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 22 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
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 68 63
Rank change year-on-year -28 -5 -4
Contract jobs citing VMware 926 875 1,271
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.66% 3.38% 3.35%
As % of the Vendors category 5.94% 7.26% 7.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 652 571 844
10th Percentile £325 £285 £264
25th Percentile £425 £413 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £493
Median % change year-on-year - +6.60% -5.29%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +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 £76.46
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 15,599 12,059 16,374
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 44.84% 46.64% 43.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,183 7,419 10,503
10th Percentile £303 £285 £250
25th Percentile £413 £408 £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 £705 £720 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 804 353 874
10th Percentile £15.32 £15.62 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.16 £21.25 £15.45
Median hourly rate £23.83 £31.00 £27.51
Median % change year-on-year -23.15% +12.70% -17.27%
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £56.49
90th Percentile £74.11 £82.15 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £29.07 £26.97
% change year-on-year -17.44% +7.78% -22.47%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 -1 259 £513 -7.95% 106
London -47 232 £550 +4.76% 65
North of England -39 158 £462 +2.56% 69
Midlands -12 123 £406 -22.67% 33
North West -20 104 £460 -8.00% 35
South West -30 95 £550 -4.35% 45
West Midlands -29 92 £394 -23.17% 28
Yorkshire -23 61 £463 +2.89% 31
East of England 0 58 £500 - 19
East Midlands -14 31 £450 -15.13% 5
North East -29 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 47 (5.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 29 (3.13%) SharePoint
3 18 (1.94%) Confluence
4 8 (0.86%) OpenStack
5 7 (0.76%) Skype for Business
6 6 (0.65%) CICS
7 5 (0.54%) SharePoint Server
8 3 (0.32%) Apache
8 3 (0.32%) nginx
9 2 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2010
9 2 (0.22%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.22%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.22%) WordPress
10 1 (0.11%) IIS
10 1 (0.11%) JBoss
10 1 (0.11%) Traefik
10 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 16 (1.73%) MS Visio
2 15 (1.62%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 231 (24.95%) Azure
2 173 (18.68%) AWS
3 80 (8.64%) Microsoft 365
4 77 (8.32%) OpenShift
5 52 (5.62%) GitHub
6 51 (5.51%) Entra ID
7 45 (4.86%) GCP
8 42 (4.54%) IaaS
9 30 (3.24%) Nutanix
10 29 (3.13%) PaaS
11 24 (2.59%) GitHub Actions
12 16 (1.73%) Datadog
13 13 (1.40%) Azure DevOps
14 9 (0.97%) SaaS
15 7 (0.76%) Microsoft Purview
16 6 (0.65%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 6 (0.65%) Azure Sentinel
17 5 (0.54%) AWS CloudFormation
17 5 (0.54%) Azure Monitor
18 4 (0.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 219 (23.65%) DNS
2 176 (19.01%) Firewall
3 101 (10.91%) DHCP
4 79 (8.53%) TCP/IP
5 72 (7.78%) VPN
6 59 (6.37%) SAN
7 57 (6.16%) VSAN
8 52 (5.62%) Network Security
9 49 (5.29%) VLAN
10 44 (4.75%) WAN
11 41 (4.43%) LAN
12 40 (4.32%) SSL
13 38 (4.10%) BIG-IP
14 37 (4.00%) HTTP
15 36 (3.89%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 36 (3.89%) Wireshark
16 34 (3.67%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
17 30 (3.24%) NAS
18 28 (3.02%) BGP
19 18 (1.94%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (4.00%) SQL Server
2 25 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (0.86%) Redis
4 6 (0.65%) DataStage
4 6 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (0.43%) NoSQL
5 4 (0.43%) Oracle Database
6 3 (0.32%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.11%) Power BI
7 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 52 (5.62%) Jenkins
2 32 (3.46%) GitLab
3 27 (2.92%) Fiddler
4 26 (2.81%) Git
5 20 (2.16%) Sonatype Nexus
6 18 (1.94%) JIRA
7 14 (1.51%) Cucumber
7 14 (1.51%) JMeter
7 14 (1.51%) JUnit
8 8 (0.86%) PVCS
8 8 (0.86%) Rational DOORS
9 6 (0.65%) Team Foundation Server
10 4 (0.43%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.43%) Robot Framework
10 4 (0.43%) RStudio
11 3 (0.32%) Chocolatey
11 3 (0.32%) Maven
11 3 (0.32%) Subversion
12 2 (0.22%) TeamCity
13 1 (0.11%) MSI
General
1 201 (21.71%) Social Skills
2 103 (11.12%) Finance
3 102 (11.02%) Analytical Skills
4 96 (10.37%) Public Sector
5 51 (5.51%) Banking
6 40 (4.32%) Documentation Skills
7 25 (2.70%) Investment Banking
8 22 (2.38%) Aerospace
8 22 (2.38%) Legal
9 19 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
10 14 (1.51%) Local Government
11 12 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 12 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
12 11 (1.19%) Electronics
13 10 (1.08%) Military
14 7 (0.76%) Police
15 6 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (0.65%) Telecoms
16 5 (0.54%) Fire and Rescue
17 4 (0.43%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 155 (16.74%) Architect
2 142 (15.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 66 (7.13%) Network Engineer
4 61 (6.59%) VMware Engineer
5 59 (6.37%) Analyst
6 57 (6.16%) Consultant
7 56 (6.05%) Senior
8 48 (5.18%) VMware Consultant
9 46 (4.97%) Platform Engineer
10 41 (4.43%) Support Engineer
11 35 (3.78%) VMware Architect
12 34 (3.67%) Infrastructure Architect
13 32 (3.46%) Infrastructure Analyst
13 32 (3.46%) Lead
14 28 (3.02%) DevOps Engineer
14 28 (3.02%) Web Engineer
15 25 (2.70%) Technical Architect
16 23 (2.48%) Developer
16 23 (2.48%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
16 23 (2.48%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (2.59%) Kafka
2 23 (2.48%) Middleware
3 21 (2.27%) LDAP
4 18 (1.94%) Flash
5 16 (1.73%) SAML
6 14 (1.51%) Spring
7 13 (1.40%) Hibernate
8 12 (1.30%) Keycloak
9 11 (1.19%) OpenID
10 10 (1.08%) OAuth
10 10 (1.08%) OpenTelemetry
10 10 (1.08%) REST
11 9 (0.97%) Loki
12 7 (0.76%) Elastic Stack
12 7 (0.76%) OAuth2
13 6 (0.65%) XMPP
14 5 (0.54%) React
14 5 (0.54%) Software Packaging
15 4 (0.43%) .NET
15 4 (0.43%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 86 (9.29%) Data Centre
2 71 (7.67%) Replication
3 69 (7.45%) PKI
4 50 (5.40%) Cloud Native
5 43 (4.64%) Hybrid Cloud
6 37 (4.00%) Management Information System
7 30 (3.24%) Private Cloud
8 29 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
9 25 (2.70%) Public Cloud
10 21 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
11 19 (2.05%) Analytical Mindset
12 18 (1.94%) Operational Technology
13 17 (1.84%) Clustering
14 15 (1.62%) Product Ownership
15 13 (1.40%) Onboarding
16 11 (1.19%) Enterprise Storage
16 11 (1.19%) Fat Client
16 11 (1.19%) Thin Client
17 10 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
17 10 (1.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 344 (37.15%) Windows
2 276 (29.81%) Linux
3 199 (21.49%) Windows Server
4 70 (7.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 37 (4.00%) Windows 10
6 27 (2.92%) Windows Server 2019
7 25 (2.70%) Windows Server 2016
8 21 (2.27%) Ubuntu
9 17 (1.84%) Windows Server 2012
10 16 (1.73%) Mac OS
11 15 (1.62%) VMS
12 14 (1.51%) CentOS
12 14 (1.51%) Solaris
12 14 (1.51%) Unix
13 12 (1.30%) Windows 7
14 10 (1.08%) Android
14 10 (1.08%) Apple iOS
15 8 (0.86%) AIX
16 6 (0.65%) Windows Server 2003
17 4 (0.43%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (20.63%) Problem-Solving
2 184 (19.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 141 (15.23%) Migration
4 135 (14.58%) Agile
5 119 (12.85%) ITIL
6 113 (12.20%) DevOps
7 111 (11.99%) CI/CD
8 94 (10.15%) Load Balancing
9 90 (9.72%) Disaster Recovery
10 77 (8.32%) Containerisation
10 77 (8.32%) High Availability
11 76 (8.21%) Infrastructure as Code
12 72 (7.78%) Platform Engineering
13 62 (6.70%) Continuous Improvement
14 60 (6.48%) Cybersecurity
15 58 (6.26%) Roadmaps
16 57 (6.16%) Stakeholder Management
17 53 (5.72%) Service Management
18 52 (5.62%) Change Management
19 46 (4.97%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 182 (19.65%) PowerShell
2 175 (18.90%) Python
3 98 (10.58%) Bash
4 32 (3.46%) SQL
5 21 (2.27%) Java
5 21 (2.27%) JavaScript
6 19 (2.05%) Perl
7 12 (1.30%) Shell Script
8 11 (1.19%) C
9 9 (0.97%) T-SQL
10 8 (0.86%) C#
10 8 (0.86%) C++
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%) PHP
14 3 (0.32%) Korn
15 2 (0.22%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 404 (43.63%) Security Cleared
2 248 (26.78%) SC Cleared
3 146 (15.77%) DV Cleared
4 60 (6.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 56 (6.05%) Microsoft Certification
6 45 (4.86%) Degree
7 40 (4.32%) Cisco Certification
8 34 (3.67%) Azure Certification
9 33 (3.56%) CCNP
10 24 (2.59%) MCSE
11 22 (2.38%) CCNA
12 21 (2.27%) VCAP
13 19 (2.05%) AWS Certification
14 14 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
15 13 (1.40%) MCSA
16 11 (1.19%) CCDP
16 11 (1.19%) Network+ Certification
16 11 (1.19%) Server+ Certification
17 9 (0.97%) CCIE
18 8 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (2.92%) NIST
2 24 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (2.16%) GDPR
4 19 (2.05%) SLA
5 18 (1.94%) Cyber Essentials
6 14 (1.51%) NCSC
7 9 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 8 (0.86%) Def Stans
9 6 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (0.54%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.43%) QA
12 2 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 2 (0.22%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.11%) Accessibility
13 1 (0.11%) COBIT
13 1 (0.11%) Data Quality
13 1 (0.11%) Government Security Classifications
13 1 (0.11%) JSP 440
13 1 (0.11%) MiFID
13 1 (0.11%) PMO
System Software
1 572 (61.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 236 (25.49%) Active Directory
3 179 (19.33%) vSphere
4 149 (16.09%) VMware NSX
5 115 (12.42%) Hyper-V
6 101 (10.91%) VMware ESXi
7 60 (6.48%) Virtual Machines
8 54 (5.83%) Docker
9 38 (4.10%) NFS
10 27 (2.92%) Virtual Desktop
11 23 (2.48%) Firmware
12 18 (1.94%) KVM
13 15 (1.62%) GPFS
14 9 (0.97%) vCloud
15 7 (0.76%) Virtual Servers
16 5 (0.54%) BitLocker
16 5 (0.54%) Microsoft App-V
16 5 (0.54%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 3 (0.32%) DFS Replication
18 2 (0.22%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 173 (18.68%) Ansible
2 112 (12.10%) Terraform
3 101 (10.91%) vCenter Server
4 100 (10.80%) Kubernetes
5 79 (8.53%) Microsoft Intune
6 72 (7.78%) SCCM
7 69 (7.45%) vRealize
8 39 (4.21%) Argo
9 37 (4.00%) Grafana
10 32 (3.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 31 (3.35%) Single Sign-On
12 27 (2.92%) Red Hat Satellite
12 27 (2.92%) VxRail
13 25 (2.70%) Prometheus
14 24 (2.59%) SCOM
15 17 (1.84%) Progress Chef
16 15 (1.62%) FortiGate
17 14 (1.51%) vMotion
18 11 (1.19%) Podman
18 11 (1.19%) WSUS
Vendors
1 242 (26.13%) Microsoft
2 155 (16.74%) Cisco
3 105 (11.34%) Red Hat
4 82 (8.86%) Citrix
4 82 (8.86%) F5
5 48 (5.18%) IBM
6 47 (5.08%) Dell
7 42 (4.54%) SolarWinds
8 39 (4.21%) Pure Storage
9 38 (4.10%) NetApp
9 38 (4.10%) Veeam
10 37 (4.00%) Oracle
10 37 (4.00%) Palo Alto
11 35 (3.78%) McAfee
12 34 (3.67%) Blue Coat
12 34 (3.67%) ServiceNow
13 29 (3.13%) Splunk
14 23 (2.48%) Commvault
15 20 (2.16%) HP
16 16 (1.73%) Juniper