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 15 January 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
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 67 58
Rank change year-on-year -25 -9 +2
Contract jobs citing VMware 867 880 1,329
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.73% 3.26% 3.71%
As % of the Vendors category 5.87% 7.10% 8.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 597 563 896
10th Percentile £317 £311 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £623 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 16 60
10th Percentile £29.00 £35.00 £30.33
25th Percentile £33.00 £42.50 £50.91
Median hourly rate £70.00 £68.75 £65.98
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% +4.20% +1.51%
75th Percentile £74.26 £83.32 £76.53
90th Percentile £96.50 £99.13 £84.68
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £60.00 £67.27
% change year-on-year +16.67% -10.80% +3.48%

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 14,779 12,397 15,689
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 46.53% 45.98% 43.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,697 7,489 10,179
10th Percentile £300 £290 £250
25th Percentile £409 £410 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £708 £720 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 686 351 628
10th Percentile £15.44 £15.49 £13.91
25th Percentile £17.96 £18.13 £18.00
Median hourly rate £23.75 £30.00 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% -31.57% +35.93%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.93 £63.29
90th Percentile £73.75 £80.75 £76.33
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £27.13 £43.50
% change year-on-year -12.17% -37.64% +50.00%

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 15 January 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 15 January 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 15 January 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 -6 245 £500 -9.09% 112
London -73 202 £550 +10.00% 60
Midlands +22 135 £450 -2.17% 41
North of England -24 135 £458 -6.05% 70
West Midlands +24 112 £488 +4.84% 25
North West -15 92 £469 -6.16% 37
South West -38 83 £550 - 51
East of England +8 58 £500 +2.56% 21
Yorkshire -11 54 £400 -11.11% 26
East Midlands -13 23 £449 +33.88% 15
North East -15 4 £550 +69.23% 10
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 48 (5.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (3.11%) SharePoint
3 21 (2.42%) Confluence
4 13 (1.50%) OpenStack
5 7 (0.81%) Skype for Business
6 6 (0.69%) IIS
7 5 (0.58%) SharePoint Server
8 3 (0.35%) Apache
8 3 (0.35%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.23%) CICS
9 2 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2010
9 2 (0.23%) nginx
9 2 (0.23%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.23%) WordPress
10 1 (0.12%) JBoss
10 1 (0.12%) Traefik
10 1 (0.12%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 19 (2.19%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (1.96%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.12%) OmniGraffle
Cloud Services
1 212 (24.45%) Azure
2 171 (19.72%) AWS
3 73 (8.42%) Microsoft 365
4 58 (6.69%) OpenShift
5 53 (6.11%) GCP
6 48 (5.54%) GitHub
7 40 (4.61%) Entra ID
8 37 (4.27%) IaaS
9 28 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
10 24 (2.77%) Nutanix
11 22 (2.54%) PaaS
12 20 (2.31%) SaaS
13 14 (1.61%) Datadog
14 10 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
15 8 (0.92%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 7 (0.81%) Microsoft Purview
17 6 (0.69%) AWS CloudFormation
17 6 (0.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 5 (0.58%) Azure Monitor
18 5 (0.58%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 208 (23.99%) DNS
2 163 (18.80%) Firewall
3 91 (10.50%) DHCP
4 84 (9.69%) TCP/IP
5 64 (7.38%) VPN
6 50 (5.77%) SAN
7 49 (5.65%) VSAN
8 48 (5.54%) VLAN
9 46 (5.31%) Network Security
9 46 (5.31%) WAN
10 40 (4.61%) LAN
11 38 (4.38%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 36 (4.15%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
13 32 (3.69%) SSL
14 30 (3.46%) BIG-IP
15 28 (3.23%) HTTP
16 26 (3.00%) Wireshark
17 24 (2.77%) DMZ
18 22 (2.54%) BGP
18 22 (2.54%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (4.38%) SQL Server
2 28 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (0.92%) Redis
4 5 (0.58%) NoSQL
5 3 (0.35%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (0.35%) MongoDB
5 3 (0.35%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.23%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.12%) Power BI
7 1 (0.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 45 (5.19%) Jenkins
2 35 (4.04%) GitLab
3 31 (3.58%) Git
4 22 (2.54%) Sonatype Nexus
5 20 (2.31%) Fiddler
5 20 (2.31%) JIRA
6 14 (1.61%) Cucumber
6 14 (1.61%) JMeter
6 14 (1.61%) JUnit
7 8 (0.92%) PVCS
7 8 (0.92%) Rational DOORS
8 5 (0.58%) Subversion
9 4 (0.46%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.46%) Robot Framework
9 4 (0.46%) RStudio
9 4 (0.46%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.35%) Maven
11 2 (0.23%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.23%) Jaeger
11 2 (0.23%) Postman
General
1 212 (24.45%) Social Skills
2 90 (10.38%) Analytical Skills
3 88 (10.15%) Finance
4 87 (10.03%) Public Sector
5 50 (5.77%) Banking
6 40 (4.61%) Documentation Skills
7 25 (2.88%) Investment Banking
8 22 (2.54%) Aerospace
9 16 (1.85%) Legal
10 13 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (1.50%) Local Government
11 12 (1.38%) Electronics
11 12 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (0.92%) Telecoms
14 7 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
15 5 (0.58%) Financial Institution
15 5 (0.58%) Manufacturing
15 5 (0.58%) Military
16 4 (0.46%) Law
Job Titles
1 141 (16.26%) Architect
2 124 (14.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 61 (7.04%) Consultant
4 56 (6.46%) Network Engineer
5 54 (6.23%) Analyst
6 53 (6.11%) Senior
6 53 (6.11%) VMware Engineer
7 46 (5.31%) VMware Consultant
8 42 (4.84%) Platform Engineer
8 42 (4.84%) Support Engineer
9 35 (4.04%) Infrastructure Architect
10 31 (3.58%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 28 (3.23%) DevOps Engineer
11 28 (3.23%) VMware Architect
12 26 (3.00%) Administrator
13 25 (2.88%) Lead
14 24 (2.77%) Infrastructure Support
14 24 (2.77%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
15 22 (2.54%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 22 (2.54%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (2.77%) Kafka
2 21 (2.42%) Middleware
3 17 (1.96%) LDAP
3 17 (1.96%) SAML
4 16 (1.85%) Flash
5 14 (1.61%) Spring
6 13 (1.50%) Hibernate
7 12 (1.38%) REST
8 11 (1.27%) Keycloak
8 11 (1.27%) OAuth
8 11 (1.27%) OpenID
9 9 (1.04%) Loki
10 8 (0.92%) Elastic Stack
11 7 (0.81%) OAuth2
12 6 (0.69%) .NET
12 6 (0.69%) XMPP
13 5 (0.58%) OpenTelemetry
13 5 (0.58%) React
14 4 (0.46%) Spring Boot
15 3 (0.35%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 86 (9.92%) Data Centre
2 63 (7.27%) PKI
3 62 (7.15%) Replication
4 43 (4.96%) Management Information System
5 38 (4.38%) Cloud Native
6 34 (3.92%) Hybrid Cloud
6 34 (3.92%) Private Cloud
7 30 (3.46%) Linux Command Line
8 22 (2.54%) Public Cloud
9 18 (2.08%) Clustering
9 18 (2.08%) Operational Technology
10 17 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
11 14 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
12 13 (1.50%) Fat Client
12 13 (1.50%) Thin Client
13 12 (1.38%) Onboarding
13 12 (1.38%) SCADA
14 10 (1.15%) Hedge funds
14 10 (1.15%) Virtual Team
15 9 (1.04%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 321 (37.02%) Windows
2 261 (30.10%) Linux
3 187 (21.57%) Windows Server
4 76 (8.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 43 (4.96%) Windows 10
6 25 (2.88%) Windows Server 2019
7 22 (2.54%) Windows Server 2016
8 19 (2.19%) Windows Server 2012
9 15 (1.73%) Ubuntu
10 14 (1.61%) CentOS
11 13 (1.50%) Mac OS
11 13 (1.50%) VMS
11 13 (1.50%) Windows 7
12 11 (1.27%) Solaris
12 11 (1.27%) Unix
13 6 (0.69%) Windows Server 2003
14 5 (0.58%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (0.46%) CatOS
16 3 (0.35%) AIX
16 3 (0.35%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 175 (20.18%) Problem-Solving
2 159 (18.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 131 (15.11%) Agile
4 111 (12.80%) ITIL
5 105 (12.11%) CI/CD
6 103 (11.88%) DevOps
7 94 (10.84%) Migration
8 79 (9.11%) Load Balancing
9 77 (8.88%) Infrastructure as Code
10 75 (8.65%) Disaster Recovery
11 64 (7.38%) Containerisation
12 62 (7.15%) Platform Engineering
13 54 (6.23%) High Availability
14 51 (5.88%) Continuous Improvement
14 51 (5.88%) Cybersecurity
15 50 (5.77%) Service Management
16 48 (5.54%) Roadmaps
17 42 (4.84%) Stakeholder Management
18 41 (4.73%) Observability
18 41 (4.73%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 191 (22.03%) PowerShell
2 183 (21.11%) Python
3 105 (12.11%) Bash
4 42 (4.84%) SQL
5 31 (3.58%) Java
6 26 (3.00%) JavaScript
7 21 (2.42%) Perl
8 14 (1.61%) Shell Script
9 10 (1.15%) C
9 10 (1.15%) C++
10 8 (0.92%) C#
11 7 (0.81%) Embedded C
11 7 (0.81%) Embedded C++
11 7 (0.81%) Go
12 6 (0.69%) MATLAB
13 5 (0.58%) T-SQL
14 4 (0.46%) Bicep
15 3 (0.35%) VBA
15 3 (0.35%) VBScript
16 2 (0.23%) Korn
Qualifications
1 376 (43.37%) Security Cleared
2 233 (26.87%) SC Cleared
3 135 (15.57%) DV Cleared
4 58 (6.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 51 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
6 43 (4.96%) Degree
7 40 (4.61%) Cisco Certification
8 32 (3.69%) Azure Certification
9 29 (3.34%) CCNP
10 22 (2.54%) AWS Certification
11 20 (2.31%) CCNA
12 19 (2.19%) MCSE
12 19 (2.19%) VCAP
13 15 (1.73%) BPSS Clearance
14 13 (1.50%) CCIE
15 11 (1.27%) Network+ Certification
15 11 (1.27%) Server+ Certification
16 9 (1.04%) CCDP
16 9 (1.04%) CISSP
16 9 (1.04%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (3.00%) GDPR
2 20 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (1.96%) SLA
4 15 (1.73%) NIST
5 12 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials
6 11 (1.27%) NCSC
7 8 (0.92%) Def Stans
7 8 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 7 (0.81%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.81%) QA
9 5 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.23%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.23%) Data Quality
10 2 (0.23%) PMO
11 1 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.12%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.12%) MiFID
11 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
System Software
1 542 (62.51%) VMware Infrastructure
2 226 (26.07%) Active Directory
3 145 (16.72%) vSphere
4 118 (13.61%) VMware NSX
5 110 (12.69%) Hyper-V
6 86 (9.92%) VMware ESXi
7 55 (6.34%) Docker
8 47 (5.42%) Virtual Machines
9 31 (3.58%) NFS
10 21 (2.42%) Virtual Desktop
11 16 (1.85%) Firmware
11 16 (1.85%) KVM
12 15 (1.73%) GPFS
13 9 (1.04%) Virtual Servers
14 6 (0.69%) Dovecot
14 6 (0.69%) Postfix
14 6 (0.69%) vCloud
15 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Virtual Server
16 4 (0.46%) Veritas File System
16 4 (0.46%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 171 (19.72%) Ansible
2 114 (13.15%) Terraform
3 86 (9.92%) Kubernetes
4 83 (9.57%) vCenter Server
5 74 (8.54%) vRealize
6 67 (7.73%) SCCM
7 52 (6.00%) Microsoft Intune
8 32 (3.69%) Grafana
9 30 (3.46%) Single Sign-On
10 28 (3.23%) Prometheus
11 27 (3.11%) Argo
12 26 (3.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 26 (3.00%) Red Hat Satellite
12 26 (3.00%) VxRail
13 20 (2.31%) SCOM
14 18 (2.08%) Progress Chef
15 16 (1.85%) FortiGate
16 14 (1.61%) WSUS
17 13 (1.50%) vRealize Orchestrator
18 11 (1.27%) Puppet
Vendors
1 220 (25.37%) Microsoft
2 148 (17.07%) Cisco
3 97 (11.19%) Red Hat
4 83 (9.57%) F5
5 67 (7.73%) Citrix
6 47 (5.42%) Dell
7 45 (5.19%) SolarWinds
8 44 (5.07%) Veeam
9 42 (4.84%) NetApp
9 42 (4.84%) Oracle
10 40 (4.61%) IBM
11 38 (4.38%) Palo Alto
12 34 (3.92%) ServiceNow
13 28 (3.23%) McAfee
14 27 (3.11%) Blue Coat
14 27 (3.11%) Broadcom
15 26 (3.00%) Splunk
16 21 (2.42%) HP
17 18 (2.08%) CyberArk
18 17 (1.96%) Google