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 14 December 2025, 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
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 66 54
Rank change year-on-year -35 -12 +12
Contract jobs citing VMware 822 985 1,466
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.64% 3.36% 3.89%
As % of the Vendors category 5.55% 7.33% 8.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 542 627 992
10th Percentile £315 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% +2.40% -
75th Percentile £600 £613 £600
90th Percentile £663 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £509 £500
% change year-on-year +3.24% +1.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 16 66
10th Percentile £29.00 £28.70 £22.00
25th Percentile £32.94 £35.00 £44.95
Median hourly rate £68.85 £55.00 £65.98
Median % change year-on-year +25.18% -16.64% +1.51%
75th Percentile £81.50 £81.07 £76.53
90th Percentile £98.38 £98.89 £84.36
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £47.50 £65.98
% change year-on-year +47.37% -28.01% +1.51%

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 14,798 13,441 16,835
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.60% 45.83% 44.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,602 8,181 11,016
10th Percentile £293 £300 £251
25th Percentile £408 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.05% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £615 £626 £638
90th Percentile £704 £725 £728
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 731 397 607
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.24 £14.62
25th Percentile £18.22 £17.00 £20.27
Median hourly rate £23.83 £31.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.15% -31.11% +73.08%
75th Percentile £48.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £78.50 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £29.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -17.84% -34.83% +73.08%

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 14 December 2025.

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 14 December 2025.

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 14 December 2025. 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 -5 223 £500 -9.09% 168
London -78 206 £550 +10.00% 89
North of England -13 136 £475 -2.56% 125
Midlands +11 132 £475 +5.56% 65
West Midlands +7 109 £513 +11.41% 40
North West -9 90 £500 - 65
South West -32 79 £550 +4.76% 59
Yorkshire -11 57 £425 +3.03% 43
East of England -15 43 £550 +13.40% 48
East Midlands -12 23 £450 +20.00% 23
North East -12 5 £550 +238.46% 20
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 52 (6.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 31 (3.77%) SharePoint
3 23 (2.80%) Confluence
4 13 (1.58%) OpenStack
5 7 (0.85%) Skype for Business
5 7 (0.85%) WebSphere
6 6 (0.73%) Apache
6 6 (0.73%) IIS
7 5 (0.61%) SharePoint Server
8 2 (0.24%) CICS
8 2 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2010
8 2 (0.24%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.24%) WordPress
9 1 (0.12%) JBoss
9 1 (0.12%) nginx
9 1 (0.12%) Traefik
9 1 (0.12%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 24 (2.92%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.70%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.12%) OmniGraffle
Cloud Services
1 204 (24.82%) Azure
2 161 (19.59%) AWS
3 76 (9.25%) Microsoft 365
4 58 (7.06%) GCP
5 52 (6.33%) OpenShift
6 45 (5.47%) Entra ID
7 44 (5.35%) GitHub
8 34 (4.14%) IaaS
9 28 (3.41%) Nutanix
10 24 (2.92%) GitHub Actions
11 23 (2.80%) SaaS
12 18 (2.19%) PaaS
13 14 (1.70%) Datadog
14 13 (1.58%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 11 (1.34%) Azure DevOps
16 7 (0.85%) Azure Monitor
16 7 (0.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 6 (0.73%) AWS CloudFormation
18 4 (0.49%) Google Ads
18 4 (0.49%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 194 (23.60%) DNS
2 159 (19.34%) Firewall
3 86 (10.46%) DHCP
3 86 (10.46%) TCP/IP
4 56 (6.81%) VPN
5 55 (6.69%) SAN
6 54 (6.57%) VLAN
7 53 (6.45%) VSAN
8 49 (5.96%) WAN
9 45 (5.47%) Network Security
10 41 (4.99%) LAN
11 38 (4.62%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 36 (4.38%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
13 31 (3.77%) DMZ
14 26 (3.16%) NAS
15 25 (3.04%) SSL
16 24 (2.92%) BGP
17 21 (2.55%) iSCSI
17 21 (2.55%) Wireless
18 19 (2.31%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (5.47%) SQL Server
2 23 (2.80%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (0.61%) NoSQL
4 4 (0.49%) Oracle Database
4 4 (0.49%) Redis
5 3 (0.36%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.24%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (0.24%) MariaDB
6 2 (0.24%) MySQL
7 1 (0.12%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.12%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.12%) Power BI
7 1 (0.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 49 (5.96%) Jenkins
2 30 (3.65%) Git
3 29 (3.53%) GitLab
4 21 (2.55%) Sonatype Nexus
5 19 (2.31%) JIRA
6 14 (1.70%) Cucumber
6 14 (1.70%) JMeter
6 14 (1.70%) JUnit
7 13 (1.58%) Fiddler
8 8 (0.97%) Subversion
9 6 (0.73%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.61%) PVCS
10 5 (0.61%) Rational DOORS
10 5 (0.61%) Robot Framework
10 5 (0.61%) TeamCity
11 3 (0.36%) Maven
11 3 (0.36%) Postman
11 3 (0.36%) RStudio
12 2 (0.24%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.24%) Vagrant
General
1 224 (27.25%) Social Skills
2 91 (11.07%) Finance
2 91 (11.07%) Public Sector
3 88 (10.71%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (6.81%) Banking
5 37 (4.50%) Documentation Skills
6 23 (2.80%) Investment Banking
7 17 (2.07%) Legal
8 14 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
9 13 (1.58%) Local Government
10 12 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (1.46%) Presentation Skills
11 11 (1.34%) Aerospace
11 11 (1.34%) Electronics
11 11 (1.34%) Telecoms
12 8 (0.97%) Manufacturing
13 7 (0.85%) Law
13 7 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (0.73%) Marketing
15 5 (0.61%) Retail
Job Titles
1 133 (16.18%) Architect
2 116 (14.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 69 (8.39%) Consultant
4 52 (6.33%) Senior
5 48 (5.84%) Network Engineer
5 48 (5.84%) VMware Consultant
6 45 (5.47%) Analyst
7 43 (5.23%) Support Engineer
8 39 (4.74%) VMware Engineer
9 37 (4.50%) Infrastructure Architect
9 37 (4.50%) Platform Engineer
10 30 (3.65%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 28 (3.41%) VMware Architect
12 26 (3.16%) Administrator
12 26 (3.16%) Developer
12 26 (3.16%) Infrastructure Support
13 25 (3.04%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
14 24 (2.92%) Lead
15 23 (2.80%) Windows Engineer
16 22 (2.68%) VMware Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (2.55%) Middleware
2 20 (2.43%) Kafka
3 14 (1.70%) Spring
4 13 (1.58%) Flash
4 13 (1.58%) Hibernate
4 13 (1.58%) SAML
5 11 (1.34%) REST
6 10 (1.22%) OAuth
6 10 (1.22%) OpenID
7 9 (1.09%) Loki
8 8 (0.97%) Elastic Stack
8 8 (0.97%) LDAP
8 8 (0.97%) RESTful
9 6 (0.73%) .NET
9 6 (0.73%) JSON
9 6 (0.73%) OAuth2
9 6 (0.73%) XMPP
10 5 (0.61%) OpenTelemetry
10 5 (0.61%) React
10 5 (0.61%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 86 (10.46%) Data Centre
2 59 (7.18%) PKI
2 59 (7.18%) Replication
3 39 (4.74%) Management Information System
4 36 (4.38%) Hybrid Cloud
5 32 (3.89%) Cloud Native
6 30 (3.65%) Private Cloud
7 29 (3.53%) Linux Command Line
8 16 (1.95%) Public Cloud
9 15 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
9 15 (1.82%) Onboarding
10 14 (1.70%) Analytical Mindset
11 13 (1.58%) Fat Client
11 13 (1.58%) Thin Client
12 12 (1.46%) Clustering
13 10 (1.22%) Hedge funds
13 10 (1.22%) Operational Technology
13 10 (1.22%) Virtual Team
14 9 (1.09%) Product Ownership
15 7 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 325 (39.54%) Windows
2 261 (31.75%) Linux
3 181 (22.02%) Windows Server
4 78 (9.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 49 (5.96%) Windows 10
6 28 (3.41%) Windows Server 2019
7 22 (2.68%) Ubuntu
7 22 (2.68%) Windows Server 2016
8 21 (2.55%) Windows Server 2012
9 18 (2.19%) Mac OS
10 16 (1.95%) VMS
11 14 (1.70%) CentOS
11 14 (1.70%) Unix
12 13 (1.58%) Windows 7
13 12 (1.46%) Solaris
14 6 (0.73%) Windows Server 2008
15 5 (0.61%) Debian
16 4 (0.49%) Windows Server 2003
17 3 (0.36%) AIX
18 2 (0.24%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (20.92%) Problem-Solving
2 145 (17.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 128 (15.57%) Agile
4 105 (12.77%) CI/CD
5 103 (12.53%) ITIL
6 97 (11.80%) Migration
7 95 (11.56%) DevOps
8 71 (8.64%) Load Balancing
9 70 (8.52%) Infrastructure as Code
10 69 (8.39%) Disaster Recovery
11 68 (8.27%) Containerisation
12 52 (6.33%) Continuous Improvement
13 49 (5.96%) High Availability
13 49 (5.96%) Platform Engineering
14 48 (5.84%) Business Strategy
15 47 (5.72%) Data Protection
15 47 (5.72%) Service Management
16 45 (5.47%) Stakeholder Management
17 43 (5.23%) Roadmaps
18 42 (5.11%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 191 (23.24%) Python
2 186 (22.63%) PowerShell
3 113 (13.75%) Bash
4 58 (7.06%) SQL
5 33 (4.01%) Java
6 29 (3.53%) JavaScript
7 23 (2.80%) Perl
8 11 (1.34%) Shell Script
9 10 (1.22%) C++
9 10 (1.22%) Go
10 9 (1.09%) T-SQL
11 7 (0.85%) C
11 7 (0.85%) C#
11 7 (0.85%) VBA
12 6 (0.73%) PHP
13 4 (0.49%) Embedded C
13 4 (0.49%) Embedded C++
14 3 (0.36%) Bicep
14 3 (0.36%) VBScript
15 2 (0.24%) Korn
Qualifications
1 333 (40.51%) Security Cleared
2 203 (24.70%) SC Cleared
3 129 (15.69%) DV Cleared
4 59 (7.18%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 57 (6.93%) Microsoft Certification
6 49 (5.96%) Degree
7 47 (5.72%) Cisco Certification
8 37 (4.50%) CCNP
9 33 (4.01%) Azure Certification
10 25 (3.04%) CCNA
11 24 (2.92%) AWS Certification
12 20 (2.43%) MCSE
13 16 (1.95%) Computer Science Degree
14 14 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
14 14 (1.70%) CCIE
14 14 (1.70%) VCAP
15 11 (1.34%) Master's Degree
15 11 (1.34%) Network+ Certification
15 11 (1.34%) Server+ Certification
16 10 (1.22%) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (3.89%) GDPR
2 23 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (1.22%) NCSC
3 10 (1.22%) QA
4 9 (1.09%) NIST
5 8 (0.97%) PCI DSS
6 7 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 7 (0.85%) SLA
7 5 (0.61%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.36%) Def Stans
9 2 (0.24%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.24%) PMO
10 1 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.12%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.12%) MiFID
10 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.12%) RMADS
System Software
1 526 (63.99%) VMware Infrastructure
2 227 (27.62%) Active Directory
3 141 (17.15%) vSphere
4 105 (12.77%) VMware NSX
5 99 (12.04%) Hyper-V
6 91 (11.07%) VMware ESXi
7 58 (7.06%) Docker
8 45 (5.47%) Virtual Machines
9 32 (3.89%) NFS
10 20 (2.43%) Virtual Desktop
11 12 (1.46%) Firmware
11 12 (1.46%) GPFS
12 11 (1.34%) KVM
13 10 (1.22%) Virtual Servers
14 6 (0.73%) Dovecot
14 6 (0.73%) Postfix
14 6 (0.73%) Terminal Services
14 6 (0.73%) UAG
15 5 (0.61%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 5 (0.61%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 161 (19.59%) Ansible
2 109 (13.26%) Terraform
3 83 (10.10%) vCenter Server
4 75 (9.12%) Kubernetes
5 70 (8.52%) SCCM
6 68 (8.27%) vRealize
7 51 (6.20%) Microsoft Intune
8 28 (3.41%) Grafana
9 26 (3.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 26 (3.16%) Single Sign-On
10 24 (2.92%) Prometheus
11 23 (2.80%) Argo
11 23 (2.80%) VxRail
12 20 (2.43%) Progress Chef
13 19 (2.31%) Red Hat Satellite
13 19 (2.31%) SCOM
14 16 (1.95%) FortiGate
15 15 (1.82%) Puppet
16 13 (1.58%) WSUS
17 11 (1.34%) WMI
Vendors
1 227 (27.62%) Microsoft
2 139 (16.91%) Cisco
3 90 (10.95%) Red Hat
4 82 (9.98%) F5
5 79 (9.61%) Citrix
6 49 (5.96%) Veeam
7 47 (5.72%) NetApp
8 45 (5.47%) Dell
9 44 (5.35%) Oracle
10 43 (5.23%) SolarWinds
11 38 (4.62%) IBM
12 30 (3.65%) Palo Alto
13 28 (3.41%) Splunk
14 27 (3.28%) Broadcom
15 26 (3.16%) HP
16 25 (3.04%) ServiceNow
17 23 (2.80%) McAfee
18 21 (2.55%) Google
19 20 (2.43%) Blue Coat
20 18 (2.19%) CyberArk