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 June 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
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 82 60
Rank change year-on-year -22 -22 -4
Contract jobs citing VMware 1,019 745 1,227
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.34% 2.95% 3.29%
As % of the Vendors category 5.76% 6.23% 7.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 703 498 850
10th Percentile £350 £350 £300
25th Percentile £450 £452 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £510
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +7.84% -2.86%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £575
90th Percentile £675 £672 £646
UK median daily rate £520 £535 £506
% change year-on-year -2.80% +5.68% -3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 4 34
10th Percentile £19.93 £29.00 £22.33
25th Percentile £29.00 £30.49 £36.09
Median hourly rate £51.00 £34.71 £40.13
Median % change year-on-year +46.94% -13.50% -25.63%
75th Percentile £72.13 £46.17 £71.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £53.72 £77.10
UK median hourly rate £51.00 £34.71 £40.25
% change year-on-year +46.94% -13.77% -33.31%

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 17,688 11,964 15,851
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 40.69% 47.35% 42.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,279 7,588 10,036
10th Percentile £313 £280 £275
25th Percentile £413 £403 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £513 £520
Median % change year-on-year -0.98% -1.44% -0.95%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £517
% change year-on-year - -3.29% -1.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 951 545 1,055
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.84 £12.40
25th Percentile £19.34 £17.50 £14.55
Median hourly rate £35.00 £27.13 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.03% +10.71% -34.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £52.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £69.29 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £25.40 £24.18
% change year-on-year +33.82% +5.05% -42.64%

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 27 June 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 27 June 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 27 June 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 +2 291 £550 -3.25% 84
London -29 253 £550 +4.76% 48
North of England -13 184 £459 +2.00% 49
Midlands -28 115 £450 -15.93% 41
South West -35 104 £550 -6.18% 25
North West -9 99 £453 -5.63% 30
West Midlands -34 87 £450 -10.09% 20
Yorkshire -7 82 £488 +8.33% 14
East of England -17 63 £507 -7.82% 29
East Midlands -4 28 £450 -18.18% 21
North East -41 4 £569 +59.09% 7
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 42 (4.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (1.86%) SharePoint
3 9 (0.88%) CICS
3 9 (0.88%) IIS
3 9 (0.88%) Tomcat
4 8 (0.79%) nginx
5 6 (0.59%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.49%) Confluence
7 4 (0.39%) Apache
8 3 (0.29%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.29%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.20%) CMS
9 2 (0.20%) Skype for Business
10 1 (0.098%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 8 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.59%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.098%) Shopify
2 1 (0.098%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 260 (25.52%) Azure
2 167 (16.39%) AWS
3 74 (7.26%) Microsoft 365
4 55 (5.40%) OpenShift
5 51 (5.00%) Entra ID
6 41 (4.02%) IaaS
7 40 (3.93%) GCP
8 39 (3.83%) GitHub
9 29 (2.85%) PaaS
10 26 (2.55%) Rubrik
11 19 (1.86%) Nutanix
12 17 (1.67%) SaaS
13 16 (1.57%) Azure DevOps
14 12 (1.18%) Azure Monitor
14 12 (1.18%) GitHub Actions
15 10 (0.98%) Datadog
15 10 (0.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 9 (0.88%) Azure Sentinel
17 8 (0.79%) Amazon EC2
17 8 (0.79%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 222 (21.79%) DNS
2 181 (17.76%) Firewall
3 118 (11.58%) DHCP
4 93 (9.13%) SAN
5 83 (8.15%) VPN
5 83 (8.15%) WAN
6 82 (8.05%) VSAN
7 67 (6.58%) LAN
8 63 (6.18%) Network Security
9 55 (5.40%) TCP/IP
10 52 (5.10%) VLAN
11 50 (4.91%) NAS
12 47 (4.61%) SSL
13 39 (3.83%) BIG-IP
14 35 (3.43%) Cisco Nexus
14 35 (3.43%) HTTP
15 34 (3.34%) BGP
15 34 (3.34%) Wireshark
16 33 (3.24%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 33 (3.24%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (3.43%) SQL Server
2 14 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (0.88%) DataStage
4 8 (0.79%) NonStop SQL
5 7 (0.69%) NoSQL
6 6 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (0.59%) Power BI
7 5 (0.49%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (0.39%) Oracle BI EE
8 4 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (0.29%) Big Data
9 3 (0.29%) Data Mining
9 3 (0.29%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.20%) Redis
11 1 (0.098%) GIS
11 1 (0.098%) Metadata
11 1 (0.098%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 42 (4.12%) Jenkins
2 30 (2.94%) JIRA
3 27 (2.65%) GitLab
4 25 (2.45%) Git
5 22 (2.16%) Fiddler
6 7 (0.69%) Chocolatey
7 6 (0.59%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (0.59%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (0.39%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.39%) Robot Framework
9 3 (0.29%) MSI
10 1 (0.098%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.098%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.098%) GoCD
10 1 (0.098%) Maven
10 1 (0.098%) PVCS
10 1 (0.098%) Rational DOORS
10 1 (0.098%) RStudio
10 1 (0.098%) Subversion
10 1 (0.098%) VersionOne
General
1 210 (20.61%) Social Skills
2 112 (10.99%) Finance
3 87 (8.54%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (5.99%) Public Sector
5 42 (4.12%) Banking
6 41 (4.02%) Documentation Skills
7 23 (2.26%) Legal
8 18 (1.77%) Investment Banking
9 17 (1.67%) Telecoms
10 15 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
11 12 (1.18%) Retail
12 11 (1.08%) Financial Institution
12 11 (1.08%) Police
13 9 (0.88%) Aerospace
13 9 (0.88%) Military
14 7 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 7 (0.69%) Manufacturing
15 6 (0.59%) Law
15 6 (0.59%) Local Government
16 5 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 207 (20.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 152 (14.92%) Architect
3 103 (10.11%) Senior
4 92 (9.03%) VMware Engineer
5 85 (8.34%) Network Engineer
6 59 (5.79%) Consultant
7 41 (4.02%) Support Engineer
8 39 (3.83%) VMware Architect
9 38 (3.73%) Administrator
9 38 (3.73%) Cloud Engineer
10 37 (3.63%) VMware Consultant
11 34 (3.34%) Lead
12 32 (3.14%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 30 (2.94%) Technical Architect
14 29 (2.85%) Storage Engineer
15 28 (2.75%) Analyst
15 28 (2.75%) Senior VMware Engineer
16 26 (2.55%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 26 (2.55%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
17 24 (2.36%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (2.45%) LDAP
2 20 (1.96%) Middleware
3 18 (1.77%) Flash
4 14 (1.37%) REST
5 12 (1.18%) OpenTelemetry
6 10 (0.98%) 802.1X
7 9 (0.88%) SAML
8 7 (0.69%) Keycloak
9 6 (0.59%) Elastic Stack
10 5 (0.49%) .NET
10 5 (0.49%) JSON
11 4 (0.39%) Redfish
11 4 (0.39%) Software Packaging
12 3 (0.29%) Apache NiFi
13 2 (0.20%) .NET Core
13 2 (0.20%) Blazor
13 2 (0.20%) Django
13 2 (0.20%) OAuth
13 2 (0.20%) Qt
13 2 (0.20%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 146 (14.33%) Data Centre
2 71 (6.97%) Hybrid Cloud
3 66 (6.48%) Replication
4 65 (6.38%) PKI
5 46 (4.51%) Enterprise Storage
6 40 (3.93%) Management Information System
7 39 (3.83%) Cloud Native
8 35 (3.43%) Clustering
8 35 (3.43%) Public Cloud
9 32 (3.14%) Private Cloud
10 23 (2.26%) Linux Command Line
11 18 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
12 16 (1.57%) Onboarding
13 15 (1.47%) Blackberry
13 15 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
14 12 (1.18%) Virtual Team
15 11 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
15 11 (1.08%) BYOD
15 11 (1.08%) Product Ownership
15 11 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 419 (41.12%) Windows
2 262 (25.71%) Windows Server
3 261 (25.61%) Linux
4 60 (5.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 41 (4.02%) Windows Server 2019
6 27 (2.65%) Windows Server 2016
7 25 (2.45%) Unix
8 21 (2.06%) Ubuntu
8 21 (2.06%) VMS
9 20 (1.96%) Windows 10
10 19 (1.86%) Apple iOS
11 17 (1.67%) CentOS
11 17 (1.67%) Data ONTAP
11 17 (1.67%) Solaris
12 16 (1.57%) AIX
13 15 (1.47%) Android
13 15 (1.47%) Windows Server 2012
14 9 (0.88%) Mac OS
15 8 (0.79%) Windows Server 2003
15 8 (0.79%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 260 (25.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 190 (18.65%) Migration
3 170 (16.68%) Problem-Solving
4 127 (12.46%) ITIL
5 125 (12.27%) High Availability
6 105 (10.30%) Disaster Recovery
7 97 (9.52%) DevOps
8 94 (9.22%) CI/CD
9 93 (9.13%) Infrastructure as Code
10 90 (8.83%) Agile
11 75 (7.36%) Load Balancing
12 74 (7.26%) Stakeholder Management
13 70 (6.87%) Change Management
14 68 (6.67%) Capacity Planning
15 65 (6.38%) Validation
16 63 (6.18%) ITSM
17 62 (6.08%) Technical Leadership
18 60 (5.89%) Continuous Improvement
18 60 (5.89%) Performance Tuning
19 57 (5.59%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 181 (17.76%) PowerShell
2 121 (11.87%) Python
3 57 (5.59%) Bash
4 46 (4.51%) SQL
5 22 (2.16%) JavaScript
6 12 (1.18%) Shell Script
7 9 (0.88%) COBOL
7 9 (0.88%) MATLAB
8 7 (0.69%) Java
8 7 (0.69%) PL/SQL
9 6 (0.59%) Bicep
10 5 (0.49%) T-SQL
11 4 (0.39%) C
11 4 (0.39%) C#
11 4 (0.39%) PHP
12 2 (0.20%) VBScript
13 1 (0.098%) Embedded C
13 1 (0.098%) Embedded C++
13 1 (0.098%) Korn
13 1 (0.098%) VB
Qualifications
1 461 (45.24%) Security Cleared
2 283 (27.77%) SC Cleared
3 200 (19.63%) DV Cleared
4 82 (8.05%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 50 (4.91%) Cisco Certification
6 47 (4.61%) Degree
7 39 (3.83%) Microsoft Certification
8 35 (3.43%) CCNP
9 30 (2.94%) VCAP
10 27 (2.65%) MCSE
11 24 (2.36%) Azure Certification
12 17 (1.67%) MCSA
13 16 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
13 16 (1.57%) CCNA
14 15 (1.47%) Oracle Certification
15 12 (1.18%) OCP
16 9 (0.88%) AWS Certification
17 8 (0.79%) ISTQB
17 8 (0.79%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
17 8 (0.79%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (4.12%) SLA
2 36 (3.53%) NIST
3 24 (2.36%) NCSC
4 22 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 21 (2.06%) Cyber Essentials
6 10 (0.98%) QA
7 8 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (0.39%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
9 3 (0.29%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.20%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.20%) GDPR
10 2 (0.20%) ISA99
10 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.098%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.098%) DICOM
11 1 (0.098%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.098%) HL7
11 1 (0.098%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.098%) SOC 2
System Software
1 661 (64.87%) VMware Infrastructure
2 243 (23.85%) Active Directory
3 221 (21.69%) VMware NSX
4 212 (20.80%) vSphere
5 204 (20.02%) VMware ESXi
6 140 (13.74%) Hyper-V
7 94 (9.22%) Virtual Machines
8 38 (3.73%) Docker
8 38 (3.73%) Firmware
9 36 (3.53%) NFS
10 33 (3.24%) Virtual Desktop
11 25 (2.45%) KVM
12 23 (2.26%) vCloud
13 13 (1.28%) GPFS
13 13 (1.28%) Microsoft App-V
14 11 (1.08%) BitLocker
15 9 (0.88%) VMware Workstation
16 6 (0.59%) Oracle RAC
16 6 (0.59%) SRDF
17 4 (0.39%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 178 (17.47%) Ansible
2 166 (16.29%) vCenter Server
3 104 (10.21%) Terraform
4 90 (8.83%) Kubernetes
5 67 (6.58%) vRealize
6 65 (6.38%) Microsoft Intune
7 54 (5.30%) SCCM
8 39 (3.83%) SCOM
9 28 (2.75%) Argo
10 27 (2.65%) PowerCLI
10 27 (2.65%) vMotion
11 26 (2.55%) Grafana
11 26 (2.55%) VxRail
12 20 (1.96%) Red Hat Satellite
12 20 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
13 19 (1.86%) NetBackup
14 16 (1.57%) WSUS
15 15 (1.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 15 (1.47%) Puppet
16 13 (1.28%) EMC VPLEX
Vendors
1 245 (24.04%) Microsoft
2 184 (18.06%) Cisco
3 103 (10.11%) Citrix
4 74 (7.26%) Red Hat
5 70 (6.87%) NetApp
6 56 (5.50%) F5
7 52 (5.10%) Dell
8 44 (4.32%) Palo Alto
9 43 (4.22%) ServiceNow
10 41 (4.02%) Pure Storage
11 40 (3.93%) IBM
12 37 (3.63%) Oracle
13 34 (3.34%) Juniper
14 32 (3.14%) Veeam
15 29 (2.85%) SolarWinds
16 27 (2.65%) CheckPoint
16 27 (2.65%) Fortinet
17 25 (2.45%) McAfee
18 23 (2.26%) Blue Coat
18 23 (2.26%) Broadcom