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 20 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
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 70 57
Rank change year-on-year -27 -13 +2
Contract jobs citing VMware 869 859 1,342
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.72% 3.24% 3.64%
As % of the Vendors category 5.88% 7.06% 8.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 603 546 908
10th Percentile £323 £305 £298
25th Percentile £432 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -0.99%
75th Percentile £600 £624 £594
90th Percentile £675 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 16 63
10th Percentile £29.00 £35.00 £23.85
25th Percentile £33.00 £42.50 £42.71
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 14,789 12,163 16,106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 46.30% 45.94% 43.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,725 7,325 10,418
10th Percentile £300 £290 £250
25th Percentile £410 £410 £403
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 695 351 721
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.62 £13.19
25th Percentile £17.99 £18.20 £16.67
Median hourly rate £23.83 £30.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.58% -17.81% +13.18%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.43 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.00 £80.75 £71.90
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £27.50 £35.98
% change year-on-year -12.73% -23.56% +18.93%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -2 245 £500 -9.26% 130
London -70 198 £550 +10.00% 71
Midlands +22 136 £447 -3.35% 44
North of England -38 132 £460 -3.16% 65
West Midlands +27 113 £450 -18.33% 20
North West -20 91 £472 -5.58% 30
South West -28 90 £550 -0.18% 65
East of England +7 59 £496 +4.42% 23
Yorkshire -18 51 £400 -11.11% 30
East Midlands -13 23 £447 +33.43% 23
North East -16 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 (5.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (2.99%) SharePoint
3 21 (2.42%) Confluence
4 13 (1.50%) OpenStack
5 7 (0.81%) Skype for Business
6 6 (0.69%) 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 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
1 17 (1.96%) 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
1 214 (24.63%) Azure
2 174 (20.02%) AWS
3 70 (8.06%) Microsoft 365
4 58 (6.67%) OpenShift
5 53 (6.10%) GCP
6 48 (5.52%) GitHub
7 40 (4.60%) Entra ID
8 36 (4.14%) IaaS
9 28 (3.22%) GitHub Actions
10 22 (2.53%) Nutanix
10 22 (2.53%) PaaS
11 20 (2.30%) SaaS
12 14 (1.61%) Datadog
13 10 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
14 8 (0.92%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 6 (0.69%) AWS CloudFormation
15 6 (0.69%) Microsoft Purview
15 6 (0.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 5 (0.58%) Azure Monitor
16 5 (0.58%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 207 (23.82%) DNS
2 163 (18.76%) Firewall
3 93 (10.70%) DHCP
4 81 (9.32%) TCP/IP
5 66 (7.59%) VPN
6 50 (5.75%) Network Security
7 49 (5.64%) SAN
7 49 (5.64%) VSAN
8 48 (5.52%) VLAN
9 46 (5.29%) WAN
10 40 (4.60%) LAN
11 36 (4.14%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 34 (3.91%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
13 32 (3.68%) SSL
14 31 (3.57%) BIG-IP
15 28 (3.22%) HTTP
16 26 (2.99%) Wireshark
17 25 (2.88%) BGP
18 22 (2.53%) DMZ
18 22 (2.53%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (4.26%) SQL Server
2 28 (3.22%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (0.92%) Redis
4 5 (0.58%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.35%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (0.35%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.35%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.23%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.12%) Power BI
7 1 (0.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 45 (5.18%) Jenkins
2 35 (4.03%) GitLab
3 31 (3.57%) Git
4 23 (2.65%) Sonatype Nexus
5 20 (2.30%) Fiddler
5 20 (2.30%) JIRA
6 14 (1.61%) Cucumber
6 14 (1.61%) JMeter
6 14 (1.61%) JUnit
7 8 (0.92%) PVCS
7 8 (0.92%) Rational DOORS
8 5 (0.58%) Subversion
9 4 (0.46%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.46%) Robot Framework
9 4 (0.46%) RStudio
9 4 (0.46%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.35%) Maven
11 2 (0.23%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.23%) GoCD
11 2 (0.23%) Jaeger
General
1 210 (24.17%) Social Skills
2 91 (10.47%) Analytical Skills
3 89 (10.24%) Public Sector
4 86 (9.90%) Finance
5 49 (5.64%) Banking
6 41 (4.72%) Documentation Skills
7 24 (2.76%) Investment Banking
8 22 (2.53%) Aerospace
9 17 (1.96%) Legal
10 14 (1.61%) Local Government
11 12 (1.38%) Electronics
11 12 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 12 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (0.92%) 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
1 145 (16.69%) Architect
2 127 (14.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 58 (6.67%) Consultant
4 57 (6.56%) Analyst
5 55 (6.33%) Network Engineer
6 53 (6.10%) VMware Engineer
7 51 (5.87%) Senior
8 47 (5.41%) VMware Consultant
9 42 (4.83%) Platform Engineer
9 42 (4.83%) Support Engineer
10 36 (4.14%) Infrastructure Architect
11 31 (3.57%) Infrastructure Analyst
12 28 (3.22%) DevOps Engineer
12 28 (3.22%) VMware Architect
13 26 (2.99%) Lead
14 24 (2.76%) Administrator
14 24 (2.76%) Infrastructure Support
14 24 (2.76%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
15 23 (2.65%) Windows Engineer
16 22 (2.53%) 3rd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (2.76%) Kafka
2 22 (2.53%) Middleware
3 21 (2.42%) LDAP
4 18 (2.07%) Flash
5 17 (1.96%) SAML
6 14 (1.61%) Spring
7 13 (1.50%) Hibernate
8 12 (1.38%) REST
9 11 (1.27%) Keycloak
9 11 (1.27%) OAuth
9 11 (1.27%) OpenID
10 9 (1.04%) Loki
11 8 (0.92%) Elastic Stack
12 7 (0.81%) OAuth2
13 6 (0.69%) XMPP
14 5 (0.58%) .NET
14 5 (0.58%) OpenTelemetry
14 5 (0.58%) React
15 4 (0.46%) Spring Boot
16 3 (0.35%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 90 (10.36%) Data Centre
2 66 (7.59%) PKI
3 64 (7.36%) Replication
4 41 (4.72%) Management Information System
5 38 (4.37%) Cloud Native
6 35 (4.03%) Hybrid Cloud
7 34 (3.91%) Private Cloud
8 32 (3.68%) Linux Command Line
9 22 (2.53%) Public Cloud
10 18 (2.07%) Clustering
10 18 (2.07%) Operational Technology
11 17 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
12 14 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
13 13 (1.50%) Fat Client
13 13 (1.50%) Thin Client
14 12 (1.38%) Onboarding
14 12 (1.38%) SCADA
15 10 (1.15%) Hedge funds
15 10 (1.15%) Virtual Team
16 9 (1.04%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 323 (37.17%) Windows
2 271 (31.19%) Linux
3 189 (21.75%) Windows Server
4 77 (8.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 41 (4.72%) Windows 10
6 27 (3.11%) Windows Server 2019
7 22 (2.53%) Windows Server 2016
8 18 (2.07%) Ubuntu
8 18 (2.07%) Windows Server 2012
9 16 (1.84%) CentOS
10 14 (1.61%) Mac OS
11 13 (1.50%) VMS
12 12 (1.38%) Windows 7
13 11 (1.27%) Solaris
13 11 (1.27%) Unix
14 6 (0.69%) Windows Server 2003
15 5 (0.58%) Windows Server 2008
16 4 (0.46%) CatOS
17 3 (0.35%) AIX
17 3 (0.35%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (20.14%) Problem-Solving
2 161 (18.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 134 (15.42%) Agile
4 110 (12.66%) ITIL
5 105 (12.08%) CI/CD
6 102 (11.74%) DevOps
7 92 (10.59%) Migration
8 80 (9.21%) Infrastructure as Code
9 78 (8.98%) Load Balancing
10 76 (8.75%) Disaster Recovery
11 64 (7.36%) Containerisation
12 63 (7.25%) Platform Engineering
13 54 (6.21%) Cybersecurity
13 54 (6.21%) High Availability
14 53 (6.10%) Continuous Improvement
15 49 (5.64%) Roadmaps
15 49 (5.64%) Service Management
16 44 (5.06%) Zero Trust
17 42 (4.83%) Business Continuity
17 42 (4.83%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 188 (21.63%) PowerShell
2 181 (20.83%) Python
3 104 (11.97%) Bash
4 39 (4.49%) SQL
5 30 (3.45%) Java
6 26 (2.99%) JavaScript
7 21 (2.42%) Perl
8 14 (1.61%) Shell Script
9 10 (1.15%) C
10 9 (1.04%) C++
11 8 (0.92%) 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
1 384 (44.19%) Security Cleared
2 236 (27.16%) SC Cleared
3 140 (16.11%) DV Cleared
4 58 (6.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 50 (5.75%) Microsoft Certification
6 43 (4.95%) Degree
7 40 (4.60%) Cisco Certification
8 32 (3.68%) Azure Certification
9 29 (3.34%) CCNP
10 22 (2.53%) AWS Certification
11 20 (2.30%) CCNA
12 19 (2.19%) MCSE
12 19 (2.19%) VCAP
13 17 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
14 13 (1.50%) CCIE
15 11 (1.27%) Network+ Certification
15 11 (1.27%) Server+ Certification
16 9 (1.04%) CCDP
16 9 (1.04%) CISSP
16 9 (1.04%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (2.88%) GDPR
2 23 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (2.07%) NIST
3 18 (2.07%) SLA
4 13 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials
5 11 (1.27%) NCSC
6 8 (0.92%) Def Stans
6 8 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 7 (0.81%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.81%) QA
8 6 (0.69%) 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
1 548 (63.06%) VMware Infrastructure
2 227 (26.12%) Active Directory
3 148 (17.03%) vSphere
4 123 (14.15%) VMware NSX
5 108 (12.43%) Hyper-V
6 91 (10.47%) VMware ESXi
7 55 (6.33%) Docker
8 47 (5.41%) Virtual Machines
9 33 (3.80%) NFS
10 21 (2.42%) Virtual Desktop
11 17 (1.96%) GPFS
12 16 (1.84%) Firmware
12 16 (1.84%) KVM
13 9 (1.04%) Virtual Servers
14 6 (0.69%) Dovecot
14 6 (0.69%) Postfix
14 6 (0.69%) vCloud
15 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 4 (0.46%) Veritas File System
16 4 (0.46%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 171 (19.68%) Ansible
2 114 (13.12%) Terraform
3 86 (9.90%) Kubernetes
4 85 (9.78%) vCenter Server
5 77 (8.86%) vRealize
6 68 (7.83%) SCCM
7 52 (5.98%) Microsoft Intune
8 32 (3.68%) Grafana
9 30 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
10 29 (3.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 28 (3.22%) Prometheus
12 27 (3.11%) Argo
12 27 (3.11%) Red Hat Satellite
13 26 (2.99%) VxRail
14 22 (2.53%) SCOM
15 18 (2.07%) Progress Chef
16 16 (1.84%) FortiGate
17 14 (1.61%) WSUS
18 13 (1.50%) vRealize Orchestrator
19 11 (1.27%) WMI
Vendors
1 214 (24.63%) Microsoft
2 152 (17.49%) Cisco
3 97 (11.16%) Red Hat
4 82 (9.44%) F5
5 68 (7.83%) Citrix
6 47 (5.41%) Dell
7 45 (5.18%) SolarWinds
8 43 (4.95%) Oracle
8 43 (4.95%) Veeam
9 42 (4.83%) IBM
9 42 (4.83%) NetApp
10 38 (4.37%) Palo Alto
11 35 (4.03%) ServiceNow
12 28 (3.22%) McAfee
13 27 (3.11%) Blue Coat
13 27 (3.11%) Broadcom
14 26 (2.99%) Splunk
15 21 (2.42%) HP
16 18 (2.07%) CyberArk
17 17 (1.96%) Google