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 July 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 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 84 60
Rank change year-on-year -18 -24 -5
Contract jobs citing VMware 1,047 766 1,252
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.36% 2.88% 3.37%
As % of the Vendors category 5.77% 6.08% 7.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 716 509 865
10th Percentile £350 £350 £300
25th Percentile £450 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £508
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +8.37% -3.33%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £575
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £500
% change year-on-year -2.33% +7.50% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 5 33
10th Percentile £20.60 £28.80 £22.32
25th Percentile £29.00 £30.00 £35.58
Median hourly rate £51.00 £32.77 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +55.63% -18.08% -25.02%
75th Percentile £71.50 £41.97 £71.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £52.04 £74.25
UK median hourly rate £51.00 £32.77 £40.25
% change year-on-year +55.63% -18.58% -32.92%

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 18,130 12,602 15,913
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 40.86% 47.42% 42.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,504 7,974 10,095
10th Percentile £313 £280 £275
25th Percentile £413 £402 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -0.49% -1.90%
75th Percentile £609 £625 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £501 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +0.10% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 979 585 1,051
10th Percentile £16.07 £14.84 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.40 £17.61 £15.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £25.30 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.34% +1.20% -30.56%
75th Percentile £65.00 £52.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £25.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +35.15% +0.60% -38.27%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 +7 312 £550 -3.25% 100
London -35 264 £550 +4.76% 82
North of England -20 182 £469 +4.22% 61
Midlands -24 121 £450 -15.89% 39
South West -35 105 £550 -6.38% 48
North West -2 100 £458 +1.67% 33
West Midlands -31 90 £450 -10.00% 23
Yorkshire -17 79 £500 +9.29% 18
East of England -19 60 £507 -7.82% 25
East Midlands -5 31 £450 -18.18% 16
North East -43 4 £569 +59.09% 12
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 46 (4.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (2.29%) SharePoint
3 9 (0.86%) CICS
3 9 (0.86%) IIS
3 9 (0.86%) nginx
3 9 (0.86%) Tomcat
4 6 (0.57%) Confluence
4 6 (0.57%) OpenStack
5 5 (0.48%) Apache
6 3 (0.29%) CloudStack
6 3 (0.29%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.19%) CMS
7 2 (0.19%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.096%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.096%) FactoryTalk
Applications
1 9 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.57%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.096%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.096%) Houdini
4 1 (0.096%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 3 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.096%) Shopify
2 1 (0.096%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 264 (25.21%) Azure
2 164 (15.66%) AWS
3 79 (7.55%) Microsoft 365
4 57 (5.44%) Entra ID
5 55 (5.25%) OpenShift
6 41 (3.92%) IaaS
7 39 (3.72%) GCP
7 39 (3.72%) GitHub
8 29 (2.77%) PaaS
9 28 (2.67%) Rubrik
10 18 (1.72%) SaaS
11 17 (1.62%) Nutanix
12 16 (1.53%) Azure DevOps
13 12 (1.15%) Azure Monitor
13 12 (1.15%) GitHub Actions
14 11 (1.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 10 (0.96%) Datadog
16 9 (0.86%) Amazon EC2
16 9 (0.86%) Azure Sentinel
16 9 (0.86%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 240 (22.92%) DNS
2 184 (17.57%) Firewall
3 125 (11.94%) DHCP
4 92 (8.79%) SAN
5 86 (8.21%) VPN
6 85 (8.12%) WAN
7 80 (7.64%) VSAN
8 68 (6.49%) LAN
9 65 (6.21%) Network Security
10 63 (6.02%) TCP/IP
11 56 (5.35%) VLAN
12 51 (4.87%) NAS
13 47 (4.49%) SSL
14 39 (3.72%) BIG-IP
15 36 (3.44%) BGP
16 35 (3.34%) Cisco Nexus
16 35 (3.34%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 35 (3.34%) HTTP
17 34 (3.25%) Wireshark
18 32 (3.06%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (3.44%) SQL Server
2 14 (1.34%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (0.86%) DataStage
4 8 (0.76%) NonStop SQL
5 7 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (0.67%) NoSQL
6 6 (0.57%) Power BI
7 5 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (0.38%) Oracle BI EE
8 4 (0.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (0.29%) Big Data
9 3 (0.29%) Data Mining
9 3 (0.29%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.19%) Redis
11 1 (0.096%) GIS
11 1 (0.096%) Metadata
11 1 (0.096%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 39 (3.72%) Jenkins
2 30 (2.87%) JIRA
3 24 (2.29%) GitLab
4 23 (2.20%) Git
5 21 (2.01%) Fiddler
6 7 (0.67%) Chocolatey
7 6 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (0.57%) Team Foundation Server
8 5 (0.48%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.38%) Robot Framework
10 3 (0.29%) MSI
10 3 (0.29%) Subversion
11 2 (0.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.096%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.096%) GoCD
12 1 (0.096%) Maven
12 1 (0.096%) Postman
12 1 (0.096%) Rational DOORS
12 1 (0.096%) RStudio
12 1 (0.096%) VersionOne
General
1 223 (21.30%) Social Skills
2 116 (11.08%) Finance
3 92 (8.79%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (5.92%) Public Sector
5 42 (4.01%) Banking
6 38 (3.63%) Documentation Skills
7 25 (2.39%) Legal
8 18 (1.72%) Investment Banking
8 18 (1.72%) Telecoms
9 15 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (1.15%) Retail
11 11 (1.05%) Financial Institution
11 11 (1.05%) Military
12 10 (0.96%) Police
13 8 (0.76%) Manufacturing
14 6 (0.57%) Law
15 5 (0.48%) Aerospace
15 5 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 5 (0.48%) Local Government
15 5 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 212 (20.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 149 (14.23%) Architect
3 106 (10.12%) Senior
4 96 (9.17%) VMware Engineer
5 84 (8.02%) Network Engineer
6 62 (5.92%) Consultant
7 46 (4.39%) Support Engineer
8 45 (4.30%) Cloud Engineer
9 40 (3.82%) VMware Consultant
10 37 (3.53%) Administrator
10 37 (3.53%) Lead
11 36 (3.44%) VMware Architect
12 33 (3.15%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 31 (2.96%) Storage Engineer
14 30 (2.87%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 30 (2.87%) Technical Architect
15 28 (2.67%) Senior VMware Engineer
16 26 (2.48%) Analyst
16 26 (2.48%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
17 24 (2.29%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (2.10%) LDAP
2 17 (1.62%) Flash
2 17 (1.62%) Middleware
3 12 (1.15%) OpenTelemetry
3 12 (1.15%) REST
4 10 (0.96%) 802.1X
5 9 (0.86%) SAML
6 7 (0.67%) Keycloak
7 6 (0.57%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (0.48%) .NET
8 5 (0.48%) JSON
9 4 (0.38%) Redfish
9 4 (0.38%) Software Packaging
10 3 (0.29%) Apache NiFi
11 2 (0.19%) .NET Core
11 2 (0.19%) Django
11 2 (0.19%) Java SE
11 2 (0.19%) Kafka
11 2 (0.19%) OAuth2
11 2 (0.19%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 143 (13.66%) Data Centre
2 71 (6.78%) Hybrid Cloud
3 66 (6.30%) PKI
3 66 (6.30%) Replication
4 46 (4.39%) Enterprise Storage
5 41 (3.92%) Management Information System
6 37 (3.53%) Cloud Native
7 35 (3.34%) Clustering
7 35 (3.34%) Public Cloud
8 32 (3.06%) Private Cloud
9 22 (2.10%) Linux Command Line
10 18 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
11 17 (1.62%) Onboarding
12 15 (1.43%) Blackberry
12 15 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
13 12 (1.15%) Virtual Team
14 11 (1.05%) BYOD
14 11 (1.05%) Product Ownership
14 11 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
15 10 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 446 (42.60%) Windows
2 279 (26.65%) Windows Server
3 262 (25.02%) Linux
4 59 (5.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 44 (4.20%) Windows Server 2019
6 27 (2.58%) Windows Server 2016
7 24 (2.29%) Unix
8 21 (2.01%) Ubuntu
8 21 (2.01%) VMS
8 21 (2.01%) Windows 10
9 20 (1.91%) Apple iOS
10 17 (1.62%) AIX
10 17 (1.62%) Data ONTAP
10 17 (1.62%) Solaris
11 16 (1.53%) Windows Server 2012
12 15 (1.43%) Android
13 14 (1.34%) CentOS
14 9 (0.86%) Mac OS
15 8 (0.76%) Windows Server 2003
15 8 (0.76%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 269 (25.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 190 (18.15%) Migration
3 180 (17.19%) Problem-Solving
4 130 (12.42%) ITIL
5 129 (12.32%) High Availability
6 105 (10.03%) Disaster Recovery
7 100 (9.55%) CI/CD
8 98 (9.36%) DevOps
9 97 (9.26%) Infrastructure as Code
10 90 (8.60%) Agile
11 80 (7.64%) Stakeholder Management
12 76 (7.26%) Load Balancing
13 75 (7.16%) Change Management
14 68 (6.49%) ITSM
14 68 (6.49%) Validation
15 67 (6.40%) Continuous Improvement
16 66 (6.30%) Capacity Planning
16 66 (6.30%) Technical Leadership
17 60 (5.73%) Performance Tuning
18 59 (5.64%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 189 (18.05%) PowerShell
2 122 (11.65%) Python
3 60 (5.73%) Bash
4 47 (4.49%) SQL
5 22 (2.10%) JavaScript
6 11 (1.05%) Java
7 9 (0.86%) COBOL
7 9 (0.86%) Shell Script
8 7 (0.67%) PL/SQL
9 6 (0.57%) Bicep
9 6 (0.57%) MATLAB
10 5 (0.48%) T-SQL
11 4 (0.38%) C
11 4 (0.38%) C#
11 4 (0.38%) PHP
12 2 (0.19%) VBScript
13 1 (0.096%) Korn
13 1 (0.096%) Lua
13 1 (0.096%) Perl
13 1 (0.096%) VB
Qualifications
1 485 (46.32%) Security Cleared
2 293 (27.98%) SC Cleared
3 216 (20.63%) DV Cleared
4 82 (7.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 50 (4.78%) Cisco Certification
5 50 (4.78%) Degree
6 41 (3.92%) Microsoft Certification
7 35 (3.34%) CCNP
8 29 (2.77%) VCAP
9 28 (2.67%) MCSE
10 24 (2.29%) Azure Certification
11 18 (1.72%) MCSA
12 16 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
12 16 (1.53%) CCNA
13 15 (1.43%) Oracle Certification
14 12 (1.15%) OCP
15 9 (0.86%) AWS Certification
16 8 (0.76%) ISTQB
16 8 (0.76%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
16 8 (0.76%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (3.72%) SLA
2 34 (3.25%) NIST
3 24 (2.29%) NCSC
4 21 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 19 (1.81%) Cyber Essentials
6 10 (0.96%) QA
7 7 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (0.38%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
9 3 (0.29%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.19%) GDPR
10 2 (0.19%) ISA99
10 2 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.096%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.096%) Def Stans
11 1 (0.096%) DICOM
11 1 (0.096%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.096%) HL7
11 1 (0.096%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.096%) SOC 2
System Software
1 684 (65.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 260 (24.83%) Active Directory
3 226 (21.59%) VMware NSX
4 221 (21.11%) vSphere
5 218 (20.82%) VMware ESXi
6 139 (13.28%) Hyper-V
7 92 (8.79%) Virtual Machines
8 39 (3.72%) Docker
9 38 (3.63%) Virtual Desktop
10 37 (3.53%) Firmware
10 37 (3.53%) NFS
11 25 (2.39%) vCloud
12 23 (2.20%) KVM
13 13 (1.24%) Microsoft App-V
14 12 (1.15%) GPFS
15 11 (1.05%) BitLocker
16 9 (0.86%) VMware Workstation
17 7 (0.67%) UAG
18 6 (0.57%) Oracle RAC
18 6 (0.57%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 181 (17.29%) vCenter Server
2 175 (16.71%) Ansible
3 108 (10.32%) Terraform
4 95 (9.07%) Kubernetes
5 69 (6.59%) Microsoft Intune
6 66 (6.30%) vRealize
7 55 (5.25%) SCCM
8 46 (4.39%) SCOM
9 29 (2.77%) VxRail
10 28 (2.67%) Argo
10 28 (2.67%) Grafana
11 27 (2.58%) PowerCLI
11 27 (2.58%) vMotion
12 20 (1.91%) NetBackup
12 20 (1.91%) Single Sign-On
13 18 (1.72%) Puppet
14 17 (1.62%) Red Hat Satellite
15 16 (1.53%) Prometheus
15 16 (1.53%) WSUS
16 15 (1.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 256 (24.45%) Microsoft
2 183 (17.48%) Cisco
3 106 (10.12%) Citrix
4 73 (6.97%) NetApp
4 73 (6.97%) Red Hat
5 57 (5.44%) F5
6 56 (5.35%) Dell
7 43 (4.11%) Palo Alto
7 43 (4.11%) ServiceNow
8 40 (3.82%) Pure Storage
9 39 (3.72%) IBM
10 36 (3.44%) Juniper
11 35 (3.34%) Oracle
12 33 (3.15%) Veeam
13 32 (3.06%) SolarWinds
14 27 (2.58%) CheckPoint
14 27 (2.58%) Fortinet
15 25 (2.39%) Broadcom
16 24 (2.29%) McAfee
17 22 (2.10%) Blue Coat