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 October 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 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 102 65
Rank change year-on-year -9 -37 -12
Contract jobs citing VMware 1,114 718 1,094
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.41% 2.56% 3.38%
As % of the Vendors category 5.78% 5.36% 7.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 720 478 694
10th Percentile £325 £336 £322
25th Percentile £429 £444 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £535 £520
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +2.88% +4.00%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £588
90th Percentile £733 £650 £666
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £520
% change year-on-year - +0.96% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 11 15
10th Percentile £26.00 £29.00 £22.96
25th Percentile £49.63 £29.50 £23.80
Median hourly rate £68.00 £34.00 £36.17
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -5.99% -45.19%
75th Percentile £89.88 £46.88 £65.63
90th Percentile £95.00 £67.25 £99.44
UK median hourly rate £67.47 £34.00 £37.08
% change year-on-year +98.44% -8.31% -43.80%

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 19,263 13,400 14,411
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.64% 47.77% 44.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,779 8,523 8,624
10th Percentile £310 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £507 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.58% -3.43% -
75th Percentile £625 £619 £628
90th Percentile £715 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,262 647 522
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.99 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.58 £18.00 £15.65
Median hourly rate £25.75 £25.08 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.69% -28.36% -20.18%
75th Percentile £60.81 £43.21 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.54 £69.65 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £24.19 £25.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -3.24% -23.08% -25.50%

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 October 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 October 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 October 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
London -15 304 £550 +5.77% 264
South East -15 296 £538 +2.38% 139
North of England -12 194 £475 +10.03% 98
Midlands -13 122 £450 -21.36% 73
South West -21 106 £600 +8.11% 76
North West -15 95 £449 +2.63% 49
West Midlands -16 95 £474 -18.42% 45
East of England +3 85 £550 - 49
Yorkshire -4 82 £525 +23.53% 34
East Midlands -4 27 £425 -13.27% 28
North East -25 18 £375 - 17
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 55 (4.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 37 (3.32%) SharePoint
3 28 (2.51%) Confluence
4 16 (1.44%) IIS
5 14 (1.26%) CMS
6 11 (0.99%) nginx
7 10 (0.90%) OpenStack
8 9 (0.81%) Apache
9 8 (0.72%) Skype for Business
10 7 (0.63%) JBoss
11 5 (0.45%) Tomcat
12 4 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2013
12 4 (0.36%) FactoryTalk
13 3 (0.27%) CloudStack
14 1 (0.090%) WebLogic
Applications
1 16 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (0.18%) Houdini
3 2 (0.18%) NUKE
4 1 (0.090%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.090%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 18 (1.62%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.090%) Shopify
2 1 (0.090%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 322 (28.90%) Azure
2 168 (15.08%) AWS
3 112 (10.05%) Microsoft 365
4 87 (7.81%) Entra ID
5 48 (4.31%) GCP
6 46 (4.13%) OpenShift
7 36 (3.23%) GitHub
8 31 (2.78%) Rubrik
9 30 (2.69%) IaaS
10 25 (2.24%) Azure DevOps
11 21 (1.89%) GitHub Actions
12 19 (1.71%) OneDrive
13 16 (1.44%) SaaS
14 15 (1.35%) PaaS
15 14 (1.26%) Azure Monitor
16 13 (1.17%) Nutanix
16 13 (1.17%) Power Platform
17 12 (1.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 11 (0.99%) Datadog
19 10 (0.90%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 314 (28.19%) DNS
2 212 (19.03%) Firewall
3 192 (17.24%) DHCP
4 115 (10.32%) TCP/IP
5 84 (7.54%) VPN
6 82 (7.36%) SAN
7 80 (7.18%) VSAN
8 79 (7.09%) WAN
9 78 (7.00%) VLAN
10 72 (6.46%) LAN
11 70 (6.28%) Network Security
12 46 (4.13%) SSL
13 41 (3.68%) BGP
14 39 (3.50%) HTTP
14 39 (3.50%) NAS
15 37 (3.32%) Wi-Fi
16 36 (3.23%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 32 (2.87%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
18 30 (2.69%) SD-WAN
19 27 (2.42%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (5.75%) SQL Server
2 14 (1.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 13 (1.17%) Power BI
4 10 (0.90%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 10 (0.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 9 (0.81%) Big Data
6 8 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
6 8 (0.72%) NoSQL
7 7 (0.63%) Apache Cassandra
8 6 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (0.54%) Hadoop
8 6 (0.54%) MongoDB
9 5 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
10 4 (0.36%) Hazelcast
11 3 (0.27%) Oracle BI EE
11 3 (0.27%) Oracle Database
11 3 (0.27%) SAP HANA
12 2 (0.18%) GIS
12 2 (0.18%) NonStop SQL
13 1 (0.090%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 50 (4.49%) JIRA
2 39 (3.50%) GitLab
3 27 (2.42%) Jenkins
4 26 (2.33%) Git
5 11 (0.99%) Fiddler
6 7 (0.63%) Bitbucket
6 7 (0.63%) Rational DOORS
7 6 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (0.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (0.36%) Chocolatey
9 4 (0.36%) CppUnit
9 4 (0.36%) PVCS
9 4 (0.36%) Selenium
10 2 (0.18%) MSI
10 2 (0.18%) Subversion
11 1 (0.090%) Octopus Deploy
11 1 (0.090%) Postman
11 1 (0.090%) Robot Framework
General
1 237 (21.27%) Social Skills
2 142 (12.75%) Finance
3 114 (10.23%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (4.40%) Documentation Skills
5 35 (3.14%) Banking
5 35 (3.14%) Public Sector
6 32 (2.87%) Telecoms
7 26 (2.33%) Legal
8 15 (1.35%) Financial Institution
9 11 (0.99%) Aerospace
9 11 (0.99%) Investment Banking
10 10 (0.90%) Law
10 10 (0.90%) Manufacturing
11 9 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (0.81%) Retail
12 8 (0.72%) Back Office
12 8 (0.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 8 (0.72%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (0.72%) Military
12 8 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 249 (22.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 152 (13.64%) Senior
3 109 (9.78%) Architect
4 98 (8.80%) VMware Engineer
5 77 (6.91%) Network Engineer
6 73 (6.55%) Cloud Engineer
7 67 (6.01%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 66 (5.92%) Support Engineer
9 63 (5.66%) Lead
10 52 (4.67%) Consultant
11 48 (4.31%) Platform Engineer
12 42 (3.77%) Administrator
13 40 (3.59%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 38 (3.41%) Storage Engineer
15 31 (2.78%) VMware Consultant
16 29 (2.60%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
17 27 (2.42%) Linux Engineer
17 27 (2.42%) Senior VMware Engineer
17 27 (2.42%) Server Engineer
18 25 (2.24%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 153 (13.73%) Terraform
2 28 (2.51%) REST
3 21 (1.89%) JSON
4 20 (1.80%) Kafka
5 16 (1.44%) LDAP
6 15 (1.35%) YAML
7 13 (1.17%) XMPP
8 11 (0.99%) 802.1X
9 8 (0.72%) Elastic Stack
10 7 (0.63%) Middleware
10 7 (0.63%) Regular Expression
11 6 (0.54%) ARM Templates
12 5 (0.45%) .NET
12 5 (0.45%) Flash
13 4 (0.36%) Pulumi
13 4 (0.36%) Redfish
13 4 (0.36%) SAML
14 3 (0.27%) Java SE
14 3 (0.27%) OAuth
14 3 (0.27%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 178 (15.98%) Data Centre
2 85 (7.63%) Hybrid Cloud
3 80 (7.18%) PKI
4 50 (4.49%) Enterprise Storage
5 47 (4.22%) Management Information System
6 46 (4.13%) Private Cloud
7 43 (3.86%) Onboarding
7 43 (3.86%) Replication
8 42 (3.77%) Clustering
9 34 (3.05%) Cloud Native
10 31 (2.78%) Public Cloud
11 20 (1.80%) Video Conferencing
12 17 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
12 17 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
12 17 (1.53%) Operational Technology
13 16 (1.44%) Linux Command Line
14 14 (1.26%) SCADA
15 13 (1.17%) Product Ownership
15 13 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
16 12 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 573 (51.44%) Windows
2 380 (34.11%) Windows Server
3 282 (25.31%) Linux
4 61 (5.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 47 (4.22%) Windows Server 2019
6 36 (3.23%) Windows 10
7 24 (2.15%) Windows Server 2012
8 23 (2.06%) Unix
8 23 (2.06%) VMS
9 18 (1.62%) Windows Server 2016
10 16 (1.44%) Ubuntu
11 12 (1.08%) Windows Server 2008
12 11 (0.99%) AIX
13 10 (0.90%) CentOS
13 10 (0.90%) Windows 7
14 8 (0.72%) Apple iOS
14 8 (0.72%) Data ONTAP
14 8 (0.72%) Solaris
15 7 (0.63%) Mac OS
16 5 (0.45%) Rocky
Processes & Methodologies
1 340 (30.52%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 209 (18.76%) ITIL
3 200 (17.95%) Migration
4 195 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
5 173 (15.53%) Infrastructure as Code
6 164 (14.72%) Technical Leadership
7 148 (13.29%) Disaster Recovery
8 135 (12.12%) CI/CD
9 122 (10.95%) Change Management
10 109 (9.78%) ITSM
11 107 (9.61%) Stakeholder Management
12 103 (9.25%) Service Management
13 102 (9.16%) High Availability
13 102 (9.16%) Project Delivery
14 98 (8.80%) DevOps
15 97 (8.71%) Continuous Improvement
15 97 (8.71%) Platform Engineering
16 95 (8.53%) Agile
17 94 (8.44%) Root Cause Analysis
18 91 (8.17%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 251 (22.53%) PowerShell
2 136 (12.21%) Python
3 86 (7.72%) Bash
4 66 (5.92%) SQL
5 20 (1.80%) Java
6 13 (1.17%) JavaScript
7 12 (1.08%) Bicep
8 11 (0.99%) C
9 8 (0.72%) Shell Script
10 7 (0.63%) VB
11 6 (0.54%) Go
11 6 (0.54%) VBScript
12 5 (0.45%) C++
13 4 (0.36%) C#
14 3 (0.27%) Embedded C
14 3 (0.27%) Korn
14 3 (0.27%) Lua
15 2 (0.18%) MATLAB
16 1 (0.090%) PL/SQL
16 1 (0.090%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 543 (48.74%) Security Cleared
2 311 (27.92%) SC Cleared
3 252 (22.62%) DV Cleared
4 71 (6.37%) Degree
5 68 (6.10%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 56 (5.03%) Cisco Certification
7 41 (3.68%) VCAP
8 36 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
9 33 (2.96%) Azure Certification
10 32 (2.87%) CCNP
11 26 (2.33%) CCNA
12 22 (1.97%) AWS Certification
12 22 (1.97%) MCSE
13 16 (1.44%) MCSA
14 15 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
15 12 (1.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 11 (0.99%) PMI Certification
17 10 (0.90%) CISSP
17 10 (0.90%) PMP
18 9 (0.81%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (2.78%) SLA
2 22 (1.97%) QA
3 19 (1.71%) NIST
4 16 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (1.44%) NCSC
5 14 (1.26%) Cyber Essentials
6 6 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 5 (0.45%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.36%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 4 (0.36%) GxP
8 4 (0.36%) NIST 800
9 3 (0.27%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.27%) GDPR
9 3 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
9 3 (0.27%) GRC
9 3 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 19770
10 2 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.18%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.090%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.090%) HL7
System Software
1 800 (71.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 362 (32.50%) Active Directory
3 235 (21.10%) vSphere
4 224 (20.11%) VMware ESXi
5 186 (16.70%) Hyper-V
5 186 (16.70%) VMware NSX
6 83 (7.45%) Virtual Machines
7 59 (5.30%) Docker
8 42 (3.77%) Virtual Desktop
9 34 (3.05%) Firmware
10 24 (2.15%) vCloud
11 22 (1.97%) NFS
12 20 (1.80%) Virtual Servers
13 15 (1.35%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 13 (1.17%) KVM
15 11 (0.99%) XenApp
16 10 (0.90%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 10 (0.90%) XenDesktop
17 9 (0.81%) BitLocker
18 7 (0.63%) oVirt
Systems Management
1 172 (15.44%) Ansible
2 163 (14.63%) vCenter Server
3 159 (14.27%) Kubernetes
4 75 (6.73%) SCOM
5 73 (6.55%) SCCM
6 63 (5.66%) Microsoft Intune
7 36 (3.23%) VxRail
8 35 (3.14%) vRealize
9 24 (2.15%) Prometheus
10 21 (1.89%) Grafana
10 21 (1.89%) Puppet
11 19 (1.71%) Nagios
11 19 (1.71%) PowerCLI
12 18 (1.62%) Red Hat Satellite
13 17 (1.53%) Avamar
13 17 (1.53%) Cisco CUCM
14 16 (1.44%) vMotion
15 15 (1.35%) NetBackup
16 13 (1.17%) Microsoft Clustering
16 13 (1.17%) WSUS
Vendors
1 324 (29.08%) Microsoft
2 193 (17.32%) Cisco
3 89 (7.99%) Citrix
4 78 (7.00%) NetApp
5 71 (6.37%) Red Hat
6 64 (5.75%) Dell
7 58 (5.21%) ServiceNow
8 53 (4.76%) SolarWinds
9 48 (4.31%) F5
10 44 (3.95%) Oracle
11 40 (3.59%) Veeam
12 37 (3.32%) Palo Alto
13 33 (2.96%) Fortinet
14 32 (2.87%) Juniper
15 27 (2.42%) CyberArk
16 23 (2.06%) IBM
17 22 (1.97%) Broadcom
18 21 (1.89%) Meraki
18 21 (1.89%) Remedy
19 19 (1.71%) Commvault