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 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 32 45
Rank change year-on-year -4 +13 +1
Contract jobs citing VMware 894 1,349 1,432
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.29% 5.89% 4.69%
As % of the Vendors category 10.13% 13.11% 11.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 637 949 1,052
10th Percentile £263 £313 £255
25th Percentile £400 £400 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £513 £450
Median % change year-on-year -0.98% +13.89% +9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £615 £550
90th Percentile £650 £700 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +7.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 73 42
10th Percentile £38.58 £25.75 £13.00
25th Percentile £40.00 £36.75 £16.25
Median hourly rate £46.18 £52.13 £24.25
Median % change year-on-year -11.41% +114.97% -34.46%
75th Percentile £75.00 £66.00 £50.46
90th Percentile £85.49 £81.15 £67.43
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £62.50 £44.06
% change year-on-year -26.11% +41.85% -4.22%

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 8,822 10,291 12,412
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 42.32% 44.91% 40.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,309 7,034 8,437
10th Percentile £208 £205 £190
25th Percentile £365 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 985 435 639
10th Percentile £12.00 £14.25 £11.29
25th Percentile £14.16 £17.60 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.77% +92.31% +8.33%
75th Percentile £59.50 £60.00 £38.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.16 £56.25
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -47.06% +97.67% +4.88%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 2 June 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 -1 402 £525 +0.96% 136
South West -1 199 £525 -4.55% 70
North of England -20 124 £385 -10.47% 109
Midlands -2 104 £550 +14.58% 94
North West -24 79 £350 -22.22% 60
West Midlands +2 76 £550 +29.41% 58
Scotland -17 48 £438 -12.40% 15
East of England -43 41 £550 -8.33% 47
Yorkshire +8 37 £390 -7.14% 41
East Midlands -10 27 £500 - 36
North East +5 8 £500 +53.85% 9
Wales -13 8 £220 -58.10% 15
Northern Ireland -2 1 £525 +23.53% 4
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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 87 (9.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 41 (4.59%) Confluence
3 34 (3.80%) SharePoint
4 12 (1.34%) IIS
5 8 (0.89%) SharePoint Server
6 7 (0.78%) SharePoint 2010
7 6 (0.67%) nginx
8 3 (0.34%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.22%) Apache
9 2 (0.22%) IBM Domino
9 2 (0.22%) Skype for Business
9 2 (0.22%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.22%) Traefik
9 2 (0.22%) WordPress
10 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
10 1 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2007
10 1 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2010
10 1 (0.11%) Exchange Server 2013
10 1 (0.11%) JBoss
10 1 (0.11%) Site Server
Applications
1 32 (3.58%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.11%) PTC Creo
3 1 (0.11%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 7 (0.78%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 191 (21.36%) Azure
2 116 (12.98%) Microsoft 365
3 86 (9.62%) AWS
4 27 (3.02%) Entra ID
5 25 (2.80%) IaaS
5 25 (2.80%) PaaS
6 24 (2.68%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (2.35%) OpenShift
8 19 (2.13%) GCP
9 15 (1.68%) OCI
10 14 (1.57%) GitHub
10 14 (1.57%) SaaS
11 10 (1.12%) OneDrive
12 8 (0.89%) Nutanix
13 5 (0.56%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (0.56%) Azure Logic Apps
13 5 (0.56%) Cloud Computing
13 5 (0.56%) Dynamics 365
14 4 (0.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 4 (0.45%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 151 (16.89%) Firewall
2 147 (16.44%) DNS
3 125 (13.98%) SAN
4 120 (13.42%) DHCP
5 77 (8.61%) WAN
6 70 (7.83%) LAN
7 62 (6.94%) TCP/IP
7 62 (6.94%) VPN
8 52 (5.82%) VSAN
9 38 (4.25%) NAS
10 34 (3.80%) Wi-Fi
11 31 (3.47%) VLAN
12 25 (2.80%) Wireless
13 21 (2.35%) SD-WAN
14 20 (2.24%) Remote Desktop
15 18 (2.01%) Network Security
16 15 (1.68%) VoIP
17 14 (1.57%) Fibre Channel
17 14 (1.57%) MPLS
18 12 (1.34%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (5.15%) SQL Server
2 21 (2.35%) PostgreSQL
3 15 (1.68%) MySQL
4 12 (1.34%) MongoDB
5 9 (1.01%) Oracle Database
6 7 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
6 7 (0.78%) Metadata
6 7 (0.78%) PowerPivot
6 7 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 6 (0.67%) Elasticsearch
7 6 (0.67%) Microsoft Power View
8 5 (0.56%) RDBMS
8 5 (0.56%) Relational Database
9 3 (0.34%) Power BI
10 2 (0.22%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (0.22%) CouchDB
11 1 (0.11%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.11%) Navicat
11 1 (0.11%) Oracle Database 11g
11 1 (0.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 51 (5.70%) JIRA
2 31 (3.47%) GitLab
3 30 (3.36%) Git
4 22 (2.46%) Robot Framework
5 15 (1.68%) Sonatype Nexus
6 14 (1.57%) Bitbucket
7 10 (1.12%) Jenkins
8 7 (0.78%) Artifactory
8 7 (0.78%) Selenium
9 6 (0.67%) Rational DOORS
10 3 (0.34%) CppUnit
10 3 (0.34%) PVCS
10 3 (0.34%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.34%) Subversion
10 3 (0.34%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.22%) Snyk
12 1 (0.11%) Octopus Deploy
12 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 1 (0.11%) TeamCity
General
1 205 (22.93%) Social Skills
2 89 (9.96%) Analytical Skills
2 89 (9.96%) Public Sector
3 24 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
3 24 (2.68%) Finance
4 22 (2.46%) Military
5 17 (1.90%) Telecoms
6 15 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
7 14 (1.57%) Manufacturing
8 13 (1.45%) Aerospace
8 13 (1.45%) Legal
9 11 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (0.89%) Banking
10 8 (0.89%) Marketing
11 7 (0.78%) Publishing
12 5 (0.56%) Billing
12 5 (0.56%) Electronics
13 4 (0.45%) Back Office
13 4 (0.45%) Financial Institution
14 3 (0.34%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 196 (21.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 100 (11.19%) Architect
3 74 (8.28%) VMware Engineer
4 61 (6.82%) Network Engineer
4 61 (6.82%) Senior
5 54 (6.04%) Storage Engineer
6 46 (5.15%) Support Engineer
7 40 (4.47%) Analyst
8 37 (4.14%) Consultant
9 36 (4.03%) Wintel Engineer
10 33 (3.69%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 28 (3.13%) Integration Engineer
12 27 (3.02%) Linux Engineer
12 27 (3.02%) Solutions Architect
13 24 (2.68%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
14 23 (2.57%) Developer
14 23 (2.57%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 22 (2.46%) Server Engineer
16 21 (2.35%) Python Developer
16 21 (2.35%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (2.35%) YAML
2 18 (2.01%) .NET
3 9 (1.01%) CSS
3 9 (1.01%) HTML
4 8 (0.89%) Web Services
5 7 (0.78%) Middleware
6 6 (0.67%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (0.67%) LDAP
6 6 (0.67%) ModSecurity
7 5 (0.56%) .NET Framework
7 5 (0.56%) Flash
8 4 (0.45%) Node.js
8 4 (0.45%) REST
9 3 (0.34%) .NET Core
9 3 (0.34%) AngularJS
9 3 (0.34%) EDI
9 3 (0.34%) J2EE
9 3 (0.34%) React
9 3 (0.34%) Vue
9 3 (0.34%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 137 (15.32%) Data Centre
2 87 (9.73%) PKI
3 47 (5.26%) Clustering
4 36 (4.03%) Client/Server
5 25 (2.80%) Replication
6 23 (2.57%) Private Cloud
7 21 (2.35%) Public Cloud
8 20 (2.24%) Linux Command Line
9 15 (1.68%) NHS
10 13 (1.45%) Driving Licence
11 11 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (1.12%) Cloud Native
12 10 (1.12%) Management Information System
13 7 (0.78%) Security Posture
14 6 (0.67%) Data Protection Act
14 6 (0.67%) Fat Client
14 6 (0.67%) Grid Computing
14 6 (0.67%) Onboarding
14 6 (0.67%) Thin Client
14 6 (0.67%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 431 (48.21%) Windows
2 283 (31.66%) Windows Server
3 274 (30.65%) Linux
4 95 (10.63%) Windows Server 2012
5 89 (9.96%) Windows Server 2019
6 85 (9.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 64 (7.16%) Windows 10
8 57 (6.38%) Windows Server 2016
9 45 (5.03%) Unix
10 31 (3.47%) Ubuntu
11 20 (2.24%) Debian
12 19 (2.13%) Windows Server 2008
13 18 (2.01%) VMS
14 16 (1.79%) Windows XP
15 15 (1.68%) Solaris
16 14 (1.57%) CentOS
17 9 (1.01%) Mac OS
18 7 (0.78%) AIX
19 6 (0.67%) Windows Server 2003
20 3 (0.34%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 259 (28.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 137 (15.32%) Problem-Solving
3 135 (15.10%) Agile
4 109 (12.19%) Migration
5 104 (11.63%) ITIL
6 72 (8.05%) DevOps
7 59 (6.60%) Infrastructure as Code
8 51 (5.70%) Cybersecurity
8 51 (5.70%) High Availability
9 46 (5.15%) Customer Service
10 45 (5.03%) Configuration Management
11 44 (4.92%) Project Delivery
11 44 (4.92%) Virtual Infrastructure
12 42 (4.70%) Change Management
13 41 (4.59%) CI/CD
13 41 (4.59%) Data Protection
13 41 (4.59%) Validation
14 38 (4.25%) Converged Infrastructure
14 38 (4.25%) Disaster Recovery
15 37 (4.14%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 196 (21.92%) PowerShell
2 112 (12.53%) Python
3 54 (6.04%) SQL
4 42 (4.70%) Bash
5 22 (2.46%) VBScript
6 14 (1.57%) Java
7 13 (1.45%) C#
8 11 (1.23%) JavaScript
8 11 (1.23%) Shell Script
9 7 (0.78%) Go
9 7 (0.78%) Perl
10 6 (0.67%) C++
11 5 (0.56%) Ruby
12 3 (0.34%) Bicep
12 3 (0.34%) C
12 3 (0.34%) PHP
12 3 (0.34%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.11%) VB
Qualifications
1 489 (54.70%) Security Cleared
2 255 (28.52%) SC Cleared
3 235 (26.29%) DV Cleared
4 100 (11.19%) Degree
5 55 (6.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 54 (6.04%) Microsoft Certification
7 52 (5.82%) Cisco Certification
8 43 (4.81%) CCNA
9 39 (4.36%) MCSE
10 29 (3.24%) CCNP
11 26 (2.91%) MCSA
12 14 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
12 14 (1.57%) Master's Degree
13 13 (1.45%) ITIL Certification
14 10 (1.12%) Azure Certification
14 10 (1.12%) VCAP
15 6 (0.67%) RHCT
16 5 (0.56%) DBS Check
16 5 (0.56%) Network+ Certification
17 4 (0.45%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (2.46%) SLA
2 14 (1.57%) NIST
3 9 (1.01%) NCSC
4 7 (0.78%) RMADS
5 6 (0.67%) GDPR
5 6 (0.67%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.56%) PMO
7 4 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
8 3 (0.34%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 2 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.22%) QA
10 1 (0.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 566 (63.31%) VMware Infrastructure
2 305 (34.12%) Active Directory
3 151 (16.89%) VMware NSX
4 150 (16.78%) Hyper-V
5 144 (16.11%) vSphere
6 123 (13.76%) VMware ESXi
7 51 (5.70%) Virtual Machines
8 26 (2.91%) Docker
9 21 (2.35%) Virtual Servers
10 16 (1.79%) KVM
10 16 (1.79%) VMware Workstation
10 16 (1.79%) XenApp
11 11 (1.23%) Firmware
12 10 (1.12%) vCloud
12 10 (1.12%) Virtual Desktop
13 9 (1.01%) Terminal Services
14 8 (0.89%) BitLocker
14 8 (0.89%) VMFS
15 7 (0.78%) VMware Server
16 4 (0.45%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 113 (12.64%) vCenter Server
2 103 (11.52%) Ansible
3 94 (10.51%) SCCM
4 71 (7.94%) Terraform
5 62 (6.94%) Kubernetes
6 56 (6.26%) WSUS
7 36 (4.03%) SCOM
8 31 (3.47%) Microsoft Intune
9 29 (3.24%) NetBackup
10 26 (2.91%) vRealize
10 26 (2.91%) VxRail
11 22 (2.46%) Puppet
12 16 (1.79%) Progress Chef
12 16 (1.79%) Red Hat Satellite
13 14 (1.57%) EMC NetWorker
14 13 (1.45%) Nessus
14 13 (1.45%) Salt
15 12 (1.34%) Rancher
16 11 (1.23%) Microsoft Clustering
16 11 (1.23%) Nagios
Vendors
1 284 (31.77%) Microsoft
2 115 (12.86%) Cisco
3 87 (9.73%) Red Hat
4 74 (8.28%) Dell
5 60 (6.71%) Veeam
6 52 (5.82%) Citrix
7 51 (5.70%) Oracle
8 39 (4.36%) Palo Alto
9 35 (3.91%) HP
10 29 (3.24%) EMC
11 27 (3.02%) NetApp
12 25 (2.80%) Juniper
13 22 (2.46%) SolarWinds
14 21 (2.35%) Symantec
15 17 (1.90%) Atlassian
15 17 (1.90%) Google
16 16 (1.79%) 3PAR
17 15 (1.68%) F5
18 14 (1.57%) Extreme Networks
18 14 (1.57%) Splunk