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 5 August 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
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 98 60
Rank change year-on-year -9 -38 -5
Contract jobs citing VMware 1,083 709 1,203
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.38% 2.57% 3.59%
As % of the Vendors category 5.78% 5.46% 8.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 719 456 829
10th Percentile £356 £353 £321
25th Percentile £452 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +7.32% -
75th Percentile £613 £603 £575
90th Percentile £725 £650 £644
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £510
% change year-on-year -4.55% +7.84% -0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 5 13
10th Percentile £26.00 £28.80 -
25th Percentile £46.00 £30.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £63.14 £32.77 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +92.66% -51.45% +23.72%
75th Percentile £74.00 £58.75 £71.25
90th Percentile £95.05 £119.50 £79.60
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £32.77 £66.00
% change year-on-year +92.66% -50.35% +10.00%

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 18,731 12,992 14,593
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.24% 47.06% 43.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,783 8,236 9,318
10th Percentile £313 £278 £300
25th Percentile £413 £401 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.38% -2.86% -
75th Percentile £613 £621 £627
90th Percentile £700 £720 £738
UK median daily rate £506 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +1.20% -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,013 626 772
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.75 £13.69
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.44 £15.62
Median hourly rate £35.50 £25.15 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.15% -13.28% -26.77%
75th Percentile £67.50 £50.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.20 £71.13
UK median hourly rate £34.97 £25.15 £28.00
% change year-on-year +39.05% -10.18% -33.85%

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 5 August 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 5 August 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 5 August 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 +6 333 £550 -3.25% 121
London +8 290 £550 +4.76% 128
North of England -19 165 £472 +5.24% 73
Midlands -26 115 £450 -18.18% 33
South West -31 109 £550 -6.38% 63
West Midlands -31 90 £474 -15.92% 18
North West -11 85 £469 +17.25% 49
Yorkshire -28 75 £500 +11.11% 15
East of England -1 66 £507 -7.82% 29
East Midlands 0 25 £450 -18.18% 15
North East -38 6 £350 -29.29% 12
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 52 (4.80%) Microsoft Exchange
2 29 (2.68%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.48%) Confluence
4 14 (1.29%) nginx
5 9 (0.83%) Apache
5 9 (0.83%) IIS
5 9 (0.83%) Tomcat
6 8 (0.74%) OpenStack
7 6 (0.55%) CICS
8 4 (0.37%) FactoryTalk
8 4 (0.37%) JBoss
9 3 (0.28%) CloudStack
9 3 (0.28%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.18%) CMS
10 2 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2013
10 2 (0.18%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.092%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 13 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.28%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (0.18%) Houdini
3 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.18%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 11 (1.02%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.092%) Shopify
2 1 (0.092%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 286 (26.41%) Azure
2 187 (17.27%) AWS
3 88 (8.13%) Microsoft 365
4 73 (6.74%) Entra ID
5 45 (4.16%) OpenShift
6 42 (3.88%) GCP
7 41 (3.79%) IaaS
8 38 (3.51%) GitHub
9 29 (2.68%) Rubrik
10 28 (2.59%) PaaS
11 21 (1.94%) Azure DevOps
11 21 (1.94%) SaaS
12 17 (1.57%) OneDrive
13 16 (1.48%) GitHub Actions
14 15 (1.39%) Datadog
15 14 (1.29%) Azure Monitor
16 13 (1.20%) Power Platform
16 13 (1.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 11 (1.02%) Amazon EC2
17 11 (1.02%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 278 (25.67%) DNS
2 211 (19.48%) Firewall
3 164 (15.14%) DHCP
4 103 (9.51%) VSAN
5 94 (8.68%) TCP/IP
6 87 (8.03%) VPN
7 84 (7.76%) SAN
8 79 (7.29%) WAN
9 69 (6.37%) VLAN
10 66 (6.09%) Network Security
11 62 (5.72%) LAN
12 50 (4.62%) SSL
13 43 (3.97%) NAS
14 39 (3.60%) BGP
15 37 (3.42%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 35 (3.23%) SD-WAN
17 32 (2.95%) BIG-IP
18 31 (2.86%) Cisco Nexus
18 31 (2.86%) HTTP
19 29 (2.68%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (5.45%) SQL Server
2 13 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
3 12 (1.11%) Power BI
3 12 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 9 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (0.83%) NoSQL
5 8 (0.74%) NonStop SQL
5 8 (0.74%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 8 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 7 (0.65%) Apache Cassandra
7 6 (0.55%) Big Data
7 6 (0.55%) DataStage
8 4 (0.37%) Hazelcast
8 4 (0.37%) Oracle BI EE
8 4 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (0.28%) Data Mining
9 3 (0.28%) Hadoop
9 3 (0.28%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.18%) Redis
11 1 (0.092%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 40 (3.69%) JIRA
2 36 (3.32%) Jenkins
3 26 (2.40%) GitLab
4 25 (2.31%) Git
5 17 (1.57%) Fiddler
6 9 (0.83%) Chocolatey
7 8 (0.74%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 6 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (0.46%) Rational DOORS
10 4 (0.37%) Selenium
11 3 (0.28%) MSI
11 3 (0.28%) Robot Framework
11 3 (0.28%) Subversion
11 3 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (0.18%) CppUnit
12 2 (0.18%) PVCS
13 1 (0.092%) Artifactory
13 1 (0.092%) Maven
13 1 (0.092%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 239 (22.07%) Social Skills
2 116 (10.71%) Finance
3 111 (10.25%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (5.63%) Public Sector
5 47 (4.34%) Banking
6 37 (3.42%) Documentation Skills
7 27 (2.49%) Telecoms
8 22 (2.03%) Legal
9 17 (1.57%) Investment Banking
10 14 (1.29%) Financial Institution
10 14 (1.29%) Military
11 13 (1.20%) Manufacturing
11 13 (1.20%) Retail
12 12 (1.11%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (0.65%) Aerospace
15 6 (0.55%) Law
15 6 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (0.55%) Police
16 3 (0.28%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 232 (21.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 138 (12.74%) Senior
3 122 (11.27%) Architect
4 108 (9.97%) VMware Engineer
5 91 (8.40%) Network Engineer
6 61 (5.63%) Consultant
7 56 (5.17%) Support Engineer
8 55 (5.08%) Cloud Engineer
9 51 (4.71%) Lead
10 50 (4.62%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 40 (3.69%) Administrator
12 39 (3.60%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 39 (3.60%) VMware Consultant
13 37 (3.42%) Storage Engineer
14 35 (3.23%) Senior VMware Engineer
15 32 (2.95%) Platform Engineer
16 31 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
17 30 (2.77%) Azure Engineer
18 28 (2.59%) IT Engineer
18 28 (2.59%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (1.29%) REST
2 13 (1.20%) Flash
2 13 (1.20%) LDAP
3 12 (1.11%) Middleware
4 10 (0.92%) 802.1X
5 9 (0.83%) Elastic Stack
6 8 (0.74%) OpenTelemetry
7 7 (0.65%) Kafka
8 5 (0.46%) .NET
8 5 (0.46%) ARM Templates
8 5 (0.46%) JSON
8 5 (0.46%) SAML
8 5 (0.46%) YAML
9 4 (0.37%) Keycloak
9 4 (0.37%) Redfish
10 2 (0.18%) Apache NiFi
10 2 (0.18%) Blazor
10 2 (0.18%) Java SE
10 2 (0.18%) OAuth
10 2 (0.18%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 156 (14.40%) Data Centre
2 81 (7.48%) Hybrid Cloud
2 81 (7.48%) PKI
3 54 (4.99%) Replication
4 50 (4.62%) Enterprise Storage
5 45 (4.16%) Clustering
5 45 (4.16%) Management Information System
6 37 (3.42%) Public Cloud
7 31 (2.86%) Cloud Native
8 28 (2.59%) Onboarding
9 27 (2.49%) Private Cloud
10 21 (1.94%) Linux Command Line
11 15 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
12 12 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
12 12 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
13 11 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
13 11 (1.02%) Blackberry
13 11 (1.02%) Operational Technology
13 11 (1.02%) SCADA
13 11 (1.02%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 504 (46.54%) Windows
2 301 (27.79%) Windows Server
3 299 (27.61%) Linux
4 60 (5.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 48 (4.43%) Windows Server 2019
6 27 (2.49%) VMS
7 26 (2.40%) Windows Server 2016
8 25 (2.31%) Windows 10
9 22 (2.03%) Ubuntu
9 22 (2.03%) Unix
10 19 (1.75%) Apple iOS
11 17 (1.57%) Data ONTAP
12 16 (1.48%) AIX
12 16 (1.48%) Windows Server 2012
13 14 (1.29%) Solaris
14 12 (1.11%) Android
14 12 (1.11%) Windows Server 2008
15 11 (1.02%) CentOS
16 7 (0.65%) CoreOS
16 7 (0.65%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 299 (27.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 197 (18.19%) Problem-Solving
3 192 (17.73%) Migration
4 152 (14.04%) ITIL
5 137 (12.65%) High Availability
6 124 (11.45%) Infrastructure as Code
7 116 (10.71%) CI/CD
7 116 (10.71%) Disaster Recovery
8 105 (9.70%) Technical Leadership
9 96 (8.86%) Agile
10 95 (8.77%) DevOps
11 92 (8.49%) Change Management
12 91 (8.40%) Stakeholder Management
13 83 (7.66%) Continuous Improvement
14 81 (7.48%) ITSM
15 78 (7.20%) Service Management
16 76 (7.02%) Network Virtualisation
17 69 (6.37%) Load Balancing
18 67 (6.19%) Platform Engineering
19 66 (6.09%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 234 (21.61%) PowerShell
2 138 (12.74%) Python
3 95 (8.77%) Bash
4 61 (5.63%) SQL
5 22 (2.03%) JavaScript
6 18 (1.66%) Java
7 9 (0.83%) Shell Script
8 8 (0.74%) Bicep
9 7 (0.65%) C
9 7 (0.65%) PL/SQL
10 6 (0.55%) COBOL
11 4 (0.37%) C#
11 4 (0.37%) Go
11 4 (0.37%) MATLAB
12 3 (0.28%) C++
12 3 (0.28%) Lua
13 2 (0.18%) Embedded C
13 2 (0.18%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.18%) VBScript
14 1 (0.092%) VB
Qualifications
1 524 (48.38%) Security Cleared
2 309 (28.53%) SC Cleared
3 247 (22.81%) DV Cleared
4 87 (8.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 65 (6.00%) Degree
6 55 (5.08%) Cisco Certification
7 41 (3.79%) Microsoft Certification
8 40 (3.69%) VCAP
9 34 (3.14%) Azure Certification
10 32 (2.95%) CCNP
11 25 (2.31%) MCSE
12 23 (2.12%) CCNA
13 16 (1.48%) AWS Certification
14 15 (1.39%) MCSA
15 13 (1.20%) Oracle Certification
16 12 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
17 11 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
18 10 (0.92%) OCP
19 9 (0.83%) RHCA
20 8 (0.74%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (4.06%) SLA
2 25 (2.31%) NIST
3 22 (2.03%) NCSC
4 17 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 16 (1.48%) Cyber Essentials
5 16 (1.48%) QA
6 4 (0.37%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 4 (0.37%) GxP
6 4 (0.37%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.18%) GDPR
8 2 (0.18%) ISA99
8 2 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.18%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.092%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.092%) GRC
9 1 (0.092%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.092%) PMO
9 1 (0.092%) SOC 2
System Software
1 719 (66.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 304 (28.07%) Active Directory
3 236 (21.79%) VMware NSX
4 229 (21.14%) VMware ESXi
4 229 (21.14%) vSphere
5 153 (14.13%) Hyper-V
6 92 (8.49%) Virtual Machines
7 60 (5.54%) Docker
8 35 (3.23%) Firmware
8 35 (3.23%) Virtual Desktop
9 25 (2.31%) NFS
10 23 (2.12%) vCloud
11 19 (1.75%) KVM
12 12 (1.11%) Microsoft App-V
13 9 (0.83%) BitLocker
13 9 (0.83%) GPFS
13 9 (0.83%) VMware Workstation
14 6 (0.55%) SRDF
14 6 (0.55%) UAG
14 6 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 193 (17.82%) Ansible
2 192 (17.73%) vCenter Server
3 149 (13.76%) Terraform
4 114 (10.53%) Kubernetes
5 62 (5.72%) Microsoft Intune
6 58 (5.36%) vRealize
7 57 (5.26%) SCOM
8 51 (4.71%) SCCM
9 34 (3.14%) VxRail
10 26 (2.40%) Grafana
11 24 (2.22%) PowerCLI
12 23 (2.12%) Argo
12 23 (2.12%) NetBackup
12 23 (2.12%) Puppet
13 22 (2.03%) vMotion
14 19 (1.75%) Prometheus
14 19 (1.75%) Red Hat Satellite
15 18 (1.66%) Avamar
16 17 (1.57%) WSUS
17 14 (1.29%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 275 (25.39%) Microsoft
2 185 (17.08%) Cisco
3 96 (8.86%) Citrix
4 80 (7.39%) NetApp
5 73 (6.74%) Red Hat
6 52 (4.80%) F5
7 51 (4.71%) Dell
8 48 (4.43%) ServiceNow
9 45 (4.16%) Palo Alto
10 42 (3.88%) SolarWinds
11 41 (3.79%) Oracle
12 40 (3.69%) Juniper
13 33 (3.05%) IBM
13 33 (3.05%) Veeam
14 29 (2.68%) Broadcom
15 26 (2.40%) Pure Storage
16 25 (2.31%) Fortinet
17 22 (2.03%) CheckPoint
18 20 (1.85%) HP
18 20 (1.85%) McAfee