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 19 March 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
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 67 64
Rank change year-on-year -30 -3 -7
Contract jobs citing VMware 974 845 1,214
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.63% 3.45% 3.21%
As % of the Vendors category 5.99% 7.30% 7.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 675 568 819
10th Percentile £335 £313 £263
25th Percentile £432 £425 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.37% +7.55% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 14 51
10th Percentile £29.00 £32.42 £22.00
25th Percentile £48.00 £37.50 £38.81
Median hourly rate £70.00 £73.75 £46.39
Median % change year-on-year -5.08% +58.98% -27.52%
75th Percentile £74.26 £84.96 £70.96
90th Percentile £96.00 £104.28 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -3.45% +26.09% -11.54%

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 16,264 11,574 16,134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 43.95% 47.30% 42.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,600 7,420 10,335
10th Percentile £309 £296 £250
25th Percentile £413 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% +1.94% -4.28%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £731
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £514
% change year-on-year -2.91% +0.19% -2.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 872 398 942
10th Percentile £15.51 £15.25 £12.14
25th Percentile £18.50 £20.70 £14.48
Median hourly rate £25.00 £30.20 £24.75
Median % change year-on-year -17.22% +22.01% -29.28%
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £52.71
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £29.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -13.28% +18.37% -30.99%

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 19 March 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 19 March 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 19 March 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 -1 273 £525 -8.18% 120
London -38 241 £550 +4.76% 71
North of England -25 183 £459 +2.00% 83
Midlands -27 121 £401 -23.62% 37
North West -8 116 £456 -4.00% 52
South West -30 101 £550 -4.35% 37
West Midlands -19 97 £371 -29.20% 25
Yorkshire -21 72 £444 -1.33% 27
East of England -4 56 £513 -1.16% 26
East Midlands -30 24 £436 -17.77% 12
North East -19 4 £550 +57.14% 6
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 47 (4.83%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (2.46%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.64%) Confluence
4 8 (0.82%) CICS
5 6 (0.62%) OpenStack
6 4 (0.41%) Skype for Business
7 3 (0.31%) nginx
7 3 (0.31%) SharePoint Server
7 3 (0.31%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.21%) Apache
8 2 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2010
8 2 (0.21%) IIS
8 2 (0.21%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.21%) WordPress
9 1 (0.10%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.10%) JBoss
9 1 (0.10%) WebSphere
Applications
1 17 (1.75%) MS Visio
2 14 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 237 (24.33%) Azure
2 175 (17.97%) AWS
3 80 (8.21%) OpenShift
4 79 (8.11%) Microsoft 365
5 55 (5.65%) Entra ID
6 52 (5.34%) IaaS
7 50 (5.13%) GitHub
8 42 (4.31%) GCP
9 36 (3.70%) PaaS
10 30 (3.08%) Nutanix
11 20 (2.05%) GitHub Actions
12 19 (1.95%) Datadog
13 14 (1.44%) Azure DevOps
14 13 (1.33%) SaaS
15 8 (0.82%) Azure Sentinel
15 8 (0.82%) Rubrik
16 7 (0.72%) AWS CloudFormation
16 7 (0.72%) Azure Monitor
16 7 (0.72%) Microsoft Purview
17 6 (0.62%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 213 (21.87%) DNS
2 192 (19.71%) Firewall
3 92 (9.45%) DHCP
4 82 (8.42%) VPN
5 75 (7.70%) VSAN
6 71 (7.29%) SAN
7 70 (7.19%) TCP/IP
8 60 (6.16%) Network Security
9 56 (5.75%) WAN
10 48 (4.93%) LAN
11 47 (4.83%) BIG-IP
11 47 (4.83%) SSL
12 41 (4.21%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 41 (4.21%) HTTP
13 40 (4.11%) Wireshark
14 35 (3.59%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
15 34 (3.49%) NAS
15 34 (3.49%) VLAN
16 32 (3.29%) BGP
17 24 (2.46%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (3.08%) SQL Server
2 21 (2.16%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (0.92%) Redis
4 8 (0.82%) DataStage
4 8 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (0.51%) NonStop SQL
6 4 (0.41%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.31%) MongoDB
7 3 (0.31%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.21%) Power BI
9 1 (0.10%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.10%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.10%) Metadata
9 1 (0.10%) Oracle BI EE
9 1 (0.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 56 (5.75%) Jenkins
2 32 (3.29%) GitLab
3 30 (3.08%) Fiddler
4 27 (2.77%) Git
5 23 (2.36%) JIRA
6 16 (1.64%) Sonatype Nexus
7 10 (1.03%) Cucumber
7 10 (1.03%) JMeter
7 10 (1.03%) JUnit
8 8 (0.82%) PVCS
8 8 (0.82%) Rational DOORS
9 7 (0.72%) Team Foundation Server
10 6 (0.62%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.62%) Chocolatey
10 6 (0.62%) Robot Framework
11 4 (0.41%) Maven
12 3 (0.31%) RStudio
13 2 (0.21%) MSI
13 2 (0.21%) Subversion
14 1 (0.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 211 (21.66%) Social Skills
2 106 (10.88%) Finance
3 98 (10.06%) Public Sector
4 97 (9.96%) Analytical Skills
5 58 (5.95%) Banking
6 41 (4.21%) Documentation Skills
7 27 (2.77%) Investment Banking
7 27 (2.77%) Legal
8 20 (2.05%) Aerospace
9 18 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (1.23%) Local Government
10 12 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
11 11 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (1.13%) Military
12 10 (1.03%) Electronics
13 7 (0.72%) Police
13 7 (0.72%) Retail
14 6 (0.62%) Financial Institution
14 6 (0.62%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.51%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 175 (17.97%) Architect
2 145 (14.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 80 (8.21%) Network Engineer
4 73 (7.49%) Senior
5 72 (7.39%) VMware Engineer
6 61 (6.26%) Analyst
7 55 (5.65%) Consultant
8 42 (4.31%) Platform Engineer
9 41 (4.21%) VMware Consultant
10 40 (4.11%) VMware Architect
11 39 (4.00%) Infrastructure Architect
11 39 (4.00%) Lead
12 34 (3.49%) Infrastructure Analyst
13 31 (3.18%) Web Engineer
14 28 (2.87%) Technical Architect
15 26 (2.67%) DevOps Engineer
16 24 (2.46%) Support Engineer
17 23 (2.36%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
18 22 (2.26%) 3rd Line Engineer
18 22 (2.26%) Storage Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (2.26%) Flash
1 22 (2.26%) LDAP
1 22 (2.26%) Middleware
2 21 (2.16%) Kafka
3 17 (1.75%) SAML
4 15 (1.54%) OpenTelemetry
5 12 (1.23%) Keycloak
6 10 (1.03%) OAuth
6 10 (1.03%) OpenID
6 10 (1.03%) REST
6 10 (1.03%) Spring
7 9 (0.92%) Hibernate
8 8 (0.82%) Loki
9 7 (0.72%) Elastic Stack
9 7 (0.72%) OAuth2
10 6 (0.62%) XMPP
11 5 (0.51%) Software Packaging
12 4 (0.41%) Spring Boot
13 3 (0.31%) SOAP
14 2 (0.21%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 103 (10.57%) Data Centre
2 74 (7.60%) Replication
3 68 (6.98%) PKI
4 56 (5.75%) Cloud Native
5 50 (5.13%) Hybrid Cloud
6 39 (4.00%) Management Information System
7 31 (3.18%) Private Cloud
8 30 (3.08%) Linux Command Line
8 30 (3.08%) Public Cloud
9 23 (2.36%) Clustering
9 23 (2.36%) Enterprise Storage
10 21 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
11 19 (1.95%) Product Ownership
12 18 (1.85%) Operational Technology
13 15 (1.54%) Blackberry
14 13 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
15 12 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
15 12 (1.23%) Fat Client
15 12 (1.23%) SCADA
15 12 (1.23%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 354 (36.34%) Windows
2 272 (27.93%) Linux
3 210 (21.56%) Windows Server
4 70 (7.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 33 (3.39%) Windows Server 2019
6 31 (3.18%) Windows Server 2016
7 25 (2.57%) Ubuntu
8 23 (2.36%) Windows 10
9 19 (1.95%) Windows Server 2012
10 17 (1.75%) VMS
11 16 (1.64%) Unix
12 15 (1.54%) Android
12 15 (1.54%) Apple iOS
13 13 (1.33%) CentOS
13 13 (1.33%) Solaris
14 12 (1.23%) AIX
15 11 (1.13%) Windows 7
16 10 (1.03%) Mac OS
17 9 (0.92%) Data ONTAP
18 8 (0.82%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 191 (19.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 189 (19.40%) Problem-Solving
3 164 (16.84%) Migration
4 142 (14.58%) Agile
5 119 (12.22%) DevOps
6 115 (11.81%) ITIL
7 112 (11.50%) CI/CD
8 107 (10.99%) Load Balancing
9 98 (10.06%) High Availability
10 95 (9.75%) Disaster Recovery
11 85 (8.73%) Infrastructure as Code
12 78 (8.01%) Containerisation
13 71 (7.29%) Platform Engineering
14 69 (7.08%) Stakeholder Management
15 67 (6.88%) Roadmaps
16 63 (6.47%) Cybersecurity
17 61 (6.26%) Continuous Improvement
18 57 (5.85%) Change Management
19 53 (5.44%) Service Management
20 49 (5.03%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 187 (19.20%) PowerShell
2 171 (17.56%) Python
3 95 (9.75%) Bash
4 29 (2.98%) SQL
5 15 (1.54%) Java
5 15 (1.54%) Perl
6 13 (1.33%) JavaScript
7 11 (1.13%) C
7 11 (1.13%) Shell Script
8 8 (0.82%) C++
8 8 (0.82%) COBOL
8 8 (0.82%) T-SQL
9 7 (0.72%) Embedded C
9 7 (0.72%) Embedded C++
9 7 (0.72%) MATLAB
10 6 (0.62%) Bicep
11 5 (0.51%) C#
12 4 (0.41%) PHP
12 4 (0.41%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.21%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 433 (44.46%) Security Cleared
2 270 (27.72%) SC Cleared
3 162 (16.63%) DV Cleared
4 59 (6.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 46 (4.72%) Degree
6 39 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 36 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
8 32 (3.29%) CCNP
9 30 (3.08%) Azure Certification
10 27 (2.77%) VCAP
11 18 (1.85%) CCNA
11 18 (1.85%) MCSE
12 17 (1.75%) AWS Certification
12 17 (1.75%) Oracle Certification
13 16 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
14 13 (1.33%) MCSA
15 11 (1.13%) CCDP
15 11 (1.13%) OCP
16 8 (0.82%) CISSP
17 7 (0.72%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (3.18%) NIST
2 25 (2.57%) SLA
3 22 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 19 (1.95%) Cyber Essentials
5 18 (1.85%) NCSC
6 14 (1.44%) GDPR
7 9 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 8 (0.82%) Def Stans
9 5 (0.51%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.51%) QA
10 4 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.31%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.21%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 2 (0.21%) ISA99
12 2 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 1 (0.10%) Accessibility
13 1 (0.10%) COBIT
13 1 (0.10%) Data Quality
13 1 (0.10%) Government Security Classifications
13 1 (0.10%) MiFID
System Software
1 606 (62.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 235 (24.13%) Active Directory
3 203 (20.84%) vSphere
4 183 (18.79%) VMware NSX
5 121 (12.42%) VMware ESXi
6 111 (11.40%) Hyper-V
7 58 (5.95%) Virtual Machines
8 54 (5.54%) Docker
9 40 (4.11%) NFS
10 30 (3.08%) Firmware
11 25 (2.57%) Virtual Desktop
12 17 (1.75%) KVM
13 16 (1.64%) GPFS
14 12 (1.23%) vCloud
15 9 (0.92%) Microsoft App-V
16 8 (0.82%) BitLocker
17 3 (0.31%) DFS Replication
17 3 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
17 3 (0.31%) VMware Workstation
17 3 (0.31%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 188 (19.30%) Ansible
2 126 (12.94%) Terraform
3 123 (12.63%) vCenter Server
4 110 (11.29%) Kubernetes
5 81 (8.32%) Microsoft Intune
6 68 (6.98%) vRealize
7 66 (6.78%) SCCM
8 43 (4.41%) Argo
9 42 (4.31%) Grafana
10 33 (3.39%) Single Sign-On
11 31 (3.18%) VxRail
12 29 (2.98%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 25 (2.57%) Prometheus
14 22 (2.26%) SCOM
15 20 (2.05%) Progress Chef
15 20 (2.05%) Red Hat Satellite
16 17 (1.75%) PowerCLI
16 17 (1.75%) vMotion
17 12 (1.23%) FortiGate
17 12 (1.23%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 237 (24.33%) Microsoft
2 157 (16.12%) Cisco
3 103 (10.57%) Red Hat
4 87 (8.93%) F5
5 83 (8.52%) Citrix
6 52 (5.34%) IBM
7 49 (5.03%) NetApp
8 48 (4.93%) Dell
8 48 (4.93%) Pure Storage
9 42 (4.31%) Palo Alto
10 41 (4.21%) ServiceNow
11 40 (4.11%) McAfee
12 38 (3.90%) Oracle
13 37 (3.80%) Blue Coat
14 36 (3.70%) SolarWinds
15 32 (3.29%) Veeam
16 28 (2.87%) Splunk
17 24 (2.46%) Commvault
18 22 (2.26%) HP
19 20 (2.05%) Broadcom