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 November 2025, 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 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 100 58 52
Rank change year-on-year -42 -6 +13
Contract jobs citing VMware 810 1,117 1,633
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.68% 3.58% 4.10%
As % of the Vendors category 5.62% 7.94% 9.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 537 708 1,107
10th Percentile £325 £321 £300
25th Percentile £443 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £500
% change year-on-year +0.96% +4.00% +0.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 17 69
10th Percentile £24.80 £23.24 £22.00
25th Percentile £29.25 £35.00 £46.00
Median hourly rate £34.00 £50.00 £65.98
Median % change year-on-year -32.00% -24.22% +4.54%
75th Percentile £65.13 £80.59 £76.53
90th Percentile £72.98 £96.27 £84.36
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £43.75 £65.98
% change year-on-year -22.29% -33.69% +4.73%

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 14,408 14,070 17,821
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.69% 45.13% 44.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,271 8,467 11,767
10th Percentile £285 £300 £255
25th Percentile £405 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £614 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 715 443 620
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.27 £14.74
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.96 £20.45
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -21.35% +73.08%
75th Percentile £43.75 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £72.00 £74.78 £76.28
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £30.45 £43.88
% change year-on-year -17.90% -30.61% +75.52%

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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
London -77 213 £525 +9.38% 150
South East -10 211 £513 -6.82% 181
North of England -14 136 £500 - 55
Midlands -22 118 £538 +2.38% 67
West Midlands -13 99 £564 -1.96% 36
South West -26 91 £550 +2.33% 58
North West -15 81 £550 +10.00% 28
Yorkshire +16 67 £436 -4.18% 17
East of England -21 40 £550 +6.02% 48
East Midlands -22 19 £458 +1.89% 31
North East -14 4 £550 +137.84% 10
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 (7.16%) Microsoft Exchange
2 33 (4.07%) Confluence
3 30 (3.70%) SharePoint
4 14 (1.73%) OpenStack
5 11 (1.36%) Apache
6 9 (1.11%) IIS
7 7 (0.86%) Skype for Business
8 6 (0.74%) WebSphere
9 5 (0.62%) SharePoint Server
10 3 (0.37%) nginx
11 2 (0.25%) CICS
11 2 (0.25%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.12%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.12%) Exchange Server 2010
12 1 (0.12%) Traefik
12 1 (0.12%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 29 (3.58%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (0.99%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.12%) OmniGraffle
Cloud Services
1 192 (23.70%) Azure
2 136 (16.79%) AWS
3 65 (8.02%) Microsoft 365
4 48 (5.93%) GCP
4 48 (5.93%) OpenShift
5 43 (5.31%) GitHub
6 34 (4.20%) Entra ID
7 30 (3.70%) IaaS
8 26 (3.21%) SaaS
9 25 (3.09%) Nutanix
10 23 (2.84%) GitHub Actions
11 16 (1.98%) PaaS
12 12 (1.48%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 10 (1.23%) Datadog
14 9 (1.11%) Azure DevOps
15 8 (0.99%) Cohesity
16 7 (0.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 5 (0.62%) Cloud Computing
17 5 (0.62%) OneDrive
18 4 (0.49%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 198 (24.44%) DNS
2 156 (19.26%) Firewall
3 92 (11.36%) TCP/IP
4 82 (10.12%) DHCP
5 69 (8.52%) SAN
6 61 (7.53%) VLAN
7 58 (7.16%) VPN
8 48 (5.93%) VSAN
9 47 (5.80%) WAN
10 43 (5.31%) Network Security
11 38 (4.69%) BGP
12 37 (4.57%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
12 37 (4.57%) LAN
13 33 (4.07%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
14 30 (3.70%) DMZ
15 27 (3.33%) iSCSI
16 26 (3.21%) NAS
17 20 (2.47%) Fibre Channel
17 20 (2.47%) MPLS
17 20 (2.47%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (4.81%) SQL Server
2 20 (2.47%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (0.62%) NoSQL
4 4 (0.49%) Oracle Database
5 3 (0.37%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.25%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (0.25%) MariaDB
6 2 (0.25%) MySQL
6 2 (0.25%) Redis
7 1 (0.12%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.12%) Power BI
7 1 (0.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 64 (7.90%) Jenkins
2 37 (4.57%) Git
3 29 (3.58%) GitLab
3 29 (3.58%) JIRA
4 23 (2.84%) Sonatype Nexus
5 16 (1.98%) Postman
6 14 (1.73%) Cucumber
6 14 (1.73%) JMeter
6 14 (1.73%) JUnit
7 9 (1.11%) Fiddler
8 8 (0.99%) Bitbucket
8 8 (0.99%) Subversion
9 7 (0.86%) TeamCity
10 6 (0.74%) Robot Framework
11 4 (0.49%) MSI
12 3 (0.37%) Maven
12 3 (0.37%) RStudio
13 2 (0.25%) Artifactory
13 2 (0.25%) Jaeger
13 2 (0.25%) Vagrant
General
1 227 (28.02%) Social Skills
2 99 (12.22%) Finance
3 90 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (9.88%) Public Sector
5 50 (6.17%) Banking
6 38 (4.69%) Documentation Skills
7 21 (2.59%) Investment Banking
8 16 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (1.98%) Legal
9 14 (1.73%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
11 11 (1.36%) Local Government
11 11 (1.36%) Telecoms
12 8 (0.99%) Electronics
12 8 (0.99%) Manufacturing
13 7 (0.86%) Law
14 6 (0.74%) Aerospace
14 6 (0.74%) Financial Institution
14 6 (0.74%) Marketing
14 6 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 122 (15.06%) Architect
2 109 (13.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 70 (8.64%) Consultant
4 62 (7.65%) Senior
5 52 (6.42%) Network Engineer
6 49 (6.05%) VMware Consultant
7 45 (5.56%) Support Engineer
8 43 (5.31%) VMware Engineer
9 39 (4.81%) Infrastructure Architect
10 33 (4.07%) Analyst
11 31 (3.83%) Platform Engineer
12 30 (3.70%) Administrator
13 29 (3.58%) Windows Engineer
14 28 (3.46%) Developer
14 28 (3.46%) VMware Architect
15 27 (3.33%) Infrastructure Support
16 26 (3.21%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
17 23 (2.84%) Lead
18 20 (2.47%) Infrastructure Analyst
19 19 (2.35%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (2.96%) Middleware
2 18 (2.22%) Kafka
3 14 (1.73%) Spring
4 13 (1.60%) Hibernate
4 13 (1.60%) REST
5 10 (1.23%) Flash
6 9 (1.11%) Loki
7 8 (0.99%) Elastic Stack
7 8 (0.99%) OAuth
7 8 (0.99%) OpenID
7 8 (0.99%) RESTful
7 8 (0.99%) SAML
8 7 (0.86%) JSON
8 7 (0.86%) NETCONF
8 7 (0.86%) RESTCONF
9 6 (0.74%) OAuth2
9 6 (0.74%) XMPP
10 5 (0.62%) .NET
10 5 (0.62%) XML
10 5 (0.62%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 84 (10.37%) Data Centre
2 59 (7.28%) PKI
3 48 (5.93%) Replication
4 39 (4.81%) Hybrid Cloud
5 38 (4.69%) Management Information System
6 33 (4.07%) Private Cloud
7 24 (2.96%) Linux Command Line
7 24 (2.96%) Onboarding
8 21 (2.59%) Cloud Native
9 16 (1.98%) Public Cloud
10 14 (1.73%) Legacy Systems
11 12 (1.48%) Analytical Mindset
11 12 (1.48%) Clustering
12 10 (1.23%) Fat Client
12 10 (1.23%) Hedge funds
12 10 (1.23%) Thin Client
12 10 (1.23%) Virtual Team
13 9 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
13 9 (1.11%) Product Ownership
14 8 (0.99%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 337 (41.60%) Windows
2 260 (32.10%) Linux
3 183 (22.59%) Windows Server
4 81 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 47 (5.80%) Windows 10
6 38 (4.69%) Windows Server 2019
7 30 (3.70%) Windows Server 2016
8 29 (3.58%) Ubuntu
9 26 (3.21%) CentOS
10 21 (2.59%) Unix
11 20 (2.47%) Windows Server 2012
12 15 (1.85%) Mac OS
12 15 (1.85%) VMS
13 14 (1.73%) Solaris
14 10 (1.23%) Windows 7
15 7 (0.86%) Debian
16 6 (0.74%) AIX
17 5 (0.62%) Windows Server 2003
17 5 (0.62%) Windows Server 2008
18 4 (0.49%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (18.77%) Problem-Solving
2 142 (17.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 119 (14.69%) Agile
4 102 (12.59%) DevOps
5 97 (11.98%) Migration
6 94 (11.60%) CI/CD
7 88 (10.86%) ITIL
8 73 (9.01%) Disaster Recovery
9 65 (8.02%) Containerisation
9 65 (8.02%) Infrastructure as Code
10 62 (7.65%) Load Balancing
11 52 (6.42%) Continuous Improvement
11 52 (6.42%) Validation
12 49 (6.05%) Service Management
13 48 (5.93%) High Availability
14 45 (5.56%) Business Strategy
15 42 (5.19%) Configuration Management
16 41 (5.06%) Data Protection
17 40 (4.94%) Stakeholder Management
18 39 (4.81%) Infrastructure Automation
Programming Languages
1 208 (25.68%) Python
2 178 (21.98%) PowerShell
3 102 (12.59%) Bash
4 57 (7.04%) SQL
5 33 (4.07%) Java
6 27 (3.33%) JavaScript
7 22 (2.72%) Perl
8 11 (1.36%) Shell Script
9 10 (1.23%) Go
10 9 (1.11%) PHP
11 7 (0.86%) C++
11 7 (0.86%) T-SQL
11 7 (0.86%) VBA
12 4 (0.49%) C
12 4 (0.49%) C#
13 3 (0.37%) VBScript
14 2 (0.25%) Korn
15 1 (0.12%) Embedded C
15 1 (0.12%) Embedded C++
15 1 (0.12%) VB
Qualifications
1 333 (41.11%) Security Cleared
2 202 (24.94%) SC Cleared
3 138 (17.04%) DV Cleared
4 58 (7.16%) Microsoft Certification
5 57 (7.04%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 51 (6.30%) Cisco Certification
7 50 (6.17%) Degree
8 39 (4.81%) CCNP
9 28 (3.46%) Azure Certification
10 26 (3.21%) CCNA
11 24 (2.96%) MCSE
12 18 (2.22%) VCAP
13 14 (1.73%) AWS Certification
13 14 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
14 12 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
15 11 (1.36%) CCIE
15 11 (1.36%) Master's Degree
15 11 (1.36%) Network+ Certification
15 11 (1.36%) Server+ Certification
16 10 (1.23%) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (3.21%) GDPR
2 19 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (1.60%) NCSC
4 12 (1.48%) QA
5 11 (1.36%) SLA
6 10 (1.23%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.11%) NIST
8 7 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.49%) Data Quality
10 3 (0.37%) Def Stans
11 2 (0.25%) Accessibility
11 2 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.25%) PMO
12 1 (0.12%) Government Security Classifications
12 1 (0.12%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.12%) MiFID
12 1 (0.12%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.12%) RMADS
System Software
1 528 (65.19%) VMware Infrastructure
2 224 (27.65%) Active Directory
3 153 (18.89%) vSphere
4 113 (13.95%) VMware ESXi
5 96 (11.85%) Hyper-V
6 90 (11.11%) VMware NSX
7 47 (5.80%) Docker
7 47 (5.80%) Virtual Machines
8 30 (3.70%) NFS
9 20 (2.47%) Virtual Desktop
10 18 (2.22%) Virtual Servers
11 15 (1.85%) Firmware
12 13 (1.60%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 11 (1.36%) KVM
14 9 (1.11%) GPFS
15 7 (0.86%) Veritas Cluster Server
16 6 (0.74%) Dovecot
16 6 (0.74%) Postfix
16 6 (0.74%) Terminal Services
16 6 (0.74%) UAG
Systems Management
1 178 (21.98%) Ansible
2 100 (12.35%) Terraform
3 80 (9.88%) vCenter Server
4 70 (8.64%) SCCM
5 59 (7.28%) Kubernetes
6 56 (6.91%) vRealize
7 39 (4.81%) Microsoft Intune
8 28 (3.46%) Puppet
9 26 (3.21%) Grafana
10 23 (2.84%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 22 (2.72%) Prometheus
12 21 (2.59%) Argo
13 20 (2.47%) Progress Chef
13 20 (2.47%) VxRail
14 19 (2.35%) WSUS
15 18 (2.22%) Single Sign-On
16 15 (1.85%) FortiGate
16 15 (1.85%) Red Hat Satellite
17 13 (1.60%) PowerCLI
17 13 (1.60%) SCOM
Vendors
1 239 (29.51%) Microsoft
2 133 (16.42%) Cisco
3 88 (10.86%) Red Hat
4 74 (9.14%) F5
5 72 (8.89%) Citrix
6 52 (6.42%) NetApp
6 52 (6.42%) Veeam
7 44 (5.43%) Dell
8 41 (5.06%) Oracle
9 40 (4.94%) Splunk
10 39 (4.81%) SolarWinds
11 28 (3.46%) IBM
11 28 (3.46%) Palo Alto
12 26 (3.21%) Broadcom
13 23 (2.84%) HP
14 21 (2.59%) ServiceNow
15 20 (2.47%) MuleSoft
16 19 (2.35%) Juniper
17 18 (2.22%) CyberArk
17 18 (2.22%) McAfee