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 23 April 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
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 76 67
Rank change year-on-year -22 -9 -9
Contract jobs citing VMware 1,018 797 1,158
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.56% 3.24% 3.11%
As % of the Vendors category 6.04% 6.83% 7.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 707 546 796
10th Percentile £344 £325 £263
25th Percentile £450 £431 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £608 £623 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 9 42
10th Percentile £45.66 £30.65 £22.10
25th Percentile £51.00 £65.00 £38.22
Median hourly rate £70.00 £75.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +62.41% -26.97%
75th Percentile £74.00 £82.50 £71.25
90th Percentile £88.70 £85.87 £79.80
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £75.00 £48.20
% change year-on-year -6.67% +55.62% -25.85%

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 16,845 11,663 15,710
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 42.43% 47.45% 42.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,978 7,542 10,033
10th Percentile £313 £290 £255
25th Percentile £413 £407 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -3.26%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £631
90th Percentile £706 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £514 £515
% change year-on-year -2.72% -0.19% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 885 450 988
10th Percentile £15.35 £14.99 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £18.13 £14.16
Median hourly rate £30.00 £28.08 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.86% +24.78% -43.75%
75th Percentile £60.00 £61.50 £55.40
90th Percentile £78.75 £77.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.49 £27.35 £22.50
% change year-on-year +11.48% +21.56% -48.86%

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 23 April 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 23 April 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 23 April 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 +2 278 £550 -4.35% 95
London -35 251 £550 +4.76% 63
North of England -12 184 £462 +2.56% 61
Midlands -25 119 £402 -23.43% 31
North West +3 109 £460 +2.11% 23
South West -35 96 £550 -4.35% 28
West Midlands -28 90 £371 -25.87% 20
East of England +12 83 £507 -2.27% 29
Yorkshire -16 75 £463 +2.89% 25
East Midlands -25 29 £436 -20.73% 10
North East -24 6 £550 +53.85% 16
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 48 (4.72%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (2.16%) SharePoint
3 9 (0.88%) CICS
4 8 (0.79%) Confluence
5 7 (0.69%) nginx
5 7 (0.69%) Tomcat
6 5 (0.49%) IIS
7 3 (0.29%) Apache
7 3 (0.29%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.29%) Skype for Business
7 3 (0.29%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2010
8 2 (0.20%) WordPress
9 1 (0.098%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.098%) JBoss
9 1 (0.098%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.098%) WebSphere
Applications
1 15 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.38%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.098%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 247 (24.26%) Azure
2 177 (17.39%) AWS
3 76 (7.47%) Microsoft 365
4 67 (6.58%) OpenShift
5 58 (5.70%) Entra ID
6 50 (4.91%) IaaS
7 49 (4.81%) GitHub
8 38 (3.73%) GCP
8 38 (3.73%) PaaS
9 25 (2.46%) Nutanix
10 18 (1.77%) GitHub Actions
11 16 (1.57%) Datadog
12 15 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
12 15 (1.47%) SaaS
13 12 (1.18%) Azure Monitor
14 9 (0.88%) Azure Sentinel
14 9 (0.88%) Rubrik
15 7 (0.69%) Microsoft Purview
16 6 (0.59%) Amazon EC2
16 6 (0.59%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 208 (20.43%) DNS
2 187 (18.37%) Firewall
3 104 (10.22%) DHCP
4 81 (7.96%) VSAN
5 80 (7.86%) SAN
5 80 (7.86%) VPN
6 65 (6.39%) TCP/IP
7 64 (6.29%) Network Security
8 62 (6.09%) WAN
9 52 (5.11%) LAN
10 50 (4.91%) SSL
11 45 (4.42%) BIG-IP
11 45 (4.42%) NAS
12 42 (4.13%) HTTP
13 41 (4.03%) VLAN
14 39 (3.83%) Wireshark
15 34 (3.34%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 31 (3.05%) BGP
17 30 (2.95%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
18 22 (2.16%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (3.24%) SQL Server
2 18 (1.77%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (0.88%) DataStage
4 9 (0.88%) Redis
5 7 (0.69%) NonStop SQL
5 7 (0.69%) NoSQL
6 3 (0.29%) Data Mining
7 2 (0.20%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.20%) Power BI
8 1 (0.098%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.098%) Metadata
8 1 (0.098%) Oracle BI EE
8 1 (0.098%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.098%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 48 (4.72%) Jenkins
2 33 (3.24%) GitLab
3 30 (2.95%) Git
4 28 (2.75%) Fiddler
5 23 (2.26%) JIRA
6 12 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
7 8 (0.79%) PVCS
7 8 (0.79%) Rational DOORS
8 7 (0.69%) Chocolatey
8 7 (0.69%) Team Foundation Server
9 6 (0.59%) Cucumber
9 6 (0.59%) JMeter
9 6 (0.59%) JUnit
9 6 (0.59%) Robot Framework
10 5 (0.49%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.20%) MSI
11 2 (0.20%) RStudio
11 2 (0.20%) Subversion
12 1 (0.098%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.098%) Maven
General
1 207 (20.33%) Social Skills
2 103 (10.12%) Finance
3 96 (9.43%) Analytical Skills
4 88 (8.64%) Public Sector
5 53 (5.21%) Banking
6 39 (3.83%) Documentation Skills
7 28 (2.75%) Legal
8 23 (2.26%) Investment Banking
9 20 (1.96%) Aerospace
10 15 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 10 (0.98%) Electronics
12 10 (0.98%) Local Government
12 10 (0.98%) Military
12 10 (0.98%) Police
12 10 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (0.88%) Retail
14 8 (0.79%) Telecoms
15 7 (0.69%) Manufacturing
16 6 (0.59%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 182 (17.88%) Architect
2 171 (16.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 94 (9.23%) VMware Engineer
4 93 (9.14%) Senior
5 74 (7.27%) Network Engineer
6 55 (5.40%) Consultant
7 50 (4.91%) Analyst
8 48 (4.72%) VMware Architect
9 43 (4.22%) Lead
10 36 (3.54%) VMware Consultant
11 35 (3.44%) Infrastructure Architect
12 34 (3.34%) Technical Architect
13 30 (2.95%) Platform Engineer
14 28 (2.75%) DevOps Engineer
14 28 (2.75%) Web Engineer
15 27 (2.65%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 26 (2.55%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
17 24 (2.36%) 3rd Line Engineer
17 24 (2.36%) Administrator
17 24 (2.36%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (2.55%) LDAP
2 22 (2.16%) Middleware
3 20 (1.96%) Flash
4 15 (1.47%) Kafka
5 14 (1.38%) OpenTelemetry
6 13 (1.28%) Keycloak
6 13 (1.28%) SAML
7 11 (1.08%) REST
8 6 (0.59%) Spring
8 6 (0.59%) XMPP
9 5 (0.49%) Hibernate
9 5 (0.49%) OAuth
9 5 (0.49%) OpenID
9 5 (0.49%) Software Packaging
10 3 (0.29%) OAuth2
11 2 (0.20%) 802.1X
11 2 (0.20%) Apache NiFi
11 2 (0.20%) Elastic Stack
11 2 (0.20%) SOAP
11 2 (0.20%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 108 (10.61%) Data Centre
2 81 (7.96%) Replication
3 61 (5.99%) PKI
4 57 (5.60%) Hybrid Cloud
5 54 (5.30%) Cloud Native
6 38 (3.73%) Clustering
6 38 (3.73%) Management Information System
7 35 (3.44%) Private Cloud
8 34 (3.34%) Public Cloud
9 29 (2.85%) Enterprise Storage
10 27 (2.65%) Linux Command Line
11 21 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
12 20 (1.96%) Product Ownership
13 17 (1.67%) Operational Technology
14 15 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
14 15 (1.47%) Blackberry
14 15 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
15 14 (1.38%) Onboarding
16 13 (1.28%) SCADA
17 11 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 388 (38.11%) Windows
2 272 (26.72%) Linux
3 241 (23.67%) Windows Server
4 70 (6.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 38 (3.73%) Windows Server 2019
6 33 (3.24%) Windows Server 2016
7 28 (2.75%) Ubuntu
8 25 (2.46%) VMS
9 24 (2.36%) Windows 10
10 20 (1.96%) Windows Server 2012
11 17 (1.67%) Apple iOS
11 17 (1.67%) Unix
12 16 (1.57%) CentOS
12 16 (1.57%) Data ONTAP
12 16 (1.57%) Solaris
13 15 (1.47%) Android
14 13 (1.28%) AIX
15 12 (1.18%) Mac OS
16 9 (0.88%) Windows Server 2003
17 7 (0.69%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (21.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 188 (18.47%) Problem-Solving
3 177 (17.39%) Migration
4 127 (12.48%) Agile
5 121 (11.89%) ITIL
6 116 (11.39%) High Availability
7 114 (11.20%) DevOps
8 109 (10.71%) Disaster Recovery
9 97 (9.53%) CI/CD
10 83 (8.15%) Infrastructure as Code
10 83 (8.15%) Load Balancing
11 74 (7.27%) Roadmaps
12 73 (7.17%) Stakeholder Management
13 69 (6.78%) Capacity Planning
14 68 (6.68%) Platform Engineering
15 66 (6.48%) Containerisation
16 64 (6.29%) Continuous Improvement
17 62 (6.09%) Cybersecurity
18 59 (5.80%) Change Management
19 55 (5.40%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 194 (19.06%) PowerShell
2 144 (14.15%) Python
3 77 (7.56%) Bash
4 32 (3.14%) SQL
5 18 (1.77%) JavaScript
6 14 (1.38%) Shell Script
7 12 (1.18%) Perl
8 11 (1.08%) C
8 11 (1.08%) Java
9 9 (0.88%) COBOL
9 9 (0.88%) MATLAB
10 8 (0.79%) C++
11 7 (0.69%) Embedded C
11 7 (0.69%) Embedded C++
11 7 (0.69%) PL/SQL
11 7 (0.69%) T-SQL
12 6 (0.59%) Bicep
13 5 (0.49%) C#
14 4 (0.39%) PHP
15 2 (0.20%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 457 (44.89%) Security Cleared
2 284 (27.90%) SC Cleared
3 185 (18.17%) DV Cleared
4 72 (7.07%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 47 (4.62%) Degree
6 41 (4.03%) Cisco Certification
7 40 (3.93%) Microsoft Certification
8 33 (3.24%) CCNP
9 32 (3.14%) VCAP
10 27 (2.65%) MCSE
11 25 (2.46%) Azure Certification
12 22 (2.16%) BPSS Clearance
13 18 (1.77%) MCSA
14 17 (1.67%) CCNA
14 17 (1.67%) Oracle Certification
15 14 (1.38%) AWS Certification
16 12 (1.18%) OCP
17 10 (0.98%) CCDP
18 7 (0.69%) RHCA
19 6 (0.59%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (3.44%) SLA
2 32 (3.14%) NIST
3 23 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 21 (2.06%) Cyber Essentials
4 21 (2.06%) NCSC
5 10 (0.98%) GDPR
6 9 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
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)
9 2 (0.20%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.098%) COBIT
10 1 (0.098%) DICOM
10 1 (0.098%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.098%) HL7
10 1 (0.098%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.098%) SOC 2
System Software
1 645 (63.36%) VMware Infrastructure
2 237 (23.28%) Active Directory
3 202 (19.84%) VMware NSX
4 200 (19.65%) vSphere
5 160 (15.72%) VMware ESXi
6 131 (12.87%) Hyper-V
7 80 (7.86%) Virtual Machines
8 44 (4.32%) Docker
9 39 (3.83%) NFS
10 35 (3.44%) Firmware
11 27 (2.65%) Virtual Desktop
12 22 (2.16%) KVM
13 14 (1.38%) GPFS
13 14 (1.38%) vCloud
14 10 (0.98%) BitLocker
14 10 (0.98%) Microsoft App-V
15 5 (0.49%) XenDesktop
16 4 (0.39%) Oracle RAC
16 4 (0.39%) SRDF
16 4 (0.39%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 192 (18.86%) Ansible
2 141 (13.85%) vCenter Server
3 110 (10.81%) Terraform
4 97 (9.53%) Kubernetes
5 79 (7.76%) Microsoft Intune
6 70 (6.88%) vRealize
7 69 (6.78%) SCCM
8 37 (3.63%) Argo
9 32 (3.14%) Grafana
10 28 (2.75%) Single Sign-On
10 28 (2.75%) VxRail
11 25 (2.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 25 (2.46%) SCOM
12 22 (2.16%) PowerCLI
13 19 (1.87%) Red Hat Satellite
13 19 (1.87%) vMotion
14 17 (1.67%) Progress Chef
14 17 (1.67%) Prometheus
15 16 (1.57%) NetBackup
16 15 (1.47%) WSUS
Vendors
1 244 (23.97%) Microsoft
2 162 (15.91%) Cisco
3 96 (9.43%) Red Hat
4 95 (9.33%) Citrix
5 69 (6.78%) F5
6 59 (5.80%) NetApp
7 49 (4.81%) IBM
8 43 (4.22%) Dell
9 42 (4.13%) Pure Storage
9 42 (4.13%) ServiceNow
10 39 (3.83%) Oracle
11 38 (3.73%) Palo Alto
12 32 (3.14%) McAfee
12 32 (3.14%) Veeam
13 28 (2.75%) Blue Coat
14 26 (2.55%) Splunk
15 24 (2.36%) Broadcom
15 24 (2.36%) SolarWinds
16 23 (2.26%) CheckPoint
17 20 (1.96%) Commvault