VMware Contract Job Trends in England

VMware
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring knowledge or experience of VMware products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited VMware over the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two 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
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 79 67
Rank change year-on-year -16 -12 -8
Contract jobs citing VMware 1,022 748 1,125
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.52% 3.07% 3.05%
As % of the Vendors category 6.03% 6.46% 7.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 708 510 770
10th Percentile £345 £325 £285
25th Percentile £450 £431 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £606 £623 £575
90th Percentile £688 £677 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 7 38
10th Percentile £41.49 £29.99 £22.23
25th Percentile £51.00 £48.16 £40.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +56.99% -25.92%
75th Percentile £74.00 £83.18 £71.25
90th Percentile £87.80 £85.97 £83.04
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £46.39
% change year-on-year -3.45% +56.28% -28.63%

All Vendors
England

VMware falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 16,954 11,576 15,511
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.78% 47.48% 42.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,036 7,462 9,877
10th Percentile £313 £288 £262
25th Percentile £413 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -2.80%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £631
90th Percentile £712 £725 £744
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £515
% change year-on-year -2.91% - -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 884 468 1,003
10th Percentile £15.32 £14.84 £12.03
25th Percentile £18.57 £17.79 £14.27
Median hourly rate £31.18 £27.13 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.93% +20.56% -43.75%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £57.41
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.38 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £31.21 £26.45 £22.50
% change year-on-year +18.01% +17.56% -48.70%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

VMware job vacancy trend in England

VMware
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing VMware

VMware
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware in England over the 6 months to 5 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VMware in England

VMware
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing VMware

VMware
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VMware in England over the 6 months to 5 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for VMware in England

VMware
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 5 May 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
South East +2 288 £550 -4.35% 104
London -30 249 £550 +4.76% 68
North of England -12 177 £449 +5.65% 51
Midlands -31 118 £413 -21.43% 42
North West +1 104 £449 +1.18% 23
South West -39 95 £550 -4.35% 31
West Midlands -25 90 £401 -19.96% 29
East of England -1 85 £507 -3.43% 25
Yorkshire -13 73 £420 -6.67% 20
East Midlands -24 28 £450 -18.18% 13
North East -26 3 £638 +78.32% 10
South Coast - 1 £575 -
VMware
UK

VMware
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 42 (4.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (1.76%) SharePoint
3 9 (0.88%) CICS
4 8 (0.78%) Confluence
4 8 (0.78%) IIS
5 7 (0.68%) nginx
5 7 (0.68%) Tomcat
6 4 (0.39%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.29%) Apache
7 3 (0.29%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2010
8 2 (0.20%) Skype for Business
8 2 (0.20%) WordPress
9 1 (0.098%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.098%) CMS
9 1 (0.098%) JBoss
9 1 (0.098%) WebSphere
Applications
1 14 (1.37%) MS Visio
2 12 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 248 (24.27%) Azure
2 171 (16.73%) AWS
3 77 (7.53%) Microsoft 365
4 61 (5.97%) OpenShift
5 51 (4.99%) Entra ID
6 49 (4.79%) IaaS
7 48 (4.70%) GitHub
8 37 (3.62%) GCP
8 37 (3.62%) PaaS
9 25 (2.45%) Nutanix
10 16 (1.57%) GitHub Actions
11 15 (1.47%) Datadog
11 15 (1.47%) SaaS
12 13 (1.27%) Azure DevOps
13 12 (1.17%) Azure Monitor
14 10 (0.98%) Rubrik
15 9 (0.88%) Azure Sentinel
16 7 (0.68%) Microsoft Purview
17 6 (0.59%) Amazon EC2
17 6 (0.59%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 211 (20.65%) DNS
2 182 (17.81%) Firewall
3 104 (10.18%) DHCP
4 84 (8.22%) VPN
5 82 (8.02%) VSAN
6 81 (7.93%) SAN
7 65 (6.36%) WAN
8 64 (6.26%) TCP/IP
9 62 (6.07%) Network Security
10 53 (5.19%) LAN
11 52 (5.09%) SSL
12 45 (4.40%) BIG-IP
13 44 (4.31%) HTTP
13 44 (4.31%) NAS
14 40 (3.91%) Wireshark
15 37 (3.62%) VLAN
16 32 (3.13%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 28 (2.74%) BGP
17 28 (2.74%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
18 25 (2.45%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (3.33%) SQL Server
2 16 (1.57%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (1.17%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (0.88%) DataStage
4 9 (0.88%) Redis
5 7 (0.68%) NonStop SQL
6 6 (0.59%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.29%) Data Mining
7 3 (0.29%) Oracle BI EE
7 3 (0.29%) Oracle Database
7 3 (0.29%) Power BI
7 3 (0.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.098%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.098%) Metadata
8 1 (0.098%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 45 (4.40%) Jenkins
2 33 (3.23%) GitLab
3 29 (2.84%) Git
4 28 (2.74%) Fiddler
5 27 (2.64%) JIRA
6 11 (1.08%) Sonatype Nexus
7 8 (0.78%) PVCS
7 8 (0.78%) Rational DOORS
8 7 (0.68%) Chocolatey
8 7 (0.68%) Robot Framework
8 7 (0.68%) Team Foundation Server
9 5 (0.49%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.39%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.39%) JMeter
10 4 (0.39%) JUnit
11 3 (0.29%) MSI
12 2 (0.20%) RStudio
13 1 (0.098%) Artifactory
13 1 (0.098%) GoCD
13 1 (0.098%) VersionOne
General
1 204 (19.96%) Social Skills
2 99 (9.69%) Finance
3 88 (8.61%) Analytical Skills
4 83 (8.12%) Public Sector
5 49 (4.79%) Banking
6 38 (3.72%) Documentation Skills
7 22 (2.15%) Investment Banking
7 22 (2.15%) Legal
8 20 (1.96%) Aerospace
9 12 (1.17%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (1.08%) Police
10 11 (1.08%) Retail
11 10 (0.98%) Military
12 8 (0.78%) Electronics
12 8 (0.78%) Local Government
12 8 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (0.78%) Telecoms
13 7 (0.68%) Financial Institution
14 6 (0.59%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 179 (17.51%) Architect
2 172 (16.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 97 (9.49%) Senior
4 96 (9.39%) VMware Engineer
5 81 (7.93%) Network Engineer
6 53 (5.19%) Consultant
7 49 (4.79%) VMware Architect
8 45 (4.40%) Analyst
9 41 (4.01%) Lead
10 36 (3.52%) Technical Architect
11 33 (3.23%) Infrastructure Architect
11 33 (3.23%) VMware Consultant
12 30 (2.94%) DevOps Engineer
13 28 (2.74%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 28 (2.74%) Web Engineer
14 26 (2.54%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
15 25 (2.45%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 25 (2.45%) Administrator
16 24 (2.35%) Wintel Engineer
17 23 (2.25%) Senior VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (2.74%) LDAP
2 22 (2.15%) Middleware
3 19 (1.86%) Flash
4 14 (1.37%) OpenTelemetry
4 14 (1.37%) SAML
5 13 (1.27%) Kafka
5 13 (1.27%) Keycloak
6 11 (1.08%) REST
7 5 (0.49%) Software Packaging
8 4 (0.39%) OAuth
8 4 (0.39%) OpenID
8 4 (0.39%) Spring
9 3 (0.29%) 802.1X
9 3 (0.29%) Hibernate
10 2 (0.20%) .NET
10 2 (0.20%) Django
10 2 (0.20%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (0.20%) JSON
10 2 (0.20%) SOAP
10 2 (0.20%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 114 (11.15%) Data Centre
2 76 (7.44%) Replication
3 65 (6.36%) PKI
4 58 (5.68%) Hybrid Cloud
5 52 (5.09%) Cloud Native
6 38 (3.72%) Clustering
7 37 (3.62%) Management Information System
8 34 (3.33%) Private Cloud
9 33 (3.23%) Public Cloud
10 32 (3.13%) Enterprise Storage
11 25 (2.45%) Linux Command Line
12 18 (1.76%) Legacy Systems
13 17 (1.66%) Operational Technology
14 16 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
15 15 (1.47%) Blackberry
16 14 (1.37%) Onboarding
17 13 (1.27%) SCADA
18 12 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
19 11 (1.08%) Product Ownership
19 11 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 382 (37.38%) Windows
2 257 (25.15%) Linux
3 236 (23.09%) Windows Server
4 57 (5.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 42 (4.11%) Windows Server 2019
6 35 (3.42%) Windows Server 2016
7 27 (2.64%) Ubuntu
8 23 (2.25%) VMS
9 22 (2.15%) Windows 10
10 19 (1.86%) Windows Server 2012
11 18 (1.76%) Unix
12 17 (1.66%) Apple iOS
13 16 (1.57%) CentOS
13 16 (1.57%) Data ONTAP
13 16 (1.57%) Solaris
14 15 (1.47%) Android
15 12 (1.17%) Mac OS
16 11 (1.08%) AIX
17 8 (0.78%) Windows Server 2003
18 7 (0.68%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 220 (21.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 181 (17.71%) Problem-Solving
3 170 (16.63%) Migration
4 130 (12.72%) ITIL
5 125 (12.23%) Agile
6 118 (11.55%) High Availability
7 110 (10.76%) DevOps
8 106 (10.37%) Disaster Recovery
9 97 (9.49%) CI/CD
10 85 (8.32%) Infrastructure as Code
11 82 (8.02%) Load Balancing
12 72 (7.05%) Capacity Planning
12 72 (7.05%) Roadmaps
13 70 (6.85%) Stakeholder Management
14 64 (6.26%) Change Management
15 63 (6.16%) Containerisation
16 60 (5.87%) Platform Engineering
17 58 (5.68%) Cybersecurity
18 56 (5.48%) Continuous Improvement
19 55 (5.38%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 185 (18.10%) PowerShell
2 133 (13.01%) Python
3 67 (6.56%) Bash
4 37 (3.62%) SQL
5 17 (1.66%) JavaScript
6 14 (1.37%) Shell Script
7 11 (1.08%) C
8 10 (0.98%) Java
9 9 (0.88%) COBOL
9 9 (0.88%) MATLAB
10 8 (0.78%) C++
11 7 (0.68%) Embedded C
11 7 (0.68%) Embedded C++
11 7 (0.68%) PL/SQL
11 7 (0.68%) T-SQL
12 6 (0.59%) Bicep
13 5 (0.49%) C#
14 4 (0.39%) PHP
15 2 (0.20%) Perl
15 2 (0.20%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 465 (45.50%) Security Cleared
2 288 (28.18%) SC Cleared
3 195 (19.08%) DV Cleared
4 75 (7.34%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 42 (4.11%) Degree
6 40 (3.91%) Microsoft Certification
7 36 (3.52%) Cisco Certification
8 32 (3.13%) VCAP
9 28 (2.74%) MCSE
10 26 (2.54%) CCNP
11 23 (2.25%) Azure Certification
12 22 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
13 18 (1.76%) MCSA
14 17 (1.66%) Oracle Certification
15 13 (1.27%) AWS Certification
16 12 (1.17%) OCP
17 10 (0.98%) CCNA
18 8 (0.78%) RHCA
19 6 (0.59%) CompTIA Security+
19 6 (0.59%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (3.62%) SLA
2 33 (3.23%) NIST
3 23 (2.25%) Cyber Essentials
3 23 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 22 (2.15%) NCSC
5 9 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 8 (0.78%) GDPR
7 5 (0.49%) Def Stans
7 5 (0.49%) QA
8 3 (0.29%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.20%) ISA99
9 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.098%) COBIT
10 1 (0.098%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.098%) DICOM
10 1 (0.098%) HL7
10 1 (0.098%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.098%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.098%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.098%) SOC 2
System Software
1 642 (62.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 236 (23.09%) Active Directory
3 207 (20.25%) VMware NSX
4 200 (19.57%) vSphere
5 164 (16.05%) VMware ESXi
6 134 (13.11%) Hyper-V
7 86 (8.41%) Virtual Machines
8 44 (4.31%) Docker
9 38 (3.72%) NFS
10 36 (3.52%) Firmware
11 24 (2.35%) KVM
12 23 (2.25%) Virtual Desktop
13 15 (1.47%) vCloud
14 13 (1.27%) GPFS
15 10 (0.98%) BitLocker
15 10 (0.98%) Microsoft App-V
16 5 (0.49%) XenDesktop
17 4 (0.39%) Oracle RAC
17 4 (0.39%) SRDF
17 4 (0.39%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 192 (18.79%) Ansible
2 142 (13.89%) vCenter Server
3 111 (10.86%) Terraform
4 97 (9.49%) Kubernetes
5 76 (7.44%) Microsoft Intune
6 69 (6.75%) vRealize
7 64 (6.26%) SCCM
8 36 (3.52%) Argo
9 30 (2.94%) Grafana
10 29 (2.84%) Single Sign-On
11 28 (2.74%) VxRail
12 26 (2.54%) PowerCLI
13 24 (2.35%) SCOM
13 24 (2.35%) vMotion
14 19 (1.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 18 (1.76%) Red Hat Satellite
15 18 (1.76%) WSUS
16 16 (1.57%) NetBackup
17 15 (1.47%) Progress Chef
17 15 (1.47%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 239 (23.39%) Microsoft
2 160 (15.66%) Cisco
3 91 (8.90%) Citrix
4 82 (8.02%) Red Hat
5 67 (6.56%) F5
6 58 (5.68%) NetApp
7 47 (4.60%) IBM
8 43 (4.21%) Dell
9 42 (4.11%) Pure Storage
10 41 (4.01%) Palo Alto
10 41 (4.01%) ServiceNow
11 40 (3.91%) Oracle
12 32 (3.13%) McAfee
13 30 (2.94%) Veeam
14 28 (2.74%) Blue Coat
15 26 (2.54%) Splunk
16 25 (2.45%) CheckPoint
17 24 (2.35%) Broadcom
18 22 (2.15%) SolarWinds
19 19 (1.86%) Commvault