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 26 February 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
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 68 61
Rank change year-on-year -30 -7 -4
Contract jobs citing VMware 951 869 1,253
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.69% 3.37% 3.36%
As % of the Vendors category 5.98% 7.23% 7.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 671 570 840
10th Percentile £325 £300 £264
25th Percentile £436 £413 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £493
Median % change year-on-year - +6.60% -5.29%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 15 65
10th Percentile £26.00 £35.00 £22.08
25th Percentile £41.90 £40.00 £40.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +20.83% -7.69%
75th Percentile £75.70 £84.14 £76.25
90th Percentile £96.75 £101.70 £84.36
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £61.25
% change year-on-year +12.00% +2.04% -5.77%

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 15,894 12,025 16,062
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 44.94% 46.67% 43.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,383 7,440 10,316
10th Percentile £305 £285 £250
25th Percentile £413 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% +0.96% -3.30%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £705 £720 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £517
% change year-on-year -3.85% +0.58% -1.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 821 355 875
10th Percentile £15.34 £15.62 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.43 £21.25 £15.29
Median hourly rate £24.00 £31.35 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.43% +20.56% -20.00%
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £54.78
90th Percentile £73.75 £81.80 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £24.28 £30.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -19.08% +15.38% -21.21%

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 26 February 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 26 February 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 26 February 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 -2 264 £523 -6.15% 74
London -50 236 £550 +4.76% 47
North of England -33 163 £469 +4.22% 60
Midlands -14 123 £406 -22.67% 23
North West -19 105 £460 -8.00% 34
South West -30 105 £550 -4.35% 33
West Midlands -20 92 £394 -23.25% 19
Yorkshire -21 65 £488 +8.33% 25
East of England +7 58 £500 - 12
East Midlands -15 31 £450 -15.13% 4
North East -22 4 £550 +57.14% 2
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 48 (5.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 29 (3.05%) SharePoint
3 19 (2.00%) Confluence
4 8 (0.84%) OpenStack
4 8 (0.84%) Skype for Business
5 7 (0.74%) CICS
6 5 (0.53%) SharePoint Server
7 3 (0.32%) Apache
7 3 (0.32%) nginx
8 2 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2010
8 2 (0.21%) IIS
8 2 (0.21%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.21%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.21%) WordPress
9 1 (0.11%) JBoss
9 1 (0.11%) Traefik
9 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 17 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (1.68%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 234 (24.61%) Azure
2 175 (18.40%) AWS
3 81 (8.52%) Microsoft 365
4 79 (8.31%) OpenShift
5 53 (5.57%) Entra ID
6 52 (5.47%) GitHub
7 47 (4.94%) GCP
8 46 (4.84%) IaaS
9 31 (3.26%) PaaS
10 30 (3.15%) Nutanix
11 24 (2.52%) GitHub Actions
12 17 (1.79%) Datadog
13 13 (1.37%) Azure DevOps
14 10 (1.05%) SaaS
15 7 (0.74%) Microsoft Purview
16 6 (0.63%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 6 (0.63%) Azure Sentinel
17 5 (0.53%) AWS CloudFormation
17 5 (0.53%) Azure Monitor
18 4 (0.42%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 221 (23.24%) DNS
2 182 (19.14%) Firewall
3 102 (10.73%) DHCP
4 79 (8.31%) TCP/IP
5 72 (7.57%) VPN
6 64 (6.73%) SAN
7 61 (6.41%) VSAN
8 52 (5.47%) Network Security
9 49 (5.15%) VLAN
10 45 (4.73%) WAN
11 41 (4.31%) LAN
11 41 (4.31%) SSL
12 38 (4.00%) BIG-IP
13 37 (3.89%) HTTP
14 36 (3.79%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 36 (3.79%) Wireshark
15 34 (3.58%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
16 30 (3.15%) NAS
17 29 (3.05%) BGP
18 19 (2.00%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (4.00%) SQL Server
2 25 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (0.84%) Redis
4 7 (0.74%) DataStage
5 6 (0.63%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (0.42%) NoSQL
6 4 (0.42%) Oracle Database
7 3 (0.32%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.21%) Power BI
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle BI EE
9 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 55 (5.78%) Jenkins
2 32 (3.36%) GitLab
3 28 (2.94%) Git
4 27 (2.84%) Fiddler
5 20 (2.10%) JIRA
5 20 (2.10%) Sonatype Nexus
6 14 (1.47%) Cucumber
6 14 (1.47%) JMeter
6 14 (1.47%) JUnit
7 8 (0.84%) PVCS
7 8 (0.84%) Rational DOORS
8 6 (0.63%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.63%) Team Foundation Server
9 5 (0.53%) Robot Framework
10 4 (0.42%) Chocolatey
10 4 (0.42%) RStudio
11 3 (0.32%) Maven
11 3 (0.32%) Subversion
12 2 (0.21%) TeamCity
13 1 (0.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 211 (22.19%) Social Skills
2 110 (11.57%) Analytical Skills
3 105 (11.04%) Finance
4 99 (10.41%) Public Sector
5 56 (5.89%) Banking
6 42 (4.42%) Documentation Skills
7 25 (2.63%) Investment Banking
8 22 (2.31%) Aerospace
8 22 (2.31%) Legal
9 20 (2.10%) Influencing Skills
10 14 (1.47%) Local Government
11 12 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 12 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
12 10 (1.05%) Electronics
12 10 (1.05%) Military
13 7 (0.74%) Police
14 6 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.53%) Fire and Rescue
15 5 (0.53%) Telecoms
16 4 (0.42%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 163 (17.14%) Architect
2 147 (15.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 66 (6.94%) Network Engineer
4 62 (6.52%) VMware Engineer
5 60 (6.31%) Analyst
6 58 (6.10%) Consultant
7 57 (5.99%) Senior
8 48 (5.05%) VMware Consultant
9 46 (4.84%) Platform Engineer
10 41 (4.31%) Support Engineer
11 38 (4.00%) VMware Architect
12 35 (3.68%) Infrastructure Architect
13 32 (3.36%) Infrastructure Analyst
13 32 (3.36%) Lead
14 28 (2.94%) DevOps Engineer
14 28 (2.94%) Web Engineer
15 27 (2.84%) Technical Architect
16 24 (2.52%) Wintel Engineer
17 23 (2.42%) Developer
18 22 (2.31%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (2.52%) Kafka
1 24 (2.52%) Middleware
2 21 (2.21%) LDAP
3 20 (2.10%) Flash
4 16 (1.68%) SAML
5 14 (1.47%) Spring
6 13 (1.37%) Hibernate
7 12 (1.26%) Keycloak
8 11 (1.16%) OpenID
8 11 (1.16%) REST
9 10 (1.05%) OAuth
9 10 (1.05%) OpenTelemetry
10 9 (0.95%) Loki
11 7 (0.74%) Elastic Stack
11 7 (0.74%) OAuth2
12 6 (0.63%) XMPP
13 5 (0.53%) React
13 5 (0.53%) Software Packaging
14 4 (0.42%) SOAP
14 4 (0.42%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 90 (9.46%) Data Centre
2 72 (7.57%) PKI
2 72 (7.57%) Replication
3 50 (5.26%) Cloud Native
4 46 (4.84%) Hybrid Cloud
5 37 (3.89%) Management Information System
6 31 (3.26%) Private Cloud
7 29 (3.05%) Linux Command Line
8 25 (2.63%) Public Cloud
9 21 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
10 20 (2.10%) Analytical Mindset
10 20 (2.10%) Clustering
11 18 (1.89%) Operational Technology
12 15 (1.58%) Product Ownership
13 14 (1.47%) Blackberry
14 13 (1.37%) Onboarding
15 12 (1.26%) Enterprise Storage
16 11 (1.16%) Fat Client
16 11 (1.16%) Thin Client
17 10 (1.05%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 355 (37.33%) Windows
2 283 (29.76%) Linux
3 204 (21.45%) Windows Server
4 75 (7.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 36 (3.79%) Windows 10
6 29 (3.05%) Windows Server 2019
7 26 (2.73%) Windows Server 2016
8 21 (2.21%) Ubuntu
9 17 (1.79%) Unix
9 17 (1.79%) VMS
9 17 (1.79%) Windows Server 2012
10 16 (1.68%) Mac OS
11 15 (1.58%) CentOS
11 15 (1.58%) Solaris
12 14 (1.47%) Android
12 14 (1.47%) Apple iOS
13 12 (1.26%) Windows 7
14 10 (1.05%) AIX
15 6 (0.63%) Data ONTAP
15 6 (0.63%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (20.72%) Problem-Solving
2 191 (20.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 147 (15.46%) Migration
4 140 (14.72%) Agile
5 122 (12.83%) ITIL
6 116 (12.20%) DevOps
7 115 (12.09%) CI/CD
8 94 (9.88%) Load Balancing
9 93 (9.78%) Disaster Recovery
10 79 (8.31%) Infrastructure as Code
11 78 (8.20%) High Availability
12 77 (8.10%) Containerisation
13 72 (7.57%) Platform Engineering
14 64 (6.73%) Stakeholder Management
15 62 (6.52%) Continuous Improvement
15 62 (6.52%) Roadmaps
16 60 (6.31%) Cybersecurity
17 57 (5.99%) Service Management
18 53 (5.57%) Change Management
19 46 (4.84%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 189 (19.87%) PowerShell
2 181 (19.03%) Python
3 102 (10.73%) Bash
4 34 (3.58%) SQL
5 21 (2.21%) JavaScript
6 20 (2.10%) Java
7 19 (2.00%) Perl
8 14 (1.47%) Shell Script
9 11 (1.16%) C
10 9 (0.95%) T-SQL
11 8 (0.84%) C#
11 8 (0.84%) C++
12 7 (0.74%) COBOL
12 7 (0.74%) Embedded C
12 7 (0.74%) Embedded C++
12 7 (0.74%) MATLAB
13 6 (0.63%) Bicep
14 4 (0.42%) PHP
15 3 (0.32%) Korn
16 2 (0.21%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 423 (44.48%) Security Cleared
2 262 (27.55%) SC Cleared
3 156 (16.40%) DV Cleared
4 64 (6.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 56 (5.89%) Microsoft Certification
6 48 (5.05%) Degree
7 44 (4.63%) Cisco Certification
8 36 (3.79%) CCNP
9 34 (3.58%) Azure Certification
10 24 (2.52%) MCSE
11 23 (2.42%) CCNA
12 21 (2.21%) VCAP
13 19 (2.00%) AWS Certification
14 14 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
15 13 (1.37%) MCSA
15 13 (1.37%) Oracle Certification
16 11 (1.16%) CCDP
16 11 (1.16%) Network+ Certification
16 11 (1.16%) Server+ Certification
17 9 (0.95%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (2.94%) NIST
2 24 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (2.10%) GDPR
3 20 (2.10%) SLA
4 18 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials
5 15 (1.58%) NCSC
6 9 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 8 (0.84%) Def Stans
8 6 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (0.53%) PCI DSS
10 4 (0.42%) QA
11 3 (0.32%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.21%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 1 (0.11%) Accessibility
13 1 (0.11%) COBIT
13 1 (0.11%) Data Quality
13 1 (0.11%) Government Security Classifications
13 1 (0.11%) JSP 440
13 1 (0.11%) MiFID
13 1 (0.11%) PMO
System Software
1 584 (61.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 242 (25.45%) Active Directory
3 183 (19.24%) vSphere
4 157 (16.51%) VMware NSX
5 113 (11.88%) Hyper-V
6 104 (10.94%) VMware ESXi
7 62 (6.52%) Virtual Machines
8 55 (5.78%) Docker
9 40 (4.21%) NFS
10 27 (2.84%) Virtual Desktop
11 24 (2.52%) Firmware
12 18 (1.89%) KVM
13 15 (1.58%) GPFS
14 10 (1.05%) vCloud
15 7 (0.74%) Virtual Servers
16 5 (0.53%) BitLocker
16 5 (0.53%) Microsoft App-V
16 5 (0.53%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 3 (0.32%) DFS Replication
17 3 (0.32%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 183 (19.24%) Ansible
2 117 (12.30%) Terraform
3 106 (11.15%) vCenter Server
4 103 (10.83%) Kubernetes
5 85 (8.94%) Microsoft Intune
6 73 (7.68%) SCCM
7 69 (7.26%) vRealize
8 39 (4.10%) Argo
9 37 (3.89%) Grafana
10 32 (3.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 31 (3.26%) Single Sign-On
12 28 (2.94%) VxRail
13 27 (2.84%) Red Hat Satellite
14 25 (2.63%) Prometheus
15 24 (2.52%) SCOM
16 22 (2.31%) Progress Chef
17 15 (1.58%) FortiGate
18 14 (1.47%) vMotion
19 12 (1.26%) Puppet
20 11 (1.16%) WSUS
Vendors
1 251 (26.39%) Microsoft
2 157 (16.51%) Cisco
3 106 (11.15%) Red Hat
4 86 (9.04%) Citrix
5 82 (8.62%) F5
6 50 (5.26%) Dell
6 50 (5.26%) IBM
7 42 (4.42%) SolarWinds
8 41 (4.31%) NetApp
9 39 (4.10%) Pure Storage
10 38 (4.00%) Oracle
10 38 (4.00%) Palo Alto
10 38 (4.00%) Veeam
11 36 (3.79%) McAfee
12 34 (3.58%) Blue Coat
12 34 (3.58%) ServiceNow
13 30 (3.15%) Splunk
14 24 (2.52%) Commvault
15 21 (2.21%) HP
16 17 (1.79%) Google