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 4 June 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
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 83 63
Rank change year-on-year -16 -20 -8
Contract jobs citing VMware 1,033 730 1,173
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.47% 3.04% 3.19%
As % of the Vendors category 6.06% 6.41% 7.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 729 493 816
10th Percentile £357 £350 £292
25th Percentile £450 £440 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £506
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +8.64% -3.57%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £575
90th Percentile £675 £663 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 5 36
10th Percentile £21.28 £29.33 £23.05
25th Percentile £46.13 £31.32 £39.41
Median hourly rate £63.14 £57.50 £45.01
Median % change year-on-year +9.80% +27.75% -24.86%
75th Percentile £71.13 £73.75 £71.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £81.25 £80.29
UK median hourly rate £51.00 £57.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -11.30% +24.51% -26.11%

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 17,035 11,395 15,378
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 40.77% 47.50% 41.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,932 7,255 9,788
10th Percentile £313 £278 £263
25th Percentile £413 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £520 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.88% +0.97% -2.83%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £631
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £508 £514
% change year-on-year -1.48% -1.22% -2.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 917 495 1,025
10th Percentile £15.70 £14.84 £12.13
25th Percentile £19.00 £17.79 £14.48
Median hourly rate £32.50 £27.38 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +18.72% +15.02% -39.01%
75th Percentile £60.00 £55.13 £58.49
90th Percentile £78.52 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £26.45 £22.56
% change year-on-year +22.87% +17.24% -46.92%

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 4 June 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 4 June 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 4 June 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 +10 301 £550 -0.18% 96
London -23 251 £550 +4.76% 81
North of England -17 185 £458 +7.65% 59
Midlands -33 107 £450 -15.09% 34
North West +3 106 £456 +10.55% 33
South West -39 94 £550 -7.37% 37
West Midlands -38 80 £450 -12.11% 19
Yorkshire -24 77 £444 -6.53% 18
East of England -13 73 £507 -7.82% 29
East Midlands -18 27 £443 -19.45% 15
North East -36 3 £638 +78.32% 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 40 (3.87%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (1.74%) SharePoint
3 9 (0.87%) CICS
3 9 (0.87%) IIS
3 9 (0.87%) nginx
3 9 (0.87%) Tomcat
4 8 (0.77%) OpenStack
5 4 (0.39%) Apache
5 4 (0.39%) Confluence
6 3 (0.29%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.19%) CloudStack
7 2 (0.19%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.097%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.097%) CMS
Applications
1 8 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
1 8 (0.77%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.19%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 264 (25.56%) Azure
2 170 (16.46%) AWS
3 78 (7.55%) Microsoft 365
4 60 (5.81%) OpenShift
5 53 (5.13%) Entra ID
6 44 (4.26%) IaaS
7 42 (4.07%) GitHub
8 39 (3.78%) GCP
9 34 (3.29%) PaaS
10 23 (2.23%) Nutanix
11 19 (1.84%) Rubrik
12 15 (1.45%) Azure DevOps
12 15 (1.45%) SaaS
13 14 (1.36%) Azure Monitor
13 14 (1.36%) GitHub Actions
14 11 (1.06%) Datadog
15 10 (0.97%) Azure Sentinel
16 8 (0.77%) Azure Stack
17 7 (0.68%) Cohesity
17 7 (0.68%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 218 (21.10%) DNS
2 176 (17.04%) Firewall
3 118 (11.42%) DHCP
4 87 (8.42%) SAN
5 86 (8.33%) VSAN
6 84 (8.13%) VPN
7 71 (6.87%) WAN
8 67 (6.49%) Network Security
9 56 (5.42%) TCP/IP
10 55 (5.32%) LAN
11 48 (4.65%) NAS
12 45 (4.36%) SSL
13 43 (4.16%) VLAN
14 38 (3.68%) BIG-IP
15 37 (3.58%) HTTP
16 35 (3.39%) Wireshark
17 32 (3.10%) BGP
18 28 (2.71%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
19 27 (2.61%) Cisco Nexus
20 26 (2.52%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (3.68%) SQL Server
2 13 (1.26%) Elasticsearch
3 10 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (0.87%) DataStage
5 8 (0.77%) NonStop SQL
6 7 (0.68%) NoSQL
7 6 (0.58%) Power BI
7 6 (0.58%) Redis
8 4 (0.39%) Oracle BI EE
8 4 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (0.29%) Data Mining
9 3 (0.29%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.19%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.097%) GIS
11 1 (0.097%) Metadata
11 1 (0.097%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 42 (4.07%) Jenkins
2 33 (3.19%) GitLab
3 28 (2.71%) Git
4 26 (2.52%) JIRA
5 24 (2.32%) Fiddler
6 7 (0.68%) Chocolatey
6 7 (0.68%) Team Foundation Server
7 6 (0.58%) Robot Framework
7 6 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (0.39%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.39%) PVCS
8 4 (0.39%) Rational DOORS
9 3 (0.29%) MSI
10 1 (0.097%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.097%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.097%) GoCD
10 1 (0.097%) Maven
10 1 (0.097%) RStudio
10 1 (0.097%) Subversion
10 1 (0.097%) VersionOne
General
1 204 (19.75%) Social Skills
2 106 (10.26%) Finance
3 87 (8.42%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (6.29%) Public Sector
5 43 (4.16%) Banking
6 42 (4.07%) Documentation Skills
7 21 (2.03%) Legal
8 18 (1.74%) Investment Banking
9 16 (1.55%) Aerospace
10 11 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (1.06%) Police
11 10 (0.97%) Retail
12 9 (0.87%) Financial Institution
12 9 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 9 (0.87%) Military
12 9 (0.87%) Telecoms
13 7 (0.68%) Law
13 7 (0.68%) Local Government
13 7 (0.68%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.48%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 197 (19.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 169 (16.36%) Architect
3 108 (10.45%) Senior
4 97 (9.39%) VMware Engineer
5 83 (8.03%) Network Engineer
6 54 (5.23%) Consultant
7 47 (4.55%) VMware Architect
8 35 (3.39%) Administrator
9 33 (3.19%) Lead
9 33 (3.19%) Support Engineer
10 32 (3.10%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
10 32 (3.10%) VMware Consultant
11 31 (3.00%) Analyst
11 31 (3.00%) Storage Engineer
12 30 (2.90%) Cloud Engineer
12 30 (2.90%) Infrastructure Architect
12 30 (2.90%) Senior VMware Engineer
12 30 (2.90%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
13 29 (2.81%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 29 (2.81%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (2.61%) LDAP
2 23 (2.23%) Middleware
3 20 (1.94%) Flash
4 15 (1.45%) REST
5 12 (1.16%) OpenTelemetry
6 10 (0.97%) Keycloak
7 9 (0.87%) SAML
8 7 (0.68%) 802.1X
9 6 (0.58%) Kafka
10 5 (0.48%) .NET
10 5 (0.48%) Elastic Stack
10 5 (0.48%) JSON
10 5 (0.48%) Software Packaging
11 4 (0.39%) Redfish
12 2 (0.19%) ARM Templates
12 2 (0.19%) Blazor
12 2 (0.19%) Django
12 2 (0.19%) Java SE
12 2 (0.19%) OAuth
12 2 (0.19%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 136 (13.17%) Data Centre
2 78 (7.55%) Replication
3 65 (6.29%) Hybrid Cloud
3 65 (6.29%) PKI
4 43 (4.16%) Enterprise Storage
5 42 (4.07%) Cloud Native
6 39 (3.78%) Clustering
7 38 (3.68%) Public Cloud
8 37 (3.58%) Management Information System
9 33 (3.19%) Private Cloud
10 25 (2.42%) Linux Command Line
11 15 (1.45%) Blackberry
11 15 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
11 15 (1.45%) Onboarding
12 14 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
12 14 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
13 13 (1.26%) Operational Technology
14 11 (1.06%) Product Ownership
14 11 (1.06%) Virtual Team
15 10 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 415 (40.17%) Windows
2 266 (25.75%) Linux
3 257 (24.88%) Windows Server
4 62 (6.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 44 (4.26%) Windows Server 2019
6 32 (3.10%) Windows Server 2016
7 25 (2.42%) Unix
8 24 (2.32%) Windows 10
9 22 (2.13%) Ubuntu
10 21 (2.03%) VMS
11 19 (1.84%) CentOS
12 17 (1.65%) Apple iOS
12 17 (1.65%) Data ONTAP
12 17 (1.65%) Solaris
13 16 (1.55%) Windows Server 2012
14 15 (1.45%) AIX
14 15 (1.45%) Android
15 12 (1.16%) Mac OS
16 10 (0.97%) Windows Server 2003
17 9 (0.87%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 247 (23.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 185 (17.91%) Migration
3 170 (16.46%) Problem-Solving
4 128 (12.39%) ITIL
5 122 (11.81%) High Availability
6 108 (10.45%) Disaster Recovery
7 104 (10.07%) DevOps
8 97 (9.39%) Agile
9 93 (9.00%) CI/CD
9 93 (9.00%) Infrastructure as Code
10 79 (7.65%) Load Balancing
11 77 (7.45%) Change Management
12 76 (7.36%) Capacity Planning
13 71 (6.87%) Stakeholder Management
14 65 (6.29%) Roadmaps
15 64 (6.20%) ITSM
16 62 (6.00%) Continuous Improvement
17 60 (5.81%) Network Virtualisation
18 59 (5.71%) Performance Tuning
19 56 (5.42%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 189 (18.30%) PowerShell
2 127 (12.29%) Python
3 68 (6.58%) Bash
4 43 (4.16%) SQL
5 19 (1.84%) JavaScript
6 15 (1.45%) Shell Script
7 11 (1.06%) MATLAB
8 9 (0.87%) COBOL
9 8 (0.77%) Java
10 7 (0.68%) Bicep
10 7 (0.68%) C
10 7 (0.68%) PL/SQL
11 6 (0.58%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.39%) C#
12 4 (0.39%) C++
12 4 (0.39%) Embedded C
12 4 (0.39%) Embedded C++
12 4 (0.39%) PHP
13 2 (0.19%) VBScript
14 1 (0.097%) VB
Qualifications
1 462 (44.72%) Security Cleared
2 279 (27.01%) SC Cleared
3 201 (19.46%) DV Cleared
4 81 (7.84%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 44 (4.26%) Cisco Certification
6 43 (4.16%) Microsoft Certification
7 41 (3.97%) Degree
8 36 (3.48%) VCAP
9 30 (2.90%) MCSE
10 29 (2.81%) CCNP
11 21 (2.03%) Azure Certification
12 19 (1.84%) MCSA
13 17 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
14 15 (1.45%) Oracle Certification
15 14 (1.36%) CCNA
16 12 (1.16%) OCP
17 8 (0.77%) RHCA
18 7 (0.68%) ISTQB
18 7 (0.68%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
19 6 (0.58%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (4.45%) SLA
2 38 (3.68%) NIST
3 24 (2.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 23 (2.23%) Cyber Essentials
5 21 (2.03%) NCSC
6 9 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 8 (0.77%) QA
8 7 (0.68%) GDPR
9 5 (0.48%) Def Stans
10 3 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
10 3 (0.29%) NIST 800
10 3 (0.29%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.19%) ISA99
11 2 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 1 (0.097%) COBIT
12 1 (0.097%) DICOM
12 1 (0.097%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.097%) HL7
12 1 (0.097%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.097%) SOC 2
System Software
1 657 (63.60%) VMware Infrastructure
2 242 (23.43%) Active Directory
3 221 (21.39%) VMware NSX
4 217 (21.01%) vSphere
5 191 (18.49%) VMware ESXi
6 140 (13.55%) Hyper-V
7 93 (9.00%) Virtual Machines
8 39 (3.78%) NFS
9 38 (3.68%) Docker
10 37 (3.58%) Firmware
11 30 (2.90%) Virtual Desktop
12 25 (2.42%) KVM
13 22 (2.13%) vCloud
14 15 (1.45%) GPFS
15 12 (1.16%) Microsoft App-V
16 10 (0.97%) BitLocker
17 9 (0.87%) VMware Workstation
18 7 (0.68%) SRDF
19 6 (0.58%) Oracle RAC
20 4 (0.39%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 183 (17.72%) Ansible
2 161 (15.59%) vCenter Server
3 105 (10.16%) Terraform
4 95 (9.20%) Kubernetes
5 68 (6.58%) Microsoft Intune
6 67 (6.49%) vRealize
7 58 (5.61%) SCCM
8 38 (3.68%) SCOM
9 32 (3.10%) Argo
10 29 (2.81%) Grafana
11 27 (2.61%) PowerCLI
12 25 (2.42%) vMotion
12 25 (2.42%) VxRail
13 19 (1.84%) Red Hat Satellite
14 18 (1.74%) NetBackup
14 18 (1.74%) Single Sign-On
15 17 (1.65%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 17 (1.65%) WSUS
16 16 (1.55%) Prometheus
17 15 (1.45%) Podman
Vendors
1 244 (23.62%) Microsoft
2 174 (16.84%) Cisco
3 99 (9.58%) Citrix
4 83 (8.03%) Red Hat
5 65 (6.29%) NetApp
6 57 (5.52%) F5
7 53 (5.13%) Dell
8 47 (4.55%) ServiceNow
9 45 (4.36%) IBM
10 42 (4.07%) Pure Storage
11 40 (3.87%) Palo Alto
12 38 (3.68%) Oracle
13 32 (3.10%) Veeam
14 27 (2.61%) CheckPoint
14 27 (2.61%) Juniper
14 27 (2.61%) McAfee
15 26 (2.52%) Fortinet
16 25 (2.42%) Blue Coat
17 24 (2.32%) SolarWinds
18 23 (2.23%) Splunk