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 5 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
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 70 59
Rank change year-on-year -25 -11 0
Contract jobs citing VMware 921 871 1,310
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.76% 3.31% 3.47%
As % of the Vendors category 6.03% 7.16% 7.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 642 558 887
10th Percentile £323 £286 £268
25th Percentile £425 £405 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £493
Median % change year-on-year - +6.60% -4.14%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £578
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £521 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -0.76% +5.00% -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 17 73
10th Percentile £29.00 £33.53 £22.08
25th Percentile £33.00 £35.00 £40.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £74.26 £82.50 £76.25
90th Percentile £96.50 £96.55 £84.36
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £55.00 £63.00
% change year-on-year +27.27% -12.70% -3.08%

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 15,286 12,159 16,395
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 45.76% 46.27% 43.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,031 7,351 10,618
10th Percentile £300 £281 £250
25th Percentile £410 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £703 £720 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 744 351 844
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.62 £12.90
25th Percentile £17.88 £19.47 £15.50
Median hourly rate £23.83 £30.41 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.65% +1.37% -6.25%
75th Percentile £52.87 £63.93 £57.50
90th Percentile £71.05 £80.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £28.60 £30.00
% change year-on-year -16.70% -4.67% +4.53%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 -1 257 £500 -10.71% 112
London -52 222 £550 +10.00% 74
North of England -32 153 £451 -5.16% 71
Midlands -2 129 £414 -24.91% 40
North West -14 105 £456 -9.70% 35
West Midlands 0 99 £400 -33.33% 28
South West -27 98 £550 -0.18% 57
East of England +3 59 £500 +5.26% 18
Yorkshire -17 57 £415 -7.78% 33
East Midlands -7 30 £449 -14.57% 12
North East -20 4 £550 +57.14% 7
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 (5.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 28 (3.04%) SharePoint
3 20 (2.17%) Confluence
4 12 (1.30%) OpenStack
5 7 (0.76%) Skype for Business
6 6 (0.65%) IIS
7 5 (0.54%) SharePoint Server
8 3 (0.33%) Apache
8 3 (0.33%) CICS
9 2 (0.22%) Exchange Server 2010
9 2 (0.22%) nginx
9 2 (0.22%) WordPress
10 1 (0.11%) JBoss
10 1 (0.11%) Traefik
10 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 17 (1.85%) MS Visio
2 15 (1.63%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.22%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.11%) OmniGraffle
Cloud Services
1 229 (24.86%) Azure
2 179 (19.44%) AWS
3 79 (8.58%) Microsoft 365
4 71 (7.71%) OpenShift
5 50 (5.43%) GCP
5 50 (5.43%) GitHub
6 47 (5.10%) Entra ID
7 38 (4.13%) IaaS
8 31 (3.37%) Nutanix
9 28 (3.04%) GitHub Actions
10 24 (2.61%) PaaS
11 15 (1.63%) Datadog
12 11 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
13 8 (0.87%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 7 (0.76%) Microsoft Purview
14 7 (0.76%) SaaS
15 6 (0.65%) AWS CloudFormation
15 6 (0.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 5 (0.54%) Azure Monitor
16 5 (0.54%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 215 (23.34%) DNS
2 177 (19.22%) Firewall
3 99 (10.75%) DHCP
4 81 (8.79%) TCP/IP
5 69 (7.49%) VPN
6 59 (6.41%) SAN
7 53 (5.75%) Network Security
7 53 (5.75%) VSAN
8 49 (5.32%) WAN
9 48 (5.21%) VLAN
10 43 (4.67%) LAN
11 38 (4.13%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 36 (3.91%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
13 35 (3.80%) BIG-IP
13 35 (3.80%) SSL
14 32 (3.47%) HTTP
14 32 (3.47%) Wireshark
15 28 (3.04%) NAS
16 26 (2.82%) BGP
17 22 (2.39%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (4.45%) SQL Server
2 25 (2.71%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (0.87%) Redis
4 4 (0.43%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.33%) DataStage
5 3 (0.33%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (0.33%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.33%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.11%) Power BI
6 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 50 (5.43%) Jenkins
2 36 (3.91%) GitLab
3 29 (3.15%) Git
4 24 (2.61%) Fiddler
5 21 (2.28%) Sonatype Nexus
6 18 (1.95%) JIRA
7 14 (1.52%) Cucumber
7 14 (1.52%) JMeter
7 14 (1.52%) JUnit
8 8 (0.87%) PVCS
8 8 (0.87%) Rational DOORS
9 5 (0.54%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.43%) Robot Framework
10 4 (0.43%) RStudio
10 4 (0.43%) Subversion
10 4 (0.43%) Team Foundation Server
11 3 (0.33%) Maven
11 3 (0.33%) TeamCity
12 2 (0.22%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.22%) Jaeger
General
1 205 (22.26%) Social Skills
2 100 (10.86%) Analytical Skills
2 100 (10.86%) Finance
3 94 (10.21%) Public Sector
4 49 (5.32%) Banking
5 43 (4.67%) Documentation Skills
6 25 (2.71%) Investment Banking
7 22 (2.39%) Aerospace
8 19 (2.06%) Legal
9 16 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
9 16 (1.74%) Local Government
10 14 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (1.19%) Electronics
12 10 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (0.76%) Police
13 7 (0.76%) Telecoms
14 6 (0.65%) Financial Institution
14 6 (0.65%) Military
15 5 (0.54%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 147 (15.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 142 (15.42%) Architect
3 60 (6.51%) Network Engineer
4 59 (6.41%) Analyst
5 57 (6.19%) Consultant
5 57 (6.19%) VMware Engineer
6 55 (5.97%) Senior
7 46 (4.99%) VMware Consultant
8 44 (4.78%) Platform Engineer
9 43 (4.67%) Support Engineer
10 35 (3.80%) Infrastructure Architect
11 32 (3.47%) Infrastructure Analyst
12 31 (3.37%) VMware Architect
13 29 (3.15%) DevOps Engineer
13 29 (3.15%) Lead
14 25 (2.71%) Infrastructure Support
14 25 (2.71%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
14 25 (2.71%) Web Engineer
15 24 (2.61%) Developer
15 24 (2.61%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (2.61%) Kafka
2 23 (2.50%) Middleware
3 21 (2.28%) LDAP
4 19 (2.06%) Flash
5 17 (1.85%) SAML
6 14 (1.52%) Spring
7 13 (1.41%) Hibernate
8 12 (1.30%) Keycloak
8 12 (1.30%) REST
9 11 (1.19%) OAuth
9 11 (1.19%) OpenID
10 9 (0.98%) Loki
10 9 (0.98%) OpenTelemetry
11 8 (0.87%) Elastic Stack
12 7 (0.76%) OAuth2
13 6 (0.65%) 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 95 (10.31%) Data Centre
2 74 (8.03%) Replication
3 70 (7.60%) PKI
4 46 (4.99%) Cloud Native
5 41 (4.45%) Management Information System
6 40 (4.34%) Hybrid Cloud
7 37 (4.02%) Private Cloud
8 32 (3.47%) Linux Command Line
9 26 (2.82%) Public Cloud
10 18 (1.95%) Clustering
10 18 (1.95%) Operational Technology
11 17 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
11 17 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
12 13 (1.41%) Onboarding
13 12 (1.30%) Fat Client
13 12 (1.30%) Thin Client
14 10 (1.09%) Enterprise Storage
14 10 (1.09%) Hedge funds
14 10 (1.09%) Product Ownership
15 9 (0.98%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 341 (37.02%) Windows
2 274 (29.75%) Linux
3 199 (21.61%) Windows Server
4 68 (7.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 42 (4.56%) Windows 10
6 30 (3.26%) Windows Server 2019
7 24 (2.61%) Windows Server 2016
8 20 (2.17%) Ubuntu
8 20 (2.17%) Windows Server 2012
9 18 (1.95%) Mac OS
10 15 (1.63%) CentOS
11 13 (1.41%) Unix
11 13 (1.41%) VMS
11 13 (1.41%) Windows 7
12 11 (1.19%) Solaris
13 6 (0.65%) AIX
13 6 (0.65%) Windows Server 2003
14 5 (0.54%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (0.43%) Android
15 4 (0.43%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (20.41%) Problem-Solving
2 185 (20.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 141 (15.31%) Agile
4 123 (13.36%) Migration
5 119 (12.92%) ITIL
6 114 (12.38%) DevOps
7 110 (11.94%) CI/CD
8 90 (9.77%) Load Balancing
9 88 (9.55%) Disaster Recovery
10 81 (8.79%) Infrastructure as Code
11 76 (8.25%) Containerisation
12 69 (7.49%) High Availability
13 66 (7.17%) Platform Engineering
14 59 (6.41%) Continuous Improvement
15 58 (6.30%) Cybersecurity
16 55 (5.97%) Roadmaps
17 52 (5.65%) Service Management
18 50 (5.43%) Stakeholder Management
19 48 (5.21%) Data Protection
20 47 (5.10%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 195 (21.17%) PowerShell
2 187 (20.30%) Python
3 106 (11.51%) Bash
4 40 (4.34%) SQL
5 28 (3.04%) Java
6 25 (2.71%) JavaScript
7 20 (2.17%) Perl
8 14 (1.52%) Shell Script
9 12 (1.30%) C
10 9 (0.98%) C++
11 8 (0.87%) C#
12 7 (0.76%) Embedded C
12 7 (0.76%) Embedded C++
12 7 (0.76%) Go
12 7 (0.76%) MATLAB
12 7 (0.76%) T-SQL
13 5 (0.54%) Bicep
14 3 (0.33%) COBOL
14 3 (0.33%) Korn
14 3 (0.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 399 (43.32%) Security Cleared
2 247 (26.82%) SC Cleared
3 146 (15.85%) DV Cleared
4 62 (6.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 56 (6.08%) Microsoft Certification
6 47 (5.10%) Degree
7 42 (4.56%) Cisco Certification
8 33 (3.58%) Azure Certification
9 32 (3.47%) CCNP
10 24 (2.61%) MCSE
11 23 (2.50%) VCAP
12 21 (2.28%) AWS Certification
13 20 (2.17%) CCNA
14 14 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
15 13 (1.41%) MCSA
16 12 (1.30%) CCIE
17 11 (1.19%) Network+ Certification
17 11 (1.19%) Server+ Certification
18 9 (0.98%) CCDP
19 8 (0.87%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 24 (2.61%) NIST
2 23 (2.50%) GDPR
3 19 (2.06%) SLA
4 15 (1.63%) Cyber Essentials
5 14 (1.52%) NCSC
6 8 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 8 (0.87%) Def Stans
7 7 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (0.65%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.65%) QA
9 2 (0.22%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.22%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.11%) COBIT
10 1 (0.11%) Data Quality
10 1 (0.11%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.11%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.11%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.11%) MiFID
10 1 (0.11%) PMO
System Software
1 585 (63.52%) VMware Infrastructure
2 236 (25.62%) Active Directory
3 173 (18.78%) vSphere
4 144 (15.64%) VMware NSX
5 112 (12.16%) Hyper-V
6 100 (10.86%) VMware ESXi
7 58 (6.30%) Docker
7 58 (6.30%) Virtual Machines
8 37 (4.02%) NFS
9 26 (2.82%) Virtual Desktop
10 20 (2.17%) Firmware
11 19 (2.06%) KVM
12 17 (1.85%) GPFS
13 8 (0.87%) vCloud
14 7 (0.76%) Virtual Servers
15 5 (0.54%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 4 (0.43%) BitLocker
16 4 (0.43%) VMware Workstation
17 3 (0.33%) Microsoft App-V
17 3 (0.33%) UAG
Systems Management
1 174 (18.89%) Ansible
2 112 (12.16%) Terraform
3 101 (10.97%) vCenter Server
4 96 (10.42%) Kubernetes
5 78 (8.47%) SCCM
6 75 (8.14%) vRealize
7 70 (7.60%) Microsoft Intune
8 38 (4.13%) Grafana
9 35 (3.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 34 (3.69%) Argo
11 32 (3.47%) Single Sign-On
12 29 (3.15%) Prometheus
13 27 (2.93%) VxRail
14 26 (2.82%) Red Hat Satellite
15 25 (2.71%) SCOM
16 18 (1.95%) Progress Chef
17 16 (1.74%) FortiGate
18 14 (1.52%) WSUS
19 13 (1.41%) vMotion
20 12 (1.30%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 235 (25.52%) Microsoft
2 163 (17.70%) Cisco
3 98 (10.64%) Red Hat
4 86 (9.34%) F5
5 76 (8.25%) Citrix
6 55 (5.97%) Dell
7 46 (4.99%) IBM
8 44 (4.78%) SolarWinds
9 43 (4.67%) Veeam
10 42 (4.56%) Oracle
11 38 (4.13%) NetApp
12 37 (4.02%) Palo Alto
13 36 (3.91%) ServiceNow
14 32 (3.47%) McAfee
15 31 (3.37%) Blue Coat
16 28 (3.04%) Pure Storage
16 28 (3.04%) Splunk
17 22 (2.39%) HP
18 20 (2.17%) Commvault
19 17 (1.85%) CyberArk