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 2 July 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
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 84 60
Rank change year-on-year -21 -24 -4
Contract jobs citing VMware 1,030 753 1,220
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.35% 2.92% 3.27%
As % of the Vendors category 5.76% 6.17% 7.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 708 502 847
10th Percentile £350 £350 £300
25th Percentile £450 £463 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £510
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +7.84% -2.86%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £575
90th Percentile £664 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £538 £508
% change year-on-year -3.26% +5.91% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 4 33
10th Percentile £19.93 £29.00 £22.32
25th Percentile £29.00 £30.49 £35.58
Median hourly rate £51.00 £34.71 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.94% -13.23% -24.76%
75th Percentile £72.13 £46.17 £71.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £53.72 £74.25
UK median hourly rate £51.00 £34.71 £40.25
% change year-on-year +46.94% -13.77% -32.92%

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 17,888 12,212 15,896
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 40.77% 47.29% 42.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,365 7,741 10,084
10th Percentile £313 £280 £275
25th Percentile £413 £402 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £520
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -1.44% -0.95%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £628
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 970 563 1,054
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.84 £12.49
25th Percentile £19.34 £17.50 £14.71
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £24.93
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% +4.30% -33.08%
75th Percentile £65.00 £52.08 £60.45
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £25.15 £24.50
% change year-on-year +35.15% +2.65% -39.64%

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 2 July 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 2 July 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 2 July 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 +1 300 £550 -3.25% 85
London -30 257 £538 +2.38% 68
North of England -18 184 £460 +2.11% 51
Midlands -16 120 £450 -15.93% 42
South West -34 104 £550 -6.18% 43
North West -9 100 £456 +1.33% 29
West Midlands -27 90 £450 -10.00% 22
Yorkshire -14 81 £494 +7.92% 16
East of England -12 61 £507 -7.82% 26
East Midlands -8 30 £450 -18.18% 20
North East -35 4 £569 +59.09% 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 44 (4.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (1.94%) SharePoint
3 9 (0.87%) CICS
3 9 (0.87%) IIS
3 9 (0.87%) Tomcat
4 8 (0.78%) nginx
5 6 (0.58%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.49%) Confluence
7 4 (0.39%) Apache
8 3 (0.29%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.29%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.19%) CMS
9 2 (0.19%) Skype for Business
10 1 (0.097%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 9 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.58%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.097%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.097%) Houdini
4 1 (0.097%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 3 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.097%) Shopify
2 1 (0.097%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 262 (25.44%) Azure
2 168 (16.31%) AWS
3 77 (7.48%) Microsoft 365
4 55 (5.34%) OpenShift
5 54 (5.24%) Entra ID
6 41 (3.98%) IaaS
7 40 (3.88%) GCP
8 39 (3.79%) GitHub
9 29 (2.82%) PaaS
10 27 (2.62%) Rubrik
11 18 (1.75%) Nutanix
12 17 (1.65%) SaaS
13 16 (1.55%) Azure DevOps
14 12 (1.17%) Azure Monitor
14 12 (1.17%) GitHub Actions
15 11 (1.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 10 (0.97%) Datadog
17 9 (0.87%) Amazon EC2
17 9 (0.87%) Azure Sentinel
18 8 (0.78%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 229 (22.23%) DNS
2 177 (17.18%) Firewall
3 122 (11.84%) DHCP
4 93 (9.03%) SAN
5 85 (8.25%) WAN
6 82 (7.96%) VPN
7 79 (7.67%) VSAN
8 68 (6.60%) LAN
9 65 (6.31%) Network Security
10 58 (5.63%) TCP/IP
11 53 (5.15%) VLAN
12 51 (4.95%) NAS
13 47 (4.56%) SSL
14 38 (3.69%) BIG-IP
15 35 (3.40%) Cisco Nexus
15 35 (3.40%) HTTP
16 34 (3.30%) BGP
16 34 (3.30%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 33 (3.20%) Wireshark
18 32 (3.11%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (3.40%) SQL Server
2 14 (1.36%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (0.87%) DataStage
4 8 (0.78%) NonStop SQL
5 7 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (0.68%) NoSQL
6 6 (0.58%) Power BI
7 5 (0.49%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (0.39%) Oracle BI EE
8 4 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (0.29%) Big Data
9 3 (0.29%) Data Mining
9 3 (0.29%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.19%) Redis
11 1 (0.097%) GIS
11 1 (0.097%) Metadata
11 1 (0.097%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 41 (3.98%) Jenkins
2 30 (2.91%) JIRA
3 26 (2.52%) Git
3 26 (2.52%) GitLab
4 21 (2.04%) Fiddler
5 7 (0.68%) Chocolatey
6 6 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (0.58%) Team Foundation Server
7 4 (0.39%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.39%) Robot Framework
8 3 (0.29%) MSI
8 3 (0.29%) Subversion
9 1 (0.097%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.097%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.097%) GoCD
9 1 (0.097%) Maven
9 1 (0.097%) PVCS
9 1 (0.097%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.097%) RStudio
9 1 (0.097%) VersionOne
General
1 217 (21.07%) Social Skills
2 108 (10.49%) Finance
3 89 (8.64%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (6.02%) Public Sector
5 42 (4.08%) Banking
6 40 (3.88%) Documentation Skills
7 23 (2.23%) Legal
8 18 (1.75%) Investment Banking
9 17 (1.65%) Telecoms
10 15 (1.46%) Influencing Skills
11 12 (1.17%) Retail
12 11 (1.07%) Financial Institution
13 10 (0.97%) Military
13 10 (0.97%) Police
14 7 (0.68%) Aerospace
14 7 (0.68%) Manufacturing
15 6 (0.58%) Law
16 5 (0.49%) Local Government
16 5 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
17 4 (0.39%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 211 (20.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 148 (14.37%) Architect
3 103 (10.00%) Senior
4 94 (9.13%) VMware Engineer
5 84 (8.16%) Network Engineer
6 61 (5.92%) Consultant
7 44 (4.27%) Support Engineer
8 42 (4.08%) Cloud Engineer
9 39 (3.79%) VMware Consultant
10 38 (3.69%) Administrator
11 36 (3.50%) VMware Architect
12 35 (3.40%) Lead
13 33 (3.20%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 30 (2.91%) Storage Engineer
15 29 (2.82%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 29 (2.82%) Technical Architect
16 28 (2.72%) Analyst
16 28 (2.72%) Senior VMware Engineer
17 26 (2.52%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
18 24 (2.33%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (2.33%) LDAP
2 19 (1.84%) Middleware
3 18 (1.75%) Flash
4 12 (1.17%) OpenTelemetry
4 12 (1.17%) REST
5 10 (0.97%) 802.1X
6 9 (0.87%) SAML
7 7 (0.68%) Keycloak
8 6 (0.58%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (0.49%) .NET
9 5 (0.49%) JSON
10 4 (0.39%) Redfish
10 4 (0.39%) Software Packaging
11 3 (0.29%) Apache NiFi
12 2 (0.19%) ARM Templates
12 2 (0.19%) Blazor
12 2 (0.19%) Django
12 2 (0.19%) Java SE
12 2 (0.19%) OAuth
12 2 (0.19%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 144 (13.98%) Data Centre
2 72 (6.99%) Hybrid Cloud
3 66 (6.41%) PKI
3 66 (6.41%) Replication
4 47 (4.56%) Enterprise Storage
5 42 (4.08%) Management Information System
6 38 (3.69%) Cloud Native
7 35 (3.40%) Clustering
7 35 (3.40%) Public Cloud
8 32 (3.11%) Private Cloud
9 23 (2.23%) Linux Command Line
10 18 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
11 16 (1.55%) Onboarding
12 15 (1.46%) Blackberry
12 15 (1.46%) Legacy Systems
13 12 (1.17%) Virtual Team
14 11 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
14 11 (1.07%) BYOD
14 11 (1.07%) Product Ownership
14 11 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 434 (42.14%) Windows
2 269 (26.12%) Windows Server
3 264 (25.63%) Linux
4 59 (5.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 44 (4.27%) Windows Server 2019
6 28 (2.72%) Windows Server 2016
7 25 (2.43%) Unix
8 21 (2.04%) Ubuntu
8 21 (2.04%) VMS
9 20 (1.94%) Windows 10
10 19 (1.84%) Apple iOS
11 17 (1.65%) AIX
11 17 (1.65%) Data ONTAP
11 17 (1.65%) Solaris
12 16 (1.55%) CentOS
12 16 (1.55%) Windows Server 2012
13 15 (1.46%) Android
14 9 (0.87%) Mac OS
15 8 (0.78%) Windows Server 2003
15 8 (0.78%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 267 (25.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 188 (18.25%) Migration
3 175 (16.99%) Problem-Solving
4 130 (12.62%) ITIL
5 127 (12.33%) High Availability
6 106 (10.29%) Disaster Recovery
7 98 (9.51%) DevOps
8 97 (9.42%) CI/CD
9 96 (9.32%) Infrastructure as Code
10 90 (8.74%) Agile
11 76 (7.38%) Stakeholder Management
12 75 (7.28%) Load Balancing
13 73 (7.09%) Change Management
14 67 (6.50%) Capacity Planning
15 66 (6.41%) Validation
16 65 (6.31%) ITSM
17 64 (6.21%) Continuous Improvement
17 64 (6.21%) Technical Leadership
18 60 (5.83%) Performance Tuning
19 59 (5.73%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 184 (17.86%) PowerShell
2 120 (11.65%) Python
3 60 (5.83%) Bash
4 46 (4.47%) SQL
5 22 (2.14%) JavaScript
6 11 (1.07%) Shell Script
7 10 (0.97%) Java
8 9 (0.87%) COBOL
9 8 (0.78%) MATLAB
10 7 (0.68%) PL/SQL
11 6 (0.58%) Bicep
12 5 (0.49%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.39%) C
13 4 (0.39%) C#
13 4 (0.39%) PHP
14 2 (0.19%) VBScript
15 1 (0.097%) C++
15 1 (0.097%) Embedded C
15 1 (0.097%) Perl
15 1 (0.097%) VB
Qualifications
1 476 (46.21%) Security Cleared
2 288 (27.96%) SC Cleared
3 210 (20.39%) DV Cleared
4 81 (7.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 50 (4.85%) Cisco Certification
6 49 (4.76%) Degree
7 40 (3.88%) Microsoft Certification
8 35 (3.40%) CCNP
9 29 (2.82%) VCAP
10 28 (2.72%) MCSE
11 24 (2.33%) Azure Certification
12 18 (1.75%) MCSA
13 16 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
13 16 (1.55%) CCNA
14 15 (1.46%) Oracle Certification
15 12 (1.17%) OCP
16 9 (0.87%) AWS Certification
17 8 (0.78%) ISTQB
17 8 (0.78%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
17 8 (0.78%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (3.98%) SLA
2 34 (3.30%) NIST
3 24 (2.33%) NCSC
4 21 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 19 (1.84%) Cyber Essentials
6 10 (0.97%) QA
7 7 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (0.39%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
9 3 (0.29%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.19%) GDPR
10 2 (0.19%) ISA99
10 2 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.097%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.097%) Def Stans
11 1 (0.097%) DICOM
11 1 (0.097%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.097%) HL7
11 1 (0.097%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.097%) SOC 2
System Software
1 676 (65.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 253 (24.56%) Active Directory
3 218 (21.17%) VMware NSX
4 216 (20.97%) vSphere
5 211 (20.49%) VMware ESXi
6 141 (13.69%) Hyper-V
7 93 (9.03%) Virtual Machines
8 38 (3.69%) Docker
8 38 (3.69%) NFS
9 37 (3.59%) Firmware
10 35 (3.40%) Virtual Desktop
11 24 (2.33%) KVM
12 23 (2.23%) vCloud
13 13 (1.26%) GPFS
13 13 (1.26%) Microsoft App-V
14 11 (1.07%) BitLocker
15 9 (0.87%) VMware Workstation
16 6 (0.58%) Oracle RAC
16 6 (0.58%) SRDF
17 5 (0.49%) UAG
Systems Management
1 178 (17.28%) Ansible
2 174 (16.89%) vCenter Server
3 108 (10.49%) Terraform
4 93 (9.03%) Kubernetes
5 67 (6.50%) vRealize
6 66 (6.41%) Microsoft Intune
7 56 (5.44%) SCCM
8 43 (4.17%) SCOM
9 29 (2.82%) VxRail
10 28 (2.72%) Argo
11 27 (2.62%) PowerCLI
11 27 (2.62%) vMotion
12 26 (2.52%) Grafana
13 20 (1.94%) NetBackup
13 20 (1.94%) Single Sign-On
14 19 (1.84%) Red Hat Satellite
15 18 (1.75%) Puppet
16 16 (1.55%) WSUS
17 15 (1.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
18 14 (1.36%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 253 (24.56%) Microsoft
2 184 (17.86%) Cisco
3 106 (10.29%) Citrix
4 73 (7.09%) Red Hat
5 72 (6.99%) NetApp
6 56 (5.44%) F5
7 55 (5.34%) Dell
8 43 (4.17%) Palo Alto
9 42 (4.08%) ServiceNow
10 41 (3.98%) Pure Storage
11 40 (3.88%) IBM
12 37 (3.59%) Oracle
13 35 (3.40%) Juniper
14 33 (3.20%) SolarWinds
15 32 (3.11%) Veeam
16 27 (2.62%) CheckPoint
16 27 (2.62%) Fortinet
17 25 (2.43%) Broadcom
18 24 (2.33%) McAfee
19 22 (2.14%) Blue Coat