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 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
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 82 60
Rank change year-on-year -19 -22 -4
Contract jobs citing VMware 1,035 762 1,241
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.35% 2.89% 3.32%
As % of the Vendors category 5.77% 6.10% 7.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 709 507 857
10th Percentile £350 £350 £300
25th Percentile £450 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £508
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +8.37% -3.33%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £575
90th Percentile £664 £675 £645
UK median daily rate £520 £538 £501
% change year-on-year -3.26% +7.29% -4.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 5 33
10th Percentile £19.93 £28.80 £22.32
25th Percentile £29.00 £30.00 £35.58
Median hourly rate £51.00 £32.77 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +55.63% -18.08% -24.76%
75th Percentile £72.13 £41.97 £71.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £52.04 £74.25
UK median hourly rate £51.00 £32.77 £40.25
% change year-on-year +55.63% -18.58% -32.92%

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 17,953 12,491 15,943
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 40.83% 47.42% 42.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,399 7,913 10,118
10th Percentile £313 £280 £275
25th Percentile £413 £402 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £517
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -0.87% -1.52%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £626
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £501 £501 £514
% change year-on-year +0.14% -2.63% -2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 971 576 1,048
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.84 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.40 £17.50 £14.84
Median hourly rate £35.00 £25.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.25% +2.00% -30.56%
75th Percentile £65.00 £51.93 £60.72
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £25.15 £24.65
% change year-on-year +35.15% +2.03% -39.14%

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 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 4 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 4 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 +3 303 £550 -3.25% 88
London -19 262 £525 - 65
North of England -18 182 £465 +3.22% 51
Midlands -25 120 £450 -15.89% 42
South West -35 105 £550 -6.18% 47
North West -3 99 £458 +1.67% 30
West Midlands -31 90 £450 -10.00% 24
Yorkshire -22 80 £500 +9.29% 15
East of England -21 60 £507 -7.82% 27
East Midlands -6 30 £450 -18.18% 18
North East -41 4 £569 +59.09% 8
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 45 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (2.22%) SharePoint
3 9 (0.87%) CICS
3 9 (0.87%) IIS
3 9 (0.87%) nginx
3 9 (0.87%) Tomcat
4 6 (0.58%) Confluence
4 6 (0.58%) OpenStack
5 5 (0.48%) Apache
6 3 (0.29%) CloudStack
6 3 (0.29%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.19%) CMS
7 2 (0.19%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.097%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 9 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.58%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.097%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.097%) Houdini
4 1 (0.097%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 3 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.097%) Shopify
2 1 (0.097%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 261 (25.22%) Azure
2 165 (15.94%) AWS
3 79 (7.63%) Microsoft 365
4 56 (5.41%) Entra ID
5 55 (5.31%) OpenShift
6 41 (3.96%) IaaS
7 39 (3.77%) GCP
7 39 (3.77%) GitHub
8 29 (2.80%) PaaS
9 27 (2.61%) Rubrik
10 18 (1.74%) Nutanix
10 18 (1.74%) SaaS
11 16 (1.55%) Azure DevOps
12 12 (1.16%) Azure Monitor
12 12 (1.16%) GitHub Actions
13 11 (1.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 10 (0.97%) Datadog
15 9 (0.87%) Amazon EC2
15 9 (0.87%) Azure Sentinel
16 8 (0.77%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 233 (22.51%) DNS
2 180 (17.39%) Firewall
3 124 (11.98%) DHCP
4 92 (8.89%) SAN
5 85 (8.21%) WAN
6 83 (8.02%) VPN
7 80 (7.73%) VSAN
8 68 (6.57%) LAN
9 65 (6.28%) Network Security
10 60 (5.80%) TCP/IP
11 54 (5.22%) VLAN
12 51 (4.93%) NAS
13 47 (4.54%) SSL
14 38 (3.67%) BIG-IP
15 35 (3.38%) Cisco Nexus
15 35 (3.38%) HTTP
16 34 (3.29%) BGP
16 34 (3.29%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 34 (3.29%) Wireshark
17 32 (3.09%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (3.38%) SQL Server
2 14 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (0.87%) DataStage
4 8 (0.77%) NonStop SQL
5 7 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
5 7 (0.68%) NoSQL
6 6 (0.58%) Power BI
7 5 (0.48%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (0.39%) Oracle BI EE
8 4 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (0.29%) Big Data
9 3 (0.29%) Data Mining
9 3 (0.29%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.19%) Redis
11 1 (0.097%) GIS
11 1 (0.097%) Metadata
11 1 (0.097%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 39 (3.77%) Jenkins
2 30 (2.90%) JIRA
3 24 (2.32%) GitLab
4 23 (2.22%) Git
5 21 (2.03%) Fiddler
6 7 (0.68%) Chocolatey
7 6 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
7 6 (0.58%) Team Foundation Server
8 5 (0.48%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.39%) Robot Framework
10 3 (0.29%) MSI
10 3 (0.29%) Subversion
11 2 (0.19%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 1 (0.097%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.097%) GoCD
12 1 (0.097%) Maven
12 1 (0.097%) Postman
12 1 (0.097%) Rational DOORS
12 1 (0.097%) RStudio
12 1 (0.097%) VersionOne
General
1 220 (21.26%) Social Skills
2 113 (10.92%) Finance
3 89 (8.60%) Analytical Skills
4 63 (6.09%) Public Sector
5 42 (4.06%) Banking
6 37 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
7 25 (2.42%) Legal
8 18 (1.74%) Investment Banking
9 17 (1.64%) Telecoms
10 15 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
11 12 (1.16%) Retail
12 11 (1.06%) Financial Institution
12 11 (1.06%) Military
13 10 (0.97%) Police
14 7 (0.68%) Manufacturing
15 6 (0.58%) Law
16 5 (0.48%) Aerospace
16 5 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 5 (0.48%) Local Government
16 5 (0.48%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 211 (20.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 147 (14.20%) Architect
3 106 (10.24%) Senior
4 93 (8.99%) VMware Engineer
5 84 (8.12%) Network Engineer
6 62 (5.99%) Consultant
7 47 (4.54%) Support Engineer
8 43 (4.15%) Cloud Engineer
9 40 (3.86%) VMware Consultant
10 37 (3.57%) Administrator
11 36 (3.48%) VMware Architect
12 35 (3.38%) Lead
13 33 (3.19%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 30 (2.90%) Storage Engineer
14 30 (2.90%) Technical Architect
15 29 (2.80%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 28 (2.71%) Senior VMware Engineer
17 26 (2.51%) Analyst
17 26 (2.51%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
18 24 (2.32%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (2.13%) LDAP
2 17 (1.64%) Flash
2 17 (1.64%) Middleware
3 12 (1.16%) OpenTelemetry
3 12 (1.16%) REST
4 10 (0.97%) 802.1X
5 9 (0.87%) SAML
6 7 (0.68%) Keycloak
7 6 (0.58%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (0.48%) .NET
8 5 (0.48%) JSON
9 4 (0.39%) Redfish
9 4 (0.39%) Software Packaging
10 3 (0.29%) Apache NiFi
11 2 (0.19%) ARM Templates
11 2 (0.19%) Blazor
11 2 (0.19%) Django
11 2 (0.19%) Java SE
11 2 (0.19%) OpenID
11 2 (0.19%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 142 (13.72%) Data Centre
2 71 (6.86%) Hybrid Cloud
3 66 (6.38%) PKI
3 66 (6.38%) Replication
4 46 (4.44%) Enterprise Storage
5 41 (3.96%) Management Information System
6 37 (3.57%) Cloud Native
7 35 (3.38%) Clustering
8 34 (3.29%) Public Cloud
9 32 (3.09%) Private Cloud
10 22 (2.13%) Linux Command Line
11 18 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
12 17 (1.64%) Onboarding
13 15 (1.45%) Blackberry
13 15 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
14 12 (1.16%) Virtual Team
15 11 (1.06%) BYOD
15 11 (1.06%) Product Ownership
15 11 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
16 10 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 438 (42.32%) Windows
2 271 (26.18%) Windows Server
3 261 (25.22%) Linux
4 57 (5.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 43 (4.15%) Windows Server 2019
6 27 (2.61%) Windows Server 2016
7 25 (2.42%) Unix
8 21 (2.03%) Ubuntu
8 21 (2.03%) VMS
8 21 (2.03%) Windows 10
9 20 (1.93%) Apple iOS
10 17 (1.64%) AIX
10 17 (1.64%) Data ONTAP
10 17 (1.64%) Solaris
11 16 (1.55%) Windows Server 2012
12 15 (1.45%) Android
13 14 (1.35%) CentOS
14 9 (0.87%) Mac OS
15 8 (0.77%) Windows Server 2003
15 8 (0.77%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 267 (25.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 189 (18.26%) Migration
3 177 (17.10%) Problem-Solving
4 131 (12.66%) ITIL
5 128 (12.37%) High Availability
6 105 (10.14%) Disaster Recovery
7 98 (9.47%) DevOps
8 97 (9.37%) CI/CD
9 96 (9.28%) Infrastructure as Code
10 90 (8.70%) Agile
11 77 (7.44%) Stakeholder Management
12 75 (7.25%) Load Balancing
13 72 (6.96%) Change Management
14 66 (6.38%) Capacity Planning
14 66 (6.38%) ITSM
14 66 (6.38%) Validation
15 65 (6.28%) Technical Leadership
16 64 (6.18%) Continuous Improvement
17 60 (5.80%) Performance Tuning
18 59 (5.70%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 187 (18.07%) PowerShell
2 122 (11.79%) Python
3 60 (5.80%) Bash
4 47 (4.54%) SQL
5 22 (2.13%) JavaScript
6 11 (1.06%) Java
7 9 (0.87%) COBOL
7 9 (0.87%) Shell Script
8 7 (0.68%) PL/SQL
9 6 (0.58%) Bicep
9 6 (0.58%) MATLAB
10 5 (0.48%) T-SQL
11 4 (0.39%) C
11 4 (0.39%) C#
11 4 (0.39%) PHP
12 2 (0.19%) VBScript
13 1 (0.097%) Go
13 1 (0.097%) Korn
13 1 (0.097%) Perl
13 1 (0.097%) VB
Qualifications
1 479 (46.28%) Security Cleared
2 290 (28.02%) SC Cleared
3 212 (20.48%) DV Cleared
4 82 (7.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 50 (4.83%) Cisco Certification
6 49 (4.73%) Degree
7 41 (3.96%) Microsoft Certification
8 35 (3.38%) CCNP
9 29 (2.80%) VCAP
10 28 (2.71%) MCSE
11 24 (2.32%) Azure Certification
12 18 (1.74%) MCSA
13 16 (1.55%) BPSS Clearance
13 16 (1.55%) CCNA
14 15 (1.45%) Oracle Certification
15 12 (1.16%) OCP
16 9 (0.87%) AWS Certification
17 8 (0.77%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
17 8 (0.77%) PMI Certification
17 8 (0.77%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (3.77%) SLA
2 34 (3.29%) NIST
3 24 (2.32%) NCSC
4 21 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 19 (1.84%) Cyber Essentials
6 10 (0.97%) QA
7 7 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (0.39%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
9 3 (0.29%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.19%) GDPR
10 2 (0.19%) ISA99
10 2 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.097%) COBIT
11 1 (0.097%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.097%) Def Stans
11 1 (0.097%) DICOM
11 1 (0.097%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.097%) HL7
11 1 (0.097%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 678 (65.51%) VMware Infrastructure
2 257 (24.83%) Active Directory
3 223 (21.55%) VMware NSX
4 218 (21.06%) vSphere
5 214 (20.68%) VMware ESXi
6 139 (13.43%) Hyper-V
7 92 (8.89%) Virtual Machines
8 39 (3.77%) Docker
9 37 (3.57%) Firmware
9 37 (3.57%) NFS
10 36 (3.48%) Virtual Desktop
11 24 (2.32%) vCloud
12 23 (2.22%) KVM
13 13 (1.26%) Microsoft App-V
14 12 (1.16%) GPFS
15 11 (1.06%) BitLocker
16 9 (0.87%) VMware Workstation
17 6 (0.58%) Oracle RAC
17 6 (0.58%) SRDF
17 6 (0.58%) UAG
Systems Management
1 178 (17.20%) vCenter Server
2 175 (16.91%) Ansible
3 108 (10.43%) Terraform
4 93 (8.99%) Kubernetes
5 68 (6.57%) Microsoft Intune
6 66 (6.38%) vRealize
7 56 (5.41%) SCCM
8 44 (4.25%) SCOM
9 29 (2.80%) VxRail
10 28 (2.71%) Argo
11 27 (2.61%) PowerCLI
11 27 (2.61%) vMotion
12 26 (2.51%) Grafana
13 20 (1.93%) NetBackup
13 20 (1.93%) Single Sign-On
14 18 (1.74%) Puppet
15 17 (1.64%) Red Hat Satellite
16 16 (1.55%) WSUS
17 15 (1.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
18 14 (1.35%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 255 (24.64%) Microsoft
2 183 (17.68%) Cisco
3 106 (10.24%) Citrix
4 72 (6.96%) NetApp
5 71 (6.86%) Red Hat
6 56 (5.41%) F5
7 55 (5.31%) Dell
8 43 (4.15%) Palo Alto
8 43 (4.15%) ServiceNow
9 40 (3.86%) Pure Storage
10 39 (3.77%) IBM
11 35 (3.38%) Juniper
11 35 (3.38%) Oracle
12 33 (3.19%) SolarWinds
12 33 (3.19%) Veeam
13 27 (2.61%) CheckPoint
13 27 (2.61%) Fortinet
14 25 (2.42%) Broadcom
15 24 (2.32%) McAfee
16 22 (2.13%) Splunk