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 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 43 33 46
Rank change year-on-year -10 +13 0
Contract jobs citing VMware 828 1,312 1,422
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.08% 5.70% 4.67%
As % of the Vendors category 9.59% 12.80% 11.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 584 927 1,036
10th Percentile £259 £313 £240
25th Percentile £375 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £426
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +20.45% +3.15%
75th Percentile £575 £619 £550
90th Percentile £650 £700 £647
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +7.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 82 47
10th Percentile £39.05 £25.75 £13.00
25th Percentile £40.00 £36.75 £17.38
Median hourly rate £46.18 £53.96 £28.41
Median % change year-on-year -14.41% +89.92% -28.98%
75th Percentile £73.13 £65.75 £59.21
90th Percentile £83.85 £80.25 £69.05
UK median hourly rate £46.39 £63.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% +40.00% -7.69%

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 8,635 10,251 12,279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 42.54% 44.55% 40.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,213 7,037 8,307
10th Percentile £208 £205 £185
25th Percentile £363 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +7.53% +8.14%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 965 455 642
10th Percentile £11.88 £14.25 £10.77
25th Percentile £14.16 £17.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £21.46 £33.00 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year -34.97% +76.00% +1.35%
75th Percentile £58.70 £61.63 £36.69
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £57.31
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £40.55 £21.50
% change year-on-year -46.97% +88.58% -

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 18 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 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for VMware in the UK excluding London

VMware
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 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% 169
South West -5 167 £505 -8.18% 70
North of England -13 126 £378 -14.93% 132
North West -24 76 £350 -22.22% 69
Midlands -23 74 £500 +4.17% 106
Scotland -7 61 £484 -3.30% 18
West Midlands -12 50 £425 -3.41% 59
Yorkshire +6 42 £380 -9.52% 50
East of England -43 36 £550 -8.33% 59
East Midlands -11 23 £550 +10.00% 47
North East +8 8 £500 +17.65% 15
Wales -11 8 £225 -57.14% 8
Northern Ireland +3 1 £525 - 6
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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 85 (10.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 39 (4.71%) Confluence
3 32 (3.86%) SharePoint
4 11 (1.33%) IIS
5 7 (0.85%) SharePoint 2010
5 7 (0.85%) SharePoint Server
6 5 (0.60%) nginx
7 3 (0.36%) 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%) JBoss
9 1 (0.12%) MQSeries
9 1 (0.12%) Site Server
9 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.12%) WildFly
Applications
1 31 (3.74%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 7 (0.85%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.24%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
2 2 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.24%) RMDS
3 1 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 186 (22.46%) Azure
2 114 (13.77%) Microsoft 365
3 82 (9.90%) AWS
4 27 (3.26%) Entra ID
5 26 (3.14%) IaaS
6 23 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
7 22 (2.66%) PaaS
8 19 (2.29%) GCP
8 19 (2.29%) OpenShift
9 15 (1.81%) OCI
10 14 (1.69%) GitHub
11 13 (1.57%) SaaS
12 10 (1.21%) OneDrive
13 8 (0.97%) Nutanix
14 5 (0.60%) Amazon EC2
14 5 (0.60%) Azure Logic Apps
14 5 (0.60%) Cloud Computing
15 4 (0.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 4 (0.48%) Dynamics 365
15 4 (0.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 153 (18.48%) DNS
2 152 (18.36%) Firewall
3 126 (15.22%) SAN
4 122 (14.73%) DHCP
5 79 (9.54%) WAN
6 75 (9.06%) LAN
7 62 (7.49%) TCP/IP
7 62 (7.49%) VPN
8 54 (6.52%) VSAN
9 37 (4.47%) NAS
10 36 (4.35%) Wi-Fi
11 25 (3.02%) VLAN
12 24 (2.90%) Wireless
13 17 (2.05%) Network Security
14 15 (1.81%) MPLS
14 15 (1.81%) VoIP
15 13 (1.57%) Fibre Channel
15 13 (1.57%) Internet
16 12 (1.45%) Remote Desktop
17 10 (1.21%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (5.68%) SQL Server
2 22 (2.66%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (1.93%) MySQL
4 13 (1.57%) MongoDB
5 9 (1.09%) Oracle Database
6 8 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (0.85%) Metadata
7 7 (0.85%) PowerPivot
7 7 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 6 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (0.72%) Microsoft Power View
9 5 (0.60%) RDBMS
9 5 (0.60%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.36%) Power BI
11 2 (0.24%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.24%) CouchDB
12 1 (0.12%) Big Data
12 1 (0.12%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.12%) Navicat
12 1 (0.12%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 50 (6.04%) JIRA
2 29 (3.50%) GitLab
3 21 (2.54%) Robot Framework
4 15 (1.81%) Git
4 15 (1.81%) Sonatype Nexus
5 12 (1.45%) Bitbucket
6 10 (1.21%) Jenkins
7 7 (0.85%) Artifactory
7 7 (0.85%) Selenium
8 6 (0.72%) Rational DOORS
9 3 (0.36%) CppUnit
9 3 (0.36%) PVCS
9 3 (0.36%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.36%) Subversion
9 3 (0.36%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 2 (0.24%) Snyk
11 1 (0.12%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.12%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.12%) TeamCity
General
1 202 (24.40%) Social Skills
2 83 (10.02%) Analytical Skills
3 81 (9.78%) Public Sector
4 27 (3.26%) Finance
5 25 (3.02%) Documentation Skills
6 21 (2.54%) Military
7 14 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
7 14 (1.69%) Telecoms
8 13 (1.57%) Aerospace
8 13 (1.57%) Legal
8 13 (1.57%) Manufacturing
9 12 (1.45%) Banking
9 12 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (0.85%) Marketing
11 6 (0.72%) Publishing
12 5 (0.60%) Billing
13 4 (0.48%) Back Office
13 4 (0.48%) Electronics
14 3 (0.36%) Advertising
14 3 (0.36%) Digital Economy
Job Titles
1 191 (23.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 83 (10.02%) Architect
3 64 (7.73%) Network Engineer
3 64 (7.73%) VMware Engineer
4 62 (7.49%) Senior
5 51 (6.16%) Storage Engineer
6 44 (5.31%) Support Engineer
7 39 (4.71%) Analyst
8 36 (4.35%) Consultant
9 32 (3.86%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 28 (3.38%) Integration Engineer
10 28 (3.38%) Linux Engineer
10 28 (3.38%) Solutions Architect
11 27 (3.26%) Developer
12 26 (3.14%) Wintel Engineer
13 25 (3.02%) Python Developer
14 24 (2.90%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
15 23 (2.78%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 22 (2.66%) Administrator
16 22 (2.66%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (1.93%) .NET
2 9 (1.09%) CSS
2 9 (1.09%) HTML
2 9 (1.09%) Middleware
3 8 (0.97%) LDAP
4 7 (0.85%) Web Services
5 6 (0.72%) YAML
6 5 (0.60%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (0.60%) Flash
7 4 (0.48%) ModSecurity
7 4 (0.48%) Node.js
7 4 (0.48%) REST
8 3 (0.36%) .NET Core
8 3 (0.36%) .NET Framework
8 3 (0.36%) AngularJS
8 3 (0.36%) EDI
8 3 (0.36%) J2EE
8 3 (0.36%) React
8 3 (0.36%) Vue
8 3 (0.36%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 125 (15.10%) Data Centre
2 83 (10.02%) PKI
3 49 (5.92%) Clustering
4 34 (4.11%) Client/Server
5 27 (3.26%) Private Cloud
6 24 (2.90%) Replication
7 20 (2.42%) Linux Command Line
7 20 (2.42%) Public Cloud
8 15 (1.81%) NHS
9 13 (1.57%) Driving Licence
10 10 (1.21%) Management Information System
11 9 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
12 8 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
13 6 (0.72%) Fat Client
13 6 (0.72%) Thin Client
13 6 (0.72%) VxBlock/Vblock
14 5 (0.60%) Enterprise Storage
14 5 (0.60%) Security Posture
14 5 (0.60%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 5 (0.60%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 404 (48.79%) Windows
2 277 (33.45%) Windows Server
3 255 (30.80%) Linux
4 95 (11.47%) Windows Server 2012
5 76 (9.18%) Windows Server 2019
6 67 (8.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 64 (7.73%) Windows 10
8 52 (6.28%) Windows Server 2016
9 47 (5.68%) Unix
10 32 (3.86%) Ubuntu
11 21 (2.54%) Debian
11 21 (2.54%) Windows Server 2008
12 18 (2.17%) VMS
13 16 (1.93%) Windows XP
14 15 (1.81%) Solaris
15 14 (1.69%) CentOS
16 8 (0.97%) Mac OS
17 7 (0.85%) AIX
17 7 (0.85%) Windows Server 2003
18 5 (0.60%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 250 (30.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 133 (16.06%) Problem-Solving
3 130 (15.70%) Agile
4 109 (13.16%) Migration
5 105 (12.68%) ITIL
6 73 (8.82%) DevOps
7 52 (6.28%) High Availability
8 50 (6.04%) Cybersecurity
9 49 (5.92%) Customer Service
10 43 (5.19%) Data Protection
10 43 (5.19%) Project Delivery
11 42 (5.07%) Change Management
11 42 (5.07%) Infrastructure as Code
12 39 (4.71%) Containerisation
13 38 (4.59%) CI/CD
14 37 (4.47%) Decision-Making
14 37 (4.47%) Disaster Recovery
15 36 (4.35%) Server Management
16 35 (4.23%) Configuration Management
17 34 (4.11%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 159 (19.20%) PowerShell
2 109 (13.16%) Python
3 55 (6.64%) SQL
4 43 (5.19%) Bash
5 20 (2.42%) VBScript
6 14 (1.69%) Java
7 13 (1.57%) C#
8 12 (1.45%) JavaScript
9 11 (1.33%) Shell Script
10 9 (1.09%) Perl
11 7 (0.85%) Go
12 6 (0.72%) C++
12 6 (0.72%) 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
1 420 (50.72%) Security Cleared
2 213 (25.72%) SC Cleared
3 211 (25.48%) DV Cleared
4 101 (12.20%) Degree
5 58 (7.00%) Cisco Certification
6 54 (6.52%) Microsoft Certification
7 53 (6.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 48 (5.80%) CCNA
9 39 (4.71%) MCSE
10 30 (3.62%) CCNP
11 27 (3.26%) MCSA
12 14 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
13 13 (1.57%) Master's Degree
14 12 (1.45%) ITIL Certification
15 10 (1.21%) Azure Certification
16 8 (0.97%) VCAP
17 7 (0.85%) Network+ Certification
18 6 (0.72%) A+ Certification
18 6 (0.72%) DBS Check
18 6 (0.72%) RHCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (2.66%) SLA
2 14 (1.69%) NIST
3 9 (1.09%) NCSC
4 7 (0.85%) RMADS
5 5 (0.60%) GDPR
5 5 (0.60%) PCI DSS
5 5 (0.60%) PMO
6 4 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
6 4 (0.48%) QA
7 3 (0.36%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 517 (62.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 304 (36.71%) Active Directory
3 151 (18.24%) Hyper-V
4 135 (16.30%) VMware NSX
5 124 (14.98%) vSphere
6 113 (13.65%) VMware ESXi
7 33 (3.99%) Virtual Machines
8 30 (3.62%) Docker
9 23 (2.78%) Virtual Servers
10 17 (2.05%) VMware Workstation
11 16 (1.93%) XenApp
12 15 (1.81%) KVM
13 11 (1.33%) Firmware
14 10 (1.21%) Terminal Services
14 10 (1.21%) vCloud
15 8 (0.97%) BitLocker
16 7 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
16 7 (0.85%) VMware Server
17 5 (0.60%) Microsoft App-V
18 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 118 (14.25%) vCenter Server
2 91 (10.99%) SCCM
3 85 (10.27%) Ansible
4 65 (7.85%) Kubernetes
5 53 (6.40%) WSUS
6 52 (6.28%) Terraform
7 35 (4.23%) SCOM
8 29 (3.50%) Microsoft Intune
8 29 (3.50%) NetBackup
9 27 (3.26%) vRealize
10 26 (3.14%) VxRail
11 16 (1.93%) EMC NetWorker
12 14 (1.69%) Red Hat Satellite
13 12 (1.45%) Microsoft Clustering
14 11 (1.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 11 (1.33%) Rancher
14 11 (1.33%) vMotion
15 10 (1.21%) Nagios
15 10 (1.21%) Nessus
15 10 (1.21%) Puppet
Vendors
1 278 (33.57%) Microsoft
2 101 (12.20%) Cisco
3 75 (9.06%) Red Hat
4 74 (8.94%) Dell
5 62 (7.49%) Veeam
6 52 (6.28%) Oracle
7 51 (6.16%) Citrix
8 39 (4.71%) Palo Alto
9 34 (4.11%) HP
10 31 (3.74%) EMC
11 26 (3.14%) Juniper
12 24 (2.90%) NetApp
13 22 (2.66%) SolarWinds
14 21 (2.54%) Symantec
15 16 (1.93%) 3PAR
15 16 (1.93%) Atlassian
16 15 (1.81%) Google
17 14 (1.69%) Aruba
17 14 (1.69%) ServiceNow
17 14 (1.69%) Splunk