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 26 January 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
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 68 58
Rank change year-on-year -27 -10 +2
Contract jobs citing VMware 869 873 1,347
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.69% 3.30% 3.58%
As % of the Vendors category 5.84% 7.16% 8.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 600 554 912
10th Percentile £317 £303 £275
25th Percentile £425 £406 £392
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -0.99%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £588
90th Percentile £675 £685 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 16 72
10th Percentile £29.00 £35.00 £22.10
25th Percentile £33.00 £42.50 £40.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £68.75 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% +12.24% -5.77%
75th Percentile £74.26 £83.32 £76.25
90th Percentile £96.50 £99.13 £84.36
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £60.00 £65.49
% change year-on-year +16.67% -8.38% +0.75%

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 14,888 12,191 16,387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 46.13% 46.09% 43.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,780 7,326 10,600
10th Percentile £300 £286 £250
25th Percentile £412 £410 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £713 £738
UK median daily rate £501 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.32% -0.36% -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 710 354 786
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.62 £13.10
25th Percentile £17.74 £18.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £23.50 £30.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.67% -7.69% +1.56%
75th Percentile £49.69 £63.75 £59.38
90th Percentile £71.55 £80.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £27.50 £32.41
% change year-on-year -13.36% -15.15% +11.76%

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 26 January 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 26 January 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 26 January 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 -3 247 £500 -9.26% 127
London -58 203 £550 +10.00% 76
North of England -27 141 £456 -4.00% 85
Midlands +3 121 £406 -26.32% 46
North West -11 100 £460 -8.00% 34
West Midlands +4 96 £400 -33.33% 20
South West -28 92 £550 -1.79% 69
East of England +11 58 £496 +4.42% 29
Yorkshire -12 51 £406 -10.22% 46
East Midlands -15 25 £442 +12.92% 25
North East -19 4 £550 +69.23% 9
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 45 (5.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 26 (2.99%) SharePoint
3 21 (2.42%) Confluence
4 13 (1.50%) OpenStack
5 7 (0.81%) Skype for Business
6 6 (0.69%) IIS
7 5 (0.58%) SharePoint Server
8 3 (0.35%) Apache
8 3 (0.35%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.23%) CICS
9 2 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2010
9 2 (0.23%) nginx
9 2 (0.23%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.23%) WordPress
10 1 (0.12%) JBoss
10 1 (0.12%) Traefik
10 1 (0.12%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 17 (1.96%) MS Visio
2 16 (1.84%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.12%) OmniGraffle
Cloud Services
1 217 (24.97%) Azure
2 176 (20.25%) AWS
3 73 (8.40%) Microsoft 365
4 59 (6.79%) OpenShift
5 52 (5.98%) GCP
6 44 (5.06%) GitHub
7 41 (4.72%) Entra ID
8 36 (4.14%) IaaS
9 28 (3.22%) GitHub Actions
10 26 (2.99%) Nutanix
11 22 (2.53%) PaaS
12 14 (1.61%) Datadog
13 10 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
14 8 (0.92%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 7 (0.81%) Microsoft Purview
16 6 (0.69%) AWS CloudFormation
16 6 (0.69%) SaaS
16 6 (0.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 5 (0.58%) Azure Monitor
17 5 (0.58%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 203 (23.36%) DNS
2 168 (19.33%) Firewall
3 95 (10.93%) DHCP
4 81 (9.32%) TCP/IP
5 67 (7.71%) VPN
6 52 (5.98%) Network Security
6 52 (5.98%) VSAN
7 51 (5.87%) SAN
8 48 (5.52%) VLAN
8 48 (5.52%) WAN
9 42 (4.83%) LAN
10 37 (4.26%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
11 35 (4.03%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 32 (3.68%) BIG-IP
12 32 (3.68%) SSL
13 29 (3.34%) HTTP
13 29 (3.34%) Wireshark
14 25 (2.88%) BGP
15 23 (2.65%) DMZ
15 23 (2.65%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (4.37%) SQL Server
2 26 (2.99%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (0.92%) Redis
4 6 (0.69%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.35%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (0.35%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.35%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.12%) Power BI
6 1 (0.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 46 (5.29%) Jenkins
2 36 (4.14%) GitLab
3 31 (3.57%) Git
4 23 (2.65%) Sonatype Nexus
5 21 (2.42%) Fiddler
6 20 (2.30%) JIRA
7 14 (1.61%) Cucumber
7 14 (1.61%) JMeter
7 14 (1.61%) JUnit
8 8 (0.92%) PVCS
8 8 (0.92%) Rational DOORS
9 5 (0.58%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.58%) Subversion
10 4 (0.46%) Robot Framework
10 4 (0.46%) RStudio
10 4 (0.46%) TeamCity
11 3 (0.35%) Maven
12 2 (0.23%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.23%) GoCD
12 2 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 191 (21.98%) Social Skills
2 92 (10.59%) Analytical Skills
2 92 (10.59%) Finance
3 89 (10.24%) Public Sector
4 49 (5.64%) Banking
5 42 (4.83%) Documentation Skills
6 24 (2.76%) Investment Banking
7 22 (2.53%) Aerospace
8 16 (1.84%) Legal
9 15 (1.73%) Local Government
10 12 (1.38%) Electronics
10 12 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
11 10 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (1.04%) Telecoms
13 7 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (0.69%) Police
15 5 (0.58%) Financial Institution
15 5 (0.58%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.58%) Military
Job Titles
1 135 (15.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 126 (14.50%) Architect
3 58 (6.67%) Network Engineer
4 57 (6.56%) Consultant
4 57 (6.56%) VMware Engineer
5 56 (6.44%) Analyst
6 53 (6.10%) Senior
7 46 (5.29%) VMware Consultant
8 43 (4.95%) Platform Engineer
8 43 (4.95%) Support Engineer
9 34 (3.91%) Infrastructure Architect
10 31 (3.57%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 29 (3.34%) DevOps Engineer
12 27 (3.11%) VMware Architect
13 26 (2.99%) Lead
14 25 (2.88%) Infrastructure Support
14 25 (2.88%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
14 25 (2.88%) Wintel Engineer
15 24 (2.76%) Windows Engineer
16 23 (2.65%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (2.76%) Kafka
2 22 (2.53%) Middleware
3 21 (2.42%) LDAP
4 18 (2.07%) Flash
5 17 (1.96%) SAML
6 14 (1.61%) Spring
7 13 (1.50%) Hibernate
7 13 (1.50%) REST
8 11 (1.27%) Keycloak
8 11 (1.27%) OAuth
8 11 (1.27%) OpenID
9 9 (1.04%) Loki
10 8 (0.92%) Elastic Stack
11 7 (0.81%) OAuth2
12 6 (0.69%) XMPP
13 5 (0.58%) .NET
13 5 (0.58%) OpenTelemetry
13 5 (0.58%) React
14 4 (0.46%) Spring Boot
15 3 (0.35%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 88 (10.13%) Data Centre
2 70 (8.06%) Replication
3 67 (7.71%) PKI
4 40 (4.60%) Management Information System
5 39 (4.49%) Cloud Native
6 37 (4.26%) Hybrid Cloud
7 36 (4.14%) Private Cloud
8 32 (3.68%) Linux Command Line
9 23 (2.65%) Public Cloud
10 22 (2.53%) Clustering
11 18 (2.07%) Operational Technology
12 17 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
13 15 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
14 13 (1.50%) Onboarding
15 12 (1.38%) Fat Client
15 12 (1.38%) Thin Client
16 10 (1.15%) Hedge funds
16 10 (1.15%) Product Ownership
16 10 (1.15%) Virtual Team
17 9 (1.04%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 323 (37.17%) Windows
2 263 (30.26%) Linux
3 192 (22.09%) Windows Server
4 69 (7.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 41 (4.72%) Windows 10
6 27 (3.11%) Windows Server 2019
7 22 (2.53%) Windows Server 2016
8 19 (2.19%) Windows Server 2012
9 18 (2.07%) Ubuntu
10 16 (1.84%) CentOS
11 15 (1.73%) Mac OS
12 13 (1.50%) Windows 7
13 12 (1.38%) VMS
14 11 (1.27%) Solaris
15 10 (1.15%) Unix
16 6 (0.69%) Windows Server 2003
17 5 (0.58%) Windows Server 2008
18 4 (0.46%) CatOS
19 3 (0.35%) AIX
19 3 (0.35%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (20.25%) Problem-Solving
2 169 (19.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 137 (15.77%) Agile
4 113 (13.00%) ITIL
5 106 (12.20%) CI/CD
6 104 (11.97%) DevOps
7 99 (11.39%) Migration
8 81 (9.32%) Load Balancing
9 80 (9.21%) Disaster Recovery
10 76 (8.75%) Infrastructure as Code
11 65 (7.48%) Containerisation
12 64 (7.36%) Platform Engineering
13 60 (6.90%) High Availability
14 56 (6.44%) Continuous Improvement
15 53 (6.10%) Cybersecurity
16 50 (5.75%) Roadmaps
16 50 (5.75%) Service Management
17 45 (5.18%) Stakeholder Management
17 45 (5.18%) Zero Trust
18 44 (5.06%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 193 (22.21%) PowerShell
2 181 (20.83%) Python
3 103 (11.85%) Bash
4 39 (4.49%) SQL
5 30 (3.45%) Java
6 26 (2.99%) JavaScript
7 21 (2.42%) Perl
8 14 (1.61%) Shell Script
9 12 (1.38%) C
10 9 (1.04%) C++
11 8 (0.92%) C#
12 7 (0.81%) Embedded C
12 7 (0.81%) Embedded C++
12 7 (0.81%) Go
12 7 (0.81%) MATLAB
13 5 (0.58%) T-SQL
14 4 (0.46%) Bicep
15 2 (0.23%) Korn
15 2 (0.23%) VBA
16 1 (0.12%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 378 (43.50%) Security Cleared
2 233 (26.81%) SC Cleared
3 138 (15.88%) DV Cleared
4 61 (7.02%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 53 (6.10%) Microsoft Certification
6 45 (5.18%) Degree
7 40 (4.60%) Cisco Certification
8 32 (3.68%) Azure Certification
9 29 (3.34%) CCNP
10 23 (2.65%) VCAP
11 22 (2.53%) AWS Certification
12 21 (2.42%) MCSE
13 20 (2.30%) CCNA
14 14 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
15 13 (1.50%) CCIE
15 13 (1.50%) MCSA
16 11 (1.27%) Network+ Certification
16 11 (1.27%) Server+ Certification
17 9 (1.04%) CCDP
18 8 (0.92%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (2.76%) GDPR
2 22 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (2.07%) SLA
4 17 (1.96%) NIST
5 13 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials
6 11 (1.27%) NCSC
7 8 (0.92%) Def Stans
7 8 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 7 (0.81%) QA
9 6 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 6 (0.69%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.23%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.23%) PMO
11 1 (0.12%) Data Quality
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
System Software
1 547 (62.95%) VMware Infrastructure
2 224 (25.78%) Active Directory
3 157 (18.07%) vSphere
4 132 (15.19%) VMware NSX
5 107 (12.31%) Hyper-V
6 95 (10.93%) VMware ESXi
7 57 (6.56%) Docker
8 53 (6.10%) Virtual Machines
9 32 (3.68%) NFS
10 22 (2.53%) Virtual Desktop
11 17 (1.96%) GPFS
12 16 (1.84%) Firmware
12 16 (1.84%) KVM
13 8 (0.92%) vCloud
13 8 (0.92%) Virtual Servers
14 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 4 (0.46%) BitLocker
15 4 (0.46%) Veritas File System
15 4 (0.46%) Veritas Volume Manager
15 4 (0.46%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 172 (19.79%) Ansible
2 109 (12.54%) Terraform
3 90 (10.36%) vCenter Server
4 89 (10.24%) Kubernetes
5 77 (8.86%) vRealize
6 71 (8.17%) SCCM
7 56 (6.44%) Microsoft Intune
8 34 (3.91%) Grafana
9 32 (3.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 31 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
11 29 (3.34%) Prometheus
12 27 (3.11%) Argo
12 27 (3.11%) Red Hat Satellite
13 26 (2.99%) VxRail
14 23 (2.65%) SCOM
15 18 (2.07%) Progress Chef
16 16 (1.84%) FortiGate
17 14 (1.61%) WSUS
18 13 (1.50%) vRealize Orchestrator
19 11 (1.27%) WMI
Vendors
1 219 (25.20%) Microsoft
2 162 (18.64%) Cisco
3 92 (10.59%) Red Hat
4 86 (9.90%) F5
5 67 (7.71%) Citrix
6 48 (5.52%) Dell
7 44 (5.06%) IBM
7 44 (5.06%) Oracle
7 44 (5.06%) SolarWinds
8 42 (4.83%) Veeam
9 39 (4.49%) NetApp
10 37 (4.26%) Palo Alto
11 34 (3.91%) ServiceNow
12 29 (3.34%) McAfee
13 28 (3.22%) Blue Coat
14 25 (2.88%) Splunk
15 22 (2.53%) HP
16 18 (2.07%) CyberArk
17 17 (1.96%) Google
17 17 (1.96%) Juniper