VMware Workstation Contracts

VMware Workstation
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for VMware Workstation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited VMware Workstation over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 555 688 820
Rank change year-on-year +133 +132 -131
Contract jobs citing VMware Workstation 18 12 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.042% 0.021% 0.042%
As % of the System Software category 0.39% 0.16% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 10 35
10th Percentile £235 £350 £405
25th Percentile £235 £500 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £240 £550 £613
Median % change year-on-year -56.36% -10.20% +48.48%
75th Percentile £330 £606 £675
90th Percentile £357 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £240 £550 £427
% change year-on-year -56.36% +28.81% +43.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
Median hourly rate £40.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 - -

All System Software Skills
UK

VMware Workstation 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 4,571 7,489 11,750
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.74% 13.11% 13.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,147 5,323 8,425
10th Percentile £200 £203 £200
25th Percentile £350 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +7.69%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £688 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £480 £450
% change year-on-year -3.65% +6.67% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 260 305
10th Percentile £14.06 £15.25 £13.29
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.25 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.40 £54.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.52% +170.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £60.75 £66.00 £40.75
90th Percentile £78.20 £75.77 £60.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.18 £41.88 £18.12
% change year-on-year -54.21% +131.16% -0.85%

VMware Workstation
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware Workstation in the UK

VMware Workstation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for VMware Workstation in the UK

VMware Workstation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for VMware Workstation in the UK

VMware Workstation
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 Workstation within the UK over the 6 months to 15 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 +105 17 £240 -52.00% 8
UK excluding London +62 17 £240 -56.36% 4
South West +25 8 - -
North of England - 6 £313 -
Yorkshire - 5 £320 -
East of England - 3 £240 - 1
Work from Home +125 1 - - 1
North West - 1 £305 -

VMware Workstation
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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (44.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Adobe Creative Suite
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.56%) AWS
1 1 (5.56%) Azure
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (61.11%) DHCP
1 11 (61.11%) DNS
1 11 (61.11%) Wi-Fi
2 8 (44.44%) LAN
2 8 (44.44%) MPLS
2 8 (44.44%) SAN
2 8 (44.44%) WAN
3 5 (27.78%) VPN
4 3 (16.67%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (44.44%) SQL Server
General
1 13 (72.22%) Social Skills
2 9 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (44.44%) Aerospace
4 3 (16.67%) Banking
4 3 (16.67%) Finance
5 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Analyst
1 8 (44.44%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 8 (44.44%) IT Analyst
1 8 (44.44%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
2 5 (27.78%) Linux Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Linux Support
2 5 (27.78%) Linux Support Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Support Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Windows Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Windows Support Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Data Centre Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) IT Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Data Centre Technician
4 2 (11.11%) Data Technician
4 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) IT Technician
5 1 (5.56%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Support Officer
5 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (72.22%) Clustering
2 11 (61.11%) Data Centre
3 8 (44.44%) Client/Server
4 3 (16.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (5.56%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (5.56%) Freedom of Information Act
5 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
5 1 (5.56%) Replication
5 1 (5.56%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 18 (100.00%) Windows
2 8 (44.44%) Unix
3 7 (38.89%) Windows Server
4 6 (33.33%) Linux
5 4 (22.22%) Windows 10
6 3 (16.67%) Windows 7
7 1 (5.56%) Android
7 1 (5.56%) Apple iOS
7 1 (5.56%) Mac OS
7 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) Migration
2 9 (50.00%) Application Packaging
2 9 (50.00%) Data Protection
3 8 (44.44%) Asset Management
3 8 (44.44%) Business Transformation
3 8 (44.44%) Capacity Management
3 8 (44.44%) Capacity Planning
3 8 (44.44%) Data Migration
3 8 (44.44%) Decision-Making
3 8 (44.44%) Network Management
3 8 (44.44%) Server Management
4 6 (33.33%) ITIL
5 5 (27.78%) High Availability
5 5 (27.78%) Release Management
6 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (16.67%) Computer Science
7 3 (16.67%) Network Monitoring
7 3 (16.67%) Runbook
8 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 1 (5.56%) Cost Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (66.67%) Degree
2 4 (22.22%) CCNA
2 4 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (22.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 3 (16.67%) A+ Certification
3 3 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (16.67%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (5.56%) MCSE
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 18 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (94.44%) Active Directory
3 8 (44.44%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (22.22%) Hyper-V
4 4 (22.22%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (16.67%) KVM
5 3 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (5.56%) vCloud
6 1 (5.56%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (5.56%) VMware NSX
6 1 (5.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (44.44%) Microsoft Clustering
1 8 (44.44%) Nagios
1 8 (44.44%) NetBackup
1 8 (44.44%) SCCM
2 3 (16.67%) vCenter Server
3 1 (5.56%) Ansible
3 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 18 (100.00%) VMware
2 8 (44.44%) Hitachi
2 8 (44.44%) NetApp
3 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.56%) Adobe
4 1 (5.56%) Citrix