VMware Consultant Contracts in England

VMware Consultant
UK > England

The median VMware Consultant daily rate in England is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 496 499 576
Rank change year-on-year +3 +77 +192
Contract jobs requiring a VMware Consultant 23 25 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.083% 0.075% 0.088%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.091% 0.080% 0.093%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 17 22
10th Percentile £543 £374 -
25th Percentile - £450 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -5.00% -11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £606
90th Percentile £629 £563 £654
UK median daily rate £600 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +26.32% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £61.33
25th Percentile - - £61.44
Median hourly rate - - £63.00
75th Percentile - - £72.13
90th Percentile - - £85.85
UK median hourly rate - - £66.00
% change year-on-year - - -10.81%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 25,342 31,079 43,055
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.69% 92.90% 94.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,441 20,449 30,337
10th Percentile £285 £300 £307
25th Percentile £402 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £656
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,310 1,833 1,343
10th Percentile £13.55 £14.16 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £21.25 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.66 £45.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.98% +5.88% +66.67%
75th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +65.50%

VMware Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured VMware Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for VMware Consultant in England

VMware Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for VMware Consultant in England

VMware Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Consultant in England over the 6 months to 6 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Consultant in England

VMware Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for VMware Consultant in England

VMware Consultant
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 Consultant within the England region over the 6 months to 6 August 2025. 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
London -2 11 £600 +15.38% 3
Midlands -7 4 £550 +47.06%
North West - 4 £600 -
East Midlands - 4 £550 -
North of England - 4 £600 -
South West +27 1 - -
South East +17 1 £650 +36.84%
VMware Consultant
UK

VMware Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 6 August 2025, VMware Consultant contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring VMware Consultant in the job title.

1 23 (100.00%) VMware
2 19 (82.61%) Security Cleared
3 18 (78.26%) SC Cleared
4 8 (34.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (34.78%) Data Centre
4 8 (34.78%) VMware NSX
5 7 (30.43%) Social Skills
6 6 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (21.74%) PowerCLI
7 5 (21.74%) VSAN
7 5 (21.74%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (21.74%) vSphere
7 5 (21.74%) DV Cleared
8 4 (17.39%) Validation
8 4 (17.39%) Ansible
8 4 (17.39%) Security Hardening
8 4 (17.39%) vRealize
8 4 (17.39%) Zero Trust
9 3 (13.04%) Onboarding
9 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure as Code
9 3 (13.04%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (13.04%) Edge Computing
9 3 (13.04%) Minimum Viable Product
9 3 (13.04%) Terraform
9 3 (13.04%) VCAP
9 3 (13.04%) Python
9 3 (13.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (8.70%) Strategic Planning
10 2 (8.70%) Operations Management
10 2 (8.70%) VCDX

VMware Consultant Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (8.70%) Azure
2 1 (4.35%) AWS
2 1 (4.35%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (4.35%) Entra ID
2 1 (4.35%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (21.74%) VSAN
2 1 (4.35%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (4.35%) Firewall
2 1 (4.35%) Software-Defined Networking
General
1 7 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Billing
3 1 (4.35%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 8 (34.78%) Data Centre
2 5 (21.74%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (13.04%) Onboarding
4 2 (8.70%) Cloud Native
4 2 (8.70%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Linux
1 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (17.39%) Security Hardening
2 4 (17.39%) Validation
2 4 (17.39%) Zero Trust
3 3 (13.04%) Edge Computing
3 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (13.04%) Minimum Viable Product
4 2 (8.70%) Knowledge Transfer
4 2 (8.70%) Migration
4 2 (8.70%) Operations Management
4 2 (8.70%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (8.70%) Project Delivery
4 2 (8.70%) Project Management
4 2 (8.70%) Strategic Planning
5 1 (4.35%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (4.35%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (4.35%) High Availability
5 1 (4.35%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (4.35%) Trend Analysis
5 1 (4.35%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.04%) Python
Qualifications
1 19 (82.61%) Security Cleared
2 18 (78.26%) SC Cleared
3 5 (21.74%) DV Cleared
4 3 (13.04%) VCAP
4 3 (13.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (8.70%) VCDX
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Certification
6 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 8 (34.78%) VMware Infrastructure
1 8 (34.78%) VMware NSX
2 5 (21.74%) vSphere
3 2 (8.70%) Active Directory
4 1 (4.35%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (21.74%) PowerCLI
2 4 (17.39%) Ansible
2 4 (17.39%) vRealize
3 3 (13.04%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (13.04%) Terraform
4 1 (4.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
4 1 (4.35%) Packer
4 1 (4.35%) vRealize Orchestrator
4 1 (4.35%) VxRail
Vendors
1 23 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (4.35%) Cisco
2 1 (4.35%) Google
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.35%) Splunk