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 10 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
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 103 62
Rank change year-on-year -2 -41 -9
Contract jobs citing VMware 1,151 710 1,143
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.49% 2.55% 3.49%
As % of the Vendors category 5.97% 5.42% 7.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 753 461 759
10th Percentile £325 £345 £325
25th Percentile £450 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +7.32% +2.50%
75th Percentile £633 £600 £575
90th Percentile £725 £650 £649
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £513
% change year-on-year -4.55% +7.32% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 10 12
10th Percentile £29.00 £28.90 £22.54
25th Percentile £51.00 £29.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £67.50 £33.39 £43.08
Median % change year-on-year +102.19% -22.51% -31.07%
75th Percentile £90.00 £52.81 £71.25
90th Percentile £95.00 £76.53 -
UK median hourly rate £67.47 £33.39 £44.00
% change year-on-year +102.10% -24.13% -31.25%

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 19,288 13,092 14,438
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.65% 47.10% 44.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,015 8,296 8,883
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -
75th Percentile £619 £618 £631
90th Percentile £706 £711 £732
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,110 611 610
10th Percentile £14.12 £14.75 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.83 £15.62
Median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.28% -28.14% -17.65%
75th Percentile £65.00 £47.12 £64.25
90th Percentile £83.75 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £27.34 £25.15 £31.00
% change year-on-year +8.71% -18.87% -27.06%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -9 325 £538 -2.27% 116
London -3 305 £550 +5.77% 104
North of England -2 197 £450 +4.35% 53
Midlands -20 123 £450 -20.35% 44
South West -18 117 £575 -0.86% 51
North West -5 107 £459 +4.91% 21
West Midlands -15 95 £475 -17.12% 25
East of England -2 80 £507 -7.82% 60
Yorkshire -21 75 £523 +26.67% 18
East Midlands -2 28 £425 -22.73% 19
North East -33 16 £375 -40.00% 16
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 60 (5.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 38 (3.30%) SharePoint
3 24 (2.09%) Confluence
4 16 (1.39%) IIS
5 13 (1.13%) nginx
6 10 (0.87%) OpenStack
7 9 (0.78%) Apache
8 8 (0.70%) Skype for Business
8 8 (0.70%) Tomcat
9 7 (0.61%) JBoss
10 4 (0.35%) FactoryTalk
11 3 (0.26%) CloudStack
11 3 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2013
12 2 (0.17%) CMS
12 2 (0.17%) WebLogic
13 1 (0.087%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.087%) CICS
Applications
1 15 (1.30%) 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 15 (1.30%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.087%) Shopify
2 1 (0.087%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 326 (28.32%) Azure
2 189 (16.42%) AWS
3 108 (9.38%) Microsoft 365
4 88 (7.65%) Entra ID
5 44 (3.82%) GCP
6 43 (3.74%) OpenShift
7 38 (3.30%) GitHub
8 37 (3.21%) IaaS
9 25 (2.17%) Rubrik
10 22 (1.91%) Azure DevOps
11 21 (1.82%) PaaS
12 19 (1.65%) GitHub Actions
13 18 (1.56%) Azure Monitor
13 18 (1.56%) OneDrive
14 17 (1.48%) SaaS
15 13 (1.13%) Power Platform
15 13 (1.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 12 (1.04%) Nutanix
17 11 (0.96%) Amazon EC2
17 11 (0.96%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 312 (27.11%) DNS
2 215 (18.68%) Firewall
3 190 (16.51%) DHCP
4 102 (8.86%) TCP/IP
5 98 (8.51%) VSAN
6 88 (7.65%) VPN
7 82 (7.12%) SAN
7 82 (7.12%) WAN
8 81 (7.04%) VLAN
9 71 (6.17%) Network Security
10 66 (5.73%) LAN
11 44 (3.82%) NAS
12 43 (3.74%) SSL
13 40 (3.48%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 37 (3.21%) BGP
15 34 (2.95%) Wi-Fi
16 33 (2.87%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
16 33 (2.87%) HTTP
17 32 (2.78%) SD-WAN
18 31 (2.69%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (5.65%) SQL Server
2 14 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 13 (1.13%) Power BI
4 10 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (0.87%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 10 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 9 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (0.78%) Big Data
5 9 (0.78%) NoSQL
6 8 (0.70%) NonStop SQL
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%) Oracle BI EE
10 3 (0.26%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (0.17%) Data Mining
11 2 (0.17%) GIS
12 1 (0.087%) Oracle Database
12 1 (0.087%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 47 (4.08%) JIRA
2 37 (3.21%) GitLab
3 32 (2.78%) Jenkins
4 27 (2.35%) Git
5 14 (1.22%) Fiddler
6 7 (0.61%) Bitbucket
6 7 (0.61%) Rational DOORS
7 6 (0.52%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (0.43%) Chocolatey
9 4 (0.35%) CppUnit
9 4 (0.35%) PVCS
9 4 (0.35%) Selenium
10 3 (0.26%) Subversion
11 1 (0.087%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.087%) Maven
11 1 (0.087%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.087%) Postman
11 1 (0.087%) Robot Framework
11 1 (0.087%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 245 (21.29%) Social Skills
2 123 (10.69%) Finance
3 118 (10.25%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (4.26%) Documentation Skills
5 46 (4.00%) Public Sector
6 34 (2.95%) Banking
7 29 (2.52%) Telecoms
8 25 (2.17%) Legal
9 14 (1.22%) Investment Banking
10 13 (1.13%) Retail
11 12 (1.04%) Aerospace
11 12 (1.04%) Manufacturing
12 11 (0.96%) Financial Institution
13 10 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
14 9 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
15 8 (0.70%) Law
15 8 (0.70%) Military
15 8 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
16 6 (0.52%) Back Office
16 6 (0.52%) Police
Job Titles
1 253 (21.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 161 (13.99%) Senior
3 122 (10.60%) VMware Engineer
4 115 (9.99%) Architect
5 86 (7.47%) Network Engineer
6 73 (6.34%) Cloud Engineer
7 64 (5.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 64 (5.56%) Support Engineer
8 61 (5.30%) Consultant
9 60 (5.21%) Lead
10 48 (4.17%) Platform Engineer
11 45 (3.91%) Administrator
12 39 (3.39%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 38 (3.30%) VMware Consultant
14 37 (3.21%) Senior VMware Engineer
14 37 (3.21%) Storage Engineer
15 33 (2.87%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
16 31 (2.69%) Linux Engineer
17 30 (2.61%) Azure Engineer
18 26 (2.26%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 160 (13.90%) Terraform
2 24 (2.09%) REST
3 18 (1.56%) JSON
3 18 (1.56%) LDAP
4 15 (1.30%) Kafka
5 12 (1.04%) YAML
6 11 (0.96%) 802.1X
7 9 (0.78%) Middleware
8 8 (0.70%) Elastic Stack
9 7 (0.61%) Regular Expression
10 6 (0.52%) ARM Templates
10 6 (0.52%) Flash
11 5 (0.43%) .NET
11 5 (0.43%) OpenTelemetry
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%) OAuth
13 3 (0.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 176 (15.29%) Data Centre
2 91 (7.91%) Hybrid Cloud
3 82 (7.12%) PKI
4 51 (4.43%) Enterprise Storage
5 50 (4.34%) Management Information System
6 48 (4.17%) Replication
7 46 (4.00%) Clustering
8 43 (3.74%) Onboarding
9 41 (3.56%) Private Cloud
10 37 (3.21%) Public Cloud
11 30 (2.61%) Cloud Native
12 20 (1.74%) Linux Command Line
13 18 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
14 14 (1.22%) SCADA
15 12 (1.04%) Cyber Threat
15 12 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
15 12 (1.04%) Operational Technology
15 12 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
16 10 (0.87%) Product Ownership
16 10 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 573 (49.78%) Windows
2 367 (31.89%) Windows Server
3 306 (26.59%) Linux
4 58 (5.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 47 (4.08%) Windows Server 2019
6 37 (3.21%) Windows 10
7 28 (2.43%) VMS
8 22 (1.91%) Unix
8 22 (1.91%) Windows Server 2012
9 20 (1.74%) Ubuntu
9 20 (1.74%) Windows Server 2016
10 13 (1.13%) Windows Server 2008
11 11 (0.96%) CentOS
11 11 (0.96%) Data ONTAP
12 10 (0.87%) AIX
12 10 (0.87%) Apple iOS
12 10 (0.87%) Windows 7
13 9 (0.78%) Solaris
14 6 (0.52%) Debian
14 6 (0.52%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 340 (29.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 202 (17.55%) ITIL
3 199 (17.29%) Problem-Solving
4 197 (17.12%) Migration
5 166 (14.42%) Infrastructure as Code
6 151 (13.12%) Technical Leadership
7 139 (12.08%) Disaster Recovery
8 136 (11.82%) CI/CD
9 118 (10.25%) High Availability
10 108 (9.38%) Change Management
10 108 (9.38%) ITSM
11 105 (9.12%) DevOps
12 102 (8.86%) Service Management
13 99 (8.60%) Stakeholder Management
14 96 (8.34%) Continuous Improvement
15 94 (8.17%) Agile
16 91 (7.91%) Platform Engineering
17 85 (7.38%) Root Cause Analysis
18 81 (7.04%) Project Delivery
19 77 (6.69%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 268 (23.28%) PowerShell
2 151 (13.12%) Python
3 100 (8.69%) Bash
4 70 (6.08%) SQL
5 21 (1.82%) Java
5 21 (1.82%) JavaScript
6 10 (0.87%) Shell Script
7 9 (0.78%) Bicep
7 9 (0.78%) C
8 7 (0.61%) VB
9 6 (0.52%) Go
9 6 (0.52%) PL/SQL
9 6 (0.52%) VBScript
10 5 (0.43%) C++
11 4 (0.35%) C#
11 4 (0.35%) MATLAB
12 3 (0.26%) Embedded C
12 3 (0.26%) Lua
13 2 (0.17%) Korn
14 1 (0.087%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 560 (48.65%) Security Cleared
2 317 (27.54%) SC Cleared
3 279 (24.24%) DV Cleared
4 85 (7.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 70 (6.08%) Degree
6 54 (4.69%) Cisco Certification
7 45 (3.91%) VCAP
8 42 (3.65%) Microsoft Certification
9 38 (3.30%) Azure Certification
10 28 (2.43%) CCNP
11 26 (2.26%) MCSE
12 21 (1.82%) CCNA
13 19 (1.65%) AWS Certification
14 16 (1.39%) MCSA
15 15 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
16 14 (1.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 10 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
18 9 (0.78%) PMI Certification
19 8 (0.70%) A+ Certification
19 8 (0.70%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (3.56%) SLA
2 24 (2.09%) NIST
3 21 (1.82%) NCSC
3 21 (1.82%) QA
4 18 (1.56%) Cyber Essentials
4 18 (1.56%) 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
8 3 (0.26%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.26%) GDPR
8 3 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
8 3 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 19770
8 3 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.17%) ISA99
9 2 (0.17%) JSP 440
9 2 (0.17%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.087%) GRC
10 1 (0.087%) SOC 2
System Software
1 797 (69.24%) VMware Infrastructure
2 342 (29.71%) Active Directory
3 252 (21.89%) VMware ESXi
4 239 (20.76%) vSphere
5 230 (19.98%) VMware NSX
6 189 (16.42%) Hyper-V
7 98 (8.51%) Virtual Machines
8 64 (5.56%) Docker
9 40 (3.48%) Virtual Desktop
10 34 (2.95%) Firmware
11 27 (2.35%) vCloud
12 21 (1.82%) NFS
13 16 (1.39%) KVM
14 13 (1.13%) BitLocker
15 11 (0.96%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 11 (0.96%) Virtual Servers
16 8 (0.70%) Microsoft App-V
17 7 (0.61%) oVirt
17 7 (0.61%) XenApp
17 7 (0.61%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 197 (17.12%) Ansible
2 196 (17.03%) vCenter Server
3 142 (12.34%) Kubernetes
4 74 (6.43%) SCOM
5 66 (5.73%) SCCM
6 56 (4.87%) Microsoft Intune
7 55 (4.78%) vRealize
8 37 (3.21%) VxRail
9 27 (2.35%) PowerCLI
10 25 (2.17%) Grafana
11 23 (2.00%) NetBackup
11 23 (2.00%) Prometheus
12 21 (1.82%) vMotion
13 20 (1.74%) Puppet
14 19 (1.65%) Red Hat Satellite
15 18 (1.56%) WSUS
16 17 (1.48%) Argo
17 16 (1.39%) Avamar
17 16 (1.39%) Microsoft Clustering
17 16 (1.39%) Podman
Vendors
1 306 (26.59%) Microsoft
2 187 (16.25%) Cisco
3 91 (7.91%) Citrix
4 79 (6.86%) NetApp
5 70 (6.08%) Red Hat
6 61 (5.30%) Dell
7 60 (5.21%) ServiceNow
8 54 (4.69%) F5
9 45 (3.91%) Oracle
10 44 (3.82%) SolarWinds
11 43 (3.74%) Palo Alto
12 36 (3.13%) Veeam
13 35 (3.04%) Juniper
14 32 (2.78%) Fortinet
15 27 (2.35%) Broadcom
15 27 (2.35%) CyberArk
15 27 (2.35%) IBM
16 21 (1.82%) CheckPoint
17 20 (1.74%) Meraki
18 19 (1.65%) Splunk