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 26 September 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
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 106 63
Rank change year-on-year -3 -43 -10
Contract jobs citing VMware 1,152 716 1,130
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.47% 2.56% 3.45%
As % of the Vendors category 5.96% 5.39% 7.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 743 465 735
10th Percentile £325 £325 £325
25th Percentile £450 £425 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £550 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.18% +6.80% +3.00%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £583
90th Percentile £725 £650 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £515
% change year-on-year -4.55% +6.80% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 11 16
10th Percentile £26.80 £29.00 £23.10
25th Percentile £51.00 £29.50 £23.80
Median hourly rate £68.75 £34.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +102.21% -28.42% -26.92%
75th Percentile £89.88 £46.88 £71.25
90th Percentile £95.00 £67.25 £96.29
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £34.00 £43.75
% change year-on-year +98.53% -22.29% -33.69%

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 19,315 13,283 14,567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.49% 47.54% 44.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,934 8,451 8,770
10th Percentile £309 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.28% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £622 £621 £630
90th Percentile £713 £706 £732
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,173 631 569
10th Percentile £14.01 £14.84 £14.50
25th Percentile £16.72 £18.00 £15.62
Median hourly rate £27.30 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.55% -28.14% -20.16%
75th Percentile £63.75 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.79 £69.65 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £25.75 £25.15 £32.50
% change year-on-year +2.39% -22.62% -25.87%

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 26 September 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 26 September 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 26 September 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 -11 309 £538 -2.27% 185
London -10 305 £550 +5.77% 265
North of England -3 200 £478 +10.84% 120
Midlands -18 123 £450 -19.10% 100
South West -17 111 £588 +2.17% 78
East of England +6 97 £510 -7.27% 76
North West -3 97 £450 +5.88% 68
West Midlands -16 96 £475 -17.12% 66
Yorkshire -15 85 £525 +17.45% 37
East Midlands -8 27 £425 -13.27% 34
North East -20 20 £400 - 15
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 58 (5.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 36 (3.13%) SharePoint
3 27 (2.34%) Confluence
4 16 (1.39%) IIS
5 13 (1.13%) CMS
5 13 (1.13%) nginx
6 10 (0.87%) OpenStack
7 9 (0.78%) Apache
8 8 (0.69%) Skype for Business
9 7 (0.61%) JBoss
9 7 (0.61%) Tomcat
10 4 (0.35%) FactoryTalk
11 3 (0.26%) CloudStack
11 3 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2013
12 2 (0.17%) WebLogic
13 1 (0.087%) CICS
Applications
1 17 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (0.17%) Houdini
2 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.17%) NUKE
3 1 (0.087%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.087%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (1.48%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.087%) Shopify
2 1 (0.087%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 321 (27.86%) Azure
2 179 (15.54%) AWS
3 111 (9.64%) Microsoft 365
4 90 (7.81%) Entra ID
5 48 (4.17%) GCP
6 46 (3.99%) OpenShift
7 38 (3.30%) GitHub
8 34 (2.95%) IaaS
9 29 (2.52%) Rubrik
10 26 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
11 22 (1.91%) GitHub Actions
12 18 (1.56%) OneDrive
12 18 (1.56%) PaaS
13 16 (1.39%) SaaS
14 14 (1.22%) Azure Monitor
15 13 (1.13%) Nutanix
15 13 (1.13%) Power Platform
15 13 (1.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 12 (1.04%) Datadog
17 11 (0.95%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 320 (27.78%) DNS
2 215 (18.66%) Firewall
3 197 (17.10%) DHCP
4 113 (9.81%) TCP/IP
5 85 (7.38%) VSAN
6 84 (7.29%) VPN
6 84 (7.29%) WAN
7 81 (7.03%) SAN
8 77 (6.68%) VLAN
9 75 (6.51%) LAN
10 70 (6.08%) Network Security
11 48 (4.17%) SSL
12 42 (3.65%) BGP
12 42 (3.65%) NAS
13 41 (3.56%) HTTP
14 37 (3.21%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 36 (3.13%) Wi-Fi
16 33 (2.86%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
17 31 (2.69%) SD-WAN
18 29 (2.52%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (5.47%) SQL Server
2 14 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 13 (1.13%) Power BI
4 10 (0.87%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 10 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 9 (0.78%) Big Data
5 9 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
5 9 (0.78%) NoSQL
6 8 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
7 7 (0.61%) Apache Cassandra
8 6 (0.52%) Hadoop
8 6 (0.52%) MongoDB
9 4 (0.35%) Hazelcast
10 3 (0.26%) NonStop SQL
10 3 (0.26%) Oracle BI EE
10 3 (0.26%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (0.17%) Data Mining
11 2 (0.17%) GIS
11 2 (0.17%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.087%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 47 (4.08%) JIRA
2 43 (3.73%) GitLab
3 31 (2.69%) Jenkins
4 30 (2.60%) Git
5 12 (1.04%) Fiddler
6 7 (0.61%) Bitbucket
6 7 (0.61%) Rational DOORS
7 6 (0.52%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (0.35%) Chocolatey
9 4 (0.35%) CppUnit
9 4 (0.35%) PVCS
9 4 (0.35%) Selenium
10 2 (0.17%) MSI
10 2 (0.17%) Subversion
11 1 (0.087%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.087%) Postman
11 1 (0.087%) Robot Framework
General
1 246 (21.35%) Social Skills
2 131 (11.37%) Finance
3 118 (10.24%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (4.51%) Documentation Skills
5 39 (3.39%) Public Sector
6 35 (3.04%) Banking
7 32 (2.78%) Telecoms
8 24 (2.08%) Legal
9 13 (1.13%) Aerospace
10 12 (1.04%) Financial Institution
10 12 (1.04%) Investment Banking
11 10 (0.87%) Manufacturing
11 10 (0.87%) Retail
12 9 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (0.78%) Law
12 9 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
12 9 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
13 8 (0.69%) Military
14 7 (0.61%) Back Office
14 7 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 255 (22.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 161 (13.98%) Senior
3 115 (9.98%) Architect
4 111 (9.64%) VMware Engineer
5 82 (7.12%) Network Engineer
6 75 (6.51%) Cloud Engineer
7 67 (5.82%) Lead
8 66 (5.73%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 66 (5.73%) Support Engineer
9 56 (4.86%) Consultant
10 49 (4.25%) Platform Engineer
11 46 (3.99%) Administrator
12 41 (3.56%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 41 (3.56%) Storage Engineer
13 35 (3.04%) VMware Consultant
14 32 (2.78%) Senior VMware Engineer
15 31 (2.69%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
16 30 (2.60%) Linux Engineer
17 26 (2.26%) IT Engineer
18 25 (2.17%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (13.54%) Terraform
2 27 (2.34%) REST
3 21 (1.82%) JSON
3 21 (1.82%) Kafka
4 18 (1.56%) LDAP
5 15 (1.30%) YAML
6 12 (1.04%) 802.1X
6 12 (1.04%) XMPP
7 10 (0.87%) Middleware
8 8 (0.69%) Elastic Stack
9 7 (0.61%) Regular Expression
10 6 (0.52%) ARM Templates
10 6 (0.52%) Flash
11 5 (0.43%) .NET
12 4 (0.35%) Pulumi
12 4 (0.35%) Redfish
12 4 (0.35%) SAML
13 3 (0.26%) Java SE
13 3 (0.26%) Keycloak
13 3 (0.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 184 (15.97%) Data Centre
2 89 (7.73%) Hybrid Cloud
3 82 (7.12%) PKI
4 53 (4.60%) Enterprise Storage
4 53 (4.60%) Private Cloud
5 48 (4.17%) Management Information System
6 46 (3.99%) Onboarding
7 44 (3.82%) Replication
8 43 (3.73%) Clustering
9 34 (2.95%) Public Cloud
10 30 (2.60%) Cloud Native
11 18 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
11 18 (1.56%) Video Conferencing
12 17 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
12 17 (1.48%) Linux Command Line
12 17 (1.48%) Operational Technology
13 15 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
14 14 (1.22%) Product Ownership
14 14 (1.22%) SCADA
15 11 (0.95%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 589 (51.13%) Windows
2 387 (33.59%) Windows Server
3 302 (26.22%) Linux
4 64 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 47 (4.08%) Windows Server 2019
6 37 (3.21%) Windows 10
7 24 (2.08%) VMS
8 23 (2.00%) Unix
9 22 (1.91%) Windows Server 2012
10 20 (1.74%) Windows Server 2016
11 17 (1.48%) Ubuntu
12 14 (1.22%) Windows Server 2008
13 13 (1.13%) Data ONTAP
14 12 (1.04%) AIX
14 12 (1.04%) CentOS
15 11 (0.95%) Solaris
16 10 (0.87%) Apple iOS
16 10 (0.87%) Windows 7
17 8 (0.69%) Mac OS
18 5 (0.43%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 347 (30.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 206 (17.88%) ITIL
3 205 (17.80%) Problem-Solving
4 199 (17.27%) Migration
5 176 (15.28%) Infrastructure as Code
6 164 (14.24%) Technical Leadership
7 144 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
8 137 (11.89%) CI/CD
9 118 (10.24%) Change Management
10 107 (9.29%) ITSM
11 106 (9.20%) High Availability
11 106 (9.20%) Stakeholder Management
12 104 (9.03%) DevOps
13 102 (8.85%) Continuous Improvement
13 102 (8.85%) Service Management
14 100 (8.68%) Platform Engineering
15 98 (8.51%) Project Delivery
16 95 (8.25%) Agile
17 90 (7.81%) Root Cause Analysis
18 87 (7.55%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 254 (22.05%) PowerShell
2 143 (12.41%) Python
3 92 (7.99%) Bash
4 67 (5.82%) SQL
5 21 (1.82%) Java
6 16 (1.39%) JavaScript
7 12 (1.04%) Bicep
8 11 (0.95%) C
9 10 (0.87%) Shell Script
10 7 (0.61%) VB
11 6 (0.52%) Go
11 6 (0.52%) VBScript
12 5 (0.43%) C++
13 4 (0.35%) C#
13 4 (0.35%) MATLAB
14 3 (0.26%) Embedded C
14 3 (0.26%) Korn
14 3 (0.26%) Lua
14 3 (0.26%) PL/SQL
15 1 (0.087%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 560 (48.61%) Security Cleared
2 316 (27.43%) SC Cleared
3 271 (23.52%) DV Cleared
4 79 (6.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 72 (6.25%) Degree
6 60 (5.21%) Cisco Certification
7 41 (3.56%) VCAP
8 39 (3.39%) Microsoft Certification
9 35 (3.04%) CCNP
10 34 (2.95%) Azure Certification
11 25 (2.17%) CCNA
12 23 (2.00%) MCSE
13 21 (1.82%) AWS Certification
14 16 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
14 16 (1.39%) MCSA
15 14 (1.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 11 (0.95%) PMI Certification
17 10 (0.87%) PMP
18 9 (0.78%) CCIE
18 9 (0.78%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (3.13%) SLA
2 20 (1.74%) NIST
2 20 (1.74%) QA
3 17 (1.48%) NCSC
4 15 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials
4 15 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 5 (0.43%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.35%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 4 (0.35%) GxP
7 4 (0.35%) NIST 800
8 3 (0.26%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
8 3 (0.26%) GRC
8 3 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 19770
9 2 (0.17%) GDPR
9 2 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.17%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.087%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.087%) HL7
System Software
1 815 (70.75%) VMware Infrastructure
2 366 (31.77%) Active Directory
3 242 (21.01%) vSphere
4 240 (20.83%) VMware ESXi
5 206 (17.88%) VMware NSX
6 192 (16.67%) Hyper-V
7 89 (7.73%) Virtual Machines
8 65 (5.64%) Docker
9 40 (3.47%) Virtual Desktop
10 35 (3.04%) Firmware
11 25 (2.17%) vCloud
12 23 (2.00%) NFS
13 19 (1.65%) Virtual Servers
14 16 (1.39%) KVM
15 13 (1.13%) Citrix Hypervisor
16 11 (0.95%) BitLocker
17 10 (0.87%) XenApp
18 9 (0.78%) Microsoft Virtual Server
18 9 (0.78%) XenDesktop
19 7 (0.61%) oVirt
Systems Management
1 184 (15.97%) Ansible
2 175 (15.19%) vCenter Server
3 147 (12.76%) Kubernetes
4 77 (6.68%) SCOM
5 70 (6.08%) SCCM
6 58 (5.03%) Microsoft Intune
7 42 (3.65%) vRealize
8 37 (3.21%) VxRail
9 26 (2.26%) Prometheus
10 23 (2.00%) Grafana
11 22 (1.91%) Puppet
12 20 (1.74%) PowerCLI
12 20 (1.74%) Red Hat Satellite
13 18 (1.56%) Nagios
14 17 (1.48%) Avamar
14 17 (1.48%) NetBackup
14 17 (1.48%) vMotion
15 16 (1.39%) Cisco CUCM
16 15 (1.30%) Podman
16 15 (1.30%) WSUS
Vendors
1 324 (28.13%) Microsoft
2 199 (17.27%) Cisco
3 89 (7.73%) Citrix
4 81 (7.03%) NetApp
5 76 (6.60%) Red Hat
6 64 (5.56%) Dell
7 59 (5.12%) ServiceNow
8 53 (4.60%) SolarWinds
9 50 (4.34%) F5
10 42 (3.65%) Oracle
10 42 (3.65%) Veeam
11 38 (3.30%) Palo Alto
12 33 (2.86%) Fortinet
12 33 (2.86%) Juniper
13 28 (2.43%) IBM
14 27 (2.34%) CyberArk
15 24 (2.08%) Broadcom
16 22 (1.91%) Meraki
17 20 (1.74%) Remedy
18 19 (1.65%) McAfee