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 17 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
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 68 53
Rank change year-on-year -29 -15 +12
Contract jobs citing VMware 839 982 1,460
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.67% 3.37% 3.93%
As % of the Vendors category 5.62% 7.32% 8.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 560 625 988
10th Percentile £316 £303 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% +2.40% -
75th Percentile £600 £613 £600
90th Percentile £663 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £510 £500
% change year-on-year +2.99% +1.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 16 68
10th Percentile £29.00 £28.70 £22.00
25th Percentile £32.94 £35.00 £45.65
Median hourly rate £68.85 £55.00 £65.98
Median % change year-on-year +25.18% -16.64% +1.51%
75th Percentile £81.50 £81.07 £76.53
90th Percentile £98.38 £98.89 £85.30
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £47.50 £65.98
% change year-on-year +47.37% -28.01% +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 14,928 13,411 16,575
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.52% 45.96% 44.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,684 8,175 10,833
10th Percentile £293 £295 £250
25th Percentile £408 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £615 £626 £638
90th Percentile £705 £725 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 730 393 606
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.49 £15.00
25th Percentile £18.18 £17.00 £20.50
Median hourly rate £23.69 £31.00 £45.21
Median % change year-on-year -23.58% -31.43% +73.88%
75th Percentile £47.69 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £79.50 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £29.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -17.84% -35.56% +75.03%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -7 235 £500 -9.09% 147
London -75 209 £550 +10.00% 70
North of England -23 138 £463 -2.53% 110
Midlands +15 132 £475 +5.56% 72
West Midlands +11 109 £513 +11.41% 42
North West -13 92 £488 -2.50% 49
South West -29 79 £550 +4.76% 65
Yorkshire -9 57 £425 +3.03% 48
East of England -6 42 £538 +9.19% 57
East Midlands -16 23 £450 +20.00% 27
North East -9 5 £550 +238.46% 16
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 52 (6.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 31 (3.69%) SharePoint
3 23 (2.74%) Confluence
4 12 (1.43%) OpenStack
5 7 (0.83%) Skype for Business
5 7 (0.83%) WebSphere
6 6 (0.72%) Apache
6 6 (0.72%) IIS
7 5 (0.60%) SharePoint Server
8 2 (0.24%) CICS
8 2 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2010
8 2 (0.24%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.24%) WordPress
9 1 (0.12%) JBoss
9 1 (0.12%) nginx
9 1 (0.12%) Traefik
9 1 (0.12%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 22 (2.62%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.67%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.12%) OmniGraffle
Cloud Services
1 210 (25.03%) Azure
2 163 (19.43%) AWS
3 77 (9.18%) Microsoft 365
4 58 (6.91%) GCP
5 55 (6.56%) OpenShift
6 47 (5.60%) GitHub
7 46 (5.48%) Entra ID
8 35 (4.17%) IaaS
9 30 (3.58%) Nutanix
10 27 (3.22%) GitHub Actions
11 23 (2.74%) SaaS
12 19 (2.26%) PaaS
13 14 (1.67%) Datadog
14 13 (1.55%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 11 (1.31%) Azure DevOps
16 8 (0.95%) Azure Monitor
17 7 (0.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 6 (0.72%) AWS CloudFormation
19 4 (0.48%) Google Ads
19 4 (0.48%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 198 (23.60%) DNS
2 165 (19.67%) Firewall
3 89 (10.61%) DHCP
4 87 (10.37%) TCP/IP
5 58 (6.91%) VPN
6 56 (6.67%) SAN
7 54 (6.44%) VLAN
8 53 (6.32%) VSAN
9 49 (5.84%) WAN
10 45 (5.36%) Network Security
11 41 (4.89%) LAN
12 38 (4.53%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 36 (4.29%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
14 30 (3.58%) DMZ
15 28 (3.34%) NAS
16 26 (3.10%) SSL
17 24 (2.86%) BGP
18 21 (2.50%) iSCSI
18 21 (2.50%) Wireless
19 20 (2.38%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (5.60%) SQL Server
2 26 (3.10%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (0.83%) Redis
4 5 (0.60%) NoSQL
5 4 (0.48%) Oracle Database
6 3 (0.36%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.24%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (0.24%) MariaDB
7 2 (0.24%) MySQL
8 1 (0.12%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.12%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.12%) Power BI
8 1 (0.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 49 (5.84%) Jenkins
2 31 (3.69%) GitLab
3 30 (3.58%) Git
4 21 (2.50%) Sonatype Nexus
5 19 (2.26%) JIRA
6 14 (1.67%) Cucumber
6 14 (1.67%) Fiddler
6 14 (1.67%) JMeter
6 14 (1.67%) JUnit
7 8 (0.95%) Subversion
8 6 (0.72%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.60%) PVCS
9 5 (0.60%) Rational DOORS
9 5 (0.60%) Robot Framework
10 4 (0.48%) TeamCity
11 3 (0.36%) Maven
11 3 (0.36%) Postman
11 3 (0.36%) RStudio
12 2 (0.24%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.24%) Vagrant
General
1 224 (26.70%) Social Skills
2 91 (10.85%) Finance
3 89 (10.61%) Analytical Skills
3 89 (10.61%) Public Sector
4 56 (6.67%) Banking
5 36 (4.29%) Documentation Skills
6 23 (2.74%) Investment Banking
7 17 (2.03%) Legal
8 14 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
9 13 (1.55%) Local Government
10 12 (1.43%) Aerospace
10 12 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
11 11 (1.31%) Electronics
11 11 (1.31%) Telecoms
12 8 (0.95%) Manufacturing
13 7 (0.83%) Law
13 7 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (0.72%) Marketing
15 5 (0.60%) Retail
Job Titles
1 137 (16.33%) Architect
2 119 (14.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 68 (8.10%) Consultant
4 52 (6.20%) Senior
5 49 (5.84%) Network Engineer
6 48 (5.72%) VMware Consultant
7 46 (5.48%) Analyst
8 45 (5.36%) VMware Engineer
9 43 (5.13%) Support Engineer
10 41 (4.89%) Infrastructure Architect
11 38 (4.53%) Platform Engineer
12 30 (3.58%) Infrastructure Analyst
13 28 (3.34%) VMware Architect
14 26 (3.10%) Developer
14 26 (3.10%) Infrastructure Support
15 25 (2.98%) Administrator
15 25 (2.98%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
16 24 (2.86%) Lead
17 23 (2.74%) Windows Engineer
18 21 (2.50%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (2.74%) Kafka
2 22 (2.62%) Middleware
3 14 (1.67%) Spring
4 13 (1.55%) Flash
4 13 (1.55%) Hibernate
4 13 (1.55%) SAML
5 11 (1.31%) REST
6 10 (1.19%) OAuth
6 10 (1.19%) OpenID
7 9 (1.07%) Loki
8 8 (0.95%) Elastic Stack
8 8 (0.95%) LDAP
8 8 (0.95%) RESTful
9 7 (0.83%) Keycloak
10 6 (0.72%) .NET
10 6 (0.72%) JSON
10 6 (0.72%) OAuth2
10 6 (0.72%) XMPP
11 5 (0.60%) React
11 5 (0.60%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 86 (10.25%) Data Centre
2 63 (7.51%) Replication
3 60 (7.15%) PKI
4 39 (4.65%) Management Information System
5 37 (4.41%) Hybrid Cloud
6 33 (3.93%) Private Cloud
7 32 (3.81%) Cloud Native
8 28 (3.34%) Linux Command Line
9 16 (1.91%) Public Cloud
10 15 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
11 14 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
11 14 (1.67%) Clustering
11 14 (1.67%) Onboarding
12 13 (1.55%) Fat Client
12 13 (1.55%) Thin Client
13 11 (1.31%) Operational Technology
14 10 (1.19%) Hedge funds
14 10 (1.19%) Virtual Team
15 9 (1.07%) Product Ownership
16 8 (0.95%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 331 (39.45%) Windows
2 264 (31.47%) Linux
3 189 (22.53%) Windows Server
4 80 (9.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 49 (5.84%) Windows 10
6 29 (3.46%) Windows Server 2019
7 24 (2.86%) Windows Server 2016
8 22 (2.62%) Ubuntu
9 21 (2.50%) Windows Server 2012
10 18 (2.15%) Mac OS
11 16 (1.91%) VMS
12 14 (1.67%) CentOS
12 14 (1.67%) Unix
13 13 (1.55%) Windows 7
14 12 (1.43%) Solaris
15 6 (0.72%) Windows Server 2008
16 5 (0.60%) Debian
17 4 (0.48%) Windows Server 2003
18 3 (0.36%) AIX
19 2 (0.24%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (20.74%) Problem-Solving
2 153 (18.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 130 (15.49%) Agile
4 108 (12.87%) CI/CD
5 107 (12.75%) ITIL
6 99 (11.80%) DevOps
7 97 (11.56%) Migration
8 74 (8.82%) Infrastructure as Code
9 73 (8.70%) Disaster Recovery
9 73 (8.70%) Load Balancing
10 70 (8.34%) Containerisation
11 55 (6.56%) Platform Engineering
12 52 (6.20%) Continuous Improvement
13 51 (6.08%) High Availability
14 48 (5.72%) Business Strategy
14 48 (5.72%) Service Management
15 47 (5.60%) Data Protection
16 45 (5.36%) Roadmaps
16 45 (5.36%) Stakeholder Management
17 42 (5.01%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 194 (23.12%) Python
2 190 (22.65%) PowerShell
3 116 (13.83%) Bash
4 58 (6.91%) SQL
5 34 (4.05%) Java
6 29 (3.46%) JavaScript
7 23 (2.74%) Perl
8 10 (1.19%) C++
8 10 (1.19%) Go
8 10 (1.19%) Shell Script
9 9 (1.07%) T-SQL
10 7 (0.83%) C
10 7 (0.83%) C#
10 7 (0.83%) VBA
11 6 (0.72%) PHP
12 4 (0.48%) Bicep
12 4 (0.48%) Embedded C
12 4 (0.48%) Embedded C++
13 3 (0.36%) VBScript
14 2 (0.24%) Korn
Qualifications
1 347 (41.36%) Security Cleared
2 214 (25.51%) SC Cleared
3 130 (15.49%) DV Cleared
4 61 (7.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 59 (7.03%) Microsoft Certification
6 48 (5.72%) Degree
7 47 (5.60%) Cisco Certification
8 37 (4.41%) CCNP
9 34 (4.05%) Azure Certification
10 25 (2.98%) CCNA
11 24 (2.86%) AWS Certification
12 22 (2.62%) MCSE
13 16 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
13 16 (1.91%) VCAP
14 14 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
14 14 (1.67%) CCIE
15 11 (1.31%) Master's Degree
15 11 (1.31%) Network+ Certification
15 11 (1.31%) Server+ Certification
16 10 (1.19%) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (3.81%) GDPR
2 23 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (1.31%) NCSC
4 10 (1.19%) NIST
4 10 (1.19%) QA
5 7 (0.83%) PCI DSS
5 7 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 7 (0.83%) SLA
6 5 (0.60%) Data Quality
7 4 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.48%) Def Stans
8 2 (0.24%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.24%) PMO
9 1 (0.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (0.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.12%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.12%) MiFID
9 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.12%) RMADS
System Software
1 538 (64.12%) VMware Infrastructure
2 231 (27.53%) Active Directory
3 144 (17.16%) vSphere
4 108 (12.87%) VMware NSX
5 99 (11.80%) Hyper-V
6 93 (11.08%) VMware ESXi
7 58 (6.91%) Docker
8 49 (5.84%) Virtual Machines
9 32 (3.81%) NFS
10 20 (2.38%) Virtual Desktop
11 12 (1.43%) Firmware
11 12 (1.43%) GPFS
11 12 (1.43%) KVM
12 10 (1.19%) Virtual Servers
13 6 (0.72%) Dovecot
13 6 (0.72%) Postfix
13 6 (0.72%) Terminal Services
14 5 (0.60%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 5 (0.60%) UAG
14 5 (0.60%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 168 (20.02%) Ansible
2 114 (13.59%) Terraform
3 85 (10.13%) vCenter Server
4 79 (9.42%) Kubernetes
5 71 (8.46%) SCCM
6 69 (8.22%) vRealize
7 52 (6.20%) Microsoft Intune
8 31 (3.69%) Grafana
9 27 (3.22%) Prometheus
10 26 (3.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 26 (3.10%) Argo
10 26 (3.10%) Single Sign-On
11 24 (2.86%) VxRail
12 20 (2.38%) Progress Chef
12 20 (2.38%) Red Hat Satellite
13 19 (2.26%) SCOM
14 16 (1.91%) FortiGate
15 15 (1.79%) Puppet
16 14 (1.67%) WSUS
17 11 (1.31%) WMI
Vendors
1 229 (27.29%) Microsoft
2 142 (16.92%) Cisco
3 96 (11.44%) Red Hat
4 83 (9.89%) F5
5 81 (9.65%) Citrix
6 49 (5.84%) NetApp
6 49 (5.84%) Veeam
7 45 (5.36%) Dell
7 45 (5.36%) Oracle
8 43 (5.13%) SolarWinds
9 38 (4.53%) IBM
10 31 (3.69%) Palo Alto
10 31 (3.69%) Splunk
11 27 (3.22%) Broadcom
12 26 (3.10%) HP
12 26 (3.10%) ServiceNow
13 24 (2.86%) McAfee
14 21 (2.50%) Blue Coat
14 21 (2.50%) Google
15 18 (2.15%) CyberArk