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 7 May 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
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 81 66
Rank change year-on-year -15 -15 -7
Contract jobs citing VMware 1,037 742 1,131
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.55% 3.04% 3.05%
As % of the Vendors category 6.11% 6.43% 7.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 715 506 776
10th Percentile £344 £329 £281
25th Percentile £450 £431 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £606 £619 £575
90th Percentile £688 £681 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 7 38
10th Percentile £27.13 £29.99 £22.23
25th Percentile £50.75 £48.16 £40.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +56.99% -25.92%
75th Percentile £74.00 £83.18 £71.25
90th Percentile £86.90 £85.97 £83.04
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £46.39
% change year-on-year -3.45% +56.28% -28.63%

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 16,966 11,544 15,608
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.67% 47.36% 42.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,013 7,435 9,942
10th Percentile £313 £285 £263
25th Percentile £413 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -2.71%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £634
90th Percentile £711 £725 £746
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £516
% change year-on-year -2.91% -0.21% -1.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 893 467 1,007
10th Percentile £15.32 £14.84 £12.08
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.95 £14.27
Median hourly rate £31.18 £27.13 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.93% +20.56% -43.75%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £31.25 £26.45 £22.50
% change year-on-year +18.15% +17.56% -48.57%

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 7 May 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 7 May 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 7 May 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 +7 296 £550 -4.35% 113
London -32 246 £550 +4.76% 69
North of England -7 179 £450 +8.43% 57
Midlands -34 120 £413 -22.17% 43
North West 0 105 £449 +5.65% 24
South West -32 99 £550 -4.35% 28
West Midlands -24 92 £401 -21.68% 32
East of England +3 85 £507 -3.89% 26
Yorkshire -11 74 £425 -5.56% 25
East Midlands -23 28 £450 -18.18% 11
North East -24 3 £638 +78.32% 11
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 41 (3.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (1.74%) SharePoint
3 9 (0.87%) CICS
3 9 (0.87%) IIS
4 8 (0.77%) Confluence
5 7 (0.68%) nginx
5 7 (0.68%) Tomcat
6 5 (0.48%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.29%) Apache
7 3 (0.29%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.19%) Exchange Server 2010
8 2 (0.19%) Skype for Business
8 2 (0.19%) WordPress
9 1 (0.096%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.096%) CMS
9 1 (0.096%) JBoss
9 1 (0.096%) WebSphere
Applications
1 14 (1.35%) MS Visio
2 12 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 252 (24.30%) Azure
2 175 (16.88%) AWS
3 77 (7.43%) Microsoft 365
4 64 (6.17%) OpenShift
5 54 (5.21%) Entra ID
6 50 (4.82%) GitHub
7 49 (4.73%) IaaS
8 37 (3.57%) GCP
8 37 (3.57%) PaaS
9 25 (2.41%) Nutanix
10 18 (1.74%) GitHub Actions
11 15 (1.45%) Datadog
11 15 (1.45%) SaaS
12 12 (1.16%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (1.16%) Azure Monitor
13 10 (0.96%) Rubrik
14 9 (0.87%) Azure Sentinel
15 7 (0.68%) Microsoft Purview
16 6 (0.58%) Amazon EKS
16 6 (0.58%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 220 (21.22%) DNS
2 184 (17.74%) Firewall
3 110 (10.61%) DHCP
4 86 (8.29%) VPN
5 84 (8.10%) SAN
6 82 (7.91%) VSAN
7 67 (6.46%) TCP/IP
8 66 (6.36%) WAN
9 62 (5.98%) Network Security
10 54 (5.21%) LAN
11 53 (5.11%) SSL
12 46 (4.44%) BIG-IP
12 46 (4.44%) NAS
13 45 (4.34%) HTTP
14 41 (3.95%) Wireshark
15 39 (3.76%) VLAN
16 33 (3.18%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 29 (2.80%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
18 28 (2.70%) BGP
19 25 (2.41%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (3.38%) SQL Server
2 16 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (0.87%) DataStage
4 9 (0.87%) Redis
5 7 (0.68%) NonStop SQL
6 6 (0.58%) NoSQL
7 4 (0.39%) Oracle BI EE
7 4 (0.39%) Power BI
7 4 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (0.29%) Data Mining
8 3 (0.29%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.096%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.096%) Metadata
9 1 (0.096%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 45 (4.34%) Jenkins
2 33 (3.18%) GitLab
3 30 (2.89%) Git
4 29 (2.80%) Fiddler
5 28 (2.70%) JIRA
6 11 (1.06%) Sonatype Nexus
7 8 (0.77%) PVCS
7 8 (0.77%) Rational DOORS
8 7 (0.68%) Chocolatey
8 7 (0.68%) Robot Framework
8 7 (0.68%) Team Foundation Server
9 5 (0.48%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.39%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.39%) JMeter
10 4 (0.39%) JUnit
11 3 (0.29%) MSI
12 2 (0.19%) RStudio
13 1 (0.096%) Artifactory
13 1 (0.096%) GoCD
13 1 (0.096%) VersionOne
General
1 207 (19.96%) Social Skills
2 99 (9.55%) Finance
3 90 (8.68%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (8.10%) Public Sector
5 49 (4.73%) Banking
6 37 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
7 23 (2.22%) Investment Banking
8 22 (2.12%) Legal
9 20 (1.93%) Aerospace
10 12 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (1.16%) Police
11 11 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (1.06%) Retail
12 10 (0.96%) Military
13 8 (0.77%) Electronics
13 8 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (0.77%) Telecoms
14 7 (0.68%) Financial Institution
14 7 (0.68%) Local Government
15 6 (0.58%) Law
Job Titles
1 180 (17.36%) Architect
2 176 (16.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 100 (9.64%) Senior
4 95 (9.16%) VMware Engineer
5 82 (7.91%) Network Engineer
6 54 (5.21%) Consultant
7 49 (4.73%) VMware Architect
8 45 (4.34%) Analyst
9 42 (4.05%) Lead
10 36 (3.47%) Technical Architect
11 33 (3.18%) Infrastructure Architect
11 33 (3.18%) VMware Consultant
12 30 (2.89%) DevOps Engineer
13 29 (2.80%) Web Engineer
14 28 (2.70%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 27 (2.60%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 26 (2.51%) Administrator
16 26 (2.51%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
17 25 (2.41%) Support Engineer
17 25 (2.41%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (2.80%) LDAP
2 22 (2.12%) Middleware
3 20 (1.93%) Flash
4 14 (1.35%) OpenTelemetry
4 14 (1.35%) SAML
5 13 (1.25%) Kafka
5 13 (1.25%) Keycloak
6 11 (1.06%) REST
7 5 (0.48%) Software Packaging
8 4 (0.39%) OAuth
8 4 (0.39%) OpenID
8 4 (0.39%) Spring
9 3 (0.29%) 802.1X
9 3 (0.29%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (0.29%) Hibernate
10 2 (0.19%) .NET
10 2 (0.19%) Django
10 2 (0.19%) OpenGL
10 2 (0.19%) SOAP
10 2 (0.19%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 117 (11.28%) Data Centre
2 78 (7.52%) Replication
3 67 (6.46%) PKI
4 59 (5.69%) Hybrid Cloud
5 52 (5.01%) Cloud Native
6 38 (3.66%) Clustering
6 38 (3.66%) Management Information System
7 34 (3.28%) Enterprise Storage
7 34 (3.28%) Private Cloud
8 32 (3.09%) Public Cloud
9 26 (2.51%) Linux Command Line
10 17 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
10 17 (1.64%) Operational Technology
11 16 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
12 15 (1.45%) Blackberry
13 14 (1.35%) Onboarding
14 13 (1.25%) SCADA
15 12 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
16 11 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
16 11 (1.06%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 393 (37.90%) Windows
2 262 (25.27%) Linux
3 244 (23.53%) Windows Server
4 59 (5.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 42 (4.05%) Windows Server 2019
6 35 (3.38%) Windows Server 2016
7 28 (2.70%) Ubuntu
8 23 (2.22%) VMS
9 22 (2.12%) Windows 10
10 18 (1.74%) Unix
10 18 (1.74%) Windows Server 2012
11 17 (1.64%) Apple iOS
11 17 (1.64%) CentOS
12 16 (1.54%) Data ONTAP
12 16 (1.54%) Solaris
13 15 (1.45%) Android
14 12 (1.16%) AIX
14 12 (1.16%) Mac OS
15 8 (0.77%) Windows Server 2003
16 7 (0.68%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 223 (21.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 188 (18.13%) Problem-Solving
3 169 (16.30%) Migration
4 132 (12.73%) ITIL
5 128 (12.34%) Agile
6 120 (11.57%) High Availability
7 108 (10.41%) DevOps
7 108 (10.41%) Disaster Recovery
8 101 (9.74%) CI/CD
9 88 (8.49%) Infrastructure as Code
10 83 (8.00%) Load Balancing
11 72 (6.94%) Capacity Planning
11 72 (6.94%) Roadmaps
12 70 (6.75%) Stakeholder Management
13 68 (6.56%) Change Management
14 64 (6.17%) Containerisation
15 60 (5.79%) Platform Engineering
16 59 (5.69%) Continuous Improvement
17 57 (5.50%) Cybersecurity
18 56 (5.40%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 190 (18.32%) PowerShell
2 137 (13.21%) Python
3 70 (6.75%) Bash
4 40 (3.86%) SQL
5 17 (1.64%) JavaScript
6 14 (1.35%) Shell Script
7 11 (1.06%) C
8 10 (0.96%) Java
9 9 (0.87%) COBOL
9 9 (0.87%) MATLAB
10 8 (0.77%) C++
11 7 (0.68%) Embedded C
11 7 (0.68%) Embedded C++
11 7 (0.68%) PL/SQL
11 7 (0.68%) T-SQL
12 6 (0.58%) Bicep
13 5 (0.48%) C#
14 4 (0.39%) PHP
15 2 (0.19%) Perl
15 2 (0.19%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 473 (45.61%) Security Cleared
2 289 (27.87%) SC Cleared
3 202 (19.48%) DV Cleared
4 76 (7.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 42 (4.05%) Degree
6 41 (3.95%) Microsoft Certification
7 36 (3.47%) Cisco Certification
8 32 (3.09%) VCAP
9 28 (2.70%) MCSE
10 26 (2.51%) CCNP
11 24 (2.31%) Azure Certification
12 23 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
13 18 (1.74%) MCSA
14 17 (1.64%) Oracle Certification
15 15 (1.45%) AWS Certification
16 12 (1.16%) OCP
17 10 (0.96%) CCNA
18 8 (0.77%) RHCA
19 7 (0.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
20 6 (0.58%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (3.57%) SLA
2 33 (3.18%) NIST
3 23 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials
3 23 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 22 (2.12%) NCSC
5 9 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 8 (0.77%) GDPR
7 5 (0.48%) Def Stans
7 5 (0.48%) QA
8 3 (0.29%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.19%) ISA99
9 2 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.096%) COBIT
10 1 (0.096%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.096%) DICOM
10 1 (0.096%) HL7
10 1 (0.096%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.096%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.096%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.096%) SOC 2
System Software
1 656 (63.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 246 (23.72%) Active Directory
3 210 (20.25%) VMware NSX
4 202 (19.48%) vSphere
5 166 (16.01%) VMware ESXi
6 138 (13.31%) Hyper-V
7 89 (8.58%) Virtual Machines
8 48 (4.63%) Docker
9 40 (3.86%) NFS
10 36 (3.47%) Firmware
11 26 (2.51%) Virtual Desktop
12 25 (2.41%) KVM
13 17 (1.64%) vCloud
14 14 (1.35%) GPFS
15 12 (1.16%) Microsoft App-V
16 10 (0.96%) BitLocker
17 6 (0.58%) VMware Workstation
18 5 (0.48%) XenDesktop
19 4 (0.39%) Oracle RAC
19 4 (0.39%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 197 (19.00%) Ansible
2 146 (14.08%) vCenter Server
3 114 (10.99%) Terraform
4 100 (9.64%) Kubernetes
5 76 (7.33%) Microsoft Intune
6 70 (6.75%) vRealize
7 67 (6.46%) SCCM
8 36 (3.47%) Argo
9 31 (2.99%) Grafana
10 29 (2.80%) Single Sign-On
11 28 (2.70%) SCOM
11 28 (2.70%) VxRail
12 26 (2.51%) PowerCLI
13 24 (2.31%) vMotion
14 19 (1.83%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 18 (1.74%) Red Hat Satellite
15 18 (1.74%) WSUS
16 16 (1.54%) NetBackup
16 16 (1.54%) Prometheus
17 15 (1.45%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 244 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 163 (15.72%) Cisco
3 91 (8.78%) Citrix
4 83 (8.00%) Red Hat
5 68 (6.56%) F5
6 61 (5.88%) NetApp
7 48 (4.63%) IBM
8 45 (4.34%) Dell
9 43 (4.15%) Pure Storage
10 42 (4.05%) ServiceNow
11 41 (3.95%) Oracle
11 41 (3.95%) Palo Alto
12 33 (3.18%) McAfee
13 31 (2.99%) Veeam
14 29 (2.80%) Blue Coat
15 27 (2.60%) Splunk
16 26 (2.51%) CheckPoint
17 24 (2.31%) Broadcom
17 24 (2.31%) SolarWinds
18 20 (1.93%) Commvault