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 March 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 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 66 66
Rank change year-on-year -33 0 -8
Contract jobs citing VMware 994 831 1,188
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.65% 3.42% 3.15%
As % of the Vendors category 6.05% 7.23% 7.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 696 566 806
10th Percentile £336 £316 £263
25th Percentile £447 £425 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £575
90th Percentile £679 £686 £678
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 11 48
10th Percentile £45.66 £31.32 £22.05
25th Percentile £51.00 £35.00 £39.41
Median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £46.29
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +56.64% -26.80%
75th Percentile £74.82 £81.54 £70.81
90th Percentile £95.75 £85.78 £82.25
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £53.75
% change year-on-year -3.45% +34.88% -17.31%

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 16,441 11,496 15,963
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 43.78% 47.37% 42.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,719 7,454 10,228
10th Percentile £313 £296 £250
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -4.28%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -2.44% - -2.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 870 411 941
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.50 £19.00 £14.36
Median hourly rate £25.38 £29.07 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.69% +21.13% -31.48%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £76.68 £80.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £25.47 £28.68 £23.50
% change year-on-year -11.18% +22.02% -38.96%

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 March 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 March 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 March 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 £538 -5.45% 110
London -39 245 £550 +4.76% 67
North of England -19 182 £460 +2.22% 92
Midlands -17 128 £402 -23.43% 34
North West -4 117 £460 -3.16% 58
West Midlands -17 102 £382 -26.89% 22
South West -33 97 £550 -4.35% 40
Yorkshire -21 69 £444 -1.33% 29
East of England -5 62 £509 -0.78% 39
East Midlands -25 26 £436 -18.58% 12
North East -24 4 £550 +57.14% 7
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 47 (4.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (2.41%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.61%) Confluence
4 8 (0.80%) CICS
5 6 (0.60%) OpenStack
6 3 (0.30%) nginx
6 3 (0.30%) Skype for Business
6 3 (0.30%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.20%) Apache
7 2 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2010
7 2 (0.20%) IIS
7 2 (0.20%) SharePoint Server
7 2 (0.20%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.20%) WordPress
8 1 (0.10%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.10%) JBoss
8 1 (0.10%) WebSphere
Applications
1 17 (1.71%) MS Visio
2 13 (1.31%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 252 (25.35%) Azure
2 184 (18.51%) AWS
3 82 (8.25%) Microsoft 365
4 79 (7.95%) OpenShift
5 55 (5.53%) Entra ID
6 53 (5.33%) IaaS
7 50 (5.03%) GitHub
8 42 (4.23%) GCP
9 36 (3.62%) PaaS
10 30 (3.02%) Nutanix
11 21 (2.11%) Datadog
12 19 (1.91%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
13 14 (1.41%) SaaS
14 10 (1.01%) Azure Monitor
15 9 (0.91%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 9 (0.91%) Rubrik
16 8 (0.80%) Azure Sentinel
17 7 (0.70%) AWS CloudFormation
17 7 (0.70%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 210 (21.13%) DNS
2 195 (19.62%) Firewall
3 93 (9.36%) DHCP
4 86 (8.65%) VPN
5 84 (8.45%) VSAN
6 73 (7.34%) SAN
7 68 (6.84%) TCP/IP
8 61 (6.14%) Network Security
9 55 (5.53%) WAN
10 48 (4.83%) SSL
11 47 (4.73%) BIG-IP
12 46 (4.63%) LAN
13 41 (4.12%) HTTP
14 40 (4.02%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 40 (4.02%) VLAN
14 40 (4.02%) Wireshark
15 36 (3.62%) NAS
16 34 (3.42%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
17 33 (3.32%) BGP
18 24 (2.41%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (3.22%) SQL Server
2 20 (2.01%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (0.91%) Redis
4 8 (0.80%) DataStage
4 8 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (0.50%) NonStop SQL
6 4 (0.40%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.30%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.20%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.20%) Power BI
9 1 (0.10%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.10%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.10%) Metadata
9 1 (0.10%) Oracle BI EE
9 1 (0.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 55 (5.53%) Jenkins
2 32 (3.22%) GitLab
3 30 (3.02%) Fiddler
4 27 (2.72%) Git
5 23 (2.31%) JIRA
6 15 (1.51%) Sonatype Nexus
7 9 (0.91%) Cucumber
7 9 (0.91%) JMeter
7 9 (0.91%) JUnit
8 8 (0.80%) PVCS
8 8 (0.80%) Rational DOORS
9 7 (0.70%) Chocolatey
9 7 (0.70%) Team Foundation Server
10 6 (0.60%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.60%) Robot Framework
11 4 (0.40%) Maven
12 3 (0.30%) RStudio
13 2 (0.20%) MSI
13 2 (0.20%) Subversion
14 1 (0.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 215 (21.63%) Social Skills
2 105 (10.56%) Finance
3 98 (9.86%) Public Sector
4 97 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
5 58 (5.84%) Banking
6 40 (4.02%) Documentation Skills
7 28 (2.82%) Legal
8 26 (2.62%) Investment Banking
9 20 (2.01%) Aerospace
10 18 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
11 12 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
12 11 (1.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 11 (1.11%) Military
13 10 (1.01%) Electronics
13 10 (1.01%) Local Government
14 7 (0.70%) Manufacturing
14 7 (0.70%) Police
14 7 (0.70%) Retail
15 6 (0.60%) Financial Institution
16 5 (0.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 183 (18.41%) Architect
2 149 (14.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 81 (8.15%) Network Engineer
4 80 (8.05%) Senior
5 78 (7.85%) VMware Engineer
6 60 (6.04%) Analyst
7 56 (5.63%) Consultant
8 43 (4.33%) VMware Architect
9 41 (4.12%) VMware Consultant
10 39 (3.92%) Infrastructure Architect
11 38 (3.82%) Platform Engineer
12 37 (3.72%) Lead
13 33 (3.32%) Infrastructure Analyst
14 31 (3.12%) Technical Architect
14 31 (3.12%) Web Engineer
15 26 (2.62%) DevOps Engineer
16 25 (2.52%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
17 23 (2.31%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
18 22 (2.21%) 3rd Line Engineer
18 22 (2.21%) Storage Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (2.21%) Flash
1 22 (2.21%) LDAP
2 21 (2.11%) Middleware
3 20 (2.01%) Kafka
4 17 (1.71%) SAML
5 15 (1.51%) OpenTelemetry
6 12 (1.21%) Keycloak
7 10 (1.01%) OAuth
7 10 (1.01%) OpenID
7 10 (1.01%) REST
8 9 (0.91%) Spring
9 8 (0.80%) Hibernate
9 8 (0.80%) Loki
10 7 (0.70%) Elastic Stack
10 7 (0.70%) OAuth2
11 6 (0.60%) XMPP
12 5 (0.50%) Software Packaging
13 4 (0.40%) Spring Boot
14 3 (0.30%) SOAP
15 2 (0.20%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 100 (10.06%) Data Centre
2 79 (7.95%) Replication
3 68 (6.84%) PKI
4 56 (5.63%) Cloud Native
5 53 (5.33%) Hybrid Cloud
6 39 (3.92%) Management Information System
7 33 (3.32%) Linux Command Line
8 32 (3.22%) Public Cloud
9 31 (3.12%) Private Cloud
10 28 (2.82%) Clustering
11 23 (2.31%) Enterprise Storage
12 21 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
13 19 (1.91%) Product Ownership
14 18 (1.81%) Operational Technology
15 15 (1.51%) Blackberry
16 14 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
17 13 (1.31%) SCADA
18 12 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
18 12 (1.21%) Fat Client
18 12 (1.21%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 363 (36.52%) Windows
2 280 (28.17%) Linux
3 213 (21.43%) Windows Server
4 74 (7.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 33 (3.32%) Windows Server 2019
6 30 (3.02%) Windows Server 2016
7 27 (2.72%) Ubuntu
8 23 (2.31%) Windows 10
9 22 (2.21%) VMS
10 19 (1.91%) Windows Server 2012
11 16 (1.61%) Unix
12 15 (1.51%) Android
12 15 (1.51%) Apple iOS
13 13 (1.31%) CentOS
13 13 (1.31%) Solaris
14 12 (1.21%) AIX
15 11 (1.11%) Windows 7
16 10 (1.01%) Data ONTAP
16 10 (1.01%) Mac OS
17 8 (0.80%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (19.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 190 (19.11%) Problem-Solving
3 170 (17.10%) Migration
4 144 (14.49%) Agile
5 118 (11.87%) DevOps
6 115 (11.57%) ITIL
7 112 (11.27%) CI/CD
8 107 (10.76%) Load Balancing
9 103 (10.36%) High Availability
10 97 (9.76%) Disaster Recovery
11 88 (8.85%) Infrastructure as Code
12 79 (7.95%) Containerisation
13 72 (7.24%) Stakeholder Management
14 68 (6.84%) Platform Engineering
14 68 (6.84%) Roadmaps
15 65 (6.54%) Cybersecurity
16 61 (6.14%) Change Management
16 61 (6.14%) Continuous Improvement
17 52 (5.23%) Capacity Planning
18 51 (5.13%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 196 (19.72%) PowerShell
2 175 (17.61%) Python
3 97 (9.76%) Bash
4 29 (2.92%) SQL
5 15 (1.51%) JavaScript
5 15 (1.51%) Perl
6 14 (1.41%) Java
7 11 (1.11%) C
7 11 (1.11%) Shell Script
8 8 (0.80%) C++
8 8 (0.80%) COBOL
8 8 (0.80%) T-SQL
9 7 (0.70%) Bicep
9 7 (0.70%) Embedded C
9 7 (0.70%) Embedded C++
9 7 (0.70%) MATLAB
10 5 (0.50%) C#
10 5 (0.50%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.40%) PHP
12 2 (0.20%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 444 (44.67%) Security Cleared
2 275 (27.67%) SC Cleared
3 170 (17.10%) DV Cleared
4 63 (6.34%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 46 (4.63%) Degree
6 40 (4.02%) Microsoft Certification
7 37 (3.72%) Cisco Certification
8 32 (3.22%) Azure Certification
8 32 (3.22%) CCNP
9 28 (2.82%) VCAP
10 20 (2.01%) MCSE
11 19 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
12 17 (1.71%) AWS Certification
12 17 (1.71%) Oracle Certification
13 16 (1.61%) CCNA
14 13 (1.31%) MCSA
15 11 (1.11%) OCP
16 10 (1.01%) CCDP
17 8 (0.80%) CISSP
18 7 (0.70%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (3.42%) NIST
2 27 (2.72%) SLA
3 23 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 21 (2.11%) Cyber Essentials
5 20 (2.01%) NCSC
6 13 (1.31%) GDPR
7 9 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 8 (0.80%) Def Stans
9 5 (0.50%) QA
10 4 (0.40%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.30%) NIST 800
11 3 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 2 (0.20%) ISA99
12 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 1 (0.10%) Accessibility
13 1 (0.10%) COBIT
13 1 (0.10%) Data Quality
13 1 (0.10%) Government Security Classifications
13 1 (0.10%) JSP 440
System Software
1 618 (62.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 233 (23.44%) Active Directory
3 212 (21.33%) vSphere
4 195 (19.62%) VMware NSX
5 130 (13.08%) VMware ESXi
6 115 (11.57%) Hyper-V
7 65 (6.54%) Virtual Machines
8 54 (5.43%) Docker
9 41 (4.12%) NFS
10 33 (3.32%) Firmware
11 26 (2.62%) Virtual Desktop
12 17 (1.71%) KVM
13 16 (1.61%) GPFS
14 13 (1.31%) vCloud
15 9 (0.91%) Microsoft App-V
16 8 (0.80%) BitLocker
17 3 (0.30%) DFS Replication
17 3 (0.30%) SRDF
17 3 (0.30%) VMware Workstation
17 3 (0.30%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 190 (19.11%) Ansible
2 129 (12.98%) vCenter Server
3 125 (12.58%) Terraform
4 110 (11.07%) Kubernetes
5 81 (8.15%) Microsoft Intune
6 74 (7.44%) vRealize
7 65 (6.54%) SCCM
8 43 (4.33%) Argo
9 41 (4.12%) Grafana
10 34 (3.42%) VxRail
11 33 (3.32%) Single Sign-On
12 28 (2.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 25 (2.52%) Prometheus
14 23 (2.31%) SCOM
15 21 (2.11%) PowerCLI
16 19 (1.91%) Progress Chef
16 19 (1.91%) Red Hat Satellite
16 19 (1.91%) vMotion
17 12 (1.21%) Puppet
17 12 (1.21%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 238 (23.94%) Microsoft
2 157 (15.79%) Cisco
3 101 (10.16%) Red Hat
4 86 (8.65%) Citrix
5 85 (8.55%) F5
6 52 (5.23%) IBM
7 51 (5.13%) Dell
7 51 (5.13%) NetApp
8 48 (4.83%) Pure Storage
9 41 (4.12%) Palo Alto
9 41 (4.12%) ServiceNow
10 39 (3.92%) McAfee
11 38 (3.82%) Oracle
12 36 (3.62%) Blue Coat
13 34 (3.42%) SolarWinds
14 29 (2.92%) Veeam
15 27 (2.72%) Splunk
16 24 (2.41%) Commvault
17 21 (2.11%) Broadcom
17 21 (2.11%) HP