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 24 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
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 90 60
Rank change year-on-year -13 -30 -4
Contract jobs citing VMware 1,070 745 1,219
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.38% 2.72% 3.49%
As % of the Vendors category 5.80% 5.75% 8.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 721 485 848
10th Percentile £358 £350 £313
25th Percentile £450 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +7.32% -1.44%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £510
% change year-on-year -4.55% +7.84% -1.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 6 21
10th Percentile £26.00 £29.00 £22.30
25th Percentile £33.70 £30.33 £23.80
Median hourly rate £60.94 £34.71 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +75.57% -24.84% -13.13%
75th Percentile £74.00 £54.56 £71.25
90th Percentile £96.93 £109.38 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £51.00 £34.71 £50.00
% change year-on-year +46.94% -30.59% -16.39%

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 18,443 12,960 15,118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.03% 47.36% 43.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,674 8,202 9,702
10th Percentile £313 £280 £281
25th Percentile £413 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £510 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -1.92% -0.95%
75th Percentile £610 £623 £625
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 962 617 868
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.75 £13.29
25th Percentile £20.31 £17.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.81 £25.15 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.39% -6.85% -29.92%
75th Percentile £67.50 £50.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.11 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.22 £25.15 £26.97
% change year-on-year +40.04% -6.75% -35.01%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 +6 328 £550 -3.25% 91
London -17 279 £543 +3.33% 78
North of England -25 172 £475 +5.80% 54
Midlands -19 119 £450 -18.18% 29
South West -33 107 £550 -5.98% 43
West Midlands -28 90 £474 -11.40% 14
North West -10 88 £459 +8.00% 34
Yorkshire -20 81 £500 +11.11% 15
East of England -6 63 £507 -7.82% 28
East Midlands +1 29 £450 -18.18% 15
North East -39 4 £569 +55.82% 6
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 50 (4.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (2.52%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.12%) nginx
4 11 (1.03%) Confluence
5 9 (0.84%) CICS
5 9 (0.84%) IIS
5 9 (0.84%) Tomcat
6 8 (0.75%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.65%) Apache
8 3 (0.28%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.28%) FactoryTalk
8 3 (0.28%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.19%) CMS
9 2 (0.19%) JBoss
9 2 (0.19%) Skype for Business
10 1 (0.093%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 12 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.28%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (0.19%) Houdini
3 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.19%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 6 (0.56%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.093%) Shopify
2 1 (0.093%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 278 (25.98%) Azure
2 181 (16.92%) AWS
3 84 (7.85%) Microsoft 365
4 68 (6.36%) Entra ID
5 55 (5.14%) OpenShift
6 43 (4.02%) GitHub
7 42 (3.93%) IaaS
8 39 (3.64%) GCP
9 29 (2.71%) PaaS
10 28 (2.62%) Rubrik
11 20 (1.87%) Azure DevOps
12 19 (1.78%) SaaS
13 15 (1.40%) GitHub Actions
14 14 (1.31%) Datadog
14 14 (1.31%) OneDrive
15 13 (1.21%) Azure Monitor
15 13 (1.21%) Nutanix
15 13 (1.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 11 (1.03%) Amazon EC2
17 9 (0.84%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 258 (24.11%) DNS
2 204 (19.07%) Firewall
3 146 (13.64%) DHCP
4 96 (8.97%) VSAN
5 94 (8.79%) SAN
6 85 (7.94%) TCP/IP
6 85 (7.94%) VPN
7 80 (7.48%) WAN
8 66 (6.17%) Network Security
8 66 (6.17%) VLAN
9 64 (5.98%) LAN
10 51 (4.77%) NAS
11 47 (4.39%) SSL
12 37 (3.46%) BGP
13 34 (3.18%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 32 (2.99%) BIG-IP
14 32 (2.99%) SD-WAN
15 31 (2.90%) Cisco Nexus
15 31 (2.90%) HTTP
16 30 (2.80%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (4.77%) SQL Server
2 13 (1.21%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (0.84%) DataStage
4 8 (0.75%) NonStop SQL
4 8 (0.75%) NoSQL
5 7 (0.65%) Power BI
5 7 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 5 (0.47%) Apache Cassandra
6 5 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (0.37%) Big Data
7 4 (0.37%) Oracle BI EE
8 3 (0.28%) Data Mining
8 3 (0.28%) Hazelcast
8 3 (0.28%) Oracle Database
8 3 (0.28%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 3 (0.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.19%) Redis
10 1 (0.093%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.093%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 41 (3.83%) Jenkins
2 35 (3.27%) JIRA
3 24 (2.24%) Git
4 23 (2.15%) GitLab
5 18 (1.68%) Fiddler
6 9 (0.84%) Chocolatey
7 6 (0.56%) Bitbucket
8 5 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (0.47%) Team Foundation Server
9 4 (0.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 3 (0.28%) MSI
10 3 (0.28%) Rational DOORS
10 3 (0.28%) Robot Framework
10 3 (0.28%) Selenium
10 3 (0.28%) Subversion
11 1 (0.093%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.093%) Maven
11 1 (0.093%) Postman
11 1 (0.093%) VersionOne
General
1 237 (22.15%) Social Skills
2 118 (11.03%) Finance
3 106 (9.91%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (5.98%) Public Sector
5 47 (4.39%) Banking
6 35 (3.27%) Documentation Skills
7 24 (2.24%) Telecoms
8 21 (1.96%) Legal
9 17 (1.59%) Investment Banking
10 16 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
11 15 (1.40%) Financial Institution
12 14 (1.31%) Military
13 12 (1.12%) Retail
14 10 (0.93%) Manufacturing
15 8 (0.75%) Police
16 6 (0.56%) Law
16 6 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
16 6 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
17 4 (0.37%) Advertising
17 4 (0.37%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 224 (20.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 138 (12.90%) Architect
3 124 (11.59%) Senior
4 100 (9.35%) VMware Engineer
5 86 (8.04%) Network Engineer
6 62 (5.79%) Consultant
7 52 (4.86%) Cloud Engineer
8 48 (4.49%) Support Engineer
9 45 (4.21%) Lead
10 40 (3.74%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 40 (3.74%) VMware Consultant
11 37 (3.46%) Administrator
12 36 (3.36%) Storage Engineer
13 33 (3.08%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 32 (2.99%) Senior VMware Engineer
15 31 (2.90%) VMware Architect
16 28 (2.62%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
17 27 (2.52%) Azure Engineer
18 26 (2.43%) Technical Architect
19 25 (2.34%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (1.40%) LDAP
1 15 (1.40%) Middleware
2 14 (1.31%) Flash
2 14 (1.31%) REST
3 12 (1.12%) OpenTelemetry
4 10 (0.93%) 802.1X
5 8 (0.75%) Elastic Stack
6 5 (0.47%) .NET
6 5 (0.47%) JSON
6 5 (0.47%) Kafka
6 5 (0.47%) SAML
7 4 (0.37%) Keycloak
7 4 (0.37%) Redfish
7 4 (0.37%) YAML
8 3 (0.28%) Software Packaging
9 2 (0.19%) ASP.NET
9 2 (0.19%) Java SE
9 2 (0.19%) OpenGL
9 2 (0.19%) Unreal Engine
9 2 (0.19%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 151 (14.11%) Data Centre
2 76 (7.10%) PKI
3 74 (6.92%) Hybrid Cloud
4 61 (5.70%) Replication
5 50 (4.67%) Enterprise Storage
6 43 (4.02%) Management Information System
7 37 (3.46%) Public Cloud
8 35 (3.27%) Cloud Native
8 35 (3.27%) Clustering
9 29 (2.71%) Private Cloud
10 22 (2.06%) Onboarding
11 21 (1.96%) Linux Command Line
12 16 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
13 15 (1.40%) Blackberry
14 14 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
15 12 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
15 12 (1.12%) Virtual Team
16 11 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
16 11 (1.03%) BYOD
17 10 (0.93%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 477 (44.58%) Windows
2 285 (26.64%) Linux
3 280 (26.17%) Windows Server
4 60 (5.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 44 (4.11%) Windows Server 2019
6 26 (2.43%) Windows Server 2016
7 25 (2.34%) Unix
7 25 (2.34%) VMS
8 23 (2.15%) Ubuntu
9 22 (2.06%) Windows 10
10 20 (1.87%) Apple iOS
11 19 (1.78%) AIX
12 17 (1.59%) Data ONTAP
12 17 (1.59%) Solaris
13 15 (1.40%) Android
14 13 (1.21%) Windows Server 2012
15 11 (1.03%) CentOS
16 8 (0.75%) Windows Server 2008
17 7 (0.65%) Mac OS
17 7 (0.65%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 285 (26.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 194 (18.13%) Migration
3 189 (17.66%) Problem-Solving
4 137 (12.80%) High Availability
4 137 (12.80%) ITIL
5 118 (11.03%) CI/CD
6 113 (10.56%) Disaster Recovery
6 113 (10.56%) Infrastructure as Code
7 100 (9.35%) DevOps
8 96 (8.97%) Agile
9 88 (8.22%) Technical Leadership
10 85 (7.94%) Stakeholder Management
11 83 (7.76%) Change Management
12 79 (7.38%) Continuous Improvement
13 73 (6.82%) Network Virtualisation
14 72 (6.73%) ITSM
14 72 (6.73%) Load Balancing
15 69 (6.45%) Validation
16 68 (6.36%) Service Management
17 66 (6.17%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 209 (19.53%) PowerShell
2 139 (12.99%) Python
3 89 (8.32%) Bash
4 53 (4.95%) SQL
5 21 (1.96%) JavaScript
6 16 (1.50%) Java
7 9 (0.84%) COBOL
7 9 (0.84%) Shell Script
8 7 (0.65%) PL/SQL
9 6 (0.56%) Bicep
10 5 (0.47%) C
11 4 (0.37%) MATLAB
11 4 (0.37%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.28%) C#
12 3 (0.28%) Go
12 3 (0.28%) Lua
12 3 (0.28%) PHP
13 2 (0.19%) VBScript
14 1 (0.093%) Perl
14 1 (0.093%) VB
Qualifications
1 508 (47.48%) Security Cleared
2 305 (28.50%) SC Cleared
3 238 (22.24%) DV Cleared
4 83 (7.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 58 (5.42%) Degree
6 52 (4.86%) Cisco Certification
7 40 (3.74%) Microsoft Certification
8 36 (3.36%) VCAP
9 35 (3.27%) CCNP
10 28 (2.62%) Azure Certification
11 26 (2.43%) MCSE
12 18 (1.68%) CCNA
13 15 (1.40%) MCSA
14 14 (1.31%) AWS Certification
14 14 (1.31%) Oracle Certification
15 12 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
16 11 (1.03%) OCP
17 9 (0.84%) RHCA
18 8 (0.75%) ISTQB
18 8 (0.75%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (3.83%) SLA
2 32 (2.99%) NIST
3 24 (2.24%) NCSC
4 19 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 17 (1.59%) Cyber Essentials
6 11 (1.03%) QA
7 5 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (0.37%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.28%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 3 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
9 3 (0.28%) GxP
9 3 (0.28%) 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 (0.093%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.093%) GRC
11 1 (0.093%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.093%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.093%) SOC 2
System Software
1 711 (66.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 284 (26.54%) Active Directory
3 234 (21.87%) VMware NSX
4 230 (21.50%) vSphere
5 224 (20.93%) VMware ESXi
6 146 (13.64%) Hyper-V
7 92 (8.60%) Virtual Machines
8 55 (5.14%) Docker
9 38 (3.55%) Virtual Desktop
10 36 (3.36%) Firmware
11 32 (2.99%) NFS
12 24 (2.24%) KVM
13 21 (1.96%) vCloud
14 12 (1.12%) Microsoft App-V
15 9 (0.84%) BitLocker
15 9 (0.84%) GPFS
15 9 (0.84%) VMware Workstation
16 7 (0.65%) UAG
17 6 (0.56%) Oracle RAC
17 6 (0.56%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 192 (17.94%) vCenter Server
2 185 (17.29%) Ansible
3 133 (12.43%) Terraform
4 113 (10.56%) Kubernetes
5 68 (6.36%) Microsoft Intune
6 59 (5.51%) vRealize
7 52 (4.86%) SCCM
7 52 (4.86%) SCOM
8 33 (3.08%) VxRail
9 28 (2.62%) Argo
9 28 (2.62%) Grafana
10 27 (2.52%) PowerCLI
11 25 (2.34%) vMotion
12 20 (1.87%) NetBackup
12 20 (1.87%) Puppet
13 17 (1.59%) Avamar
13 17 (1.59%) Prometheus
13 17 (1.59%) Red Hat Satellite
14 16 (1.50%) WSUS
15 12 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 263 (24.58%) Microsoft
2 180 (16.82%) Cisco
3 100 (9.35%) Citrix
4 79 (7.38%) NetApp
5 76 (7.10%) Red Hat
6 54 (5.05%) Dell
7 50 (4.67%) F5
8 43 (4.02%) Palo Alto
9 42 (3.93%) ServiceNow
10 40 (3.74%) Pure Storage
11 38 (3.55%) SolarWinds
12 37 (3.46%) Juniper
13 36 (3.36%) IBM
13 36 (3.36%) Oracle
14 33 (3.08%) Veeam
15 30 (2.80%) Broadcom
16 25 (2.34%) Fortinet
17 22 (2.06%) CheckPoint
17 22 (2.06%) Splunk
18 21 (1.96%) McAfee