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 26 July 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
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 95 59
Rank change year-on-year -10 -36 -3
Contract jobs citing VMware 1,079 742 1,211
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.39% 2.69% 3.50%
As % of the Vendors category 5.81% 5.69% 8.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 729 482 843
10th Percentile £358 £350 £313
25th Percentile £450 £452 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +7.32% -1.44%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £575
90th Percentile £678 £650 £649
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £510
% change year-on-year -4.55% +7.84% -0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 6 16
10th Percentile £26.00 £29.00 £23.10
25th Percentile £33.70 £30.33 £23.80
Median hourly rate £60.94 £34.71 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +75.57% -48.58% +26.52%
75th Percentile £74.00 £54.56 £71.25
90th Percentile £95.68 £109.38 £79.00
UK median hourly rate £51.00 £34.71 £63.75
% change year-on-year +46.94% -45.56% +6.25%

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 18,581 13,049 14,969
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.09% 47.31% 43.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,756 8,260 9,619
10th Percentile £313 £280 £290
25th Percentile £413 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £509 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.25% -3.10% -
75th Percentile £610 £623 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 973 620 840
10th Percentile £16.35 £14.75 £13.31
25th Percentile £20.31 £17.49 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.71 £25.15 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +41.99% -8.55% -30.47%
75th Percentile £67.50 £50.13 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.69 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.11 £25.15 £27.00
% change year-on-year +39.60% -6.85% -35.41%

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 26 July 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 26 July 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 26 July 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 +8 331 £550 -3.25% 87
London -14 284 £543 +3.33% 79
North of England -30 173 £475 +5.44% 52
Midlands -21 119 £450 -18.18% 28
South West -32 107 £550 -5.98% 35
West Midlands -22 91 £475 -13.73% 14
North West -14 88 £459 +2.00% 33
Yorkshire -19 82 £500 +11.11% 14
East of England -12 63 £507 -7.82% 25
East Midlands -2 28 £450 -18.18% 14
North East -47 4 £569 +55.82% 7
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 51 (4.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 28 (2.59%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.20%) nginx
4 12 (1.11%) Confluence
5 9 (0.83%) CICS
5 9 (0.83%) IIS
5 9 (0.83%) Tomcat
6 8 (0.74%) Apache
6 8 (0.74%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.37%) FactoryTalk
8 3 (0.28%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.28%) JBoss
8 3 (0.28%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.19%) CMS
9 2 (0.19%) Skype for Business
10 1 (0.093%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 12 (1.11%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.28%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (0.19%) Houdini
3 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.19%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 7 (0.65%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.093%) Shopify
2 1 (0.093%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 280 (25.95%) Azure
2 181 (16.77%) AWS
3 86 (7.97%) Microsoft 365
4 70 (6.49%) Entra ID
5 55 (5.10%) OpenShift
6 43 (3.99%) GitHub
7 42 (3.89%) IaaS
8 40 (3.71%) GCP
9 29 (2.69%) PaaS
10 28 (2.59%) Rubrik
11 20 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
11 20 (1.85%) SaaS
12 15 (1.39%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (1.39%) OneDrive
13 14 (1.30%) Datadog
14 13 (1.20%) Azure Monitor
14 13 (1.20%) Nutanix
14 13 (1.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 11 (1.02%) Amazon EC2
16 9 (0.83%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 261 (24.19%) DNS
2 207 (19.18%) Firewall
3 147 (13.62%) DHCP
4 95 (8.80%) VSAN
5 94 (8.71%) SAN
6 86 (7.97%) TCP/IP
7 85 (7.88%) VPN
8 80 (7.41%) WAN
9 67 (6.21%) VLAN
10 66 (6.12%) Network Security
11 64 (5.93%) LAN
12 51 (4.73%) NAS
13 49 (4.54%) SSL
14 38 (3.52%) BGP
15 34 (3.15%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 32 (2.97%) BIG-IP
16 32 (2.97%) SD-WAN
17 31 (2.87%) Cisco Nexus
17 31 (2.87%) HTTP
18 30 (2.78%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (5.10%) SQL Server
2 13 (1.20%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (0.83%) DataStage
4 8 (0.74%) NonStop SQL
4 8 (0.74%) NoSQL
4 8 (0.74%) Power BI
4 8 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (0.46%) Apache Cassandra
5 5 (0.46%) Big Data
5 5 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (0.37%) Oracle BI EE
6 4 (0.37%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 4 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (0.28%) Data Mining
7 3 (0.28%) Hazelcast
7 3 (0.28%) Oracle Database
8 2 (0.19%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.19%) Redis
9 1 (0.093%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 42 (3.89%) Jenkins
2 36 (3.34%) JIRA
3 25 (2.32%) Git
4 24 (2.22%) GitLab
5 18 (1.67%) Fiddler
6 9 (0.83%) Chocolatey
7 7 (0.65%) Bitbucket
8 5 (0.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (0.46%) Team Foundation Server
9 3 (0.28%) MSI
9 3 (0.28%) Rational DOORS
9 3 (0.28%) Robot Framework
9 3 (0.28%) Selenium
9 3 (0.28%) Subversion
10 1 (0.093%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.093%) Maven
10 1 (0.093%) Postman
10 1 (0.093%) VersionOne
General
1 241 (22.34%) Social Skills
2 121 (11.21%) Finance
3 110 (10.19%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (5.93%) Public Sector
5 47 (4.36%) Banking
6 35 (3.24%) Documentation Skills
7 24 (2.22%) Telecoms
8 22 (2.04%) Legal
9 17 (1.58%) Investment Banking
10 16 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
11 15 (1.39%) Financial Institution
11 15 (1.39%) Military
12 12 (1.11%) Retail
13 11 (1.02%) Manufacturing
14 7 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (0.65%) Police
15 6 (0.56%) Law
15 6 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
16 4 (0.37%) Advertising
16 4 (0.37%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 227 (21.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 138 (12.79%) Architect
3 126 (11.68%) Senior
4 99 (9.18%) VMware Engineer
5 86 (7.97%) Network Engineer
6 62 (5.75%) Consultant
7 52 (4.82%) Cloud Engineer
8 49 (4.54%) Support Engineer
9 46 (4.26%) Lead
10 42 (3.89%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 40 (3.71%) VMware Consultant
12 39 (3.61%) Administrator
13 37 (3.43%) Storage Engineer
14 33 (3.06%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 32 (2.97%) Senior VMware Engineer
16 31 (2.87%) VMware Architect
17 28 (2.59%) Azure Engineer
17 28 (2.59%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
18 26 (2.41%) IT Engineer
18 26 (2.41%) Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (1.39%) LDAP
1 15 (1.39%) Middleware
2 14 (1.30%) Flash
2 14 (1.30%) REST
3 12 (1.11%) OpenTelemetry
4 10 (0.93%) 802.1X
5 8 (0.74%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (0.56%) Kafka
7 5 (0.46%) .NET
7 5 (0.46%) JSON
7 5 (0.46%) Keycloak
7 5 (0.46%) SAML
8 4 (0.37%) Redfish
8 4 (0.37%) YAML
9 3 (0.28%) Software Packaging
10 2 (0.19%) ASP.NET
10 2 (0.19%) Java SE
10 2 (0.19%) OAuth
10 2 (0.19%) OpenGL
10 2 (0.19%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 153 (14.18%) Data Centre
2 79 (7.32%) PKI
3 74 (6.86%) Hybrid Cloud
4 62 (5.75%) Replication
5 51 (4.73%) Enterprise Storage
6 43 (3.99%) Management Information System
7 38 (3.52%) Clustering
8 37 (3.43%) Public Cloud
9 36 (3.34%) Cloud Native
10 28 (2.59%) Private Cloud
11 24 (2.22%) Onboarding
12 21 (1.95%) Linux Command Line
13 16 (1.48%) Data Protection Act
14 15 (1.39%) Blackberry
15 14 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
16 12 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
16 12 (1.11%) Virtual Team
17 11 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
17 11 (1.02%) BYOD
17 11 (1.02%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 485 (44.95%) Windows
2 288 (26.69%) Linux
3 284 (26.32%) Windows Server
4 61 (5.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 44 (4.08%) Windows Server 2019
6 26 (2.41%) VMS
6 26 (2.41%) Windows Server 2016
7 25 (2.32%) Unix
8 23 (2.13%) Ubuntu
8 23 (2.13%) Windows 10
9 21 (1.95%) Apple iOS
10 19 (1.76%) AIX
11 17 (1.58%) Data ONTAP
11 17 (1.58%) Solaris
12 15 (1.39%) Android
13 14 (1.30%) Windows Server 2012
14 11 (1.02%) CentOS
15 8 (0.74%) Windows Server 2008
16 7 (0.65%) Mac OS
16 7 (0.65%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 288 (26.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 197 (18.26%) Migration
3 192 (17.79%) Problem-Solving
4 139 (12.88%) High Availability
5 138 (12.79%) ITIL
6 119 (11.03%) CI/CD
7 116 (10.75%) Disaster Recovery
8 114 (10.57%) Infrastructure as Code
9 101 (9.36%) DevOps
10 96 (8.90%) Agile
11 89 (8.25%) Technical Leadership
12 86 (7.97%) Change Management
12 86 (7.97%) Stakeholder Management
13 79 (7.32%) Continuous Improvement
14 74 (6.86%) ITSM
15 73 (6.77%) Network Virtualisation
16 72 (6.67%) Load Balancing
17 71 (6.58%) Service Management
18 70 (6.49%) Validation
19 67 (6.21%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 214 (19.83%) PowerShell
2 141 (13.07%) Python
3 90 (8.34%) Bash
4 55 (5.10%) SQL
5 22 (2.04%) JavaScript
6 17 (1.58%) Java
7 9 (0.83%) COBOL
7 9 (0.83%) Shell Script
8 7 (0.65%) PL/SQL
9 6 (0.56%) Bicep
10 5 (0.46%) C
11 4 (0.37%) C#
11 4 (0.37%) MATLAB
11 4 (0.37%) T-SQL
12 3 (0.28%) Go
12 3 (0.28%) Lua
12 3 (0.28%) PHP
13 2 (0.19%) VBScript
14 1 (0.093%) Perl
14 1 (0.093%) VB
Qualifications
1 513 (47.54%) Security Cleared
2 308 (28.54%) SC Cleared
3 240 (22.24%) DV Cleared
4 83 (7.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 60 (5.56%) Degree
6 52 (4.82%) Cisco Certification
7 39 (3.61%) Microsoft Certification
8 36 (3.34%) VCAP
9 35 (3.24%) CCNP
10 29 (2.69%) Azure Certification
11 26 (2.41%) MCSE
12 18 (1.67%) CCNA
13 15 (1.39%) MCSA
14 14 (1.30%) AWS Certification
14 14 (1.30%) Oracle Certification
15 12 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
16 11 (1.02%) OCP
17 9 (0.83%) RHCA
18 8 (0.74%) ISTQB
18 8 (0.74%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (3.80%) SLA
2 32 (2.97%) NIST
3 24 (2.22%) NCSC
4 19 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 17 (1.58%) Cyber Essentials
6 12 (1.11%) QA
7 5 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (0.37%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 4 (0.37%) GxP
8 4 (0.37%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
9 3 (0.28%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.19%) GDPR
10 2 (0.19%) ISA99
10 2 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.093%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.093%) GRC
11 1 (0.093%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.093%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.093%) SOC 2
System Software
1 715 (66.27%) VMware Infrastructure
2 288 (26.69%) Active Directory
3 234 (21.69%) VMware NSX
4 230 (21.32%) vSphere
5 226 (20.95%) VMware ESXi
6 146 (13.53%) Hyper-V
7 93 (8.62%) Virtual Machines
8 55 (5.10%) Docker
9 38 (3.52%) Virtual Desktop
10 36 (3.34%) Firmware
11 32 (2.97%) NFS
12 24 (2.22%) KVM
13 22 (2.04%) vCloud
14 12 (1.11%) Microsoft App-V
15 9 (0.83%) BitLocker
15 9 (0.83%) GPFS
15 9 (0.83%) VMware Workstation
16 7 (0.65%) UAG
17 6 (0.56%) Oracle RAC
17 6 (0.56%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 194 (17.98%) vCenter Server
2 186 (17.24%) Ansible
3 135 (12.51%) Terraform
4 114 (10.57%) Kubernetes
5 69 (6.39%) Microsoft Intune
6 59 (5.47%) vRealize
7 53 (4.91%) SCOM
8 52 (4.82%) SCCM
9 33 (3.06%) VxRail
10 29 (2.69%) Argo
11 28 (2.59%) Grafana
12 27 (2.50%) PowerCLI
13 25 (2.32%) vMotion
14 22 (2.04%) Puppet
15 20 (1.85%) NetBackup
16 18 (1.67%) Red Hat Satellite
17 17 (1.58%) Avamar
17 17 (1.58%) Prometheus
18 16 (1.48%) WSUS
19 13 (1.20%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 267 (24.75%) Microsoft
2 182 (16.87%) Cisco
3 100 (9.27%) Citrix
4 80 (7.41%) NetApp
5 77 (7.14%) Red Hat
6 55 (5.10%) Dell
7 50 (4.63%) F5
8 44 (4.08%) ServiceNow
9 43 (3.99%) Palo Alto
10 40 (3.71%) Pure Storage
11 38 (3.52%) Juniper
11 38 (3.52%) SolarWinds
12 36 (3.34%) IBM
12 36 (3.34%) Oracle
13 33 (3.06%) Veeam
14 30 (2.78%) Broadcom
15 25 (2.32%) Fortinet
16 22 (2.04%) CheckPoint
16 22 (2.04%) Splunk
17 21 (1.95%) McAfee