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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 504 523 581
Rank change year-on-year +19 +58 +158
Contract jobs citing VMware Workstation 8 5 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.029% 0.015% 0.021%
As % of the System Software category 0.24% 0.13% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile £480 - £193
25th Percentile £563 - £228
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - £355
Median % change year-on-year - - -34.26%
75th Percentile - - £444
90th Percentile - - £553
UK median daily rate £700 - £355
% change year-on-year - - -25.26%

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 3,382 3,850 5,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 12.17% 11.69% 13.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,173 2,584 3,763
10th Percentile £214 £218 £198
25th Percentile £375 £380 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% - -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £609 £638
90th Percentile £675 £693 £731
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £501
% change year-on-year - -0.10% -4.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 101 245
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.16 £15.50
25th Percentile £22.50 £17.00 £18.28
Median hourly rate £37.50 £24.50 £47.90
Median % change year-on-year +53.06% -48.85% +117.70%
75th Percentile £81.00 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.60 £80.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £24.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +38.78% -51.00% +127.27%

VMware Workstation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware Workstation 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
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware Workstation in England over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware Workstation in England

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 18 September 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 +25 6 £700 - 3
North East - 1 - -
South West - 1 - -
North of England - 1 - -
VMware Workstation
UK

VMware Workstation
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (12.50%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) LAN
2 1 (12.50%) Spanning Tree
2 1 (12.50%) VLAN
2 1 (12.50%) VoIP
2 1 (12.50%) WAN
2 1 (12.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Big Data
1 2 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (25.00%) SonarQube
1 2 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
1 2 (25.00%) Law
1 2 (25.00%) Legal
2 1 (12.50%) Fire and Rescue
2 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
2 1 (12.50%) Military
2 1 (12.50%) Police
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) PowerShell Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) Windows Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) SCCM Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Citrix Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Support
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) IT Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) IT Support
4 1 (12.50%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) .NET
1 2 (25.00%) Apache NiFi
1 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET Core
1 2 (25.00%) CSS
1 2 (25.00%) HTML
1 2 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Hedge funds
2 2 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (25.00%) Private Cloud
2 2 (25.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
3 1 (12.50%) Digital Signage
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (37.50%) Windows Server
3 2 (25.00%) CentOS
3 2 (25.00%) Linux
3 2 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (25.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (25.00%) DevOps
1 2 (25.00%) High Availability
1 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (25.00%) SIEM
2 1 (12.50%) Change Management
2 1 (12.50%) Converged Infrastructure
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
2 1 (12.50%) Migration
2 1 (12.50%) Preventative Maintenance
2 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (12.50%) Project Management
2 1 (12.50%) Release Management
2 1 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (12.50%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) C#
2 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 8 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (25.00%) Docker
2 2 (25.00%) vCloud
2 2 (25.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) SCCM
2 2 (25.00%) Kibana
2 2 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (25.00%) Citrix
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco