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 2 April 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
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 68 63
Rank change year-on-year -28 -5 -5
Contract jobs citing VMware 1,012 832 1,197
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.65% 3.43% 3.18%
As % of the Vendors category 6.08% 7.27% 7.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 712 565 819
10th Percentile £335 £319 £264
25th Percentile £450 £425 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £602 £623 £575
90th Percentile £687 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 11 44
10th Percentile £46.00 £31.32 £22.02
25th Percentile £51.00 £35.00 £37.63
Median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +56.99% -27.41%
75th Percentile £74.26 £81.54 £70.66
90th Percentile £95.00 £85.78 £79.40
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £49.88
% change year-on-year -3.45% +45.35% -23.26%

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 16,643 11,441 15,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 43.50% 47.19% 42.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,886 7,421 10,189
10th Percentile £310 £296 £250
25th Percentile £413 £407 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -4.19%
75th Percentile £602 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 862 414 955
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.51 £14.27
Median hourly rate £25.77 £29.04 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.25% +20.98% -33.33%
75th Percentile £58.88 £63.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £76.74 £80.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £28.75 £23.11
% change year-on-year -7.83% +24.42% -42.23%

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 2 April 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 2 April 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 2 April 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 -5 284 £550 -2.96% 110
London -44 247 £550 +4.76% 67
North of England -27 181 £460 +2.22% 92
Midlands -16 128 £402 -23.43% 34
North West -2 115 £460 -5.74% 58
West Midlands -19 101 £382 -25.32% 22
South West -31 101 £550 -4.35% 40
East of England 0 71 £504 -1.76% 39
Yorkshire -27 69 £444 -1.33% 29
East Midlands -26 27 £436 -18.58% 12
North East -20 4 £550 +53.85% 7
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 48 (4.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (2.37%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.38%) Confluence
4 8 (0.79%) CICS
5 6 (0.59%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.49%) nginx
6 5 (0.49%) Tomcat
7 3 (0.30%) Skype for Business
7 3 (0.30%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.20%) Apache
8 2 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2010
8 2 (0.20%) IIS
8 2 (0.20%) SharePoint Server
8 2 (0.20%) WordPress
9 1 (0.099%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.099%) JBoss
9 1 (0.099%) WebSphere
Applications
1 17 (1.68%) MS Visio
2 12 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.099%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 252 (24.90%) Azure
2 190 (18.77%) AWS
3 79 (7.81%) Microsoft 365
3 79 (7.81%) OpenShift
4 55 (5.43%) Entra ID
4 55 (5.43%) IaaS
5 49 (4.84%) GitHub
6 42 (4.15%) GCP
7 37 (3.66%) PaaS
8 30 (2.96%) Nutanix
9 21 (2.08%) Datadog
10 18 (1.78%) GitHub Actions
11 14 (1.38%) Azure DevOps
11 14 (1.38%) SaaS
12 10 (0.99%) Azure Monitor
13 9 (0.89%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 9 (0.89%) Rubrik
14 8 (0.79%) Azure Sentinel
15 7 (0.69%) AWS CloudFormation
15 7 (0.69%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 214 (21.15%) DNS
2 197 (19.47%) Firewall
3 96 (9.49%) DHCP
4 86 (8.50%) VPN
5 85 (8.40%) VSAN
6 75 (7.41%) SAN
7 68 (6.72%) TCP/IP
8 60 (5.93%) Network Security
9 56 (5.53%) WAN
10 49 (4.84%) LAN
11 47 (4.64%) SSL
12 46 (4.55%) BIG-IP
13 42 (4.15%) HTTP
14 40 (3.95%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 39 (3.85%) VLAN
15 39 (3.85%) Wireshark
16 38 (3.75%) NAS
17 34 (3.36%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
18 32 (3.16%) BGP
19 24 (2.37%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (3.16%) SQL Server
2 20 (1.98%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (1.09%) Elasticsearch
4 8 (0.79%) DataStage
4 8 (0.79%) Redis
5 6 (0.59%) NonStop SQL
6 4 (0.40%) NoSQL
7 2 (0.20%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.20%) Power BI
8 1 (0.099%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.099%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.099%) Metadata
8 1 (0.099%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.099%) Oracle BI EE
8 1 (0.099%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.099%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 56 (5.53%) Jenkins
2 32 (3.16%) GitLab
3 29 (2.87%) Fiddler
3 29 (2.87%) Git
4 22 (2.17%) JIRA
5 15 (1.48%) Sonatype Nexus
6 9 (0.89%) Cucumber
6 9 (0.89%) JMeter
6 9 (0.89%) JUnit
7 8 (0.79%) PVCS
7 8 (0.79%) Rational DOORS
8 7 (0.69%) Chocolatey
8 7 (0.69%) Team Foundation Server
9 6 (0.59%) Robot Framework
10 5 (0.49%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.20%) Maven
11 2 (0.20%) MSI
11 2 (0.20%) RStudio
11 2 (0.20%) Subversion
12 1 (0.099%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 212 (20.95%) Social Skills
2 107 (10.57%) Finance
3 96 (9.49%) Public Sector
4 94 (9.29%) Analytical Skills
5 57 (5.63%) Banking
6 38 (3.75%) Documentation Skills
7 29 (2.87%) Legal
8 25 (2.47%) Investment Banking
9 20 (1.98%) Aerospace
10 18 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
11 12 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
12 11 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 10 (0.99%) Electronics
13 10 (0.99%) Local Government
13 10 (0.99%) Military
14 8 (0.79%) Police
15 7 (0.69%) Manufacturing
15 7 (0.69%) Retail
16 6 (0.59%) Financial Institution
16 6 (0.59%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 186 (18.38%) Architect
2 152 (15.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 85 (8.40%) Senior
4 82 (8.10%) VMware Engineer
5 78 (7.71%) Network Engineer
6 59 (5.83%) Analyst
7 56 (5.53%) Consultant
8 46 (4.55%) VMware Architect
9 40 (3.95%) VMware Consultant
10 39 (3.85%) Infrastructure Architect
11 38 (3.75%) Lead
12 37 (3.66%) Platform Engineer
13 32 (3.16%) Infrastructure Analyst
14 31 (3.06%) Technical Architect
15 30 (2.96%) Web Engineer
16 25 (2.47%) DevOps Engineer
16 25 (2.47%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
17 24 (2.37%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
18 23 (2.27%) 3rd Line Engineer
19 22 (2.17%) Storage Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (2.37%) LDAP
2 23 (2.27%) Middleware
3 22 (2.17%) Flash
4 18 (1.78%) Kafka
5 17 (1.68%) SAML
6 15 (1.48%) OpenTelemetry
7 12 (1.19%) Keycloak
8 10 (0.99%) OAuth
8 10 (0.99%) OpenID
8 10 (0.99%) REST
9 9 (0.89%) Spring
10 8 (0.79%) Hibernate
10 8 (0.79%) Loki
11 7 (0.69%) OAuth2
12 6 (0.59%) XMPP
13 5 (0.49%) Software Packaging
14 3 (0.30%) Elastic Stack
14 3 (0.30%) SOAP
15 2 (0.20%) Apache NiFi
15 2 (0.20%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 101 (9.98%) Data Centre
2 79 (7.81%) Replication
3 66 (6.52%) PKI
4 57 (5.63%) Cloud Native
5 51 (5.04%) Hybrid Cloud
6 40 (3.95%) Management Information System
7 33 (3.26%) Linux Command Line
7 33 (3.26%) Private Cloud
8 32 (3.16%) Public Cloud
9 29 (2.87%) Clustering
10 26 (2.57%) Enterprise Storage
11 21 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
12 20 (1.98%) Product Ownership
13 18 (1.78%) Operational Technology
14 15 (1.48%) Blackberry
15 14 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
15 14 (1.38%) Onboarding
16 13 (1.28%) SCADA
16 13 (1.28%) Virtual Team
17 12 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 366 (36.17%) Windows
2 289 (28.56%) Linux
3 216 (21.34%) Windows Server
4 77 (7.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 34 (3.36%) Windows Server 2019
6 31 (3.06%) Windows Server 2016
7 26 (2.57%) Ubuntu
8 24 (2.37%) Windows 10
9 22 (2.17%) VMS
10 18 (1.78%) Windows Server 2012
11 16 (1.58%) Unix
12 15 (1.48%) Android
12 15 (1.48%) Apple iOS
12 15 (1.48%) CentOS
12 15 (1.48%) Solaris
13 13 (1.28%) Data ONTAP
14 12 (1.19%) AIX
15 10 (0.99%) Mac OS
15 10 (0.99%) Windows 7
16 9 (0.89%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (19.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 190 (18.77%) Problem-Solving
3 171 (16.90%) Migration
4 144 (14.23%) Agile
5 120 (11.86%) DevOps
5 120 (11.86%) ITIL
6 116 (11.46%) CI/CD
7 108 (10.67%) High Availability
8 106 (10.47%) Load Balancing
9 100 (9.88%) Disaster Recovery
10 89 (8.79%) Infrastructure as Code
11 80 (7.91%) Containerisation
12 74 (7.31%) Stakeholder Management
13 70 (6.92%) Platform Engineering
13 70 (6.92%) Roadmaps
14 63 (6.23%) Continuous Improvement
14 63 (6.23%) Cybersecurity
15 62 (6.13%) Change Management
16 54 (5.34%) Capacity Planning
17 52 (5.14%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 194 (19.17%) PowerShell
2 169 (16.70%) Python
3 97 (9.58%) Bash
4 29 (2.87%) SQL
5 15 (1.48%) JavaScript
5 15 (1.48%) Perl
6 13 (1.28%) Java
6 13 (1.28%) Shell Script
7 11 (1.09%) C
8 9 (0.89%) MATLAB
9 8 (0.79%) C++
9 8 (0.79%) COBOL
9 8 (0.79%) T-SQL
10 7 (0.69%) Bicep
10 7 (0.69%) Embedded C
10 7 (0.69%) Embedded C++
10 7 (0.69%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.49%) C#
12 4 (0.40%) PHP
13 2 (0.20%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 454 (44.86%) Security Cleared
2 277 (27.37%) SC Cleared
3 179 (17.69%) DV Cleared
4 61 (6.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 46 (4.55%) Degree
6 38 (3.75%) Cisco Certification
6 38 (3.75%) Microsoft Certification
7 32 (3.16%) CCNP
8 31 (3.06%) Azure Certification
9 26 (2.57%) VCAP
10 19 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
10 19 (1.88%) MCSE
11 17 (1.68%) AWS Certification
11 17 (1.68%) Oracle Certification
12 16 (1.58%) CCNA
13 12 (1.19%) OCP
14 11 (1.09%) MCSA
15 10 (0.99%) CCDP
16 7 (0.69%) CCIE
16 7 (0.69%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (3.36%) NIST
2 30 (2.96%) SLA
3 23 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 21 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials
5 20 (1.98%) NCSC
6 13 (1.28%) GDPR
7 9 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 6 (0.59%) Def Stans
9 5 (0.49%) QA
10 4 (0.40%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.20%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 2 (0.20%) ISA99
12 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.20%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.099%) Accessibility
13 1 (0.099%) COBIT
13 1 (0.099%) Data Quality
13 1 (0.099%) Government Security Classifications
13 1 (0.099%) JSP 440
System Software
1 629 (62.15%) VMware Infrastructure
2 233 (23.02%) Active Directory
3 215 (21.25%) vSphere
4 201 (19.86%) VMware NSX
5 141 (13.93%) VMware ESXi
6 118 (11.66%) Hyper-V
7 66 (6.52%) Virtual Machines
8 57 (5.63%) Docker
9 41 (4.05%) NFS
10 33 (3.26%) Firmware
11 26 (2.57%) Virtual Desktop
12 18 (1.78%) KVM
13 16 (1.58%) GPFS
14 14 (1.38%) vCloud
15 10 (0.99%) Microsoft App-V
16 9 (0.89%) BitLocker
17 4 (0.40%) Oracle RAC
18 3 (0.30%) DFS Replication
18 3 (0.30%) SRDF
18 3 (0.30%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 191 (18.87%) Ansible
2 132 (13.04%) vCenter Server
3 120 (11.86%) Terraform
4 109 (10.77%) Kubernetes
5 81 (8.00%) Microsoft Intune
6 75 (7.41%) vRealize
7 66 (6.52%) SCCM
8 45 (4.45%) Argo
9 38 (3.75%) Grafana
10 33 (3.26%) Single Sign-On
10 33 (3.26%) VxRail
11 28 (2.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 22 (2.17%) PowerCLI
12 22 (2.17%) Prometheus
12 22 (2.17%) SCOM
13 21 (2.08%) Red Hat Satellite
14 20 (1.98%) Progress Chef
15 19 (1.88%) vMotion
16 14 (1.38%) Podman
17 13 (1.28%) Puppet
Vendors
1 236 (23.32%) Microsoft
2 160 (15.81%) Cisco
3 106 (10.47%) Red Hat
4 89 (8.79%) Citrix
5 82 (8.10%) F5
6 56 (5.53%) NetApp
7 55 (5.43%) IBM
8 48 (4.74%) Pure Storage
9 47 (4.64%) Dell
10 41 (4.05%) ServiceNow
11 40 (3.95%) Palo Alto
12 39 (3.85%) Oracle
13 36 (3.56%) McAfee
14 33 (3.26%) Blue Coat
15 32 (3.16%) SolarWinds
16 27 (2.67%) Veeam
17 26 (2.57%) Splunk
18 24 (2.37%) Commvault
19 22 (2.17%) Broadcom
20 21 (2.08%) HP