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 20 November 2025, 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
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 59 52
Rank change year-on-year -39 -7 +13
Contract jobs citing VMware 824 1,109 1,595
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.70% 3.57% 4.09%
As % of the Vendors category 5.68% 7.92% 9.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 540 709 1,077
10th Percentile £325 £324 £300
25th Percentile £440 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £610 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 17 68
10th Percentile £27.80 £23.24 £22.00
25th Percentile £31.39 £35.00 £45.65
Median hourly rate £57.50 £50.00 £65.98
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -24.22% +1.51%
75th Percentile £83.00 £80.59 £76.53
90th Percentile £99.20 £96.27 £84.36
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £43.75 £65.98
% change year-on-year +31.43% -33.69% +1.51%

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 14,502 13,998 17,539
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.59% 45.07% 44.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,331 8,427 11,527
10th Percentile £285 £300 £255
25th Percentile £405 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 729 430 614
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.50 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.00 £20.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.75
Median % change year-on-year -28.16% -21.79% +72.12%
75th Percentile £47.00 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £76.45
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -16.17% -32.58% +73.08%

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 20 November 2025.

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 20 November 2025.

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 20 November 2025. 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 -8 228 £513 -6.82% 184
London -86 211 £525 +8.34% 141
North of England -20 137 £500 - 68
Midlands -16 120 £525 - 61
West Midlands -14 101 £563 -2.17% 39
South West -27 93 £550 +2.33% 67
North West -18 82 £525 +5.00% 38
Yorkshire +10 67 £436 -3.65% 21
East of England -29 33 £488 -4.88% 45
East Midlands -26 19 £458 +11.04% 22
North East -13 4 £550 +137.84% 9
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 58 (7.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 33 (4.00%) Confluence
3 31 (3.76%) SharePoint
4 12 (1.46%) OpenStack
5 11 (1.33%) Apache
6 9 (1.09%) IIS
7 7 (0.85%) Skype for Business
7 7 (0.85%) WebSphere
8 5 (0.61%) SharePoint Server
9 3 (0.36%) nginx
10 2 (0.24%) CICS
10 2 (0.24%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.24%) WordPress
11 1 (0.12%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2010
11 1 (0.12%) JBoss
11 1 (0.12%) Traefik
11 1 (0.12%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 28 (3.40%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.97%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.12%) OmniGraffle
Cloud Services
1 200 (24.27%) Azure
2 144 (17.48%) AWS
3 66 (8.01%) Microsoft 365
4 50 (6.07%) GCP
5 48 (5.83%) OpenShift
6 43 (5.22%) GitHub
7 35 (4.25%) Entra ID
8 31 (3.76%) IaaS
9 26 (3.16%) SaaS
10 25 (3.03%) Nutanix
11 23 (2.79%) GitHub Actions
12 16 (1.94%) PaaS
13 12 (1.46%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 10 (1.21%) Datadog
15 9 (1.09%) Azure DevOps
16 7 (0.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 6 (0.73%) AWS CloudFormation
18 4 (0.49%) AWS Direct Connect
18 4 (0.49%) Azure Monitor
18 4 (0.49%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 196 (23.79%) DNS
2 164 (19.90%) Firewall
3 97 (11.77%) TCP/IP
4 88 (10.68%) DHCP
5 63 (7.65%) SAN
6 61 (7.40%) VLAN
7 58 (7.04%) VPN
8 49 (5.95%) VSAN
9 47 (5.70%) WAN
10 44 (5.34%) Network Security
11 38 (4.61%) BGP
12 37 (4.49%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 37 (4.49%) LAN
13 33 (4.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
14 30 (3.64%) DMZ
15 28 (3.40%) NAS
16 24 (2.91%) iSCSI
17 21 (2.55%) MPLS
18 20 (2.43%) OSPF
19 19 (2.31%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (4.85%) SQL Server
2 21 (2.55%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (0.61%) NoSQL
4 4 (0.49%) Oracle Database
5 3 (0.36%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.24%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (0.24%) MariaDB
6 2 (0.24%) MySQL
6 2 (0.24%) Redis
7 1 (0.12%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.12%) Power BI
7 1 (0.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 64 (7.77%) Jenkins
2 37 (4.49%) Git
3 28 (3.40%) GitLab
4 27 (3.28%) JIRA
5 23 (2.79%) Sonatype Nexus
6 16 (1.94%) Postman
7 14 (1.70%) Cucumber
7 14 (1.70%) JMeter
7 14 (1.70%) JUnit
8 9 (1.09%) Fiddler
9 8 (0.97%) Bitbucket
9 8 (0.97%) Subversion
10 6 (0.73%) Robot Framework
11 5 (0.61%) TeamCity
12 4 (0.49%) MSI
13 3 (0.36%) Maven
13 3 (0.36%) RStudio
14 2 (0.24%) Artifactory
14 2 (0.24%) Rational DOORS
14 2 (0.24%) Vagrant
General
1 235 (28.52%) Social Skills
2 97 (11.77%) Finance
3 95 (11.53%) Analytical Skills
4 82 (9.95%) Public Sector
5 50 (6.07%) Banking
6 38 (4.61%) Documentation Skills
7 21 (2.55%) Investment Banking
8 17 (2.06%) Legal
9 16 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
11 12 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
12 11 (1.33%) Local Government
12 11 (1.33%) Telecoms
13 10 (1.21%) Aerospace
14 8 (0.97%) Electronics
14 8 (0.97%) Manufacturing
15 7 (0.85%) Law
16 6 (0.73%) Marketing
16 6 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
17 5 (0.61%) Retail
Job Titles
1 131 (15.90%) Architect
2 115 (13.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 73 (8.86%) Consultant
4 65 (7.89%) Senior
5 52 (6.31%) VMware Consultant
6 51 (6.19%) Network Engineer
7 45 (5.46%) VMware Engineer
8 44 (5.34%) Support Engineer
9 41 (4.98%) Infrastructure Architect
10 36 (4.37%) Analyst
11 32 (3.88%) Platform Engineer
12 29 (3.52%) Windows Engineer
13 28 (3.40%) Administrator
13 28 (3.40%) Developer
13 28 (3.40%) VMware Architect
14 27 (3.28%) Infrastructure Support
15 26 (3.16%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
16 23 (2.79%) Lead
17 21 (2.55%) Infrastructure Analyst
18 20 (2.43%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (2.91%) Middleware
2 18 (2.18%) Kafka
3 14 (1.70%) Spring
4 13 (1.58%) Hibernate
4 13 (1.58%) REST
5 11 (1.33%) Flash
6 9 (1.09%) Loki
6 9 (1.09%) OAuth
6 9 (1.09%) OpenID
6 9 (1.09%) SAML
7 8 (0.97%) Elastic Stack
7 8 (0.97%) RESTful
8 7 (0.85%) JSON
8 7 (0.85%) NETCONF
8 7 (0.85%) RESTCONF
9 6 (0.73%) OAuth2
9 6 (0.73%) XMPP
10 5 (0.61%) .NET
10 5 (0.61%) XML
10 5 (0.61%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 84 (10.19%) Data Centre
2 65 (7.89%) PKI
3 51 (6.19%) Replication
4 38 (4.61%) Hybrid Cloud
4 38 (4.61%) Management Information System
5 33 (4.00%) Private Cloud
6 29 (3.52%) Cloud Native
7 24 (2.91%) Onboarding
8 23 (2.79%) Linux Command Line
9 16 (1.94%) Public Cloud
10 15 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
11 13 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
12 11 (1.33%) Fat Client
12 11 (1.33%) Thin Client
13 10 (1.21%) Clustering
13 10 (1.21%) Hedge funds
13 10 (1.21%) Virtual Team
14 9 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
14 9 (1.09%) Operational Technology
14 9 (1.09%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 339 (41.14%) Windows
2 263 (31.92%) Linux
3 181 (21.97%) Windows Server
4 81 (9.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 46 (5.58%) Windows 10
6 31 (3.76%) Windows Server 2019
7 27 (3.28%) Ubuntu
8 24 (2.91%) CentOS
9 23 (2.79%) Windows Server 2016
10 21 (2.55%) Unix
11 20 (2.43%) Windows Server 2012
12 17 (2.06%) VMS
13 15 (1.82%) Mac OS
13 15 (1.82%) Solaris
14 11 (1.33%) Windows 7
15 7 (0.85%) Debian
16 6 (0.73%) AIX
17 5 (0.61%) Windows Server 2003
17 5 (0.61%) Windows Server 2008
18 4 (0.49%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (19.78%) Problem-Solving
2 148 (17.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 128 (15.53%) Agile
4 105 (12.74%) DevOps
5 99 (12.01%) CI/CD
6 98 (11.89%) Migration
7 90 (10.92%) ITIL
8 74 (8.98%) Disaster Recovery
9 69 (8.37%) Infrastructure as Code
10 67 (8.13%) Containerisation
11 63 (7.65%) Load Balancing
12 52 (6.31%) Continuous Improvement
12 52 (6.31%) Service Management
12 52 (6.31%) Validation
13 48 (5.83%) High Availability
14 45 (5.46%) Business Strategy
14 45 (5.46%) Cybersecurity
15 42 (5.10%) Configuration Management
15 42 (5.10%) Data Protection
16 40 (4.85%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 211 (25.61%) Python
2 181 (21.97%) PowerShell
3 107 (12.99%) Bash
4 59 (7.16%) SQL
5 33 (4.00%) Java
6 28 (3.40%) JavaScript
7 23 (2.79%) Perl
8 10 (1.21%) Go
9 9 (1.09%) PHP
9 9 (1.09%) Shell Script
10 7 (0.85%) C++
10 7 (0.85%) T-SQL
10 7 (0.85%) VBA
11 4 (0.49%) C
11 4 (0.49%) C#
12 3 (0.36%) VBScript
13 2 (0.24%) Korn
14 1 (0.12%) Embedded C
14 1 (0.12%) Embedded C++
14 1 (0.12%) VB
Qualifications
1 346 (41.99%) Security Cleared
2 213 (25.85%) SC Cleared
3 140 (16.99%) DV Cleared
4 61 (7.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 59 (7.16%) Microsoft Certification
6 53 (6.43%) Cisco Certification
7 50 (6.07%) Degree
8 41 (4.98%) CCNP
9 33 (4.00%) Azure Certification
10 26 (3.16%) CCNA
11 24 (2.91%) MCSE
12 23 (2.79%) AWS Certification
13 18 (2.18%) VCAP
14 14 (1.70%) Computer Science Degree
15 13 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
15 13 (1.58%) CCIE
16 11 (1.33%) Master's Degree
16 11 (1.33%) Network+ Certification
16 11 (1.33%) Server+ Certification
17 10 (1.21%) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (3.28%) GDPR
2 18 (2.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (1.58%) NCSC
4 12 (1.46%) QA
5 11 (1.33%) SLA
6 8 (0.97%) NIST
6 8 (0.97%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.49%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.36%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.24%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.24%) PMO
11 1 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.12%) MiFID
11 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.12%) RMADS
System Software
1 536 (65.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 225 (27.31%) Active Directory
3 154 (18.69%) vSphere
4 113 (13.71%) VMware ESXi
5 99 (12.01%) Hyper-V
6 93 (11.29%) VMware NSX
7 51 (6.19%) Docker
8 46 (5.58%) Virtual Machines
9 32 (3.88%) NFS
10 20 (2.43%) Virtual Desktop
11 13 (1.58%) Firmware
12 11 (1.33%) KVM
12 11 (1.33%) Virtual Servers
13 10 (1.21%) GPFS
14 7 (0.85%) Veritas Cluster Server
15 6 (0.73%) Dovecot
15 6 (0.73%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 6 (0.73%) Postfix
15 6 (0.73%) Terminal Services
15 6 (0.73%) UAG
Systems Management
1 176 (21.36%) Ansible
2 106 (12.86%) Terraform
3 81 (9.83%) vCenter Server
4 64 (7.77%) Kubernetes
4 64 (7.77%) SCCM
5 59 (7.16%) vRealize
6 42 (5.10%) Microsoft Intune
7 28 (3.40%) Puppet
8 26 (3.16%) Grafana
9 24 (2.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 22 (2.67%) Prometheus
11 21 (2.55%) Argo
12 20 (2.43%) Progress Chef
12 20 (2.43%) VxRail
13 19 (2.31%) Single Sign-On
14 16 (1.94%) FortiGate
14 16 (1.94%) Red Hat Satellite
15 15 (1.82%) SCOM
16 12 (1.46%) WMI
16 12 (1.46%) WSUS
Vendors
1 235 (28.52%) Microsoft
2 140 (16.99%) Cisco
3 89 (10.80%) Red Hat
4 75 (9.10%) Citrix
5 74 (8.98%) F5
6 54 (6.55%) Veeam
7 47 (5.70%) NetApp
8 44 (5.34%) Dell
9 43 (5.22%) Oracle
10 40 (4.85%) SolarWinds
11 33 (4.00%) Splunk
12 30 (3.64%) IBM
13 29 (3.52%) Palo Alto
14 27 (3.28%) Broadcom
15 23 (2.79%) HP
16 21 (2.55%) ServiceNow
17 20 (2.43%) MuleSoft
18 19 (2.31%) Juniper
19 18 (2.18%) CyberArk
19 18 (2.18%) McAfee