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 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
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 60 52
Rank change year-on-year -40 -8 +13
Contract jobs citing VMware 811 1,098 1,631
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.69% 3.58% 4.11%
As % of the Vendors category 5.66% 7.93% 9.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 536 699 1,104
10th Percentile £324 £324 £300
25th Percentile £431 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.81% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £608 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £500
% change year-on-year +0.96% +4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 17 68
10th Percentile £24.80 £23.24 £22.00
25th Percentile £29.25 £35.00 £45.65
Median hourly rate £34.00 £50.00 £65.98
Median % change year-on-year -32.00% -24.22% +1.51%
75th Percentile £65.13 £80.59 £76.53
90th Percentile £72.98 £96.27 £84.36
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £43.75 £65.98
% change year-on-year -22.29% -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 14,322 13,843 17,794
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.55% 45.12% 44.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,222 8,310 11,734
10th Percentile £286 £300 £255
25th Percentile £405 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% - -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% - -1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 714 430 624
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.50 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.00 £20.50
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -22.22% +74.55%
75th Percentile £43.75 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £71.85 £75.00 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £30.45 £44.50
% change year-on-year -17.90% -31.57% +74.51%

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 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 18 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 18 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 -9 216 £513 -6.82% 190
London -73 211 £525 +8.34% 155
North of England -10 136 £500 - 57
Midlands -24 119 £525 - 72
West Midlands -15 100 £563 -2.17% 40
South West -27 93 £550 +2.33% 57
North West -15 81 £550 +10.00% 31
Yorkshire +11 67 £436 -4.18% 17
East of England -23 35 £513 +0.05% 45
East Midlands -25 19 £458 +11.04% 32
North East -10 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 59 (7.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 33 (4.07%) Confluence
3 32 (3.95%) SharePoint
4 14 (1.73%) OpenStack
5 11 (1.36%) Apache
6 9 (1.11%) IIS
7 7 (0.86%) Skype for Business
8 6 (0.74%) WebSphere
9 5 (0.62%) SharePoint Server
10 3 (0.37%) nginx
11 2 (0.25%) CICS
11 2 (0.25%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.25%) WordPress
12 1 (0.12%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2010
12 1 (0.12%) Traefik
12 1 (0.12%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 29 (3.58%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.99%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.12%) OmniGraffle
Cloud Services
1 191 (23.55%) Azure
2 136 (16.77%) AWS
3 67 (8.26%) Microsoft 365
4 48 (5.92%) GCP
4 48 (5.92%) OpenShift
5 43 (5.30%) GitHub
6 35 (4.32%) Entra ID
7 31 (3.82%) IaaS
8 26 (3.21%) SaaS
9 25 (3.08%) Nutanix
10 23 (2.84%) GitHub Actions
11 16 (1.97%) PaaS
12 12 (1.48%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 10 (1.23%) Datadog
14 9 (1.11%) Azure DevOps
15 7 (0.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 5 (0.62%) Cloud Computing
16 5 (0.62%) OneDrive
17 4 (0.49%) AWS Direct Connect
17 4 (0.49%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 196 (24.17%) DNS
2 155 (19.11%) Firewall
3 93 (11.47%) TCP/IP
4 84 (10.36%) DHCP
5 67 (8.26%) SAN
6 62 (7.64%) VLAN
7 58 (7.15%) VPN
8 48 (5.92%) VSAN
8 48 (5.92%) WAN
9 43 (5.30%) Network Security
10 38 (4.69%) BGP
10 38 (4.69%) LAN
11 37 (4.56%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 33 (4.07%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
13 30 (3.70%) DMZ
14 28 (3.45%) NAS
15 27 (3.33%) iSCSI
16 21 (2.59%) MPLS
17 20 (2.47%) Fibre Channel
17 20 (2.47%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (4.81%) SQL Server
2 20 (2.47%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (0.62%) NoSQL
4 4 (0.49%) Oracle Database
5 3 (0.37%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.25%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (0.25%) MariaDB
6 2 (0.25%) MySQL
6 2 (0.25%) 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 (7.89%) Jenkins
2 37 (4.56%) Git
3 29 (3.58%) GitLab
3 29 (3.58%) JIRA
4 23 (2.84%) Sonatype Nexus
5 16 (1.97%) Postman
6 14 (1.73%) Cucumber
6 14 (1.73%) JMeter
6 14 (1.73%) JUnit
7 9 (1.11%) Fiddler
8 8 (0.99%) Bitbucket
8 8 (0.99%) Subversion
9 7 (0.86%) TeamCity
10 6 (0.74%) Robot Framework
11 4 (0.49%) MSI
12 3 (0.37%) Maven
12 3 (0.37%) RStudio
13 2 (0.25%) Artifactory
13 2 (0.25%) Rational DOORS
13 2 (0.25%) Vagrant
General
1 229 (28.24%) Social Skills
2 99 (12.21%) Finance
3 92 (11.34%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (9.86%) Public Sector
5 50 (6.17%) Banking
6 38 (4.69%) Documentation Skills
7 21 (2.59%) Investment Banking
8 16 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (1.97%) Legal
9 14 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
11 11 (1.36%) Local Government
11 11 (1.36%) Telecoms
12 8 (0.99%) Electronics
12 8 (0.99%) Manufacturing
13 7 (0.86%) Aerospace
13 7 (0.86%) Law
14 6 (0.74%) Financial Institution
14 6 (0.74%) Marketing
14 6 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 123 (15.17%) Architect
2 112 (13.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 70 (8.63%) Consultant
4 62 (7.64%) Senior
5 51 (6.29%) Network Engineer
6 49 (6.04%) VMware Consultant
7 45 (5.55%) Support Engineer
8 44 (5.43%) VMware Engineer
9 40 (4.93%) Infrastructure Architect
10 34 (4.19%) Analyst
11 31 (3.82%) Platform Engineer
12 30 (3.70%) Administrator
13 29 (3.58%) Windows Engineer
14 28 (3.45%) Developer
14 28 (3.45%) VMware Architect
15 27 (3.33%) Infrastructure Support
16 26 (3.21%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
17 23 (2.84%) Lead
18 20 (2.47%) Infrastructure Analyst
18 20 (2.47%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (2.96%) Middleware
2 18 (2.22%) Kafka
3 14 (1.73%) Spring
4 13 (1.60%) Hibernate
4 13 (1.60%) REST
5 10 (1.23%) Flash
6 9 (1.11%) Loki
7 8 (0.99%) Elastic Stack
7 8 (0.99%) OAuth
7 8 (0.99%) OpenID
7 8 (0.99%) RESTful
7 8 (0.99%) SAML
8 7 (0.86%) JSON
8 7 (0.86%) NETCONF
8 7 (0.86%) RESTCONF
9 6 (0.74%) OAuth2
9 6 (0.74%) XMPP
10 5 (0.62%) .NET
10 5 (0.62%) XML
10 5 (0.62%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 84 (10.36%) Data Centre
2 60 (7.40%) PKI
3 49 (6.04%) Replication
4 39 (4.81%) Hybrid Cloud
5 38 (4.69%) Management Information System
6 33 (4.07%) Private Cloud
7 24 (2.96%) Linux Command Line
7 24 (2.96%) Onboarding
8 21 (2.59%) Cloud Native
9 16 (1.97%) Public Cloud
10 15 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
11 13 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
12 12 (1.48%) Clustering
13 11 (1.36%) Fat Client
13 11 (1.36%) Thin Client
14 10 (1.23%) Hedge funds
14 10 (1.23%) Virtual Team
15 9 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
15 9 (1.11%) Operational Technology
15 9 (1.11%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 337 (41.55%) Windows
2 261 (32.18%) Linux
3 182 (22.44%) Windows Server
4 81 (9.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 47 (5.80%) Windows 10
6 33 (4.07%) Windows Server 2019
7 30 (3.70%) Ubuntu
8 26 (3.21%) CentOS
9 25 (3.08%) Windows Server 2016
10 21 (2.59%) Unix
11 20 (2.47%) Windows Server 2012
12 16 (1.97%) VMS
13 15 (1.85%) Mac OS
14 14 (1.73%) Solaris
15 11 (1.36%) Windows 7
16 7 (0.86%) Debian
17 6 (0.74%) AIX
18 5 (0.62%) Windows Server 2003
18 5 (0.62%) Windows Server 2008
19 4 (0.49%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (19.24%) Problem-Solving
2 145 (17.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 122 (15.04%) Agile
4 104 (12.82%) DevOps
5 98 (12.08%) Migration
6 94 (11.59%) CI/CD
7 90 (11.10%) ITIL
8 73 (9.00%) Disaster Recovery
9 65 (8.01%) Containerisation
9 65 (8.01%) Infrastructure as Code
10 62 (7.64%) Load Balancing
11 52 (6.41%) Continuous Improvement
11 52 (6.41%) Service Management
11 52 (6.41%) Validation
12 48 (5.92%) High Availability
13 45 (5.55%) Business Strategy
14 42 (5.18%) Configuration Management
14 42 (5.18%) Data Protection
15 39 (4.81%) Infrastructure Automation
15 39 (4.81%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 209 (25.77%) Python
2 177 (21.82%) PowerShell
3 102 (12.58%) Bash
4 59 (7.27%) SQL
5 33 (4.07%) Java
6 27 (3.33%) JavaScript
7 22 (2.71%) Perl
8 11 (1.36%) Shell Script
9 10 (1.23%) Go
10 9 (1.11%) PHP
11 7 (0.86%) C++
11 7 (0.86%) T-SQL
11 7 (0.86%) VBA
12 4 (0.49%) C
12 4 (0.49%) C#
13 3 (0.37%) VBScript
14 2 (0.25%) Korn
15 1 (0.12%) Embedded C
15 1 (0.12%) Embedded C++
15 1 (0.12%) VB
Qualifications
1 334 (41.18%) Security Cleared
2 204 (25.15%) SC Cleared
3 138 (17.02%) DV Cleared
4 59 (7.27%) Microsoft Certification
5 57 (7.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 51 (6.29%) Cisco Certification
6 51 (6.29%) Degree
7 39 (4.81%) CCNP
8 28 (3.45%) Azure Certification
9 26 (3.21%) CCNA
10 24 (2.96%) MCSE
11 18 (2.22%) VCAP
12 14 (1.73%) AWS Certification
12 14 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
13 12 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
14 11 (1.36%) CCIE
14 11 (1.36%) Master's Degree
14 11 (1.36%) Network+ Certification
14 11 (1.36%) Server+ Certification
15 10 (1.23%) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (3.21%) GDPR
2 18 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (1.60%) NCSC
4 12 (1.48%) QA
5 11 (1.36%) SLA
6 10 (1.23%) PCI DSS
7 8 (0.99%) NIST
8 7 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.49%) Data Quality
10 3 (0.37%) Def Stans
11 2 (0.25%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.25%) PMO
12 1 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
12 1 (0.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.12%) MiFID
12 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.12%) RMADS
System Software
1 529 (65.23%) VMware Infrastructure
2 225 (27.74%) Active Directory
3 152 (18.74%) vSphere
4 113 (13.93%) VMware ESXi
5 97 (11.96%) Hyper-V
6 89 (10.97%) VMware NSX
7 47 (5.80%) Docker
7 47 (5.80%) Virtual Machines
8 30 (3.70%) NFS
9 20 (2.47%) Virtual Desktop
10 15 (1.85%) Firmware
11 13 (1.60%) Virtual Servers
12 11 (1.36%) KVM
13 9 (1.11%) GPFS
14 8 (0.99%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 7 (0.86%) Veritas Cluster Server
16 6 (0.74%) Dovecot
16 6 (0.74%) Postfix
16 6 (0.74%) Terminal Services
16 6 (0.74%) UAG
Systems Management
1 175 (21.58%) Ansible
2 101 (12.45%) Terraform
3 82 (10.11%) vCenter Server
4 66 (8.14%) SCCM
5 60 (7.40%) Kubernetes
6 56 (6.91%) vRealize
7 41 (5.06%) Microsoft Intune
8 28 (3.45%) Puppet
9 26 (3.21%) Grafana
10 23 (2.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 22 (2.71%) Prometheus
12 21 (2.59%) Argo
13 20 (2.47%) Progress Chef
13 20 (2.47%) VxRail
14 18 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
15 15 (1.85%) FortiGate
15 15 (1.85%) Red Hat Satellite
16 14 (1.73%) SCOM
16 14 (1.73%) WSUS
17 13 (1.60%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 236 (29.10%) Microsoft
2 133 (16.40%) Cisco
3 88 (10.85%) Red Hat
4 74 (9.12%) F5
5 73 (9.00%) Citrix
6 53 (6.54%) Veeam
7 48 (5.92%) NetApp
8 44 (5.43%) Dell
9 41 (5.06%) Oracle
10 40 (4.93%) SolarWinds
11 35 (4.32%) Splunk
12 28 (3.45%) IBM
13 27 (3.33%) Palo Alto
14 26 (3.21%) Broadcom
15 23 (2.84%) HP
16 22 (2.71%) ServiceNow
17 20 (2.47%) MuleSoft
18 19 (2.34%) Juniper
19 18 (2.22%) CyberArk
19 18 (2.22%) McAfee