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 9 September 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
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 105 62
Rank change year-on-year +5 -43 -8
Contract jobs citing VMware 1,155 703 1,139
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.49% 2.55% 3.49%
As % of the Vendors category 5.98% 5.41% 7.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 756 456 756
10th Percentile £325 £346 £325
25th Percentile £450 £449 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% +7.32% +2.50%
75th Percentile £632 £600 £575
90th Percentile £725 £650 £649
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £512
% change year-on-year -4.55% +7.45% +2.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 9 12
10th Percentile £29.00 £28.80 £22.54
25th Percentile £50.75 £29.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £67.49 £32.77 £43.08
Median % change year-on-year +105.94% -23.94% -28.45%
75th Percentile £90.00 £58.75 £71.25
90th Percentile £95.00 £85.80 -
UK median hourly rate £67.47 £32.77 £50.00
% change year-on-year +105.89% -34.46% -20.63%

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 19,303 12,984 14,370
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.68% 47.05% 44.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,051 8,229 8,837
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -
75th Percentile £619 £619 £631
90th Percentile £706 £713 £733
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,080 607 609
10th Percentile £14.31 £14.75 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.16 £17.83 £15.62
Median hourly rate £30.27 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.36% -28.14% -17.65%
75th Percentile £65.58 £47.12 £64.25
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.79 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £25.15 £31.00
% change year-on-year +11.33% -18.87% -27.49%

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 9 September 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 9 September 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 9 September 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 -9 328 £538 -2.27% 139
London -6 309 £550 +5.77% 197
North of England +1 195 £455 +5.39% 71
Midlands -14 124 £450 -20.84% 56
South West -18 118 £575 -1.71% 69
North West +1 106 £466 +6.40% 28
West Midlands -15 96 £474 -17.21% 28
East of England +1 77 £507 -7.82% 69
Yorkshire -12 75 £523 +26.67% 27
East Midlands 0 28 £425 -22.73% 28
North East -34 15 £350 -44.00% 19
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 60 (5.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 38 (3.29%) SharePoint
3 24 (2.08%) Confluence
4 16 (1.39%) IIS
5 13 (1.13%) nginx
6 10 (0.87%) OpenStack
7 9 (0.78%) Apache
8 8 (0.69%) Tomcat
9 7 (0.61%) JBoss
9 7 (0.61%) Skype for Business
10 4 (0.35%) FactoryTalk
11 3 (0.26%) CloudStack
11 3 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2013
12 2 (0.17%) CMS
12 2 (0.17%) WebLogic
13 1 (0.087%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.087%) CICS
Applications
1 16 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (0.17%) Houdini
2 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.17%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.17%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 15 (1.30%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.087%) Shopify
2 1 (0.087%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 329 (28.48%) Azure
2 193 (16.71%) AWS
3 108 (9.35%) Microsoft 365
4 89 (7.71%) Entra ID
5 45 (3.90%) GCP
6 43 (3.72%) OpenShift
7 39 (3.38%) GitHub
8 37 (3.20%) IaaS
9 25 (2.16%) Rubrik
10 23 (1.99%) Azure DevOps
11 21 (1.82%) PaaS
12 20 (1.73%) GitHub Actions
13 19 (1.65%) Azure Monitor
13 19 (1.65%) OneDrive
14 18 (1.56%) SaaS
15 14 (1.21%) Power Platform
16 13 (1.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 12 (1.04%) Nutanix
18 11 (0.95%) Amazon EC2
18 11 (0.95%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 311 (26.93%) DNS
2 217 (18.79%) Firewall
3 189 (16.36%) DHCP
4 102 (8.83%) TCP/IP
5 98 (8.48%) VSAN
6 91 (7.88%) VPN
7 85 (7.36%) WAN
8 81 (7.01%) VLAN
9 80 (6.93%) SAN
10 73 (6.32%) Network Security
11 69 (5.97%) LAN
12 44 (3.81%) SSL
13 43 (3.72%) NAS
14 41 (3.55%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 38 (3.29%) BGP
16 34 (2.94%) HTTP
16 34 (2.94%) Wi-Fi
17 33 (2.86%) BIG-IP
17 33 (2.86%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
17 33 (2.86%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (5.54%) SQL Server
2 14 (1.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 13 (1.13%) Power BI
4 10 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
4 10 (0.87%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 10 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 9 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
5 9 (0.78%) Big Data
5 9 (0.78%) NoSQL
6 8 (0.69%) NonStop SQL
7 7 (0.61%) Apache Cassandra
8 6 (0.52%) Hadoop
8 6 (0.52%) MongoDB
9 4 (0.35%) Hazelcast
10 3 (0.26%) Data Mining
10 3 (0.26%) Oracle BI EE
10 3 (0.26%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (0.17%) GIS
12 1 (0.087%) DataStage
12 1 (0.087%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 47 (4.07%) JIRA
2 37 (3.20%) GitLab
3 33 (2.86%) Jenkins
4 27 (2.34%) Git
5 14 (1.21%) Fiddler
6 7 (0.61%) Bitbucket
7 6 (0.52%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (0.43%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (0.43%) Chocolatey
8 5 (0.43%) Rational DOORS
9 4 (0.35%) Selenium
10 3 (0.26%) Subversion
11 2 (0.17%) CppUnit
11 2 (0.17%) MSI
11 2 (0.17%) PVCS
12 1 (0.087%) Artifactory
12 1 (0.087%) Octopus Deploy
12 1 (0.087%) Robot Framework
12 1 (0.087%) Team Foundation Server
12 1 (0.087%) VersionOne
General
1 243 (21.04%) Social Skills
2 123 (10.65%) Finance
3 119 (10.30%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (4.07%) Documentation Skills
5 46 (3.98%) Public Sector
6 34 (2.94%) Banking
7 29 (2.51%) Telecoms
8 25 (2.16%) Legal
9 14 (1.21%) Investment Banking
10 13 (1.13%) Retail
11 12 (1.04%) Aerospace
11 12 (1.04%) Manufacturing
12 11 (0.95%) Financial Institution
13 10 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
14 8 (0.69%) Military
14 8 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (0.61%) Law
16 6 (0.52%) Back Office
16 6 (0.52%) Police
Job Titles
1 257 (22.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 163 (14.11%) Senior
3 123 (10.65%) VMware Engineer
4 116 (10.04%) Architect
5 88 (7.62%) Network Engineer
6 72 (6.23%) Cloud Engineer
7 65 (5.63%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 63 (5.45%) Support Engineer
9 61 (5.28%) Consultant
10 60 (5.19%) Lead
11 48 (4.16%) Platform Engineer
12 45 (3.90%) Administrator
13 39 (3.38%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 38 (3.29%) Senior VMware Engineer
14 38 (3.29%) VMware Consultant
15 36 (3.12%) Storage Engineer
16 34 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
17 31 (2.68%) Linux Engineer
18 30 (2.60%) Azure Engineer
19 27 (2.34%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 161 (13.94%) Terraform
2 24 (2.08%) REST
3 19 (1.65%) LDAP
4 18 (1.56%) JSON
5 15 (1.30%) Kafka
6 12 (1.04%) YAML
7 11 (0.95%) 802.1X
8 9 (0.78%) Elastic Stack
8 9 (0.78%) Middleware
9 7 (0.61%) Regular Expression
10 6 (0.52%) ARM Templates
10 6 (0.52%) Flash
11 5 (0.43%) .NET
11 5 (0.43%) OpenTelemetry
11 5 (0.43%) SAML
12 4 (0.35%) Redfish
13 3 (0.26%) Java SE
13 3 (0.26%) Keycloak
13 3 (0.26%) OAuth
13 3 (0.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 176 (15.24%) Data Centre
2 91 (7.88%) Hybrid Cloud
3 81 (7.01%) PKI
4 51 (4.42%) Enterprise Storage
5 50 (4.33%) Management Information System
6 48 (4.16%) Replication
7 46 (3.98%) Clustering
8 43 (3.72%) Onboarding
9 41 (3.55%) Private Cloud
10 38 (3.29%) Public Cloud
11 30 (2.60%) Cloud Native
12 19 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
12 19 (1.65%) Linux Command Line
13 13 (1.13%) SCADA
14 12 (1.04%) Cyber Threat
14 12 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
14 12 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
15 11 (0.95%) Operational Technology
16 10 (0.87%) Product Ownership
16 10 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 573 (49.61%) Windows
2 368 (31.86%) Windows Server
3 305 (26.41%) Linux
4 59 (5.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 46 (3.98%) Windows Server 2019
6 36 (3.12%) Windows 10
7 28 (2.42%) VMS
8 22 (1.90%) Unix
8 22 (1.90%) Windows Server 2012
9 20 (1.73%) Ubuntu
9 20 (1.73%) Windows Server 2016
10 13 (1.13%) Windows Server 2008
11 11 (0.95%) Data ONTAP
12 10 (0.87%) AIX
12 10 (0.87%) Apple iOS
12 10 (0.87%) CentOS
12 10 (0.87%) Windows 7
13 9 (0.78%) Solaris
14 6 (0.52%) Debian
14 6 (0.52%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 342 (29.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 202 (17.49%) ITIL
3 200 (17.32%) Problem-Solving
4 198 (17.14%) Migration
5 167 (14.46%) Infrastructure as Code
6 151 (13.07%) Technical Leadership
7 138 (11.95%) Disaster Recovery
8 137 (11.86%) CI/CD
9 119 (10.30%) High Availability
10 108 (9.35%) Change Management
10 108 (9.35%) ITSM
11 106 (9.18%) DevOps
12 104 (9.00%) Service Management
13 102 (8.83%) Stakeholder Management
14 95 (8.23%) Continuous Improvement
15 94 (8.14%) Agile
16 91 (7.88%) Platform Engineering
17 84 (7.27%) Root Cause Analysis
18 80 (6.93%) Project Delivery
19 78 (6.75%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 270 (23.38%) PowerShell
2 151 (13.07%) Python
3 101 (8.74%) Bash
4 71 (6.15%) SQL
5 21 (1.82%) Java
5 21 (1.82%) JavaScript
6 10 (0.87%) Shell Script
7 9 (0.78%) Bicep
8 7 (0.61%) C
8 7 (0.61%) VB
8 7 (0.61%) VBScript
9 6 (0.52%) Go
9 6 (0.52%) PL/SQL
10 4 (0.35%) C#
10 4 (0.35%) MATLAB
11 3 (0.26%) C++
11 3 (0.26%) Lua
12 2 (0.17%) Embedded C
12 2 (0.17%) Korn
13 1 (0.087%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 560 (48.48%) Security Cleared
2 319 (27.62%) SC Cleared
3 278 (24.07%) DV Cleared
4 85 (7.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 71 (6.15%) Degree
6 54 (4.68%) Cisco Certification
7 45 (3.90%) VCAP
8 42 (3.64%) Microsoft Certification
9 38 (3.29%) Azure Certification
10 28 (2.42%) CCNP
11 26 (2.25%) MCSE
12 21 (1.82%) CCNA
13 19 (1.65%) AWS Certification
14 16 (1.39%) MCSA
15 15 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
16 14 (1.21%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 10 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
18 9 (0.78%) PMI Certification
19 8 (0.69%) A+ Certification
19 8 (0.69%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (3.55%) SLA
2 24 (2.08%) NIST
3 21 (1.82%) NCSC
3 21 (1.82%) QA
4 18 (1.56%) Cyber Essentials
4 18 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 5 (0.43%) PCI DSS
7 4 (0.35%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 4 (0.35%) GxP
8 3 (0.26%) Data Quality
8 3 (0.26%) GDPR
8 3 (0.26%) Government Security Classifications
8 3 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 19770
8 3 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.17%) ISA99
9 2 (0.17%) JSP 440
9 2 (0.17%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.087%) GRC
10 1 (0.087%) SOC 2
System Software
1 799 (69.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 342 (29.61%) Active Directory
3 251 (21.73%) VMware ESXi
4 240 (20.78%) vSphere
5 232 (20.09%) VMware NSX
6 188 (16.28%) Hyper-V
7 96 (8.31%) Virtual Machines
8 64 (5.54%) Docker
9 40 (3.46%) Virtual Desktop
10 33 (2.86%) Firmware
11 27 (2.34%) vCloud
12 21 (1.82%) NFS
13 16 (1.39%) KVM
14 13 (1.13%) BitLocker
15 11 (0.95%) Virtual Servers
16 10 (0.87%) Citrix Hypervisor
17 9 (0.78%) Microsoft App-V
18 7 (0.61%) oVirt
18 7 (0.61%) XenApp
18 7 (0.61%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 198 (17.14%) Ansible
2 195 (16.88%) vCenter Server
3 142 (12.29%) Kubernetes
4 74 (6.41%) SCOM
5 67 (5.80%) SCCM
6 57 (4.94%) Microsoft Intune
7 55 (4.76%) vRealize
8 36 (3.12%) VxRail
9 27 (2.34%) PowerCLI
10 26 (2.25%) Grafana
11 24 (2.08%) Prometheus
12 23 (1.99%) NetBackup
13 21 (1.82%) vMotion
14 20 (1.73%) Puppet
15 19 (1.65%) Red Hat Satellite
16 18 (1.56%) WSUS
17 17 (1.47%) Argo
18 16 (1.39%) Avamar
18 16 (1.39%) Microsoft Clustering
18 16 (1.39%) Podman
Vendors
1 306 (26.49%) Microsoft
2 190 (16.45%) Cisco
3 91 (7.88%) Citrix
4 79 (6.84%) NetApp
5 70 (6.06%) Red Hat
6 60 (5.19%) Dell
6 60 (5.19%) ServiceNow
7 56 (4.85%) F5
8 45 (3.90%) Oracle
8 45 (3.90%) Palo Alto
9 44 (3.81%) SolarWinds
10 38 (3.29%) Veeam
11 35 (3.03%) Juniper
12 31 (2.68%) Fortinet
13 27 (2.34%) CyberArk
13 27 (2.34%) IBM
14 26 (2.25%) Broadcom
15 22 (1.90%) CheckPoint
16 20 (1.73%) Meraki
17 19 (1.65%) Splunk