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 August 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 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 105 55
Rank change year-on-year 0 -50 -2
Contract jobs citing VMware 1,123 704 1,194
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.46% 2.53% 3.60%
As % of the Vendors category 5.91% 5.37% 8.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 749 445 823
10th Percentile £350 £358 £325
25th Percentile £455 £463 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £515
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +6.80% +1.48%
75th Percentile £625 £603 £575
90th Percentile £725 £650 £648
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £513
% change year-on-year -4.55% +7.32% +0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 8 15
10th Percentile £26.00 £28.70 £22.96
25th Percentile £46.00 £29.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £63.31 £31.39 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +101.71% -53.50% +23.72%
75th Percentile £74.25 £60.88 £71.25
90th Percentile £95.38 £95.08 £79.20
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £31.39 £57.25
% change year-on-year +101.16% -45.18% -4.58%

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 19,010 13,120 14,475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.60% 47.20% 43.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,979 8,297 9,243
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £613 £619 £628
90th Percentile £700 £716 £734
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,031 644 741
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.75 £13.69
25th Percentile £18.25 £17.73 £15.62
Median hourly rate £33.98 £25.15 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.11% -16.17% -20.00%
75th Percentile £65.58 £50.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.38 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £32.36 £25.15 £28.00
% change year-on-year +28.68% -10.18% -30.86%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 +2 334 £550 - 120
London +9 306 £550 +4.76% 170
North of England -22 178 £483 +8.05% 77
South West -21 119 £551 -8.13% 53
Midlands -17 115 £450 -18.18% 42
North West +4 97 £483 +13.65% 43
West Midlands -27 91 £474 -16.11% 27
Yorkshire -20 72 £500 +11.11% 21
East of England -2 68 £507 -7.82% 34
East Midlands -7 24 £438 -20.45% 15
North East -37 10 £200 -59.60% 17
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 57 (5.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 33 (2.94%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.69%) Confluence
4 13 (1.16%) nginx
5 10 (0.89%) IIS
6 9 (0.80%) Apache
6 9 (0.80%) OpenStack
7 8 (0.71%) Skype for Business
7 8 (0.71%) Tomcat
8 7 (0.62%) JBoss
9 4 (0.36%) FactoryTalk
10 3 (0.27%) CICS
10 3 (0.27%) CloudStack
10 3 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2013
11 2 (0.18%) CMS
11 2 (0.18%) WebLogic
12 1 (0.089%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 18 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.27%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (0.18%) Houdini
3 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.18%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 13 (1.16%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.089%) Shopify
2 1 (0.089%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 307 (27.34%) Azure
2 198 (17.63%) AWS
3 96 (8.55%) Microsoft 365
4 75 (6.68%) Entra ID
5 46 (4.10%) GCP
5 46 (4.10%) IaaS
6 44 (3.92%) OpenShift
7 38 (3.38%) GitHub
8 29 (2.58%) Rubrik
9 28 (2.49%) PaaS
10 22 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
10 22 (1.96%) SaaS
11 18 (1.60%) Azure Monitor
11 18 (1.60%) GitHub Actions
11 18 (1.60%) OneDrive
12 15 (1.34%) Power Platform
13 14 (1.25%) Datadog
14 13 (1.16%) Nutanix
14 13 (1.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 11 (0.98%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 301 (26.80%) DNS
2 217 (19.32%) Firewall
3 185 (16.47%) DHCP
4 106 (9.44%) VSAN
5 99 (8.82%) TCP/IP
6 92 (8.19%) VPN
7 84 (7.48%) SAN
7 84 (7.48%) WAN
8 77 (6.86%) VLAN
9 68 (6.06%) LAN
10 66 (5.88%) Network Security
11 49 (4.36%) SSL
12 44 (3.92%) NAS
13 42 (3.74%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 38 (3.38%) BGP
15 35 (3.12%) BIG-IP
16 34 (3.03%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
16 34 (3.03%) SD-WAN
16 34 (3.03%) Wi-Fi
17 29 (2.58%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (5.61%) SQL Server
2 14 (1.25%) Power BI
2 14 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 11 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (0.89%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 10 (0.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 9 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (0.80%) Big Data
5 9 (0.80%) NoSQL
6 8 (0.71%) NonStop SQL
7 7 (0.62%) Apache Cassandra
8 6 (0.53%) Hadoop
9 4 (0.36%) Hazelcast
9 4 (0.36%) Oracle BI EE
9 4 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (0.27%) Data Mining
10 3 (0.27%) DataStage
10 3 (0.27%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.18%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.18%) Redis
Development Applications
1 43 (3.83%) JIRA
2 34 (3.03%) Jenkins
3 33 (2.94%) GitLab
4 26 (2.32%) Git
5 16 (1.42%) Fiddler
6 8 (0.71%) Bitbucket
6 8 (0.71%) Chocolatey
7 6 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (0.45%) Rational DOORS
8 5 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (0.36%) Selenium
10 3 (0.27%) MSI
10 3 (0.27%) Robot Framework
10 3 (0.27%) Subversion
11 2 (0.18%) CppUnit
11 2 (0.18%) PVCS
11 2 (0.18%) Team Foundation Server
12 1 (0.089%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.089%) Octopus Deploy
12 1 (0.089%) VersionOne
General
1 247 (21.99%) Social Skills
2 129 (11.49%) Finance
3 123 (10.95%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (5.08%) Public Sector
5 45 (4.01%) Banking
6 40 (3.56%) Documentation Skills
7 29 (2.58%) Telecoms
8 26 (2.32%) Legal
9 17 (1.51%) Investment Banking
10 14 (1.25%) Financial Institution
11 13 (1.16%) Manufacturing
11 13 (1.16%) Retail
12 12 (1.07%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (0.89%) Military
13 10 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
14 8 (0.71%) Aerospace
15 6 (0.53%) Law
15 6 (0.53%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (0.53%) Police
16 4 (0.36%) Games
Job Titles
1 242 (21.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 150 (13.36%) Senior
3 127 (11.31%) Architect
4 116 (10.33%) VMware Engineer
5 89 (7.93%) Network Engineer
6 63 (5.61%) Consultant
7 59 (5.25%) Cloud Engineer
7 59 (5.25%) Support Engineer
8 55 (4.90%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 53 (4.72%) Lead
10 44 (3.92%) Administrator
11 40 (3.56%) VMware Consultant
12 38 (3.38%) Storage Engineer
13 37 (3.29%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 36 (3.21%) Platform Engineer
14 36 (3.21%) Senior VMware Engineer
15 32 (2.85%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
16 31 (2.76%) Linux Engineer
17 30 (2.67%) Azure Engineer
18 29 (2.58%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (1.78%) REST
2 12 (1.07%) Flash
2 12 (1.07%) LDAP
3 11 (0.98%) JSON
3 11 (0.98%) Middleware
4 10 (0.89%) 802.1X
5 9 (0.80%) Elastic Stack
5 9 (0.80%) Kafka
5 9 (0.80%) YAML
6 5 (0.45%) .NET
6 5 (0.45%) ARM Templates
6 5 (0.45%) OpenTelemetry
6 5 (0.45%) SAML
7 4 (0.36%) Keycloak
7 4 (0.36%) Redfish
8 3 (0.27%) XML
9 2 (0.18%) Java SE
9 2 (0.18%) OAuth
9 2 (0.18%) OpenGL
9 2 (0.18%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 167 (14.87%) Data Centre
2 83 (7.39%) Hybrid Cloud
2 83 (7.39%) PKI
3 53 (4.72%) Enterprise Storage
3 53 (4.72%) Replication
4 51 (4.54%) Clustering
5 46 (4.10%) Management Information System
6 41 (3.65%) Public Cloud
7 33 (2.94%) Onboarding
7 33 (2.94%) Private Cloud
8 27 (2.40%) Cloud Native
9 21 (1.87%) Linux Command Line
10 15 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (1.07%) SCADA
11 12 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
12 11 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
12 11 (0.98%) Operational Technology
12 11 (0.98%) Virtual Team
13 10 (0.89%) Blackberry
14 9 (0.80%) EMC VMAX
Operating Systems
1 536 (47.73%) Windows
2 325 (28.94%) Windows Server
3 307 (27.34%) Linux
4 59 (5.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 49 (4.36%) Windows Server 2019
6 29 (2.58%) VMS
7 28 (2.49%) Windows 10
8 25 (2.23%) Windows Server 2016
9 22 (1.96%) Unix
10 21 (1.87%) Ubuntu
11 19 (1.69%) Apple iOS
11 19 (1.69%) Windows Server 2012
12 15 (1.34%) Data ONTAP
13 13 (1.16%) AIX
13 13 (1.16%) Windows Server 2008
14 11 (0.98%) Android
14 11 (0.98%) CentOS
15 10 (0.89%) Solaris
15 10 (0.89%) Windows 7
16 6 (0.53%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 313 (27.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 205 (18.25%) Problem-Solving
3 194 (17.28%) Migration
4 172 (15.32%) ITIL
5 141 (12.56%) Infrastructure as Code
6 134 (11.93%) High Availability
7 124 (11.04%) Disaster Recovery
8 123 (10.95%) CI/CD
9 121 (10.77%) Technical Leadership
10 99 (8.82%) Agile
10 99 (8.82%) Change Management
11 98 (8.73%) DevOps
11 98 (8.73%) ITSM
12 96 (8.55%) Stakeholder Management
13 91 (8.10%) Service Management
14 84 (7.48%) Continuous Improvement
15 78 (6.95%) Network Virtualisation
16 72 (6.41%) Platform Engineering
16 72 (6.41%) Project Delivery
17 71 (6.32%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 257 (22.89%) PowerShell
2 147 (13.09%) Python
3 99 (8.82%) Bash
4 64 (5.70%) SQL
5 21 (1.87%) JavaScript
6 19 (1.69%) Java
7 9 (0.80%) Shell Script
8 8 (0.71%) Bicep
9 7 (0.62%) C
9 7 (0.62%) VB
9 7 (0.62%) VBScript
10 6 (0.53%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.36%) C#
11 4 (0.36%) Go
11 4 (0.36%) MATLAB
12 3 (0.27%) C++
12 3 (0.27%) COBOL
12 3 (0.27%) Lua
13 2 (0.18%) Embedded C
13 2 (0.18%) Korn
Qualifications
1 538 (47.91%) Security Cleared
2 318 (28.32%) SC Cleared
3 256 (22.80%) DV Cleared
4 87 (7.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 69 (6.14%) Degree
6 53 (4.72%) Cisco Certification
7 42 (3.74%) VCAP
8 41 (3.65%) Microsoft Certification
9 37 (3.29%) Azure Certification
10 29 (2.58%) CCNP
11 25 (2.23%) MCSE
12 21 (1.87%) CCNA
13 17 (1.51%) AWS Certification
14 16 (1.42%) MCSA
15 13 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
16 12 (1.07%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 11 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
18 10 (0.89%) Oracle Certification
19 9 (0.80%) PMI Certification
19 9 (0.80%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (4.01%) SLA
2 25 (2.23%) NIST
3 23 (2.05%) NCSC
4 20 (1.78%) QA
5 16 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (1.34%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (0.45%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.36%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 4 (0.36%) GxP
9 3 (0.27%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.18%) GDPR
10 2 (0.18%) ISA99
10 2 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 19770
10 2 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.18%) JSP 440
10 2 (0.18%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.089%) DICOM
11 1 (0.089%) HL7
System Software
1 755 (67.23%) VMware Infrastructure
2 309 (27.52%) Active Directory
3 239 (21.28%) VMware NSX
4 235 (20.93%) VMware ESXi
5 233 (20.75%) vSphere
6 162 (14.43%) Hyper-V
7 93 (8.28%) Virtual Machines
8 61 (5.43%) Docker
9 37 (3.29%) Virtual Desktop
10 34 (3.03%) Firmware
11 25 (2.23%) vCloud
12 21 (1.87%) NFS
13 18 (1.60%) KVM
14 14 (1.25%) BitLocker
15 11 (0.98%) Microsoft App-V
16 10 (0.89%) Virtual Servers
17 9 (0.80%) GPFS
17 9 (0.80%) VMware Workstation
18 6 (0.53%) SRDF
18 6 (0.53%) UAG
Systems Management
1 199 (17.72%) Ansible
2 190 (16.92%) vCenter Server
3 152 (13.54%) Terraform
4 120 (10.69%) Kubernetes
5 64 (5.70%) SCOM
6 61 (5.43%) SCCM
7 60 (5.34%) Microsoft Intune
8 58 (5.16%) vRealize
9 38 (3.38%) VxRail
10 25 (2.23%) Puppet
11 24 (2.14%) Grafana
11 24 (2.14%) NetBackup
11 24 (2.14%) PowerCLI
12 20 (1.78%) Prometheus
12 20 (1.78%) vMotion
12 20 (1.78%) WSUS
13 19 (1.69%) Argo
13 19 (1.69%) Red Hat Satellite
14 18 (1.60%) Avamar
15 16 (1.42%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 300 (26.71%) Microsoft
2 191 (17.01%) Cisco
3 94 (8.37%) Citrix
4 80 (7.12%) NetApp
5 70 (6.23%) Red Hat
6 61 (5.43%) ServiceNow
7 56 (4.99%) F5
8 55 (4.90%) Dell
9 46 (4.10%) Palo Alto
10 44 (3.92%) Oracle
11 41 (3.65%) SolarWinds
12 37 (3.29%) Juniper
13 35 (3.12%) Veeam
14 33 (2.94%) IBM
15 30 (2.67%) Broadcom
16 26 (2.32%) CyberArk
17 24 (2.14%) Fortinet
18 21 (1.87%) CheckPoint
19 19 (1.69%) HP
19 19 (1.69%) McAfee