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 21 February 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
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 70 63
Rank change year-on-year -27 -7 -4
Contract jobs citing VMware 935 875 1,269
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.68% 3.38% 3.34%
As % of the Vendors category 5.96% 7.26% 7.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 655 572 843
10th Percentile £325 £287 £264
25th Percentile £425 £413 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £493
Median % change year-on-year - +6.60% -5.29%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £523 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -0.38% +5.00% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 15 70
10th Percentile £33.00 £35.00 £22.08
25th Percentile £56.28 £40.00 £40.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £61.25
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +18.37% -5.77%
75th Percentile £77.13 £84.14 £76.25
90th Percentile £97.00 £101.70 £84.36
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £63.00
% change year-on-year +12.00% -0.79% -3.08%

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 15,694 12,053 16,374
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 44.91% 46.62% 43.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,240 7,417 10,508
10th Percentile £303 £281 £250
25th Percentile £413 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £704 £720 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £523
% change year-on-year -4.40% +0.10% -1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 803 352 872
10th Percentile £15.32 £15.62 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.15 £20.27 £15.50
Median hourly rate £23.83 £30.89 £27.76
Median % change year-on-year -22.87% +11.29% -18.46%
75th Percentile £58.70 £65.00 £56.49
90th Percentile £74.16 £82.33 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £29.00 £27.33
% change year-on-year -17.24% +6.10% -21.44%

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 21 February 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 21 February 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 21 February 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 +1 260 £513 -7.95% 109
London -53 237 £550 +4.76% 64
North of England -34 159 £463 +2.89% 69
Midlands -12 124 £410 -21.90% 34
North West -21 105 £460 -8.00% 35
South West -34 95 £550 -4.35% 45
West Midlands -18 93 £397 -22.56% 29
Yorkshire -22 61 £463 +2.89% 32
East of England +5 58 £500 - 20
East Midlands -11 31 £450 -15.13% 5
North East -28 4 £550 +57.14% 6
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 47 (5.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 29 (3.10%) SharePoint
3 19 (2.03%) Confluence
4 9 (0.96%) OpenStack
5 7 (0.75%) Skype for Business
6 6 (0.64%) CICS
7 5 (0.53%) SharePoint Server
8 4 (0.43%) nginx
9 3 (0.32%) Apache
9 3 (0.32%) IIS
10 2 (0.21%) Exchange Server 2010
10 2 (0.21%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.21%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.21%) WordPress
11 1 (0.11%) JBoss
11 1 (0.11%) Traefik
11 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 17 (1.82%) MS Visio
2 15 (1.60%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.21%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.11%) OmniGraffle
Cloud Services
1 234 (25.03%) Azure
2 175 (18.72%) AWS
3 81 (8.66%) Microsoft 365
4 78 (8.34%) OpenShift
5 52 (5.56%) GitHub
6 51 (5.45%) Entra ID
7 46 (4.92%) GCP
8 42 (4.49%) IaaS
9 30 (3.21%) Nutanix
10 29 (3.10%) PaaS
11 24 (2.57%) GitHub Actions
12 16 (1.71%) Datadog
13 13 (1.39%) Azure DevOps
14 9 (0.96%) SaaS
15 7 (0.75%) Microsoft Purview
16 6 (0.64%) Azure ExpressRoute
16 6 (0.64%) Azure Sentinel
17 5 (0.53%) AWS CloudFormation
17 5 (0.53%) Azure Monitor
18 4 (0.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 220 (23.53%) DNS
2 178 (19.04%) Firewall
3 101 (10.80%) DHCP
4 81 (8.66%) TCP/IP
5 74 (7.91%) VPN
6 59 (6.31%) SAN
7 57 (6.10%) VSAN
8 53 (5.67%) Network Security
9 50 (5.35%) VLAN
10 45 (4.81%) WAN
11 42 (4.49%) LAN
12 40 (4.28%) SSL
13 38 (4.06%) BIG-IP
14 37 (3.96%) HTTP
15 36 (3.85%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 36 (3.85%) Wireshark
16 34 (3.64%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
17 31 (3.32%) BGP
18 30 (3.21%) NAS
19 18 (1.93%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (4.06%) SQL Server
2 25 (2.67%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (0.86%) Redis
4 6 (0.64%) DataStage
4 6 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (0.53%) Oracle Database
6 4 (0.43%) NoSQL
7 3 (0.32%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.11%) Power BI
8 1 (0.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 52 (5.56%) Jenkins
2 32 (3.42%) GitLab
3 27 (2.89%) Fiddler
4 26 (2.78%) Git
5 22 (2.35%) Sonatype Nexus
6 18 (1.93%) JIRA
7 14 (1.50%) Cucumber
7 14 (1.50%) JMeter
7 14 (1.50%) JUnit
8 8 (0.86%) PVCS
8 8 (0.86%) Rational DOORS
9 6 (0.64%) Team Foundation Server
10 4 (0.43%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.43%) Robot Framework
10 4 (0.43%) RStudio
11 3 (0.32%) Chocolatey
11 3 (0.32%) Maven
11 3 (0.32%) Subversion
12 2 (0.21%) TeamCity
13 1 (0.11%) MSI
General
1 205 (21.93%) Social Skills
2 104 (11.12%) Finance
3 103 (11.02%) Analytical Skills
4 96 (10.27%) Public Sector
5 51 (5.45%) Banking
6 41 (4.39%) Documentation Skills
7 25 (2.67%) Investment Banking
8 22 (2.35%) Aerospace
8 22 (2.35%) Legal
9 19 (2.03%) Influencing Skills
10 14 (1.50%) Local Government
11 13 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 12 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
13 11 (1.18%) Electronics
14 10 (1.07%) Military
15 7 (0.75%) Police
16 6 (0.64%) Organisational Skills
16 6 (0.64%) Telecoms
17 5 (0.53%) Financial Institution
17 5 (0.53%) Fire and Rescue
Job Titles
1 155 (16.58%) Architect
2 142 (15.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 68 (7.27%) Network Engineer
4 62 (6.63%) VMware Engineer
5 59 (6.31%) Analyst
6 58 (6.20%) Consultant
6 58 (6.20%) Senior
7 49 (5.24%) VMware Consultant
8 47 (5.03%) Platform Engineer
9 42 (4.49%) Support Engineer
10 35 (3.74%) Infrastructure Architect
10 35 (3.74%) VMware Architect
11 32 (3.42%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 32 (3.42%) Lead
12 29 (3.10%) DevOps Engineer
13 28 (2.99%) Web Engineer
14 25 (2.67%) Technical Architect
15 23 (2.46%) Developer
15 23 (2.46%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
15 23 (2.46%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (2.57%) Kafka
1 24 (2.57%) Middleware
2 21 (2.25%) LDAP
3 18 (1.93%) Flash
4 16 (1.71%) SAML
5 14 (1.50%) Spring
6 13 (1.39%) Hibernate
7 12 (1.28%) Keycloak
8 11 (1.18%) OpenID
9 10 (1.07%) OAuth
9 10 (1.07%) OpenTelemetry
9 10 (1.07%) REST
10 9 (0.96%) Loki
11 7 (0.75%) Elastic Stack
11 7 (0.75%) OAuth2
12 6 (0.64%) XMPP
13 5 (0.53%) React
13 5 (0.53%) Software Packaging
14 4 (0.43%) .NET
14 4 (0.43%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 90 (9.63%) Data Centre
2 72 (7.70%) Replication
3 69 (7.38%) PKI
4 50 (5.35%) Cloud Native
5 45 (4.81%) Hybrid Cloud
6 38 (4.06%) Management Information System
7 30 (3.21%) Linux Command Line
7 30 (3.21%) Private Cloud
8 25 (2.67%) Public Cloud
9 21 (2.25%) Legacy Systems
10 19 (2.03%) Analytical Mindset
11 18 (1.93%) Clustering
11 18 (1.93%) Operational Technology
12 15 (1.60%) Product Ownership
13 13 (1.39%) Onboarding
14 12 (1.28%) Enterprise Storage
15 11 (1.18%) Fat Client
15 11 (1.18%) Thin Client
16 10 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
16 10 (1.07%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 347 (37.11%) Windows
2 279 (29.84%) Linux
3 202 (21.60%) Windows Server
4 71 (7.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 37 (3.96%) Windows 10
6 28 (2.99%) Windows Server 2019
7 25 (2.67%) Windows Server 2016
8 21 (2.25%) Ubuntu
9 17 (1.82%) Windows Server 2012
10 16 (1.71%) Mac OS
10 16 (1.71%) Unix
11 15 (1.60%) Solaris
11 15 (1.60%) VMS
12 14 (1.50%) CentOS
13 12 (1.28%) Windows 7
14 9 (0.96%) Android
14 9 (0.96%) Apple iOS
15 8 (0.86%) AIX
16 6 (0.64%) Windows Server 2003
17 4 (0.43%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (20.53%) Problem-Solving
2 185 (19.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 142 (15.19%) Migration
4 137 (14.65%) Agile
5 119 (12.73%) ITIL
6 116 (12.41%) DevOps
7 112 (11.98%) CI/CD
8 94 (10.05%) Load Balancing
9 91 (9.73%) Disaster Recovery
10 79 (8.45%) High Availability
11 78 (8.34%) Infrastructure as Code
12 77 (8.24%) Containerisation
13 72 (7.70%) Platform Engineering
14 62 (6.63%) Continuous Improvement
15 60 (6.42%) Cybersecurity
16 58 (6.20%) Roadmaps
17 57 (6.10%) Stakeholder Management
18 53 (5.67%) Service Management
19 52 (5.56%) Change Management
20 46 (4.92%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 182 (19.47%) PowerShell
2 179 (19.14%) Python
3 99 (10.59%) Bash
4 33 (3.53%) SQL
5 21 (2.25%) Java
5 21 (2.25%) JavaScript
6 19 (2.03%) Perl
7 13 (1.39%) Shell Script
8 11 (1.18%) C
9 9 (0.96%) T-SQL
10 8 (0.86%) C#
10 8 (0.86%) C++
11 7 (0.75%) Embedded C
11 7 (0.75%) Embedded C++
11 7 (0.75%) MATLAB
12 6 (0.64%) Bicep
12 6 (0.64%) COBOL
13 4 (0.43%) PHP
14 3 (0.32%) Korn
15 2 (0.21%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 405 (43.32%) Security Cleared
2 248 (26.52%) SC Cleared
3 147 (15.72%) DV Cleared
4 61 (6.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 56 (5.99%) Microsoft Certification
6 45 (4.81%) Degree
7 42 (4.49%) Cisco Certification
8 34 (3.64%) Azure Certification
8 34 (3.64%) CCNP
9 24 (2.57%) MCSE
10 22 (2.35%) CCNA
11 21 (2.25%) VCAP
12 20 (2.14%) AWS Certification
13 14 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
14 13 (1.39%) MCSA
15 11 (1.18%) CCDP
15 11 (1.18%) CCIE
15 11 (1.18%) Network+ Certification
15 11 (1.18%) Server+ Certification
16 8 (0.86%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (2.89%) NIST
2 24 (2.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (2.14%) GDPR
4 19 (2.03%) SLA
5 18 (1.93%) Cyber Essentials
6 14 (1.50%) NCSC
7 9 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 8 (0.86%) Def Stans
9 6 (0.64%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.43%) QA
11 2 (0.21%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 2 (0.21%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.11%) Accessibility
12 1 (0.11%) COBIT
12 1 (0.11%) Data Quality
12 1 (0.11%) Government Security Classifications
12 1 (0.11%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.11%) MiFID
12 1 (0.11%) PMO
System Software
1 582 (62.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 239 (25.56%) Active Directory
3 182 (19.47%) vSphere
4 152 (16.26%) VMware NSX
5 117 (12.51%) Hyper-V
6 101 (10.80%) VMware ESXi
7 61 (6.52%) Virtual Machines
8 54 (5.78%) Docker
9 38 (4.06%) NFS
10 27 (2.89%) Virtual Desktop
11 23 (2.46%) Firmware
12 20 (2.14%) KVM
13 15 (1.60%) GPFS
14 9 (0.96%) vCloud
15 7 (0.75%) Virtual Servers
16 5 (0.53%) BitLocker
16 5 (0.53%) Microsoft App-V
16 5 (0.53%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 3 (0.32%) DFS Replication
18 2 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 178 (19.04%) Ansible
2 116 (12.41%) Terraform
3 103 (11.02%) Kubernetes
4 101 (10.80%) vCenter Server
5 78 (8.34%) Microsoft Intune
6 73 (7.81%) SCCM
7 70 (7.49%) vRealize
8 39 (4.17%) Argo
9 37 (3.96%) Grafana
10 32 (3.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 31 (3.32%) Single Sign-On
12 27 (2.89%) Red Hat Satellite
12 27 (2.89%) VxRail
13 25 (2.67%) Prometheus
14 24 (2.57%) SCOM
15 17 (1.82%) Progress Chef
16 15 (1.60%) FortiGate
17 14 (1.50%) vMotion
18 11 (1.18%) Podman
18 11 (1.18%) WSUS
Vendors
1 244 (26.10%) Microsoft
2 160 (17.11%) Cisco
3 106 (11.34%) Red Hat
4 83 (8.88%) F5
5 82 (8.77%) Citrix
6 49 (5.24%) IBM
7 48 (5.13%) Dell
8 43 (4.60%) SolarWinds
9 39 (4.17%) Pure Storage
9 39 (4.17%) Veeam
10 38 (4.06%) NetApp
10 38 (4.06%) Oracle
11 37 (3.96%) Palo Alto
12 35 (3.74%) McAfee
13 34 (3.64%) Blue Coat
13 34 (3.64%) ServiceNow
14 29 (3.10%) Splunk
15 23 (2.46%) Commvault
16 20 (2.14%) HP
17 17 (1.82%) Juniper