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 July 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
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 88 60
Rank change year-on-year -15 -28 -4
Contract jobs citing VMware 1,062 761 1,247
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.37% 2.80% 3.45%
As % of the Vendors category 5.78% 5.89% 8.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 718 493 863
10th Percentile £357 £350 £307
25th Percentile £450 £450 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £510
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +7.84% -2.86%
75th Percentile £610 £613 £575
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £510
% change year-on-year -2.33% +5.44% -1.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 6 30
10th Percentile £26.00 £29.00 £22.39
25th Percentile £33.70 £30.33 £36.09
Median hourly rate £54.87 £34.71 £40.13
Median % change year-on-year +58.09% -13.50% -24.25%
75th Percentile £74.00 £54.56 £71.25
90th Percentile £92.25 £109.38 £75.30
UK median hourly rate £51.00 £34.71 £42.05
% change year-on-year +46.94% -17.45% -29.69%

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 18,373 12,914 15,522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.03% 47.47% 42.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,631 8,167 9,918
10th Percentile £313 £281 £275
25th Percentile £413 £403 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -0.49% -1.90%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £505 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +1.00% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 977 611 954
10th Percentile £16.35 £14.75 £12.82
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.50 £15.03
Median hourly rate £35.50 £25.15 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.15% -3.27% -28.77%
75th Percentile £65.58 £50.84 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.00 £68.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £34.91 £25.15 £26.00
% change year-on-year +38.79% -3.27% -35.80%

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 July 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 17 July 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 17 July 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 +5 323 £550 -3.25% 78
London -29 270 £535 +1.90% 53
North of England -27 181 £469 +4.22% 47
Midlands -22 117 £450 -15.93% 27
South West -35 109 £550 -6.18% 28
North West -10 97 £459 +4.91% 31
West Midlands -29 88 £450 -10.09% 16
Yorkshire -14 81 £500 +11.11% 11
East of England -11 60 £507 -7.82% 18
East Midlands -6 29 £450 -18.18% 11
North East -41 4 £569 +55.82% 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 46 (4.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (2.26%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.13%) nginx
4 10 (0.94%) Confluence
5 9 (0.85%) CICS
5 9 (0.85%) IIS
5 9 (0.85%) Tomcat
6 8 (0.75%) OpenStack
7 7 (0.66%) Apache
8 3 (0.28%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.28%) FactoryTalk
8 3 (0.28%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.19%) CMS
9 2 (0.19%) Skype for Business
10 1 (0.094%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.094%) JBoss
Applications
1 9 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.28%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (0.19%) Houdini
3 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.19%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 5 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.094%) Shopify
2 1 (0.094%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 270 (25.42%) Azure
2 175 (16.48%) AWS
3 79 (7.44%) Microsoft 365
4 61 (5.74%) Entra ID
5 56 (5.27%) OpenShift
6 39 (3.67%) GitHub
6 39 (3.67%) IaaS
7 37 (3.48%) GCP
8 28 (2.64%) Rubrik
9 26 (2.45%) PaaS
10 18 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
10 18 (1.69%) SaaS
11 17 (1.60%) Nutanix
12 13 (1.22%) Azure Monitor
13 12 (1.13%) GitHub Actions
13 12 (1.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 11 (1.04%) Datadog
15 10 (0.94%) Amazon EC2
15 10 (0.94%) OneDrive
16 9 (0.85%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 251 (23.63%) DNS
2 204 (19.21%) Firewall
3 138 (12.99%) DHCP
4 95 (8.95%) VSAN
5 94 (8.85%) SAN
6 84 (7.91%) VPN
7 82 (7.72%) TCP/IP
8 79 (7.44%) WAN
9 67 (6.31%) Network Security
10 64 (6.03%) LAN
10 64 (6.03%) VLAN
11 52 (4.90%) NAS
12 48 (4.52%) SSL
13 36 (3.39%) BGP
14 35 (3.30%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 33 (3.11%) BIG-IP
16 32 (3.01%) HTTP
16 32 (3.01%) Wireshark
17 31 (2.92%) SD-WAN
18 30 (2.82%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (4.05%) SQL Server
2 13 (1.22%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (0.85%) DataStage
4 8 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (0.75%) NonStop SQL
5 7 (0.66%) NoSQL
6 6 (0.56%) Power BI
6 6 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (0.38%) Oracle BI EE
9 3 (0.28%) Big Data
9 3 (0.28%) Data Mining
9 3 (0.28%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.19%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.19%) Hazelcast
10 2 (0.19%) Redis
10 2 (0.19%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 2 (0.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 1 (0.094%) GIS
11 1 (0.094%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 38 (3.58%) Jenkins
2 34 (3.20%) JIRA
3 23 (2.17%) Git
4 21 (1.98%) GitLab
5 19 (1.79%) Fiddler
6 8 (0.75%) Chocolatey
7 7 (0.66%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.56%) Team Foundation Server
9 4 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (0.28%) MSI
10 3 (0.28%) Robot Framework
10 3 (0.28%) Subversion
11 2 (0.19%) Rational DOORS
11 2 (0.19%) Selenium
12 1 (0.094%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.094%) Maven
12 1 (0.094%) Postman
12 1 (0.094%) VersionOne
General
1 231 (21.75%) Social Skills
2 119 (11.21%) Finance
3 104 (9.79%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (6.03%) Public Sector
5 45 (4.24%) Banking
6 37 (3.48%) Documentation Skills
7 21 (1.98%) Legal
7 21 (1.98%) Telecoms
8 17 (1.60%) Investment Banking
9 15 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
10 13 (1.22%) Financial Institution
10 13 (1.22%) Military
11 12 (1.13%) Retail
12 10 (0.94%) Manufacturing
13 8 (0.75%) Police
14 6 (0.56%) Law
14 6 (0.56%) Pharmaceutical
15 5 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
16 4 (0.38%) Advertising
16 4 (0.38%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 221 (20.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 140 (13.18%) Architect
3 119 (11.21%) Senior
4 100 (9.42%) VMware Engineer
5 85 (8.00%) Network Engineer
6 62 (5.84%) Consultant
7 49 (4.61%) Cloud Engineer
8 47 (4.43%) Support Engineer
9 42 (3.95%) Lead
10 40 (3.77%) VMware Consultant
11 38 (3.58%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 37 (3.48%) Administrator
13 34 (3.20%) Storage Engineer
14 32 (3.01%) VMware Architect
15 31 (2.92%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 31 (2.92%) Senior VMware Engineer
16 29 (2.73%) Technical Architect
17 27 (2.54%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
18 26 (2.45%) Azure Engineer
19 25 (2.35%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (1.51%) LDAP
2 15 (1.41%) Middleware
3 14 (1.32%) Flash
3 14 (1.32%) REST
4 12 (1.13%) OpenTelemetry
5 10 (0.94%) 802.1X
6 6 (0.56%) Elastic Stack
7 5 (0.47%) .NET
7 5 (0.47%) JSON
7 5 (0.47%) SAML
8 4 (0.38%) Kafka
8 4 (0.38%) Keycloak
8 4 (0.38%) Redfish
9 3 (0.28%) Software Packaging
9 3 (0.28%) YAML
10 2 (0.19%) ASP.NET
10 2 (0.19%) Django
10 2 (0.19%) Java SE
10 2 (0.19%) OpenGL
10 2 (0.19%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 151 (14.22%) Data Centre
2 74 (6.97%) PKI
3 73 (6.87%) Hybrid Cloud
4 67 (6.31%) Replication
5 49 (4.61%) Enterprise Storage
6 42 (3.95%) Management Information System
7 38 (3.58%) Clustering
8 37 (3.48%) Public Cloud
9 36 (3.39%) Cloud Native
10 29 (2.73%) Private Cloud
11 21 (1.98%) Linux Command Line
11 21 (1.98%) Onboarding
12 16 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
13 15 (1.41%) Blackberry
13 15 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
14 12 (1.13%) Virtual Team
15 11 (1.04%) BYOD
15 11 (1.04%) Product Ownership
15 11 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
16 10 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 468 (44.07%) Windows
2 277 (26.08%) Linux
3 276 (25.99%) Windows Server
4 59 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 44 (4.14%) Windows Server 2019
6 27 (2.54%) Windows Server 2016
7 24 (2.26%) Unix
7 24 (2.26%) VMS
8 23 (2.17%) Windows 10
9 21 (1.98%) Apple iOS
10 20 (1.88%) Ubuntu
11 18 (1.69%) AIX
12 17 (1.60%) Data ONTAP
12 17 (1.60%) Solaris
13 15 (1.41%) Android
13 15 (1.41%) Windows Server 2012
14 11 (1.04%) CentOS
15 8 (0.75%) Mac OS
15 8 (0.75%) Windows Server 2008
16 7 (0.66%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 278 (26.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 193 (18.17%) Migration
3 187 (17.61%) Problem-Solving
4 138 (12.99%) High Availability
5 131 (12.34%) ITIL
6 112 (10.55%) CI/CD
7 111 (10.45%) Disaster Recovery
8 108 (10.17%) Infrastructure as Code
9 100 (9.42%) DevOps
10 91 (8.57%) Agile
11 85 (8.00%) Stakeholder Management
11 85 (8.00%) Technical Leadership
12 79 (7.44%) Change Management
13 74 (6.97%) Load Balancing
13 74 (6.97%) Network Virtualisation
14 73 (6.87%) Continuous Improvement
15 70 (6.59%) ITSM
16 69 (6.50%) Validation
17 65 (6.12%) Capacity Planning
18 64 (6.03%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 208 (19.59%) PowerShell
2 135 (12.71%) Python
3 80 (7.53%) Bash
4 50 (4.71%) SQL
5 21 (1.98%) JavaScript
6 13 (1.22%) Java
7 9 (0.85%) COBOL
7 9 (0.85%) Shell Script
8 7 (0.66%) PL/SQL
9 6 (0.56%) Bicep
9 6 (0.56%) C
10 5 (0.47%) T-SQL
11 4 (0.38%) MATLAB
12 3 (0.28%) C#
12 3 (0.28%) PHP
13 2 (0.19%) Lua
13 2 (0.19%) VBScript
14 1 (0.094%) Korn
14 1 (0.094%) Perl
14 1 (0.094%) VB
Qualifications
1 499 (46.99%) Security Cleared
2 300 (28.25%) SC Cleared
3 233 (21.94%) DV Cleared
4 86 (8.10%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 56 (5.27%) Degree
6 49 (4.61%) Cisco Certification
7 42 (3.95%) Microsoft Certification
8 38 (3.58%) VCAP
9 34 (3.20%) CCNP
10 28 (2.64%) MCSE
11 26 (2.45%) Azure Certification
12 19 (1.79%) MCSA
13 16 (1.51%) CCNA
14 15 (1.41%) Oracle Certification
15 14 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
16 12 (1.13%) AWS Certification
16 12 (1.13%) OCP
17 8 (0.75%) ISTQB
17 8 (0.75%) PMI Certification
17 8 (0.75%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (3.48%) SLA
2 31 (2.92%) NIST
3 24 (2.26%) NCSC
4 18 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 16 (1.51%) Cyber Essentials
6 10 (0.94%) QA
7 5 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (0.38%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.28%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 3 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
9 3 (0.28%) GxP
9 3 (0.28%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.19%) GDPR
10 2 (0.19%) ISA99
10 2 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.094%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.094%) GRC
11 1 (0.094%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.094%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.094%) SOC 2
System Software
1 703 (66.20%) VMware Infrastructure
2 275 (25.89%) Active Directory
3 241 (22.69%) VMware NSX
4 233 (21.94%) vSphere
5 224 (21.09%) VMware ESXi
6 141 (13.28%) Hyper-V
7 96 (9.04%) Virtual Machines
8 51 (4.80%) Docker
9 38 (3.58%) Virtual Desktop
10 36 (3.39%) Firmware
11 33 (3.11%) NFS
12 24 (2.26%) KVM
13 23 (2.17%) vCloud
14 12 (1.13%) Microsoft App-V
15 10 (0.94%) BitLocker
16 9 (0.85%) GPFS
16 9 (0.85%) VMware Workstation
17 7 (0.66%) UAG
18 6 (0.56%) Oracle RAC
18 6 (0.56%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 192 (18.08%) vCenter Server
2 185 (17.42%) Ansible
3 124 (11.68%) Terraform
4 109 (10.26%) Kubernetes
5 66 (6.21%) Microsoft Intune
6 58 (5.46%) vRealize
7 53 (4.99%) SCCM
8 50 (4.71%) SCOM
9 30 (2.82%) VxRail
10 28 (2.64%) Argo
10 28 (2.64%) Grafana
11 27 (2.54%) PowerCLI
12 26 (2.45%) vMotion
13 20 (1.88%) NetBackup
14 18 (1.69%) Puppet
15 16 (1.51%) Avamar
15 16 (1.51%) Prometheus
15 16 (1.51%) Red Hat Satellite
15 16 (1.51%) WSUS
16 14 (1.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 255 (24.01%) Microsoft
2 182 (17.14%) Cisco
3 101 (9.51%) Citrix
4 76 (7.16%) NetApp
5 75 (7.06%) Red Hat
6 54 (5.08%) Dell
7 53 (4.99%) F5
8 42 (3.95%) Palo Alto
8 42 (3.95%) ServiceNow
9 40 (3.77%) Pure Storage
10 37 (3.48%) IBM
10 37 (3.48%) Juniper
11 36 (3.39%) SolarWinds
12 35 (3.30%) Oracle
13 34 (3.20%) Veeam
14 29 (2.73%) Broadcom
15 27 (2.54%) Fortinet
16 24 (2.26%) Splunk
17 23 (2.17%) CheckPoint
18 22 (2.07%) McAfee