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 25 October 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
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 60 54
Rank change year-on-year -38 -6 +14
Contract jobs citing VMware 769 1,104 1,658
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.70% 3.51% 4.07%
As % of the Vendors category 5.63% 7.81% 9.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 511 705 1,129
10th Percentile £325 £321 £306
25th Percentile £436 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £523 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% +4.50% +2.56%
75th Percentile £600 £598 £600
90th Percentile £650 £668 £678
UK median daily rate £525 £518 £500
% change year-on-year +1.45% +3.50% +3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 14 69
10th Percentile £24.20 £22.82 £35.00
25th Percentile £29.00 £35.00 £47.83
Median hourly rate £34.00 £40.58 £65.98
Median % change year-on-year -16.22% -38.49% +48.60%
75th Percentile £58.75 £73.13 £76.53
90th Percentile £72.86 £103.15 £84.36
UK median hourly rate £34.00 £38.00 £65.98
% change year-on-year -10.53% -42.41% +49.92%

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 13,647 14,133 18,111
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.85% 44.90% 44.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,697 8,471 11,987
10th Percentile £278 £300 £263
25th Percentile £404 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £644
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 667 467 629
10th Percentile £15.08 £15.00 £15.24
25th Percentile £17.99 £15.99 £20.00
Median hourly rate £25.08 £35.36 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year -29.09% -19.45% +75.60%
75th Percentile £43.23 £65.00 £63.29
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £76.31
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £33.00 £43.84
% change year-on-year -24.24% -24.72% +79.95%

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 25 October 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 25 October 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 25 October 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
South East -4 208 £525 -4.55% 180
London -86 192 £520 +7.82% 112
North of England -6 129 £475 -5.00% 98
Midlands -33 98 £550 +7.32% 68
South West -23 91 £550 +2.33% 51
West Midlands -22 83 £572 +0.35% 43
North West -16 79 £500 - 47
Yorkshire +24 59 £425 -5.56% 29
East of England -18 45 £550 - 24
East Midlands -19 15 £475 +5.79% 24
North East -11 4 £550 +137.84% 26
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 57 (7.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 32 (4.16%) Confluence
3 29 (3.77%) SharePoint
4 16 (2.08%) OpenStack
5 11 (1.43%) Apache
6 10 (1.30%) IIS
7 7 (0.91%) Skype for Business
8 6 (0.78%) WebSphere
9 5 (0.65%) SharePoint Server
10 3 (0.39%) nginx
10 3 (0.39%) Tomcat
11 2 (0.26%) CICS
12 1 (0.13%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.13%) Traefik
12 1 (0.13%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 29 (3.77%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (0.78%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.13%) OmniGraffle
Cloud Services
1 183 (23.80%) Azure
2 112 (14.56%) AWS
3 65 (8.45%) Microsoft 365
4 45 (5.85%) GCP
5 40 (5.20%) Entra ID
6 34 (4.42%) OpenShift
7 33 (4.29%) GitHub
8 30 (3.90%) IaaS
9 26 (3.38%) SaaS
10 21 (2.73%) Nutanix
11 19 (2.47%) Cohesity
12 18 (2.34%) PaaS
13 16 (2.08%) GitHub Actions
14 12 (1.56%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 7 (0.91%) Cloud Computing
15 7 (0.91%) Datadog
15 7 (0.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 5 (0.65%) Asana
16 5 (0.65%) Azure DevOps
16 5 (0.65%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 201 (26.14%) DNS
2 149 (19.38%) Firewall
3 90 (11.70%) TCP/IP
4 82 (10.66%) DHCP
5 76 (9.88%) SAN
6 62 (8.06%) VLAN
7 57 (7.41%) VPN
8 46 (5.98%) WAN
9 44 (5.72%) VSAN
10 40 (5.20%) BGP
11 39 (5.07%) Network Security
12 35 (4.55%) LAN
13 30 (3.90%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 30 (3.90%) iSCSI
14 27 (3.51%) DMZ
15 26 (3.38%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
16 22 (2.86%) Fibre Channel
16 22 (2.86%) NAS
17 20 (2.60%) MPLS
17 20 (2.60%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (5.20%) SQL Server
2 15 (1.95%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (0.52%) Oracle Database
4 3 (0.39%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.26%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (0.26%) MariaDB
5 2 (0.26%) MySQL
5 2 (0.26%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.26%) Power BI
6 1 (0.13%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.13%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.13%) Redis
Development Applications
1 53 (6.89%) Jenkins
2 35 (4.55%) JIRA
3 31 (4.03%) Git
4 28 (3.64%) GitLab
5 17 (2.21%) Sonatype Nexus
6 16 (2.08%) Postman
7 9 (1.17%) TeamCity
8 8 (1.04%) Cucumber
8 8 (1.04%) JMeter
8 8 (1.04%) JUnit
9 7 (0.91%) Subversion
10 6 (0.78%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.78%) Fiddler
10 6 (0.78%) Robot Framework
11 4 (0.52%) MSI
12 3 (0.39%) Maven
13 2 (0.26%) Artifactory
13 2 (0.26%) Mercurial
13 2 (0.26%) RStudio
13 2 (0.26%) Vagrant
General
1 221 (28.74%) Social Skills
2 89 (11.57%) Finance
3 84 (10.92%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (8.84%) Public Sector
5 39 (5.07%) Banking
6 35 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
7 19 (2.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (1.95%) Investment Banking
8 15 (1.95%) Legal
9 10 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (1.17%) Telecoms
11 8 (1.04%) Local Government
11 8 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (0.91%) Financial Institution
12 7 (0.91%) Manufacturing
12 7 (0.91%) Military
12 7 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (0.78%) Electronics
13 6 (0.78%) Law
13 6 (0.78%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 115 (14.95%) Architect
2 104 (13.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 63 (8.19%) Consultant
4 58 (7.54%) Senior
5 49 (6.37%) Network Engineer
6 46 (5.98%) VMware Engineer
7 44 (5.72%) Support Engineer
8 41 (5.33%) VMware Consultant
9 38 (4.94%) Infrastructure Architect
10 32 (4.16%) Administrator
11 31 (4.03%) VMware Architect
12 30 (3.90%) Platform Engineer
13 29 (3.77%) Windows Engineer
14 27 (3.51%) Infrastructure Support
15 26 (3.38%) Analyst
15 26 (3.38%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
16 23 (2.99%) Developer
17 18 (2.34%) Automation Engineer
17 18 (2.34%) Integration Engineer
17 18 (2.34%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (3.12%) Middleware
2 12 (1.56%) REST
3 11 (1.43%) Kafka
4 8 (1.04%) Elastic Stack
4 8 (1.04%) Hibernate
4 8 (1.04%) Loki
4 8 (1.04%) OAuth
4 8 (1.04%) OpenID
4 8 (1.04%) RESTful
4 8 (1.04%) SAML
4 8 (1.04%) Spring
5 7 (0.91%) Flash
5 7 (0.91%) JSON
5 7 (0.91%) NETCONF
5 7 (0.91%) RESTCONF
6 6 (0.78%) OAuth2
6 6 (0.78%) XMPP
7 5 (0.65%) .NET
7 5 (0.65%) XML
7 5 (0.65%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 78 (10.14%) Data Centre
2 56 (7.28%) PKI
3 39 (5.07%) Replication
4 34 (4.42%) Hybrid Cloud
5 31 (4.03%) Management Information System
5 31 (4.03%) Private Cloud
6 28 (3.64%) Onboarding
7 20 (2.60%) Linux Command Line
8 13 (1.69%) Cloud Native
8 13 (1.69%) Clustering
9 11 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
9 11 (1.43%) Fat Client
9 11 (1.43%) Thin Client
10 10 (1.30%) Hedge funds
10 10 (1.30%) Public Cloud
11 9 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
11 9 (1.17%) Product Ownership
11 9 (1.17%) Virtual Team
12 8 (1.04%) Enterprise Storage
13 7 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 341 (44.34%) Windows
2 241 (31.34%) Linux
3 187 (24.32%) Windows Server
4 78 (10.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 53 (6.89%) Windows 10
5 53 (6.89%) Windows Server 2019
6 44 (5.72%) Windows Server 2016
7 30 (3.90%) Ubuntu
8 28 (3.64%) CentOS
9 19 (2.47%) Unix
10 18 (2.34%) Windows Server 2012
11 15 (1.95%) Mac OS
11 15 (1.95%) Solaris
12 12 (1.56%) VMS
13 10 (1.30%) Windows 7
14 7 (0.91%) Debian
15 6 (0.78%) Windows Server 2003
16 4 (0.52%) AIX
16 4 (0.52%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
16 4 (0.52%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
2 139 (18.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 97 (12.61%) Agile
4 85 (11.05%) DevOps
5 83 (10.79%) ITIL
6 82 (10.66%) Migration
7 78 (10.14%) CI/CD
8 68 (8.84%) Disaster Recovery
9 60 (7.80%) Containerisation
10 57 (7.41%) Infrastructure as Code
11 54 (7.02%) Load Balancing
11 54 (7.02%) Validation
12 46 (5.98%) Continuous Improvement
12 46 (5.98%) Service Management
13 45 (5.85%) High Availability
14 42 (5.46%) Configuration Management
15 41 (5.33%) Business Strategy
16 37 (4.81%) Data Protection
17 35 (4.55%) Deployment Automation
17 35 (4.55%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 197 (25.62%) Python
2 180 (23.41%) PowerShell
3 97 (12.61%) Bash
4 63 (8.19%) SQL
5 28 (3.64%) Java
6 24 (3.12%) JavaScript
7 21 (2.73%) Perl
8 13 (1.69%) Shell Script
9 10 (1.30%) Go
10 9 (1.17%) PHP
11 7 (0.91%) T-SQL
11 7 (0.91%) VBA
12 5 (0.65%) C++
13 4 (0.52%) C#
14 3 (0.39%) VBScript
15 1 (0.13%) Bicep
15 1 (0.13%) C
15 1 (0.13%) Rust
15 1 (0.13%) TypeScript
15 1 (0.13%) VB
Qualifications
1 327 (42.52%) Security Cleared
2 187 (24.32%) SC Cleared
3 153 (19.90%) DV Cleared
4 57 (7.41%) Microsoft Certification
5 53 (6.89%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 51 (6.63%) Cisco Certification
7 49 (6.37%) Degree
8 39 (5.07%) CCNP
9 26 (3.38%) Azure Certification
9 26 (3.38%) CCNA
10 24 (3.12%) MCSE
11 18 (2.34%) VCAP
12 13 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
13 11 (1.43%) AWS Certification
13 11 (1.43%) CCIE
13 11 (1.43%) Master's Degree
13 11 (1.43%) Network+ Certification
13 11 (1.43%) Server+ Certification
14 10 (1.30%) CCDP
14 10 (1.30%) VCP6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (3.25%) GDPR
2 19 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (1.82%) NCSC
4 12 (1.56%) PCI DSS
4 12 (1.56%) SLA
5 9 (1.17%) NIST
5 9 (1.17%) QA
6 6 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 5 (0.65%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.39%) Def Stans
9 2 (0.26%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.26%) PMO
10 1 (0.13%) Government Security Classifications
10 1 (0.13%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.13%) MiFID
10 1 (0.13%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.13%) RMADS
System Software
1 485 (63.07%) VMware Infrastructure
2 232 (30.17%) Active Directory
3 150 (19.51%) vSphere
4 117 (15.21%) VMware ESXi
5 93 (12.09%) Hyper-V
6 79 (10.27%) VMware NSX
7 45 (5.85%) Virtual Machines
8 42 (5.46%) Docker
9 29 (3.77%) NFS
9 29 (3.77%) Virtual Servers
10 25 (3.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 20 (2.60%) Virtual Desktop
12 13 (1.69%) Firmware
13 10 (1.30%) KVM
14 7 (0.91%) GPFS
14 7 (0.91%) Veritas Cluster Server
15 6 (0.78%) Dovecot
15 6 (0.78%) Postfix
15 6 (0.78%) Terminal Services
15 6 (0.78%) UAG
Systems Management
1 170 (22.11%) Ansible
2 86 (11.18%) Terraform
3 74 (9.62%) vCenter Server
4 70 (9.10%) SCCM
5 48 (6.24%) vRealize
6 45 (5.85%) Kubernetes
7 33 (4.29%) Microsoft Intune
8 32 (4.16%) WSUS
9 29 (3.77%) Puppet
10 23 (2.99%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 21 (2.73%) Grafana
12 19 (2.47%) Prometheus
13 16 (2.08%) Argo
13 16 (2.08%) VxRail
14 15 (1.95%) Progress Chef
14 15 (1.95%) Single Sign-On
15 14 (1.82%) Red Hat Satellite
16 13 (1.69%) Microsoft Clustering
17 12 (1.56%) FortiGate
18 11 (1.43%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 251 (32.64%) Microsoft
2 119 (15.47%) Cisco
3 81 (10.53%) Red Hat
4 79 (10.27%) Citrix
5 65 (8.45%) F5
6 59 (7.67%) NetApp
7 54 (7.02%) Veeam
8 52 (6.76%) Splunk
9 43 (5.59%) Dell
10 36 (4.68%) SolarWinds
11 32 (4.16%) Oracle
12 25 (3.25%) Palo Alto
13 23 (2.99%) Broadcom
14 22 (2.86%) HP
15 21 (2.73%) IBM
15 21 (2.73%) ServiceNow
16 20 (2.60%) MuleSoft
17 19 (2.47%) Juniper
18 18 (2.34%) CyberArk
19 17 (2.21%) McAfee