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 8 November 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
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 58 50
Rank change year-on-year -45 -8 +17
Contract jobs citing VMware 783 1,119 1,638
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.63% 3.59% 4.10%
As % of the Vendors category 5.51% 7.99% 9.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 520 713 1,116
10th Percentile £323 £321 £300
25th Percentile £440 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.10% +5.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £671 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 14 69
10th Percentile £24.20 £22.82 £29.40
25th Percentile £29.00 £35.00 £46.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £40.58 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.22% -35.58% -
75th Percentile £58.75 £73.13 £76.25
90th Percentile £72.86 £103.15 £84.36
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £38.00 £65.98
% change year-on-year -10.53% -42.41% +4.73%

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 14,213 14,010 17,859
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.75% 44.97% 44.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,114 8,418 11,814
10th Percentile £283 £300 £255
25th Percentile £405 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £615 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 702 437 624
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.27 £16.00 £20.27
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -21.35% +73.08%
75th Percentile £43.21 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £71.95 £74.00 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £31.00 £43.86
% change year-on-year -19.35% -29.32% +75.44%

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 8 November 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 8 November 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 8 November 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
London -70 205 £525 +10.53% 228
South East -13 204 £525 -4.55% 348
North of England -9 135 £500 - 116
Midlands -28 107 £538 +2.38% 119
West Midlands -20 90 £565 -1.74% 69
South West -31 88 £550 +2.33% 108
North West -12 80 £525 +5.00% 68
Yorkshire +14 66 £436 -8.69% 28
East of England -12 42 £550 +4.76% 64
East Midlands -27 17 £465 +3.56% 46
North East -13 4 £550 +137.84% 20
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 57 (7.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 31 (3.96%) Confluence
3 29 (3.70%) SharePoint
4 14 (1.79%) OpenStack
5 11 (1.40%) Apache
6 10 (1.28%) IIS
7 7 (0.89%) Skype for Business
8 6 (0.77%) WebSphere
9 5 (0.64%) SharePoint Server
10 3 (0.38%) nginx
10 3 (0.38%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.26%) CICS
12 1 (0.13%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.13%) Traefik
12 1 (0.13%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 29 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.77%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.13%) OmniGraffle
Cloud Services
1 187 (23.88%) Azure
2 123 (15.71%) AWS
3 65 (8.30%) Microsoft 365
4 47 (6.00%) GCP
5 42 (5.36%) OpenShift
6 36 (4.60%) Entra ID
6 36 (4.60%) GitHub
7 28 (3.58%) IaaS
8 26 (3.32%) SaaS
9 24 (3.07%) Nutanix
10 18 (2.30%) GitHub Actions
11 16 (2.04%) Cohesity
11 16 (2.04%) PaaS
12 12 (1.53%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 9 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
14 8 (1.02%) Datadog
15 7 (0.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 5 (0.64%) Cloud Computing
16 5 (0.64%) OneDrive
17 4 (0.51%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 201 (25.67%) DNS
2 151 (19.28%) Firewall
3 92 (11.75%) TCP/IP
4 81 (10.34%) DHCP
5 74 (9.45%) SAN
6 61 (7.79%) VLAN
7 57 (7.28%) VPN
8 47 (6.00%) WAN
9 46 (5.87%) VSAN
10 42 (5.36%) Network Security
11 38 (4.85%) BGP
12 37 (4.73%) LAN
13 35 (4.47%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 31 (3.96%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
15 29 (3.70%) DMZ
16 28 (3.58%) iSCSI
17 23 (2.94%) NAS
18 21 (2.68%) Fibre Channel
19 20 (2.55%) MPLS
19 20 (2.55%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (5.24%) SQL Server
2 16 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (0.51%) NoSQL
3 4 (0.51%) Oracle Database
4 3 (0.38%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.26%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (0.26%) MariaDB
5 2 (0.26%) MySQL
6 1 (0.13%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.13%) Power BI
6 1 (0.13%) Redis
6 1 (0.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 58 (7.41%) Jenkins
2 34 (4.34%) Git
3 29 (3.70%) JIRA
4 28 (3.58%) GitLab
5 19 (2.43%) Sonatype Nexus
6 16 (2.04%) Postman
7 10 (1.28%) Cucumber
7 10 (1.28%) JMeter
7 10 (1.28%) JUnit
8 8 (1.02%) Fiddler
8 8 (1.02%) Subversion
9 7 (0.89%) Bitbucket
9 7 (0.89%) TeamCity
10 6 (0.77%) Robot Framework
11 4 (0.51%) MSI
12 3 (0.38%) Maven
13 2 (0.26%) Artifactory
13 2 (0.26%) Mercurial
13 2 (0.26%) RStudio
13 2 (0.26%) Vagrant
General
1 222 (28.35%) Social Skills
2 93 (11.88%) Finance
3 88 (11.24%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (9.20%) Public Sector
5 48 (6.13%) Banking
6 37 (4.73%) Documentation Skills
7 19 (2.43%) Investment Banking
8 16 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (2.04%) Legal
9 13 (1.66%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (1.40%) Local Government
11 10 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (1.15%) Telecoms
13 7 (0.89%) Manufacturing
14 6 (0.77%) Electronics
14 6 (0.77%) Financial Institution
14 6 (0.77%) Law
14 6 (0.77%) Marketing
15 5 (0.64%) Aerospace
15 5 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 119 (15.20%) Architect
2 106 (13.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 68 (8.68%) Consultant
4 58 (7.41%) Senior
5 51 (6.51%) Network Engineer
6 47 (6.00%) VMware Consultant
7 44 (5.62%) Support Engineer
7 44 (5.62%) VMware Engineer
8 39 (4.98%) Infrastructure Architect
9 31 (3.96%) Administrator
9 31 (3.96%) Platform Engineer
10 30 (3.83%) Windows Engineer
11 29 (3.70%) VMware Architect
12 27 (3.45%) Analyst
12 27 (3.45%) Infrastructure Support
13 26 (3.32%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
14 24 (3.07%) Developer
15 18 (2.30%) Automation Engineer
15 18 (2.30%) IT Engineer
15 18 (2.30%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (3.07%) Middleware
2 13 (1.66%) Kafka
2 13 (1.66%) REST
3 10 (1.28%) Flash
3 10 (1.28%) Hibernate
3 10 (1.28%) Spring
4 9 (1.15%) Loki
5 8 (1.02%) Elastic Stack
5 8 (1.02%) OAuth
5 8 (1.02%) OpenID
5 8 (1.02%) RESTful
5 8 (1.02%) SAML
6 7 (0.89%) JSON
6 7 (0.89%) NETCONF
6 7 (0.89%) RESTCONF
7 6 (0.77%) OAuth2
7 6 (0.77%) XMPP
8 5 (0.64%) .NET
8 5 (0.64%) XML
8 5 (0.64%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 78 (9.96%) Data Centre
2 55 (7.02%) PKI
3 46 (5.87%) Replication
4 36 (4.60%) Hybrid Cloud
4 36 (4.60%) Management Information System
5 32 (4.09%) Private Cloud
6 25 (3.19%) Onboarding
7 22 (2.81%) Linux Command Line
8 17 (2.17%) Cloud Native
9 13 (1.66%) Clustering
9 13 (1.66%) Public Cloud
10 11 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
10 11 (1.40%) Fat Client
10 11 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (1.40%) Thin Client
11 10 (1.28%) Hedge funds
11 10 (1.28%) Virtual Team
12 9 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
12 9 (1.15%) Product Ownership
13 8 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 339 (43.30%) Windows
2 250 (31.93%) Linux
3 184 (23.50%) Windows Server
4 81 (10.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 51 (6.51%) Windows 10
6 48 (6.13%) Windows Server 2019
7 40 (5.11%) Windows Server 2016
8 28 (3.58%) Ubuntu
9 26 (3.32%) CentOS
10 21 (2.68%) Unix
11 19 (2.43%) Windows Server 2012
12 15 (1.92%) Mac OS
12 15 (1.92%) Solaris
13 14 (1.79%) VMS
14 11 (1.40%) Windows 7
15 7 (0.89%) Debian
16 6 (0.77%) AIX
16 6 (0.77%) Windows Server 2003
17 5 (0.64%) Windows Server 2008
18 4 (0.51%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (18.39%) Problem-Solving
2 140 (17.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 104 (13.28%) Agile
4 96 (12.26%) DevOps
5 89 (11.37%) Migration
6 87 (11.11%) ITIL
7 85 (10.86%) CI/CD
8 68 (8.68%) Disaster Recovery
9 62 (7.92%) Infrastructure as Code
10 61 (7.79%) Containerisation
11 59 (7.54%) Load Balancing
12 53 (6.77%) Validation
13 50 (6.39%) Continuous Improvement
14 47 (6.00%) Service Management
15 46 (5.87%) High Availability
16 44 (5.62%) Business Strategy
17 42 (5.36%) Configuration Management
18 40 (5.11%) Data Protection
18 40 (5.11%) Stakeholder Management
19 38 (4.85%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 202 (25.80%) Python
2 183 (23.37%) PowerShell
3 100 (12.77%) Bash
4 58 (7.41%) SQL
5 30 (3.83%) Java
6 27 (3.45%) JavaScript
7 22 (2.81%) Perl
8 11 (1.40%) Shell Script
9 10 (1.28%) Go
10 9 (1.15%) PHP
11 7 (0.89%) T-SQL
11 7 (0.89%) VBA
12 5 (0.64%) C++
13 4 (0.51%) C#
14 3 (0.38%) VBScript
15 2 (0.26%) Korn
16 1 (0.13%) C
16 1 (0.13%) Rust
16 1 (0.13%) TypeScript
16 1 (0.13%) VB
Qualifications
1 325 (41.51%) Security Cleared
2 191 (24.39%) SC Cleared
3 144 (18.39%) DV Cleared
4 56 (7.15%) Microsoft Certification
5 55 (7.02%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 51 (6.51%) Cisco Certification
7 50 (6.39%) Degree
8 39 (4.98%) CCNP
9 27 (3.45%) Azure Certification
10 26 (3.32%) CCNA
11 23 (2.94%) MCSE
12 17 (2.17%) VCAP
13 14 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
14 12 (1.53%) AWS Certification
15 11 (1.40%) CCIE
15 11 (1.40%) Master's Degree
15 11 (1.40%) Network+ Certification
15 11 (1.40%) Server+ Certification
16 10 (1.28%) CCDP
17 9 (1.15%) VCP6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (3.32%) GDPR
2 19 (2.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (1.53%) NCSC
3 12 (1.53%) SLA
4 11 (1.40%) QA
5 10 (1.28%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.15%) NIST
7 7 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (0.51%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.38%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.26%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.26%) PMO
11 1 (0.13%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.13%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.13%) MiFID
11 1 (0.13%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.13%) RMADS
System Software
1 505 (64.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 225 (28.74%) Active Directory
3 152 (19.41%) vSphere
4 115 (14.69%) VMware ESXi
5 95 (12.13%) Hyper-V
6 82 (10.47%) VMware NSX
7 45 (5.75%) Docker
8 43 (5.49%) Virtual Machines
9 31 (3.96%) NFS
10 27 (3.45%) Virtual Servers
11 22 (2.81%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 21 (2.68%) Virtual Desktop
13 14 (1.79%) Firmware
14 10 (1.28%) KVM
15 9 (1.15%) GPFS
16 7 (0.89%) Veritas Cluster Server
17 6 (0.77%) Dovecot
17 6 (0.77%) Postfix
17 6 (0.77%) Terminal Services
17 6 (0.77%) UAG
Systems Management
1 175 (22.35%) Ansible
2 94 (12.01%) Terraform
3 78 (9.96%) vCenter Server
4 72 (9.20%) SCCM
5 53 (6.77%) vRealize
6 51 (6.51%) Kubernetes
7 39 (4.98%) Microsoft Intune
8 29 (3.70%) WSUS
9 28 (3.58%) Puppet
10 24 (3.07%) Grafana
11 23 (2.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 21 (2.68%) Prometheus
13 19 (2.43%) Argo
14 17 (2.17%) VxRail
15 16 (2.04%) Progress Chef
16 15 (1.92%) Red Hat Satellite
16 15 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
17 13 (1.66%) Microsoft Clustering
18 12 (1.53%) FortiGate
18 12 (1.53%) SCOM
Vendors
1 243 (31.03%) Microsoft
2 124 (15.84%) Cisco
3 87 (11.11%) Red Hat
4 74 (9.45%) Citrix
5 72 (9.20%) F5
6 60 (7.66%) NetApp
7 51 (6.51%) Veeam
8 48 (6.13%) Splunk
9 44 (5.62%) Dell
10 37 (4.73%) Oracle
10 37 (4.73%) SolarWinds
11 26 (3.32%) Palo Alto
12 24 (3.07%) IBM
13 23 (2.94%) Broadcom
14 21 (2.68%) HP
14 21 (2.68%) ServiceNow
15 20 (2.55%) MuleSoft
16 19 (2.43%) Juniper
17 18 (2.30%) CyberArk
18 17 (2.17%) McAfee