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 30 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
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 66 52
Rank change year-on-year -37 -14 +14
Contract jobs citing VMware 800 1,033 1,540
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.62% 3.35% 3.96%
As % of the Vendors category 5.50% 7.38% 8.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 524 652 1,036
10th Percentile £318 £308 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.83% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £600 £608 £606
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £511 £500
% change year-on-year +2.70% +2.24% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 17 65
10th Percentile £27.80 £23.24 £22.00
25th Percentile £31.39 £35.00 £44.60
Median hourly rate £66.50 £50.00 £65.98
Median % change year-on-year +33.00% -24.22% +1.51%
75th Percentile £83.00 £80.59 £76.53
90th Percentile £99.20 £96.27 £84.36
UK median hourly rate £68.25 £43.75 £65.98
% change year-on-year +56.00% -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 14,552 13,996 17,413
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.64% 45.39% 44.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,410 8,440 11,415
10th Percentile £285 £300 £250
25th Percentile £405 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -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 706 435 613
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.24 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.45 £17.00 £20.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £32.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.15% -26.97% +71.15%
75th Percentile £47.09 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £30.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -16.67% -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 30 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 30 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 30 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 -5 225 £513 -6.82% 150
London -69 207 £541 +9.95% 70
North of England -19 129 £500 - 42
Midlands +7 124 £500 +9.29% 47
West Midlands +16 105 £550 +18.28% 34
North West -14 82 £550 +10.00% 20
South West -31 81 £550 +2.80% 51
Yorkshire +5 59 £425 +3.03% 15
East of England -13 35 £488 +1.56% 43
East Midlands -20 19 £458 +22.00% 13
North East -11 4 £550 +137.84% 7
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 54 (6.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 31 (3.88%) SharePoint
3 25 (3.13%) Confluence
4 12 (1.50%) OpenStack
5 9 (1.13%) Apache
6 8 (1.00%) IIS
7 7 (0.88%) Skype for Business
7 7 (0.88%) WebSphere
8 5 (0.63%) SharePoint Server
9 3 (0.38%) nginx
10 2 (0.25%) CICS
10 2 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2010
10 2 (0.25%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.25%) WordPress
11 1 (0.13%) JBoss
11 1 (0.13%) Traefik
11 1 (0.13%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 21 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.13%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.13%) OmniGraffle
Cloud Services
1 200 (25.00%) Azure
2 148 (18.50%) AWS
3 64 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
4 52 (6.50%) GCP
5 48 (6.00%) OpenShift
6 45 (5.63%) GitHub
7 38 (4.75%) Entra ID
8 33 (4.13%) IaaS
9 26 (3.25%) Nutanix
10 25 (3.13%) SaaS
11 24 (3.00%) GitHub Actions
12 17 (2.13%) PaaS
13 12 (1.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 11 (1.38%) Datadog
15 10 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
16 7 (0.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 6 (0.75%) AWS CloudFormation
18 4 (0.50%) AWS Direct Connect
18 4 (0.50%) Azure Monitor
18 4 (0.50%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 187 (23.38%) DNS
2 155 (19.38%) Firewall
3 89 (11.13%) TCP/IP
4 84 (10.50%) DHCP
5 62 (7.75%) SAN
6 57 (7.13%) VLAN
7 50 (6.25%) VPN
8 46 (5.75%) VSAN
8 46 (5.75%) WAN
9 43 (5.38%) Network Security
10 37 (4.63%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 37 (4.63%) LAN
11 33 (4.13%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 30 (3.75%) DMZ
13 28 (3.50%) NAS
14 26 (3.25%) BGP
15 23 (2.88%) iSCSI
16 18 (2.25%) Fibre Channel
16 18 (2.25%) SSL
16 18 (2.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (5.25%) SQL Server
2 23 (2.88%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (0.63%) NoSQL
4 4 (0.50%) Oracle Database
4 4 (0.50%) Redis
5 3 (0.38%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.25%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (0.25%) MariaDB
6 2 (0.25%) MySQL
7 1 (0.13%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.13%) Power BI
7 1 (0.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 55 (6.88%) Jenkins
2 32 (4.00%) Git
3 30 (3.75%) GitLab
4 22 (2.75%) Sonatype Nexus
5 19 (2.38%) JIRA
6 14 (1.75%) Cucumber
6 14 (1.75%) JMeter
6 14 (1.75%) JUnit
7 10 (1.25%) Fiddler
8 8 (1.00%) Bitbucket
8 8 (1.00%) Subversion
9 7 (0.88%) Postman
10 6 (0.75%) Robot Framework
11 5 (0.63%) TeamCity
12 3 (0.38%) Maven
12 3 (0.38%) MSI
12 3 (0.38%) PVCS
12 3 (0.38%) Rational DOORS
12 3 (0.38%) RStudio
13 2 (0.25%) Vagrant
General
1 222 (27.75%) Social Skills
2 92 (11.50%) Finance
3 89 (11.13%) Public Sector
4 83 (10.38%) Analytical Skills
5 52 (6.50%) Banking
6 37 (4.63%) Documentation Skills
7 21 (2.63%) Investment Banking
8 17 (2.13%) Legal
9 16 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
11 12 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
12 11 (1.38%) Local Government
12 11 (1.38%) Telecoms
13 10 (1.25%) Aerospace
14 9 (1.13%) Electronics
15 8 (1.00%) Manufacturing
16 7 (0.88%) Law
16 7 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
17 6 (0.75%) Marketing
18 5 (0.63%) Retail
Job Titles
1 130 (16.25%) Architect
2 113 (14.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 73 (9.13%) Consultant
4 57 (7.13%) Senior
5 50 (6.25%) VMware Consultant
6 45 (5.63%) VMware Engineer
7 44 (5.50%) Support Engineer
8 42 (5.25%) Network Engineer
9 40 (5.00%) Analyst
9 40 (5.00%) Infrastructure Architect
10 32 (4.00%) Platform Engineer
11 29 (3.63%) Developer
12 27 (3.38%) Infrastructure Support
12 27 (3.38%) VMware Architect
13 26 (3.25%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
14 25 (3.13%) Administrator
14 25 (3.13%) Infrastructure Analyst
15 23 (2.88%) Lead
16 21 (2.63%) IT Engineer
16 21 (2.63%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (2.63%) Middleware
2 20 (2.50%) Kafka
3 14 (1.75%) Spring
4 13 (1.63%) Hibernate
5 12 (1.50%) Flash
6 11 (1.38%) REST
7 9 (1.13%) Loki
7 9 (1.13%) OAuth
7 9 (1.13%) OpenID
7 9 (1.13%) SAML
8 8 (1.00%) Elastic Stack
8 8 (1.00%) RESTful
9 7 (0.88%) JSON
10 6 (0.75%) .NET
10 6 (0.75%) OAuth2
10 6 (0.75%) XMPP
11 5 (0.63%) LDAP
11 5 (0.63%) OpenTelemetry
11 5 (0.63%) React
11 5 (0.63%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 83 (10.38%) Data Centre
2 59 (7.38%) PKI
3 53 (6.63%) Replication
4 38 (4.75%) Hybrid Cloud
5 37 (4.63%) Management Information System
6 33 (4.13%) Private Cloud
7 29 (3.63%) Cloud Native
8 25 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
9 21 (2.63%) Onboarding
10 17 (2.13%) Public Cloud
11 15 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
12 13 (1.63%) Analytical Mindset
13 12 (1.50%) Fat Client
13 12 (1.50%) Thin Client
14 10 (1.25%) Clustering
14 10 (1.25%) Hedge funds
14 10 (1.25%) Virtual Team
15 9 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
15 9 (1.13%) Operational Technology
15 9 (1.13%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 325 (40.63%) Windows
2 258 (32.25%) Linux
3 181 (22.63%) Windows Server
4 77 (9.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 44 (5.50%) Windows 10
6 29 (3.63%) Windows Server 2019
7 24 (3.00%) Ubuntu
8 23 (2.88%) Windows Server 2016
9 19 (2.38%) Windows Server 2012
10 18 (2.25%) CentOS
11 16 (2.00%) VMS
12 15 (1.88%) Unix
13 14 (1.75%) Mac OS
14 12 (1.50%) Solaris
14 12 (1.50%) Windows 7
15 7 (0.88%) Debian
16 5 (0.63%) Windows Server 2008
17 3 (0.38%) AIX
17 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2003
18 2 (0.25%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (20.13%) Problem-Solving
2 146 (18.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 126 (15.75%) Agile
4 104 (13.00%) CI/CD
5 99 (12.38%) DevOps
6 92 (11.50%) Migration
7 90 (11.25%) ITIL
8 72 (9.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 70 (8.75%) Containerisation
10 69 (8.63%) Disaster Recovery
11 65 (8.13%) Load Balancing
12 50 (6.25%) High Availability
13 49 (6.13%) Continuous Improvement
14 45 (5.63%) Business Strategy
14 45 (5.63%) Service Management
15 44 (5.50%) Validation
16 43 (5.38%) Platform Engineering
17 42 (5.25%) Data Protection
17 42 (5.25%) Stakeholder Management
18 41 (5.13%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 197 (24.63%) Python
2 182 (22.75%) PowerShell
3 108 (13.50%) Bash
4 59 (7.38%) SQL
5 33 (4.13%) Java
6 28 (3.50%) JavaScript
7 23 (2.88%) Perl
8 10 (1.25%) Go
9 9 (1.13%) Shell Script
10 8 (1.00%) C++
10 8 (1.00%) PHP
10 8 (1.00%) T-SQL
11 7 (0.88%) VBA
12 6 (0.75%) C#
13 5 (0.63%) C
14 3 (0.38%) VBScript
15 2 (0.25%) Embedded C
15 2 (0.25%) Embedded C++
15 2 (0.25%) Korn
16 1 (0.13%) VB
Qualifications
1 339 (42.38%) Security Cleared
2 208 (26.00%) SC Cleared
3 139 (17.38%) DV Cleared
4 58 (7.25%) Microsoft Certification
4 58 (7.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 48 (6.00%) Degree
6 45 (5.63%) Cisco Certification
7 34 (4.25%) Azure Certification
7 34 (4.25%) CCNP
8 25 (3.13%) CCNA
9 24 (3.00%) AWS Certification
10 23 (2.88%) MCSE
11 16 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
11 16 (2.00%) VCAP
12 14 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
13 13 (1.63%) CCIE
14 12 (1.50%) Master's Degree
15 11 (1.38%) Network+ Certification
15 11 (1.38%) Server+ Certification
16 10 (1.25%) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (3.38%) GDPR
2 18 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (1.50%) NCSC
4 11 (1.38%) QA
5 10 (1.25%) SLA
6 8 (1.00%) NIST
6 8 (1.00%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.50%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.38%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.25%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.25%) PMO
11 1 (0.13%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.13%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.13%) MiFID
11 1 (0.13%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.13%) RMADS
System Software
1 521 (65.13%) VMware Infrastructure
2 220 (27.50%) Active Directory
3 144 (18.00%) vSphere
4 101 (12.63%) VMware ESXi
5 97 (12.13%) Hyper-V
6 94 (11.75%) VMware NSX
7 55 (6.88%) Docker
8 45 (5.63%) Virtual Machines
9 33 (4.13%) NFS
10 19 (2.38%) Virtual Desktop
11 12 (1.50%) Firmware
12 11 (1.38%) GPFS
12 11 (1.38%) KVM
12 11 (1.38%) Virtual Servers
13 6 (0.75%) Dovecot
13 6 (0.75%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 6 (0.75%) Postfix
13 6 (0.75%) Terminal Services
13 6 (0.75%) UAG
14 5 (0.63%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 163 (20.38%) Ansible
2 111 (13.88%) Terraform
3 80 (10.00%) vCenter Server
4 69 (8.63%) Kubernetes
5 62 (7.75%) vRealize
6 61 (7.63%) SCCM
7 41 (5.13%) Microsoft Intune
8 28 (3.50%) Grafana
9 24 (3.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 24 (3.00%) Prometheus
10 23 (2.88%) Argo
11 21 (2.63%) Single Sign-On
12 20 (2.50%) Progress Chef
12 20 (2.50%) VxRail
13 19 (2.38%) Puppet
14 16 (2.00%) FortiGate
14 16 (2.00%) Red Hat Satellite
14 16 (2.00%) SCOM
15 12 (1.50%) WMI
15 12 (1.50%) WSUS
Vendors
1 225 (28.13%) Microsoft
2 131 (16.38%) Cisco
3 86 (10.75%) Red Hat
4 76 (9.50%) F5
5 74 (9.25%) Citrix
6 51 (6.38%) Veeam
7 47 (5.88%) NetApp
8 44 (5.50%) Oracle
9 43 (5.38%) Dell
10 38 (4.75%) SolarWinds
11 33 (4.13%) Splunk
12 32 (4.00%) IBM
13 29 (3.63%) Palo Alto
14 27 (3.38%) Broadcom
15 24 (3.00%) HP
16 22 (2.75%) ServiceNow
17 19 (2.38%) Juniper
17 19 (2.38%) McAfee
18 18 (2.25%) CyberArk
19 17 (2.13%) Blue Coat