VMware Contracts in the UK excluding London

VMware
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 11 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
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 42 33 47
Rank change year-on-year -9 +14 -5
Contract jobs citing VMware 841 1,333 1,416
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.11% 5.71% 4.65%
As % of the Vendors category 9.61% 12.76% 11.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 599 948 1,032
10th Percentile £263 £310 £238
25th Percentile £373 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £429
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +19.59% +2.04%
75th Percentile £575 £619 £550
90th Percentile £650 £700 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +7.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 88 47
10th Percentile £39.05 £25.75 £13.00
25th Percentile £40.00 £40.13 £19.25
Median hourly rate £46.18 £57.13 £28.41
Median % change year-on-year -19.16% +101.07% -28.98%
75th Percentile £73.13 £65.81 £59.21
90th Percentile £83.85 £80.25 £69.05
UK median hourly rate £46.29 £63.62 £44.75
% change year-on-year -27.24% +42.16% -13.11%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 8,752 10,449 12,199
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 42.73% 44.72% 40.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,263 7,156 8,228
10th Percentile £206 £205 £185
25th Percentile £363 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +7.53% +9.41%
75th Percentile £600 £598 £575
90th Percentile £690 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 963 477 641
10th Percentile £11.84 £14.25 £10.77
25th Percentile £14.16 £17.72 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.77% +97.37% +2.70%
75th Percentile £59.94 £62.50 £36.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £56.70
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £42.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -48.24% +97.67% -3.72%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing VMware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for VMware in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for VMware in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VMware in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for VMware in the UK excluding London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VMware in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for VMware in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 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 0 358 £513 - 135
South West -6 165 £500 -9.09% 77
North of England -14 137 £375 -13.54% 119
North West -27 76 £350 -22.22% 68
Midlands -25 73 £513 +6.77% 107
Scotland -3 66 £513 +2.50% 16
Yorkshire +13 49 £375 -10.71% 38
West Midlands -22 49 £425 -5.56% 58
East of England -44 34 £550 -8.33% 61
East Midlands -11 22 £550 +10.00% 49
North East +15 12 £538 +26.47% 15
Wales -9 8 £225 -57.14% 9
Northern Ireland +5 1 £525 - 6
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 90 (10.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 38 (4.52%) Confluence
3 32 (3.80%) SharePoint
4 13 (1.55%) IIS
5 8 (0.95%) nginx
6 7 (0.83%) SharePoint 2010
6 7 (0.83%) SharePoint Server
7 4 (0.48%) Skype for Business
8 2 (0.24%) Apache
8 2 (0.24%) IBM Domino
8 2 (0.24%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.24%) Traefik
8 2 (0.24%) WordPress
9 1 (0.12%) Cloud Foundry
9 1 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2007
9 1 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2010
9 1 (0.12%) JBoss
9 1 (0.12%) MQSeries
9 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.12%) WildFly
Applications
1 32 (3.80%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 7 (0.83%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.36%) Sage X3
3 2 (0.24%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
3 2 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.24%) RMDS
4 1 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 194 (23.07%) Azure
2 121 (14.39%) Microsoft 365
3 84 (9.99%) AWS
4 29 (3.45%) Entra ID
5 28 (3.33%) IaaS
6 23 (2.73%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (2.50%) PaaS
8 20 (2.38%) GCP
9 19 (2.26%) OpenShift
10 15 (1.78%) GitHub
10 15 (1.78%) OCI
11 12 (1.43%) SaaS
12 11 (1.31%) OneDrive
13 8 (0.95%) Nutanix
14 6 (0.71%) Amazon EC2
15 5 (0.59%) Azure Logic Apps
15 5 (0.59%) Cloud Computing
16 4 (0.48%) Dynamics 365
16 4 (0.48%) Power Platform
16 4 (0.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 162 (19.26%) DNS
2 160 (19.02%) Firewall
3 133 (15.81%) SAN
4 131 (15.58%) DHCP
5 86 (10.23%) WAN
6 81 (9.63%) LAN
7 66 (7.85%) VPN
8 64 (7.61%) TCP/IP
9 56 (6.66%) VSAN
10 41 (4.88%) Wi-Fi
11 36 (4.28%) NAS
12 29 (3.45%) Wireless
13 24 (2.85%) VLAN
14 18 (2.14%) Network Security
15 16 (1.90%) Remote Desktop
16 15 (1.78%) MPLS
17 14 (1.66%) VoIP
18 13 (1.55%) Fibre Channel
18 13 (1.55%) Internet
19 10 (1.19%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (6.06%) SQL Server
2 21 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (2.26%) MySQL
4 13 (1.55%) MongoDB
5 9 (1.07%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (1.07%) Oracle Database
6 7 (0.83%) Metadata
6 7 (0.83%) PowerPivot
6 7 (0.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 6 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (0.71%) Microsoft Power View
8 5 (0.59%) RDBMS
8 5 (0.59%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.36%) Power BI
10 2 (0.24%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.24%) CouchDB
11 1 (0.12%) Big Data
11 1 (0.12%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.12%) Oracle Database 11g
11 1 (0.12%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 50 (5.95%) JIRA
2 28 (3.33%) GitLab
3 21 (2.50%) Robot Framework
4 17 (2.02%) Git
5 15 (1.78%) Sonatype Nexus
6 12 (1.43%) Bitbucket
7 11 (1.31%) Jenkins
8 7 (0.83%) Artifactory
8 7 (0.83%) Selenium
9 6 (0.71%) Rational DOORS
10 3 (0.36%) CppUnit
10 3 (0.36%) PVCS
10 3 (0.36%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.36%) Subversion
10 3 (0.36%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.24%) Snyk
12 1 (0.12%) GoCD
12 1 (0.12%) Octopus Deploy
12 1 (0.12%) Oracle APEX
General
1 212 (25.21%) Social Skills
2 84 (9.99%) Analytical Skills
3 78 (9.27%) Public Sector
4 29 (3.45%) Finance
5 25 (2.97%) Documentation Skills
6 20 (2.38%) Military
7 17 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
8 16 (1.90%) Banking
9 14 (1.66%) Legal
9 14 (1.66%) Manufacturing
10 13 (1.55%) Aerospace
10 13 (1.55%) Telecoms
11 12 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (0.83%) Marketing
13 6 (0.71%) Publishing
14 5 (0.59%) Billing
15 4 (0.48%) Electronics
16 3 (0.36%) Advertising
16 3 (0.36%) Back Office
16 3 (0.36%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 191 (22.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 85 (10.11%) Architect
3 67 (7.97%) Senior
4 65 (7.73%) Network Engineer
5 64 (7.61%) VMware Engineer
6 49 (5.83%) Storage Engineer
7 43 (5.11%) Support Engineer
8 40 (4.76%) Analyst
9 36 (4.28%) Consultant
10 31 (3.69%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 30 (3.57%) Developer
12 28 (3.33%) Integration Engineer
12 28 (3.33%) Linux Engineer
12 28 (3.33%) Python Developer
13 27 (3.21%) Solutions Architect
14 25 (2.97%) Wintel Engineer
15 24 (2.85%) Administrator
15 24 (2.85%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
15 24 (2.85%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 23 (2.73%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (1.90%) .NET
2 10 (1.19%) LDAP
3 9 (1.07%) CSS
3 9 (1.07%) HTML
3 9 (1.07%) Middleware
4 8 (0.95%) YAML
5 7 (0.83%) Web Services
6 6 (0.71%) EDI
7 5 (0.59%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (0.59%) Flash
8 4 (0.48%) ModSecurity
8 4 (0.48%) Node.js
8 4 (0.48%) REST
9 3 (0.36%) .NET Core
9 3 (0.36%) .NET Framework
9 3 (0.36%) AngularJS
9 3 (0.36%) J2EE
9 3 (0.36%) React
9 3 (0.36%) Vue
9 3 (0.36%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 129 (15.34%) Data Centre
2 81 (9.63%) PKI
3 52 (6.18%) Clustering
4 34 (4.04%) Client/Server
5 28 (3.33%) Private Cloud
6 24 (2.85%) Replication
7 21 (2.50%) Linux Command Line
7 21 (2.50%) Public Cloud
8 15 (1.78%) NHS
9 13 (1.55%) Driving Licence
10 12 (1.43%) Management Information System
10 12 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (0.71%) CCTV
12 6 (0.71%) Security Posture
12 6 (0.71%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 6 (0.71%) VxBlock/Vblock
13 5 (0.59%) Enterprise Storage
13 5 (0.59%) Fat Client
13 5 (0.59%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 412 (48.99%) Windows
2 282 (33.53%) Windows Server
3 257 (30.56%) Linux
4 96 (11.41%) Windows Server 2012
5 81 (9.63%) Windows Server 2019
6 69 (8.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 68 (8.09%) Windows 10
8 51 (6.06%) Windows Server 2016
9 47 (5.59%) Unix
10 38 (4.52%) Ubuntu
11 25 (2.97%) Windows Server 2008
12 24 (2.85%) Debian
13 18 (2.14%) VMS
14 16 (1.90%) Windows XP
15 14 (1.66%) CentOS
15 14 (1.66%) Solaris
16 11 (1.31%) Mac OS
17 9 (1.07%) Windows 7
17 9 (1.07%) Windows Server 2003
18 7 (0.83%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 250 (29.73%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 138 (16.41%) Problem-Solving
3 132 (15.70%) Agile
4 114 (13.56%) ITIL
5 113 (13.44%) Migration
6 73 (8.68%) DevOps
7 54 (6.42%) Customer Service
8 52 (6.18%) High Availability
9 50 (5.95%) Cybersecurity
10 45 (5.35%) Data Protection
10 45 (5.35%) Infrastructure as Code
10 45 (5.35%) Project Delivery
11 42 (4.99%) Change Management
12 40 (4.76%) CI/CD
13 39 (4.64%) Containerisation
14 38 (4.52%) Decision-Making
14 38 (4.52%) Disaster Recovery
15 37 (4.40%) Computer Science
15 37 (4.40%) Configuration Management
16 36 (4.28%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 164 (19.50%) PowerShell
2 115 (13.67%) Python
3 54 (6.42%) SQL
4 45 (5.35%) Bash
5 20 (2.38%) VBScript
6 14 (1.66%) Java
7 13 (1.55%) C#
8 12 (1.43%) JavaScript
9 11 (1.31%) Shell Script
10 9 (1.07%) Perl
11 7 (0.83%) Go
12 6 (0.71%) C++
12 6 (0.71%) Ruby
13 3 (0.36%) Bicep
13 3 (0.36%) C
13 3 (0.36%) PHP
13 3 (0.36%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.12%) Elixir
14 1 (0.12%) VB
Qualifications
1 415 (49.35%) Security Cleared
2 217 (25.80%) SC Cleared
3 207 (24.61%) DV Cleared
4 106 (12.60%) Degree
5 62 (7.37%) Cisco Certification
6 55 (6.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 53 (6.30%) Microsoft Certification
8 52 (6.18%) CCNA
9 38 (4.52%) MCSE
10 33 (3.92%) CCNP
11 26 (3.09%) MCSA
12 16 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
13 13 (1.55%) ITIL Certification
13 13 (1.55%) Master's Degree
14 10 (1.19%) Azure Certification
15 8 (0.95%) Network+ Certification
15 8 (0.95%) VCAP
16 7 (0.83%) A+ Certification
16 7 (0.83%) DBS Check
17 6 (0.71%) RHCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (2.62%) SLA
2 14 (1.66%) NIST
3 9 (1.07%) NCSC
4 7 (0.83%) RMADS
5 5 (0.59%) Disclosure Scotland
5 5 (0.59%) GDPR
5 5 (0.59%) PCI DSS
5 5 (0.59%) PMO
5 5 (0.59%) QA
6 3 (0.36%) ISO 9001
6 3 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 518 (61.59%) VMware Infrastructure
2 318 (37.81%) Active Directory
3 150 (17.84%) Hyper-V
4 134 (15.93%) VMware NSX
5 123 (14.63%) VMware ESXi
6 122 (14.51%) vSphere
7 38 (4.52%) Virtual Machines
8 30 (3.57%) Docker
9 23 (2.73%) Virtual Servers
10 21 (2.50%) VMware Workstation
11 19 (2.26%) KVM
12 16 (1.90%) XenApp
13 11 (1.31%) Firmware
13 11 (1.31%) Terminal Services
14 10 (1.19%) vCloud
15 8 (0.95%) BitLocker
16 7 (0.83%) VMware Server
17 6 (0.71%) Microsoft App-V
17 6 (0.71%) Virtual Desktop
18 3 (0.36%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 129 (15.34%) vCenter Server
2 94 (11.18%) SCCM
3 88 (10.46%) Ansible
4 65 (7.73%) Kubernetes
5 55 (6.54%) Terraform
6 52 (6.18%) WSUS
7 34 (4.04%) Microsoft Intune
8 33 (3.92%) vRealize
9 32 (3.80%) SCOM
10 29 (3.45%) NetBackup
11 27 (3.21%) VxRail
12 16 (1.90%) EMC NetWorker
13 13 (1.55%) Red Hat Satellite
13 13 (1.55%) vMotion
14 12 (1.43%) Microsoft Clustering
15 11 (1.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 11 (1.31%) Puppet
15 11 (1.31%) Rancher
16 9 (1.07%) Nagios
16 9 (1.07%) Nessus
Vendors
1 291 (34.60%) Microsoft
2 106 (12.60%) Cisco
3 81 (9.63%) Red Hat
4 74 (8.80%) Dell
5 65 (7.73%) Veeam
6 52 (6.18%) Citrix
6 52 (6.18%) Oracle
7 39 (4.64%) Palo Alto
8 38 (4.52%) HP
9 31 (3.69%) EMC
10 25 (2.97%) Juniper
11 23 (2.73%) SolarWinds
12 22 (2.62%) Symantec
13 21 (2.50%) NetApp
14 17 (2.02%) Aruba
15 16 (1.90%) 3PAR
15 16 (1.90%) Atlassian
16 15 (1.78%) Google
16 15 (1.78%) ServiceNow
17 14 (1.66%) Splunk