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 10 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
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 72 59
Rank change year-on-year -20 -13 +2
Contract jobs citing VMware 932 861 1,306
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.77% 3.33% 3.42%
As % of the Vendors category 6.11% 7.19% 7.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 656 554 880
10th Percentile £324 £283 £264
25th Percentile £425 £406 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £493
Median % change year-on-year - +6.60% -4.37%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £518 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -1.43% +5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 16 71
10th Percentile £30.60 £33.16 £22.08
25th Percentile £44.86 £35.00 £40.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £68.75 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% +10.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £74.26 £83.32 £76.25
90th Percentile £96.50 £99.13 £84.36
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +16.67% -7.69% -

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 15,251 11,975 16,555
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 45.40% 46.33% 43.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,016 7,247 10,683
10th Percentile £300 £278 £250
25th Percentile £413 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £705 £720 £734
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.40% -0.38% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 757 339 850
10th Percentile £15.15 £15.62 £12.99
25th Percentile £17.89 £20.00 £15.35
Median hourly rate £23.83 £30.45 £27.14
Median % change year-on-year -21.76% +12.20% -16.49%
75th Percentile £56.00 £65.00 £56.49
90th Percentile £72.20 £83.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £29.00 £26.97
% change year-on-year -17.84% +7.52% -13.41%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 0 264 £500 -9.26% 107
London -59 223 £550 +7.42% 76
North of England -28 159 £460 -3.26% 72
Midlands +2 127 £414 -22.74% 40
North West -16 107 £460 -8.91% 33
West Midlands -9 97 £400 -27.40% 27
South West -28 97 £550 -4.35% 49
Yorkshire -15 60 £420 -6.67% 36
East of England +7 59 £500 +5.26% 18
East Midlands -15 30 £449 -14.57% 13
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 (5.04%) Microsoft Exchange
2 28 (3.00%) SharePoint
3 20 (2.15%) Confluence
4 11 (1.18%) OpenStack
5 7 (0.75%) Skype for Business
6 6 (0.64%) CICS
6 6 (0.64%) IIS
7 5 (0.54%) SharePoint Server
8 3 (0.32%) Apache
9 2 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2010
9 2 (0.21%) nginx
9 2 (0.21%) WordPress
10 1 (0.11%) JBoss
10 1 (0.11%) Traefik
10 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 17 (1.82%) MS Visio
2 16 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.11%) OmniGraffle
Cloud Services
1 232 (24.89%) Azure
2 179 (19.21%) AWS
3 80 (8.58%) Microsoft 365
4 73 (7.83%) OpenShift
5 52 (5.58%) GCP
6 51 (5.47%) GitHub
7 47 (5.04%) Entra ID
8 41 (4.40%) IaaS
9 30 (3.22%) Nutanix
10 28 (3.00%) GitHub Actions
11 27 (2.90%) PaaS
12 16 (1.72%) Datadog
13 12 (1.29%) Azure DevOps
14 8 (0.86%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 8 (0.86%) SaaS
15 7 (0.75%) Microsoft Purview
16 6 (0.64%) AWS CloudFormation
16 6 (0.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 5 (0.54%) Azure Monitor
17 5 (0.54%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 217 (23.28%) DNS
2 181 (19.42%) Firewall
3 100 (10.73%) DHCP
4 80 (8.58%) TCP/IP
5 73 (7.83%) VPN
6 61 (6.55%) SAN
7 55 (5.90%) Network Security
8 51 (5.47%) VSAN
9 49 (5.26%) VLAN
10 48 (5.15%) WAN
11 43 (4.61%) LAN
12 37 (3.97%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 36 (3.86%) BIG-IP
13 36 (3.86%) SSL
14 35 (3.76%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
15 33 (3.54%) HTTP
15 33 (3.54%) Wireshark
16 29 (3.11%) NAS
17 28 (3.00%) BGP
18 21 (2.25%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (4.51%) SQL Server
2 25 (2.68%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (0.86%) Redis
4 6 (0.64%) DataStage
5 4 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (0.43%) NoSQL
6 3 (0.32%) MongoDB
6 3 (0.32%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.11%) Power BI
7 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 51 (5.47%) Jenkins
2 36 (3.86%) GitLab
3 28 (3.00%) Git
4 25 (2.68%) Fiddler
5 21 (2.25%) Sonatype Nexus
6 18 (1.93%) JIRA
7 14 (1.50%) Cucumber
7 14 (1.50%) JMeter
7 14 (1.50%) 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 (0.21%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.21%) Chocolatey
12 2 (0.21%) Jaeger
General
1 206 (22.10%) Social Skills
2 103 (11.05%) Finance
3 101 (10.84%) Analytical Skills
4 94 (10.09%) Public Sector
5 51 (5.47%) Banking
6 41 (4.40%) Documentation Skills
7 24 (2.58%) Investment Banking
8 22 (2.36%) Aerospace
9 20 (2.15%) Legal
10 19 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
11 15 (1.61%) Local Government
12 14 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 11 (1.18%) Electronics
14 10 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
15 8 (0.86%) Military
16 7 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
16 7 (0.75%) Police
16 7 (0.75%) Telecoms
17 6 (0.64%) Financial Institution
18 5 (0.54%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 146 (15.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 143 (15.34%) Architect
3 63 (6.76%) Network Engineer
4 59 (6.33%) Analyst
4 59 (6.33%) VMware Engineer
5 57 (6.12%) Consultant
6 56 (6.01%) Senior
7 46 (4.94%) VMware Consultant
8 45 (4.83%) Platform Engineer
9 42 (4.51%) Support Engineer
10 34 (3.65%) Infrastructure Architect
11 33 (3.54%) VMware Architect
12 32 (3.43%) Infrastructure Analyst
13 29 (3.11%) DevOps Engineer
13 29 (3.11%) Lead
14 26 (2.79%) Web Engineer
15 25 (2.68%) Developer
16 24 (2.58%) Infrastructure Support
16 24 (2.58%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
17 23 (2.47%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (2.58%) Kafka
1 24 (2.58%) Middleware
2 22 (2.36%) LDAP
3 18 (1.93%) Flash
4 17 (1.82%) SAML
5 14 (1.50%) Spring
6 13 (1.39%) Hibernate
7 12 (1.29%) Keycloak
8 11 (1.18%) OAuth
8 11 (1.18%) OpenID
8 11 (1.18%) REST
9 10 (1.07%) OpenTelemetry
10 9 (0.97%) Loki
11 8 (0.86%) Elastic Stack
12 7 (0.75%) OAuth2
13 6 (0.64%) XMPP
14 5 (0.54%) .NET
14 5 (0.54%) React
14 5 (0.54%) Software Packaging
15 4 (0.43%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 94 (10.09%) Data Centre
2 72 (7.73%) Replication
3 70 (7.51%) PKI
4 47 (5.04%) Cloud Native
5 41 (4.40%) Hybrid Cloud
6 39 (4.18%) Management Information System
7 35 (3.76%) Private Cloud
8 32 (3.43%) Linux Command Line
9 25 (2.68%) Public Cloud
10 19 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
11 18 (1.93%) Analytical Mindset
11 18 (1.93%) Clustering
11 18 (1.93%) Operational Technology
12 13 (1.39%) Onboarding
12 13 (1.39%) Product Ownership
13 12 (1.29%) Fat Client
13 12 (1.29%) Thin Client
14 11 (1.18%) Enterprise Storage
15 9 (0.97%) Virtual Team
16 8 (0.86%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 341 (36.59%) Windows
2 284 (30.47%) Linux
3 202 (21.67%) Windows Server
4 72 (7.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 39 (4.18%) Windows 10
6 27 (2.90%) Windows Server 2019
7 23 (2.47%) Windows Server 2016
8 21 (2.25%) Ubuntu
9 20 (2.15%) Windows Server 2012
10 18 (1.93%) Mac OS
11 16 (1.72%) Unix
12 15 (1.61%) CentOS
12 15 (1.61%) VMS
13 13 (1.39%) Solaris
13 13 (1.39%) Windows 7
14 9 (0.97%) AIX
15 7 (0.75%) Windows Server 2003
16 4 (0.43%) Android
16 4 (0.43%) Apple iOS
16 4 (0.43%) CatOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (20.82%) Problem-Solving
2 186 (19.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 140 (15.02%) Agile
4 130 (13.95%) Migration
5 121 (12.98%) ITIL
6 114 (12.23%) DevOps
7 109 (11.70%) CI/CD
8 91 (9.76%) Load Balancing
9 89 (9.55%) Disaster Recovery
10 81 (8.69%) Infrastructure as Code
11 77 (8.26%) Containerisation
12 72 (7.73%) High Availability
13 69 (7.40%) Platform Engineering
14 62 (6.65%) Continuous Improvement
15 60 (6.44%) Cybersecurity
16 58 (6.22%) Roadmaps
17 52 (5.58%) Service Management
18 51 (5.47%) Stakeholder Management
19 48 (5.15%) Change Management
19 48 (5.15%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 195 (20.92%) PowerShell
2 190 (20.39%) Python
3 108 (11.59%) Bash
4 36 (3.86%) SQL
5 27 (2.90%) Java
6 25 (2.68%) JavaScript
7 20 (2.15%) Perl
8 14 (1.50%) Shell Script
9 12 (1.29%) C
10 9 (0.97%) C++
11 8 (0.86%) C#
11 8 (0.86%) T-SQL
12 7 (0.75%) Embedded C
12 7 (0.75%) Embedded C++
12 7 (0.75%) Go
12 7 (0.75%) MATLAB
13 6 (0.64%) COBOL
14 5 (0.54%) Bicep
15 4 (0.43%) PHP
16 3 (0.32%) Korn
Qualifications
1 410 (43.99%) Security Cleared
2 252 (27.04%) SC Cleared
3 151 (16.20%) DV Cleared
4 63 (6.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 56 (6.01%) Microsoft Certification
6 48 (5.15%) Degree
7 43 (4.61%) Cisco Certification
8 34 (3.65%) CCNP
9 33 (3.54%) Azure Certification
10 24 (2.58%) MCSE
11 23 (2.47%) VCAP
12 21 (2.25%) CCNA
13 20 (2.15%) AWS Certification
14 15 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
15 13 (1.39%) MCSA
16 11 (1.18%) CCIE
16 11 (1.18%) Network+ Certification
16 11 (1.18%) Server+ Certification
17 10 (1.07%) CCDP
18 8 (0.86%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 25 (2.68%) NIST
2 22 (2.36%) GDPR
3 20 (2.15%) SLA
4 16 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials
5 12 (1.29%) NCSC
6 9 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 8 (0.86%) Def Stans
8 6 (0.64%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (0.54%) QA
10 2 (0.21%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 2 (0.21%) 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
1 587 (62.98%) VMware Infrastructure
2 240 (25.75%) Active Directory
3 175 (18.78%) vSphere
4 147 (15.77%) VMware NSX
5 115 (12.34%) Hyper-V
6 98 (10.52%) VMware ESXi
7 60 (6.44%) Virtual Machines
8 59 (6.33%) Docker
9 38 (4.08%) NFS
10 26 (2.79%) Virtual Desktop
11 21 (2.25%) Firmware
12 20 (2.15%) KVM
13 16 (1.72%) GPFS
14 9 (0.97%) vCloud
15 7 (0.75%) 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
18 3 (0.32%) UAG
Systems Management
1 181 (19.42%) Ansible
2 115 (12.34%) Terraform
3 101 (10.84%) vCenter Server
4 100 (10.73%) Kubernetes
5 75 (8.05%) SCCM
6 74 (7.94%) vRealize
7 71 (7.62%) Microsoft Intune
8 39 (4.18%) Grafana
9 35 (3.76%) Argo
10 33 (3.54%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 32 (3.43%) Single Sign-On
12 29 (3.11%) Prometheus
13 28 (3.00%) Red Hat Satellite
14 27 (2.90%) VxRail
15 25 (2.68%) SCOM
16 18 (1.93%) Progress Chef
17 15 (1.61%) FortiGate
17 15 (1.61%) vMotion
18 14 (1.50%) WSUS
19 12 (1.29%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 236 (25.32%) Microsoft
2 163 (17.49%) Cisco
3 104 (11.16%) Red Hat
4 85 (9.12%) F5
5 76 (8.15%) Citrix
6 53 (5.69%) Dell
7 48 (5.15%) IBM
8 44 (4.72%) SolarWinds
9 41 (4.40%) Veeam
10 40 (4.29%) Oracle
11 39 (4.18%) NetApp
12 36 (3.86%) Palo Alto
13 35 (3.76%) ServiceNow
14 33 (3.54%) McAfee
15 32 (3.43%) Blue Coat
16 30 (3.22%) Pure Storage
17 28 (3.00%) Splunk
18 21 (2.25%) Commvault
18 21 (2.25%) HP
19 18 (1.93%) Google