VMware Workstation Contract Job Trends in England

VMware Workstation
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring VMware Workstation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 562 486 524
Rank change year-on-year -76 +38 +152
Contract jobs citing VMware Workstation 3 3 26
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.008% 0.012% 0.068%
As % of the System Software category 0.072% 0.093% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 15
10th Percentile - - £206
25th Percentile £256 - £235
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £263 - £268
Median % change year-on-year - - -46.50%
75th Percentile £269 - £358
90th Percentile - - £366
UK median daily rate £263 - £268
% change year-on-year - - -51.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 8
Median hourly rate - - £40.00
UK median hourly rate - - £40.00
% change year-on-year - - +105.13%

All System Software Skills
England

VMware Workstation falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 4,193 3,240 4,216
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.65% 13.01% 11.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,873 2,198 2,896
10th Percentile £205 £206 £188
25th Percentile £400 £390 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £600 £626 £600
90th Percentile £700 £738 £694
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 80 214
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.32 £14.06
25th Percentile £20.46 £21.20 £16.25
Median hourly rate £34.00 £30.75 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.57% +36.67% -37.93%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £79.25 £88.00 £75.88
UK median hourly rate £41.94 £32.50 £31.38
% change year-on-year +29.05% +3.59% -21.56%

VMware Workstation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VMware Workstation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

VMware Workstation job vacancy trend in England

VMware Workstation
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing VMware Workstation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing VMware Workstation

VMware Workstation
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing VMware Workstation.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing VMware Workstation

VMware Workstation
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 Workstation within the England region over the 6 months to 9 March 2026. 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 -35 2 - -
South West -28 1 £263 -
VMware Workstation
UK

VMware Workstation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
1 2 (66.67%) IaaS
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (66.67%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) MPLS
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Integration Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) IT Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior IT Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (66.67%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Data Loss Prevention
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
1 2 (66.67%) Problem Management
1 2 (66.67%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Asset Management
2 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) Citrix