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 6 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
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 100 59
Rank change year-on-year -5 -41 -3
Contract jobs citing VMware 1,090 711 1,206
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.39% 2.57% 3.60%
As % of the Vendors category 5.80% 5.45% 8.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 721 458 831
10th Percentile £350 £356 £321
25th Percentile £450 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +7.32% -
75th Percentile £614 £603 £575
90th Percentile £725 £650 £644
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £511
% change year-on-year -4.55% +7.74% -0.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 6 13
10th Percentile £26.00 £28.50 -
25th Percentile £46.00 £29.25 £23.80
Median hourly rate £63.14 £31.39 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +101.16% -53.50% +23.72%
75th Percentile £74.00 £52.26 £71.25
90th Percentile £94.42 £109.38 £79.60
UK median hourly rate £63.14 £31.39 £66.00
% change year-on-year +101.16% -52.45% +10.00%

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 18,790 13,040 14,563
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.27% 47.19% 43.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,812 8,260 9,294
10th Percentile £313 £278 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -2.86% -
75th Percentile £613 £619 £627
90th Percentile £700 £719 £738
UK median daily rate £505 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +1.00% -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,028 627 772
10th Percentile £15.92 £14.75 £13.69
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.45 £15.62
Median hourly rate £35.50 £25.15 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.15% -13.28% -26.77%
75th Percentile £67.50 £50.00 £61.83
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.11 £71.13
UK median hourly rate £34.85 £25.15 £28.00
% change year-on-year +38.57% -10.18% -33.85%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 +7 335 £550 -3.25% 112
London +5 294 £550 +4.76% 125
North of England -25 164 £471 +5.26% 74
Midlands -20 115 £450 -18.18% 32
South West -34 110 £550 -6.38% 53
West Midlands -25 90 £474 -16.62% 18
North West -15 86 £469 +17.25% 52
Yorkshire -32 73 £500 +11.11% 13
East of England -4 67 £507 -7.82% 28
East Midlands +2 25 £450 -18.18% 14
North East -39 6 £350 -29.29% 12
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 53 (4.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 29 (2.66%) SharePoint
3 17 (1.56%) Confluence
4 14 (1.28%) nginx
5 9 (0.83%) Apache
5 9 (0.83%) IIS
5 9 (0.83%) OpenStack
5 9 (0.83%) Tomcat
6 6 (0.55%) CICS
7 4 (0.37%) FactoryTalk
7 4 (0.37%) JBoss
8 3 (0.28%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.28%) Exchange Server 2013
8 3 (0.28%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.18%) CMS
9 2 (0.18%) Skype for Business
10 1 (0.092%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 13 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.28%) 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 12 (1.10%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.092%) Shopify
2 1 (0.092%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 285 (26.15%) Azure
2 186 (17.06%) AWS
3 89 (8.17%) Microsoft 365
4 74 (6.79%) Entra ID
5 44 (4.04%) OpenShift
6 43 (3.94%) IaaS
7 41 (3.76%) GCP
8 38 (3.49%) GitHub
9 29 (2.66%) PaaS
9 29 (2.66%) Rubrik
10 21 (1.93%) Azure DevOps
10 21 (1.93%) SaaS
11 17 (1.56%) OneDrive
12 16 (1.47%) GitHub Actions
13 15 (1.38%) Datadog
14 14 (1.28%) Azure Monitor
14 14 (1.28%) Power Platform
15 13 (1.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 11 (1.01%) Amazon EC2
16 11 (1.01%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 281 (25.78%) DNS
2 212 (19.45%) Firewall
3 166 (15.23%) DHCP
4 103 (9.45%) VSAN
5 95 (8.72%) TCP/IP
6 86 (7.89%) VPN
7 83 (7.61%) SAN
8 78 (7.16%) WAN
9 70 (6.42%) VLAN
10 66 (6.06%) Network Security
11 61 (5.60%) LAN
12 50 (4.59%) SSL
13 44 (4.04%) NAS
14 39 (3.58%) BGP
15 37 (3.39%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 35 (3.21%) SD-WAN
17 32 (2.94%) BIG-IP
18 31 (2.84%) Cisco Nexus
18 31 (2.84%) HTTP
19 29 (2.66%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (5.50%) SQL Server
2 13 (1.19%) Elasticsearch
2 13 (1.19%) Power BI
2 13 (1.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 9 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (0.83%) NoSQL
3 9 (0.83%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 9 (0.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 8 (0.73%) NonStop SQL
5 7 (0.64%) Apache Cassandra
6 6 (0.55%) Big Data
6 6 (0.55%) DataStage
7 4 (0.37%) Hazelcast
7 4 (0.37%) Oracle BI EE
7 4 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.28%) Data Mining
8 3 (0.28%) Hadoop
8 3 (0.28%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.18%) Redis
10 1 (0.092%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 41 (3.76%) JIRA
2 36 (3.30%) Jenkins
3 26 (2.39%) GitLab
4 25 (2.29%) Git
5 17 (1.56%) Fiddler
6 9 (0.83%) Chocolatey
7 8 (0.73%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 6 (0.55%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (0.46%) Rational DOORS
10 4 (0.37%) Selenium
11 3 (0.28%) MSI
11 3 (0.28%) Robot Framework
11 3 (0.28%) Subversion
11 3 (0.28%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (0.18%) CppUnit
12 2 (0.18%) PVCS
13 1 (0.092%) Artifactory
13 1 (0.092%) Maven
13 1 (0.092%) VersionOne
General
1 240 (22.02%) Social Skills
2 116 (10.64%) Finance
3 113 (10.37%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (5.60%) Public Sector
5 45 (4.13%) Banking
6 37 (3.39%) Documentation Skills
7 28 (2.57%) Telecoms
8 22 (2.02%) Legal
9 17 (1.56%) Investment Banking
10 14 (1.28%) Financial Institution
10 14 (1.28%) Military
11 13 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
11 13 (1.19%) Manufacturing
11 13 (1.19%) Retail
12 8 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
13 7 (0.64%) Aerospace
14 6 (0.55%) Law
14 6 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (0.55%) Police
15 4 (0.37%) Games
Job Titles
1 235 (21.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 138 (12.66%) Senior
3 124 (11.38%) Architect
4 109 (10.00%) VMware Engineer
5 90 (8.26%) Network Engineer
6 62 (5.69%) Consultant
7 57 (5.23%) Support Engineer
8 55 (5.05%) Cloud Engineer
9 52 (4.77%) Lead
10 50 (4.59%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 40 (3.67%) Administrator
11 40 (3.67%) VMware Consultant
12 39 (3.58%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 37 (3.39%) Storage Engineer
14 35 (3.21%) Senior VMware Engineer
15 33 (3.03%) Platform Engineer
16 32 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
17 30 (2.75%) Azure Engineer
18 29 (2.66%) IT Engineer
19 28 (2.57%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (1.38%) REST
2 13 (1.19%) Flash
2 13 (1.19%) LDAP
3 12 (1.10%) Middleware
4 10 (0.92%) 802.1X
5 9 (0.83%) Elastic Stack
6 8 (0.73%) OpenTelemetry
7 7 (0.64%) Kafka
8 5 (0.46%) .NET
8 5 (0.46%) ARM Templates
8 5 (0.46%) JSON
8 5 (0.46%) SAML
8 5 (0.46%) YAML
9 4 (0.37%) Keycloak
9 4 (0.37%) Redfish
10 2 (0.18%) .NET Core
10 2 (0.18%) Apache NiFi
10 2 (0.18%) Blazor
10 2 (0.18%) NETCONF
10 2 (0.18%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 157 (14.40%) Data Centre
2 81 (7.43%) PKI
3 79 (7.25%) Hybrid Cloud
4 54 (4.95%) Replication
5 50 (4.59%) Enterprise Storage
6 46 (4.22%) Clustering
7 45 (4.13%) Management Information System
8 37 (3.39%) Public Cloud
9 31 (2.84%) Cloud Native
10 28 (2.57%) Onboarding
10 28 (2.57%) Private Cloud
11 20 (1.83%) Linux Command Line
12 15 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
13 12 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
13 12 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
14 11 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
14 11 (1.01%) Blackberry
14 11 (1.01%) Operational Technology
14 11 (1.01%) SCADA
14 11 (1.01%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 511 (46.88%) Windows
2 307 (28.17%) Windows Server
3 298 (27.34%) Linux
4 58 (5.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 50 (4.59%) Windows Server 2019
6 27 (2.48%) VMS
7 26 (2.39%) Windows Server 2016
8 25 (2.29%) Windows 10
9 22 (2.02%) Ubuntu
9 22 (2.02%) Unix
10 19 (1.74%) Apple iOS
11 17 (1.56%) Windows Server 2012
12 16 (1.47%) AIX
13 15 (1.38%) Data ONTAP
14 14 (1.28%) Solaris
15 13 (1.19%) Windows Server 2008
16 12 (1.10%) Android
17 11 (1.01%) CentOS
18 7 (0.64%) Windows Server 2003
19 6 (0.55%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 303 (27.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 199 (18.26%) Problem-Solving
3 193 (17.71%) Migration
4 153 (14.04%) ITIL
5 138 (12.66%) High Availability
6 126 (11.56%) Infrastructure as Code
7 117 (10.73%) CI/CD
8 115 (10.55%) Disaster Recovery
9 108 (9.91%) Technical Leadership
10 100 (9.17%) Agile
11 95 (8.72%) DevOps
12 94 (8.62%) Change Management
13 93 (8.53%) Stakeholder Management
14 84 (7.71%) Continuous Improvement
15 82 (7.52%) ITSM
16 78 (7.16%) Service Management
17 76 (6.97%) Network Virtualisation
18 70 (6.42%) Load Balancing
19 68 (6.24%) Platform Engineering
20 66 (6.06%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 238 (21.83%) PowerShell
2 141 (12.94%) Python
3 97 (8.90%) Bash
4 63 (5.78%) SQL
5 22 (2.02%) JavaScript
6 18 (1.65%) Java
7 9 (0.83%) Shell Script
8 8 (0.73%) Bicep
9 7 (0.64%) C
9 7 (0.64%) PL/SQL
10 6 (0.55%) COBOL
11 4 (0.37%) C#
11 4 (0.37%) Go
11 4 (0.37%) MATLAB
12 3 (0.28%) C++
12 3 (0.28%) Lua
13 2 (0.18%) Embedded C
13 2 (0.18%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.18%) VBScript
14 1 (0.092%) Korn
Qualifications
1 528 (48.44%) Security Cleared
2 310 (28.44%) SC Cleared
3 251 (23.03%) DV Cleared
4 87 (7.98%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 65 (5.96%) Degree
6 55 (5.05%) Cisco Certification
7 42 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
8 40 (3.67%) VCAP
9 34 (3.12%) Azure Certification
10 31 (2.84%) CCNP
11 25 (2.29%) MCSE
12 23 (2.11%) CCNA
13 16 (1.47%) AWS Certification
13 16 (1.47%) MCSA
14 12 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
15 11 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
15 11 (1.01%) Oracle Certification
16 9 (0.83%) RHCA
17 8 (0.73%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
17 8 (0.73%) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (4.04%) SLA
2 25 (2.29%) NIST
3 22 (2.02%) NCSC
4 17 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (1.56%) QA
5 16 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (0.37%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 4 (0.37%) GxP
6 4 (0.37%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
8 2 (0.18%) GDPR
8 2 (0.18%) ISA99
8 2 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.18%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.092%) Data Quality
9 1 (0.092%) GRC
9 1 (0.092%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.092%) PMO
9 1 (0.092%) SOC 2
System Software
1 725 (66.51%) VMware Infrastructure
2 308 (28.26%) Active Directory
3 236 (21.65%) VMware NSX
4 230 (21.10%) VMware ESXi
5 229 (21.01%) vSphere
6 156 (14.31%) Hyper-V
7 90 (8.26%) Virtual Machines
8 60 (5.50%) Docker
9 35 (3.21%) Firmware
9 35 (3.21%) Virtual Desktop
10 24 (2.20%) vCloud
11 23 (2.11%) NFS
12 19 (1.74%) KVM
13 12 (1.10%) Microsoft App-V
14 9 (0.83%) BitLocker
14 9 (0.83%) GPFS
14 9 (0.83%) VMware Workstation
15 7 (0.64%) Virtual Servers
16 6 (0.55%) SRDF
16 6 (0.55%) UAG
Systems Management
1 194 (17.80%) vCenter Server
2 192 (17.61%) Ansible
3 147 (13.49%) Terraform
4 113 (10.37%) Kubernetes
5 63 (5.78%) Microsoft Intune
6 59 (5.41%) SCOM
7 58 (5.32%) vRealize
8 51 (4.68%) SCCM
9 34 (3.12%) VxRail
10 26 (2.39%) Grafana
11 24 (2.20%) NetBackup
11 24 (2.20%) PowerCLI
12 23 (2.11%) Argo
12 23 (2.11%) Puppet
13 22 (2.02%) vMotion
14 19 (1.74%) Prometheus
14 19 (1.74%) Red Hat Satellite
15 18 (1.65%) Avamar
15 18 (1.65%) WSUS
16 15 (1.38%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 278 (25.50%) Microsoft
2 185 (16.97%) Cisco
3 96 (8.81%) Citrix
4 78 (7.16%) NetApp
5 71 (6.51%) Red Hat
6 52 (4.77%) Dell
6 52 (4.77%) F5
7 48 (4.40%) ServiceNow
8 45 (4.13%) Palo Alto
9 42 (3.85%) Oracle
9 42 (3.85%) SolarWinds
10 40 (3.67%) Juniper
11 34 (3.12%) Veeam
12 33 (3.03%) IBM
13 30 (2.75%) Broadcom
14 26 (2.39%) Pure Storage
15 25 (2.29%) Fortinet
16 22 (2.02%) CheckPoint
17 20 (1.83%) HP
17 20 (1.83%) McAfee