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 17 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
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 74 66
Rank change year-on-year -21 -8 -8
Contract jobs citing VMware 1,021 809 1,169
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.59% 3.31% 3.13%
As % of the Vendors category 6.06% 7.00% 7.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 712 550 798
10th Percentile £325 £325 £263
25th Percentile £447 £425 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £609 £623 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £664
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 10 44
10th Percentile £45.43 £30.99 £22.02
25th Percentile £51.00 £42.50 £37.63
Median hourly rate £70.00 £73.75 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -5.08% +59.70% -28.95%
75th Percentile £74.07 £82.02 £71.25
90th Percentile £90.50 £85.83 £79.40
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £73.75 £48.14
% change year-on-year -5.08% +53.21% -25.95%

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 16,849 11,550 15,758
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 42.82% 47.26% 42.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,000 7,483 10,069
10th Percentile £313 £289 £255
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -3.26%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £634
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £517
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.92% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 876 434 983
10th Percentile £15.34 £14.99 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £18.15 £14.16
Median hourly rate £29.50 £28.75 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.61% +27.78% -41.56%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.06 £55.00
90th Percentile £78.65 £80.44 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £28.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +7.14% +24.44% -46.84%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -2 280 £550 -4.35% 109
London -49 249 £550 +4.76% 68
North of England -23 174 £460 +2.22% 73
Midlands -26 132 £400 -23.81% 34
West Midlands -14 104 £340 -32.07% 18
North West -4 103 £459 +2.00% 28
South West -34 99 £550 -4.35% 32
East of England +10 83 £507 +0.15% 40
Yorkshire -25 72 £463 +2.89% 30
East Midlands -25 28 £436 -20.73% 16
North East -23 6 £550 +53.85% 19
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 47 (4.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (2.15%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.08%) Confluence
4 9 (0.88%) CICS
5 7 (0.69%) nginx
5 7 (0.69%) Tomcat
6 4 (0.39%) IIS
7 3 (0.29%) Apache
7 3 (0.29%) Skype for Business
7 3 (0.29%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2010
8 2 (0.20%) OpenStack
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 17 (1.67%) MS Visio
2 14 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.098%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 252 (24.68%) Azure
2 192 (18.81%) AWS
3 77 (7.54%) Microsoft 365
4 69 (6.76%) OpenShift
5 59 (5.78%) Entra ID
6 51 (5.00%) IaaS
7 49 (4.80%) GitHub
8 41 (4.02%) GCP
9 38 (3.72%) PaaS
10 25 (2.45%) Nutanix
11 22 (2.15%) Datadog
12 18 (1.76%) GitHub Actions
13 17 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
14 15 (1.47%) SaaS
15 9 (0.88%) Azure Monitor
15 9 (0.88%) Azure Sentinel
15 9 (0.88%) Rubrik
16 8 (0.78%) Azure ExpressRoute
17 7 (0.69%) Microsoft Purview
18 6 (0.59%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 214 (20.96%) DNS
2 193 (18.90%) Firewall
3 106 (10.38%) DHCP
4 86 (8.42%) VSAN
5 84 (8.23%) VPN
6 79 (7.74%) SAN
7 66 (6.46%) TCP/IP
8 64 (6.27%) Network Security
9 63 (6.17%) WAN
10 53 (5.19%) LAN
11 49 (4.80%) SSL
12 45 (4.41%) BIG-IP
13 44 (4.31%) NAS
14 42 (4.11%) HTTP
14 42 (4.11%) VLAN
15 39 (3.82%) Wireshark
16 37 (3.62%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 34 (3.33%) BGP
18 31 (3.04%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
19 25 (2.45%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (3.23%) SQL Server
2 19 (1.86%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (0.88%) DataStage
4 9 (0.88%) Redis
5 6 (0.59%) NonStop SQL
5 6 (0.59%) 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 49 (4.80%) Jenkins
2 33 (3.23%) GitLab
3 29 (2.84%) Git
4 28 (2.74%) Fiddler
5 23 (2.25%) JIRA
6 13 (1.27%) Sonatype Nexus
7 8 (0.78%) PVCS
7 8 (0.78%) Rational DOORS
8 7 (0.69%) Chocolatey
8 7 (0.69%) Cucumber
8 7 (0.69%) JMeter
8 7 (0.69%) JUnit
8 7 (0.69%) Team Foundation Server
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%) GoCD
12 1 (0.098%) VersionOne
General
1 210 (20.57%) Social Skills
2 107 (10.48%) Finance
3 96 (9.40%) Analytical Skills
4 88 (8.62%) Public Sector
5 55 (5.39%) Banking
6 39 (3.82%) Documentation Skills
7 29 (2.84%) Legal
8 24 (2.35%) Investment Banking
9 20 (1.96%) Aerospace
10 19 (1.86%) Influencing Skills
11 12 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
12 11 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 10 (0.98%) Electronics
13 10 (0.98%) Local Government
13 10 (0.98%) Military
14 9 (0.88%) Retail
15 8 (0.78%) Police
16 7 (0.69%) Manufacturing
16 7 (0.69%) Telecoms
17 6 (0.59%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 188 (18.41%) Architect
2 168 (16.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 90 (8.81%) Senior
3 90 (8.81%) VMware Engineer
4 73 (7.15%) Network Engineer
5 59 (5.78%) Analyst
6 55 (5.39%) Consultant
7 47 (4.60%) VMware Architect
8 42 (4.11%) Lead
9 38 (3.72%) VMware Consultant
10 37 (3.62%) Infrastructure Architect
11 34 (3.33%) Technical Architect
12 33 (3.23%) Infrastructure Analyst
13 31 (3.04%) Platform Engineer
14 29 (2.84%) DevOps Engineer
15 28 (2.74%) Web Engineer
16 26 (2.55%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
16 26 (2.55%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
17 24 (2.35%) 3rd Line Engineer
18 23 (2.25%) Storage Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (2.55%) LDAP
2 23 (2.25%) Flash
2 23 (2.25%) Middleware
3 19 (1.86%) SAML
4 16 (1.57%) Kafka
5 14 (1.37%) OpenTelemetry
6 13 (1.27%) Keycloak
7 12 (1.18%) REST
8 11 (1.08%) OAuth
8 11 (1.08%) OpenID
9 8 (0.78%) OAuth2
10 7 (0.69%) Spring
11 6 (0.59%) Hibernate
11 6 (0.59%) XMPP
12 5 (0.49%) Software Packaging
13 4 (0.39%) Loki
14 3 (0.29%) SOAP
15 2 (0.20%) WCF
15 2 (0.20%) Web Services
15 2 (0.20%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 111 (10.87%) Data Centre
2 81 (7.93%) Replication
3 65 (6.37%) PKI
4 58 (5.68%) Cloud Native
5 55 (5.39%) Hybrid Cloud
6 40 (3.92%) Private Cloud
7 39 (3.82%) Management Information System
8 35 (3.43%) Linux Command Line
9 34 (3.33%) Public Cloud
10 31 (3.04%) Clustering
11 29 (2.84%) Enterprise Storage
12 21 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
13 20 (1.96%) Product Ownership
14 17 (1.67%) Operational Technology
15 15 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
15 15 (1.47%) Blackberry
16 14 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
17 13 (1.27%) SCADA
18 12 (1.18%) Onboarding
19 11 (1.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 376 (36.83%) Windows
2 282 (27.62%) Linux
3 231 (22.62%) Windows Server
4 70 (6.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 37 (3.62%) Windows Server 2019
6 33 (3.23%) Windows Server 2016
7 28 (2.74%) Ubuntu
8 25 (2.45%) VMS
9 23 (2.25%) 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 (1.27%) AIX
15 12 (1.18%) Mac OS
16 9 (0.88%) Windows Server 2003
17 8 (0.78%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (21.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 193 (18.90%) Problem-Solving
3 175 (17.14%) Migration
4 141 (13.81%) Agile
5 119 (11.66%) ITIL
6 116 (11.36%) DevOps
7 111 (10.87%) High Availability
8 104 (10.19%) Disaster Recovery
9 102 (9.99%) CI/CD
10 90 (8.81%) Load Balancing
11 86 (8.42%) Infrastructure as Code
12 75 (7.35%) Roadmaps
13 74 (7.25%) Stakeholder Management
14 70 (6.86%) Platform Engineering
15 69 (6.76%) Containerisation
16 65 (6.37%) Cybersecurity
17 63 (6.17%) Continuous Improvement
18 60 (5.88%) Change Management
19 59 (5.78%) Capacity Planning
20 52 (5.09%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 191 (18.71%) PowerShell
2 150 (14.69%) Python
3 79 (7.74%) Bash
4 30 (2.94%) SQL
5 18 (1.76%) JavaScript
6 14 (1.37%) 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 (0.78%) C++
10 8 (0.78%) T-SQL
11 7 (0.69%) Embedded C
11 7 (0.69%) Embedded C++
11 7 (0.69%) PL/SQL
12 6 (0.59%) Bicep
13 5 (0.49%) C#
14 4 (0.39%) PHP
15 2 (0.20%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 456 (44.66%) Security Cleared
2 276 (27.03%) SC Cleared
3 191 (18.71%) DV Cleared
4 66 (6.46%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 51 (5.00%) Degree
6 43 (4.21%) Cisco Certification
7 38 (3.72%) Microsoft Certification
8 35 (3.43%) CCNP
9 28 (2.74%) Azure Certification
10 26 (2.55%) VCAP
11 21 (2.06%) MCSE
12 20 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
13 17 (1.67%) AWS Certification
13 17 (1.67%) CCNA
13 17 (1.67%) Oracle Certification
14 12 (1.18%) OCP
15 11 (1.08%) MCSA
16 10 (0.98%) CCDP
17 8 (0.78%) CISSP
18 7 (0.69%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (3.43%) NIST
2 32 (3.13%) SLA
3 25 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 22 (2.15%) NCSC
5 21 (2.06%) Cyber Essentials
6 13 (1.27%) GDPR
7 9 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (0.49%) Def Stans
8 5 (0.49%) QA
9 4 (0.39%) PCI DSS
10 3 (0.29%) NIST 800
10 3 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.20%) ISA99
11 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 1 (0.098%) COBIT
12 1 (0.098%) Data Quality
12 1 (0.098%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.098%) JSP 440
System Software
1 641 (62.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 241 (23.60%) Active Directory
3 205 (20.08%) vSphere
4 204 (19.98%) VMware NSX
5 153 (14.99%) VMware ESXi
6 127 (12.44%) Hyper-V
7 68 (6.66%) Virtual Machines
8 45 (4.41%) Docker
9 42 (4.11%) NFS
10 35 (3.43%) Firmware
11 26 (2.55%) Virtual Desktop
12 21 (2.06%) KVM
13 17 (1.67%) GPFS
14 14 (1.37%) vCloud
15 10 (0.98%) BitLocker
15 10 (0.98%) Microsoft App-V
16 5 (0.49%) XenDesktop
17 4 (0.39%) SRDF
17 4 (0.39%) UAG
17 4 (0.39%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 188 (18.41%) Ansible
2 134 (13.12%) vCenter Server
3 114 (11.17%) Terraform
4 97 (9.50%) Kubernetes
5 80 (7.84%) Microsoft Intune
6 78 (7.64%) vRealize
7 69 (6.76%) SCCM
8 39 (3.82%) Argo
9 34 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
9 34 (3.33%) VxRail
10 33 (3.23%) Grafana
11 31 (3.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 23 (2.25%) SCOM
13 22 (2.15%) PowerCLI
14 19 (1.86%) Red Hat Satellite
14 19 (1.86%) vMotion
15 18 (1.76%) Progress Chef
15 18 (1.76%) Prometheus
16 15 (1.47%) NetBackup
17 14 (1.37%) Puppet
Vendors
1 243 (23.80%) Microsoft
2 165 (16.16%) Cisco
3 98 (9.60%) Red Hat
4 94 (9.21%) Citrix
5 73 (7.15%) F5
6 59 (5.78%) NetApp
7 58 (5.68%) IBM
8 47 (4.60%) Dell
9 43 (4.21%) Pure Storage
9 43 (4.21%) ServiceNow
10 41 (4.02%) Oracle
11 40 (3.92%) Palo Alto
12 33 (3.23%) SolarWinds
13 32 (3.13%) McAfee
14 31 (3.04%) Veeam
15 28 (2.74%) Blue Coat
16 26 (2.55%) Splunk
17 25 (2.45%) Commvault
18 23 (2.25%) Broadcom
19 22 (2.15%) CheckPoint