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 18 September 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
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 104 62
Rank change year-on-year -6 -42 -8
Contract jobs citing VMware 1,135 719 1,145
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.46% 2.59% 3.48%
As % of the Vendors category 5.91% 5.45% 7.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 735 468 761
10th Percentile £325 £328 £325
25th Percentile £450 £442 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +6.80% +3.00%
75th Percentile £632 £600 £575
90th Percentile £725 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £513
% change year-on-year -4.55% +7.32% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 9 14
10th Percentile £28.40 £29.00 £22.82
25th Percentile £51.00 £30.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £68.75 £34.00 £43.08
Median % change year-on-year +102.21% -21.08% -31.62%
75th Percentile £89.88 £58.75 £71.25
90th Percentile £95.00 £85.80 -
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £34.00 £38.00
% change year-on-year +98.53% -10.53% -42.41%

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 19,212 13,190 14,592
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.61% 47.42% 44.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,931 8,376 8,896
10th Percentile £310 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.78% -3.81% -
75th Percentile £620 £619 £630
90th Percentile £711 £712 £734
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,131 615 595
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.75 £14.33
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.88 £15.62
Median hourly rate £29.96 £25.15 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.13% -24.93% -23.62%
75th Percentile £65.00 £47.31 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £69.86 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £26.66 £25.15 £30.00
% change year-on-year +6.00% -16.17% -32.58%

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -11 310 £538 -2.27% 190
London -9 302 £550 +5.77% 282
North of England +2 195 £477 +6.71% 109
Midlands -16 123 £450 -19.10% 91
South West -18 111 £588 +2.17% 81
North West -4 101 £472 +7.89% 58
West Midlands -16 95 £475 -17.12% 61
East of England +5 87 £507 -7.82% 86
Yorkshire -14 77 £525 +17.06% 32
East Midlands -7 28 £425 -13.27% 30
North East -29 19 £400 -36.00% 20
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 59 (5.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 38 (3.35%) SharePoint
3 25 (2.20%) Confluence
4 16 (1.41%) IIS
5 13 (1.15%) nginx
6 10 (0.88%) OpenStack
7 9 (0.79%) Apache
8 8 (0.70%) Skype for Business
9 7 (0.62%) JBoss
9 7 (0.62%) Tomcat
10 4 (0.35%) FactoryTalk
11 3 (0.26%) CloudStack
11 3 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2013
12 2 (0.18%) CMS
12 2 (0.18%) WebLogic
13 1 (0.088%) CICS
Applications
1 16 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (0.18%) Houdini
2 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.18%) NUKE
3 1 (0.088%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.088%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 16 (1.41%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.088%) Shopify
2 1 (0.088%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 324 (28.55%) Azure
2 184 (16.21%) AWS
3 109 (9.60%) Microsoft 365
4 86 (7.58%) Entra ID
5 47 (4.14%) GCP
6 39 (3.44%) OpenShift
7 38 (3.35%) GitHub
8 35 (3.08%) IaaS
9 28 (2.47%) Rubrik
10 26 (2.29%) Azure DevOps
11 22 (1.94%) GitHub Actions
12 19 (1.67%) PaaS
13 18 (1.59%) OneDrive
14 17 (1.50%) Azure Monitor
14 17 (1.50%) SaaS
15 14 (1.23%) Datadog
15 14 (1.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 13 (1.15%) Power Platform
17 12 (1.06%) Nutanix
18 11 (0.97%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 314 (27.67%) DNS
2 213 (18.77%) Firewall
3 194 (17.09%) DHCP
4 109 (9.60%) TCP/IP
5 88 (7.75%) VSAN
6 85 (7.49%) VPN
7 83 (7.31%) VLAN
8 80 (7.05%) WAN
9 79 (6.96%) SAN
10 68 (5.99%) Network Security
11 67 (5.90%) LAN
12 47 (4.14%) SSL
13 41 (3.61%) NAS
14 39 (3.44%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 39 (3.44%) HTTP
15 38 (3.35%) BGP
16 35 (3.08%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
17 34 (3.00%) Wi-Fi
18 31 (2.73%) SD-WAN
19 29 (2.56%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (5.73%) SQL Server
2 14 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 13 (1.15%) Power BI
4 10 (0.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 10 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 9 (0.79%) Big Data
5 9 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (0.79%) NoSQL
6 8 (0.70%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (0.62%) Apache Cassandra
8 6 (0.53%) Hadoop
8 6 (0.53%) MongoDB
9 4 (0.35%) Hazelcast
10 3 (0.26%) NonStop SQL
10 3 (0.26%) Oracle BI EE
10 3 (0.26%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (0.18%) Data Mining
11 2 (0.18%) GIS
12 1 (0.088%) DataStage
12 1 (0.088%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 46 (4.05%) JIRA
2 42 (3.70%) GitLab
3 31 (2.73%) Jenkins
4 29 (2.56%) Git
5 13 (1.15%) Fiddler
6 7 (0.62%) Bitbucket
6 7 (0.62%) Rational DOORS
7 6 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (0.44%) Chocolatey
9 4 (0.35%) CppUnit
9 4 (0.35%) PVCS
9 4 (0.35%) Selenium
10 2 (0.18%) Subversion
11 1 (0.088%) MSI
11 1 (0.088%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.088%) Postman
11 1 (0.088%) Robot Framework
General
1 242 (21.32%) Social Skills
2 122 (10.75%) Finance
3 120 (10.57%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (4.32%) Documentation Skills
5 40 (3.52%) Public Sector
6 35 (3.08%) Banking
7 31 (2.73%) Telecoms
8 24 (2.11%) Legal
9 13 (1.15%) Aerospace
9 13 (1.15%) Investment Banking
10 11 (0.97%) Manufacturing
11 10 (0.88%) Financial Institution
11 10 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
11 10 (0.88%) Retail
12 9 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (0.79%) Law
12 9 (0.79%) Organisational Skills
13 8 (0.70%) Military
14 6 (0.53%) Back Office
14 6 (0.53%) Police
Job Titles
1 253 (22.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 162 (14.27%) Senior
3 118 (10.40%) Architect
4 112 (9.87%) VMware Engineer
5 83 (7.31%) Network Engineer
6 74 (6.52%) Cloud Engineer
7 66 (5.81%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 64 (5.64%) Support Engineer
9 58 (5.11%) Consultant
10 55 (4.85%) Lead
11 47 (4.14%) Platform Engineer
12 45 (3.96%) Administrator
13 39 (3.44%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 39 (3.44%) Storage Engineer
14 37 (3.26%) VMware Consultant
15 34 (3.00%) Senior VMware Engineer
16 31 (2.73%) Linux Engineer
16 31 (2.73%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
17 30 (2.64%) Azure Engineer
18 26 (2.29%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 152 (13.39%) Terraform
2 25 (2.20%) REST
3 21 (1.85%) Kafka
4 20 (1.76%) JSON
5 18 (1.59%) LDAP
6 14 (1.23%) YAML
7 11 (0.97%) 802.1X
8 9 (0.79%) Middleware
9 8 (0.70%) Elastic Stack
10 7 (0.62%) Regular Expression
11 6 (0.53%) ARM Templates
11 6 (0.53%) Flash
12 5 (0.44%) .NET
13 4 (0.35%) Pulumi
13 4 (0.35%) Redfish
13 4 (0.35%) SAML
14 3 (0.26%) Java SE
14 3 (0.26%) Keycloak
14 3 (0.26%) OAuth
14 3 (0.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 170 (14.98%) Data Centre
2 88 (7.75%) Hybrid Cloud
3 82 (7.22%) PKI
4 52 (4.58%) Enterprise Storage
5 50 (4.41%) Management Information System
5 50 (4.41%) Private Cloud
6 47 (4.14%) Clustering
6 47 (4.14%) Onboarding
6 47 (4.14%) Replication
7 36 (3.17%) Public Cloud
8 25 (2.20%) Cloud Native
9 20 (1.76%) Linux Command Line
10 17 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
10 17 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
11 15 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
12 14 (1.23%) Operational Technology
12 14 (1.23%) Product Ownership
13 13 (1.15%) SCADA
14 12 (1.06%) Cyber Threat
15 9 (0.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 581 (51.19%) Windows
2 380 (33.48%) Windows Server
3 303 (26.70%) Linux
4 63 (5.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 46 (4.05%) Windows Server 2019
6 38 (3.35%) Windows 10
7 26 (2.29%) VMS
8 22 (1.94%) Unix
9 21 (1.85%) Windows Server 2012
10 19 (1.67%) Ubuntu
10 19 (1.67%) Windows Server 2016
11 14 (1.23%) Data ONTAP
12 13 (1.15%) Windows Server 2008
13 11 (0.97%) CentOS
14 10 (0.88%) AIX
14 10 (0.88%) Apple iOS
14 10 (0.88%) Windows 7
15 9 (0.79%) Solaris
16 6 (0.53%) Debian
17 5 (0.44%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 343 (30.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 201 (17.71%) ITIL
3 197 (17.36%) Problem-Solving
4 190 (16.74%) Migration
5 169 (14.89%) Infrastructure as Code
6 156 (13.74%) Technical Leadership
7 141 (12.42%) Disaster Recovery
8 137 (12.07%) CI/CD
9 115 (10.13%) Change Management
10 109 (9.60%) High Availability
11 107 (9.43%) ITSM
12 103 (9.07%) DevOps
13 102 (8.99%) Stakeholder Management
14 99 (8.72%) Service Management
15 96 (8.46%) Continuous Improvement
16 94 (8.28%) Agile
16 94 (8.28%) Platform Engineering
17 88 (7.75%) Root Cause Analysis
18 84 (7.40%) Project Delivery
19 81 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 261 (23.00%) PowerShell
2 146 (12.86%) Python
3 95 (8.37%) Bash
4 67 (5.90%) SQL
5 21 (1.85%) Java
6 18 (1.59%) JavaScript
7 12 (1.06%) Bicep
8 11 (0.97%) C
9 10 (0.88%) Shell Script
10 7 (0.62%) VB
11 6 (0.53%) Go
11 6 (0.53%) VBScript
12 5 (0.44%) C++
13 4 (0.35%) C#
13 4 (0.35%) MATLAB
13 4 (0.35%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.26%) Embedded C
14 3 (0.26%) Lua
15 2 (0.18%) Korn
16 1 (0.088%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 551 (48.55%) Security Cleared
2 310 (27.31%) SC Cleared
3 272 (23.96%) DV Cleared
4 82 (7.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 70 (6.17%) Degree
6 56 (4.93%) Cisco Certification
7 42 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
8 41 (3.61%) VCAP
9 37 (3.26%) Azure Certification
10 29 (2.56%) CCNP
11 26 (2.29%) MCSE
12 24 (2.11%) CCNA
13 21 (1.85%) AWS Certification
14 16 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
14 16 (1.41%) MCSA
15 14 (1.23%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 10 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
16 10 (0.88%) PMI Certification
17 9 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
17 9 (0.79%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (3.35%) SLA
2 22 (1.94%) NIST
3 20 (1.76%) QA
4 19 (1.67%) NCSC
5 17 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials
6 15 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (0.44%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.35%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 4 (0.35%) GxP
10 3 (0.26%) Data Quality
10 3 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
10 3 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 19770
10 3 (0.26%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.18%) GDPR
11 2 (0.18%) GRC
11 2 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.18%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.088%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.088%) HL7
System Software
1 784 (69.07%) VMware Infrastructure
2 353 (31.10%) Active Directory
3 241 (21.23%) VMware ESXi
4 236 (20.79%) vSphere
5 213 (18.77%) VMware NSX
6 190 (16.74%) Hyper-V
7 98 (8.63%) Virtual Machines
8 64 (5.64%) Docker
9 40 (3.52%) Virtual Desktop
10 38 (3.35%) Firmware
11 26 (2.29%) vCloud
12 24 (2.11%) NFS
13 15 (1.32%) KVM
14 14 (1.23%) Virtual Servers
15 12 (1.06%) Citrix Hypervisor
16 11 (0.97%) BitLocker
17 9 (0.79%) XenApp
18 8 (0.70%) XenDesktop
19 7 (0.62%) oVirt
20 6 (0.53%) GPFS
Systems Management
1 187 (16.48%) Ansible
2 182 (16.04%) vCenter Server
3 142 (12.51%) Kubernetes
4 77 (6.78%) SCOM
5 69 (6.08%) SCCM
6 57 (5.02%) Microsoft Intune
7 48 (4.23%) vRealize
8 38 (3.35%) VxRail
9 26 (2.29%) Prometheus
10 23 (2.03%) Grafana
10 23 (2.03%) PowerCLI
11 22 (1.94%) Puppet
12 19 (1.67%) Red Hat Satellite
12 19 (1.67%) vMotion
13 17 (1.50%) Avamar
14 16 (1.41%) Microsoft Clustering
14 16 (1.41%) Podman
14 16 (1.41%) WSUS
15 15 (1.32%) Nagios
15 15 (1.32%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 314 (27.67%) Microsoft
2 183 (16.12%) Cisco
3 92 (8.11%) Citrix
4 80 (7.05%) NetApp
5 67 (5.90%) Red Hat
6 63 (5.55%) Dell
7 59 (5.20%) ServiceNow
8 52 (4.58%) F5
9 48 (4.23%) SolarWinds
10 42 (3.70%) Oracle
11 38 (3.35%) Palo Alto
11 38 (3.35%) Veeam
12 34 (3.00%) Juniper
13 31 (2.73%) Fortinet
14 28 (2.47%) IBM
15 27 (2.38%) CyberArk
16 23 (2.03%) Broadcom
17 20 (1.76%) Meraki
18 19 (1.67%) McAfee
18 19 (1.67%) Remedy