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 March 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 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 70 62
Rank change year-on-year -25 -8 -5
Contract jobs citing VMware 971 861 1,228
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.67% 3.39% 3.28%
As % of the Vendors category 5.98% 7.26% 7.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 686 567 819
10th Percentile £325 £313 £263
25th Percentile £433 £425 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 15 61
10th Percentile £26.00 £35.00 £22.08
25th Percentile £41.90 £40.00 £40.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +20.83% -7.69%
75th Percentile £75.70 £84.14 £76.25
90th Percentile £96.75 £101.70 £84.36
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +12.00% +4.17% -7.69%

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 16,224 11,855 16,090
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 44.67% 46.74% 42.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,582 7,418 10,312
10th Percentile £306 £288 £250
25th Percentile £413 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +1.94% -4.28%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £631
90th Percentile £700 £725 £731
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £514
% change year-on-year -3.85% +1.17% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 843 379 905
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.62 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.24 £14.72
Median hourly rate £24.00 £31.35 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year -23.43% +24.14% -27.86%
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £53.50
90th Percentile £74.26 £85.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £29.54 £25.18
% change year-on-year -15.35% +17.30% -28.06%

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 March 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 March 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 March 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 -3 264 £525 -4.72% 127
London -48 247 £550 +4.76% 98
North of England -32 170 £463 +1.76% 87
Midlands -18 124 £410 -21.90% 33
North West -21 108 £460 -8.10% 42
South West -28 105 £550 -3.30% 48
West Midlands -25 94 £397 -24.12% 20
Yorkshire -29 68 £482 +6.52% 42
East of England +1 58 £500 -1.23% 20
East Midlands -17 30 £450 -15.13% 13
North East -20 4 £550 +57.14% 5
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 51 (5.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 28 (2.88%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.96%) Confluence
4 8 (0.82%) CICS
5 7 (0.72%) OpenStack
5 7 (0.72%) Skype for Business
6 5 (0.51%) SharePoint Server
7 3 (0.31%) Apache
7 3 (0.31%) nginx
8 2 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2010
8 2 (0.21%) IIS
8 2 (0.21%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.21%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.21%) WordPress
9 1 (0.10%) JBoss
9 1 (0.10%) Traefik
9 1 (0.10%) WebSphere
Applications
1 17 (1.75%) MS Visio
2 16 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 233 (24.00%) Azure
2 172 (17.71%) AWS
3 86 (8.86%) Microsoft 365
4 81 (8.34%) OpenShift
5 55 (5.66%) Entra ID
6 51 (5.25%) GitHub
7 49 (5.05%) IaaS
8 48 (4.94%) GCP
9 33 (3.40%) Nutanix
9 33 (3.40%) PaaS
10 24 (2.47%) GitHub Actions
11 18 (1.85%) Datadog
12 13 (1.34%) Azure DevOps
13 11 (1.13%) SaaS
14 8 (0.82%) Rubrik
15 7 (0.72%) Microsoft Purview
16 6 (0.62%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 6 (0.62%) Azure Sentinel
17 5 (0.51%) Azure Monitor
17 5 (0.51%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 216 (22.25%) DNS
2 191 (19.67%) Firewall
3 99 (10.20%) DHCP
4 75 (7.72%) VPN
5 74 (7.62%) TCP/IP
6 69 (7.11%) SAN
7 65 (6.69%) VSAN
8 53 (5.46%) Network Security
9 47 (4.84%) WAN
10 45 (4.63%) VLAN
11 42 (4.33%) SSL
12 41 (4.22%) LAN
13 40 (4.12%) BIG-IP
14 38 (3.91%) HTTP
15 37 (3.81%) Wireshark
16 36 (3.71%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 34 (3.50%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
18 33 (3.40%) NAS
19 28 (2.88%) BGP
20 18 (1.85%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (3.71%) SQL Server
2 25 (2.57%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (0.82%) DataStage
3 8 (0.82%) Redis
4 7 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (0.41%) NoSQL
5 4 (0.41%) Oracle Database
6 3 (0.31%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.21%) Power BI
8 1 (0.10%) Oracle BI EE
8 1 (0.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 55 (5.66%) Jenkins
2 32 (3.30%) GitLab
3 28 (2.88%) Fiddler
4 27 (2.78%) Git
5 22 (2.27%) JIRA
6 20 (2.06%) Sonatype Nexus
7 14 (1.44%) Cucumber
7 14 (1.44%) JMeter
7 14 (1.44%) JUnit
8 8 (0.82%) PVCS
8 8 (0.82%) Rational DOORS
9 6 (0.62%) Bitbucket
9 6 (0.62%) Robot Framework
9 6 (0.62%) Team Foundation Server
10 5 (0.51%) Chocolatey
11 4 (0.41%) RStudio
12 3 (0.31%) Maven
13 2 (0.21%) Subversion
14 1 (0.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 1 (0.10%) MSI
General
1 220 (22.66%) Social Skills
2 114 (11.74%) Finance
3 103 (10.61%) Analytical Skills
4 97 (9.99%) Public Sector
5 61 (6.28%) Banking
6 39 (4.02%) Documentation Skills
7 26 (2.68%) Investment Banking
8 24 (2.47%) Legal
9 22 (2.27%) Aerospace
10 21 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
11 14 (1.44%) Local Government
12 12 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
13 11 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 10 (1.03%) Electronics
14 10 (1.03%) Military
15 7 (0.72%) Police
16 5 (0.51%) Financial Institution
16 5 (0.51%) Fire and Rescue
16 5 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
16 5 (0.51%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 168 (17.30%) Architect
2 143 (14.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 68 (7.00%) Network Engineer
4 64 (6.59%) VMware Engineer
5 62 (6.39%) Analyst
6 61 (6.28%) Senior
7 59 (6.08%) Consultant
8 47 (4.84%) VMware Consultant
9 45 (4.63%) Platform Engineer
10 41 (4.22%) VMware Architect
11 38 (3.91%) Infrastructure Architect
12 35 (3.60%) Support Engineer
13 34 (3.50%) Infrastructure Analyst
13 34 (3.50%) Lead
14 29 (2.99%) Web Engineer
15 28 (2.88%) DevOps Engineer
16 27 (2.78%) Technical Architect
17 24 (2.47%) Wintel Engineer
18 23 (2.37%) Developer
19 22 (2.27%) 3rd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (2.57%) Middleware
2 24 (2.47%) Kafka
3 22 (2.27%) Flash
4 21 (2.16%) LDAP
5 16 (1.65%) SAML
6 14 (1.44%) Spring
7 13 (1.34%) Hibernate
8 12 (1.24%) Keycloak
9 11 (1.13%) OpenID
10 10 (1.03%) OAuth
10 10 (1.03%) OpenTelemetry
10 10 (1.03%) REST
11 9 (0.93%) Loki
12 7 (0.72%) Elastic Stack
12 7 (0.72%) OAuth2
13 6 (0.62%) XMPP
14 5 (0.51%) React
14 5 (0.51%) Software Packaging
15 4 (0.41%) .NET
15 4 (0.41%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 96 (9.89%) Data Centre
2 75 (7.72%) Replication
3 72 (7.42%) PKI
4 50 (5.15%) Cloud Native
5 45 (4.63%) Hybrid Cloud
6 38 (3.91%) Management Information System
7 32 (3.30%) Private Cloud
8 30 (3.09%) Linux Command Line
9 26 (2.68%) Public Cloud
10 22 (2.27%) Clustering
10 22 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
11 19 (1.96%) Enterprise Storage
11 19 (1.96%) Operational Technology
12 18 (1.85%) Product Ownership
13 15 (1.54%) Blackberry
14 14 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
14 14 (1.44%) Onboarding
15 11 (1.13%) Fat Client
15 11 (1.13%) Thin Client
16 10 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 363 (37.38%) Windows
2 285 (29.35%) Linux
3 210 (21.63%) Windows Server
4 75 (7.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 35 (3.60%) Windows 10
6 31 (3.19%) Windows Server 2019
7 30 (3.09%) Windows Server 2016
8 24 (2.47%) Ubuntu
9 19 (1.96%) Unix
10 18 (1.85%) VMS
10 18 (1.85%) Windows Server 2012
11 17 (1.75%) CentOS
12 16 (1.65%) Mac OS
13 15 (1.54%) Android
13 15 (1.54%) Apple iOS
13 15 (1.54%) Solaris
14 12 (1.24%) AIX
14 12 (1.24%) Windows 7
15 9 (0.93%) Data ONTAP
16 7 (0.72%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (19.67%) Problem-Solving
2 188 (19.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 154 (15.86%) Migration
4 146 (15.04%) Agile
5 117 (12.05%) DevOps
6 116 (11.95%) ITIL
7 114 (11.74%) CI/CD
8 96 (9.89%) Load Balancing
9 92 (9.47%) Disaster Recovery
10 85 (8.75%) High Availability
11 78 (8.03%) Infrastructure as Code
12 77 (7.93%) Containerisation
13 71 (7.31%) Platform Engineering
14 68 (7.00%) Roadmaps
15 65 (6.69%) Stakeholder Management
16 62 (6.39%) Continuous Improvement
17 61 (6.28%) Cybersecurity
18 55 (5.66%) Change Management
19 51 (5.25%) Service Management
20 50 (5.15%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 195 (20.08%) PowerShell
2 184 (18.95%) Python
3 103 (10.61%) Bash
4 33 (3.40%) SQL
5 21 (2.16%) JavaScript
6 20 (2.06%) Java
7 18 (1.85%) Perl
8 14 (1.44%) Shell Script
9 11 (1.13%) C
10 9 (0.93%) T-SQL
11 8 (0.82%) C#
11 8 (0.82%) C++
11 8 (0.82%) COBOL
12 7 (0.72%) Embedded C
12 7 (0.72%) Embedded C++
12 7 (0.72%) MATLAB
13 6 (0.62%) Bicep
14 4 (0.41%) PHP
15 3 (0.31%) Korn
16 2 (0.21%) VBA
Qualifications
1 426 (43.87%) Security Cleared
2 262 (26.98%) SC Cleared
3 160 (16.48%) DV Cleared
4 64 (6.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 49 (5.05%) Microsoft Certification
6 48 (4.94%) Degree
7 42 (4.33%) Cisco Certification
8 35 (3.60%) CCNP
9 29 (2.99%) Azure Certification
10 23 (2.37%) MCSE
11 22 (2.27%) CCNA
11 22 (2.27%) VCAP
12 18 (1.85%) AWS Certification
13 14 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
13 14 (1.44%) Oracle Certification
14 13 (1.34%) MCSA
15 11 (1.13%) CCDP
16 8 (0.82%) CCIE
16 8 (0.82%) CISSP
16 8 (0.82%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (2.88%) NIST
2 24 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (2.27%) SLA
4 19 (1.96%) GDPR
5 18 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials
6 15 (1.54%) NCSC
7 9 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 8 (0.82%) Def Stans
9 5 (0.51%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.41%) QA
11 3 (0.31%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.21%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 1 (0.10%) Accessibility
13 1 (0.10%) COBIT
13 1 (0.10%) Data Quality
13 1 (0.10%) Government Security Classifications
13 1 (0.10%) JSP 440
13 1 (0.10%) MiFID
13 1 (0.10%) PMO
System Software
1 596 (61.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 249 (25.64%) Active Directory
3 191 (19.67%) vSphere
4 161 (16.58%) VMware NSX
5 112 (11.53%) Hyper-V
6 108 (11.12%) VMware ESXi
7 62 (6.39%) Virtual Machines
8 56 (5.77%) Docker
9 43 (4.43%) NFS
10 27 (2.78%) Firmware
11 26 (2.68%) Virtual Desktop
12 19 (1.96%) KVM
13 16 (1.65%) GPFS
14 11 (1.13%) vCloud
15 6 (0.62%) BitLocker
15 6 (0.62%) Microsoft App-V
15 6 (0.62%) Virtual Servers
16 4 (0.41%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 3 (0.31%) VMware Workstation
17 3 (0.31%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 185 (19.05%) Ansible
2 117 (12.05%) Terraform
3 110 (11.33%) vCenter Server
4 106 (10.92%) Kubernetes
5 88 (9.06%) Microsoft Intune
6 75 (7.72%) SCCM
7 73 (7.52%) vRealize
8 39 (4.02%) Argo
9 37 (3.81%) Grafana
10 32 (3.30%) Single Sign-On
11 31 (3.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 30 (3.09%) VxRail
13 25 (2.57%) Prometheus
14 24 (2.47%) Progress Chef
14 24 (2.47%) Red Hat Satellite
14 24 (2.47%) SCOM
15 15 (1.54%) FortiGate
15 15 (1.54%) vMotion
16 14 (1.44%) PowerCLI
16 14 (1.44%) Puppet
Vendors
1 255 (26.26%) Microsoft
2 157 (16.17%) Cisco
3 105 (10.81%) Red Hat
4 90 (9.27%) Citrix
5 82 (8.44%) F5
6 53 (5.46%) IBM
7 50 (5.15%) Dell
8 48 (4.94%) NetApp
9 41 (4.22%) Pure Storage
10 40 (4.12%) SolarWinds
11 38 (3.91%) McAfee
11 38 (3.91%) Oracle
11 38 (3.91%) Palo Alto
11 38 (3.91%) ServiceNow
12 36 (3.71%) Veeam
13 35 (3.60%) Blue Coat
14 28 (2.88%) Splunk
15 24 (2.47%) Commvault
16 21 (2.16%) HP
17 18 (1.85%) AppDynamics