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 February 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 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 68 61
Rank change year-on-year -29 -7 -2
Contract jobs citing VMware 922 866 1,283
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.69% 3.38% 3.38%
As % of the Vendors category 5.97% 7.27% 7.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 651 561 855
10th Percentile £325 £278 £267
25th Percentile £425 £411 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £521 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -0.86% +5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 15 70
10th Percentile £33.00 £35.00 £22.08
25th Percentile £56.28 £40.00 £40.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +18.37% -5.77%
75th Percentile £77.13 £84.14 £76.25
90th Percentile £97.00 £101.70 £84.36
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £63.00
% change year-on-year +12.00% -0.79% -3.08%

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 15,438 11,918 16,394
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 45.02% 46.49% 43.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,080 7,250 10,526
10th Percentile £300 £275 £250
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £706 £720 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 791 336 853
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.62 £12.89
25th Percentile £18.02 £20.00 £15.33
Median hourly rate £23.83 £30.89 £26.78
Median % change year-on-year -22.87% +15.35% -20.06%
75th Percentile £57.25 £65.00 £56.49
90th Percentile £72.50 £81.63 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £30.00 £26.78
% change year-on-year -20.58% +12.02% -18.85%

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 February 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 February 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 February 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 -1 255 £513 -6.99% 122
London -53 226 £550 +4.76% 72
North of England -30 160 £460 +1.10% 78
Midlands -4 126 £411 -23.20% 40
North West -17 105 £460 -8.00% 39
South West -35 96 £550 -4.35% 62
West Midlands -15 95 £400 -27.40% 27
Yorkshire -12 63 £425 -5.56% 36
East of England +1 58 £500 - 29
East Midlands -8 31 £450 -14.29% 12
North East -20 4 £550 +57.14% 7
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 48 (5.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 29 (3.15%) SharePoint
3 20 (2.17%) Confluence
4 9 (0.98%) OpenStack
5 7 (0.76%) Skype for Business
6 6 (0.65%) CICS
6 6 (0.65%) IIS
7 5 (0.54%) SharePoint Server
8 3 (0.33%) Apache
8 3 (0.33%) nginx
9 2 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2010
9 2 (0.22%) WordPress
10 1 (0.11%) JBoss
10 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.11%) Traefik
10 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 17 (1.84%) MS Visio
2 16 (1.74%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.11%) OmniGraffle
Cloud Services
1 227 (24.62%) Azure
2 174 (18.87%) AWS
3 81 (8.79%) Microsoft 365
4 75 (8.13%) OpenShift
5 53 (5.75%) GitHub
6 49 (5.31%) Entra ID
6 49 (5.31%) GCP
7 42 (4.56%) IaaS
8 29 (3.15%) Nutanix
9 28 (3.04%) PaaS
10 27 (2.93%) GitHub Actions
11 16 (1.74%) Datadog
12 12 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (0.87%) SaaS
14 7 (0.76%) Microsoft Purview
15 6 (0.65%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 6 (0.65%) Azure Sentinel
16 5 (0.54%) AWS CloudFormation
16 5 (0.54%) Azure Monitor
17 4 (0.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 218 (23.64%) DNS
2 182 (19.74%) Firewall
3 101 (10.95%) DHCP
4 79 (8.57%) TCP/IP
5 74 (8.03%) VPN
6 59 (6.40%) SAN
7 54 (5.86%) Network Security
8 50 (5.42%) VLAN
8 50 (5.42%) VSAN
9 45 (4.88%) WAN
10 42 (4.56%) LAN
11 37 (4.01%) BIG-IP
11 37 (4.01%) SSL
12 36 (3.90%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 35 (3.80%) HTTP
13 35 (3.80%) Wireshark
14 34 (3.69%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
15 29 (3.15%) BGP
15 29 (3.15%) NAS
16 19 (2.06%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (4.34%) SQL Server
2 25 (2.71%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (0.87%) Redis
4 6 (0.65%) DataStage
5 5 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (0.43%) NoSQL
6 4 (0.43%) Oracle Database
7 3 (0.33%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.11%) Power BI
8 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 53 (5.75%) Jenkins
2 31 (3.36%) GitLab
3 27 (2.93%) Git
4 26 (2.82%) Fiddler
5 22 (2.39%) Sonatype Nexus
6 18 (1.95%) JIRA
7 14 (1.52%) Cucumber
7 14 (1.52%) JMeter
7 14 (1.52%) JUnit
8 8 (0.87%) PVCS
8 8 (0.87%) Rational DOORS
9 5 (0.54%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.54%) Team Foundation Server
10 4 (0.43%) Robot Framework
10 4 (0.43%) RStudio
11 3 (0.33%) Chocolatey
11 3 (0.33%) Maven
11 3 (0.33%) Subversion
12 2 (0.22%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.22%) TeamCity
General
1 200 (21.69%) Social Skills
2 99 (10.74%) Analytical Skills
3 98 (10.63%) Finance
4 95 (10.30%) Public Sector
5 53 (5.75%) Banking
6 42 (4.56%) Documentation Skills
7 25 (2.71%) Investment Banking
8 22 (2.39%) Aerospace
9 21 (2.28%) Legal
10 19 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
11 14 (1.52%) Local Government
12 13 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 12 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
14 11 (1.19%) Electronics
15 9 (0.98%) Military
16 7 (0.76%) Police
17 6 (0.65%) Financial Institution
17 6 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
17 6 (0.65%) Telecoms
18 5 (0.54%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 147 (15.94%) Architect
2 143 (15.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 66 (7.16%) Network Engineer
4 60 (6.51%) Analyst
5 58 (6.29%) VMware Engineer
6 57 (6.18%) Consultant
7 56 (6.07%) Senior
8 46 (4.99%) Platform Engineer
8 46 (4.99%) VMware Consultant
9 42 (4.56%) Support Engineer
10 35 (3.80%) Infrastructure Architect
11 34 (3.69%) VMware Architect
12 32 (3.47%) Infrastructure Analyst
12 32 (3.47%) Lead
13 29 (3.15%) DevOps Engineer
14 27 (2.93%) Web Engineer
15 25 (2.71%) Developer
16 23 (2.49%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
16 23 (2.49%) Technical Architect
16 23 (2.49%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (2.60%) Kafka
1 24 (2.60%) Middleware
2 21 (2.28%) LDAP
3 19 (2.06%) Flash
4 16 (1.74%) SAML
5 14 (1.52%) Spring
6 13 (1.41%) Hibernate
7 12 (1.30%) Keycloak
7 12 (1.30%) OpenTelemetry
8 11 (1.19%) OpenID
9 10 (1.08%) OAuth
9 10 (1.08%) REST
10 9 (0.98%) Loki
11 7 (0.76%) Elastic Stack
11 7 (0.76%) OAuth2
12 6 (0.65%) XMPP
13 5 (0.54%) React
13 5 (0.54%) Software Packaging
14 4 (0.43%) .NET
14 4 (0.43%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 88 (9.54%) Data Centre
2 71 (7.70%) Replication
3 69 (7.48%) PKI
4 49 (5.31%) Cloud Native
5 42 (4.56%) Hybrid Cloud
6 39 (4.23%) Management Information System
7 31 (3.36%) Linux Command Line
8 30 (3.25%) Private Cloud
9 23 (2.49%) Public Cloud
10 21 (2.28%) Legacy Systems
11 18 (1.95%) Analytical Mindset
11 18 (1.95%) Clustering
11 18 (1.95%) Operational Technology
12 14 (1.52%) Product Ownership
13 13 (1.41%) Onboarding
14 12 (1.30%) Fat Client
14 12 (1.30%) Thin Client
15 11 (1.19%) Enterprise Storage
16 9 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
16 9 (0.98%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 339 (36.77%) Windows
2 282 (30.59%) Linux
3 202 (21.91%) Windows Server
4 72 (7.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 37 (4.01%) Windows 10
6 27 (2.93%) Windows Server 2019
7 24 (2.60%) Windows Server 2016
8 20 (2.17%) Ubuntu
8 20 (2.17%) Windows Server 2012
9 16 (1.74%) Mac OS
9 16 (1.74%) Unix
10 15 (1.63%) VMS
11 14 (1.52%) CentOS
11 14 (1.52%) Solaris
12 13 (1.41%) Windows 7
13 8 (0.87%) AIX
14 6 (0.65%) Windows Server 2003
15 5 (0.54%) Android
15 5 (0.54%) Apple iOS
16 4 (0.43%) CatOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 190 (20.61%) Problem-Solving
2 183 (19.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 140 (15.18%) Agile
4 136 (14.75%) Migration
5 119 (12.91%) ITIL
6 116 (12.58%) DevOps
7 109 (11.82%) CI/CD
8 93 (10.09%) Disaster Recovery
8 93 (10.09%) Load Balancing
9 80 (8.68%) Containerisation
10 78 (8.46%) Infrastructure as Code
11 74 (8.03%) High Availability
12 71 (7.70%) Platform Engineering
13 62 (6.72%) Continuous Improvement
14 60 (6.51%) Cybersecurity
15 56 (6.07%) Roadmaps
16 53 (5.75%) Stakeholder Management
17 52 (5.64%) Service Management
18 49 (5.31%) Change Management
19 48 (5.21%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 185 (20.07%) Python
2 182 (19.74%) PowerShell
3 104 (11.28%) Bash
4 31 (3.36%) SQL
5 22 (2.39%) Java
6 21 (2.28%) JavaScript
7 19 (2.06%) Perl
8 14 (1.52%) Shell Script
9 11 (1.19%) C
10 8 (0.87%) C#
10 8 (0.87%) C++
10 8 (0.87%) T-SQL
11 7 (0.76%) Embedded C
11 7 (0.76%) Embedded C++
11 7 (0.76%) MATLAB
12 6 (0.65%) Bicep
12 6 (0.65%) COBOL
13 4 (0.43%) Go
13 4 (0.43%) PHP
14 3 (0.33%) Korn
Qualifications
1 403 (43.71%) Security Cleared
2 244 (26.46%) SC Cleared
3 148 (16.05%) DV Cleared
4 61 (6.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 57 (6.18%) Microsoft Certification
6 46 (4.99%) Degree
7 42 (4.56%) Cisco Certification
8 34 (3.69%) Azure Certification
8 34 (3.69%) CCNP
9 24 (2.60%) MCSE
10 22 (2.39%) CCNA
10 22 (2.39%) VCAP
11 20 (2.17%) AWS Certification
12 15 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
13 13 (1.41%) MCSA
14 11 (1.19%) CCDP
14 11 (1.19%) CCIE
14 11 (1.19%) Network+ Certification
14 11 (1.19%) Server+ Certification
15 8 (0.87%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (2.71%) NIST
2 24 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (2.17%) GDPR
3 20 (2.17%) SLA
4 16 (1.74%) Cyber Essentials
5 12 (1.30%) NCSC
6 9 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 8 (0.87%) Def Stans
8 6 (0.65%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.43%) QA
10 2 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 2 (0.22%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.11%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.11%) COBIT
11 1 (0.11%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.11%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.11%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.11%) MiFID
11 1 (0.11%) PMO
System Software
1 581 (63.02%) VMware Infrastructure
2 240 (26.03%) Active Directory
3 180 (19.52%) vSphere
4 148 (16.05%) VMware NSX
5 115 (12.47%) Hyper-V
6 99 (10.74%) VMware ESXi
7 60 (6.51%) Virtual Machines
8 58 (6.29%) Docker
9 39 (4.23%) NFS
10 26 (2.82%) Virtual Desktop
11 22 (2.39%) Firmware
12 19 (2.06%) KVM
13 16 (1.74%) GPFS
14 9 (0.98%) vCloud
15 7 (0.76%) Virtual Servers
16 5 (0.54%) BitLocker
16 5 (0.54%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 4 (0.43%) Microsoft App-V
18 3 (0.33%) DFS Replication
19 2 (0.22%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 178 (19.31%) Ansible
2 114 (12.36%) Terraform
3 102 (11.06%) Kubernetes
4 101 (10.95%) vCenter Server
5 73 (7.92%) Microsoft Intune
5 73 (7.92%) SCCM
6 71 (7.70%) vRealize
7 39 (4.23%) Grafana
8 38 (4.12%) Argo
9 32 (3.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 31 (3.36%) Single Sign-On
11 28 (3.04%) Red Hat Satellite
12 27 (2.93%) Prometheus
12 27 (2.93%) VxRail
13 25 (2.71%) SCOM
14 18 (1.95%) Progress Chef
15 16 (1.74%) vMotion
16 15 (1.63%) FortiGate
17 14 (1.52%) WSUS
18 11 (1.19%) WMI
Vendors
1 237 (25.70%) Microsoft
2 157 (17.03%) Cisco
3 106 (11.50%) Red Hat
4 82 (8.89%) F5
5 77 (8.35%) Citrix
6 52 (5.64%) Dell
7 49 (5.31%) IBM
8 43 (4.66%) SolarWinds
9 41 (4.45%) Oracle
10 39 (4.23%) Veeam
11 37 (4.01%) NetApp
12 35 (3.80%) Palo Alto
12 35 (3.80%) Pure Storage
13 34 (3.69%) McAfee
13 34 (3.69%) ServiceNow
14 33 (3.58%) Blue Coat
15 29 (3.15%) Splunk
16 23 (2.49%) Commvault
17 21 (2.28%) HP
18 18 (1.95%) Google