VMware Server Contracts

VMware Server
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for VMware Server skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited VMware Server over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 591 704 857
Rank change year-on-year +113 +153 -177
Contract jobs citing VMware Server 9 12 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.020% 0.007%
As % of the System Software category 0.19% 0.15% 0.050%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 4
10th Percentile £264 £393 £216
25th Percentile £299 £419 £226
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £525 £244
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% +115.38% -51.01%
75th Percentile £426 £588 £272
90th Percentile £553 - £311
UK excluding London median daily rate £299 £463 £244
% change year-on-year -35.35% +89.74% -51.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £38.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £38.50 -

All System Software Skills
UK

VMware Server is in the System Software category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,664 7,771 11,994
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.81% 13.16% 13.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,192 5,549 8,597
10th Percentile £200 £204 £200
25th Percentile £338 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £480 £450
% change year-on-year -4.17% +6.67% +6.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 233 277 320
10th Percentile £14.06 £15.23 £13.24
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.25 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £54.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.33% +170.00% -
75th Percentile £60.75 £66.00 £45.85
90th Percentile £79.60 £75.20 £61.09
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.98 £44.93 £18.12
% change year-on-year -53.31% +148.01% +2.49%

VMware Server
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware Server in the UK

VMware Server
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for VMware Server in the UK

VMware Server
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Server over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Server in the UK

VMware Server
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for VMware Server in the UK

VMware Server
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware Server within the UK over the 6 months to 5 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
England +118 9 £300 -42.86% 8
UK excluding London +55 7 £299 -35.35% 7
Midlands +32 6 £300 - 2
West Midlands - 5 £300 - 1
Work from Home +128 3 £535 - 1
London +114 2 £535 +1.90% 1
South West +22 1 £225 -
East Midlands +17 1 - - 1

VMware Server
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) DHCP
1 5 (55.56%) DNS
1 5 (55.56%) Fibre Channel
1 5 (55.56%) Remote Desktop
1 5 (55.56%) SAN
2 4 (44.44%) LAN
2 4 (44.44%) WAN
3 1 (11.11%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 2 (22.22%) Banking
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
1 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Administrator
1 5 (55.56%) Server Administrator
1 5 (55.56%) VMWare Administrator
2 2 (22.22%) Wintel Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Development Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) IT Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) IT Support
3 1 (11.11%) IT Support Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) PKI
2 2 (22.22%) Data Centre
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Licensing
3 1 (11.11%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (88.89%) Windows
2 5 (55.56%) Windows Server
3 4 (44.44%) CentOS
3 4 (44.44%) Linux
3 4 (44.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (44.44%) Ubuntu
4 1 (11.11%) Android
4 1 (11.11%) Apple iOS
4 1 (11.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Load Balancing
1 5 (55.56%) Virtual Infrastructure
2 4 (44.44%) Change Control
2 4 (44.44%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (44.44%) Patch Management
2 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (44.44%) Task Automation
3 2 (22.22%) Security Patching
4 1 (11.11%) Asset Management
4 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (11.11%) Customer Service
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) PRINCE2
4 1 (11.11%) Software Licensing
4 1 (11.11%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Bash
1 4 (44.44%) PowerShell
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 8 (88.89%) Active Directory
2 7 (77.78%) vSphere
3 6 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (55.56%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (55.56%) VMware NSX
5 2 (22.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) vCenter Server
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) VMware
2 8 (88.89%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) Avaya
3 1 (11.11%) Citrix