VMware Contracts with Work from Home Options

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The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 105 64 95
Rank change year-on-year -41 +31 -19
Contract jobs citing VMware 310 855 1,210
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.10% 3.47% 2.75%
As % of the Vendors category 4.96% 8.03% 6.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 591 891
10th Percentile £300 £350 £300
25th Percentile £395 £420 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £450
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +15.56% -1.10%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £575
90th Percentile £638 £676 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +7.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 47 23
10th Percentile £37.63 £47.50 £21.40
25th Percentile £42.01 £61.75 £28.41
Median hourly rate £50.00 £66.00 £60.93
Median % change year-on-year -24.24% +8.32% +10.78%
75th Percentile £63.00 £80.25 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.80 £86.00 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £46.39 £63.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% +40.00% -7.69%

All Vendors
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,247 10,646 17,395
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 42.32% 43.21% 39.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,941 7,170 11,845
10th Percentile £325 £330 £344
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.53%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £625
90th Percentile £725 £743 £720
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 244 256
10th Percentile £13.31 £17.50 £14.43
25th Percentile £16.50 £25.71 £19.81
Median hourly rate £28.50 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.71% +31.25% +53.96%
75th Percentile £53.00 £67.50 £56.53
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.25 £73.13
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £40.55 £21.50
% change year-on-year -46.97% +88.58% -

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing VMware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

VMware trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing VMware.

VMware daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing VMware over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

VMware daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing VMware.

VMware hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing VMware over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

VMware hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 27 (8.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (4.19%) Confluence
3 9 (2.90%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.61%) IIS
4 5 (1.61%) OpenStack
5 3 (0.97%) SharePoint 2010
5 3 (0.97%) SharePoint Server
6 2 (0.65%) Exchange Server 2007
6 2 (0.65%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (0.32%) Apache
7 1 (0.32%) nginx
Applications
1 9 (2.90%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.32%) AutoCAD
3 1 (0.32%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.97%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 104 (33.55%) Azure
2 55 (17.74%) AWS
3 52 (16.77%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (5.81%) IaaS
5 15 (4.84%) Entra ID
6 13 (4.19%) PaaS
7 12 (3.87%) GCP
8 10 (3.23%) Nutanix
9 9 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
9 9 (2.90%) Cloud Computing
9 9 (2.90%) SaaS
10 8 (2.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 7 (2.26%) OpenShift
12 6 (1.94%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (1.94%) Rubrik
12 6 (1.94%) Serverless
13 5 (1.61%) Amazon ECR
13 5 (1.61%) Amazon S3
13 5 (1.61%) AWS Lambda
13 5 (1.61%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 69 (22.26%) Firewall
2 50 (16.13%) SAN
3 40 (12.90%) DNS
4 32 (10.32%) TCP/IP
5 29 (9.35%) DHCP
6 23 (7.42%) WAN
7 20 (6.45%) LAN
8 15 (4.84%) NAS
9 13 (4.19%) VPN
10 12 (3.87%) Cisco ASA
11 10 (3.23%) Internet
12 9 (2.90%) Cisco Nexus
12 9 (2.90%) SD-WAN
12 9 (2.90%) VLAN
13 7 (2.26%) VSAN
14 6 (1.94%) Cisco ISE
14 6 (1.94%) Kerberos
14 6 (1.94%) Wi-Fi
15 5 (1.61%) Wireless
16 4 (1.29%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.84%) SQL Server
2 13 (4.19%) Oracle Database
3 7 (2.26%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (1.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (0.97%) Metadata
5 3 (0.97%) PowerPivot
6 2 (0.65%) Microsoft Power View
7 1 (0.32%) DB2
7 1 (0.32%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.32%) Power BI
7 1 (0.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 21 (6.77%) JIRA
2 17 (5.48%) Jenkins
3 14 (4.52%) Git
4 12 (3.87%) GitLab
5 6 (1.94%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.65%) Snyk
6 2 (0.65%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.32%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.32%) CppUnit
7 1 (0.32%) JIRA Agile
7 1 (0.32%) PVCS
7 1 (0.32%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.32%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.32%) Subversion
7 1 (0.32%) Visual Studio
General
1 45 (14.52%) Social Skills
2 41 (13.23%) Finance
3 19 (6.13%) Public Sector
4 13 (4.19%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (4.19%) Organisational Skills
5 11 (3.55%) Banking
5 11 (3.55%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (2.58%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (1.94%) Telecoms
8 5 (1.61%) Billing
8 5 (1.61%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.65%) Electronics
10 2 (0.65%) Front Office
10 2 (0.65%) Law
10 2 (0.65%) Legal
10 2 (0.65%) Marketing
10 2 (0.65%) Publishing
11 1 (0.32%) Back Office
11 1 (0.32%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 48 (15.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 40 (12.90%) Consultant
3 33 (10.65%) Architect
4 28 (9.03%) Senior
5 19 (6.13%) VMware Engineer
6 17 (5.48%) DevOps Engineer
7 16 (5.16%) Cloud Engineer
7 16 (5.16%) VMware Consultant
8 13 (4.19%) Developer
8 13 (4.19%) Python Developer
9 12 (3.87%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 12 (3.87%) Infrastructure Technician
10 11 (3.55%) Solutions Architect
11 10 (3.23%) Infrastructure Specialist
11 10 (3.23%) Python Engineer
11 10 (3.23%) Security Engineer
12 9 (2.90%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (2.90%) Support Engineer
12 9 (2.90%) VMware Architect
12 9 (2.90%) Vulnerability Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.23%) Middleware
2 9 (2.90%) LDAP
3 7 (2.26%) .NET
3 7 (2.26%) REST
4 6 (1.94%) Node.js
5 5 (1.61%) JSON
5 5 (1.61%) YAML
6 3 (0.97%) CSS
6 3 (0.97%) EDI
6 3 (0.97%) HTML
6 3 (0.97%) RESTful
6 3 (0.97%) SOAP
6 3 (0.97%) XML
7 2 (0.65%) .NET Core
7 2 (0.65%) ADSI
7 2 (0.65%) Web Services
8 1 (0.32%) Apache NiFi
8 1 (0.32%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.32%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 35 (11.29%) Data Centre
2 15 (4.84%) NHS
3 11 (3.55%) Clustering
3 11 (3.55%) Public Cloud
4 10 (3.23%) Management Information System
5 8 (2.58%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 8 (2.58%) Replication
6 6 (1.94%) VxBlock/Vblock
7 5 (1.61%) PKI
8 4 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.29%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (1.29%) Private Cloud
9 3 (0.97%) CCTV
9 3 (0.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (0.97%) Onboarding
9 3 (0.97%) Operational Technology
9 3 (0.97%) SCADA
9 3 (0.97%) Security Posture
9 3 (0.97%) Video Conferencing
10 2 (0.65%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 122 (39.35%) Windows
2 86 (27.74%) Linux
3 82 (26.45%) Windows Server
4 22 (7.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 20 (6.45%) Windows 10
6 18 (5.81%) Ubuntu
7 17 (5.48%) Unix
7 17 (5.48%) Windows Server 2012
8 14 (4.52%) Solaris
9 12 (3.87%) Debian
10 11 (3.55%) Oracle Linux
11 8 (2.58%) VMS
12 6 (1.94%) Windows Server 2016
13 4 (1.29%) Windows Server 2019
14 3 (0.97%) Apple iOS
14 3 (0.97%) Windows Server 2003
14 3 (0.97%) Windows Server 2008
15 2 (0.65%) CentOS
15 2 (0.65%) Mac OS
16 1 (0.32%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (21.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 47 (15.16%) Migration
3 46 (14.84%) ITIL
4 43 (13.87%) Agile
5 33 (10.65%) DevOps
6 32 (10.32%) Problem-Solving
7 28 (9.03%) High Availability
7 28 (9.03%) Vulnerability Management
8 25 (8.06%) Customer Service
9 22 (7.10%) Configuration Management
10 19 (6.13%) Continuous Improvement
11 18 (5.81%) Disaster Recovery
12 17 (5.48%) CI/CD
13 16 (5.16%) Cost Optimisation
14 15 (4.84%) Containerisation
14 15 (4.84%) Root Cause Analysis
14 15 (4.84%) Time Management
15 14 (4.52%) Infrastructure as Code
15 14 (4.52%) Matrix Organization
16 13 (4.19%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 50 (16.13%) Python
2 43 (13.87%) PowerShell
3 21 (6.77%) SQL
4 17 (5.48%) Bash
5 8 (2.58%) Perl
6 4 (1.29%) Go
6 4 (1.29%) JavaScript
6 4 (1.29%) Ruby
7 3 (0.97%) Bicep
7 3 (0.97%) C++
7 3 (0.97%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.65%) Java
8 2 (0.65%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.32%) C
9 1 (0.32%) C#
9 1 (0.32%) PHP
9 1 (0.32%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 53 (17.10%) Security Cleared
2 46 (14.84%) SC Cleared
3 24 (7.74%) Degree
3 24 (7.74%) DV Cleared
4 16 (5.16%) Cisco Certification
5 15 (4.84%) Azure Certification
6 13 (4.19%) CCNP
7 12 (3.87%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (2.26%) CCIE
9 6 (1.94%) CCNA
10 5 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.29%) MCSA
11 4 (1.29%) Network+ Certification
12 3 (0.97%) MCSE
13 2 (0.65%) A+ Certification
13 2 (0.65%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.65%) JNCIP
13 2 (0.65%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.65%) PMP
13 2 (0.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.45%) SLA
2 9 (2.90%) GDPR
3 6 (1.94%) PMO
3 6 (1.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (0.65%) ISO 9001
4 2 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 2 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.65%) NCSC
4 2 (0.65%) NIST
4 2 (0.65%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.32%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 168 (54.19%) VMware Infrastructure
2 87 (28.06%) Active Directory
3 50 (16.13%) VMware NSX
4 44 (14.19%) vSphere
5 40 (12.90%) Hyper-V
6 29 (9.35%) Docker
7 19 (6.13%) Virtual Machines
8 18 (5.81%) VMware ESXi
9 7 (2.26%) XenApp
10 5 (1.61%) KVM
10 5 (1.61%) vCloud
10 5 (1.61%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (1.29%) XenDesktop
12 3 (0.97%) Terminal Services
12 3 (0.97%) VMware Server
13 2 (0.65%) Ceph
13 2 (0.65%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 2 (0.65%) Virtual Desktop
14 1 (0.32%) DFS Replication
14 1 (0.32%) UAG
Systems Management
1 42 (13.55%) Ansible
1 42 (13.55%) Kubernetes
2 36 (11.61%) Terraform
3 34 (10.97%) SCCM
4 15 (4.84%) vCenter Server
5 9 (2.90%) WSUS
6 8 (2.58%) Puppet
6 8 (2.58%) VxRail
7 6 (1.94%) EMC NetWorker
7 6 (1.94%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (1.94%) Netcool
7 6 (1.94%) Tivoli
7 6 (1.94%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 5 (1.61%) Avamar
8 5 (1.61%) Nessus
8 5 (1.61%) Progress Chef
8 5 (1.61%) Red Hat Satellite
8 5 (1.61%) vRealize
9 4 (1.29%) FortiGate
9 4 (1.29%) Nagios
Vendors
1 127 (40.97%) Microsoft
2 43 (13.87%) Cisco
3 30 (9.68%) Red Hat
4 26 (8.39%) Qualys
5 24 (7.74%) Dell
6 23 (7.42%) Citrix
6 23 (7.42%) Oracle
7 18 (5.81%) ServiceNow
7 18 (5.81%) Veeam
8 16 (5.16%) Palo Alto
9 13 (4.19%) Splunk
10 10 (3.23%) CA
10 10 (3.23%) CyberArk
10 10 (3.23%) EMC
11 9 (2.90%) Commvault
11 9 (2.90%) SolarWinds
12 8 (2.58%) HP
13 7 (2.26%) CheckPoint
14 6 (1.94%) Fortinet
14 6 (1.94%) Serena