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 16 July 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
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 87 59
Rank change year-on-year -18 -28 -3
Contract jobs citing VMware 1,055 766 1,258
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.36% 2.82% 3.44%
As % of the Vendors category 5.74% 5.94% 8.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 715 494 871
10th Percentile £352 £350 £306
25th Percentile £450 £450 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £510
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +7.84% -2.86%
75th Percentile £603 £613 £575
90th Percentile £675 £671 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £508
% change year-on-year -2.33% +5.91% -2.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 6 32
10th Percentile £25.33 £29.00 £22.31
25th Percentile £33.70 £30.33 £32.64
Median hourly rate £54.87 £34.71 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +58.09% -13.23% -24.49%
75th Percentile £74.00 £54.56 £71.25
90th Percentile £93.16 £109.38 £74.63
UK median hourly rate £51.00 £34.71 £40.13
% change year-on-year +46.94% -13.50% -32.90%

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 18,365 12,896 15,695
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.03% 47.44% 42.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,640 8,142 10,010
10th Percentile £313 £281 £275
25th Percentile £413 £403 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -0.49% -1.90%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £501 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +0.10% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 978 616 1,013
10th Percentile £16.35 £14.84 £12.71
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.54 £15.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £25.15 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +41.15% -0.40% -29.86%
75th Percentile £65.58 £51.41 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.20 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £25.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +39.17% +0.60% -38.27%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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 16 July 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 +4 320 £550 -3.25% 89
London -21 262 £550 +4.76% 53
North of England -28 182 £469 +4.57% 53
Midlands -26 118 £450 -15.93% 29
South West -29 110 £550 -5.98% 31
North West -16 98 £458 +7.65% 35
West Midlands -28 89 £450 -10.09% 17
Yorkshire -22 81 £500 +11.11% 13
East of England -14 61 £507 -7.82% 23
East Midlands -3 29 £450 -18.18% 12
North East -42 4 £569 +55.82% 7
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 46 (4.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 25 (2.37%) SharePoint
3 10 (0.95%) nginx
4 9 (0.85%) CICS
4 9 (0.85%) IIS
4 9 (0.85%) Tomcat
5 7 (0.66%) Confluence
5 7 (0.66%) OpenStack
6 6 (0.57%) Apache
7 3 (0.28%) CloudStack
7 3 (0.28%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.19%) CMS
8 2 (0.19%) FactoryTalk
8 2 (0.19%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.095%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 9 (0.85%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.28%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.095%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.095%) Houdini
4 1 (0.095%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 3 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.095%) Shopify
2 1 (0.095%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 268 (25.40%) Azure
2 172 (16.30%) AWS
3 80 (7.58%) Microsoft 365
4 62 (5.88%) Entra ID
5 56 (5.31%) OpenShift
6 39 (3.70%) IaaS
7 38 (3.60%) GitHub
8 37 (3.51%) GCP
9 28 (2.65%) Rubrik
10 26 (2.46%) PaaS
11 18 (1.71%) SaaS
12 17 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
12 17 (1.61%) Nutanix
13 13 (1.23%) Azure Monitor
14 12 (1.14%) GitHub Actions
14 12 (1.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 11 (1.04%) Datadog
16 10 (0.95%) Amazon EC2
16 10 (0.95%) OneDrive
17 9 (0.85%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 247 (23.41%) DNS
2 199 (18.86%) Firewall
3 134 (12.70%) DHCP
4 94 (8.91%) SAN
5 91 (8.63%) VSAN
6 84 (7.96%) VPN
7 79 (7.49%) WAN
8 78 (7.39%) TCP/IP
9 68 (6.45%) Network Security
10 64 (6.07%) LAN
11 63 (5.97%) VLAN
12 52 (4.93%) NAS
13 46 (4.36%) SSL
14 38 (3.60%) BGP
15 35 (3.32%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 34 (3.22%) BIG-IP
17 32 (3.03%) Wireshark
18 31 (2.94%) HTTP
18 31 (2.94%) SD-WAN
19 30 (2.84%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (3.89%) SQL Server
2 13 (1.23%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (0.85%) DataStage
4 8 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
4 8 (0.76%) NonStop SQL
5 7 (0.66%) NoSQL
6 6 (0.57%) Power BI
7 5 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (0.38%) Oracle BI EE
8 4 (0.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (0.28%) Big Data
9 3 (0.28%) Data Mining
9 3 (0.28%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.19%) Apache Cassandra
10 2 (0.19%) Hazelcast
10 2 (0.19%) Redis
11 1 (0.095%) GIS
11 1 (0.095%) InterSystems Cache
11 1 (0.095%) Metadata
11 1 (0.095%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 39 (3.70%) Jenkins
2 31 (2.94%) JIRA
3 24 (2.27%) Git
4 22 (2.09%) GitLab
5 19 (1.80%) Fiddler
6 8 (0.76%) Chocolatey
7 6 (0.57%) Bitbucket
7 6 (0.57%) Team Foundation Server
8 5 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.28%) MSI
9 3 (0.28%) Robot Framework
9 3 (0.28%) Subversion
10 2 (0.19%) Rational DOORS
10 2 (0.19%) Selenium
11 1 (0.095%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.095%) GoCD
11 1 (0.095%) Maven
11 1 (0.095%) Postman
11 1 (0.095%) VersionOne
General
1 231 (21.90%) Social Skills
2 118 (11.18%) Finance
3 101 (9.57%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (6.07%) Public Sector
5 45 (4.27%) Banking
6 38 (3.60%) Documentation Skills
7 22 (2.09%) Legal
8 21 (1.99%) Telecoms
9 17 (1.61%) Investment Banking
10 15 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
11 13 (1.23%) Financial Institution
11 13 (1.23%) Military
12 12 (1.14%) Retail
13 9 (0.85%) Manufacturing
14 8 (0.76%) Police
15 6 (0.57%) Law
16 5 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
16 5 (0.47%) Pharmaceutical
17 4 (0.38%) Advertising
17 4 (0.38%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 220 (20.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 140 (13.27%) Architect
3 117 (11.09%) Senior
4 97 (9.19%) VMware Engineer
5 84 (7.96%) Network Engineer
6 62 (5.88%) Consultant
7 48 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
8 47 (4.45%) Support Engineer
9 42 (3.98%) Lead
10 40 (3.79%) VMware Consultant
11 37 (3.51%) Administrator
11 37 (3.51%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
12 34 (3.22%) Storage Engineer
13 32 (3.03%) VMware Architect
14 31 (2.94%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 30 (2.84%) Senior VMware Engineer
16 29 (2.75%) Technical Architect
17 26 (2.46%) Azure Engineer
17 26 (2.46%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
18 25 (2.37%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (1.80%) LDAP
2 16 (1.52%) Middleware
3 15 (1.42%) Flash
4 14 (1.33%) REST
5 12 (1.14%) OpenTelemetry
6 10 (0.95%) 802.1X
7 6 (0.57%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (0.47%) .NET
8 5 (0.47%) JSON
8 5 (0.47%) SAML
9 4 (0.38%) Kafka
9 4 (0.38%) Keycloak
9 4 (0.38%) Redfish
9 4 (0.38%) Software Packaging
10 3 (0.28%) YAML
11 2 (0.19%) Apache NiFi
11 2 (0.19%) ASP.NET
11 2 (0.19%) Django
11 2 (0.19%) OpenGL
11 2 (0.19%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 147 (13.93%) Data Centre
2 73 (6.92%) PKI
3 72 (6.82%) Hybrid Cloud
4 68 (6.45%) Replication
5 49 (4.64%) Enterprise Storage
6 41 (3.89%) Management Information System
7 36 (3.41%) Cloud Native
8 35 (3.32%) Clustering
8 35 (3.32%) Public Cloud
9 28 (2.65%) Private Cloud
10 22 (2.09%) Linux Command Line
11 21 (1.99%) Onboarding
12 16 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
13 15 (1.42%) Blackberry
13 15 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
14 12 (1.14%) Virtual Team
15 11 (1.04%) BYOD
15 11 (1.04%) Product Ownership
15 11 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
16 10 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 462 (43.79%) Windows
2 276 (26.16%) Windows Server
3 275 (26.07%) Linux
4 60 (5.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 45 (4.27%) Windows Server 2019
6 27 (2.56%) Windows Server 2016
7 24 (2.27%) Unix
7 24 (2.27%) VMS
8 22 (2.09%) Ubuntu
8 22 (2.09%) Windows 10
9 21 (1.99%) Apple iOS
10 18 (1.71%) AIX
11 17 (1.61%) Data ONTAP
11 17 (1.61%) Solaris
12 16 (1.52%) Windows Server 2012
13 15 (1.42%) Android
14 13 (1.23%) CentOS
15 9 (0.85%) Mac OS
16 8 (0.76%) Windows Server 2008
17 7 (0.66%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 276 (26.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 190 (18.01%) Migration
3 186 (17.63%) Problem-Solving
4 135 (12.80%) High Availability
5 130 (12.32%) ITIL
6 111 (10.52%) CI/CD
7 108 (10.24%) Disaster Recovery
8 105 (9.95%) Infrastructure as Code
9 99 (9.38%) DevOps
10 91 (8.63%) Agile
11 83 (7.87%) Stakeholder Management
12 81 (7.68%) Technical Leadership
13 78 (7.39%) Change Management
14 74 (7.01%) Load Balancing
15 71 (6.73%) Continuous Improvement
15 71 (6.73%) ITSM
15 71 (6.73%) Network Virtualisation
16 69 (6.54%) Validation
17 66 (6.26%) Capacity Planning
18 64 (6.07%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 201 (19.05%) PowerShell
2 131 (12.42%) Python
3 77 (7.30%) Bash
4 48 (4.55%) SQL
5 21 (1.99%) JavaScript
6 13 (1.23%) Java
7 10 (0.95%) Shell Script
8 9 (0.85%) COBOL
9 7 (0.66%) PL/SQL
10 6 (0.57%) Bicep
10 6 (0.57%) C
11 5 (0.47%) MATLAB
11 5 (0.47%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.28%) C#
12 3 (0.28%) PHP
13 2 (0.19%) Lua
13 2 (0.19%) VBScript
14 1 (0.095%) Go
14 1 (0.095%) Perl
14 1 (0.095%) VB
Qualifications
1 492 (46.64%) Security Cleared
2 295 (27.96%) SC Cleared
3 229 (21.71%) DV Cleared
4 85 (8.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 56 (5.31%) Degree
6 49 (4.64%) Cisco Certification
7 42 (3.98%) Microsoft Certification
8 35 (3.32%) VCAP
9 34 (3.22%) CCNP
10 28 (2.65%) MCSE
11 26 (2.46%) Azure Certification
12 19 (1.80%) MCSA
13 16 (1.52%) CCNA
14 15 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
14 15 (1.42%) Oracle Certification
15 12 (1.14%) OCP
16 10 (0.95%) AWS Certification
17 8 (0.76%) ISTQB
17 8 (0.76%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
17 8 (0.76%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (3.60%) SLA
2 33 (3.13%) NIST
3 24 (2.27%) NCSC
4 20 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 16 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials
6 10 (0.95%) QA
7 5 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (0.38%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
9 3 (0.28%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.19%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 2 (0.19%) GDPR
10 2 (0.19%) GxP
10 2 (0.19%) ISA99
10 2 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.095%) COBIT
11 1 (0.095%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.095%) DICOM
11 1 (0.095%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.095%) HL7
System Software
1 699 (66.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 270 (25.59%) Active Directory
3 236 (22.37%) VMware NSX
4 228 (21.61%) vSphere
5 225 (21.33%) VMware ESXi
6 140 (13.27%) Hyper-V
7 96 (9.10%) Virtual Machines
8 50 (4.74%) Docker
9 38 (3.60%) Virtual Desktop
10 36 (3.41%) Firmware
11 34 (3.22%) NFS
12 24 (2.27%) KVM
13 23 (2.18%) vCloud
14 12 (1.14%) Microsoft App-V
15 10 (0.95%) BitLocker
15 10 (0.95%) GPFS
16 9 (0.85%) VMware Workstation
17 7 (0.66%) UAG
18 6 (0.57%) Oracle RAC
18 6 (0.57%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 190 (18.01%) vCenter Server
2 184 (17.44%) Ansible
3 120 (11.37%) Terraform
4 106 (10.05%) Kubernetes
5 67 (6.35%) Microsoft Intune
6 59 (5.59%) vRealize
7 54 (5.12%) SCCM
8 49 (4.64%) SCOM
9 28 (2.65%) Argo
9 28 (2.65%) Grafana
9 28 (2.65%) VxRail
10 27 (2.56%) PowerCLI
11 26 (2.46%) vMotion
12 20 (1.90%) NetBackup
13 17 (1.61%) Puppet
14 16 (1.52%) Avamar
14 16 (1.52%) Prometheus
14 16 (1.52%) Red Hat Satellite
14 16 (1.52%) WSUS
15 14 (1.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 255 (24.17%) Microsoft
2 183 (17.35%) Cisco
3 103 (9.76%) Citrix
4 76 (7.20%) NetApp
5 75 (7.11%) Red Hat
6 54 (5.12%) Dell
7 53 (5.02%) F5
8 42 (3.98%) ServiceNow
9 41 (3.89%) Palo Alto
10 40 (3.79%) Pure Storage
11 38 (3.60%) IBM
12 37 (3.51%) Juniper
13 36 (3.41%) Oracle
14 35 (3.32%) SolarWinds
15 34 (3.22%) Veeam
16 29 (2.75%) Broadcom
17 27 (2.56%) Fortinet
18 24 (2.27%) Splunk
19 23 (2.18%) CheckPoint
20 22 (2.09%) McAfee