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 11 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
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 105 58
Rank change year-on-year +2 -47 -4
Contract jobs citing VMware 1,099 693 1,202
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.41% 2.51% 3.61%
As % of the Vendors category 5.83% 5.31% 8.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 734 437 826
10th Percentile £350 £358 £325
25th Percentile £455 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +6.80% +0.49%
75th Percentile £625 £603 £575
90th Percentile £725 £650 £645
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £513
% change year-on-year -4.55% +7.32% +0.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 6 14
10th Percentile £26.00 £28.50 £23.80
25th Percentile £46.00 £29.25 £26.75
Median hourly rate £63.14 £31.39 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +101.16% -53.50% +27.43%
75th Percentile £74.00 £52.26 £71.25
90th Percentile £94.42 £109.38 £79.40
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £31.39 £64.50
% change year-on-year +101.16% -51.34% +7.50%

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 18,846 13,040 14,528
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.34% 47.19% 43.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,837 8,247 9,243
10th Percentile £313 £278 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.52% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £613 £620 £627
90th Percentile £700 £719 £735
UK median daily rate £507 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +1.40% -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,037 630 758
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.75 £13.69
25th Percentile £18.75 £17.44 £15.62
Median hourly rate £34.00 £25.15 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.19% -16.17% -20.00%
75th Percentile £65.58 £50.00 £62.54
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.69 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £29.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -13.28% -30.12%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 +3 332 £550 -3.25% 116
London -4 299 £550 +4.76% 141
North of England -30 166 £483 +7.69% 72
Midlands -22 116 £450 -18.18% 33
South West -21 115 £550 -8.33% 53
West Midlands -30 90 £474 -16.62% 21
North West 0 88 £482 +13.29% 47
Yorkshire -31 71 £500 +11.11% 15
East of England -2 67 £507 -7.82% 33
East Midlands 0 26 £450 -18.18% 12
North East -39 8 £275 -44.44% 14
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 (5.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 31 (2.82%) SharePoint
3 17 (1.55%) Confluence
4 14 (1.27%) nginx
5 10 (0.91%) IIS
6 9 (0.82%) Apache
6 9 (0.82%) OpenStack
6 9 (0.82%) Tomcat
7 7 (0.64%) Skype for Business
8 6 (0.55%) JBoss
9 4 (0.36%) FactoryTalk
10 3 (0.27%) CICS
10 3 (0.27%) CloudStack
10 3 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2013
10 3 (0.27%) WebLogic
11 2 (0.18%) CMS
12 1 (0.091%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 17 (1.55%) 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 12 (1.09%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.091%) Shopify
2 1 (0.091%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 300 (27.30%) Azure
2 190 (17.29%) AWS
3 93 (8.46%) Microsoft 365
4 75 (6.82%) Entra ID
5 46 (4.19%) OpenShift
6 44 (4.00%) IaaS
7 43 (3.91%) GCP
8 39 (3.55%) GitHub
9 29 (2.64%) Rubrik
10 27 (2.46%) PaaS
11 21 (1.91%) Azure DevOps
12 20 (1.82%) SaaS
13 18 (1.64%) Azure Monitor
13 18 (1.64%) GitHub Actions
13 18 (1.64%) OneDrive
14 14 (1.27%) Datadog
14 14 (1.27%) Power Platform
15 13 (1.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 12 (1.09%) Nutanix
17 11 (1.00%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 292 (26.57%) DNS
2 213 (19.38%) Firewall
3 179 (16.29%) DHCP
4 106 (9.65%) VSAN
5 99 (9.01%) TCP/IP
6 90 (8.19%) VPN
7 84 (7.64%) WAN
8 83 (7.55%) SAN
9 76 (6.92%) VLAN
10 68 (6.19%) LAN
11 65 (5.91%) Network Security
12 49 (4.46%) SSL
13 44 (4.00%) NAS
14 37 (3.37%) BGP
14 37 (3.37%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 34 (3.09%) SD-WAN
16 32 (2.91%) Wi-Fi
17 31 (2.82%) BIG-IP
18 30 (2.73%) Cisco Nexus
18 30 (2.73%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (5.46%) SQL Server
2 13 (1.18%) Power BI
2 13 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 12 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
4 9 (0.82%) NoSQL
4 9 (0.82%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 9 (0.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 8 (0.73%) Big Data
5 8 (0.73%) NonStop SQL
6 7 (0.64%) Apache Cassandra
7 5 (0.45%) Hadoop
8 4 (0.36%) Hazelcast
8 4 (0.36%) Oracle BI EE
8 4 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (0.27%) Data Mining
9 3 (0.27%) DataStage
9 3 (0.27%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.18%) Redis
11 1 (0.091%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 41 (3.73%) JIRA
2 37 (3.37%) Jenkins
3 29 (2.64%) GitLab
4 25 (2.27%) Git
5 16 (1.46%) Fiddler
6 8 (0.73%) Bitbucket
6 8 (0.73%) Chocolatey
7 6 (0.55%) 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 (0.091%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.091%) Maven
12 1 (0.091%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 241 (21.93%) Social Skills
2 118 (10.74%) Analytical Skills
2 118 (10.74%) Finance
3 60 (5.46%) Public Sector
4 45 (4.09%) Banking
5 39 (3.55%) Documentation Skills
6 28 (2.55%) Telecoms
7 24 (2.18%) Legal
8 17 (1.55%) Investment Banking
9 14 (1.27%) Financial Institution
10 13 (1.18%) Manufacturing
10 13 (1.18%) Retail
11 12 (1.09%) Military
12 10 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
14 8 (0.73%) Aerospace
15 6 (0.55%) Law
15 6 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (0.55%) Police
16 4 (0.36%) Games
Job Titles
1 238 (21.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 143 (13.01%) Senior
3 123 (11.19%) Architect
4 109 (9.92%) VMware Engineer
5 87 (7.92%) Network Engineer
6 65 (5.91%) Consultant
7 58 (5.28%) Support Engineer
8 56 (5.10%) Cloud Engineer
9 54 (4.91%) Lead
10 53 (4.82%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 42 (3.82%) Administrator
12 41 (3.73%) VMware Consultant
13 38 (3.46%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 36 (3.28%) Storage Engineer
15 35 (3.18%) Senior VMware Engineer
16 33 (3.00%) Platform Engineer
17 32 (2.91%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
18 30 (2.73%) Azure Engineer
18 30 (2.73%) Linux Engineer
19 28 (2.55%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (1.46%) REST
2 13 (1.18%) Flash
3 12 (1.09%) LDAP
3 12 (1.09%) Middleware
4 9 (0.82%) 802.1X
4 9 (0.82%) Elastic Stack
5 8 (0.73%) JSON
6 7 (0.64%) Kafka
6 7 (0.64%) OpenTelemetry
7 6 (0.55%) YAML
8 5 (0.45%) .NET
8 5 (0.45%) ARM Templates
8 5 (0.45%) SAML
9 4 (0.36%) Keycloak
9 4 (0.36%) Redfish
10 2 (0.18%) Apache NiFi
10 2 (0.18%) ASP.NET
10 2 (0.18%) Blazor
10 2 (0.18%) NETCONF
10 2 (0.18%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 158 (14.38%) Data Centre
2 86 (7.83%) Hybrid Cloud
3 82 (7.46%) PKI
4 52 (4.73%) Replication
5 50 (4.55%) Enterprise Storage
6 49 (4.46%) Clustering
7 44 (4.00%) Management Information System
8 39 (3.55%) Public Cloud
9 31 (2.82%) Private Cloud
10 30 (2.73%) Cloud Native
11 29 (2.64%) Onboarding
12 21 (1.91%) Linux Command Line
13 15 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
14 12 (1.09%) SCADA
14 12 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
15 11 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
15 11 (1.00%) Operational Technology
15 11 (1.00%) Virtual Team
16 10 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
16 10 (0.91%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 526 (47.86%) Windows
2 320 (29.12%) Windows Server
3 299 (27.21%) Linux
4 59 (5.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 51 (4.64%) Windows Server 2019
6 30 (2.73%) Windows 10
7 27 (2.46%) VMS
7 27 (2.46%) Windows Server 2016
8 22 (2.00%) Unix
9 21 (1.91%) Ubuntu
10 19 (1.73%) Windows Server 2012
11 18 (1.64%) Apple iOS
12 15 (1.36%) Data ONTAP
13 14 (1.27%) Windows Server 2008
14 13 (1.18%) AIX
15 11 (1.00%) Android
15 11 (1.00%) CentOS
15 11 (1.00%) Solaris
16 9 (0.82%) Windows 7
17 6 (0.55%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 306 (27.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 200 (18.20%) Problem-Solving
3 195 (17.74%) Migration
4 160 (14.56%) ITIL
5 137 (12.47%) Infrastructure as Code
6 136 (12.37%) High Availability
7 122 (11.10%) CI/CD
8 120 (10.92%) Disaster Recovery
9 113 (10.28%) Technical Leadership
10 100 (9.10%) Agile
11 98 (8.92%) DevOps
12 95 (8.64%) Change Management
12 95 (8.64%) Stakeholder Management
13 88 (8.01%) ITSM
14 83 (7.55%) Continuous Improvement
14 83 (7.55%) Service Management
15 77 (7.01%) Network Virtualisation
16 71 (6.46%) Project Delivery
17 68 (6.19%) Performance Tuning
18 67 (6.10%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 248 (22.57%) PowerShell
2 138 (12.56%) Python
3 97 (8.83%) Bash
4 63 (5.73%) SQL
5 21 (1.91%) JavaScript
6 18 (1.64%) Java
7 9 (0.82%) Bicep
7 9 (0.82%) Shell Script
8 7 (0.64%) C
8 7 (0.64%) PL/SQL
8 7 (0.64%) VBScript
9 6 (0.55%) VB
10 4 (0.36%) C#
10 4 (0.36%) Go
10 4 (0.36%) MATLAB
11 3 (0.27%) C++
11 3 (0.27%) COBOL
11 3 (0.27%) Lua
12 2 (0.18%) Embedded C
12 2 (0.18%) Korn
Qualifications
1 528 (48.04%) Security Cleared
2 313 (28.48%) SC Cleared
3 249 (22.66%) DV Cleared
4 87 (7.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 65 (5.91%) Degree
6 53 (4.82%) Cisco Certification
7 41 (3.73%) Microsoft Certification
7 41 (3.73%) VCAP
8 35 (3.18%) Azure Certification
9 29 (2.64%) CCNP
10 25 (2.27%) MCSE
11 21 (1.91%) CCNA
12 16 (1.46%) AWS Certification
12 16 (1.46%) MCSA
13 12 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
14 11 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
14 11 (1.00%) Oracle Certification
15 9 (0.82%) RHCA
16 8 (0.73%) ISTQB
16 8 (0.73%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (3.91%) SLA
2 25 (2.27%) NIST
3 23 (2.09%) NCSC
4 19 (1.73%) QA
5 16 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (1.36%) 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%) 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 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.18%) JSP 440
10 2 (0.18%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.091%) GRC
11 1 (0.091%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.091%) HL7
11 1 (0.091%) SOC 2
System Software
1 738 (67.15%) VMware Infrastructure
2 309 (28.12%) Active Directory
3 235 (21.38%) VMware NSX
4 232 (21.11%) vSphere
5 230 (20.93%) VMware ESXi
6 160 (14.56%) Hyper-V
7 92 (8.37%) Virtual Machines
8 61 (5.55%) Docker
9 37 (3.37%) Virtual Desktop
10 33 (3.00%) Firmware
11 23 (2.09%) vCloud
12 22 (2.00%) NFS
13 18 (1.64%) KVM
14 13 (1.18%) BitLocker
15 11 (1.00%) Microsoft App-V
16 9 (0.82%) GPFS
16 9 (0.82%) Virtual Servers
16 9 (0.82%) VMware Workstation
17 6 (0.55%) SRDF
17 6 (0.55%) UAG
Systems Management
1 193 (17.56%) Ansible
2 190 (17.29%) vCenter Server
3 153 (13.92%) Terraform
4 117 (10.65%) Kubernetes
5 62 (5.64%) SCOM
6 61 (5.55%) Microsoft Intune
7 57 (5.19%) SCCM
7 57 (5.19%) vRealize
8 37 (3.37%) VxRail
9 26 (2.37%) Grafana
10 24 (2.18%) NetBackup
10 24 (2.18%) PowerCLI
10 24 (2.18%) Puppet
11 22 (2.00%) Argo
12 20 (1.82%) Prometheus
12 20 (1.82%) vMotion
13 19 (1.73%) WSUS
14 18 (1.64%) Avamar
14 18 (1.64%) Red Hat Satellite
15 15 (1.36%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 294 (26.75%) Microsoft
2 187 (17.02%) Cisco
3 95 (8.64%) Citrix
4 78 (7.10%) NetApp
5 70 (6.37%) Red Hat
6 54 (4.91%) Dell
6 54 (4.91%) ServiceNow
7 51 (4.64%) F5
8 46 (4.19%) Palo Alto
9 42 (3.82%) Oracle
10 41 (3.73%) SolarWinds
11 39 (3.55%) Juniper
12 34 (3.09%) Veeam
13 31 (2.82%) Broadcom
13 31 (2.82%) IBM
14 25 (2.27%) Fortinet
15 24 (2.18%) Pure Storage
16 23 (2.09%) CyberArk
17 21 (1.91%) CheckPoint
18 19 (1.73%) HP