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 27 December 2025, 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
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 69 53
Rank change year-on-year -32 -16 +10
Contract jobs citing VMware 845 953 1,432
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.66% 3.34% 3.87%
As % of the Vendors category 5.63% 7.26% 8.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 571 606 962
10th Percentile £316 £311 £300
25th Percentile £434 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £600 £614 £600
90th Percentile £670 £675 £686
UK median daily rate £525 £512 £500
% change year-on-year +2.62% +2.32% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 16 64
10th Percentile £29.00 £35.00 £31.25
25th Percentile £33.00 £42.50 £46.14
Median hourly rate £70.00 £68.75 £65.98
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% +4.20% +1.51%
75th Percentile £80.00 £83.32 £76.53
90th Percentile £98.25 £99.13 £84.36
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £62.25 £65.98
% change year-on-year +12.45% -5.65% +1.51%

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 15,016 13,127 16,339
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.23% 46.02% 44.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,760 7,992 10,635
10th Percentile £297 £291 £250
25th Percentile £408 £411 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.71% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £615 £625 £638
90th Percentile £708 £725 £729
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 718 376 622
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.49 £14.18
25th Percentile £18.22 £17.86 £19.82
Median hourly rate £23.54 £30.43 £45.21
Median % change year-on-year -22.65% -32.69% +69.14%
75th Percentile £47.50 £64.26 £64.24
90th Percentile £73.75 £80.34 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £23.79 £27.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -13.50% -38.89% +74.55%

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 27 December 2025.

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 27 December 2025.

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 27 December 2025. 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 -1 244 £500 -9.09% 124
London -83 198 £550 +10.00% 122
North of England -26 141 £463 -2.53% 97
Midlands +13 132 £475 +5.56% 53
West Midlands +18 110 £513 +10.81% 30
North West -8 96 £475 -5.00% 44
South West -34 77 £550 - 58
Yorkshire -5 56 £420 +1.82% 32
East of England 0 50 £526 +10.63% 35
East Midlands -10 22 £450 +24.14% 23
North East -8 5 £550 +69.23% 24
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 50 (5.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 30 (3.55%) SharePoint
3 21 (2.49%) Confluence
4 13 (1.54%) OpenStack
5 7 (0.83%) Skype for Business
6 6 (0.71%) IIS
7 5 (0.59%) SharePoint Server
8 3 (0.36%) Apache
8 3 (0.36%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.24%) CICS
9 2 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2010
9 2 (0.24%) nginx
9 2 (0.24%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.24%) WordPress
10 1 (0.12%) JBoss
10 1 (0.12%) Traefik
10 1 (0.12%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 21 (2.49%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.66%) MS Visio
3 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.12%) OmniGraffle
Cloud Services
1 209 (24.73%) Azure
2 166 (19.64%) AWS
3 77 (9.11%) Microsoft 365
4 57 (6.75%) OpenShift
5 53 (6.27%) GCP
6 47 (5.56%) GitHub
7 43 (5.09%) Entra ID
8 35 (4.14%) IaaS
9 28 (3.31%) GitHub Actions
10 27 (3.20%) Nutanix
11 20 (2.37%) PaaS
12 18 (2.13%) SaaS
13 14 (1.66%) Datadog
14 11 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
14 11 (1.30%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 7 (0.83%) Azure Monitor
15 7 (0.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 6 (0.71%) AWS CloudFormation
17 5 (0.59%) Azure Sentinel
17 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 204 (24.14%) DNS
2 163 (19.29%) Firewall
3 90 (10.65%) DHCP
4 83 (9.82%) TCP/IP
5 61 (7.22%) VPN
6 53 (6.27%) SAN
7 52 (6.15%) VLAN
8 51 (6.04%) VSAN
9 48 (5.68%) Network Security
10 44 (5.21%) WAN
11 40 (4.73%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 38 (4.50%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 38 (4.50%) LAN
13 30 (3.55%) DMZ
14 26 (3.08%) NAS
14 26 (3.08%) SSL
15 23 (2.72%) BIG-IP
16 22 (2.60%) BGP
17 21 (2.49%) HTTP
17 21 (2.49%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (4.85%) SQL Server
2 28 (3.31%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (0.95%) Redis
4 5 (0.59%) NoSQL
5 4 (0.47%) Oracle Database
6 3 (0.36%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.24%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (0.24%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.12%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.12%) Power BI
8 1 (0.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 48 (5.68%) Jenkins
2 34 (4.02%) GitLab
3 29 (3.43%) Git
4 21 (2.49%) Sonatype Nexus
5 19 (2.25%) JIRA
6 16 (1.89%) Fiddler
7 14 (1.66%) Cucumber
7 14 (1.66%) JMeter
7 14 (1.66%) JUnit
8 7 (0.83%) PVCS
8 7 (0.83%) Rational DOORS
9 5 (0.59%) Robot Framework
9 5 (0.59%) Subversion
10 4 (0.47%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.47%) TeamCity
11 3 (0.36%) Maven
11 3 (0.36%) RStudio
12 2 (0.24%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.24%) Jaeger
12 2 (0.24%) Postman
General
1 222 (26.27%) Social Skills
2 89 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
3 87 (10.30%) Public Sector
4 85 (10.06%) Finance
5 50 (5.92%) Banking
6 37 (4.38%) Documentation Skills
7 24 (2.84%) Investment Banking
8 17 (2.01%) Aerospace
9 15 (1.78%) Legal
10 13 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
11 12 (1.42%) Local Government
12 11 (1.30%) Electronics
12 11 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 10 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
14 8 (0.95%) Telecoms
15 7 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
16 6 (0.71%) Law
16 6 (0.71%) Manufacturing
17 5 (0.59%) Military
17 5 (0.59%) Retail
Job Titles
1 138 (16.33%) Architect
2 122 (14.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 66 (7.81%) Consultant
4 54 (6.39%) Senior
5 53 (6.27%) VMware Engineer
6 49 (5.80%) Network Engineer
7 48 (5.68%) Analyst
8 47 (5.56%) VMware Consultant
9 43 (5.09%) Support Engineer
10 41 (4.85%) Platform Engineer
11 36 (4.26%) Infrastructure Architect
12 30 (3.55%) Infrastructure Analyst
13 28 (3.31%) VMware Architect
14 26 (3.08%) Infrastructure Support
14 26 (3.08%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
15 25 (2.96%) DevOps Engineer
15 25 (2.96%) Lead
16 24 (2.84%) Administrator
16 24 (2.84%) Developer
17 23 (2.72%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (2.84%) Kafka
2 20 (2.37%) Middleware
3 14 (1.66%) Flash
3 14 (1.66%) Spring
4 13 (1.54%) Hibernate
4 13 (1.54%) SAML
5 10 (1.18%) LDAP
5 10 (1.18%) OAuth
5 10 (1.18%) OpenID
6 9 (1.07%) Loki
6 9 (1.07%) REST
7 8 (0.95%) Elastic Stack
7 8 (0.95%) Keycloak
8 6 (0.71%) .NET
8 6 (0.71%) OAuth2
8 6 (0.71%) XMPP
9 5 (0.59%) OpenTelemetry
9 5 (0.59%) React
9 5 (0.59%) RESTful
10 4 (0.47%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 83 (9.82%) Data Centre
2 62 (7.34%) Replication
3 60 (7.10%) PKI
4 42 (4.97%) Management Information System
5 37 (4.38%) Hybrid Cloud
6 36 (4.26%) Cloud Native
7 31 (3.67%) Private Cloud
8 29 (3.43%) Linux Command Line
9 19 (2.25%) Public Cloud
10 17 (2.01%) Clustering
11 16 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
12 15 (1.78%) Legacy Systems
12 15 (1.78%) Operational Technology
13 13 (1.54%) Fat Client
13 13 (1.54%) Onboarding
13 13 (1.54%) Thin Client
14 10 (1.18%) Hedge funds
14 10 (1.18%) SCADA
14 10 (1.18%) Virtual Team
15 9 (1.07%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 324 (38.34%) Windows
2 252 (29.82%) Linux
3 185 (21.89%) Windows Server
4 75 (8.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 48 (5.68%) Windows 10
6 27 (3.20%) Windows Server 2019
7 24 (2.84%) Windows Server 2016
8 22 (2.60%) Windows Server 2012
9 19 (2.25%) Ubuntu
10 17 (2.01%) Mac OS
11 16 (1.89%) VMS
12 13 (1.54%) Windows 7
13 12 (1.42%) CentOS
13 12 (1.42%) Solaris
14 10 (1.18%) Unix
15 6 (0.71%) Windows Server 2008
16 5 (0.59%) Windows Server 2003
17 3 (0.36%) AIX
17 3 (0.36%) Debian
18 2 (0.24%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (20.95%) Problem-Solving
2 157 (18.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 126 (14.91%) Agile
4 110 (13.02%) ITIL
5 108 (12.78%) CI/CD
6 103 (12.19%) DevOps
7 93 (11.01%) Migration
8 78 (9.23%) Infrastructure as Code
8 78 (9.23%) Load Balancing
9 73 (8.64%) Disaster Recovery
10 63 (7.46%) Containerisation
11 59 (6.98%) Platform Engineering
12 51 (6.04%) Continuous Improvement
12 51 (6.04%) High Availability
13 49 (5.80%) Roadmaps
13 49 (5.80%) Service Management
14 47 (5.56%) Cybersecurity
15 45 (5.33%) Business Strategy
15 45 (5.33%) Stakeholder Management
16 44 (5.21%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 191 (22.60%) PowerShell
2 184 (21.78%) Python
3 110 (13.02%) Bash
4 47 (5.56%) SQL
5 31 (3.67%) Java
6 27 (3.20%) JavaScript
7 21 (2.49%) Perl
8 12 (1.42%) Shell Script
9 9 (1.07%) C
9 9 (1.07%) C++
10 7 (0.83%) C#
10 7 (0.83%) Go
10 7 (0.83%) T-SQL
11 6 (0.71%) Embedded C
11 6 (0.71%) Embedded C++
12 5 (0.59%) VBA
13 4 (0.47%) Bicep
14 3 (0.36%) VBScript
15 2 (0.24%) Korn
15 2 (0.24%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 360 (42.60%) Security Cleared
2 224 (26.51%) SC Cleared
3 132 (15.62%) DV Cleared
4 61 (7.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 58 (6.86%) Microsoft Certification
6 48 (5.68%) Degree
7 41 (4.85%) Cisco Certification
8 33 (3.91%) Azure Certification
9 30 (3.55%) CCNP
10 24 (2.84%) AWS Certification
11 22 (2.60%) MCSE
12 21 (2.49%) CCNA
13 18 (2.13%) VCAP
14 15 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
15 14 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
16 13 (1.54%) CCIE
17 11 (1.30%) Master's Degree
17 11 (1.30%) Network+ Certification
17 11 (1.30%) Server+ Certification
18 10 (1.18%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (3.79%) GDPR
2 23 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (1.42%) NCSC
3 12 (1.42%) NIST
3 12 (1.42%) SLA
4 9 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
5 8 (0.95%) QA
6 7 (0.83%) PCI DSS
6 7 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (0.71%) Def Stans
8 4 (0.47%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.24%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.24%) PMO
11 1 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.12%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.12%) MiFID
11 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.12%) RMADS
System Software
1 532 (62.96%) VMware Infrastructure
2 225 (26.63%) Active Directory
3 149 (17.63%) vSphere
4 113 (13.37%) VMware NSX
5 99 (11.72%) Hyper-V
6 92 (10.89%) VMware ESXi
7 54 (6.39%) Docker
8 50 (5.92%) Virtual Machines
9 31 (3.67%) NFS
10 21 (2.49%) Virtual Desktop
11 13 (1.54%) Firmware
11 13 (1.54%) GPFS
11 13 (1.54%) KVM
12 9 (1.07%) Virtual Servers
13 6 (0.71%) Dovecot
13 6 (0.71%) Postfix
14 5 (0.59%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 5 (0.59%) Terminal Services
14 5 (0.59%) VMware Workstation
15 4 (0.47%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 169 (20.00%) Ansible
2 113 (13.37%) Terraform
3 87 (10.30%) vCenter Server
4 83 (9.82%) Kubernetes
5 72 (8.52%) SCCM
6 71 (8.40%) vRealize
7 52 (6.15%) Microsoft Intune
8 32 (3.79%) Grafana
9 28 (3.31%) Prometheus
10 27 (3.20%) Argo
11 26 (3.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 26 (3.08%) Single Sign-On
12 22 (2.60%) Red Hat Satellite
12 22 (2.60%) VxRail
13 20 (2.37%) SCOM
14 18 (2.13%) Progress Chef
15 16 (1.89%) FortiGate
16 14 (1.66%) WSUS
17 12 (1.42%) vRealize Orchestrator
18 10 (1.18%) Packer
Vendors
1 225 (26.63%) Microsoft
2 142 (16.80%) Cisco
3 96 (11.36%) Red Hat
4 83 (9.82%) F5
5 76 (8.99%) Citrix
6 47 (5.56%) Veeam
7 46 (5.44%) NetApp
8 43 (5.09%) SolarWinds
9 42 (4.97%) Dell
10 40 (4.73%) Oracle
11 37 (4.38%) IBM
12 33 (3.91%) Palo Alto
13 29 (3.43%) ServiceNow
13 29 (3.43%) Splunk
14 27 (3.20%) Broadcom
15 25 (2.96%) McAfee
16 23 (2.72%) Blue Coat
17 22 (2.60%) HP
18 17 (2.01%) Google
19 16 (1.89%) Juniper