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 14 August 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
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 105 59
Rank change year-on-year -2 -46 -5
Contract jobs citing VMware 1,116 696 1,193
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.45% 2.52% 3.58%
As % of the Vendors category 5.89% 5.33% 8.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 744 440 825
10th Percentile £350 £358 £325
25th Percentile £455 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +7.32% -
75th Percentile £625 £603 £575
90th Percentile £725 £650 £645
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £513
% change year-on-year -4.55% +7.32% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 8 14
10th Percentile £26.00 £28.70 £23.80
25th Percentile £46.00 £29.00 £26.75
Median hourly rate £63.14 £31.39 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +101.16% -53.50% +27.43%
75th Percentile £74.00 £60.88 £71.25
90th Percentile £93.79 £95.08 £79.40
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £31.39 £64.50
% change year-on-year +101.16% -51.34% +7.50%

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 18,941 13,054 14,542
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.54% 47.24% 43.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,923 8,264 9,262
10th Percentile £313 £278 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -
75th Percentile £613 £622 £627
90th Percentile £700 £719 £735
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £522
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.21% -0.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,023 638 755
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.75 £13.69
25th Percentile £18.59 £17.51 £15.62
Median hourly rate £33.99 £25.15 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.15% -16.17% -20.00%
75th Percentile £65.58 £50.00 £62.05
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.65 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £29.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -13.28% -28.40%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 14 August 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 +2 333 £550 -0.90% 135
London +16 303 £550 +4.76% 225
North of England -19 178 £483 +7.33% 68
South West -26 117 £551 -8.13% 47
Midlands -15 115 £450 -18.18% 39
North West 0 96 £483 +13.65% 42
West Midlands -26 91 £474 -16.62% 25
Yorkshire -25 73 £500 +11.11% 15
East of England -2 67 £507 -7.82% 39
East Midlands -11 24 £438 -20.45% 14
North East -38 10 £200 -59.60% 15
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 (5.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 33 (2.96%) SharePoint
3 18 (1.61%) Confluence
4 13 (1.16%) nginx
5 10 (0.90%) IIS
6 9 (0.81%) Apache
6 9 (0.81%) OpenStack
7 8 (0.72%) Skype for Business
7 8 (0.72%) Tomcat
8 6 (0.54%) JBoss
9 4 (0.36%) FactoryTalk
10 3 (0.27%) CICS
10 3 (0.27%) CloudStack
10 3 (0.27%) Exchange Server 2013
11 2 (0.18%) CMS
11 2 (0.18%) WebLogic
12 1 (0.090%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 18 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.27%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.18%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (0.18%) Houdini
3 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.18%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.18%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 13 (1.16%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.090%) Shopify
2 1 (0.090%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 308 (27.60%) Azure
2 198 (17.74%) AWS
3 96 (8.60%) Microsoft 365
4 75 (6.72%) Entra ID
5 46 (4.12%) GCP
5 46 (4.12%) IaaS
6 44 (3.94%) OpenShift
7 38 (3.41%) GitHub
8 29 (2.60%) Rubrik
9 28 (2.51%) PaaS
10 22 (1.97%) Azure DevOps
10 22 (1.97%) SaaS
11 18 (1.61%) Azure Monitor
11 18 (1.61%) GitHub Actions
11 18 (1.61%) OneDrive
12 15 (1.34%) Datadog
12 15 (1.34%) Power Platform
13 13 (1.16%) Nutanix
13 13 (1.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 11 (0.99%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 301 (26.97%) DNS
2 217 (19.44%) Firewall
3 185 (16.58%) DHCP
4 106 (9.50%) VSAN
5 100 (8.96%) TCP/IP
6 93 (8.33%) VPN
7 85 (7.62%) WAN
8 82 (7.35%) SAN
9 78 (6.99%) VLAN
10 69 (6.18%) LAN
11 66 (5.91%) Network Security
12 49 (4.39%) SSL
13 43 (3.85%) NAS
14 41 (3.67%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 37 (3.32%) BGP
16 34 (3.05%) BIG-IP
16 34 (3.05%) SD-WAN
16 34 (3.05%) Wi-Fi
17 33 (2.96%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
18 29 (2.60%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (5.65%) SQL Server
2 14 (1.25%) Power BI
2 14 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 11 (0.99%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (0.90%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 10 (0.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 9 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (0.81%) NoSQL
6 8 (0.72%) Big Data
6 8 (0.72%) NonStop SQL
7 7 (0.63%) Apache Cassandra
8 5 (0.45%) Hadoop
9 4 (0.36%) Hazelcast
9 4 (0.36%) Oracle BI EE
9 4 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (0.27%) Data Mining
10 3 (0.27%) DataStage
10 3 (0.27%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.18%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.18%) Redis
Development Applications
1 42 (3.76%) JIRA
2 35 (3.14%) Jenkins
3 31 (2.78%) GitLab
4 26 (2.33%) Git
5 16 (1.43%) Fiddler
6 9 (0.81%) Chocolatey
7 8 (0.72%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 5 (0.45%) Rational DOORS
9 5 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
10 4 (0.36%) Selenium
11 3 (0.27%) MSI
11 3 (0.27%) Robot Framework
11 3 (0.27%) Subversion
12 2 (0.18%) CppUnit
12 2 (0.18%) PVCS
12 2 (0.18%) Team Foundation Server
13 1 (0.090%) Artifactory
13 1 (0.090%) Maven
13 1 (0.090%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 246 (22.04%) Social Skills
2 125 (11.20%) Finance
3 122 (10.93%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (5.11%) Public Sector
5 46 (4.12%) Banking
6 39 (3.49%) Documentation Skills
7 29 (2.60%) Telecoms
8 27 (2.42%) Legal
9 17 (1.52%) Investment Banking
10 14 (1.25%) Financial Institution
11 13 (1.16%) Manufacturing
11 13 (1.16%) Retail
12 12 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
13 11 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
14 10 (0.90%) Military
15 8 (0.72%) Aerospace
16 6 (0.54%) Law
16 6 (0.54%) Organisational Skills
16 6 (0.54%) Police
17 4 (0.36%) Games
Job Titles
1 241 (21.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 147 (13.17%) Senior
3 125 (11.20%) Architect
4 116 (10.39%) VMware Engineer
5 88 (7.89%) Network Engineer
6 62 (5.56%) Consultant
7 59 (5.29%) Cloud Engineer
7 59 (5.29%) Support Engineer
8 54 (4.84%) Lead
8 54 (4.84%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 43 (3.85%) Administrator
10 40 (3.58%) VMware Consultant
11 38 (3.41%) Storage Engineer
12 37 (3.32%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 36 (3.23%) Platform Engineer
13 36 (3.23%) Senior VMware Engineer
14 32 (2.87%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
15 31 (2.78%) Azure Engineer
16 30 (2.69%) Linux Engineer
17 29 (2.60%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (1.70%) REST
2 12 (1.08%) Flash
2 12 (1.08%) LDAP
3 11 (0.99%) Middleware
4 10 (0.90%) 802.1X
4 10 (0.90%) JSON
5 9 (0.81%) Elastic Stack
5 9 (0.81%) Kafka
6 8 (0.72%) YAML
7 6 (0.54%) OpenTelemetry
8 5 (0.45%) .NET
8 5 (0.45%) ARM Templates
8 5 (0.45%) SAML
9 4 (0.36%) Keycloak
9 4 (0.36%) Redfish
10 3 (0.27%) XML
11 2 (0.18%) .NET Core
11 2 (0.18%) Apache NiFi
11 2 (0.18%) ASP.NET
11 2 (0.18%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 163 (14.61%) Data Centre
2 84 (7.53%) Hybrid Cloud
3 83 (7.44%) PKI
4 52 (4.66%) Enterprise Storage
4 52 (4.66%) Replication
5 50 (4.48%) Clustering
6 46 (4.12%) Management Information System
7 41 (3.67%) Public Cloud
8 33 (2.96%) Onboarding
8 33 (2.96%) Private Cloud
9 28 (2.51%) Cloud Native
10 21 (1.88%) Linux Command Line
11 15 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
12 12 (1.08%) SCADA
12 12 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
13 11 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
13 11 (0.99%) Operational Technology
13 11 (0.99%) Virtual Team
14 10 (0.90%) Blackberry
15 9 (0.81%) EMC VMAX
Operating Systems
1 534 (47.85%) Windows
2 325 (29.12%) Windows Server
3 302 (27.06%) Linux
4 58 (5.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 50 (4.48%) Windows Server 2019
6 28 (2.51%) VMS
6 28 (2.51%) Windows 10
7 25 (2.24%) Windows Server 2016
8 22 (1.97%) Unix
9 21 (1.88%) Ubuntu
10 19 (1.70%) Apple iOS
10 19 (1.70%) Windows Server 2012
11 15 (1.34%) Data ONTAP
12 13 (1.16%) AIX
12 13 (1.16%) Windows Server 2008
13 11 (0.99%) Android
13 11 (0.99%) CentOS
14 10 (0.90%) Solaris
14 10 (0.90%) Windows 7
15 6 (0.54%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 312 (27.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 205 (18.37%) Problem-Solving
3 192 (17.20%) Migration
4 170 (15.23%) ITIL
5 139 (12.46%) Infrastructure as Code
6 135 (12.10%) High Availability
7 123 (11.02%) Disaster Recovery
8 122 (10.93%) CI/CD
9 120 (10.75%) Technical Leadership
10 98 (8.78%) Agile
10 98 (8.78%) Change Management
10 98 (8.78%) DevOps
10 98 (8.78%) ITSM
11 95 (8.51%) Stakeholder Management
12 91 (8.15%) Service Management
13 82 (7.35%) Continuous Improvement
14 78 (6.99%) Network Virtualisation
15 72 (6.45%) Platform Engineering
16 71 (6.36%) Project Delivery
17 70 (6.27%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 257 (23.03%) PowerShell
2 146 (13.08%) Python
3 99 (8.87%) Bash
4 64 (5.73%) SQL
5 21 (1.88%) JavaScript
6 19 (1.70%) Java
7 9 (0.81%) Shell Script
8 8 (0.72%) Bicep
9 7 (0.63%) C
9 7 (0.63%) VB
9 7 (0.63%) VBScript
10 6 (0.54%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.36%) C#
11 4 (0.36%) Go
11 4 (0.36%) MATLAB
12 3 (0.27%) C++
12 3 (0.27%) COBOL
12 3 (0.27%) Lua
13 2 (0.18%) Embedded C
13 2 (0.18%) Korn
Qualifications
1 535 (47.94%) Security Cleared
2 317 (28.41%) SC Cleared
3 254 (22.76%) DV Cleared
4 87 (7.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 69 (6.18%) Degree
6 53 (4.75%) Cisco Certification
7 42 (3.76%) VCAP
8 41 (3.67%) Microsoft Certification
9 36 (3.23%) Azure Certification
10 29 (2.60%) CCNP
11 25 (2.24%) MCSE
12 21 (1.88%) CCNA
13 17 (1.52%) AWS Certification
14 16 (1.43%) MCSA
15 13 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
16 12 (1.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 11 (0.99%) BPSS Clearance
17 11 (0.99%) Oracle Certification
18 9 (0.81%) RHCA
19 8 (0.72%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (4.03%) SLA
2 25 (2.24%) NIST
3 23 (2.06%) NCSC
4 20 (1.79%) QA
5 16 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 15 (1.34%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (0.45%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.36%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 4 (0.36%) GxP
9 3 (0.27%) Data Quality
9 3 (0.27%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.18%) GDPR
10 2 (0.18%) ISA99
10 2 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 19770
10 2 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.18%) JSP 440
10 2 (0.18%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.090%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.090%) HL7
System Software
1 752 (67.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 310 (27.78%) Active Directory
3 238 (21.33%) VMware NSX
4 235 (21.06%) VMware ESXi
4 235 (21.06%) vSphere
5 161 (14.43%) Hyper-V
6 93 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
7 60 (5.38%) Docker
8 37 (3.32%) Virtual Desktop
9 34 (3.05%) Firmware
10 25 (2.24%) vCloud
11 21 (1.88%) NFS
12 18 (1.61%) KVM
13 14 (1.25%) BitLocker
14 11 (0.99%) Microsoft App-V
15 10 (0.90%) Virtual Servers
16 9 (0.81%) GPFS
16 9 (0.81%) VMware Workstation
17 6 (0.54%) SRDF
17 6 (0.54%) UAG
Systems Management
1 198 (17.74%) Ansible
2 191 (17.11%) vCenter Server
3 153 (13.71%) Terraform
4 121 (10.84%) Kubernetes
5 64 (5.73%) SCOM
6 61 (5.47%) SCCM
7 60 (5.38%) Microsoft Intune
8 57 (5.11%) vRealize
9 38 (3.41%) VxRail
10 25 (2.24%) Grafana
11 24 (2.15%) NetBackup
11 24 (2.15%) PowerCLI
11 24 (2.15%) Puppet
12 20 (1.79%) Argo
12 20 (1.79%) Prometheus
12 20 (1.79%) vMotion
12 20 (1.79%) WSUS
13 18 (1.61%) Avamar
13 18 (1.61%) Red Hat Satellite
14 16 (1.43%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 301 (26.97%) Microsoft
2 189 (16.94%) Cisco
3 95 (8.51%) Citrix
4 79 (7.08%) NetApp
5 69 (6.18%) Red Hat
6 60 (5.38%) ServiceNow
7 55 (4.93%) Dell
7 55 (4.93%) F5
8 46 (4.12%) Palo Alto
9 44 (3.94%) Oracle
10 41 (3.67%) SolarWinds
11 38 (3.41%) Juniper
12 34 (3.05%) Veeam
13 33 (2.96%) IBM
14 30 (2.69%) Broadcom
15 26 (2.33%) CyberArk
16 25 (2.24%) Fortinet
17 21 (1.88%) CheckPoint
18 20 (1.79%) Pure Storage
19 19 (1.70%) McAfee