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 7 January 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
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 68 58
Rank change year-on-year -27 -10 +3
Contract jobs citing VMware 847 902 1,351
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.68% 3.30% 3.75%
As % of the Vendors category 5.72% 7.17% 8.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 576 910
10th Percentile £317 £310 £300
25th Percentile £432 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £616 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £500
% change year-on-year +0.96% +4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 16 61
10th Percentile £29.00 £35.00 £31.25
25th Percentile £33.00 £42.50 £49.88
Median hourly rate £70.00 £68.75 £65.98
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% +4.20% +1.51%
75th Percentile £80.00 £83.32 £76.53
90th Percentile £98.25 £99.13 £84.36
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £60.00 £66.62
% change year-on-year +16.67% -9.94% +2.50%

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 14,807 12,572 15,795
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 46.79% 45.97% 43.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,693 7,610 10,273
10th Percentile £300 £291 £250
25th Percentile £410 £412 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.19% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £614 £625 £638
90th Percentile £709 £725 £731
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 683 357 611
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.40 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.15 £17.08 £19.04
Median hourly rate £23.83 £30.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.58% -32.58% +50.85%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.75 £63.52
90th Percentile £73.75 £80.75 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £27.35 £44.50
% change year-on-year -12.89% -38.54% +63.30%

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 7 January 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 7 January 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 7 January 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 -4 239 £500 -9.09% 103
London -85 196 £550 +13.50% 56
North of England -20 140 £447 -10.60% 55
Midlands +17 132 £465 +2.48% 35
West Midlands +16 111 £513 +10.81% 24
North West -15 94 £469 -6.16% 24
South West -32 75 £550 - 38
Yorkshire -12 58 £413 - 20
East of England +7 57 £500 +2.56% 12
East Midlands -14 21 £450 +28.57% 11
North East -15 4 £550 +69.23% 13
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 (5.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 28 (3.31%) SharePoint
3 21 (2.48%) Confluence
4 13 (1.53%) OpenStack
5 7 (0.83%) Skype for Business
6 6 (0.71%) IIS
7 5 (0.59%) SharePoint Server
8 3 (0.35%) Apache
8 3 (0.35%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.24%) CICS
9 2 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2010
9 2 (0.24%) nginx
9 2 (0.24%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.24%) WordPress
10 1 (0.12%) JBoss
10 1 (0.12%) Traefik
10 1 (0.12%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 20 (2.36%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.65%) MS Visio
3 4 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.12%) OmniGraffle
Cloud Services
1 207 (24.44%) Azure
2 168 (19.83%) AWS
3 73 (8.62%) Microsoft 365
4 57 (6.73%) OpenShift
5 52 (6.14%) GCP
6 47 (5.55%) GitHub
7 37 (4.37%) Entra ID
8 33 (3.90%) IaaS
9 28 (3.31%) GitHub Actions
10 26 (3.07%) Nutanix
11 18 (2.13%) PaaS
11 18 (2.13%) SaaS
12 14 (1.65%) Datadog
13 10 (1.18%) Azure DevOps
13 10 (1.18%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 6 (0.71%) AWS CloudFormation
14 6 (0.71%) Azure Monitor
14 6 (0.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 5 (0.59%) Azure Sentinel
15 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 203 (23.97%) DNS
2 161 (19.01%) Firewall
3 87 (10.27%) DHCP
4 83 (9.80%) TCP/IP
5 60 (7.08%) VPN
6 53 (6.26%) SAN
7 51 (6.02%) VSAN
8 49 (5.79%) VLAN
9 48 (5.67%) Network Security
10 41 (4.84%) WAN
11 39 (4.60%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 37 (4.37%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
13 35 (4.13%) LAN
14 27 (3.19%) DMZ
14 27 (3.19%) SSL
15 25 (2.95%) BIG-IP
15 25 (2.95%) NAS
16 23 (2.72%) HTTP
17 21 (2.48%) Wireshark
18 20 (2.36%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (4.60%) SQL Server
2 28 (3.31%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (0.94%) Redis
4 5 (0.59%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.35%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.35%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.24%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (0.24%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.12%) Power BI
7 1 (0.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 48 (5.67%) Jenkins
2 37 (4.37%) GitLab
3 33 (3.90%) Git
4 21 (2.48%) Sonatype Nexus
5 20 (2.36%) JIRA
6 18 (2.13%) Fiddler
7 14 (1.65%) Cucumber
7 14 (1.65%) JMeter
7 14 (1.65%) JUnit
8 8 (0.94%) PVCS
8 8 (0.94%) Rational DOORS
9 5 (0.59%) Subversion
10 4 (0.47%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.47%) TeamCity
11 3 (0.35%) Maven
11 3 (0.35%) Robot Framework
11 3 (0.35%) RStudio
12 2 (0.24%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.24%) Jaeger
12 2 (0.24%) Postman
General
1 218 (25.74%) Social Skills
2 88 (10.39%) Analytical Skills
3 86 (10.15%) Finance
3 86 (10.15%) Public Sector
4 51 (6.02%) Banking
5 39 (4.60%) Documentation Skills
6 25 (2.95%) Investment Banking
7 22 (2.60%) Aerospace
8 14 (1.65%) Legal
9 13 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (1.42%) Electronics
10 12 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (1.42%) Local Government
11 11 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (0.94%) Telecoms
13 7 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (0.59%) Financial Institution
14 5 (0.59%) Law
14 5 (0.59%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.59%) Military
Job Titles
1 136 (16.06%) Architect
2 120 (14.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 62 (7.32%) Consultant
4 54 (6.38%) Senior
5 53 (6.26%) VMware Engineer
6 50 (5.90%) Analyst
6 50 (5.90%) Network Engineer
7 46 (5.43%) VMware Consultant
8 42 (4.96%) Platform Engineer
8 42 (4.96%) Support Engineer
9 34 (4.01%) Infrastructure Architect
10 30 (3.54%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 27 (3.19%) Administrator
11 27 (3.19%) VMware Architect
12 26 (3.07%) DevOps Engineer
13 25 (2.95%) Lead
14 24 (2.83%) Infrastructure Support
14 24 (2.83%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
15 23 (2.72%) Developer
15 23 (2.72%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (2.83%) Kafka
2 23 (2.72%) Middleware
3 15 (1.77%) Flash
4 14 (1.65%) Spring
5 13 (1.53%) Hibernate
5 13 (1.53%) LDAP
5 13 (1.53%) SAML
6 11 (1.30%) REST
7 10 (1.18%) OAuth
7 10 (1.18%) OpenID
8 9 (1.06%) Loki
9 8 (0.94%) Elastic Stack
9 8 (0.94%) Keycloak
10 6 (0.71%) .NET
10 6 (0.71%) OAuth2
10 6 (0.71%) XMPP
11 5 (0.59%) OpenTelemetry
11 5 (0.59%) React
12 4 (0.47%) RESTful
12 4 (0.47%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 85 (10.04%) Data Centre
2 61 (7.20%) Replication
3 59 (6.97%) PKI
4 45 (5.31%) Management Information System
5 37 (4.37%) Cloud Native
5 37 (4.37%) Hybrid Cloud
6 30 (3.54%) Private Cloud
7 29 (3.42%) Linux Command Line
8 21 (2.48%) Public Cloud
9 18 (2.13%) Operational Technology
10 17 (2.01%) Analytical Mindset
10 17 (2.01%) Clustering
11 14 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
12 13 (1.53%) Fat Client
12 13 (1.53%) Thin Client
13 12 (1.42%) SCADA
14 11 (1.30%) Onboarding
15 10 (1.18%) Hedge funds
15 10 (1.18%) Virtual Team
16 9 (1.06%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 316 (37.31%) Windows
2 260 (30.70%) Linux
3 181 (21.37%) Windows Server
4 76 (8.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 44 (5.19%) Windows 10
6 26 (3.07%) Windows Server 2019
7 23 (2.72%) Windows Server 2016
8 19 (2.24%) Windows Server 2012
9 17 (2.01%) Ubuntu
10 15 (1.77%) VMS
11 14 (1.65%) CentOS
12 13 (1.53%) Mac OS
13 12 (1.42%) Solaris
13 12 (1.42%) Windows 7
14 11 (1.30%) Unix
15 5 (0.59%) Windows Server 2003
15 5 (0.59%) Windows Server 2008
16 3 (0.35%) AIX
16 3 (0.35%) Debian
17 2 (0.24%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (20.66%) Problem-Solving
2 157 (18.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 129 (15.23%) Agile
4 108 (12.75%) ITIL
5 106 (12.51%) CI/CD
6 102 (12.04%) DevOps
7 96 (11.33%) Migration
8 78 (9.21%) Load Balancing
9 77 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
10 74 (8.74%) Disaster Recovery
11 63 (7.44%) Containerisation
12 61 (7.20%) Platform Engineering
13 51 (6.02%) High Availability
14 50 (5.90%) Service Management
15 49 (5.79%) Continuous Improvement
16 48 (5.67%) Cybersecurity
16 48 (5.67%) Roadmaps
17 42 (4.96%) Stakeholder Management
17 42 (4.96%) Zero Trust
18 41 (4.84%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 188 (22.20%) PowerShell
2 184 (21.72%) Python
3 106 (12.51%) Bash
4 44 (5.19%) SQL
5 31 (3.66%) Java
6 27 (3.19%) JavaScript
7 21 (2.48%) Perl
8 15 (1.77%) Shell Script
9 10 (1.18%) C
9 10 (1.18%) C++
10 7 (0.83%) C#
10 7 (0.83%) Embedded C
10 7 (0.83%) Embedded C++
10 7 (0.83%) Go
11 6 (0.71%) T-SQL
12 5 (0.59%) MATLAB
13 4 (0.47%) Bicep
13 4 (0.47%) VBA
14 3 (0.35%) VBScript
15 2 (0.24%) Korn
Qualifications
1 360 (42.50%) Security Cleared
2 227 (26.80%) SC Cleared
3 127 (14.99%) DV Cleared
4 60 (7.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 53 (6.26%) Microsoft Certification
6 46 (5.43%) Degree
7 40 (4.72%) Cisco Certification
8 33 (3.90%) Azure Certification
9 29 (3.42%) CCNP
10 23 (2.72%) AWS Certification
11 21 (2.48%) MCSE
12 20 (2.36%) CCNA
13 19 (2.24%) VCAP
14 14 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
15 13 (1.53%) CCIE
16 12 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
17 11 (1.30%) Network+ Certification
17 11 (1.30%) Server+ Certification
18 10 (1.18%) MCSA
19 9 (1.06%) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (3.19%) GDPR
2 20 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (1.77%) NIST
3 15 (1.77%) SLA
4 12 (1.42%) Cyber Essentials
5 11 (1.30%) NCSC
6 8 (0.94%) Def Stans
6 8 (0.94%) QA
6 8 (0.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 7 (0.83%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.35%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.24%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.24%) PMO
11 1 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.12%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.12%) MiFID
11 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
System Software
1 531 (62.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 218 (25.74%) Active Directory
3 151 (17.83%) vSphere
4 116 (13.70%) VMware NSX
5 104 (12.28%) Hyper-V
6 89 (10.51%) VMware ESXi
7 54 (6.38%) Docker
8 49 (5.79%) Virtual Machines
9 31 (3.66%) NFS
10 20 (2.36%) Virtual Desktop
11 15 (1.77%) Firmware
11 15 (1.77%) KVM
12 14 (1.65%) GPFS
13 9 (1.06%) Virtual Servers
14 6 (0.71%) Dovecot
14 6 (0.71%) Postfix
15 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 4 (0.47%) Terminal Services
16 4 (0.47%) Veritas File System
16 4 (0.47%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 171 (20.19%) Ansible
2 113 (13.34%) Terraform
3 83 (9.80%) Kubernetes
3 83 (9.80%) vCenter Server
4 71 (8.38%) vRealize
5 67 (7.91%) SCCM
6 48 (5.67%) Microsoft Intune
7 32 (3.78%) Grafana
8 28 (3.31%) Prometheus
9 27 (3.19%) Argo
10 25 (2.95%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 25 (2.95%) Red Hat Satellite
11 24 (2.83%) Single Sign-On
12 21 (2.48%) VxRail
13 20 (2.36%) SCOM
14 18 (2.13%) Progress Chef
15 16 (1.89%) FortiGate
16 14 (1.65%) WSUS
17 12 (1.42%) vRealize Orchestrator
18 10 (1.18%) Puppet
Vendors
1 216 (25.50%) Microsoft
2 142 (16.77%) Cisco
3 98 (11.57%) Red Hat
4 83 (9.80%) F5
5 66 (7.79%) Citrix
6 45 (5.31%) NetApp
6 45 (5.31%) Veeam
7 44 (5.19%) SolarWinds
8 42 (4.96%) Dell
9 41 (4.84%) Oracle
10 39 (4.60%) IBM
11 34 (4.01%) Palo Alto
12 31 (3.66%) ServiceNow
13 28 (3.31%) Splunk
14 27 (3.19%) Broadcom
15 26 (3.07%) McAfee
16 25 (2.95%) Blue Coat
17 21 (2.48%) HP
18 17 (2.01%) Google
19 16 (1.89%) CyberArk