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 7 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
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 101 58
Rank change year-on-year -3 -43 -2
Contract jobs citing VMware 1,096 709 1,203
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.40% 2.57% 3.60%
As % of the Vendors category 5.81% 5.44% 8.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 727 457 828
10th Percentile £351 £357 £325
25th Percentile £452 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +7.32% -
75th Percentile £620 £603 £575
90th Percentile £725 £650 £644
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £511
% change year-on-year -4.55% +7.63% -0.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 6 13
10th Percentile £26.00 £28.50 -
25th Percentile £46.00 £29.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £63.14 £31.39 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +101.16% -53.50% +23.72%
75th Percentile £74.00 £52.26 £71.25
90th Percentile £94.42 £109.38 £79.60
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £31.39 £66.00
% change year-on-year +101.16% -52.45% +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 18,861 13,033 14,522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.33% 47.24% 43.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,851 8,252 9,267
10th Percentile £313 £278 £300
25th Percentile £413 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -2.86% -
75th Percentile £613 £620 £627
90th Percentile £700 £719 £738
UK median daily rate £505 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +1.00% -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,036 627 766
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.75 £13.69
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.48 £15.62
Median hourly rate £35.00 £25.15 £29.39
Median % change year-on-year +39.17% -14.41% -25.80%
75th Percentile £67.12 £50.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.79 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £25.15 £28.00
% change year-on-year +35.15% -10.18% -33.58%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 +6 339 £550 -3.25% 110
London +4 296 £550 +4.76% 124
North of England -32 162 £472 +8.26% 74
Midlands -22 115 £450 -18.18% 29
South West -30 112 £550 -6.38% 50
West Midlands -32 90 £474 -16.62% 18
North West -7 84 £469 +17.25% 47
Yorkshire -28 73 £500 +11.11% 16
East of England -6 67 £507 -7.82% 28
East Midlands -4 25 £450 -18.18% 11
North East -41 6 £350 -29.29% 14
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 53 (4.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 29 (2.65%) SharePoint
3 17 (1.55%) Confluence
4 14 (1.28%) nginx
5 10 (0.91%) IIS
6 9 (0.82%) Apache
6 9 (0.82%) OpenStack
6 9 (0.82%) Tomcat
7 5 (0.46%) CICS
8 4 (0.36%) FactoryTalk
8 4 (0.36%) JBoss
9 3 (0.27%) CloudStack
9 3 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2013
9 3 (0.27%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.18%) CMS
10 2 (0.18%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.091%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 13 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.27%) 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 12 (1.09%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.091%) Shopify
2 1 (0.091%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 294 (26.82%) Azure
2 187 (17.06%) AWS
3 90 (8.21%) Microsoft 365
4 75 (6.84%) Entra ID
5 46 (4.20%) OpenShift
6 43 (3.92%) IaaS
7 41 (3.74%) GCP
8 38 (3.47%) GitHub
9 29 (2.65%) PaaS
9 29 (2.65%) Rubrik
10 21 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
10 21 (1.92%) SaaS
11 18 (1.64%) Azure Monitor
12 17 (1.55%) OneDrive
13 16 (1.46%) GitHub Actions
14 14 (1.28%) Datadog
14 14 (1.28%) Power Platform
15 13 (1.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 11 (1.00%) Amazon EC2
16 11 (1.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 286 (26.09%) DNS
2 214 (19.53%) Firewall
3 170 (15.51%) DHCP
4 105 (9.58%) VSAN
5 98 (8.94%) TCP/IP
6 87 (7.94%) VPN
7 82 (7.48%) SAN
8 78 (7.12%) WAN
9 69 (6.30%) VLAN
10 66 (6.02%) Network Security
11 61 (5.57%) LAN
12 50 (4.56%) SSL
13 44 (4.01%) NAS
14 38 (3.47%) BGP
15 37 (3.38%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 35 (3.19%) SD-WAN
17 32 (2.92%) BIG-IP
18 31 (2.83%) Cisco Nexus
18 31 (2.83%) HTTP
19 29 (2.65%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (5.57%) SQL Server
2 13 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
2 13 (1.19%) Power BI
2 13 (1.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 9 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (0.82%) NoSQL
3 9 (0.82%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 9 (0.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 8 (0.73%) NonStop SQL
5 7 (0.64%) Apache Cassandra
6 6 (0.55%) Big Data
7 5 (0.46%) DataStage
8 4 (0.36%) Hazelcast
8 4 (0.36%) Oracle BI EE
8 4 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (0.27%) Data Mining
9 3 (0.27%) Hadoop
9 3 (0.27%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.18%) Redis
11 1 (0.091%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 41 (3.74%) JIRA
2 36 (3.28%) Jenkins
3 26 (2.37%) GitLab
4 25 (2.28%) Git
5 17 (1.55%) Fiddler
6 8 (0.73%) Bitbucket
6 8 (0.73%) Chocolatey
7 6 (0.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 6 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (0.46%) Rational DOORS
9 4 (0.36%) Selenium
10 3 (0.27%) MSI
10 3 (0.27%) Robot Framework
10 3 (0.27%) Subversion
10 3 (0.27%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (0.18%) CppUnit
11 2 (0.18%) PVCS
12 1 (0.091%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.091%) Maven
12 1 (0.091%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 242 (22.08%) Social Skills
2 119 (10.86%) Finance
3 117 (10.68%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (5.57%) Public Sector
5 45 (4.11%) Banking
6 37 (3.38%) Documentation Skills
7 28 (2.55%) Telecoms
8 21 (1.92%) Legal
9 17 (1.55%) Investment Banking
10 14 (1.28%) Financial Institution
10 14 (1.28%) Military
11 13 (1.19%) Manufacturing
11 13 (1.19%) Retail
12 12 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (0.73%) Aerospace
13 8 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
14 6 (0.55%) Law
14 6 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (0.55%) Police
15 4 (0.36%) Games
Job Titles
1 238 (21.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 143 (13.05%) Senior
3 125 (11.41%) Architect
4 107 (9.76%) VMware Engineer
5 90 (8.21%) Network Engineer
6 63 (5.75%) Consultant
7 57 (5.20%) Support Engineer
8 55 (5.02%) Cloud Engineer
9 53 (4.84%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 52 (4.74%) Lead
11 41 (3.74%) VMware Consultant
12 40 (3.65%) Administrator
13 39 (3.56%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 37 (3.38%) Storage Engineer
15 35 (3.19%) Senior VMware Engineer
16 33 (3.01%) Platform Engineer
17 32 (2.92%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
18 30 (2.74%) Azure Engineer
19 28 (2.55%) IT Engineer
19 28 (2.55%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (1.37%) REST
2 13 (1.19%) Flash
2 13 (1.19%) LDAP
3 12 (1.09%) Middleware
4 10 (0.91%) 802.1X
5 9 (0.82%) Elastic Stack
6 8 (0.73%) OpenTelemetry
7 7 (0.64%) 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 (0.36%) Keycloak
9 4 (0.36%) Redfish
10 2 (0.18%) Apache NiFi
10 2 (0.18%) Blazor
10 2 (0.18%) Java SE
10 2 (0.18%) NETCONF
10 2 (0.18%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 157 (14.32%) Data Centre
2 85 (7.76%) Hybrid Cloud
3 84 (7.66%) PKI
4 53 (4.84%) Replication
5 51 (4.65%) Enterprise Storage
6 47 (4.29%) Clustering
7 45 (4.11%) Management Information System
8 39 (3.56%) Public Cloud
9 31 (2.83%) Cloud Native
10 29 (2.65%) Onboarding
11 28 (2.55%) Private Cloud
12 20 (1.82%) Linux Command Line
13 15 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
14 12 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
14 12 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
15 11 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
15 11 (1.00%) Blackberry
15 11 (1.00%) Operational Technology
15 11 (1.00%) SCADA
15 11 (1.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 519 (47.35%) Windows
2 315 (28.74%) Windows Server
3 301 (27.46%) Linux
4 58 (5.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 50 (4.56%) Windows Server 2019
6 28 (2.55%) VMS
7 26 (2.37%) Windows Server 2016
8 25 (2.28%) Windows 10
9 22 (2.01%) Ubuntu
10 21 (1.92%) Unix
11 19 (1.73%) Apple iOS
12 18 (1.64%) Windows Server 2012
13 15 (1.37%) AIX
13 15 (1.37%) Data ONTAP
14 14 (1.28%) Windows Server 2008
15 13 (1.19%) Solaris
16 12 (1.09%) Android
17 11 (1.00%) CentOS
18 7 (0.64%) Windows Server 2003
19 6 (0.55%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 304 (27.74%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 202 (18.43%) Problem-Solving
3 192 (17.52%) Migration
4 157 (14.32%) ITIL
5 138 (12.59%) High Availability
6 131 (11.95%) Infrastructure as Code
7 119 (10.86%) CI/CD
8 117 (10.68%) Disaster Recovery
9 109 (9.95%) Technical Leadership
10 100 (9.12%) Agile
11 98 (8.94%) DevOps
12 95 (8.67%) Stakeholder Management
13 94 (8.58%) Change Management
14 83 (7.57%) Continuous Improvement
14 83 (7.57%) ITSM
15 77 (7.03%) Network Virtualisation
15 77 (7.03%) Service Management
16 70 (6.39%) Load Balancing
17 67 (6.11%) Platform Engineering
18 66 (6.02%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 244 (22.26%) PowerShell
2 142 (12.96%) Python
3 99 (9.03%) Bash
4 64 (5.84%) SQL
5 21 (1.92%) JavaScript
6 18 (1.64%) Java
7 9 (0.82%) Bicep
7 9 (0.82%) Shell Script
8 7 (0.64%) C
8 7 (0.64%) PL/SQL
9 5 (0.46%) COBOL
10 4 (0.36%) C#
10 4 (0.36%) Go
10 4 (0.36%) MATLAB
11 3 (0.27%) C++
11 3 (0.27%) Lua
12 2 (0.18%) Embedded C
12 2 (0.18%) Korn
12 2 (0.18%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.18%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 528 (48.18%) Security Cleared
2 311 (28.38%) SC Cleared
3 254 (23.18%) DV Cleared
4 87 (7.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 65 (5.93%) Degree
6 54 (4.93%) Cisco Certification
7 42 (3.83%) Microsoft Certification
8 41 (3.74%) VCAP
9 34 (3.10%) Azure Certification
10 30 (2.74%) CCNP
11 25 (2.28%) MCSE
12 22 (2.01%) CCNA
13 17 (1.55%) AWS Certification
14 16 (1.46%) MCSA
15 12 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
16 11 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
16 11 (1.00%) Oracle Certification
17 9 (0.82%) RHCA
18 8 (0.73%) ISTQB
18 8 (0.73%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (3.92%) SLA
2 25 (2.28%) NIST
3 22 (2.01%) NCSC
4 18 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 17 (1.55%) QA
6 16 (1.46%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (0.46%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.36%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 4 (0.36%) GxP
9 3 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.18%) GDPR
10 2 (0.18%) ISA99
10 2 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.18%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.091%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.091%) GRC
11 1 (0.091%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.091%) PMO
11 1 (0.091%) SOC 2
System Software
1 731 (66.70%) VMware Infrastructure
2 310 (28.28%) Active Directory
3 237 (21.62%) VMware NSX
4 231 (21.08%) VMware ESXi
4 231 (21.08%) vSphere
5 160 (14.60%) Hyper-V
6 92 (8.39%) Virtual Machines
7 61 (5.57%) Docker
8 35 (3.19%) Firmware
8 35 (3.19%) Virtual Desktop
9 24 (2.19%) vCloud
10 22 (2.01%) NFS
11 19 (1.73%) KVM
12 12 (1.09%) Microsoft App-V
13 9 (0.82%) BitLocker
13 9 (0.82%) GPFS
13 9 (0.82%) VMware Workstation
14 7 (0.64%) Virtual Servers
15 6 (0.55%) SRDF
15 6 (0.55%) UAG
Systems Management
1 195 (17.79%) Ansible
2 194 (17.70%) vCenter Server
3 151 (13.78%) Terraform
4 116 (10.58%) Kubernetes
5 62 (5.66%) Microsoft Intune
5 62 (5.66%) SCOM
6 57 (5.20%) vRealize
7 50 (4.56%) SCCM
8 36 (3.28%) VxRail
9 27 (2.46%) Grafana
10 24 (2.19%) NetBackup
10 24 (2.19%) PowerCLI
11 23 (2.10%) Argo
11 23 (2.10%) Puppet
12 21 (1.92%) vMotion
13 20 (1.82%) Prometheus
14 19 (1.73%) Red Hat Satellite
15 18 (1.64%) Avamar
15 18 (1.64%) WSUS
16 15 (1.37%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 287 (26.19%) Microsoft
2 185 (16.88%) Cisco
3 95 (8.67%) Citrix
4 78 (7.12%) NetApp
5 70 (6.39%) Red Hat
6 53 (4.84%) Dell
7 52 (4.74%) F5
8 49 (4.47%) ServiceNow
9 45 (4.11%) Palo Alto
10 42 (3.83%) Oracle
10 42 (3.83%) SolarWinds
11 40 (3.65%) Juniper
12 34 (3.10%) Veeam
13 32 (2.92%) IBM
14 31 (2.83%) Broadcom
15 25 (2.28%) Fortinet
15 25 (2.28%) Pure Storage
16 22 (2.01%) CheckPoint
17 20 (1.82%) HP
17 20 (1.82%) McAfee