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 22 January 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
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 70 58
Rank change year-on-year -25 -12 +2
Contract jobs citing VMware 863 887 1,322
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.67% 3.31% 3.61%
As % of the Vendors category 5.76% 7.19% 8.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 596 564 892
10th Percentile £317 £303 £288
25th Percentile £425 £400 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £588
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 16 65
10th Percentile £29.00 £35.00 £25.70
25th Percentile £33.00 £42.50 £40.82
Median hourly rate £70.00 £68.75 £65.98
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% +4.20% +1.51%
75th Percentile £74.26 £83.32 £76.53
90th Percentile £96.50 £99.13 £84.36
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £60.00 £65.98
% change year-on-year +16.67% -9.06% +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 14,975 12,344 15,992
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 46.25% 46.01% 43.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,839 7,450 10,336
10th Percentile £300 £288 £250
25th Percentile £410 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £708 £715 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 709 360 743
10th Percentile £15.48 £15.62 £13.15
25th Percentile £17.96 £18.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £23.75 £30.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% -14.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.84 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.00 £80.75 £70.66
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £27.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -13.36% -21.43% +11.01%

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 22 January 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 22 January 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 22 January 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 -7 245 £500 -9.17% 127
London -82 199 £550 +10.00% 72
North of England -33 140 £458 -3.58% 68
Midlands +2 122 £411 -25.36% 46
West Midlands +3 98 £400 -31.91% 20
North West -15 98 £465 -7.08% 27
South West -27 91 £550 -0.18% 72
East of England +6 59 £496 +4.42% 27
Yorkshire -18 52 £406 -9.72% 36
East Midlands -12 24 £442 +12.92% 25
North East -17 4 £550 +69.23% 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 45 (5.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (3.01%) SharePoint
3 21 (2.43%) Confluence
4 13 (1.51%) OpenStack
5 7 (0.81%) Skype for Business
6 6 (0.70%) IIS
7 5 (0.58%) SharePoint Server
8 3 (0.35%) Apache
8 3 (0.35%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.23%) CICS
9 2 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2010
9 2 (0.23%) nginx
9 2 (0.23%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.23%) WordPress
10 1 (0.12%) JBoss
10 1 (0.12%) Traefik
10 1 (0.12%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 17 (1.97%) Microsoft Office
1 17 (1.97%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.12%) OmniGraffle
Cloud Services
1 216 (25.03%) Azure
2 175 (20.28%) AWS
3 71 (8.23%) Microsoft 365
4 58 (6.72%) OpenShift
5 53 (6.14%) GCP
6 43 (4.98%) GitHub
7 41 (4.75%) Entra ID
8 36 (4.17%) IaaS
9 28 (3.24%) GitHub Actions
10 24 (2.78%) Nutanix
11 22 (2.55%) PaaS
12 14 (1.62%) Datadog
13 10 (1.16%) Azure DevOps
14 8 (0.93%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 8 (0.93%) SaaS
15 6 (0.70%) AWS CloudFormation
15 6 (0.70%) Microsoft Purview
15 6 (0.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 5 (0.58%) Azure Monitor
16 5 (0.58%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 204 (23.64%) DNS
2 167 (19.35%) Firewall
3 94 (10.89%) DHCP
4 83 (9.62%) TCP/IP
5 68 (7.88%) VPN
6 51 (5.91%) Network Security
6 51 (5.91%) SAN
7 50 (5.79%) VSAN
8 49 (5.68%) VLAN
8 49 (5.68%) WAN
9 43 (4.98%) LAN
10 37 (4.29%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 35 (4.06%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 33 (3.82%) SSL
13 32 (3.71%) BIG-IP
14 29 (3.36%) HTTP
14 29 (3.36%) Wireshark
15 25 (2.90%) BGP
16 23 (2.67%) DMZ
17 22 (2.55%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (4.29%) SQL Server
2 26 (3.01%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (0.93%) Redis
4 6 (0.70%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.35%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (0.35%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.35%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.12%) Power BI
6 1 (0.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 46 (5.33%) Jenkins
2 36 (4.17%) GitLab
3 31 (3.59%) Git
4 23 (2.67%) Sonatype Nexus
5 21 (2.43%) Fiddler
6 20 (2.32%) JIRA
7 14 (1.62%) Cucumber
7 14 (1.62%) JMeter
7 14 (1.62%) JUnit
8 8 (0.93%) PVCS
8 8 (0.93%) Rational DOORS
9 5 (0.58%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.58%) Subversion
10 4 (0.46%) Robot Framework
10 4 (0.46%) RStudio
10 4 (0.46%) TeamCity
11 3 (0.35%) Maven
12 2 (0.23%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.23%) GoCD
12 2 (0.23%) Jaeger
General
1 195 (22.60%) Social Skills
2 92 (10.66%) Analytical Skills
3 89 (10.31%) Public Sector
4 88 (10.20%) Finance
5 49 (5.68%) Banking
6 42 (4.87%) Documentation Skills
7 24 (2.78%) Investment Banking
8 22 (2.55%) Aerospace
9 17 (1.97%) Legal
10 14 (1.62%) Local Government
11 12 (1.39%) Electronics
11 12 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 12 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (0.93%) Telecoms
14 7 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.58%) Financial Institution
15 5 (0.58%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.58%) Military
15 5 (0.58%) Police
Job Titles
1 130 (15.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 126 (14.60%) Architect
3 58 (6.72%) Consultant
3 58 (6.72%) Network Engineer
4 57 (6.60%) Analyst
5 54 (6.26%) VMware Engineer
6 52 (6.03%) Senior
7 47 (5.45%) VMware Consultant
8 43 (4.98%) Support Engineer
9 42 (4.87%) Platform Engineer
10 34 (3.94%) Infrastructure Architect
11 31 (3.59%) Infrastructure Analyst
12 28 (3.24%) DevOps Engineer
13 27 (3.13%) VMware Architect
14 26 (3.01%) Lead
15 25 (2.90%) Infrastructure Support
15 25 (2.90%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
16 24 (2.78%) Administrator
16 24 (2.78%) Windows Engineer
16 24 (2.78%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (2.78%) Kafka
2 22 (2.55%) LDAP
2 22 (2.55%) Middleware
3 18 (2.09%) Flash
4 17 (1.97%) SAML
5 14 (1.62%) Spring
6 13 (1.51%) Hibernate
6 13 (1.51%) REST
7 11 (1.27%) Keycloak
7 11 (1.27%) OAuth
7 11 (1.27%) OpenID
8 9 (1.04%) Loki
9 8 (0.93%) Elastic Stack
10 7 (0.81%) OAuth2
11 6 (0.70%) XMPP
12 5 (0.58%) .NET
12 5 (0.58%) OpenTelemetry
12 5 (0.58%) React
13 4 (0.46%) Spring Boot
14 3 (0.35%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 90 (10.43%) Data Centre
2 68 (7.88%) Replication
3 66 (7.65%) PKI
4 41 (4.75%) Management Information System
5 39 (4.52%) Cloud Native
6 36 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
7 34 (3.94%) Private Cloud
8 32 (3.71%) Linux Command Line
9 22 (2.55%) Clustering
9 22 (2.55%) Public Cloud
10 18 (2.09%) Operational Technology
11 17 (1.97%) Analytical Mindset
12 14 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
13 13 (1.51%) Fat Client
13 13 (1.51%) Onboarding
13 13 (1.51%) Thin Client
14 10 (1.16%) Hedge funds
14 10 (1.16%) Product Ownership
14 10 (1.16%) Virtual Team
15 8 (0.93%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 324 (37.54%) Windows
2 266 (30.82%) Linux
3 193 (22.36%) Windows Server
4 71 (8.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 42 (4.87%) Windows 10
6 25 (2.90%) Windows Server 2019
7 23 (2.67%) Windows Server 2016
8 18 (2.09%) Ubuntu
8 18 (2.09%) Windows Server 2012
9 16 (1.85%) CentOS
10 15 (1.74%) Mac OS
11 13 (1.51%) VMS
11 13 (1.51%) Windows 7
12 11 (1.27%) Solaris
12 11 (1.27%) Unix
13 6 (0.70%) Windows Server 2003
14 5 (0.58%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (0.46%) CatOS
16 3 (0.35%) AIX
16 3 (0.35%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (20.63%) Problem-Solving
2 164 (19.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 136 (15.76%) Agile
4 113 (13.09%) ITIL
5 106 (12.28%) CI/CD
6 103 (11.94%) DevOps
7 94 (10.89%) Migration
8 80 (9.27%) Disaster Recovery
8 80 (9.27%) Load Balancing
9 76 (8.81%) Infrastructure as Code
10 65 (7.53%) Containerisation
11 63 (7.30%) Platform Engineering
12 58 (6.72%) High Availability
13 54 (6.26%) Continuous Improvement
13 54 (6.26%) Cybersecurity
14 50 (5.79%) Roadmaps
14 50 (5.79%) Service Management
15 45 (5.21%) Zero Trust
16 43 (4.98%) Observability
16 43 (4.98%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 194 (22.48%) PowerShell
2 184 (21.32%) Python
3 104 (12.05%) Bash
4 38 (4.40%) SQL
5 30 (3.48%) Java
6 26 (3.01%) JavaScript
7 21 (2.43%) Perl
8 14 (1.62%) Shell Script
9 11 (1.27%) C
10 9 (1.04%) C++
11 8 (0.93%) C#
12 7 (0.81%) Embedded C
12 7 (0.81%) Embedded C++
12 7 (0.81%) Go
12 7 (0.81%) MATLAB
13 4 (0.46%) Bicep
13 4 (0.46%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.35%) VBScript
15 2 (0.23%) Korn
15 2 (0.23%) VBA
Qualifications
1 379 (43.92%) Security Cleared
2 232 (26.88%) SC Cleared
3 139 (16.11%) DV Cleared
4 60 (6.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 51 (5.91%) Microsoft Certification
6 44 (5.10%) Degree
7 40 (4.63%) Cisco Certification
8 32 (3.71%) Azure Certification
9 29 (3.36%) CCNP
10 22 (2.55%) AWS Certification
10 22 (2.55%) VCAP
11 20 (2.32%) CCNA
11 20 (2.32%) MCSE
12 14 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
13 13 (1.51%) CCIE
14 12 (1.39%) MCSA
15 11 (1.27%) Network+ Certification
15 11 (1.27%) Server+ Certification
16 9 (1.04%) CCDP
16 9 (1.04%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (2.90%) GDPR
2 23 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (2.09%) NIST
3 18 (2.09%) SLA
4 13 (1.51%) Cyber Essentials
5 11 (1.27%) NCSC
6 8 (0.93%) Def Stans
6 8 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 7 (0.81%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.81%) QA
8 6 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.23%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.23%) PMO
10 1 (0.12%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.12%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.12%) MiFID
10 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
System Software
1 541 (62.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 225 (26.07%) Active Directory
3 152 (17.61%) vSphere
4 129 (14.95%) VMware NSX
5 108 (12.51%) Hyper-V
6 94 (10.89%) VMware ESXi
7 56 (6.49%) Docker
8 51 (5.91%) Virtual Machines
9 31 (3.59%) NFS
10 21 (2.43%) Virtual Desktop
11 17 (1.97%) GPFS
12 16 (1.85%) Firmware
12 16 (1.85%) KVM
13 9 (1.04%) Virtual Servers
14 7 (0.81%) vCloud
15 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 4 (0.46%) BitLocker
16 4 (0.46%) Veritas File System
16 4 (0.46%) Veritas Volume Manager
16 4 (0.46%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 172 (19.93%) Ansible
2 109 (12.63%) Terraform
3 89 (10.31%) vCenter Server
4 87 (10.08%) Kubernetes
5 77 (8.92%) vRealize
6 69 (8.00%) SCCM
7 53 (6.14%) Microsoft Intune
8 33 (3.82%) Grafana
9 30 (3.48%) Single Sign-On
10 29 (3.36%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 28 (3.24%) Prometheus
12 27 (3.13%) Argo
12 27 (3.13%) Red Hat Satellite
13 26 (3.01%) VxRail
14 22 (2.55%) SCOM
15 18 (2.09%) Progress Chef
16 16 (1.85%) FortiGate
17 14 (1.62%) WSUS
18 13 (1.51%) vRealize Orchestrator
19 11 (1.27%) WMI
Vendors
1 216 (25.03%) Microsoft
2 160 (18.54%) Cisco
3 91 (10.54%) Red Hat
4 84 (9.73%) F5
5 69 (8.00%) Citrix
6 48 (5.56%) Dell
7 45 (5.21%) SolarWinds
8 44 (5.10%) IBM
9 43 (4.98%) Oracle
10 42 (4.87%) Veeam
11 40 (4.63%) NetApp
12 38 (4.40%) Palo Alto
13 35 (4.06%) ServiceNow
14 29 (3.36%) McAfee
15 28 (3.24%) Blue Coat
16 26 (3.01%) Splunk
17 22 (2.55%) HP
18 18 (2.09%) CyberArk
19 17 (1.97%) Google
20 16 (1.85%) Juniper