VMware Contracts in the South East

VMware
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 17 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 22 32
Rank change year-on-year +1 +10 +2
Contract jobs citing VMware 356 440 473
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 6.53% 7.88% 6.19%
As % of the Vendors category 13.92% 15.90% 13.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 238 316 350
10th Percentile £350 £313 £250
25th Percentile £416 £386 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £516 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.63% +8.58% +5.56%
75th Percentile £581 £600 £598
90th Percentile £619 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 20 16
10th Percentile - £47.13 £12.25
25th Percentile £65.00 £53.02 £13.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £63.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +215.00% +54.08%
75th Percentile £77.50 £80.25 £67.63
90th Percentile £79.00 £81.98 £83.13
England median hourly rate £46.18 £60.70 £42.00
% change year-on-year -23.92% +44.52% -11.58%

All Vendors
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 2,558 2,768 3,412
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 46.90% 49.57% 44.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,554 1,908 2,329
10th Percentile £213 £205 £188
25th Percentile £387 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year - +3.09% +5.43%
75th Percentile £600 £606 £600
90th Percentile £688 £697 £675
England median daily rate £518 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -3.63% +2.38% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 184 126 140
10th Percentile £12.00 £16.25 £10.77
25th Percentile £16.25 £20.47 £12.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 £45.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +130.77% -11.36%
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.00 £35.00
90th Percentile £67.02 £75.38 £57.85
England median hourly rate £22.00 £35.50 £21.37
% change year-on-year -38.03% +66.12% +1.76%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing VMware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for VMware in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware in the South East.

Daily rate trend for VMware in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware in the South East over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VMware in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for VMware in the South East

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VMware in the South East over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for VMware in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware within the South East region over the 6 months to 17 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
Thames Valley -5 135 £525 +2.44% 36
Hampshire -1 134 £550 - 54
Berkshire -22 81 £501 -12.87% 17
Buckinghamshire +18 41 £550 +20.76% 8
West Sussex +5 41 £463 -20.67% 8
Surrey +15 31 £403 +27.27% 11
Oxfordshire +13 13 £500 +23.46% 11
Kent -9 8 £338 -3.57% 16
Middlesex - 4 £275 -
East Sussex +5 3 £475 +19.87% 7
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England

VMware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 24 (6.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (4.78%) Confluence
3 6 (1.69%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.56%) IBM Domino
5 1 (0.28%) IIS
5 1 (0.28%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 4 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (1.97%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 77 (21.63%) Azure
2 37 (10.39%) AWS
3 23 (6.46%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (5.06%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (4.78%) IaaS
6 14 (3.93%) OCI
7 11 (3.09%) Entra ID
8 9 (2.53%) GitHub
9 8 (2.25%) OpenShift
9 8 (2.25%) SaaS
10 7 (1.97%) PaaS
11 6 (1.69%) GCP
12 4 (1.12%) Nutanix
12 4 (1.12%) OneDrive
13 3 (0.84%) Amazon EC2
13 3 (0.84%) Azure API Management
13 3 (0.84%) Azure Event Grid
13 3 (0.84%) Azure Logic Apps
13 3 (0.84%) Cloud Computing
13 3 (0.84%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 77 (21.63%) DNS
2 61 (17.13%) DHCP
3 60 (16.85%) Firewall
4 58 (16.29%) SAN
5 29 (8.15%) TCP/IP
6 28 (7.87%) WAN
7 24 (6.74%) NAS
8 21 (5.90%) VPN
8 21 (5.90%) VSAN
9 19 (5.34%) LAN
10 12 (3.37%) Network Security
10 12 (3.37%) Wi-Fi
10 12 (3.37%) Wireless
11 9 (2.53%) VLAN
12 6 (1.69%) Fibre Channel
12 6 (1.69%) SD-WAN
13 5 (1.40%) Cisco Nexus
13 5 (1.40%) iSCSI
14 4 (1.12%) Cisco ASA
14 4 (1.12%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (5.90%) PostgreSQL
2 14 (3.93%) SQL Server
3 11 (3.09%) MongoDB
3 11 (3.09%) MySQL
4 7 (1.97%) Oracle Database
5 5 (1.40%) RDBMS
5 5 (1.40%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
7 2 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.56%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.56%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 21 (5.90%) GitLab
2 20 (5.62%) Robot Framework
3 19 (5.34%) JIRA
4 14 (3.93%) Sonatype Nexus
5 11 (3.09%) Git
6 6 (1.69%) Bitbucket
6 6 (1.69%) Selenium
7 4 (1.12%) Artifactory
8 3 (0.84%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.56%) Subversion
10 1 (0.28%) Jenkins
10 1 (0.28%) MSI
10 1 (0.28%) Oracle APEX
10 1 (0.28%) SonarQube
General
1 82 (23.03%) Social Skills
2 38 (10.67%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (6.18%) Public Sector
4 13 (3.65%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (2.81%) Military
6 6 (1.69%) Legal
7 4 (1.12%) Marketing
7 4 (1.12%) Telecoms
8 3 (0.84%) Finance
8 3 (0.84%) Front Office
8 3 (0.84%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.56%) Advertising
9 2 (0.56%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.56%) Back Office
9 2 (0.56%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.28%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 83 (23.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 43 (12.08%) Architect
3 33 (9.27%) Senior
4 22 (6.18%) Storage Engineer
5 21 (5.90%) Integration Engineer
5 21 (5.90%) Network Engineer
6 18 (5.06%) VMware Engineer
7 17 (4.78%) Developer
7 17 (4.78%) Linux Engineer
7 17 (4.78%) Python Developer
8 16 (4.49%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 15 (4.21%) Analyst
10 14 (3.93%) Solutions Architect
11 12 (3.37%) Security Architect
11 12 (3.37%) VMware Architect
11 12 (3.37%) Wintel Engineer
12 11 (3.09%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 11 (3.09%) Security Engineer
12 11 (3.09%) Server Engineer
12 11 (3.09%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.97%) .NET
2 6 (1.69%) YAML
3 4 (1.12%) Node.js
4 3 (0.84%) EDI
4 3 (0.84%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (0.84%) Web Services
4 3 (0.84%) XMPP
5 2 (0.56%) AngularJS
5 2 (0.56%) CSS
5 2 (0.56%) HTML
5 2 (0.56%) LDAP
5 2 (0.56%) Middleware
5 2 (0.56%) React
5 2 (0.56%) Vue
6 1 (0.28%) Keycloak
Miscellaneous
1 39 (10.96%) Data Centre
2 31 (8.71%) PKI
3 20 (5.62%) Client/Server
4 16 (4.49%) Linux Command Line
5 11 (3.09%) Clustering
6 10 (2.81%) Public Cloud
7 8 (2.25%) Replication
8 5 (1.40%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.12%) Driving Licence
9 4 (1.12%) Fat Client
9 4 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.12%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.12%) Thin Client
10 3 (0.84%) CCTV
10 3 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.84%) Operational Technology
10 3 (0.84%) SCADA
10 3 (0.84%) Smart Meter
11 2 (0.56%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 166 (46.63%) Windows
2 132 (37.08%) Windows Server
3 121 (33.99%) Linux
4 49 (13.76%) Windows Server 2012
5 48 (13.48%) Windows Server 2019
6 41 (11.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 31 (8.71%) Windows 10
8 23 (6.46%) Windows Server 2016
9 20 (5.62%) Unix
10 19 (5.34%) Ubuntu
11 14 (3.93%) Windows XP
12 10 (2.81%) Debian
13 9 (2.53%) Solaris
13 9 (2.53%) VMS
14 7 (1.97%) Windows Server 2008
15 2 (0.56%) Oracle Linux
16 1 (0.28%) Android
16 1 (0.28%) Apple iOS
16 1 (0.28%) CentOS
16 1 (0.28%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (28.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 79 (22.19%) Agile
3 50 (14.04%) Problem-Solving
4 46 (12.92%) Migration
5 41 (11.52%) ITIL
6 37 (10.39%) DevOps
7 28 (7.87%) Disaster Recovery
7 28 (7.87%) Project Delivery
8 25 (7.02%) Storage Management
9 24 (6.74%) High Availability
9 24 (6.74%) Test Automation
10 23 (6.46%) Performance Tuning
11 22 (6.18%) Scrum
12 21 (5.90%) Converged Infrastructure
12 21 (5.90%) Server Management
13 20 (5.62%) Patch Management
13 20 (5.62%) Release Management
14 19 (5.34%) Application Packaging
14 19 (5.34%) Proactive Monitoring
15 18 (5.06%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 89 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 77 (21.63%) Python
3 27 (7.58%) Bash
4 21 (5.90%) SQL
5 19 (5.34%) VBScript
6 6 (1.69%) Shell Script
7 5 (1.40%) C#
7 5 (1.40%) Java
8 3 (0.84%) C++
8 3 (0.84%) Go
8 3 (0.84%) PHP
8 3 (0.84%) Ruby
8 3 (0.84%) VB.NET
9 2 (0.56%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.56%) Perl
Qualifications
1 203 (57.02%) Security Cleared
2 101 (28.37%) DV Cleared
3 94 (26.40%) SC Cleared
4 42 (11.80%) Degree
5 28 (7.87%) Cisco Certification
6 25 (7.02%) Microsoft Certification
7 23 (6.46%) CCNP
8 22 (6.18%) CCNA
9 21 (5.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 18 (5.06%) MCSE
11 11 (3.09%) MCSA
12 9 (2.53%) Azure Certification
13 8 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
14 6 (1.69%) VCAP
15 4 (1.12%) DBS Check
16 3 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
16 3 (0.84%) Network+ Certification
16 3 (0.84%) RHCSA
17 2 (0.56%) AWS Certification
17 2 (0.56%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.25%) SLA
2 7 (1.97%) RMADS
3 6 (1.69%) NCSC
3 6 (1.69%) NIST
4 5 (1.40%) GDPR
5 4 (1.12%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.84%) ISO 9001
6 3 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 235 (66.01%) VMware Infrastructure
2 135 (37.92%) Active Directory
3 62 (17.42%) Hyper-V
4 58 (16.29%) vSphere
5 57 (16.01%) VMware NSX
6 32 (8.99%) VMware ESXi
7 17 (4.78%) Virtual Machines
8 15 (4.21%) XenApp
9 10 (2.81%) vCloud
10 8 (2.25%) Docker
11 4 (1.12%) Firmware
11 4 (1.12%) KVM
12 3 (0.84%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.84%) XenDesktop
13 2 (0.56%) Ceph
13 2 (0.56%) Terminal Services
13 2 (0.56%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 2 (0.56%) VirtualBox
14 1 (0.28%) UAG
14 1 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 52 (14.61%) Ansible
2 47 (13.20%) SCCM
2 47 (13.20%) WSUS
3 37 (10.39%) vCenter Server
4 31 (8.71%) Terraform
5 29 (8.15%) Kubernetes
6 23 (6.46%) SCOM
7 16 (4.49%) EMC NetWorker
7 16 (4.49%) vRealize
8 14 (3.93%) NetBackup
9 10 (2.81%) Nessus
9 10 (2.81%) Red Hat Satellite
9 10 (2.81%) VxRail
10 7 (1.97%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 7 (1.97%) Packer
10 7 (1.97%) Rancher
11 6 (1.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 5 (1.40%) Avamar
12 5 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (1.12%) Istio
Vendors
1 112 (31.46%) Microsoft
2 47 (13.20%) Red Hat
3 40 (11.24%) Cisco
4 39 (10.96%) Oracle
5 31 (8.71%) Dell
6 25 (7.02%) EMC
6 25 (7.02%) HP
7 24 (6.74%) Veeam
8 23 (6.46%) Palo Alto
9 20 (5.62%) Citrix
10 17 (4.78%) Juniper
10 17 (4.78%) Symantec
11 16 (4.49%) SolarWinds
12 14 (3.93%) 3PAR
12 14 (3.93%) Extreme Networks
13 12 (3.37%) Ivanti
14 11 (3.09%) Aruba
15 10 (2.81%) F5
16 9 (2.53%) ServiceNow
17 7 (1.97%) Splunk