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 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
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 105 58
Rank change year-on-year -1 -47 -2
Contract jobs citing VMware 1,124 700 1,188
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.46% 2.54% 3.58%
As % of the Vendors category 5.92% 5.39% 8.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 749 445 804
10th Percentile £325 £350 £325
25th Percentile £450 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +6.80% +1.98%
75th Percentile £625 £603 £575
90th Percentile £725 £650 £648
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £513
% change year-on-year -4.55% +7.32% +0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 8 14
10th Percentile £27.80 £28.70 £22.82
25th Percentile £46.38 £29.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £65.24 £31.39 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year +107.87% -46.58% +0.65%
75th Percentile £75.00 £60.88 £71.25
90th Percentile £95.38 £95.08 £75.98
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £31.39 £50.00
% change year-on-year +101.16% -37.23% -20.00%

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 18,972 12,987 14,487
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.53% 47.14% 43.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,900 8,220 9,114
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.35% -4.62% -
75th Percentile £615 £615 £628
90th Percentile £700 £713 £733
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 640 692
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.75 £13.50
25th Percentile £17.50 £17.49 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.00 £25.15 £29.39
Median % change year-on-year +27.24% -14.41% -29.19%
75th Percentile £65.58 £47.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.65 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £29.07 £25.15 £28.00
% change year-on-year +15.59% -10.18% -36.00%

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 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 26 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 26 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 +1 326 £550 - 80
London +3 306 £550 +4.76% 63
North of England -13 191 £450 +0.67% 41
Midlands -8 122 £450 -21.33% 27
South West -30 111 £575 -1.71% 47
North West +1 110 £466 +9.53% 21
West Midlands -24 96 £462 -19.90% 17
Yorkshire -26 70 £458 +2.01% 12
East of England -7 68 £507 -7.82% 31
East Midlands -2 26 £425 -22.73% 10
North East -33 12 £275 -56.00% 10
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 (5.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 36 (3.20%) SharePoint
3 18 (1.60%) Confluence
4 13 (1.16%) nginx
5 10 (0.89%) OpenStack
6 9 (0.80%) Apache
6 9 (0.80%) IIS
7 8 (0.71%) Tomcat
8 7 (0.62%) JBoss
8 7 (0.62%) Skype for Business
9 4 (0.36%) FactoryTalk
10 3 (0.27%) CloudStack
10 3 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2013
11 2 (0.18%) CICS
11 2 (0.18%) CMS
11 2 (0.18%) WebLogic
12 1 (0.089%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 16 (1.42%) 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 13 (1.16%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.089%) Shopify
2 1 (0.089%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 312 (27.76%) Azure
2 198 (17.62%) AWS
3 102 (9.07%) Microsoft 365
4 81 (7.21%) Entra ID
5 46 (4.09%) GCP
6 41 (3.65%) IaaS
7 39 (3.47%) OpenShift
8 36 (3.20%) GitHub
9 29 (2.58%) Rubrik
10 25 (2.22%) PaaS
11 22 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
12 20 (1.78%) SaaS
13 18 (1.60%) Azure Monitor
13 18 (1.60%) GitHub Actions
13 18 (1.60%) OneDrive
14 15 (1.33%) Nutanix
15 14 (1.25%) Power Platform
16 13 (1.16%) Datadog
16 13 (1.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 11 (0.98%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 307 (27.31%) DNS
2 217 (19.31%) Firewall
3 187 (16.64%) DHCP
4 100 (8.90%) VSAN
5 99 (8.81%) TCP/IP
6 92 (8.19%) VPN
7 87 (7.74%) WAN
8 80 (7.12%) SAN
9 79 (7.03%) VLAN
10 73 (6.49%) Network Security
11 69 (6.14%) LAN
12 46 (4.09%) SSL
13 44 (3.91%) NAS
14 43 (3.83%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 36 (3.20%) BIG-IP
16 35 (3.11%) BGP
16 35 (3.11%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
17 34 (3.02%) SD-WAN
17 34 (3.02%) Wi-Fi
18 29 (2.58%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (5.60%) SQL Server
2 13 (1.16%) Power BI
2 13 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 11 (0.98%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (0.89%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 10 (0.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 9 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (0.80%) Big Data
5 9 (0.80%) NoSQL
6 8 (0.71%) NonStop SQL
7 7 (0.62%) Apache Cassandra
8 6 (0.53%) Hadoop
9 4 (0.36%) Hazelcast
9 4 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (0.27%) Data Mining
10 3 (0.27%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.27%) Oracle BI EE
11 2 (0.18%) DataStage
11 2 (0.18%) GIS
11 2 (0.18%) Redis
Development Applications
1 40 (3.56%) JIRA
2 32 (2.85%) GitLab
3 31 (2.76%) Jenkins
4 25 (2.22%) Git
5 16 (1.42%) Fiddler
6 7 (0.62%) Bitbucket
6 7 (0.62%) Chocolatey
7 5 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 5 (0.44%) Rational DOORS
7 5 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (0.36%) Selenium
9 3 (0.27%) Subversion
10 2 (0.18%) CppUnit
10 2 (0.18%) MSI
10 2 (0.18%) PVCS
10 2 (0.18%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.089%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.089%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.089%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (0.089%) VersionOne
General
1 242 (21.53%) Social Skills
2 126 (11.21%) Finance
3 113 (10.05%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (4.36%) Public Sector
5 43 (3.83%) Banking
6 42 (3.74%) Documentation Skills
7 29 (2.58%) Telecoms
8 26 (2.31%) Legal
9 17 (1.51%) Investment Banking
10 14 (1.25%) Financial Institution
11 13 (1.16%) Manufacturing
11 13 (1.16%) Retail
12 11 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (0.89%) Military
13 10 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
14 9 (0.80%) Aerospace
15 8 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
16 6 (0.53%) Law
16 6 (0.53%) Police
17 4 (0.36%) Games
Job Titles
1 243 (21.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 152 (13.52%) Senior
3 118 (10.50%) VMware Engineer
4 112 (9.96%) Architect
5 91 (8.10%) Network Engineer
6 63 (5.60%) Cloud Engineer
7 61 (5.43%) Consultant
7 61 (5.43%) Support Engineer
8 58 (5.16%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 57 (5.07%) Lead
10 45 (4.00%) Administrator
11 40 (3.56%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 40 (3.56%) Platform Engineer
12 37 (3.29%) Senior VMware Engineer
12 37 (3.29%) Storage Engineer
12 37 (3.29%) VMware Consultant
13 34 (3.02%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
14 31 (2.76%) Azure Engineer
15 30 (2.67%) Linux Engineer
16 29 (2.58%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (13.35%) Terraform
2 20 (1.78%) REST
3 12 (1.07%) Kafka
3 12 (1.07%) LDAP
4 11 (0.98%) JSON
5 10 (0.89%) 802.1X
5 10 (0.89%) Flash
5 10 (0.89%) Middleware
6 9 (0.80%) Elastic Stack
6 9 (0.80%) YAML
7 5 (0.44%) .NET
7 5 (0.44%) ARM Templates
7 5 (0.44%) OpenTelemetry
7 5 (0.44%) SAML
8 4 (0.36%) Keycloak
8 4 (0.36%) Redfish
9 3 (0.27%) Java SE
9 3 (0.27%) XML
10 2 (0.18%) EJB
10 2 (0.18%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 167 (14.86%) Data Centre
2 82 (7.30%) Hybrid Cloud
3 79 (7.03%) PKI
4 57 (5.07%) Enterprise Storage
5 53 (4.72%) Replication
6 52 (4.63%) Management Information System
7 49 (4.36%) Clustering
8 40 (3.56%) Public Cloud
9 38 (3.38%) Onboarding
10 37 (3.29%) Private Cloud
11 26 (2.31%) Cloud Native
12 21 (1.87%) Linux Command Line
13 17 (1.51%) Data Protection Act
14 12 (1.07%) SCADA
14 12 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
15 11 (0.98%) Distributed Systems
15 11 (0.98%) Operational Technology
16 10 (0.89%) Product Ownership
16 10 (0.89%) Virtual Team
17 9 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 548 (48.75%) Windows
2 349 (31.05%) Windows Server
3 309 (27.49%) Linux
4 58 (5.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 47 (4.18%) Windows Server 2019
6 34 (3.02%) Windows 10
7 28 (2.49%) VMS
8 25 (2.22%) Windows Server 2016
9 23 (2.05%) Ubuntu
10 21 (1.87%) Unix
10 21 (1.87%) Windows Server 2012
11 13 (1.16%) Data ONTAP
11 13 (1.16%) Windows Server 2008
12 11 (0.98%) AIX
12 11 (0.98%) CentOS
13 10 (0.89%) Apple iOS
13 10 (0.89%) Windows 7
14 9 (0.80%) Solaris
15 6 (0.53%) Debian
15 6 (0.53%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 318 (28.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 198 (17.62%) Problem-Solving
3 193 (17.17%) Migration
4 187 (16.64%) ITIL
5 151 (13.43%) Infrastructure as Code
6 135 (12.01%) Disaster Recovery
7 134 (11.92%) Technical Leadership
8 129 (11.48%) High Availability
9 123 (10.94%) CI/CD
10 101 (8.99%) Change Management
10 101 (8.99%) ITSM
11 100 (8.90%) DevOps
12 96 (8.54%) Agile
13 95 (8.45%) Service Management
14 92 (8.19%) Stakeholder Management
15 90 (8.01%) Continuous Improvement
16 81 (7.21%) Platform Engineering
17 80 (7.12%) Project Delivery
18 75 (6.67%) Network Virtualisation
19 74 (6.58%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 256 (22.78%) PowerShell
2 142 (12.63%) Python
3 96 (8.54%) Bash
4 64 (5.69%) SQL
5 21 (1.87%) JavaScript
6 20 (1.78%) Java
7 8 (0.71%) Bicep
8 7 (0.62%) C
8 7 (0.62%) Shell Script
8 7 (0.62%) VB
8 7 (0.62%) VBScript
9 6 (0.53%) PL/SQL
10 5 (0.44%) Go
11 4 (0.36%) C#
11 4 (0.36%) MATLAB
12 3 (0.27%) C++
12 3 (0.27%) Lua
13 2 (0.18%) COBOL
13 2 (0.18%) Embedded C
13 2 (0.18%) Korn
Qualifications
1 536 (47.69%) Security Cleared
2 311 (27.67%) SC Cleared
3 256 (22.78%) DV Cleared
4 84 (7.47%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 66 (5.87%) Degree
6 49 (4.36%) Cisco Certification
7 45 (4.00%) VCAP
8 40 (3.56%) Microsoft Certification
9 38 (3.38%) Azure Certification
10 26 (2.31%) CCNP
11 25 (2.22%) MCSE
12 20 (1.78%) CCNA
13 18 (1.60%) AWS Certification
14 16 (1.42%) MCSA
15 13 (1.16%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 12 (1.07%) Computer Science Degree
17 11 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
18 9 (0.80%) PMI Certification
19 8 (0.71%) ISTQB
19 8 (0.71%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (3.91%) SLA
2 22 (1.96%) NIST
3 20 (1.78%) NCSC
3 20 (1.78%) QA
4 17 (1.51%) Cyber Essentials
5 16 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 5 (0.44%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.36%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 4 (0.36%) GxP
9 3 (0.27%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
9 3 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 19770
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
11 1 (0.089%) GRC
11 1 (0.089%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.089%) SOC 2
System Software
1 773 (68.77%) VMware Infrastructure
2 320 (28.47%) Active Directory
3 241 (21.44%) VMware ESXi
4 234 (20.82%) vSphere
5 233 (20.73%) VMware NSX
6 172 (15.30%) Hyper-V
7 88 (7.83%) Virtual Machines
8 61 (5.43%) Docker
9 38 (3.38%) Virtual Desktop
10 36 (3.20%) Firmware
11 26 (2.31%) vCloud
12 19 (1.69%) NFS
13 17 (1.51%) KVM
14 14 (1.25%) BitLocker
15 11 (0.98%) Virtual Servers
16 10 (0.89%) Microsoft App-V
17 9 (0.80%) Citrix Hypervisor
17 9 (0.80%) GPFS
18 8 (0.71%) VMware Workstation
19 7 (0.62%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 194 (17.26%) Ansible
2 193 (17.17%) vCenter Server
3 125 (11.12%) Kubernetes
4 65 (5.78%) SCOM
5 64 (5.69%) SCCM
6 60 (5.34%) vRealize
7 54 (4.80%) Microsoft Intune
8 37 (3.29%) VxRail
9 27 (2.40%) PowerCLI
10 24 (2.14%) Grafana
10 24 (2.14%) NetBackup
11 21 (1.87%) Prometheus
11 21 (1.87%) Puppet
11 21 (1.87%) vMotion
12 20 (1.78%) WSUS
13 19 (1.69%) Red Hat Satellite
14 18 (1.60%) Argo
14 18 (1.60%) Avamar
15 16 (1.42%) Microsoft Clustering
16 14 (1.25%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 299 (26.60%) Microsoft
2 189 (16.81%) Cisco
3 92 (8.19%) Citrix
4 82 (7.30%) NetApp
5 68 (6.05%) Red Hat
6 61 (5.43%) ServiceNow
7 57 (5.07%) F5
8 55 (4.89%) Dell
9 46 (4.09%) Oracle
10 44 (3.91%) Palo Alto
11 41 (3.65%) SolarWinds
12 36 (3.20%) Juniper
12 36 (3.20%) Veeam
13 32 (2.85%) Fortinet
13 32 (2.85%) IBM
14 27 (2.40%) CyberArk
15 24 (2.14%) Broadcom
16 22 (1.96%) CheckPoint
17 19 (1.69%) Meraki
18 18 (1.60%) Splunk