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 24 September 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
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 106 63
Rank change year-on-year -1 -43 -8
Contract jobs citing VMware 1,161 717 1,123
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.49% 2.58% 3.45%
As % of the Vendors category 6.01% 5.42% 7.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 755 468 732
10th Percentile £325 £325 £325
25th Percentile £450 £425 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £550 £515
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +6.80% +3.00%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £582
90th Percentile £725 £650 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £515
% change year-on-year -4.55% +6.80% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 11 15
10th Percentile £26.80 £29.00 £22.96
25th Percentile £51.00 £29.50 £23.80
Median hourly rate £68.00 £34.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -32.00% -23.65%
75th Percentile £89.88 £46.88 £71.25
90th Percentile £95.00 £67.25 £99.44
UK median hourly rate £67.47 £34.00 £44.00
% change year-on-year +98.44% -22.73% -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 19,333 13,219 14,450
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.51% 47.50% 44.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,973 8,391 8,739
10th Percentile £310 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £507 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.38% -3.43% -
75th Percentile £620 £620 £630
90th Percentile £713 £708 £731
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,159 629 566
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.75 £14.50
25th Percentile £16.75 £17.96 £15.62
Median hourly rate £28.00 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.33% -28.14% -20.18%
75th Percentile £64.38 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.29 £69.65 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £25.75 £25.15 £31.50
% change year-on-year +2.39% -20.16% -28.18%

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 24 September 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 24 September 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 24 September 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 -10 311 £538 -2.27% 183
London -15 308 £550 +5.77% 245
North of England +5 201 £480 +8.54% 116
Midlands -15 127 £450 -19.10% 103
South West -14 111 £588 +2.17% 73
North West -6 100 £466 +6.40% 64
West Midlands -11 99 £474 -17.21% 67
East of England +10 96 £510 -7.27% 78
Yorkshire -7 83 £525 +17.45% 38
East Midlands -10 28 £425 -13.27% 36
North East -25 20 £400 - 14
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 59 (5.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 36 (3.10%) SharePoint
3 27 (2.33%) Confluence
4 16 (1.38%) IIS
5 13 (1.12%) CMS
5 13 (1.12%) nginx
6 10 (0.86%) OpenStack
7 9 (0.78%) Apache
8 8 (0.69%) Skype for Business
9 7 (0.60%) JBoss
9 7 (0.60%) Tomcat
10 4 (0.34%) FactoryTalk
11 3 (0.26%) CloudStack
11 3 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2013
12 2 (0.17%) WebLogic
13 1 (0.086%) CICS
Applications
1 17 (1.46%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (0.17%) Houdini
2 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.17%) NUKE
3 1 (0.086%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.086%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (1.46%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.086%) Shopify
2 1 (0.086%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 329 (28.34%) Azure
2 183 (15.76%) AWS
3 113 (9.73%) Microsoft 365
4 89 (7.67%) Entra ID
5 48 (4.13%) GCP
6 45 (3.88%) OpenShift
7 39 (3.36%) GitHub
8 35 (3.01%) IaaS
9 27 (2.33%) Rubrik
10 26 (2.24%) Azure DevOps
11 22 (1.89%) GitHub Actions
12 19 (1.64%) PaaS
13 18 (1.55%) OneDrive
14 17 (1.46%) Azure Monitor
14 17 (1.46%) SaaS
15 13 (1.12%) Datadog
15 13 (1.12%) Nutanix
15 13 (1.12%) Power Platform
15 13 (1.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 11 (0.95%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 319 (27.48%) DNS
2 216 (18.60%) Firewall
3 196 (16.88%) DHCP
4 111 (9.56%) TCP/IP
5 90 (7.75%) VSAN
6 87 (7.49%) VPN
7 84 (7.24%) WAN
8 83 (7.15%) VLAN
9 81 (6.98%) SAN
10 71 (6.12%) LAN
10 71 (6.12%) Network Security
11 47 (4.05%) SSL
12 43 (3.70%) NAS
13 40 (3.45%) BGP
14 39 (3.36%) HTTP
15 37 (3.19%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 35 (3.01%) Wi-Fi
17 33 (2.84%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
18 31 (2.67%) SD-WAN
19 29 (2.50%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (5.60%) SQL Server
2 14 (1.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 13 (1.12%) Power BI
4 10 (0.86%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 10 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 9 (0.78%) Big Data
5 9 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (0.78%) NoSQL
6 8 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (0.60%) Apache Cassandra
8 6 (0.52%) Hadoop
8 6 (0.52%) MongoDB
9 4 (0.34%) Hazelcast
10 3 (0.26%) NonStop SQL
10 3 (0.26%) Oracle BI EE
10 3 (0.26%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (0.17%) Data Mining
11 2 (0.17%) GIS
11 2 (0.17%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.086%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 47 (4.05%) JIRA
2 43 (3.70%) GitLab
3 31 (2.67%) Jenkins
4 30 (2.58%) Git
5 12 (1.03%) Fiddler
6 7 (0.60%) Bitbucket
6 7 (0.60%) Rational DOORS
7 6 (0.52%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (0.43%) Chocolatey
9 4 (0.34%) CppUnit
9 4 (0.34%) PVCS
9 4 (0.34%) Selenium
10 2 (0.17%) MSI
10 2 (0.17%) Subversion
11 1 (0.086%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.086%) Postman
11 1 (0.086%) Robot Framework
General
1 249 (21.45%) Social Skills
2 129 (11.11%) Finance
3 120 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (4.48%) Documentation Skills
5 39 (3.36%) Public Sector
6 36 (3.10%) Banking
7 32 (2.76%) Telecoms
8 25 (2.15%) Legal
9 13 (1.12%) Aerospace
10 12 (1.03%) Investment Banking
11 11 (0.95%) Financial Institution
12 10 (0.86%) Manufacturing
12 10 (0.86%) Retail
13 9 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (0.78%) Law
13 9 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
13 9 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
14 8 (0.69%) Military
15 7 (0.60%) Back Office
15 7 (0.60%) Police
Job Titles
1 257 (22.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 163 (14.04%) Senior
3 118 (10.16%) Architect
4 113 (9.73%) VMware Engineer
5 82 (7.06%) Network Engineer
6 76 (6.55%) Cloud Engineer
7 67 (5.77%) Lead
7 67 (5.77%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 66 (5.68%) Support Engineer
9 55 (4.74%) Consultant
10 49 (4.22%) Platform Engineer
11 46 (3.96%) Administrator
12 40 (3.45%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 39 (3.36%) Storage Engineer
14 35 (3.01%) VMware Consultant
15 33 (2.84%) Senior VMware Engineer
16 32 (2.76%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
17 31 (2.67%) Linux Engineer
18 28 (2.41%) Azure Engineer
19 26 (2.24%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (13.61%) Terraform
2 26 (2.24%) REST
3 21 (1.81%) JSON
3 21 (1.81%) Kafka
4 18 (1.55%) LDAP
5 15 (1.29%) YAML
6 12 (1.03%) 802.1X
6 12 (1.03%) XMPP
7 10 (0.86%) Middleware
8 8 (0.69%) Elastic Stack
9 7 (0.60%) Regular Expression
10 6 (0.52%) ARM Templates
10 6 (0.52%) Flash
11 5 (0.43%) .NET
12 4 (0.34%) Pulumi
12 4 (0.34%) Redfish
12 4 (0.34%) SAML
13 3 (0.26%) Java SE
13 3 (0.26%) Keycloak
13 3 (0.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 177 (15.25%) Data Centre
2 91 (7.84%) Hybrid Cloud
3 83 (7.15%) PKI
4 53 (4.57%) Private Cloud
5 52 (4.48%) Enterprise Storage
6 49 (4.22%) Management Information System
7 48 (4.13%) Replication
8 47 (4.05%) Clustering
9 46 (3.96%) Onboarding
10 36 (3.10%) Public Cloud
11 30 (2.58%) Cloud Native
12 20 (1.72%) Linux Command Line
13 18 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
14 17 (1.46%) Distributed Systems
14 17 (1.46%) Operational Technology
15 16 (1.38%) Video Conferencing
16 15 (1.29%) SCADA
16 15 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
17 14 (1.21%) Product Ownership
18 12 (1.03%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 595 (51.25%) Windows
2 390 (33.59%) Windows Server
3 307 (26.44%) Linux
4 67 (5.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 47 (4.05%) Windows Server 2019
6 38 (3.27%) Windows 10
7 29 (2.50%) VMS
8 23 (1.98%) Unix
9 22 (1.89%) Windows Server 2012
10 20 (1.72%) Windows Server 2016
11 19 (1.64%) Ubuntu
12 14 (1.21%) Windows Server 2008
13 13 (1.12%) Data ONTAP
14 12 (1.03%) AIX
14 12 (1.03%) CentOS
15 11 (0.95%) Solaris
16 10 (0.86%) Apple iOS
16 10 (0.86%) Windows 7
17 8 (0.69%) Mac OS
18 6 (0.52%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 349 (30.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 210 (18.09%) ITIL
3 208 (17.92%) Problem-Solving
4 204 (17.57%) Migration
5 175 (15.07%) Infrastructure as Code
6 165 (14.21%) Technical Leadership
7 145 (12.49%) Disaster Recovery
8 138 (11.89%) CI/CD
9 120 (10.34%) Change Management
10 110 (9.47%) High Availability
11 109 (9.39%) ITSM
12 108 (9.30%) Stakeholder Management
13 103 (8.87%) DevOps
13 103 (8.87%) Service Management
14 100 (8.61%) Continuous Improvement
14 100 (8.61%) Platform Engineering
15 97 (8.35%) Agile
16 95 (8.18%) Project Delivery
17 91 (7.84%) Root Cause Analysis
18 85 (7.32%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 260 (22.39%) PowerShell
2 146 (12.58%) Python
3 95 (8.18%) Bash
4 69 (5.94%) SQL
5 21 (1.81%) Java
6 16 (1.38%) JavaScript
7 12 (1.03%) Bicep
8 11 (0.95%) C
9 10 (0.86%) Shell Script
10 7 (0.60%) VB
11 6 (0.52%) Go
11 6 (0.52%) VBScript
12 5 (0.43%) C++
13 4 (0.34%) C#
13 4 (0.34%) MATLAB
13 4 (0.34%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.26%) Embedded C
14 3 (0.26%) Korn
14 3 (0.26%) Lua
15 1 (0.086%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 567 (48.84%) Security Cleared
2 322 (27.73%) SC Cleared
3 273 (23.51%) DV Cleared
4 81 (6.98%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 73 (6.29%) Degree
6 62 (5.34%) Cisco Certification
7 42 (3.62%) Microsoft Certification
7 42 (3.62%) VCAP
8 37 (3.19%) Azure Certification
9 35 (3.01%) CCNP
10 26 (2.24%) MCSE
11 24 (2.07%) CCNA
12 21 (1.81%) AWS Certification
13 16 (1.38%) Computer Science Degree
13 16 (1.38%) MCSA
14 14 (1.21%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 11 (0.95%) PMI Certification
16 10 (0.86%) PMP
17 9 (0.78%) CCIE
17 9 (0.78%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (3.27%) SLA
2 21 (1.81%) NIST
3 20 (1.72%) QA
4 18 (1.55%) NCSC
5 16 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials
5 16 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 5 (0.43%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.34%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 4 (0.34%) GxP
9 3 (0.26%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
9 3 (0.26%) GRC
9 3 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 19770
9 3 (0.26%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.17%) GDPR
10 2 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.17%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.086%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.086%) HL7
System Software
1 815 (70.20%) VMware Infrastructure
2 363 (31.27%) Active Directory
3 247 (21.27%) VMware ESXi
4 246 (21.19%) vSphere
5 213 (18.35%) VMware NSX
6 194 (16.71%) Hyper-V
7 97 (8.35%) Virtual Machines
8 65 (5.60%) Docker
9 41 (3.53%) Virtual Desktop
10 38 (3.27%) Firmware
11 25 (2.15%) vCloud
12 23 (1.98%) NFS
13 17 (1.46%) Virtual Servers
14 16 (1.38%) KVM
15 13 (1.12%) Citrix Hypervisor
16 11 (0.95%) BitLocker
17 10 (0.86%) XenApp
18 9 (0.78%) XenDesktop
19 7 (0.60%) Microsoft Virtual Server
19 7 (0.60%) oVirt
Systems Management
1 189 (16.28%) Ansible
2 182 (15.68%) vCenter Server
3 147 (12.66%) Kubernetes
4 78 (6.72%) SCOM
5 71 (6.12%) SCCM
6 58 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
7 45 (3.88%) vRealize
8 40 (3.45%) VxRail
9 26 (2.24%) Prometheus
10 23 (1.98%) Grafana
10 23 (1.98%) PowerCLI
11 22 (1.89%) Puppet
12 20 (1.72%) Red Hat Satellite
12 20 (1.72%) vMotion
13 17 (1.46%) Avamar
13 17 (1.46%) NetBackup
14 16 (1.38%) Microsoft Clustering
14 16 (1.38%) Nagios
14 16 (1.38%) Podman
14 16 (1.38%) WSUS
Vendors
1 320 (27.56%) Microsoft
2 197 (16.97%) Cisco
3 93 (8.01%) Citrix
4 79 (6.80%) NetApp
5 74 (6.37%) Red Hat
6 66 (5.68%) Dell
7 60 (5.17%) ServiceNow
8 50 (4.31%) F5
8 50 (4.31%) SolarWinds
9 43 (3.70%) Oracle
10 40 (3.45%) Veeam
11 37 (3.19%) Palo Alto
12 34 (2.93%) Juniper
13 33 (2.84%) Fortinet
14 28 (2.41%) IBM
15 27 (2.33%) CyberArk
16 23 (1.98%) Broadcom
17 20 (1.72%) Meraki
17 20 (1.72%) Remedy
18 19 (1.64%) McAfee