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 25 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
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 75 65
Rank change year-on-year -22 -10 -6
Contract jobs citing VMware 1,018 784 1,154
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.55% 3.19% 3.10%
As % of the Vendors category 6.04% 6.71% 7.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 703 537 788
10th Percentile £338 £323 £263
25th Percentile £450 £425 £375
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 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 7 44
10th Percentile £39.80 £29.99 £22.14
25th Percentile £51.00 £48.16 £37.63
Median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +56.99% -26.97%
75th Percentile £74.00 £83.18 £71.25
90th Percentile £88.70 £85.97 £80.41
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £48.20
% change year-on-year -3.45% +50.43% -25.85%

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 16,858 11,676 15,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 42.28% 47.48% 42.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,986 7,555 9,996
10th Percentile £313 £289 £255
25th Percentile £413 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -3.26%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £631
90th Percentile £711 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £518
% change year-on-year -2.91% -0.48% -1.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 885 457 987
10th Percentile £15.35 £14.99 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £18.13 £14.21
Median hourly rate £30.15 £27.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.64% +22.22% -44.10%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.13 £55.06
90th Percentile £79.20 £76.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.50 £27.13 £22.50
% change year-on-year +12.44% +20.56% -48.86%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 -1 281 £550 -4.35% 96
London -33 254 £550 +4.76% 55
North of England -15 181 £456 +1.33% 50
Midlands -20 117 £402 -23.43% 27
North West -7 104 £450 - 22
South West -38 95 £550 -4.35% 25
West Midlands -26 88 £371 -25.87% 19
East of England -2 83 £507 -3.43% 22
Yorkshire -24 78 £444 -1.33% 18
East Midlands -25 29 £436 -20.73% 8
North East -26 3 £638 +78.32% 13
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 42 (4.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (1.57%) SharePoint
3 9 (0.88%) CICS
4 8 (0.79%) Confluence
4 8 (0.79%) IIS
5 7 (0.69%) nginx
5 7 (0.69%) Tomcat
6 4 (0.39%) OpenStack
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%) WordPress
9 1 (0.098%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.098%) JBoss
9 1 (0.098%) WebSphere
Applications
1 14 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
1 14 (1.38%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.098%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 249 (24.46%) Azure
2 177 (17.39%) AWS
3 75 (7.37%) Microsoft 365
4 68 (6.68%) OpenShift
5 52 (5.11%) Entra ID
6 50 (4.91%) IaaS
7 49 (4.81%) GitHub
8 38 (3.73%) PaaS
9 37 (3.63%) GCP
10 25 (2.46%) Nutanix
11 18 (1.77%) GitHub Actions
12 16 (1.57%) Datadog
13 15 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
13 15 (1.47%) SaaS
14 12 (1.18%) Azure Monitor
15 9 (0.88%) Azure Sentinel
15 9 (0.88%) Rubrik
16 7 (0.69%) Microsoft Purview
17 6 (0.59%) AWS CloudFormation
17 6 (0.59%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 210 (20.63%) DNS
2 182 (17.88%) Firewall
3 104 (10.22%) DHCP
4 84 (8.25%) VSAN
5 82 (8.06%) SAN
5 82 (8.06%) VPN
6 65 (6.39%) Network Security
6 65 (6.39%) TCP/IP
7 62 (6.09%) WAN
8 52 (5.11%) LAN
9 51 (5.01%) SSL
10 45 (4.42%) BIG-IP
10 45 (4.42%) NAS
11 42 (4.13%) HTTP
12 39 (3.83%) Wireshark
13 37 (3.63%) VLAN
14 34 (3.34%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 30 (2.95%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
16 27 (2.65%) BGP
17 22 (2.16%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (3.44%) SQL Server
2 18 (1.77%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (0.88%) DataStage
4 9 (0.88%) Redis
5 8 (0.79%) NoSQL
6 7 (0.69%) NonStop SQL
7 4 (0.39%) Power BI
8 3 (0.29%) Data Mining
8 3 (0.29%) Oracle BI EE
8 3 (0.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.20%) Oracle Database
10 1 (0.098%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.098%) Metadata
10 1 (0.098%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 47 (4.62%) Jenkins
2 32 (3.14%) GitLab
3 29 (2.85%) Git
4 28 (2.75%) Fiddler
5 26 (2.55%) JIRA
6 12 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
7 8 (0.79%) PVCS
7 8 (0.79%) Rational DOORS
8 7 (0.69%) Chocolatey
8 7 (0.69%) Team Foundation Server
9 6 (0.59%) Cucumber
9 6 (0.59%) JMeter
9 6 (0.59%) JUnit
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%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.098%) Maven
General
1 205 (20.14%) Social Skills
2 104 (10.22%) Finance
3 88 (8.64%) Analytical Skills
3 88 (8.64%) Public Sector
4 54 (5.30%) Banking
5 39 (3.83%) Documentation Skills
6 23 (2.26%) Investment Banking
7 22 (2.16%) Legal
8 20 (1.96%) Aerospace
9 15 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 10 (0.98%) Electronics
11 10 (0.98%) Local Government
11 10 (0.98%) Military
11 10 (0.98%) Police
11 10 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (0.88%) Retail
12 9 (0.88%) Telecoms
13 7 (0.69%) Manufacturing
14 6 (0.59%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 182 (17.88%) Architect
2 174 (17.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 96 (9.43%) VMware Engineer
4 95 (9.33%) Senior
5 75 (7.37%) Network Engineer
6 55 (5.40%) Consultant
7 49 (4.81%) Analyst
8 48 (4.72%) VMware Architect
9 43 (4.22%) Lead
10 36 (3.54%) VMware Consultant
11 35 (3.44%) Infrastructure Architect
11 35 (3.44%) Technical Architect
12 28 (2.75%) DevOps Engineer
12 28 (2.75%) Web Engineer
13 27 (2.65%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 26 (2.55%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
15 24 (2.36%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 24 (2.36%) Administrator
15 24 (2.36%) Wintel Engineer
16 23 (2.26%) Infrastructure Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (2.55%) LDAP
2 22 (2.16%) Middleware
3 21 (2.06%) Flash
4 15 (1.47%) Kafka
5 14 (1.38%) OpenTelemetry
6 13 (1.28%) Keycloak
7 12 (1.18%) SAML
8 11 (1.08%) REST
9 6 (0.59%) Spring
10 5 (0.49%) Hibernate
10 5 (0.49%) Software Packaging
11 4 (0.39%) OAuth
11 4 (0.39%) OpenID
12 3 (0.29%) 802.1X
13 2 (0.20%) Apache NiFi
13 2 (0.20%) Django
13 2 (0.20%) Elastic Stack
13 2 (0.20%) JSON
13 2 (0.20%) OAuth2
13 2 (0.20%) Redfish
Miscellaneous
1 106 (10.41%) Data Centre
2 81 (7.96%) Replication
3 63 (6.19%) PKI
4 57 (5.60%) Hybrid Cloud
5 54 (5.30%) Cloud Native
6 38 (3.73%) Clustering
6 38 (3.73%) Management Information System
7 34 (3.34%) Public Cloud
8 33 (3.24%) Private Cloud
9 30 (2.95%) Enterprise Storage
10 28 (2.75%) Linux Command Line
11 21 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
12 17 (1.67%) Operational Technology
13 15 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
13 15 (1.47%) Blackberry
13 15 (1.47%) Data Protection Act
14 13 (1.28%) Onboarding
14 13 (1.28%) SCADA
15 11 (1.08%) Product Ownership
15 11 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 382 (37.52%) Windows
2 266 (26.13%) Linux
3 234 (22.99%) Windows Server
4 62 (6.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 39 (3.83%) Windows Server 2019
6 34 (3.34%) Windows Server 2016
7 28 (2.75%) Ubuntu
8 25 (2.46%) VMS
9 24 (2.36%) Windows 10
10 21 (2.06%) Windows Server 2012
11 18 (1.77%) Unix
12 17 (1.67%) Apple iOS
13 16 (1.57%) CentOS
13 16 (1.57%) Data ONTAP
13 16 (1.57%) Solaris
14 15 (1.47%) Android
15 13 (1.28%) AIX
16 12 (1.18%) Mac OS
17 9 (0.88%) Windows Server 2003
18 7 (0.69%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (21.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 178 (17.49%) Problem-Solving
3 176 (17.29%) Migration
4 128 (12.57%) Agile
5 124 (12.18%) ITIL
6 114 (11.20%) High Availability
7 113 (11.10%) DevOps
8 108 (10.61%) Disaster Recovery
9 97 (9.53%) CI/CD
10 84 (8.25%) Infrastructure as Code
11 81 (7.96%) Load Balancing
12 73 (7.17%) Roadmaps
12 73 (7.17%) Stakeholder Management
13 71 (6.97%) Capacity Planning
14 64 (6.29%) Containerisation
15 60 (5.89%) Continuous Improvement
16 59 (5.80%) Change Management
16 59 (5.80%) Platform Engineering
17 58 (5.70%) Cybersecurity
18 56 (5.50%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 186 (18.27%) PowerShell
2 136 (13.36%) Python
3 68 (6.68%) Bash
4 33 (3.24%) SQL
5 19 (1.87%) JavaScript
6 14 (1.38%) Shell Script
7 11 (1.08%) C
7 11 (1.08%) Java
8 9 (0.88%) COBOL
8 9 (0.88%) MATLAB
9 8 (0.79%) C++
10 7 (0.69%) Embedded C
10 7 (0.69%) Embedded C++
10 7 (0.69%) PL/SQL
10 7 (0.69%) T-SQL
11 6 (0.59%) Bicep
12 5 (0.49%) C#
13 4 (0.39%) PHP
14 3 (0.29%) Perl
15 2 (0.20%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 453 (44.50%) Security Cleared
2 279 (27.41%) SC Cleared
3 188 (18.47%) DV Cleared
4 73 (7.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 43 (4.22%) Degree
6 39 (3.83%) Microsoft Certification
7 33 (3.24%) Cisco Certification
8 32 (3.14%) VCAP
9 27 (2.65%) MCSE
10 25 (2.46%) Azure Certification
10 25 (2.46%) CCNP
11 22 (2.16%) BPSS Clearance
12 18 (1.77%) MCSA
13 17 (1.67%) Oracle Certification
14 14 (1.38%) AWS Certification
15 12 (1.18%) OCP
16 9 (0.88%) CCNA
17 7 (0.69%) RHCA
18 6 (0.59%) CompTIA Security+
18 6 (0.59%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (3.54%) SLA
2 33 (3.24%) NIST
3 22 (2.16%) Cyber Essentials
3 22 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (2.16%) NCSC
4 9 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 9 (0.88%) GDPR
5 5 (0.49%) Def Stans
5 5 (0.49%) QA
6 3 (0.29%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.20%) ISA99
7 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.098%) COBIT
8 1 (0.098%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.098%) DICOM
8 1 (0.098%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.098%) HL7
8 1 (0.098%) JSP 440
8 1 (0.098%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 646 (63.46%) VMware Infrastructure
2 231 (22.69%) Active Directory
3 204 (20.04%) VMware NSX
4 202 (19.84%) vSphere
5 163 (16.01%) VMware ESXi
6 132 (12.97%) Hyper-V
7 82 (8.06%) Virtual Machines
8 44 (4.32%) Docker
9 41 (4.03%) NFS
10 36 (3.54%) Firmware
11 27 (2.65%) Virtual Desktop
12 23 (2.26%) KVM
13 15 (1.47%) GPFS
14 14 (1.38%) vCloud
15 10 (0.98%) BitLocker
15 10 (0.98%) Microsoft App-V
16 5 (0.49%) XenDesktop
17 4 (0.39%) Oracle RAC
17 4 (0.39%) SRDF
17 4 (0.39%) UAG
Systems Management
1 191 (18.76%) Ansible
2 143 (14.05%) vCenter Server
3 108 (10.61%) Terraform
4 99 (9.72%) Kubernetes
5 79 (7.76%) Microsoft Intune
6 73 (7.17%) vRealize
7 70 (6.88%) SCCM
8 37 (3.63%) Argo
9 31 (3.05%) Grafana
10 29 (2.85%) VxRail
11 27 (2.65%) Single Sign-On
12 25 (2.46%) SCOM
13 22 (2.16%) PowerCLI
14 20 (1.96%) vMotion
15 19 (1.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 19 (1.87%) Red Hat Satellite
16 17 (1.67%) Progress Chef
16 17 (1.67%) WSUS
17 16 (1.57%) NetBackup
17 16 (1.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 238 (23.38%) Microsoft
2 157 (15.42%) Cisco
3 88 (8.64%) Red Hat
4 87 (8.55%) Citrix
5 68 (6.68%) F5
6 60 (5.89%) NetApp
7 50 (4.91%) IBM
8 44 (4.32%) ServiceNow
9 43 (4.22%) Dell
10 42 (4.13%) Oracle
10 42 (4.13%) Pure Storage
11 38 (3.73%) Palo Alto
12 32 (3.14%) McAfee
12 32 (3.14%) Veeam
13 28 (2.75%) Blue Coat
14 26 (2.55%) Splunk
15 24 (2.36%) Broadcom
15 24 (2.36%) SolarWinds
16 22 (2.16%) CheckPoint
17 20 (1.96%) Commvault