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 June 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
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 84 61
Rank change year-on-year -15 -23 -6
Contract jobs citing VMware 1,010 749 1,204
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.35% 3.02% 3.19%
As % of the Vendors category 5.78% 6.36% 7.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 702 505 836
10th Percentile £355 £350 £300
25th Percentile £450 £463 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £510
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +7.84% -2.86%
75th Percentile £600 £606 £575
90th Percentile £675 £667 £648
UK median daily rate £525 £531 £508
% change year-on-year -1.18% +4.68% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 5 32
10th Percentile £19.93 £29.33 £22.45
25th Percentile £29.00 £31.32 £37.63
Median hourly rate £51.00 £57.50 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year -11.30% +42.86% -32.92%
75th Percentile £70.38 £73.75 £71.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £81.25 £77.70
UK median hourly rate £51.00 £57.50 £42.05
% change year-on-year -11.30% +36.76% -32.82%

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 17,469 11,785 15,834
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 40.64% 47.50% 41.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,179 7,482 10,009
10th Percentile £313 £280 £270
25th Percentile £413 £402 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £513 £518
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% -0.97% -1.43%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £630
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 935 533 1,063
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.84 £12.27
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.79 £14.49
Median hourly rate £33.99 £26.50 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.26% +10.42% -40.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £53.75 £59.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.98 £25.15 £23.90
% change year-on-year +35.11% +5.23% -44.90%

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 June 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 18 June 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 18 June 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 +6 288 £550 -0.18% 100
London -11 251 £550 +4.76% 68
North of England -18 180 £459 +2.00% 55
Midlands -24 110 £450 -15.97% 48
North West +2 101 £453 +5.04% 36
South West -33 101 £550 -8.33% 36
West Midlands -27 84 £438 -16.51% 24
Yorkshire -26 78 £485 +5.96% 13
East of England -15 68 £507 -7.82% 26
East Midlands -15 26 £450 -18.18% 24
North East -44 2 £656 +83.57% 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 40 (3.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (1.88%) SharePoint
3 9 (0.89%) CICS
3 9 (0.89%) IIS
3 9 (0.89%) Tomcat
4 8 (0.79%) nginx
5 7 (0.69%) OpenStack
6 4 (0.40%) Confluence
7 3 (0.30%) Apache
7 3 (0.30%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.20%) CloudStack
8 2 (0.20%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.099%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.099%) CMS
Applications
1 7 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.59%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.30%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.099%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 261 (25.84%) Azure
2 167 (16.53%) AWS
3 75 (7.43%) Microsoft 365
4 55 (5.45%) OpenShift
5 50 (4.95%) Entra ID
6 44 (4.36%) IaaS
7 41 (4.06%) GCP
8 39 (3.86%) GitHub
9 33 (3.27%) PaaS
10 25 (2.48%) Rubrik
11 20 (1.98%) Nutanix
12 15 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
12 15 (1.49%) SaaS
13 12 (1.19%) Azure Monitor
13 12 (1.19%) GitHub Actions
14 10 (0.99%) Azure Sentinel
14 10 (0.99%) Datadog
15 8 (0.79%) Azure Stack
16 7 (0.69%) Amazon EC2
16 7 (0.69%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 223 (22.08%) DNS
2 174 (17.23%) Firewall
3 121 (11.98%) DHCP
4 91 (9.01%) SAN
5 82 (8.12%) VPN
5 82 (8.12%) VSAN
6 75 (7.43%) WAN
7 64 (6.34%) Network Security
8 59 (5.84%) LAN
9 53 (5.25%) TCP/IP
10 49 (4.85%) NAS
11 48 (4.75%) SSL
12 46 (4.55%) VLAN
13 37 (3.66%) BIG-IP
14 36 (3.56%) HTTP
15 34 (3.37%) Wireshark
16 29 (2.87%) BGP
16 29 (2.87%) Cisco Nexus
16 29 (2.87%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 26 (2.57%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (3.47%) SQL Server
2 15 (1.49%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (0.89%) DataStage
4 8 (0.79%) NonStop SQL
5 7 (0.69%) NoSQL
6 6 (0.59%) Power BI
7 5 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (0.40%) Oracle BI EE
8 4 (0.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (0.30%) Big Data
9 3 (0.30%) Data Mining
9 3 (0.30%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.20%) Redis
11 1 (0.099%) GIS
11 1 (0.099%) Metadata
11 1 (0.099%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 43 (4.26%) Jenkins
2 30 (2.97%) GitLab
3 28 (2.77%) Git
4 26 (2.57%) JIRA
5 23 (2.28%) Fiddler
6 7 (0.69%) Chocolatey
7 6 (0.59%) Team Foundation Server
8 5 (0.50%) Robot Framework
8 5 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (0.40%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.30%) MSI
11 2 (0.20%) PVCS
11 2 (0.20%) Rational DOORS
12 1 (0.099%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.099%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.099%) GoCD
12 1 (0.099%) Maven
12 1 (0.099%) Postman
12 1 (0.099%) RStudio
12 1 (0.099%) VersionOne
General
1 201 (19.90%) Social Skills
2 110 (10.89%) Finance
3 87 (8.61%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (6.14%) Public Sector
5 45 (4.46%) Documentation Skills
6 42 (4.16%) Banking
7 22 (2.18%) Legal
8 18 (1.78%) Investment Banking
9 14 (1.39%) Aerospace
10 13 (1.29%) Telecoms
11 11 (1.09%) Financial Institution
11 11 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (1.09%) Police
12 10 (0.99%) Retail
13 9 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 9 (0.89%) Military
14 7 (0.69%) Manufacturing
15 6 (0.59%) Law
15 6 (0.59%) Local Government
16 5 (0.50%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 204 (20.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 156 (15.45%) Architect
3 102 (10.10%) Senior
4 91 (9.01%) VMware Engineer
5 82 (8.12%) Network Engineer
6 57 (5.64%) Consultant
7 44 (4.36%) VMware Architect
8 39 (3.86%) Administrator
8 39 (3.86%) Support Engineer
9 36 (3.56%) Cloud Engineer
10 35 (3.47%) VMware Consultant
11 31 (3.07%) Lead
12 30 (2.97%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 30 (2.97%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 30 (2.97%) Storage Engineer
13 28 (2.77%) Analyst
13 28 (2.77%) Senior VMware Engineer
13 28 (2.77%) Technical Architect
14 27 (2.67%) Infrastructure Architect
14 27 (2.67%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (2.67%) LDAP
2 22 (2.18%) Middleware
3 19 (1.88%) Flash
4 15 (1.49%) REST
5 12 (1.19%) OpenTelemetry
6 9 (0.89%) SAML
7 8 (0.79%) 802.1X
8 7 (0.69%) Keycloak
9 5 (0.50%) .NET
9 5 (0.50%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (0.50%) JSON
10 4 (0.40%) Redfish
10 4 (0.40%) Software Packaging
11 3 (0.30%) Apache NiFi
12 2 (0.20%) .NET Core
12 2 (0.20%) Blazor
12 2 (0.20%) Django
12 2 (0.20%) Kafka
12 2 (0.20%) OAuth2
12 2 (0.20%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 138 (13.66%) Data Centre
2 67 (6.63%) PKI
2 67 (6.63%) Replication
3 66 (6.53%) Hybrid Cloud
4 44 (4.36%) Enterprise Storage
5 40 (3.96%) Management Information System
6 39 (3.86%) Cloud Native
7 37 (3.66%) Public Cloud
8 36 (3.56%) Clustering
9 29 (2.87%) Private Cloud
10 24 (2.38%) Linux Command Line
11 16 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
12 15 (1.49%) Blackberry
12 15 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
12 15 (1.49%) Onboarding
13 13 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
14 11 (1.09%) BYOD
14 11 (1.09%) Operational Technology
14 11 (1.09%) Product Ownership
14 11 (1.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 417 (41.29%) Windows
2 260 (25.74%) Windows Server
3 258 (25.54%) Linux
4 54 (5.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 43 (4.26%) Windows Server 2019
6 28 (2.77%) Windows Server 2016
7 25 (2.48%) Unix
8 21 (2.08%) VMS
9 20 (1.98%) Ubuntu
10 19 (1.88%) Windows 10
11 18 (1.78%) CentOS
12 17 (1.68%) Apple iOS
12 17 (1.68%) Data ONTAP
12 17 (1.68%) Solaris
13 15 (1.49%) AIX
13 15 (1.49%) Android
13 15 (1.49%) Windows Server 2012
14 9 (0.89%) Windows Server 2003
15 8 (0.79%) Windows Server 2008
16 7 (0.69%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 253 (25.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 185 (18.32%) Migration
3 167 (16.53%) Problem-Solving
4 122 (12.08%) High Availability
5 118 (11.68%) ITIL
6 105 (10.40%) Disaster Recovery
7 101 (10.00%) DevOps
8 94 (9.31%) Infrastructure as Code
9 92 (9.11%) CI/CD
10 90 (8.91%) Agile
11 78 (7.72%) Load Balancing
12 72 (7.13%) Change Management
13 69 (6.83%) Capacity Planning
14 68 (6.73%) Stakeholder Management
15 65 (6.44%) ITSM
16 61 (6.04%) Performance Tuning
17 58 (5.74%) Continuous Improvement
17 58 (5.74%) Technical Leadership
17 58 (5.74%) Validation
18 57 (5.64%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 183 (18.12%) PowerShell
2 121 (11.98%) Python
3 57 (5.64%) Bash
4 45 (4.46%) SQL
5 21 (2.08%) JavaScript
6 14 (1.39%) Shell Script
7 11 (1.09%) MATLAB
8 9 (0.89%) COBOL
9 7 (0.69%) Java
9 7 (0.69%) PL/SQL
10 6 (0.59%) Bicep
11 5 (0.50%) C
11 5 (0.50%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.40%) C#
12 4 (0.40%) PHP
13 2 (0.20%) C++
13 2 (0.20%) Embedded C
13 2 (0.20%) Embedded C++
13 2 (0.20%) VBScript
14 1 (0.099%) VB
Qualifications
1 452 (44.75%) Security Cleared
2 274 (27.13%) SC Cleared
3 199 (19.70%) DV Cleared
4 76 (7.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 45 (4.46%) Cisco Certification
6 43 (4.26%) Degree
7 39 (3.86%) Microsoft Certification
8 30 (2.97%) VCAP
9 29 (2.87%) CCNP
10 28 (2.77%) MCSE
11 22 (2.18%) Azure Certification
12 17 (1.68%) MCSA
13 16 (1.58%) CCNA
14 15 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
14 15 (1.49%) Oracle Certification
15 12 (1.19%) OCP
16 8 (0.79%) ISTQB
16 8 (0.79%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
16 8 (0.79%) RHCA
17 7 (0.69%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (4.65%) SLA
2 37 (3.66%) NIST
3 24 (2.38%) Cyber Essentials
4 22 (2.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 19 (1.88%) NCSC
6 10 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 10 (0.99%) QA
7 4 (0.40%) Def Stans
8 3 (0.30%) Government Security Classifications
8 3 (0.30%) NIST 800
8 3 (0.30%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.20%) GDPR
9 2 (0.20%) ISA99
9 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.099%) COBIT
10 1 (0.099%) DICOM
10 1 (0.099%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.099%) HL7
10 1 (0.099%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.099%) SOC 2
System Software
1 651 (64.46%) VMware Infrastructure
2 242 (23.96%) Active Directory
3 219 (21.68%) VMware NSX
4 213 (21.09%) vSphere
5 198 (19.60%) VMware ESXi
6 144 (14.26%) Hyper-V
7 93 (9.21%) Virtual Machines
8 39 (3.86%) Docker
9 38 (3.76%) Firmware
9 38 (3.76%) NFS
10 31 (3.07%) Virtual Desktop
11 25 (2.48%) KVM
12 23 (2.28%) vCloud
13 14 (1.39%) GPFS
13 14 (1.39%) Microsoft App-V
14 12 (1.19%) BitLocker
15 9 (0.89%) VMware Workstation
16 6 (0.59%) Oracle RAC
16 6 (0.59%) SRDF
17 4 (0.40%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 173 (17.13%) Ansible
2 163 (16.14%) vCenter Server
3 102 (10.10%) Terraform
4 91 (9.01%) Kubernetes
5 68 (6.73%) vRealize
6 65 (6.44%) Microsoft Intune
7 53 (5.25%) SCCM
8 39 (3.86%) SCOM
9 28 (2.77%) Argo
9 28 (2.77%) vMotion
10 27 (2.67%) PowerCLI
11 26 (2.57%) VxRail
12 25 (2.48%) Grafana
13 21 (2.08%) Single Sign-On
14 18 (1.78%) NetBackup
15 16 (1.58%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 16 (1.58%) Puppet
15 16 (1.58%) WSUS
16 15 (1.49%) Podman
16 15 (1.49%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 238 (23.56%) Microsoft
2 173 (17.13%) Cisco
3 99 (9.80%) Citrix
4 69 (6.83%) NetApp
4 69 (6.83%) Red Hat
5 55 (5.45%) F5
6 51 (5.05%) Dell
7 44 (4.36%) ServiceNow
8 42 (4.16%) Pure Storage
9 41 (4.06%) IBM
10 39 (3.86%) Palo Alto
11 38 (3.76%) Oracle
12 30 (2.97%) Veeam
13 29 (2.87%) Juniper
14 27 (2.67%) CheckPoint
15 26 (2.57%) Fortinet
15 26 (2.57%) McAfee
16 25 (2.48%) SolarWinds
17 24 (2.38%) Blue Coat
18 22 (2.18%) Broadcom