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 5 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
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 65 53
Rank change year-on-year -39 -12 +11
Contract jobs citing VMware 814 1,041 1,505
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.61% 3.39% 3.95%
As % of the Vendors category 5.49% 7.43% 8.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 535 664 1,014
10th Percentile £313 £310 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £518 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.55% +3.50% -
75th Percentile £600 £608 £600
90th Percentile £660 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £500
% change year-on-year +2.44% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 16 65
10th Percentile £29.00 £28.70 £22.00
25th Percentile £32.77 £35.00 £44.60
Median hourly rate £66.50 £55.00 £65.98
Median % change year-on-year +20.91% -16.64% +1.51%
75th Percentile £80.00 £81.07 £76.53
90th Percentile £97.50 £98.89 £84.36
UK median hourly rate £68.25 £45.00 £65.98
% change year-on-year +51.67% -31.80% +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 14,821 14,006 17,071
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.57% 45.63% 44.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,632 8,478 11,169
10th Percentile £289 £300 £252
25th Percentile £405 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 714 426 618
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.24 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.23 £17.00 £20.34
Median hourly rate £24.00 £32.13 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.30% -27.80% +71.15%
75th Percentile £46.75 £65.00 £64.24
90th Percentile £74.11 £75.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £29.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -13.79% -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 5 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 5 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 5 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 -6 227 £513 -6.82% 194
London -81 206 £543 +8.50% 83
North of England -20 134 £488 -2.50% 115
Midlands +5 129 £483 +4.89% 76
West Midlands +15 109 £525 +12.30% 50
North West -12 86 £525 +2.44% 51
South West -33 80 £550 +3.77% 69
Yorkshire +7 60 £425 +3.03% 50
East of England -17 39 £526 +5.10% 55
East Midlands -15 20 £465 +24.00% 24
North East -9 4 £550 +137.84% 17
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 51 (6.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 30 (3.69%) SharePoint
3 24 (2.95%) Confluence
4 12 (1.47%) OpenStack
5 8 (0.98%) Apache
5 8 (0.98%) IIS
6 7 (0.86%) Skype for Business
6 7 (0.86%) WebSphere
7 5 (0.61%) SharePoint Server
8 2 (0.25%) CICS
8 2 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2010
8 2 (0.25%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.25%) 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 23 (2.83%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (1.47%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.12%) OmniGraffle
Cloud Services
1 201 (24.69%) Azure
2 153 (18.80%) AWS
3 65 (7.99%) Microsoft 365
4 52 (6.39%) GCP
5 48 (5.90%) OpenShift
6 43 (5.28%) GitHub
7 39 (4.79%) Entra ID
8 35 (4.30%) IaaS
9 26 (3.19%) Nutanix
10 24 (2.95%) GitHub Actions
11 23 (2.83%) SaaS
12 18 (2.21%) PaaS
13 13 (1.60%) Datadog
14 12 (1.47%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 10 (1.23%) Azure DevOps
16 7 (0.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 6 (0.74%) AWS CloudFormation
18 5 (0.61%) Azure Monitor
19 4 (0.49%) AWS Direct Connect
19 4 (0.49%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 193 (23.71%) DNS
2 160 (19.66%) Firewall
3 91 (11.18%) TCP/IP
4 84 (10.32%) DHCP
5 65 (7.99%) SAN
6 53 (6.51%) VLAN
7 51 (6.27%) VPN
8 47 (5.77%) VSAN
8 47 (5.77%) WAN
9 42 (5.16%) Network Security
10 39 (4.79%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 39 (4.79%) LAN
11 35 (4.30%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 31 (3.81%) DMZ
13 29 (3.56%) NAS
14 24 (2.95%) SSL
15 23 (2.83%) iSCSI
16 22 (2.70%) BGP
17 21 (2.58%) Wireless
18 18 (2.21%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (5.41%) SQL Server
2 23 (2.83%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (0.61%) NoSQL
4 4 (0.49%) Oracle Database
4 4 (0.49%) Redis
5 3 (0.37%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.25%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (0.25%) MariaDB
6 2 (0.25%) MySQL
7 1 (0.12%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.12%) Power BI
7 1 (0.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 55 (6.76%) Jenkins
2 31 (3.81%) Git
3 28 (3.44%) GitLab
4 21 (2.58%) Sonatype Nexus
5 20 (2.46%) JIRA
6 14 (1.72%) Cucumber
6 14 (1.72%) JMeter
6 14 (1.72%) JUnit
7 12 (1.47%) Fiddler
8 8 (0.98%) Subversion
9 7 (0.86%) Postman
10 6 (0.74%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.61%) Robot Framework
11 5 (0.61%) TeamCity
12 4 (0.49%) PVCS
12 4 (0.49%) Rational DOORS
13 3 (0.37%) Maven
13 3 (0.37%) RStudio
14 2 (0.25%) Jaeger
14 2 (0.25%) Vagrant
General
1 222 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 93 (11.43%) Finance
3 91 (11.18%) Public Sector
4 85 (10.44%) Analytical Skills
5 55 (6.76%) Banking
6 37 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
7 22 (2.70%) Investment Banking
8 17 (2.09%) Legal
9 16 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
11 12 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
12 11 (1.35%) Local Government
12 11 (1.35%) Telecoms
13 10 (1.23%) Aerospace
13 10 (1.23%) Electronics
14 8 (0.98%) Manufacturing
14 8 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (0.86%) Law
16 6 (0.74%) Marketing
16 6 (0.74%) Retail
Job Titles
1 127 (15.60%) Architect
2 116 (14.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 74 (9.09%) Consultant
4 55 (6.76%) Senior
5 51 (6.27%) VMware Consultant
6 46 (5.65%) VMware Engineer
7 45 (5.53%) Network Engineer
8 44 (5.41%) Support Engineer
9 42 (5.16%) Analyst
10 38 (4.67%) Infrastructure Architect
11 32 (3.93%) Platform Engineer
12 30 (3.69%) Developer
13 28 (3.44%) Infrastructure Analyst
14 27 (3.32%) Infrastructure Support
14 27 (3.32%) VMware Architect
15 26 (3.19%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
16 25 (3.07%) Administrator
17 24 (2.95%) Lead
18 21 (2.58%) IT Engineer
18 21 (2.58%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (2.58%) Middleware
2 20 (2.46%) Kafka
3 14 (1.72%) Spring
4 13 (1.60%) Hibernate
4 13 (1.60%) SAML
5 12 (1.47%) Flash
6 11 (1.35%) REST
7 10 (1.23%) OAuth
7 10 (1.23%) OpenID
8 9 (1.11%) Loki
9 8 (0.98%) Elastic Stack
9 8 (0.98%) LDAP
9 8 (0.98%) RESTful
10 6 (0.74%) .NET
10 6 (0.74%) JSON
10 6 (0.74%) OAuth2
10 6 (0.74%) XMPP
11 5 (0.61%) OpenTelemetry
11 5 (0.61%) React
11 5 (0.61%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 83 (10.20%) Data Centre
2 59 (7.25%) PKI
3 55 (6.76%) Replication
4 39 (4.79%) Hybrid Cloud
5 38 (4.67%) Management Information System
6 30 (3.69%) Private Cloud
7 29 (3.56%) Cloud Native
8 27 (3.32%) Linux Command Line
9 18 (2.21%) Onboarding
10 15 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
10 15 (1.84%) Public Cloud
11 13 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
12 12 (1.47%) Fat Client
12 12 (1.47%) Thin Client
13 10 (1.23%) Clustering
13 10 (1.23%) Hedge funds
13 10 (1.23%) Virtual Team
14 9 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
14 9 (1.11%) Operational Technology
14 9 (1.11%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 328 (40.29%) Windows
2 265 (32.56%) Linux
3 184 (22.60%) Windows Server
4 77 (9.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 43 (5.28%) Windows 10
6 28 (3.44%) Ubuntu
6 28 (3.44%) Windows Server 2019
7 25 (3.07%) Windows Server 2016
8 19 (2.33%) Windows Server 2012
9 17 (2.09%) CentOS
9 17 (2.09%) VMS
10 15 (1.84%) Unix
11 14 (1.72%) Mac OS
12 12 (1.47%) Solaris
12 12 (1.47%) Windows 7
13 9 (1.11%) Debian
14 5 (0.61%) Windows Server 2008
15 3 (0.37%) AIX
16 2 (0.25%) SUSE
16 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (19.90%) Problem-Solving
2 148 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 132 (16.22%) Agile
4 103 (12.65%) CI/CD
5 99 (12.16%) ITIL
6 98 (12.04%) DevOps
7 90 (11.06%) Migration
8 72 (8.85%) Infrastructure as Code
9 69 (8.48%) Disaster Recovery
9 69 (8.48%) Load Balancing
10 68 (8.35%) Containerisation
11 50 (6.14%) High Availability
12 49 (6.02%) Continuous Improvement
13 47 (5.77%) Service Management
14 45 (5.53%) Business Strategy
14 45 (5.53%) Platform Engineering
15 43 (5.28%) Cybersecurity
15 43 (5.28%) Data Protection
16 42 (5.16%) Stakeholder Management
16 42 (5.16%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 196 (24.08%) Python
2 178 (21.87%) PowerShell
3 108 (13.27%) Bash
4 59 (7.25%) SQL
5 33 (4.05%) Java
6 28 (3.44%) JavaScript
7 23 (2.83%) Perl
8 10 (1.23%) Go
8 10 (1.23%) Shell Script
9 9 (1.11%) C++
10 8 (0.98%) T-SQL
11 7 (0.86%) PHP
11 7 (0.86%) VBA
12 6 (0.74%) C
12 6 (0.74%) C#
13 3 (0.37%) Embedded C
13 3 (0.37%) Embedded C++
13 3 (0.37%) VBScript
14 2 (0.25%) Bicep
14 2 (0.25%) Korn
Qualifications
1 338 (41.52%) Security Cleared
2 208 (25.55%) SC Cleared
3 135 (16.58%) DV Cleared
4 58 (7.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 57 (7.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 49 (6.02%) Degree
7 45 (5.53%) Cisco Certification
8 34 (4.18%) CCNP
9 33 (4.05%) Azure Certification
10 25 (3.07%) CCNA
11 24 (2.95%) AWS Certification
12 22 (2.70%) MCSE
13 16 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
14 15 (1.84%) VCAP
15 13 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
15 13 (1.60%) CCIE
16 12 (1.47%) Master's Degree
17 11 (1.35%) Network+ Certification
17 11 (1.35%) Server+ Certification
18 10 (1.23%) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (3.32%) GDPR
2 18 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (1.35%) QA
4 10 (1.23%) NCSC
4 10 (1.23%) SLA
5 9 (1.11%) NIST
6 8 (0.98%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 5 (0.61%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.37%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.25%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.25%) PMO
11 1 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.12%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.12%) MiFID
11 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.12%) RMADS
System Software
1 527 (64.74%) VMware Infrastructure
2 223 (27.40%) Active Directory
3 145 (17.81%) vSphere
4 100 (12.29%) VMware NSX
5 98 (12.04%) VMware ESXi
6 97 (11.92%) Hyper-V
7 56 (6.88%) Docker
8 45 (5.53%) Virtual Machines
9 33 (4.05%) NFS
10 18 (2.21%) Virtual Desktop
11 11 (1.35%) Firmware
11 11 (1.35%) GPFS
11 11 (1.35%) Virtual Servers
12 10 (1.23%) KVM
13 6 (0.74%) Dovecot
13 6 (0.74%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 6 (0.74%) Postfix
13 6 (0.74%) Terminal Services
13 6 (0.74%) UAG
14 5 (0.61%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 161 (19.78%) Ansible
2 111 (13.64%) Terraform
3 83 (10.20%) vCenter Server
4 70 (8.60%) Kubernetes
5 65 (7.99%) vRealize
6 62 (7.62%) SCCM
7 43 (5.28%) Microsoft Intune
8 28 (3.44%) Grafana
9 27 (3.32%) Single Sign-On
10 25 (3.07%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 24 (2.95%) Prometheus
12 23 (2.83%) Argo
13 21 (2.58%) VxRail
14 20 (2.46%) Progress Chef
15 19 (2.33%) Puppet
16 17 (2.09%) SCOM
17 16 (1.97%) FortiGate
17 16 (1.97%) Red Hat Satellite
18 13 (1.60%) WSUS
19 11 (1.35%) WMI
Vendors
1 230 (28.26%) Microsoft
2 136 (16.71%) Cisco
3 88 (10.81%) Red Hat
4 82 (10.07%) F5
5 72 (8.85%) Citrix
6 50 (6.14%) Veeam
7 48 (5.90%) NetApp
8 44 (5.41%) Dell
8 44 (5.41%) Oracle
9 41 (5.04%) SolarWinds
10 35 (4.30%) IBM
11 31 (3.81%) Palo Alto
11 31 (3.81%) Splunk
12 27 (3.32%) Broadcom
13 26 (3.19%) HP
14 23 (2.83%) ServiceNow
15 22 (2.70%) McAfee
16 19 (2.33%) Blue Coat
17 18 (2.21%) CyberArk
18 17 (2.09%) Juniper