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 1 September 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
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 105 60
Rank change year-on-year -1 -45 -6
Contract jobs citing VMware 1,132 699 1,173
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.48% 2.53% 3.55%
As % of the Vendors category 5.96% 5.38% 8.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 750 445 790
10th Percentile £325 £350 £325
25th Percentile £450 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -3.55% +7.32% +2.50%
75th Percentile £636 £600 £575
90th Percentile £725 £650 £644
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £510
% change year-on-year -4.55% +7.84% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 8 13
10th Percentile £28.40 £28.70 £22.68
25th Percentile £48.25 £29.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £67.47 £31.39 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +114.98% -37.23% -16.67%
75th Percentile £76.50 £60.88 £71.25
90th Percentile £95.00 £95.08 -
UK median hourly rate £63.48 £31.39 £50.00
% change year-on-year +102.26% -37.23% -20.63%

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 18,990 12,995 14,525
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.58% 47.12% 43.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,875 8,243 9,055
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £619 £615 £630
90th Percentile £706 £706 £733
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,044 618 656
10th Percentile £14.48 £14.75 £13.69
25th Percentile £17.36 £17.61 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.00 £25.15 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.24% -16.17% -27.71%
75th Percentile £65.58 £47.50 £63.84
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.65 £70.63
UK median hourly rate £29.07 £25.15 £29.00
% change year-on-year +15.59% -13.28% -31.76%

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 1 September 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 1 September 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 1 September 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 -1 332 £546 -0.68% 142
London -1 304 £550 +4.76% 220
North of England -5 187 £450 +5.88% 90
Midlands -11 124 £450 -21.36% 57
South West -23 115 £575 -1.71% 69
North West -8 107 £472 +11.06% 40
West Midlands -18 96 £474 -18.42% 31
East of England -4 70 £507 -7.82% 63
Yorkshire -22 68 £519 +25.82% 31
East Midlands 0 28 £425 -22.73% 26
North East -35 13 £350 -44.00% 23
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 58 (5.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 37 (3.27%) SharePoint
3 21 (1.86%) Confluence
4 13 (1.15%) nginx
5 10 (0.88%) OpenStack
6 9 (0.80%) Apache
6 9 (0.80%) IIS
7 8 (0.71%) Tomcat
8 7 (0.62%) JBoss
8 7 (0.62%) Skype for Business
9 4 (0.35%) FactoryTalk
10 3 (0.27%) CloudStack
10 3 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2013
11 2 (0.18%) CMS
11 2 (0.18%) WebLogic
12 1 (0.088%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.088%) CICS
Applications
1 16 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (0.18%) Houdini
2 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.18%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.18%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 14 (1.24%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.088%) Shopify
2 1 (0.088%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 318 (28.09%) Azure
2 196 (17.31%) AWS
3 102 (9.01%) Microsoft 365
4 85 (7.51%) Entra ID
5 45 (3.98%) GCP
6 39 (3.45%) GitHub
6 39 (3.45%) IaaS
6 39 (3.45%) OpenShift
7 25 (2.21%) Rubrik
8 23 (2.03%) Azure DevOps
9 22 (1.94%) PaaS
10 20 (1.77%) GitHub Actions
11 19 (1.68%) Azure Monitor
12 18 (1.59%) OneDrive
12 18 (1.59%) SaaS
13 14 (1.24%) Power Platform
14 13 (1.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 12 (1.06%) Datadog
15 12 (1.06%) Nutanix
16 11 (0.97%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 312 (27.56%) DNS
2 216 (19.08%) Firewall
3 189 (16.70%) DHCP
4 102 (9.01%) TCP/IP
5 100 (8.83%) VSAN
6 91 (8.04%) VPN
7 85 (7.51%) WAN
8 81 (7.16%) SAN
8 81 (7.16%) VLAN
9 72 (6.36%) Network Security
10 69 (6.10%) LAN
11 45 (3.98%) SSL
12 43 (3.80%) NAS
13 42 (3.71%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 37 (3.27%) BGP
15 34 (3.00%) BIG-IP
15 34 (3.00%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
16 33 (2.92%) SD-WAN
16 33 (2.92%) Wi-Fi
17 31 (2.74%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (5.65%) SQL Server
2 14 (1.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 13 (1.15%) Power BI
4 10 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (0.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 10 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 9 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (0.80%) Big Data
5 9 (0.80%) NoSQL
6 8 (0.71%) NonStop SQL
7 7 (0.62%) Apache Cassandra
8 6 (0.53%) Hadoop
9 4 (0.35%) Hazelcast
9 4 (0.35%) MongoDB
9 4 (0.35%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (0.27%) Data Mining
10 3 (0.27%) Oracle BI EE
11 2 (0.18%) GIS
11 2 (0.18%) Redis
12 1 (0.088%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 42 (3.71%) JIRA
2 37 (3.27%) GitLab
3 33 (2.92%) Jenkins
4 27 (2.39%) Git
5 15 (1.33%) Fiddler
6 7 (0.62%) Bitbucket
7 6 (0.53%) Chocolatey
7 6 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (0.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (0.44%) Rational DOORS
9 4 (0.35%) Selenium
10 3 (0.27%) Subversion
11 2 (0.18%) CppUnit
11 2 (0.18%) MSI
11 2 (0.18%) PVCS
12 1 (0.088%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.088%) Octopus Deploy
12 1 (0.088%) Robot Framework
12 1 (0.088%) Team Foundation Server
12 1 (0.088%) VersionOne
General
1 240 (21.20%) Social Skills
2 118 (10.42%) Finance
3 117 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (4.15%) Public Sector
5 45 (3.98%) Documentation Skills
6 35 (3.09%) Banking
7 29 (2.56%) Telecoms
8 24 (2.12%) Legal
9 15 (1.33%) Investment Banking
10 13 (1.15%) Financial Institution
10 13 (1.15%) Manufacturing
10 13 (1.15%) Retail
11 11 (0.97%) Aerospace
12 10 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (0.88%) Pharmaceutical
13 9 (0.80%) Military
14 8 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
15 6 (0.53%) Law
15 6 (0.53%) Police
16 4 (0.35%) Games
Job Titles
1 248 (21.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 161 (14.22%) Senior
3 121 (10.69%) VMware Engineer
4 111 (9.81%) Architect
5 89 (7.86%) Network Engineer
6 71 (6.27%) Cloud Engineer
7 64 (5.65%) Consultant
8 63 (5.57%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 61 (5.39%) Support Engineer
10 58 (5.12%) Lead
11 46 (4.06%) Administrator
12 43 (3.80%) Platform Engineer
13 39 (3.45%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 38 (3.36%) Senior VMware Engineer
14 38 (3.36%) VMware Consultant
15 35 (3.09%) Storage Engineer
16 33 (2.92%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
17 31 (2.74%) Linux Engineer
18 30 (2.65%) Azure Engineer
19 28 (2.47%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (13.87%) Terraform
2 22 (1.94%) REST
3 13 (1.15%) Kafka
4 12 (1.06%) LDAP
4 12 (1.06%) YAML
5 11 (0.97%) JSON
6 10 (0.88%) 802.1X
7 9 (0.80%) Elastic Stack
7 9 (0.80%) Middleware
8 7 (0.62%) Flash
9 6 (0.53%) ARM Templates
10 5 (0.44%) .NET
10 5 (0.44%) OpenTelemetry
10 5 (0.44%) SAML
11 4 (0.35%) Keycloak
11 4 (0.35%) Redfish
12 3 (0.27%) Java SE
12 3 (0.27%) OAuth
12 3 (0.27%) XML
13 2 (0.18%) EJB
Miscellaneous
1 170 (15.02%) Data Centre
2 88 (7.77%) Hybrid Cloud
3 78 (6.89%) PKI
4 52 (4.59%) Management Information System
5 51 (4.51%) Enterprise Storage
6 49 (4.33%) Replication
7 46 (4.06%) Clustering
8 39 (3.45%) Onboarding
8 39 (3.45%) Public Cloud
9 38 (3.36%) Private Cloud
10 29 (2.56%) Cloud Native
11 20 (1.77%) Linux Command Line
12 16 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
13 12 (1.06%) SCADA
13 12 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
14 11 (0.97%) Operational Technology
15 10 (0.88%) Virtual Team
16 9 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
16 9 (0.80%) Distributed Systems
17 8 (0.71%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 555 (49.03%) Windows
2 361 (31.89%) Windows Server
3 307 (27.12%) Linux
4 60 (5.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 49 (4.33%) Windows Server 2019
6 32 (2.83%) Windows 10
7 28 (2.47%) VMS
8 23 (2.03%) Ubuntu
8 23 (2.03%) Windows Server 2016
9 22 (1.94%) Unix
10 21 (1.86%) Windows Server 2012
11 13 (1.15%) Windows Server 2008
12 11 (0.97%) CentOS
12 11 (0.97%) Data ONTAP
13 10 (0.88%) AIX
13 10 (0.88%) Windows 7
14 9 (0.80%) Apple iOS
14 9 (0.80%) Solaris
15 6 (0.53%) Debian
15 6 (0.53%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 328 (28.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 200 (17.67%) Problem-Solving
3 196 (17.31%) Migration
4 195 (17.23%) ITIL
5 161 (14.22%) Infrastructure as Code
6 144 (12.72%) Technical Leadership
7 136 (12.01%) Disaster Recovery
8 134 (11.84%) CI/CD
9 121 (10.69%) High Availability
10 106 (9.36%) DevOps
11 105 (9.28%) Change Management
11 105 (9.28%) ITSM
12 99 (8.75%) Service Management
13 97 (8.57%) Stakeholder Management
14 96 (8.48%) Continuous Improvement
15 93 (8.22%) Agile
16 85 (7.51%) Platform Engineering
17 79 (6.98%) Project Delivery
18 76 (6.71%) Network Virtualisation
18 76 (6.71%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 258 (22.79%) PowerShell
2 143 (12.63%) Python
3 102 (9.01%) Bash
4 69 (6.10%) SQL
5 21 (1.86%) JavaScript
6 20 (1.77%) Java
7 10 (0.88%) Shell Script
8 9 (0.80%) Bicep
9 7 (0.62%) C
9 7 (0.62%) VB
9 7 (0.62%) VBScript
10 6 (0.53%) Go
10 6 (0.53%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.35%) C#
11 4 (0.35%) MATLAB
12 3 (0.27%) C++
12 3 (0.27%) Lua
13 2 (0.18%) Embedded C
13 2 (0.18%) Korn
14 1 (0.088%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 551 (48.67%) Security Cleared
2 315 (27.83%) SC Cleared
3 267 (23.59%) DV Cleared
4 85 (7.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 68 (6.01%) Degree
6 51 (4.51%) Cisco Certification
7 45 (3.98%) VCAP
8 41 (3.62%) Microsoft Certification
9 39 (3.45%) Azure Certification
10 27 (2.39%) CCNP
11 25 (2.21%) MCSE
12 21 (1.86%) CCNA
13 19 (1.68%) AWS Certification
14 16 (1.41%) MCSA
15 15 (1.33%) Computer Science Degree
16 14 (1.24%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 11 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
18 9 (0.80%) PMI Certification
19 8 (0.71%) ISTQB
19 8 (0.71%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (3.71%) SLA
2 23 (2.03%) NIST
3 21 (1.86%) QA
4 20 (1.77%) NCSC
5 18 (1.59%) Cyber Essentials
6 17 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 5 (0.44%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.35%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 4 (0.35%) GxP
10 3 (0.27%) Data Quality
10 3 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
10 3 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 19770
11 2 (0.18%) GDPR
11 2 (0.18%) ISA99
11 2 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.18%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.088%) GRC
12 1 (0.088%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.088%) SOC 2
System Software
1 773 (68.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 324 (28.62%) Active Directory
3 246 (21.73%) VMware ESXi
4 239 (21.11%) vSphere
5 236 (20.85%) VMware NSX
6 178 (15.72%) Hyper-V
7 87 (7.69%) Virtual Machines
8 66 (5.83%) Docker
9 37 (3.27%) Virtual Desktop
10 35 (3.09%) Firmware
11 27 (2.39%) vCloud
12 16 (1.41%) KVM
13 15 (1.33%) NFS
14 13 (1.15%) BitLocker
15 11 (0.97%) Virtual Servers
16 9 (0.80%) Citrix Hypervisor
16 9 (0.80%) Microsoft App-V
17 7 (0.62%) GPFS
17 7 (0.62%) VMware Workstation
18 6 (0.53%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 198 (17.49%) Ansible
2 192 (16.96%) vCenter Server
3 131 (11.57%) Kubernetes
4 71 (6.27%) SCOM
5 61 (5.39%) SCCM
6 56 (4.95%) vRealize
7 52 (4.59%) Microsoft Intune
8 35 (3.09%) VxRail
9 27 (2.39%) Grafana
10 25 (2.21%) PowerCLI
10 25 (2.21%) Prometheus
11 23 (2.03%) NetBackup
12 21 (1.86%) Puppet
12 21 (1.86%) vMotion
13 20 (1.77%) Red Hat Satellite
13 20 (1.77%) WSUS
14 18 (1.59%) Argo
15 16 (1.41%) Avamar
15 16 (1.41%) Microsoft Clustering
15 16 (1.41%) Podman
Vendors
1 296 (26.15%) Microsoft
2 190 (16.78%) Cisco
3 88 (7.77%) Citrix
4 78 (6.89%) NetApp
5 70 (6.18%) Red Hat
6 59 (5.21%) ServiceNow
7 58 (5.12%) Dell
8 56 (4.95%) F5
9 46 (4.06%) Oracle
10 45 (3.98%) Palo Alto
11 43 (3.80%) SolarWinds
12 38 (3.36%) Veeam
13 34 (3.00%) Juniper
14 31 (2.74%) Fortinet
15 28 (2.47%) IBM
16 27 (2.39%) CyberArk
17 26 (2.30%) Broadcom
18 22 (1.94%) CheckPoint
19 20 (1.77%) Splunk
20 19 (1.68%) Meraki