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 20 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
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 70 62
Rank change year-on-year -27 -8 -4
Contract jobs citing VMware 930 882 1,260
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.67% 3.40% 3.34%
As % of the Vendors category 5.95% 7.30% 7.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 650 576 838
10th Percentile £325 £286 £265
25th Percentile £425 £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 £523 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -0.38% +5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 15 70
10th Percentile £33.00 £35.00 £22.08
25th Percentile £56.28 £40.00 £40.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +18.37% -5.77%
75th Percentile £77.13 £84.14 £76.25
90th Percentile £97.00 £101.70 £84.36
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £63.00
% change year-on-year +12.00% -0.79% -3.08%

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 15,639 12,079 16,265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 44.89% 46.55% 43.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,181 7,403 10,442
10th Percentile £302 £281 £250
25th Percentile £413 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £720 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £523
% change year-on-year -4.31% - -1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 808 348 862
10th Percentile £15.33 £15.62 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £20.00 £15.45
Median hourly rate £23.83 £30.78 £27.14
Median % change year-on-year -22.60% +13.41% -18.99%
75th Percentile £58.65 £65.00 £56.49
90th Percentile £73.90 £85.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £29.00 £26.72
% change year-on-year -17.24% +8.53% -19.64%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 0 257 £513 -6.99% 135
London -60 235 £550 +4.76% 91
North of England -31 159 £463 +2.89% 78
Midlands -8 126 £410 -21.90% 42
North West -15 106 £460 -8.00% 39
West Midlands -15 95 £397 -22.56% 33
South West -33 95 £550 -4.35% 59
Yorkshire -23 61 £463 +2.89% 35
East of England 0 58 £500 - 39
East Midlands -13 31 £450 -15.13% 9
North East -24 4 £550 +57.14% 8
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 (5.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 29 (3.12%) SharePoint
3 20 (2.15%) Confluence
4 9 (0.97%) OpenStack
5 7 (0.75%) Skype for Business
6 6 (0.65%) CICS
7 5 (0.54%) SharePoint Server
8 3 (0.32%) Apache
8 3 (0.32%) IIS
8 3 (0.32%) nginx
9 2 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2010
9 2 (0.22%) WordPress
10 1 (0.11%) JBoss
10 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.11%) Traefik
10 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 17 (1.83%) MS Visio
2 16 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.11%) OmniGraffle
Cloud Services
1 229 (24.62%) Azure
2 174 (18.71%) AWS
3 80 (8.60%) Microsoft 365
4 78 (8.39%) OpenShift
5 52 (5.59%) GitHub
6 49 (5.27%) Entra ID
7 46 (4.95%) GCP
8 41 (4.41%) IaaS
9 30 (3.23%) Nutanix
10 28 (3.01%) PaaS
11 24 (2.58%) GitHub Actions
12 16 (1.72%) Datadog
13 13 (1.40%) Azure DevOps
14 9 (0.97%) SaaS
15 7 (0.75%) Microsoft Purview
16 6 (0.65%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 6 (0.65%) Azure Sentinel
17 5 (0.54%) AWS CloudFormation
17 5 (0.54%) Azure Monitor
18 4 (0.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 218 (23.44%) DNS
2 178 (19.14%) Firewall
3 98 (10.54%) DHCP
4 80 (8.60%) TCP/IP
5 74 (7.96%) VPN
6 59 (6.34%) SAN
7 55 (5.91%) VSAN
8 54 (5.81%) Network Security
9 50 (5.38%) VLAN
10 45 (4.84%) WAN
11 42 (4.52%) LAN
12 38 (4.09%) BIG-IP
12 38 (4.09%) SSL
13 37 (3.98%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 36 (3.87%) HTTP
14 36 (3.87%) Wireshark
15 35 (3.76%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
16 30 (3.23%) BGP
16 30 (3.23%) NAS
17 19 (2.04%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (4.09%) SQL Server
2 25 (2.69%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (0.86%) Redis
4 6 (0.65%) DataStage
5 5 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (0.43%) NoSQL
6 4 (0.43%) Oracle Database
7 3 (0.32%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.11%) Power BI
8 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 52 (5.59%) Jenkins
2 32 (3.44%) GitLab
3 27 (2.90%) Fiddler
3 27 (2.90%) Git
4 22 (2.37%) Sonatype Nexus
5 18 (1.94%) JIRA
6 14 (1.51%) Cucumber
6 14 (1.51%) JMeter
6 14 (1.51%) JUnit
7 8 (0.86%) PVCS
7 8 (0.86%) Rational DOORS
8 6 (0.65%) Team Foundation Server
9 5 (0.54%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.43%) Robot Framework
10 4 (0.43%) RStudio
11 3 (0.32%) Chocolatey
11 3 (0.32%) Maven
11 3 (0.32%) Subversion
12 2 (0.22%) TeamCity
13 1 (0.11%) MSI
General
1 204 (21.94%) Social Skills
2 105 (11.29%) Finance
3 101 (10.86%) Analytical Skills
4 95 (10.22%) Public Sector
5 52 (5.59%) Banking
6 42 (4.52%) Documentation Skills
7 26 (2.80%) Investment Banking
8 22 (2.37%) Aerospace
8 22 (2.37%) Legal
9 19 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
10 14 (1.51%) Local Government
11 13 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 12 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
13 11 (1.18%) Electronics
14 10 (1.08%) Military
15 7 (0.75%) Police
16 6 (0.65%) Financial Institution
16 6 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
16 6 (0.65%) Telecoms
17 5 (0.54%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 152 (16.34%) Architect
2 142 (15.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 68 (7.31%) Network Engineer
4 62 (6.67%) VMware Engineer
5 59 (6.34%) Analyst
6 58 (6.24%) Consultant
7 56 (6.02%) Senior
8 49 (5.27%) VMware Consultant
9 46 (4.95%) Platform Engineer
10 42 (4.52%) Support Engineer
11 35 (3.76%) Infrastructure Architect
11 35 (3.76%) VMware Architect
12 32 (3.44%) Infrastructure Analyst
12 32 (3.44%) Lead
13 29 (3.12%) DevOps Engineer
14 28 (3.01%) Web Engineer
15 24 (2.58%) Developer
15 24 (2.58%) Technical Architect
16 23 (2.47%) Infrastructure Support
16 23 (2.47%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (2.58%) Kafka
2 23 (2.47%) Middleware
3 21 (2.26%) LDAP
4 19 (2.04%) Flash
5 16 (1.72%) SAML
6 14 (1.51%) Spring
7 13 (1.40%) Hibernate
8 12 (1.29%) Keycloak
9 11 (1.18%) OpenID
10 10 (1.08%) OAuth
10 10 (1.08%) OpenTelemetry
10 10 (1.08%) REST
11 9 (0.97%) Loki
12 7 (0.75%) Elastic Stack
12 7 (0.75%) OAuth2
13 6 (0.65%) XMPP
14 5 (0.54%) React
14 5 (0.54%) Software Packaging
15 4 (0.43%) .NET
15 4 (0.43%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 88 (9.46%) Data Centre
2 73 (7.85%) Replication
3 67 (7.20%) PKI
4 50 (5.38%) Cloud Native
5 42 (4.52%) Hybrid Cloud
6 39 (4.19%) Management Information System
7 31 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
8 30 (3.23%) Private Cloud
9 25 (2.69%) Public Cloud
10 20 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
11 18 (1.94%) Analytical Mindset
11 18 (1.94%) Clustering
11 18 (1.94%) Operational Technology
12 15 (1.61%) Product Ownership
13 13 (1.40%) Onboarding
14 12 (1.29%) Enterprise Storage
15 11 (1.18%) Fat Client
15 11 (1.18%) Thin Client
16 9 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
16 9 (0.97%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 341 (36.67%) Windows
2 279 (30.00%) Linux
3 198 (21.29%) Windows Server
4 71 (7.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 37 (3.98%) Windows 10
6 27 (2.90%) Windows Server 2019
7 24 (2.58%) Windows Server 2016
8 21 (2.26%) Ubuntu
9 17 (1.83%) Windows Server 2012
10 16 (1.72%) Mac OS
10 16 (1.72%) Unix
11 15 (1.61%) CentOS
11 15 (1.61%) VMS
12 14 (1.51%) Solaris
13 12 (1.29%) Windows 7
14 8 (0.86%) AIX
14 8 (0.86%) Android
14 8 (0.86%) Apple iOS
15 6 (0.65%) Windows Server 2003
16 4 (0.43%) CatOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (20.65%) Problem-Solving
2 182 (19.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 140 (15.05%) Migration
4 138 (14.84%) Agile
5 117 (12.58%) ITIL
6 116 (12.47%) DevOps
7 110 (11.83%) CI/CD
8 95 (10.22%) Load Balancing
9 91 (9.78%) Disaster Recovery
10 78 (8.39%) Infrastructure as Code
11 77 (8.28%) Containerisation
12 76 (8.17%) High Availability
13 71 (7.63%) Platform Engineering
14 62 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
15 60 (6.45%) Cybersecurity
16 57 (6.13%) Roadmaps
17 56 (6.02%) Stakeholder Management
18 52 (5.59%) Service Management
19 50 (5.38%) Change Management
20 45 (4.84%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 182 (19.57%) PowerShell
2 180 (19.35%) Python
3 99 (10.65%) Bash
4 32 (3.44%) SQL
5 21 (2.26%) Java
5 21 (2.26%) JavaScript
6 19 (2.04%) Perl
7 14 (1.51%) Shell Script
8 11 (1.18%) C
9 9 (0.97%) T-SQL
10 8 (0.86%) C#
10 8 (0.86%) C++
11 7 (0.75%) Embedded C
11 7 (0.75%) Embedded C++
11 7 (0.75%) MATLAB
12 6 (0.65%) Bicep
12 6 (0.65%) COBOL
13 4 (0.43%) PHP
14 3 (0.32%) Korn
15 2 (0.22%) VBA
Qualifications
1 402 (43.23%) Security Cleared
2 246 (26.45%) SC Cleared
3 146 (15.70%) DV Cleared
4 61 (6.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 55 (5.91%) Microsoft Certification
6 46 (4.95%) Degree
7 42 (4.52%) Cisco Certification
8 34 (3.66%) Azure Certification
8 34 (3.66%) CCNP
9 24 (2.58%) MCSE
10 22 (2.37%) CCNA
11 21 (2.26%) VCAP
12 20 (2.15%) AWS Certification
13 14 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
14 13 (1.40%) MCSA
15 11 (1.18%) CCDP
15 11 (1.18%) CCIE
15 11 (1.18%) Network+ Certification
15 11 (1.18%) Server+ Certification
16 8 (0.86%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (2.80%) NIST
2 24 (2.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (2.15%) GDPR
4 18 (1.94%) SLA
5 17 (1.83%) Cyber Essentials
6 13 (1.40%) NCSC
7 9 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 8 (0.86%) Def Stans
9 6 (0.65%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.43%) QA
11 2 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 2 (0.22%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.11%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.11%) COBIT
12 1 (0.11%) Data Quality
12 1 (0.11%) Government Security Classifications
12 1 (0.11%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.11%) MiFID
12 1 (0.11%) PMO
System Software
1 581 (62.47%) VMware Infrastructure
2 236 (25.38%) Active Directory
3 182 (19.57%) vSphere
4 150 (16.13%) VMware NSX
5 116 (12.47%) Hyper-V
6 99 (10.65%) VMware ESXi
7 59 (6.34%) Virtual Machines
8 53 (5.70%) Docker
9 39 (4.19%) NFS
10 27 (2.90%) Virtual Desktop
11 23 (2.47%) Firmware
12 20 (2.15%) KVM
13 16 (1.72%) GPFS
14 9 (0.97%) vCloud
15 7 (0.75%) Virtual Servers
16 5 (0.54%) BitLocker
16 5 (0.54%) Microsoft App-V
16 5 (0.54%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 3 (0.32%) DFS Replication
18 2 (0.22%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 179 (19.25%) Ansible
2 116 (12.47%) Terraform
3 103 (11.08%) Kubernetes
4 101 (10.86%) vCenter Server
5 77 (8.28%) Microsoft Intune
6 73 (7.85%) SCCM
7 71 (7.63%) vRealize
8 39 (4.19%) Argo
9 37 (3.98%) Grafana
10 32 (3.44%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 31 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
12 28 (3.01%) Red Hat Satellite
13 27 (2.90%) VxRail
14 25 (2.69%) Prometheus
15 23 (2.47%) SCOM
16 18 (1.94%) Progress Chef
17 15 (1.61%) FortiGate
18 14 (1.51%) vMotion
19 11 (1.18%) Podman
19 11 (1.18%) WSUS
Vendors
1 239 (25.70%) Microsoft
2 160 (17.20%) Cisco
3 106 (11.40%) Red Hat
4 83 (8.92%) F5
5 81 (8.71%) Citrix
6 49 (5.27%) Dell
6 49 (5.27%) IBM
7 43 (4.62%) SolarWinds
8 39 (4.19%) Pure Storage
8 39 (4.19%) Veeam
9 38 (4.09%) NetApp
9 38 (4.09%) Oracle
10 36 (3.87%) Palo Alto
11 35 (3.76%) McAfee
12 34 (3.66%) Blue Coat
12 34 (3.66%) ServiceNow
13 29 (3.12%) Splunk
14 23 (2.47%) Commvault
15 21 (2.26%) HP
16 17 (1.83%) Juniper