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 15 February 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
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 69 62
Rank change year-on-year -26 -7 -3
Contract jobs citing VMware 927 870 1,296
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.72% 3.35% 3.40%
As % of the Vendors category 6.03% 7.21% 7.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 653 565 866
10th Percentile £325 £281 £268
25th Percentile £425 £411 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £521 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -0.86% +5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 15 71
10th Percentile £33.00 £35.00 £22.08
25th Percentile £56.28 £40.00 £40.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +16.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £77.13 £84.14 £76.25
90th Percentile £97.00 £101.70 £84.36
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +12.00% -3.85% -

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 15,361 12,062 16,489
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 45.08% 46.41% 43.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,039 7,340 10,609
10th Percentile £300 £275 £250
25th Percentile £413 £407 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £707 £720 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.89% -0.90% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 787 340 852
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.62 £12.87
25th Percentile £17.99 £20.00 £15.40
Median hourly rate £23.83 £30.62 £27.76
Median % change year-on-year -22.18% +10.29% -15.89%
75th Percentile £56.85 £65.00 £56.49
90th Percentile £73.00 £80.93 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £23.91 £29.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -17.54% +5.45% -15.38%

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 15 February 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 15 February 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 15 February 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 -3 257 £513 -6.99% 104
London -39 228 £550 +4.76% 66
North of England -33 159 £460 +1.10% 72
Midlands -1 128 £414 -22.74% 34
North West -17 105 £460 -8.00% 37
West Midlands -7 97 £400 -27.40% 26
South West -34 96 £550 -4.35% 46
Yorkshire -24 62 £425 -5.56% 32
East of England +4 58 £500 - 23
East Midlands -11 31 £450 -14.29% 8
North East -20 4 £550 +57.14% 7
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 48 (5.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 29 (3.13%) SharePoint
3 20 (2.16%) Confluence
4 9 (0.97%) OpenStack
5 7 (0.76%) Skype for Business
6 6 (0.65%) CICS
6 6 (0.65%) IIS
7 5 (0.54%) SharePoint Server
8 3 (0.32%) Apache
8 3 (0.32%) nginx
9 2 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2010
9 2 (0.22%) WordPress
10 1 (0.11%) JBoss
10 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.11%) Traefik
10 1 (0.11%) WebLogic
10 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 17 (1.83%) MS Visio
2 16 (1.73%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.11%) OmniGraffle
Cloud Services
1 230 (24.81%) Azure
2 174 (18.77%) AWS
3 81 (8.74%) Microsoft 365
4 74 (7.98%) OpenShift
5 52 (5.61%) GitHub
6 49 (5.29%) Entra ID
6 49 (5.29%) GCP
7 41 (4.42%) IaaS
8 30 (3.24%) Nutanix
9 27 (2.91%) GitHub Actions
9 27 (2.91%) PaaS
10 15 (1.62%) Datadog
11 12 (1.29%) Azure DevOps
12 7 (0.76%) Microsoft Purview
12 7 (0.76%) SaaS
13 6 (0.65%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 6 (0.65%) Azure Sentinel
14 5 (0.54%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (0.54%) Azure Monitor
15 4 (0.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 217 (23.41%) DNS
2 181 (19.53%) Firewall
3 100 (10.79%) DHCP
4 79 (8.52%) TCP/IP
5 73 (7.87%) VPN
6 60 (6.47%) SAN
7 54 (5.83%) Network Security
8 51 (5.50%) VSAN
9 49 (5.29%) VLAN
10 45 (4.85%) WAN
11 42 (4.53%) LAN
12 37 (3.99%) BIG-IP
12 37 (3.99%) SSL
13 36 (3.88%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 35 (3.78%) HTTP
14 35 (3.78%) Wireshark
15 34 (3.67%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
16 31 (3.34%) NAS
17 29 (3.13%) BGP
18 19 (2.05%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (4.53%) SQL Server
2 25 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (0.86%) Redis
4 6 (0.65%) DataStage
5 5 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
6 4 (0.43%) NoSQL
6 4 (0.43%) Oracle Database
7 3 (0.32%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.11%) Power BI
8 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 52 (5.61%) Jenkins
2 31 (3.34%) GitLab
3 27 (2.91%) Git
4 26 (2.80%) Fiddler
5 22 (2.37%) Sonatype Nexus
6 18 (1.94%) JIRA
7 14 (1.51%) Cucumber
7 14 (1.51%) JMeter
7 14 (1.51%) JUnit
8 8 (0.86%) PVCS
8 8 (0.86%) Rational DOORS
9 5 (0.54%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.54%) Team Foundation Server
10 4 (0.43%) Robot Framework
10 4 (0.43%) RStudio
11 3 (0.32%) Maven
11 3 (0.32%) Subversion
12 2 (0.22%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.22%) Chocolatey
12 2 (0.22%) TeamCity
General
1 202 (21.79%) Social Skills
2 101 (10.90%) Finance
3 99 (10.68%) Analytical Skills
4 95 (10.25%) Public Sector
5 52 (5.61%) Banking
6 42 (4.53%) Documentation Skills
7 25 (2.70%) Investment Banking
8 22 (2.37%) Aerospace
9 20 (2.16%) Legal
10 19 (2.05%) Influencing Skills
11 14 (1.51%) Local Government
12 13 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 12 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
14 11 (1.19%) Electronics
15 9 (0.97%) Military
16 7 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
16 7 (0.76%) Police
17 6 (0.65%) Financial Institution
17 6 (0.65%) Telecoms
18 5 (0.54%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 147 (15.86%) Architect
2 144 (15.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 66 (7.12%) Network Engineer
4 61 (6.58%) Analyst
5 58 (6.26%) Consultant
5 58 (6.26%) VMware Engineer
6 56 (6.04%) Senior
7 47 (5.07%) VMware Consultant
8 46 (4.96%) Platform Engineer
9 42 (4.53%) Support Engineer
10 35 (3.78%) Infrastructure Architect
11 34 (3.67%) VMware Architect
12 32 (3.45%) Infrastructure Analyst
13 31 (3.34%) Lead
14 29 (3.13%) DevOps Engineer
15 27 (2.91%) Web Engineer
16 25 (2.70%) Developer
17 23 (2.48%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
17 23 (2.48%) Technical Architect
17 23 (2.48%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (2.59%) Kafka
1 24 (2.59%) Middleware
2 21 (2.27%) LDAP
3 19 (2.05%) Flash
4 16 (1.73%) SAML
5 14 (1.51%) Spring
6 13 (1.40%) Hibernate
7 12 (1.29%) Keycloak
8 11 (1.19%) OpenID
8 11 (1.19%) OpenTelemetry
9 10 (1.08%) OAuth
9 10 (1.08%) REST
10 9 (0.97%) Loki
11 7 (0.76%) Elastic Stack
11 7 (0.76%) OAuth2
12 6 (0.65%) XMPP
13 5 (0.54%) React
13 5 (0.54%) Software Packaging
14 4 (0.43%) .NET
14 4 (0.43%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 88 (9.49%) Data Centre
2 71 (7.66%) Replication
3 69 (7.44%) PKI
4 48 (5.18%) Cloud Native
5 41 (4.42%) Hybrid Cloud
6 40 (4.31%) Management Information System
7 31 (3.34%) Linux Command Line
8 30 (3.24%) Private Cloud
9 23 (2.48%) Public Cloud
10 21 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
11 18 (1.94%) Analytical Mindset
11 18 (1.94%) Clustering
11 18 (1.94%) Operational Technology
12 14 (1.51%) Product Ownership
13 13 (1.40%) Onboarding
14 12 (1.29%) Fat Client
14 12 (1.29%) Thin Client
15 11 (1.19%) Enterprise Storage
16 9 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
16 9 (0.97%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 340 (36.68%) Windows
2 282 (30.42%) Linux
3 203 (21.90%) Windows Server
4 72 (7.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 38 (4.10%) Windows 10
6 27 (2.91%) Windows Server 2019
7 25 (2.70%) Windows Server 2016
8 20 (2.16%) Ubuntu
8 20 (2.16%) Windows Server 2012
9 16 (1.73%) Mac OS
9 16 (1.73%) Unix
9 16 (1.73%) VMS
10 14 (1.51%) CentOS
10 14 (1.51%) Solaris
11 13 (1.40%) Windows 7
12 8 (0.86%) AIX
13 6 (0.65%) Windows Server 2003
14 5 (0.54%) Android
14 5 (0.54%) Apple iOS
15 4 (0.43%) CatOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (20.60%) Problem-Solving
2 184 (19.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 140 (15.10%) Agile
4 135 (14.56%) Migration
5 120 (12.94%) ITIL
6 115 (12.41%) DevOps
7 108 (11.65%) CI/CD
8 92 (9.92%) Load Balancing
9 91 (9.82%) Disaster Recovery
10 79 (8.52%) Containerisation
11 77 (8.31%) Infrastructure as Code
12 73 (7.87%) High Availability
13 71 (7.66%) Platform Engineering
14 62 (6.69%) Continuous Improvement
15 60 (6.47%) Cybersecurity
16 56 (6.04%) Roadmaps
17 54 (5.83%) Stakeholder Management
18 52 (5.61%) Service Management
19 49 (5.29%) Change Management
20 48 (5.18%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 184 (19.85%) Python
2 182 (19.63%) PowerShell
3 103 (11.11%) Bash
4 32 (3.45%) SQL
5 22 (2.37%) Java
6 21 (2.27%) JavaScript
7 19 (2.05%) Perl
8 14 (1.51%) Shell Script
9 11 (1.19%) C
10 8 (0.86%) C#
10 8 (0.86%) C++
10 8 (0.86%) T-SQL
11 7 (0.76%) Embedded C
11 7 (0.76%) Embedded C++
11 7 (0.76%) MATLAB
12 6 (0.65%) Bicep
12 6 (0.65%) COBOL
13 4 (0.43%) Go
13 4 (0.43%) PHP
14 3 (0.32%) Korn
Qualifications
1 405 (43.69%) Security Cleared
2 246 (26.54%) SC Cleared
3 148 (15.97%) DV Cleared
4 61 (6.58%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 57 (6.15%) Microsoft Certification
6 47 (5.07%) Degree
7 42 (4.53%) Cisco Certification
8 34 (3.67%) Azure Certification
8 34 (3.67%) CCNP
9 24 (2.59%) MCSE
10 22 (2.37%) CCNA
10 22 (2.37%) VCAP
11 20 (2.16%) AWS Certification
12 15 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
13 13 (1.40%) MCSA
14 11 (1.19%) CCDP
14 11 (1.19%) CCIE
14 11 (1.19%) Network+ Certification
14 11 (1.19%) Server+ Certification
15 8 (0.86%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (2.70%) NIST
2 24 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (2.16%) GDPR
3 20 (2.16%) SLA
4 16 (1.73%) Cyber Essentials
5 12 (1.29%) NCSC
6 9 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 8 (0.86%) Def Stans
8 6 (0.65%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.43%) QA
10 2 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 2 (0.22%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.11%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.11%) COBIT
11 1 (0.11%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.11%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.11%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.11%) MiFID
11 1 (0.11%) PMO
System Software
1 582 (62.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 241 (26.00%) Active Directory
3 178 (19.20%) vSphere
4 148 (15.97%) VMware NSX
5 117 (12.62%) Hyper-V
6 99 (10.68%) VMware ESXi
7 60 (6.47%) Virtual Machines
8 58 (6.26%) Docker
9 39 (4.21%) NFS
10 26 (2.80%) Virtual Desktop
11 22 (2.37%) Firmware
12 19 (2.05%) KVM
13 16 (1.73%) GPFS
14 9 (0.97%) vCloud
15 7 (0.76%) Virtual Servers
16 5 (0.54%) BitLocker
16 5 (0.54%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 4 (0.43%) Microsoft App-V
18 3 (0.32%) DFS Replication
19 2 (0.22%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 177 (19.09%) Ansible
2 113 (12.19%) Terraform
3 101 (10.90%) Kubernetes
4 100 (10.79%) vCenter Server
5 74 (7.98%) SCCM
6 73 (7.87%) Microsoft Intune
7 71 (7.66%) vRealize
8 38 (4.10%) Grafana
9 37 (3.99%) Argo
10 32 (3.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 31 (3.34%) Single Sign-On
12 28 (3.02%) Red Hat Satellite
13 27 (2.91%) Prometheus
13 27 (2.91%) VxRail
14 25 (2.70%) SCOM
15 18 (1.94%) Progress Chef
16 16 (1.73%) vMotion
17 15 (1.62%) FortiGate
18 14 (1.51%) WSUS
19 11 (1.19%) WMI
Vendors
1 239 (25.78%) Microsoft
2 157 (16.94%) Cisco
3 105 (11.33%) Red Hat
4 82 (8.85%) F5
5 78 (8.41%) Citrix
6 52 (5.61%) Dell
7 49 (5.29%) IBM
8 43 (4.64%) SolarWinds
9 41 (4.42%) Oracle
10 39 (4.21%) Veeam
11 38 (4.10%) NetApp
12 35 (3.78%) Palo Alto
12 35 (3.78%) ServiceNow
13 34 (3.67%) McAfee
13 34 (3.67%) Pure Storage
14 33 (3.56%) Blue Coat
15 28 (3.02%) Splunk
16 23 (2.48%) Commvault
17 21 (2.27%) HP
18 18 (1.94%) Google