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 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 69 58 74
Rank change year-on-year -11 +16 -5
Contract jobs citing VMware 1,099 1,830 2,332
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 3.02% 3.80% 3.31%
As % of the Vendors category 7.17% 9.05% 8.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 757 1,299 1,703
10th Percentile £273 £313 £258
25th Percentile £380 £407 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £631 £594
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +7.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 95 54
10th Percentile £23.05 £26.60 £13.00
25th Percentile £40.00 £41.25 £20.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £60.70 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.92% +44.52% -11.58%
75th Percentile £71.25 £70.13 £60.07
90th Percentile £80.29 £82.05 £69.05
UK median hourly rate £46.39 £63.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% +40.00% -7.69%

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 15,330 20,219 27,858
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 42.09% 41.96% 39.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,758 13,926 19,092
10th Percentile £263 £263 £275
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £635 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,022 571 784
10th Percentile £12.13 £15.00 £11.93
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.50 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £35.00 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year -37.14% +63.78% +1.76%
75th Percentile £57.12 £63.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £63.18
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £40.55 £21.50
% change year-on-year -46.97% +88.58% -

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +2 356 £513 -1.25% 168
London -16 319 £500 -6.54% 169
South West -5 167 £505 -8.18% 68
North of England -13 126 £378 -14.93% 131
North West -24 76 £350 -22.22% 68
Midlands -23 74 £500 +4.17% 106
West Midlands -12 50 £425 -3.41% 59
Yorkshire +6 42 £380 -9.52% 50
East of England -43 36 £550 -8.33% 58
East Midlands -11 23 £550 +10.00% 47
North East +8 8 £500 +17.65% 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
1 129 (11.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 52 (4.73%) Confluence
3 51 (4.64%) SharePoint
4 18 (1.64%) Exchange Server 2010
5 15 (1.36%) OpenStack
6 14 (1.27%) Exchange Server 2013
7 11 (1.00%) IIS
8 7 (0.64%) SharePoint 2010
8 7 (0.64%) SharePoint Server
9 6 (0.55%) Exchange Server 2007
10 5 (0.45%) nginx
11 4 (0.36%) IBM Domino
11 4 (0.36%) MQSeries
12 3 (0.27%) Skype for Business
12 3 (0.27%) WordPress
13 2 (0.18%) Traefik
14 1 (0.091%) Apache
14 1 (0.091%) Site Server
14 1 (0.091%) Tomcat
14 1 (0.091%) WebSphere
Applications
1 37 (3.37%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.091%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 7 (0.64%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
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 (0.091%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.091%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.091%) Eikon
4 1 (0.091%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.091%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 294 (26.75%) Azure
2 175 (15.92%) Microsoft 365
3 159 (14.47%) AWS
4 49 (4.46%) Entra ID
5 39 (3.55%) IaaS
6 36 (3.28%) GCP
7 31 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
7 31 (2.82%) PaaS
8 25 (2.27%) Nutanix
9 24 (2.18%) GitHub
9 24 (2.18%) SaaS
10 22 (2.00%) Cloud Computing
11 21 (1.91%) OpenShift
12 16 (1.46%) OCI
13 15 (1.36%) OneDrive
14 13 (1.18%) Amazon EC2
15 11 (1.00%) Mimecast
16 9 (0.82%) Rubrik
16 9 (0.82%) Slack
16 9 (0.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 203 (18.47%) Firewall
2 202 (18.38%) DNS
3 160 (14.56%) SAN
4 143 (13.01%) DHCP
5 99 (9.01%) WAN
6 88 (8.01%) LAN
7 79 (7.19%) VPN
8 72 (6.55%) TCP/IP
9 56 (5.10%) NAS
10 54 (4.91%) VSAN
11 43 (3.91%) Wi-Fi
12 38 (3.46%) Wireless
13 33 (3.00%) VLAN
14 29 (2.64%) Network Security
15 28 (2.55%) MPLS
16 21 (1.91%) SD-WAN
17 20 (1.82%) VoIP
18 17 (1.55%) Internet
19 16 (1.46%) Remote Desktop
20 15 (1.36%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (6.46%) SQL Server
2 25 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (1.73%) MySQL
4 17 (1.55%) Oracle Database
5 14 (1.27%) MongoDB
6 12 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
7 9 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
8 8 (0.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 7 (0.64%) Metadata
9 7 (0.64%) PowerPivot
10 6 (0.55%) Microsoft Power View
10 6 (0.55%) RDBMS
10 6 (0.55%) Relational Database
11 4 (0.36%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.27%) DB2
12 3 (0.27%) Power BI
13 2 (0.18%) CouchDB
13 2 (0.18%) Electronic Patient Records
13 2 (0.18%) SAP HANA
14 1 (0.091%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 68 (6.19%) JIRA
2 37 (3.37%) GitLab
3 31 (2.82%) Jenkins
4 29 (2.64%) Git
5 21 (1.91%) Robot Framework
6 16 (1.46%) Sonatype Nexus
7 12 (1.09%) Bitbucket
8 8 (0.73%) Artifactory
8 8 (0.73%) Selenium
8 8 (0.73%) TeamCity
9 6 (0.55%) Rational DOORS
10 3 (0.27%) CppUnit
10 3 (0.27%) PVCS
10 3 (0.27%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.27%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (0.18%) Octopus Deploy
11 2 (0.18%) Snyk
11 2 (0.18%) Subversion
12 1 (0.091%) Oracle APEX
General
1 248 (22.57%) Social Skills
2 106 (9.65%) Analytical Skills
3 95 (8.64%) Public Sector
4 82 (7.46%) Finance
5 37 (3.37%) Documentation Skills
6 24 (2.18%) Banking
7 22 (2.00%) Military
8 18 (1.64%) Legal
9 17 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
9 17 (1.55%) Telecoms
10 15 (1.36%) Manufacturing
11 13 (1.18%) Aerospace
12 11 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
13 10 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 10 (0.91%) Marketing
14 7 (0.64%) Financial Institution
15 6 (0.55%) French Language
15 6 (0.55%) Publishing
16 5 (0.45%) Electronics
16 5 (0.45%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 247 (22.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 118 (10.74%) Architect
3 84 (7.64%) VMware Engineer
4 82 (7.46%) Senior
5 79 (7.19%) Network Engineer
6 56 (5.10%) Storage Engineer
7 53 (4.82%) Support Engineer
8 51 (4.64%) Consultant
9 45 (4.09%) Administrator
9 45 (4.09%) Solutions Architect
10 43 (3.91%) Analyst
11 36 (3.28%) Linux Engineer
12 34 (3.09%) Integration Engineer
12 34 (3.09%) Wintel Engineer
13 31 (2.82%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 31 (2.82%) Cloud Engineer
14 27 (2.46%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
14 27 (2.46%) Systems Administrator
14 27 (2.46%) VMware Architect
15 26 (2.37%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (2.09%) LDAP
2 16 (1.46%) .NET
3 13 (1.18%) Elastic Stack
4 9 (0.82%) CSS
4 9 (0.82%) HTML
4 9 (0.82%) YAML
5 8 (0.73%) Node.js
6 6 (0.55%) Web Services
7 5 (0.45%) Flash
7 5 (0.45%) Middleware
7 5 (0.45%) REST
8 4 (0.36%) EDI
8 4 (0.36%) ModSecurity
9 3 (0.27%) .NET Core
9 3 (0.27%) Apache NiFi
9 3 (0.27%) LAMP
9 3 (0.27%) OAuth2
9 3 (0.27%) React
9 3 (0.27%) Vue
9 3 (0.27%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 160 (14.56%) Data Centre
2 93 (8.46%) PKI
3 61 (5.55%) Clustering
4 34 (3.09%) Replication
5 33 (3.00%) Client/Server
6 29 (2.64%) Public Cloud
7 27 (2.46%) Management Information System
7 27 (2.46%) Private Cloud
8 23 (2.09%) Linux Command Line
9 20 (1.82%) NHS
10 14 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
11 13 (1.18%) Driving Licence
12 12 (1.09%) Onboarding
12 12 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
13 10 (0.91%) Fat Client
13 10 (0.91%) Thin Client
14 9 (0.82%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 8 (0.73%) Security Posture
15 8 (0.73%) Video Conferencing
15 8 (0.73%) VxBlock/Vblock
Operating Systems
1 553 (50.32%) Windows
2 366 (33.30%) Windows Server
3 338 (30.76%) Linux
4 105 (9.55%) Windows Server 2012
5 98 (8.92%) Windows 10
6 94 (8.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 80 (7.28%) Windows Server 2019
8 67 (6.10%) Unix
9 49 (4.46%) Windows Server 2016
10 37 (3.37%) VMS
11 33 (3.00%) Ubuntu
12 31 (2.82%) Windows Server 2008
13 30 (2.73%) Solaris
14 22 (2.00%) Windows 7
15 17 (1.55%) Oracle Linux
15 17 (1.55%) Windows XP
16 16 (1.46%) CentOS
17 15 (1.36%) Debian
18 14 (1.27%) Mac OS
19 6 (0.55%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 319 (29.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 173 (15.74%) Problem-Solving
3 155 (14.10%) Agile
4 151 (13.74%) ITIL
5 133 (12.10%) Migration
6 89 (8.10%) DevOps
7 74 (6.73%) Disaster Recovery
8 68 (6.19%) Customer Service
9 67 (6.10%) High Availability
10 63 (5.73%) Infrastructure as Code
11 60 (5.46%) CI/CD
12 53 (4.82%) Computer Science
12 53 (4.82%) Cybersecurity
13 50 (4.55%) Data Protection
13 50 (4.55%) Server Management
14 49 (4.46%) Change Management
15 48 (4.37%) Vulnerability Management
16 47 (4.28%) Project Delivery
17 42 (3.82%) Configuration Management
17 42 (3.82%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 207 (18.84%) PowerShell
2 149 (13.56%) Python
3 83 (7.55%) SQL
4 59 (5.37%) Bash
5 20 (1.82%) Shell Script
5 20 (1.82%) VBScript
6 19 (1.73%) Java
7 15 (1.36%) C#
8 12 (1.09%) JavaScript
9 8 (0.73%) Go
10 7 (0.64%) C++
11 6 (0.55%) Ruby
12 5 (0.45%) C
13 4 (0.36%) Perl
14 3 (0.27%) Bicep
14 3 (0.27%) PHP
14 3 (0.27%) VB.NET
15 1 (0.091%) Groovy
15 1 (0.091%) Korn
15 1 (0.091%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 473 (43.04%) Security Cleared
2 248 (22.57%) SC Cleared
3 236 (21.47%) DV Cleared
4 123 (11.19%) Degree
5 72 (6.55%) Cisco Certification
6 65 (5.91%) Microsoft Certification
7 55 (5.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 51 (4.64%) CCNA
9 38 (3.46%) CCNP
10 36 (3.28%) MCSE
11 32 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
12 29 (2.64%) Azure Certification
13 23 (2.09%) MCSA
14 15 (1.36%) Master's Degree
15 14 (1.27%) ITIL Certification
16 8 (0.73%) Network+ Certification
16 8 (0.73%) VCAP
17 6 (0.55%) A+ Certification
17 6 (0.55%) CCIE
17 6 (0.55%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (3.09%) SLA
2 16 (1.46%) NIST
3 14 (1.27%) GDPR
4 9 (0.82%) NCSC
5 7 (0.64%) PMO
5 7 (0.64%) RMADS
6 6 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (0.45%) PCI DSS
7 5 (0.45%) QA
8 3 (0.27%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 2 (0.18%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.091%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.091%) ISO 22301
System Software
1 679 (61.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 394 (35.85%) Active Directory
3 180 (16.38%) Hyper-V
4 158 (14.38%) VMware NSX
5 157 (14.29%) vSphere
6 117 (10.65%) VMware ESXi
7 58 (5.28%) Docker
8 48 (4.37%) Virtual Machines
9 29 (2.64%) Virtual Servers
10 27 (2.46%) KVM
11 19 (1.73%) Firmware
11 19 (1.73%) XenApp
12 17 (1.55%) VMware Workstation
13 13 (1.18%) Virtual Desktop
14 11 (1.00%) vCloud
15 9 (0.82%) VMware Server
16 7 (0.64%) BitLocker
17 6 (0.55%) Terminal Services
18 4 (0.36%) Microsoft Virtual Server
18 4 (0.36%) Samba
Systems Management
1 135 (12.28%) SCCM
2 127 (11.56%) Ansible
3 119 (10.83%) vCenter Server
4 101 (9.19%) Kubernetes
5 94 (8.55%) Terraform
6 61 (5.55%) WSUS
7 51 (4.64%) SCOM
8 41 (3.73%) Microsoft Intune
9 33 (3.00%) NetBackup
10 31 (2.82%) VxRail
11 25 (2.27%) vRealize
12 22 (2.00%) EMC NetWorker
13 18 (1.64%) Red Hat Satellite
14 15 (1.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 14 (1.27%) Microsoft Clustering
15 14 (1.27%) Prometheus
16 13 (1.18%) Nessus
17 12 (1.09%) Nagios
17 12 (1.09%) Puppet
17 12 (1.09%) Rancher
Vendors
1 376 (34.21%) Microsoft
2 137 (12.47%) Cisco
3 100 (9.10%) Dell
4 97 (8.83%) Red Hat
5 83 (7.55%) Veeam
6 76 (6.92%) Oracle
7 74 (6.73%) Citrix
8 50 (4.55%) Palo Alto
9 49 (4.46%) HP
10 43 (3.91%) EMC
11 35 (3.18%) Juniper
12 33 (3.00%) ServiceNow
12 33 (3.00%) SolarWinds
13 27 (2.46%) NetApp
13 27 (2.46%) Qualys
13 27 (2.46%) Splunk
14 23 (2.09%) IBM
15 22 (2.00%) Google
16 21 (1.91%) Symantec
17 20 (1.82%) F5