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 3 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
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 65 53
Rank change year-on-year -40 -12 +13
Contract jobs citing VMware 804 1,022 1,511
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.60% 3.36% 3.96%
As % of the Vendors category 5.47% 7.38% 8.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 527 649 1,018
10th Percentile £315 £306 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £600 £608 £600
90th Percentile £657 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £510 £500
% change year-on-year +2.99% +1.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 16 65
10th Percentile £29.00 £28.70 £22.00
25th Percentile £32.77 £35.00 £44.60
Median hourly rate £66.50 £55.00 £65.98
Median % change year-on-year +20.91% -16.64% +1.51%
75th Percentile £80.00 £81.07 £76.53
90th Percentile £97.50 £98.89 £84.36
UK median hourly rate £68.25 £45.00 £65.98
% change year-on-year +51.67% -31.80% +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 14,695 13,853 17,093
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.56% 45.50% 44.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,532 8,375 11,194
10th Percentile £287 £300 £252
25th Percentile £405 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 709 427 611
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.24 £15.33
25th Percentile £18.22 £17.00 £20.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £32.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.15% -26.97% +71.15%
75th Percentile £47.00 £65.00 £64.08
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £29.39 £44.50
% change year-on-year -14.92% -33.97% +73.08%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 -5 225 £513 -6.82% 161
London -79 204 £540 +11.44% 83
North of England -26 131 £500 - 87
Midlands +10 126 £491 +6.74% 42
West Midlands +15 107 £550 +17.65% 34
North West -17 84 £550 +7.32% 39
South West -31 82 £550 +2.80% 51
Yorkshire +5 59 £425 +3.03% 34
East of England -16 37 £500 +4.17% 43
East Midlands -19 19 £458 +22.00% 8
North East -10 4 £550 +137.84% 18
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 51 (6.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 30 (3.73%) SharePoint
3 24 (2.99%) Confluence
4 12 (1.49%) OpenStack
5 7 (0.87%) Apache
5 7 (0.87%) IIS
5 7 (0.87%) Skype for Business
5 7 (0.87%) WebSphere
6 5 (0.62%) SharePoint Server
7 2 (0.25%) CICS
7 2 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2010
7 2 (0.25%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.25%) WordPress
8 1 (0.12%) JBoss
8 1 (0.12%) nginx
8 1 (0.12%) Traefik
8 1 (0.12%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 22 (2.74%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.12%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.12%) OmniGraffle
Cloud Services
1 198 (24.63%) Azure
2 149 (18.53%) AWS
3 63 (7.84%) Microsoft 365
4 50 (6.22%) GCP
5 47 (5.85%) OpenShift
6 43 (5.35%) GitHub
7 38 (4.73%) Entra ID
8 36 (4.48%) IaaS
9 26 (3.23%) Nutanix
10 24 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
11 23 (2.86%) SaaS
12 19 (2.36%) PaaS
13 13 (1.62%) Datadog
14 12 (1.49%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 10 (1.24%) Azure DevOps
16 7 (0.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 6 (0.75%) AWS CloudFormation
18 5 (0.62%) Azure Monitor
19 4 (0.50%) AWS Direct Connect
19 4 (0.50%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 188 (23.38%) DNS
2 155 (19.28%) Firewall
3 87 (10.82%) TCP/IP
4 84 (10.45%) DHCP
5 62 (7.71%) SAN
6 53 (6.59%) VLAN
7 48 (5.97%) VPN
8 46 (5.72%) VSAN
9 44 (5.47%) Network Security
9 44 (5.47%) WAN
10 38 (4.73%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 35 (4.35%) LAN
12 34 (4.23%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
13 31 (3.86%) DMZ
14 28 (3.48%) NAS
15 24 (2.99%) BGP
16 22 (2.74%) iSCSI
17 18 (2.24%) SSL
17 18 (2.24%) Wireless
18 17 (2.11%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (5.47%) SQL Server
2 23 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (0.62%) NoSQL
4 4 (0.50%) Oracle Database
4 4 (0.50%) Redis
5 3 (0.37%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.25%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (0.25%) MariaDB
6 2 (0.25%) MySQL
7 1 (0.12%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.12%) Power BI
7 1 (0.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 55 (6.84%) Jenkins
2 31 (3.86%) Git
3 28 (3.48%) GitLab
4 21 (2.61%) Sonatype Nexus
5 19 (2.36%) JIRA
6 14 (1.74%) Cucumber
6 14 (1.74%) JMeter
6 14 (1.74%) JUnit
7 11 (1.37%) Fiddler
8 8 (1.00%) Subversion
9 7 (0.87%) Postman
10 6 (0.75%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.62%) Robot Framework
11 5 (0.62%) TeamCity
12 4 (0.50%) PVCS
12 4 (0.50%) Rational DOORS
13 3 (0.37%) Maven
13 3 (0.37%) RStudio
14 2 (0.25%) Artifactory
14 2 (0.25%) Vagrant
General
1 220 (27.36%) Social Skills
2 91 (11.32%) Finance
3 90 (11.19%) Public Sector
4 85 (10.57%) Analytical Skills
5 52 (6.47%) Banking
6 36 (4.48%) Documentation Skills
7 21 (2.61%) Investment Banking
8 17 (2.11%) Legal
9 16 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
11 12 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
12 11 (1.37%) Local Government
12 11 (1.37%) Telecoms
13 10 (1.24%) Aerospace
13 10 (1.24%) Electronics
14 8 (1.00%) Manufacturing
14 8 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (0.87%) Law
16 6 (0.75%) Marketing
16 6 (0.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 129 (16.04%) Architect
2 113 (14.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 74 (9.20%) Consultant
4 57 (7.09%) Senior
5 51 (6.34%) VMware Consultant
6 45 (5.60%) VMware Engineer
7 44 (5.47%) Support Engineer
8 43 (5.35%) Analyst
9 42 (5.22%) Network Engineer
10 39 (4.85%) Infrastructure Architect
11 32 (3.98%) Platform Engineer
12 29 (3.61%) Developer
13 28 (3.48%) Infrastructure Analyst
13 28 (3.48%) VMware Architect
14 27 (3.36%) Infrastructure Support
15 26 (3.23%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
16 25 (3.11%) Administrator
17 24 (2.99%) Lead
18 21 (2.61%) IT Engineer
19 20 (2.49%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (2.61%) Middleware
2 20 (2.49%) Kafka
3 14 (1.74%) Spring
4 13 (1.62%) Hibernate
5 12 (1.49%) Flash
6 11 (1.37%) REST
7 9 (1.12%) Loki
7 9 (1.12%) OAuth
7 9 (1.12%) OpenID
7 9 (1.12%) SAML
8 8 (1.00%) Elastic Stack
8 8 (1.00%) RESTful
9 6 (0.75%) .NET
9 6 (0.75%) JSON
9 6 (0.75%) OAuth2
9 6 (0.75%) XMPP
10 5 (0.62%) LDAP
10 5 (0.62%) OpenTelemetry
10 5 (0.62%) React
10 5 (0.62%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 83 (10.32%) Data Centre
2 58 (7.21%) PKI
3 53 (6.59%) Replication
4 39 (4.85%) Hybrid Cloud
5 37 (4.60%) Management Information System
6 31 (3.86%) Private Cloud
7 29 (3.61%) Cloud Native
8 27 (3.36%) Linux Command Line
9 21 (2.61%) Onboarding
10 15 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
10 15 (1.87%) Public Cloud
11 13 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
12 12 (1.49%) Fat Client
12 12 (1.49%) Thin Client
13 10 (1.24%) Clustering
13 10 (1.24%) Hedge funds
13 10 (1.24%) Virtual Team
14 9 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
14 9 (1.12%) Operational Technology
14 9 (1.12%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 326 (40.55%) Windows
2 261 (32.46%) Linux
3 182 (22.64%) Windows Server
4 76 (9.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 43 (5.35%) Windows 10
6 27 (3.36%) Windows Server 2019
7 25 (3.11%) Ubuntu
8 23 (2.86%) Windows Server 2016
9 19 (2.36%) Windows Server 2012
10 17 (2.11%) CentOS
11 16 (1.99%) VMS
12 15 (1.87%) Unix
13 14 (1.74%) Mac OS
14 12 (1.49%) Solaris
14 12 (1.49%) Windows 7
15 7 (0.87%) Debian
16 5 (0.62%) Windows Server 2008
17 3 (0.37%) AIX
18 2 (0.25%) SUSE
18 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 161 (20.02%) Problem-Solving
2 144 (17.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 128 (15.92%) Agile
4 103 (12.81%) CI/CD
5 98 (12.19%) DevOps
6 93 (11.57%) ITIL
7 91 (11.32%) Migration
8 73 (9.08%) Infrastructure as Code
9 67 (8.33%) Containerisation
9 67 (8.33%) Load Balancing
10 65 (8.08%) Disaster Recovery
11 48 (5.97%) Continuous Improvement
11 48 (5.97%) High Availability
12 46 (5.72%) Service Management
13 45 (5.60%) Business Strategy
14 44 (5.47%) Platform Engineering
15 42 (5.22%) Data Protection
15 42 (5.22%) Validation
16 41 (5.10%) Cybersecurity
16 41 (5.10%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 195 (24.25%) Python
2 178 (22.14%) PowerShell
3 108 (13.43%) Bash
4 58 (7.21%) SQL
5 33 (4.10%) Java
6 28 (3.48%) JavaScript
7 23 (2.86%) Perl
8 10 (1.24%) Go
9 9 (1.12%) C++
9 9 (1.12%) Shell Script
10 8 (1.00%) T-SQL
11 7 (0.87%) PHP
11 7 (0.87%) VBA
12 6 (0.75%) C
12 6 (0.75%) C#
13 3 (0.37%) Embedded C
13 3 (0.37%) Embedded C++
13 3 (0.37%) VBScript
14 2 (0.25%) Bicep
14 2 (0.25%) Korn
Qualifications
1 338 (42.04%) Security Cleared
2 207 (25.75%) SC Cleared
3 137 (17.04%) DV Cleared
4 57 (7.09%) Microsoft Certification
4 57 (7.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 48 (5.97%) Degree
6 45 (5.60%) Cisco Certification
7 34 (4.23%) CCNP
8 33 (4.10%) Azure Certification
9 25 (3.11%) CCNA
10 24 (2.99%) AWS Certification
11 22 (2.74%) MCSE
12 16 (1.99%) Computer Science Degree
13 14 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
13 14 (1.74%) VCAP
14 13 (1.62%) CCIE
15 12 (1.49%) Master's Degree
16 11 (1.37%) Network+ Certification
16 11 (1.37%) Server+ Certification
17 10 (1.24%) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (3.36%) GDPR
2 18 (2.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (1.49%) NCSC
4 11 (1.37%) QA
5 10 (1.24%) SLA
6 8 (1.00%) NIST
6 8 (1.00%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.50%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.37%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.25%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.25%) PMO
11 1 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.12%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.12%) MiFID
11 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.12%) RMADS
System Software
1 521 (64.80%) VMware Infrastructure
2 217 (26.99%) Active Directory
3 143 (17.79%) vSphere
4 100 (12.44%) VMware ESXi
5 97 (12.06%) Hyper-V
6 96 (11.94%) VMware NSX
7 55 (6.84%) Docker
8 44 (5.47%) Virtual Machines
9 32 (3.98%) NFS
10 17 (2.11%) Virtual Desktop
11 11 (1.37%) GPFS
11 11 (1.37%) Virtual Servers
12 10 (1.24%) Firmware
12 10 (1.24%) KVM
13 6 (0.75%) Dovecot
13 6 (0.75%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 6 (0.75%) Postfix
13 6 (0.75%) Terminal Services
13 6 (0.75%) UAG
14 5 (0.62%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 160 (19.90%) Ansible
2 110 (13.68%) Terraform
3 83 (10.32%) vCenter Server
4 69 (8.58%) Kubernetes
5 65 (8.08%) vRealize
6 60 (7.46%) SCCM
7 41 (5.10%) Microsoft Intune
8 28 (3.48%) Grafana
9 24 (2.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 24 (2.99%) Prometheus
10 23 (2.86%) Argo
11 22 (2.74%) Single Sign-On
12 21 (2.61%) VxRail
13 20 (2.49%) Progress Chef
14 19 (2.36%) Puppet
15 17 (2.11%) SCOM
16 16 (1.99%) FortiGate
16 16 (1.99%) Red Hat Satellite
17 13 (1.62%) WSUS
18 11 (1.37%) WMI
Vendors
1 224 (27.86%) Microsoft
2 133 (16.54%) Cisco
3 85 (10.57%) Red Hat
4 77 (9.58%) F5
5 71 (8.83%) Citrix
6 49 (6.09%) Veeam
7 46 (5.72%) NetApp
8 44 (5.47%) Dell
8 44 (5.47%) Oracle
9 39 (4.85%) SolarWinds
10 35 (4.35%) IBM
11 32 (3.98%) Splunk
12 28 (3.48%) Palo Alto
13 27 (3.36%) Broadcom
14 26 (3.23%) HP
15 22 (2.74%) ServiceNow
16 21 (2.61%) McAfee
17 18 (2.24%) Blue Coat
17 18 (2.24%) CyberArk
18 17 (2.11%) Juniper