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited VMware over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 66 58 74
Rank change year-on-year -8 +16 -4
Contract jobs citing VMware 1,121 1,856 2,310
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 3.05% 3.78% 3.30%
As % of the Vendors category 7.22% 9.04% 8.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 772 1,327 1,685
10th Percentile £286 £313 £255
25th Percentile £380 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £670
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £475
% change year-on-year -3.85% +9.47% +7.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 100 55
10th Percentile £22.21 £27.35 £13.20
25th Percentile £40.00 £42.42 £20.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £62.34 £43.62
Median % change year-on-year -25.92% +42.92% -12.76%
75th Percentile £71.25 £74.50 £61.97
90th Percentile £80.24 £81.48 £69.05
UK median hourly rate £46.29 £64.50 £47.42
% change year-on-year -28.24% +36.02% -7.92%

All Vendors
England

VMware is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 15,534 20,539 27,541
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 42.22% 41.87% 39.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,857 14,126 18,815
10th Percentile £263 £266 £275
25th Percentile £403 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £535 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.80% +1.90% +10.53%
75th Percentile £635 £650 £638
90th Percentile £749 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,020 592 771
10th Percentile £12.13 £15.02 £11.90
25th Percentile £14.37 £18.50 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.23 £38.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.27% +83.33% -
75th Percentile £57.33 £63.94 £45.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £42.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -48.24% +97.67% -3.91%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing VMware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for VMware in England

VMware
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware in England.

Daily rate trend for VMware in England

VMware
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VMware in England

VMware
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware in England.

Hourly rate trend for VMware in England

VMware
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VMware in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for VMware in England

VMware
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware within the England region over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. 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
South East +1 359 £515 -0.15% 138
London -14 335 £500 -4.76% 137
South West -3 165 £505 -8.18% 84
North of England -7 137 £375 -12.79% 117
North West -24 76 £350 -21.13% 68
Midlands -22 72 £500 +1.52% 109
Yorkshire +15 49 £375 -11.24% 36
West Midlands -19 48 £425 -7.10% 59
East of England -48 34 £550 -8.33% 65
East Midlands -10 22 £550 +10.00% 50
North East +12 12 £538 +26.47% 15
VMware
UK

VMware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 136 (12.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 52 (4.64%) Confluence
2 52 (4.64%) SharePoint
3 20 (1.78%) Exchange Server 2010
4 16 (1.43%) Exchange Server 2013
5 15 (1.34%) OpenStack
6 13 (1.16%) IIS
7 8 (0.71%) nginx
8 7 (0.62%) SharePoint 2010
8 7 (0.62%) SharePoint Server
9 6 (0.54%) Exchange Server 2007
10 4 (0.36%) IBM Domino
10 4 (0.36%) MQSeries
10 4 (0.36%) Skype for Business
11 3 (0.27%) WordPress
12 2 (0.18%) Apache
12 2 (0.18%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.18%) Traefik
13 1 (0.089%) Site Server
13 1 (0.089%) WebSphere
Applications
1 38 (3.39%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.089%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.089%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (0.62%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.27%) Sage X3
3 2 (0.18%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
3 2 (0.18%) RMDS
3 2 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.18%) SystmOne
4 1 (0.089%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.089%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.089%) Eikon
4 1 (0.089%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.089%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 299 (26.67%) Azure
2 182 (16.24%) Microsoft 365
3 161 (14.36%) AWS
4 49 (4.37%) Entra ID
5 43 (3.84%) IaaS
6 39 (3.48%) GCP
7 32 (2.85%) PaaS
8 29 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
9 28 (2.50%) Nutanix
10 26 (2.32%) GitHub
11 25 (2.23%) SaaS
12 23 (2.05%) Cloud Computing
13 22 (1.96%) OpenShift
14 16 (1.43%) OCI
14 16 (1.43%) OneDrive
15 12 (1.07%) Amazon EC2
15 12 (1.07%) Rubrik
16 11 (0.98%) Mimecast
17 9 (0.80%) Amazon S3
17 9 (0.80%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 217 (19.36%) Firewall
2 214 (19.09%) DNS
3 172 (15.34%) SAN
4 152 (13.56%) DHCP
5 103 (9.19%) WAN
6 92 (8.21%) LAN
7 83 (7.40%) VPN
8 79 (7.05%) TCP/IP
9 61 (5.44%) VSAN
10 58 (5.17%) NAS
11 48 (4.28%) Wi-Fi
12 41 (3.66%) Wireless
13 34 (3.03%) VLAN
14 30 (2.68%) Network Security
15 28 (2.50%) MPLS
16 19 (1.69%) SD-WAN
16 19 (1.69%) VoIP
17 18 (1.61%) Remote Desktop
18 17 (1.52%) Internet
19 15 (1.34%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (6.24%) SQL Server
2 24 (2.14%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (1.96%) MySQL
4 16 (1.43%) Oracle Database
5 14 (1.25%) MongoDB
6 12 (1.07%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (0.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 7 (0.62%) Metadata
9 7 (0.62%) PowerPivot
10 6 (0.54%) Microsoft Power View
10 6 (0.54%) RDBMS
10 6 (0.54%) Relational Database
11 4 (0.36%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.27%) Power BI
13 2 (0.18%) CouchDB
13 2 (0.18%) DB2
13 2 (0.18%) Electronic Patient Records
13 2 (0.18%) SAP HANA
14 1 (0.089%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 68 (6.07%) JIRA
2 37 (3.30%) Jenkins
3 36 (3.21%) Git
3 36 (3.21%) GitLab
4 21 (1.87%) Robot Framework
5 16 (1.43%) Sonatype Nexus
6 12 (1.07%) Bitbucket
7 8 (0.71%) Selenium
7 8 (0.71%) TeamCity
8 6 (0.54%) Artifactory
8 6 (0.54%) Rational DOORS
9 3 (0.27%) CppUnit
9 3 (0.27%) PVCS
9 3 (0.27%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.27%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.18%) Snyk
10 2 (0.18%) Subversion
11 1 (0.089%) JMeter
11 1 (0.089%) Oracle APEX
General
1 253 (22.57%) Social Skills
2 107 (9.55%) Analytical Skills
3 92 (8.21%) Public Sector
4 84 (7.49%) Finance
5 36 (3.21%) Documentation Skills
6 28 (2.50%) Banking
7 20 (1.78%) Military
8 19 (1.69%) Legal
9 18 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
10 16 (1.43%) Manufacturing
10 16 (1.43%) Telecoms
11 13 (1.16%) Aerospace
12 11 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
13 10 (0.89%) Marketing
14 9 (0.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 6 (0.54%) Publishing
16 5 (0.45%) Electronics
16 5 (0.45%) Financial Institution
16 5 (0.45%) French Language
16 5 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 249 (22.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 116 (10.35%) Architect
3 88 (7.85%) Senior
4 87 (7.76%) VMware Engineer
5 80 (7.14%) Network Engineer
6 54 (4.82%) Storage Engineer
7 53 (4.73%) Support Engineer
8 51 (4.55%) Consultant
9 49 (4.37%) Administrator
10 45 (4.01%) Solutions Architect
11 44 (3.93%) Analyst
12 36 (3.21%) Linux Engineer
13 33 (2.94%) Integration Engineer
13 33 (2.94%) Lead
14 32 (2.85%) Wintel Engineer
15 31 (2.77%) Cloud Engineer
15 31 (2.77%) Developer
15 31 (2.77%) Systems Administrator
16 29 (2.59%) 3rd Line Engineer
17 28 (2.50%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (2.41%) LDAP
2 17 (1.52%) .NET
3 14 (1.25%) YAML
4 13 (1.16%) Elastic Stack
5 9 (0.80%) CSS
5 9 (0.80%) HTML
6 8 (0.71%) Node.js
7 7 (0.62%) EDI
8 6 (0.54%) Web Services
9 5 (0.45%) Flash
9 5 (0.45%) REST
10 4 (0.36%) Middleware
10 4 (0.36%) ModSecurity
10 4 (0.36%) SAML
11 3 (0.27%) .NET Core
11 3 (0.27%) .NET Framework
11 3 (0.27%) JSON
11 3 (0.27%) LAMP
11 3 (0.27%) OAuth
11 3 (0.27%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 167 (14.90%) Data Centre
2 90 (8.03%) PKI
3 64 (5.71%) Clustering
4 36 (3.21%) Replication
5 33 (2.94%) Client/Server
6 30 (2.68%) Public Cloud
7 28 (2.50%) Management Information System
7 28 (2.50%) Private Cloud
8 24 (2.14%) Linux Command Line
9 20 (1.78%) NHS
10 19 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
11 14 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
12 13 (1.16%) Driving Licence
13 12 (1.07%) Onboarding
14 9 (0.80%) Fat Client
14 9 (0.80%) Thin Client
15 8 (0.71%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 8 (0.71%) Security Posture
15 8 (0.71%) Video Conferencing
15 8 (0.71%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 562 (50.13%) Windows
2 372 (33.18%) Windows Server
3 343 (30.60%) Linux
4 108 (9.63%) Windows Server 2012
5 99 (8.83%) Windows 10
6 98 (8.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 86 (7.67%) Windows Server 2019
8 68 (6.07%) Unix
9 49 (4.37%) Windows Server 2016
10 41 (3.66%) Ubuntu
11 37 (3.30%) Windows Server 2008
12 36 (3.21%) VMS
13 30 (2.68%) Solaris
14 28 (2.50%) Windows 7
15 20 (1.78%) Debian
16 18 (1.61%) Oracle Linux
17 17 (1.52%) Mac OS
17 17 (1.52%) Windows XP
18 16 (1.43%) CentOS
19 7 (0.62%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 321 (28.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 177 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
3 162 (14.45%) ITIL
4 158 (14.09%) Agile
5 136 (12.13%) Migration
6 90 (8.03%) DevOps
7 77 (6.87%) Disaster Recovery
8 72 (6.42%) Infrastructure as Code
9 71 (6.33%) Customer Service
10 68 (6.07%) High Availability
11 63 (5.62%) CI/CD
12 55 (4.91%) Data Protection
13 54 (4.82%) Computer Science
14 53 (4.73%) Cybersecurity
15 50 (4.46%) Server Management
16 49 (4.37%) Change Management
17 48 (4.28%) Vulnerability Management
18 47 (4.19%) Project Delivery
19 45 (4.01%) Configuration Management
19 45 (4.01%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 209 (18.64%) PowerShell
2 160 (14.27%) Python
3 79 (7.05%) SQL
4 62 (5.53%) Bash
5 21 (1.87%) VBScript
6 20 (1.78%) Shell Script
7 19 (1.69%) Java
8 15 (1.34%) C#
9 12 (1.07%) JavaScript
10 8 (0.71%) Go
11 7 (0.62%) C++
12 6 (0.54%) Ruby
13 5 (0.45%) C
14 4 (0.36%) Perl
15 3 (0.27%) Bicep
15 3 (0.27%) PHP
15 3 (0.27%) VB.NET
16 1 (0.089%) Ada
16 1 (0.089%) T-SQL
16 1 (0.089%) VB
Qualifications
1 481 (42.91%) Security Cleared
2 263 (23.46%) SC Cleared
3 234 (20.87%) DV Cleared
4 126 (11.24%) Degree
5 72 (6.42%) Cisco Certification
6 64 (5.71%) Microsoft Certification
7 57 (5.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 52 (4.64%) CCNA
9 38 (3.39%) CCNP
10 34 (3.03%) MCSE
11 32 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
12 29 (2.59%) Azure Certification
13 21 (1.87%) MCSA
14 15 (1.34%) ITIL Certification
14 15 (1.34%) Master's Degree
15 9 (0.80%) Network+ Certification
16 8 (0.71%) VCAP
17 7 (0.62%) A+ Certification
18 6 (0.54%) CCIE
18 6 (0.54%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (3.03%) SLA
2 16 (1.43%) GDPR
3 14 (1.25%) NIST
4 9 (0.80%) NCSC
5 8 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 7 (0.62%) PMO
6 7 (0.62%) RMADS
7 6 (0.54%) QA
8 5 (0.45%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.27%) Accessibility
10 3 (0.27%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (0.089%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.089%) Disclosure Scotland
11 1 (0.089%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 691 (61.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 409 (36.49%) Active Directory
3 179 (15.97%) Hyper-V
4 167 (14.90%) VMware NSX
5 158 (14.09%) vSphere
6 127 (11.33%) VMware ESXi
7 59 (5.26%) Docker
8 54 (4.82%) Virtual Machines
9 30 (2.68%) KVM
10 29 (2.59%) Virtual Servers
11 21 (1.87%) VMware Workstation
12 19 (1.69%) Firmware
12 19 (1.69%) XenApp
13 12 (1.07%) Virtual Desktop
14 11 (0.98%) vCloud
15 9 (0.80%) VMware Server
16 6 (0.54%) Terminal Services
17 5 (0.45%) BitLocker
18 4 (0.36%) UAG
18 4 (0.36%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 137 (12.22%) Ansible
2 133 (11.86%) SCCM
2 133 (11.86%) vCenter Server
3 105 (9.37%) Kubernetes
4 103 (9.19%) Terraform
5 59 (5.26%) WSUS
6 49 (4.37%) SCOM
7 46 (4.10%) Microsoft Intune
8 38 (3.39%) vRealize
9 35 (3.12%) VxRail
10 34 (3.03%) NetBackup
11 24 (2.14%) EMC NetWorker
12 17 (1.52%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 17 (1.52%) Red Hat Satellite
13 14 (1.25%) Prometheus
13 14 (1.25%) Puppet
14 13 (1.16%) Microsoft Clustering
15 12 (1.07%) Nessus
16 11 (0.98%) Grafana
16 11 (0.98%) Nagios
Vendors
1 380 (33.90%) Microsoft
2 145 (12.93%) Cisco
3 107 (9.55%) Dell
4 105 (9.37%) Red Hat
5 83 (7.40%) Veeam
6 76 (6.78%) Oracle
7 72 (6.42%) Citrix
8 55 (4.91%) HP
9 52 (4.64%) Palo Alto
10 46 (4.10%) EMC
11 39 (3.48%) ServiceNow
12 37 (3.30%) SolarWinds
13 34 (3.03%) Juniper
14 29 (2.59%) Splunk
15 27 (2.41%) Qualys
16 26 (2.32%) IBM
17 24 (2.14%) NetApp
18 23 (2.05%) Aruba
19 22 (1.96%) Google
20 21 (1.87%) Symantec