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 8 August 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
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 101 59
Rank change year-on-year -4 -42 -3
Contract jobs citing VMware 1,105 697 1,206
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.41% 2.52% 3.62%
As % of the Vendors category 5.83% 5.35% 8.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 736 443 829
10th Percentile £351 £358 £325
25th Percentile £450 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +6.80% +0.49%
75th Percentile £625 £603 £575
90th Percentile £725 £650 £645
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £513
% change year-on-year -4.55% +7.32% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 6 13
10th Percentile £26.00 £28.50 -
25th Percentile £46.00 £29.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £63.14 £31.39 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +101.16% -53.50% +23.72%
75th Percentile £74.00 £52.26 £71.25
90th Percentile £94.42 £109.38 £79.60
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £31.39 £66.00
% change year-on-year +101.16% -52.45% +10.00%

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 18,959 13,033 14,499
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.42% 47.21% 43.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,912 8,241 9,259
10th Percentile £313 £278 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £613 £620 £628
90th Percentile £700 £719 £738
UK median daily rate £505 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +1.00% -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,039 630 768
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.75 £13.69
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.46 £15.62
Median hourly rate £35.00 £25.15 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.17% -16.17% -24.15%
75th Percentile £66.12 £50.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.69 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £33.98 £25.15 £28.00
% change year-on-year +35.11% -10.18% -33.01%

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 8 August 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 8 August 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 8 August 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 +10 342 £550 -3.80% 111
London -5 297 £550 +4.76% 126
North of England -30 165 £471 +5.26% 80
Midlands -18 115 £450 -18.18% 27
South West -24 114 £550 -8.33% 46
West Midlands -23 90 £474 -16.62% 16
North West -7 86 £469 +13.70% 53
Yorkshire -26 73 £500 +11.11% 16
East of England -1 67 £507 -7.82% 28
East Midlands -1 25 £450 -18.18% 11
North East -41 7 £200 -59.60% 14
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 54 (4.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 31 (2.81%) SharePoint
3 17 (1.54%) Confluence
4 14 (1.27%) nginx
5 10 (0.90%) IIS
6 9 (0.81%) Apache
6 9 (0.81%) OpenStack
6 9 (0.81%) Tomcat
7 5 (0.45%) CICS
7 5 (0.45%) JBoss
8 4 (0.36%) FactoryTalk
9 3 (0.27%) CloudStack
9 3 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2013
9 3 (0.27%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.18%) CMS
10 2 (0.18%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.090%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 13 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.27%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (0.18%) Houdini
3 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.18%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 12 (1.09%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.090%) Shopify
2 1 (0.090%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 299 (27.06%) Azure
2 188 (17.01%) AWS
3 92 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
4 76 (6.88%) Entra ID
5 47 (4.25%) IaaS
6 46 (4.16%) OpenShift
7 42 (3.80%) GCP
8 40 (3.62%) GitHub
9 30 (2.71%) PaaS
10 29 (2.62%) Rubrik
11 22 (1.99%) Azure DevOps
12 21 (1.90%) SaaS
13 18 (1.63%) Azure Monitor
13 18 (1.63%) OneDrive
14 17 (1.54%) GitHub Actions
15 14 (1.27%) Datadog
15 14 (1.27%) Power Platform
16 13 (1.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 11 (1.00%) Amazon EC2
17 11 (1.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 290 (26.24%) DNS
2 216 (19.55%) Firewall
3 173 (15.66%) DHCP
4 106 (9.59%) VSAN
5 99 (8.96%) TCP/IP
6 88 (7.96%) VPN
7 83 (7.51%) SAN
8 80 (7.24%) WAN
9 70 (6.33%) VLAN
10 66 (5.97%) Network Security
11 63 (5.70%) LAN
12 50 (4.52%) SSL
13 44 (3.98%) NAS
14 39 (3.53%) BGP
15 37 (3.35%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 35 (3.17%) SD-WAN
17 32 (2.90%) BIG-IP
18 31 (2.81%) Cisco Nexus
18 31 (2.81%) HTTP
19 29 (2.62%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (5.52%) SQL Server
2 13 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
2 13 (1.18%) Power BI
2 13 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 9 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (0.81%) NoSQL
3 9 (0.81%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 9 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 8 (0.72%) NonStop SQL
5 7 (0.63%) Apache Cassandra
5 7 (0.63%) Big Data
6 5 (0.45%) DataStage
7 4 (0.36%) Hadoop
7 4 (0.36%) Hazelcast
7 4 (0.36%) Oracle BI EE
7 4 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.27%) Data Mining
8 3 (0.27%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.18%) Redis
10 1 (0.090%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 41 (3.71%) JIRA
2 37 (3.35%) Jenkins
3 28 (2.53%) GitLab
4 25 (2.26%) Git
5 17 (1.54%) Fiddler
6 8 (0.72%) Bitbucket
6 8 (0.72%) Chocolatey
7 6 (0.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 6 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (0.45%) Rational DOORS
9 4 (0.36%) Selenium
10 3 (0.27%) MSI
10 3 (0.27%) Robot Framework
10 3 (0.27%) Subversion
10 3 (0.27%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (0.18%) CppUnit
11 2 (0.18%) PVCS
12 1 (0.090%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.090%) Maven
12 1 (0.090%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 244 (22.08%) Social Skills
2 120 (10.86%) Analytical Skills
3 119 (10.77%) Finance
4 62 (5.61%) Public Sector
5 45 (4.07%) Banking
6 37 (3.35%) Documentation Skills
7 28 (2.53%) Telecoms
8 24 (2.17%) Legal
9 17 (1.54%) Investment Banking
10 14 (1.27%) Financial Institution
10 14 (1.27%) Military
11 13 (1.18%) Manufacturing
11 13 (1.18%) Retail
12 12 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (0.81%) Pharmaceutical
14 8 (0.72%) Aerospace
15 6 (0.54%) Law
15 6 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (0.54%) Police
16 4 (0.36%) Games
Job Titles
1 238 (21.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 144 (13.03%) Senior
3 127 (11.49%) Architect
4 107 (9.68%) VMware Engineer
5 90 (8.14%) Network Engineer
6 63 (5.70%) Consultant
7 58 (5.25%) Support Engineer
8 56 (5.07%) Cloud Engineer
9 53 (4.80%) Lead
9 53 (4.80%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 41 (3.71%) Administrator
10 41 (3.71%) VMware Consultant
11 39 (3.53%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 37 (3.35%) Storage Engineer
13 35 (3.17%) Senior VMware Engineer
14 33 (2.99%) Platform Engineer
15 32 (2.90%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
16 30 (2.71%) Azure Engineer
17 29 (2.62%) Linux Engineer
17 29 (2.62%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (1.45%) REST
2 14 (1.27%) Middleware
3 13 (1.18%) Flash
3 13 (1.18%) LDAP
4 10 (0.90%) 802.1X
5 9 (0.81%) Elastic Stack
6 8 (0.72%) JSON
6 8 (0.72%) OpenTelemetry
7 7 (0.63%) Kafka
8 6 (0.54%) YAML
9 5 (0.45%) .NET
9 5 (0.45%) ARM Templates
9 5 (0.45%) SAML
10 4 (0.36%) Keycloak
10 4 (0.36%) Redfish
11 2 (0.18%) Apache NiFi
11 2 (0.18%) ASP.NET
11 2 (0.18%) Blazor
11 2 (0.18%) NETCONF
11 2 (0.18%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 159 (14.39%) Data Centre
2 85 (7.69%) Hybrid Cloud
3 84 (7.60%) PKI
4 53 (4.80%) Replication
5 51 (4.62%) Enterprise Storage
6 49 (4.43%) Clustering
7 45 (4.07%) Management Information System
8 39 (3.53%) Public Cloud
9 31 (2.81%) Cloud Native
10 30 (2.71%) Private Cloud
11 29 (2.62%) Onboarding
12 21 (1.90%) Linux Command Line
13 15 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
14 13 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
15 12 (1.09%) SCADA
15 12 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
16 11 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
16 11 (1.00%) Blackberry
16 11 (1.00%) Operational Technology
16 11 (1.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 525 (47.51%) Windows
2 321 (29.05%) Windows Server
3 307 (27.78%) Linux
4 60 (5.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 51 (4.62%) Windows Server 2019
6 28 (2.53%) VMS
7 27 (2.44%) Windows Server 2016
8 25 (2.26%) Windows 10
9 23 (2.08%) Unix
10 22 (1.99%) Ubuntu
11 19 (1.72%) Apple iOS
11 19 (1.72%) Windows Server 2012
12 15 (1.36%) AIX
12 15 (1.36%) Data ONTAP
13 14 (1.27%) Windows Server 2008
14 13 (1.18%) Solaris
15 12 (1.09%) Android
16 11 (1.00%) CentOS
17 7 (0.63%) Windows Server 2003
18 6 (0.54%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 305 (27.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 205 (18.55%) Problem-Solving
3 194 (17.56%) Migration
4 162 (14.66%) ITIL
5 140 (12.67%) High Availability
6 134 (12.13%) Infrastructure as Code
7 122 (11.04%) CI/CD
8 118 (10.68%) Disaster Recovery
9 111 (10.05%) Technical Leadership
10 101 (9.14%) Agile
11 99 (8.96%) DevOps
12 96 (8.69%) Stakeholder Management
13 95 (8.60%) Change Management
14 85 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
15 84 (7.60%) ITSM
16 80 (7.24%) Service Management
17 77 (6.97%) Network Virtualisation
18 70 (6.33%) Load Balancing
19 67 (6.06%) Performance Tuning
19 67 (6.06%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 245 (22.17%) PowerShell
2 143 (12.94%) Python
3 99 (8.96%) Bash
4 64 (5.79%) SQL
5 21 (1.90%) JavaScript
6 18 (1.63%) Java
7 9 (0.81%) Bicep
7 9 (0.81%) Shell Script
8 7 (0.63%) C
8 7 (0.63%) PL/SQL
9 5 (0.45%) COBOL
10 4 (0.36%) C#
10 4 (0.36%) Go
10 4 (0.36%) MATLAB
11 3 (0.27%) C++
11 3 (0.27%) Lua
12 2 (0.18%) Embedded C
12 2 (0.18%) Korn
12 2 (0.18%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.18%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 533 (48.24%) Security Cleared
2 315 (28.51%) SC Cleared
3 255 (23.08%) DV Cleared
4 87 (7.87%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 66 (5.97%) Degree
6 54 (4.89%) Cisco Certification
7 42 (3.80%) Microsoft Certification
8 41 (3.71%) VCAP
9 35 (3.17%) Azure Certification
10 30 (2.71%) CCNP
11 25 (2.26%) MCSE
12 22 (1.99%) CCNA
13 17 (1.54%) AWS Certification
14 16 (1.45%) MCSA
15 12 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
15 12 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
16 11 (1.00%) Oracle Certification
17 9 (0.81%) RHCA
18 8 (0.72%) ISTQB
18 8 (0.72%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (3.89%) SLA
2 26 (2.35%) NIST
3 24 (2.17%) NCSC
4 18 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 18 (1.63%) QA
5 16 (1.45%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (0.45%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.36%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 4 (0.36%) GxP
8 3 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.18%) GDPR
9 2 (0.18%) ISA99
9 2 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.18%) JSP 440
9 2 (0.18%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.090%) GRC
10 1 (0.090%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.090%) HL7
10 1 (0.090%) SOC 2
System Software
1 739 (66.88%) VMware Infrastructure
2 312 (28.24%) Active Directory
3 237 (21.45%) VMware NSX
4 231 (20.90%) VMware ESXi
4 231 (20.90%) vSphere
5 164 (14.84%) Hyper-V
6 93 (8.42%) Virtual Machines
7 62 (5.61%) Docker
8 37 (3.35%) Virtual Desktop
9 35 (3.17%) Firmware
10 24 (2.17%) vCloud
11 22 (1.99%) NFS
12 19 (1.72%) KVM
13 12 (1.09%) Microsoft App-V
14 9 (0.81%) BitLocker
14 9 (0.81%) GPFS
14 9 (0.81%) Virtual Servers
14 9 (0.81%) VMware Workstation
15 6 (0.54%) SRDF
15 6 (0.54%) UAG
Systems Management
1 197 (17.83%) Ansible
2 194 (17.56%) vCenter Server
3 152 (13.76%) Terraform
4 117 (10.59%) Kubernetes
5 62 (5.61%) Microsoft Intune
5 62 (5.61%) SCOM
6 57 (5.16%) vRealize
7 52 (4.71%) SCCM
8 37 (3.35%) VxRail
9 27 (2.44%) Grafana
10 24 (2.17%) NetBackup
10 24 (2.17%) PowerCLI
10 24 (2.17%) Puppet
11 23 (2.08%) Argo
12 21 (1.90%) vMotion
13 20 (1.81%) Prometheus
13 20 (1.81%) Red Hat Satellite
14 19 (1.72%) WSUS
15 18 (1.63%) Avamar
16 15 (1.36%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 292 (26.43%) Microsoft
2 187 (16.92%) Cisco
3 97 (8.78%) Citrix
4 78 (7.06%) NetApp
5 72 (6.52%) Red Hat
6 53 (4.80%) Dell
7 52 (4.71%) F5
8 50 (4.52%) ServiceNow
9 47 (4.25%) Palo Alto
10 42 (3.80%) Oracle
10 42 (3.80%) SolarWinds
11 40 (3.62%) Juniper
12 34 (3.08%) Veeam
13 32 (2.90%) IBM
14 31 (2.81%) Broadcom
15 25 (2.26%) Fortinet
15 25 (2.26%) Pure Storage
16 22 (1.99%) CheckPoint
17 20 (1.81%) HP
17 20 (1.81%) McAfee