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 27 May 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
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 81 64
Rank change year-on-year -16 -17 -7
Contract jobs citing VMware 1,036 723 1,135
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.49% 3.04% 3.10%
As % of the Vendors category 6.06% 6.38% 7.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 730 493 788
10th Percentile £350 £350 £275
25th Percentile £450 £440 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £605 £575
90th Percentile £688 £663 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £531 £500
% change year-on-year -1.06% +6.13% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 4 35
10th Percentile £22.63 £29.00 £22.90
25th Percentile £46.00 £30.49 £40.00
Median hourly rate £63.14 £54.57 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +15.69% +18.17% -23.92%
75th Percentile £70.38 £76.88 £71.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £82.50 £80.35
UK median hourly rate £51.00 £54.57 £46.18
% change year-on-year -6.55% +18.17% -26.70%

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 17,103 11,330 15,285
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.05% 47.66% 41.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,040 7,281 9,756
10th Percentile £313 £280 £263
25th Percentile £413 £406 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% +1.94% -3.56%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £744
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -2.44% - -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 922 466 1,015
10th Percentile £15.75 £14.84 £12.13
25th Percentile £19.00 £17.44 £14.34
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.40 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.95% +12.89% -41.56%
75th Percentile £58.98 £55.19 £57.41
90th Percentile £77.43 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.00 £22.30
% change year-on-year +30.00% +12.11% -47.53%

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 27 May 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 27 May 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 27 May 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 +12 301 £550 -1.43% 98
London -36 244 £550 +4.76% 55
North of England -12 184 £453 +6.59% 52
Midlands -37 112 £425 -19.81% 37
North West 0 108 £450 +5.88% 27
South West -34 97 £550 -5.17% 23
West Midlands -33 85 £407 -20.46% 22
East of England -6 79 £507 -7.82% 26
Yorkshire -10 74 £425 -8.11% 15
East Midlands -24 27 £450 -18.18% 15
North East -32 3 £638 +78.32% 11
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 39 (3.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (1.64%) SharePoint
3 10 (0.97%) IIS
4 9 (0.87%) CICS
5 7 (0.68%) nginx
5 7 (0.68%) OpenStack
5 7 (0.68%) Tomcat
6 5 (0.48%) Apache
7 4 (0.39%) Confluence
8 3 (0.29%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.19%) CloudStack
9 2 (0.19%) Skype for Business
10 1 (0.097%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.097%) CMS
Applications
1 11 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
1 11 (1.06%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 258 (24.90%) Azure
2 170 (16.41%) AWS
3 77 (7.43%) Microsoft 365
4 59 (5.69%) OpenShift
5 52 (5.02%) Entra ID
6 47 (4.54%) IaaS
7 43 (4.15%) GitHub
8 39 (3.76%) GCP
9 37 (3.57%) PaaS
10 24 (2.32%) Nutanix
11 19 (1.83%) Rubrik
12 15 (1.45%) SaaS
13 14 (1.35%) Azure DevOps
13 14 (1.35%) Azure Monitor
13 14 (1.35%) GitHub Actions
14 12 (1.16%) Datadog
15 11 (1.06%) Azure Sentinel
16 7 (0.68%) Amazon EKS
16 7 (0.68%) Azure Stack
16 7 (0.68%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 220 (21.24%) DNS
2 178 (17.18%) Firewall
3 114 (11.00%) DHCP
4 86 (8.30%) SAN
4 86 (8.30%) VPN
5 83 (8.01%) VSAN
6 72 (6.95%) WAN
7 66 (6.37%) Network Security
8 59 (5.69%) TCP/IP
9 58 (5.60%) LAN
10 50 (4.83%) SSL
11 47 (4.54%) NAS
12 43 (4.15%) BIG-IP
13 42 (4.05%) HTTP
13 42 (4.05%) VLAN
14 39 (3.76%) Wireshark
15 31 (2.99%) BGP
16 30 (2.90%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 29 (2.80%) Cisco Nexus
18 27 (2.61%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (3.57%) SQL Server
2 12 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
3 11 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (0.87%) DataStage
5 8 (0.77%) NonStop SQL
5 8 (0.77%) Redis
6 6 (0.58%) NoSQL
6 6 (0.58%) Power BI
7 4 (0.39%) Oracle BI EE
7 4 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (0.29%) Data Mining
8 3 (0.29%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.19%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.097%) Metadata
10 1 (0.097%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 39 (3.76%) Jenkins
2 34 (3.28%) GitLab
3 28 (2.70%) Git
4 26 (2.51%) Fiddler
4 26 (2.51%) JIRA
5 7 (0.68%) Chocolatey
5 7 (0.68%) Robot Framework
5 7 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
5 7 (0.68%) Team Foundation Server
6 5 (0.48%) PVCS
6 5 (0.48%) Rational DOORS
7 4 (0.39%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.29%) MSI
9 1 (0.097%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.097%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.097%) GoCD
9 1 (0.097%) Maven
9 1 (0.097%) RStudio
9 1 (0.097%) Subversion
9 1 (0.097%) VersionOne
General
1 202 (19.50%) Social Skills
2 106 (10.23%) Finance
3 87 (8.40%) Analytical Skills
4 70 (6.76%) Public Sector
5 47 (4.54%) Banking
6 41 (3.96%) Documentation Skills
7 21 (2.03%) Legal
8 19 (1.83%) Investment Banking
9 16 (1.54%) Aerospace
10 11 (1.06%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (1.06%) Police
10 11 (1.06%) Retail
11 9 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (0.87%) Military
12 8 (0.77%) Financial Institution
12 8 (0.77%) Telecoms
13 7 (0.68%) Local Government
13 7 (0.68%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.48%) Electronics
14 5 (0.48%) Law
Job Titles
1 192 (18.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 169 (16.31%) Architect
3 103 (9.94%) Senior
4 96 (9.27%) VMware Engineer
5 86 (8.30%) Network Engineer
6 53 (5.12%) Consultant
7 50 (4.83%) VMware Architect
8 35 (3.38%) Analyst
9 34 (3.28%) Lead
10 33 (3.19%) Administrator
11 31 (2.99%) Support Engineer
12 30 (2.90%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 30 (2.90%) Infrastructure Architect
13 29 (2.80%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 29 (2.80%) VMware Consultant
13 29 (2.80%) Wintel Engineer
14 28 (2.70%) Senior VMware Engineer
14 28 (2.70%) Technical Architect
15 27 (2.61%) Cloud Engineer
15 27 (2.61%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (2.90%) LDAP
2 23 (2.22%) Middleware
3 20 (1.93%) Flash
4 13 (1.25%) REST
4 13 (1.25%) SAML
5 12 (1.16%) Keycloak
5 12 (1.16%) OpenTelemetry
6 8 (0.77%) Kafka
7 6 (0.58%) 802.1X
8 5 (0.48%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (0.48%) Software Packaging
9 4 (0.39%) .NET
9 4 (0.39%) JSON
10 3 (0.29%) OAuth
10 3 (0.29%) OpenID
10 3 (0.29%) Redfish
11 2 (0.19%) Apache NiFi
11 2 (0.19%) ARM Templates
11 2 (0.19%) OAuth2
11 2 (0.19%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 130 (12.55%) Data Centre
2 78 (7.53%) Replication
3 65 (6.27%) PKI
4 63 (6.08%) Hybrid Cloud
5 40 (3.86%) Cloud Native
6 39 (3.76%) Clustering
7 38 (3.67%) Management Information System
8 37 (3.57%) Enterprise Storage
9 35 (3.38%) Public Cloud
10 34 (3.28%) Private Cloud
11 26 (2.51%) Linux Command Line
12 15 (1.45%) Blackberry
12 15 (1.45%) Onboarding
13 14 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
13 14 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
13 14 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
14 13 (1.25%) Operational Technology
15 11 (1.06%) Product Ownership
15 11 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
15 11 (1.06%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 410 (39.58%) Windows
2 272 (26.25%) Linux
3 253 (24.42%) Windows Server
4 63 (6.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 46 (4.44%) Windows Server 2019
6 33 (3.19%) Windows Server 2016
7 26 (2.51%) Ubuntu
8 24 (2.32%) Unix
8 24 (2.32%) Windows 10
9 20 (1.93%) VMS
10 19 (1.83%) CentOS
11 17 (1.64%) Apple iOS
12 16 (1.54%) Data ONTAP
12 16 (1.54%) Windows Server 2012
13 15 (1.45%) AIX
13 15 (1.45%) Android
13 15 (1.45%) Solaris
14 12 (1.16%) Mac OS
15 10 (0.97%) Windows Server 2003
16 9 (0.87%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 242 (23.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 175 (16.89%) Problem-Solving
3 174 (16.80%) Migration
4 135 (13.03%) ITIL
5 120 (11.58%) High Availability
6 109 (10.52%) Agile
6 109 (10.52%) Disaster Recovery
7 101 (9.75%) DevOps
8 90 (8.69%) Infrastructure as Code
9 89 (8.59%) CI/CD
10 80 (7.72%) Load Balancing
11 79 (7.63%) Change Management
12 74 (7.14%) Capacity Planning
13 70 (6.76%) Stakeholder Management
14 66 (6.37%) Roadmaps
15 65 (6.27%) Continuous Improvement
16 59 (5.69%) ITSM
17 57 (5.50%) Network Virtualisation
17 57 (5.50%) Performance Tuning
18 55 (5.31%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 187 (18.05%) PowerShell
2 127 (12.26%) Python
3 66 (6.37%) Bash
4 42 (4.05%) SQL
5 18 (1.74%) JavaScript
6 16 (1.54%) Shell Script
7 11 (1.06%) MATLAB
8 9 (0.87%) COBOL
9 8 (0.77%) Bicep
9 8 (0.77%) C
10 7 (0.68%) PL/SQL
11 6 (0.58%) Java
11 6 (0.58%) T-SQL
12 5 (0.48%) C++
12 5 (0.48%) Embedded C
12 5 (0.48%) Embedded C++
13 4 (0.39%) C#
13 4 (0.39%) PHP
14 2 (0.19%) VBScript
15 1 (0.097%) VB
Qualifications
1 463 (44.69%) Security Cleared
2 276 (26.64%) SC Cleared
3 208 (20.08%) DV Cleared
4 74 (7.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 43 (4.15%) Cisco Certification
6 42 (4.05%) Degree
7 41 (3.96%) Microsoft Certification
8 34 (3.28%) VCAP
9 29 (2.80%) CCNP
10 28 (2.70%) MCSE
11 19 (1.83%) Azure Certification
12 17 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
12 17 (1.64%) MCSA
13 15 (1.45%) Oracle Certification
14 13 (1.25%) CCNA
15 12 (1.16%) OCP
16 8 (0.77%) RHCA
17 6 (0.58%) CISSP
17 6 (0.58%) PMI Certification
18 5 (0.48%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (4.34%) SLA
2 36 (3.47%) NIST
3 24 (2.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 23 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials
5 22 (2.12%) NCSC
6 9 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 7 (0.68%) GDPR
8 5 (0.48%) Def Stans
8 5 (0.48%) QA
9 3 (0.29%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.19%) Government Security Classifications
10 2 (0.19%) ISA99
10 2 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.19%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.097%) COBIT
11 1 (0.097%) DICOM
11 1 (0.097%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.097%) HL7
11 1 (0.097%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.097%) SOC 2
System Software
1 643 (62.07%) VMware Infrastructure
2 243 (23.46%) Active Directory
3 222 (21.43%) VMware NSX
4 215 (20.75%) vSphere
5 182 (17.57%) VMware ESXi
6 136 (13.13%) Hyper-V
7 91 (8.78%) Virtual Machines
8 40 (3.86%) NFS
9 39 (3.76%) Docker
10 37 (3.57%) Firmware
11 29 (2.80%) Virtual Desktop
12 25 (2.41%) KVM
13 22 (2.12%) vCloud
14 15 (1.45%) GPFS
15 12 (1.16%) Microsoft App-V
16 10 (0.97%) BitLocker
17 9 (0.87%) VMware Workstation
18 5 (0.48%) Oracle RAC
18 5 (0.48%) SRDF
19 4 (0.39%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 184 (17.76%) Ansible
2 157 (15.15%) vCenter Server
3 106 (10.23%) Terraform
4 94 (9.07%) Kubernetes
5 69 (6.66%) vRealize
6 68 (6.56%) Microsoft Intune
7 59 (5.69%) SCCM
8 36 (3.47%) SCOM
9 33 (3.19%) Argo
10 30 (2.90%) Grafana
11 26 (2.51%) VxRail
12 24 (2.32%) Single Sign-On
12 24 (2.32%) vMotion
13 23 (2.22%) PowerCLI
14 19 (1.83%) Red Hat Satellite
15 18 (1.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 18 (1.74%) WSUS
16 17 (1.64%) NetBackup
16 17 (1.64%) Prometheus
17 15 (1.45%) Podman
Vendors
1 245 (23.65%) Microsoft
2 171 (16.51%) Cisco
3 97 (9.36%) Citrix
4 84 (8.11%) Red Hat
5 65 (6.27%) F5
6 64 (6.18%) NetApp
7 49 (4.73%) Dell
8 46 (4.44%) IBM
9 42 (4.05%) Palo Alto
10 41 (3.96%) Pure Storage
10 41 (3.96%) ServiceNow
11 36 (3.47%) Oracle
12 32 (3.09%) Veeam
13 30 (2.90%) CheckPoint
13 30 (2.90%) McAfee
14 27 (2.61%) Blue Coat
15 26 (2.51%) Fortinet
16 25 (2.41%) Juniper
16 25 (2.41%) Splunk
17 23 (2.22%) SolarWinds