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 28 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
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 83 63
Rank change year-on-year -15 -20 -6
Contract jobs citing VMware 1,041 724 1,166
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.49% 3.04% 3.18%
As % of the Vendors category 6.09% 6.38% 7.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 735 493 818
10th Percentile £350 £350 £294
25th Percentile £450 £440 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £506
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +8.64% -3.57%
75th Percentile £600 £603 £575
90th Percentile £683 £663 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 5 35
10th Percentile £22.63 £29.33 £22.90
25th Percentile £46.00 £31.32 £40.00
Median hourly rate £63.14 £57.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +9.80% +24.51% -23.92%
75th Percentile £70.38 £73.75 £71.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £81.25 £80.35
UK median hourly rate £51.00 £57.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -11.30% +24.51% -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 17,099 11,350 15,362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 40.95% 47.63% 41.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,027 7,270 9,806
10th Percentile £313 £278 £263
25th Percentile £413 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £521 £518
Median % change year-on-year -3.07% +0.68% -3.09%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £743
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 923 474 1,017
10th Percentile £15.75 £14.84 £12.13
25th Percentile £19.00 £17.50 £14.41
Median hourly rate £32.50 £26.18 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.14% +16.36% -41.56%
75th Percentile £59.88 £55.43 £57.50
90th Percentile £77.35 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.30 £22.50
% change year-on-year +28.46% +12.44% -47.06%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 +9 301 £550 -0.18% 99
London -31 244 £550 +4.76% 62
North of England -16 187 £456 +7.29% 55
Midlands -28 114 £425 -19.05% 45
North West +2 108 £453 +6.59% 28
South West -30 97 £550 -4.35% 23
West Midlands -29 87 £419 -16.42% 27
East of England -9 79 £507 -7.82% 27
Yorkshire -20 77 £463 -2.53% 18
East Midlands -19 27 £450 -18.18% 18
North East -36 3 £638 +78.32% 10
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 (3.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (1.63%) SharePoint
3 10 (0.96%) IIS
4 9 (0.86%) CICS
5 7 (0.67%) nginx
5 7 (0.67%) OpenStack
5 7 (0.67%) Tomcat
6 5 (0.48%) Apache
7 4 (0.38%) Confluence
8 3 (0.29%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.19%) CloudStack
9 2 (0.19%) Skype for Business
10 1 (0.096%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.096%) 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
1 260 (24.98%) Azure
2 171 (16.43%) AWS
3 77 (7.40%) Microsoft 365
4 61 (5.86%) OpenShift
5 52 (5.00%) Entra ID
6 47 (4.51%) IaaS
7 43 (4.13%) GitHub
8 39 (3.75%) GCP
9 36 (3.46%) PaaS
10 24 (2.31%) Nutanix
11 19 (1.83%) Rubrik
12 15 (1.44%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (1.44%) SaaS
13 14 (1.34%) Azure DevOps
13 14 (1.34%) Azure Monitor
14 13 (1.25%) Datadog
15 11 (1.06%) Azure Sentinel
16 7 (0.67%) Azure Stack
16 7 (0.67%) Cohesity
16 7 (0.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 221 (21.23%) DNS
2 180 (17.29%) Firewall
3 116 (11.14%) DHCP
4 89 (8.55%) SAN
5 87 (8.36%) VPN
6 86 (8.26%) VSAN
7 73 (7.01%) WAN
8 67 (6.44%) Network Security
9 59 (5.67%) LAN
9 59 (5.67%) TCP/IP
10 51 (4.90%) SSL
11 49 (4.71%) NAS
12 43 (4.13%) BIG-IP
13 42 (4.03%) HTTP
13 42 (4.03%) VLAN
14 39 (3.75%) Wireshark
15 31 (2.98%) BGP
16 30 (2.88%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 29 (2.79%) Cisco Nexus
18 28 (2.69%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (3.75%) SQL Server
2 12 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
3 11 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (0.86%) 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 (0.38%) Oracle BI EE
7 4 (0.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (0.29%) Data Mining
8 3 (0.29%) Oracle Database
9 2 (0.19%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.096%) Metadata
10 1 (0.096%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 40 (3.84%) Jenkins
2 34 (3.27%) GitLab
3 28 (2.69%) Git
4 27 (2.59%) JIRA
5 26 (2.50%) Fiddler
6 7 (0.67%) Chocolatey
6 7 (0.67%) Team Foundation Server
7 6 (0.58%) Robot Framework
7 6 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
8 5 (0.48%) PVCS
8 5 (0.48%) Rational DOORS
9 4 (0.38%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.29%) MSI
11 1 (0.096%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.096%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 1 (0.096%) GoCD
11 1 (0.096%) Maven
11 1 (0.096%) RStudio
11 1 (0.096%) Subversion
11 1 (0.096%) VersionOne
General
1 202 (19.40%) Social Skills
2 105 (10.09%) Finance
3 88 (8.45%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (6.34%) Public Sector
5 46 (4.42%) Banking
6 41 (3.94%) Documentation Skills
7 21 (2.02%) 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 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (0.86%) Military
12 8 (0.77%) Financial Institution
12 8 (0.77%) Telecoms
13 7 (0.67%) Law
13 7 (0.67%) Local Government
13 7 (0.67%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.48%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 196 (18.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 169 (16.23%) Architect
3 104 (9.99%) Senior
4 99 (9.51%) VMware Engineer
5 87 (8.36%) Network Engineer
6 53 (5.09%) Consultant
7 49 (4.71%) VMware Architect
8 35 (3.36%) Analyst
9 34 (3.27%) Lead
10 33 (3.17%) Administrator
11 31 (2.98%) Storage Engineer
12 30 (2.88%) Infrastructure Architect
12 30 (2.88%) Support Engineer
12 30 (2.88%) VMware Consultant
12 30 (2.88%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
13 29 (2.79%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 29 (2.79%) Wintel Engineer
14 28 (2.69%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 28 (2.69%) Cloud Engineer
14 28 (2.69%) Senior VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (2.88%) LDAP
2 23 (2.21%) Middleware
3 20 (1.92%) Flash
4 13 (1.25%) REST
4 13 (1.25%) SAML
5 12 (1.15%) Keycloak
5 12 (1.15%) OpenTelemetry
6 8 (0.77%) Kafka
7 7 (0.67%) 802.1X
8 5 (0.48%) Elastic Stack
8 5 (0.48%) Software Packaging
9 4 (0.38%) .NET
9 4 (0.38%) JSON
10 3 (0.29%) OAuth
10 3 (0.29%) OpenID
10 3 (0.29%) Redfish
11 2 (0.19%) Django
11 2 (0.19%) OAuth2
11 2 (0.19%) Qt
11 2 (0.19%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 135 (12.97%) Data Centre
2 80 (7.68%) Replication
3 64 (6.15%) Hybrid Cloud
3 64 (6.15%) PKI
4 42 (4.03%) Enterprise Storage
5 41 (3.94%) Cloud Native
6 39 (3.75%) Clustering
7 38 (3.65%) Management Information System
8 37 (3.55%) Public Cloud
9 33 (3.17%) Private Cloud
10 26 (2.50%) Linux Command Line
11 15 (1.44%) Blackberry
11 15 (1.44%) Onboarding
12 14 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
12 14 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
12 14 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
13 13 (1.25%) Operational Technology
14 11 (1.06%) Product Ownership
14 11 (1.06%) Virtual Team
15 10 (0.96%) BYOD
Operating Systems
1 411 (39.48%) Windows
2 272 (26.13%) Linux
3 252 (24.21%) Windows Server
4 63 (6.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 45 (4.32%) Windows Server 2019
6 33 (3.17%) Windows Server 2016
7 26 (2.50%) Ubuntu
8 24 (2.31%) Unix
8 24 (2.31%) Windows 10
9 22 (2.11%) VMS
10 19 (1.83%) CentOS
11 18 (1.73%) Data ONTAP
12 17 (1.63%) Apple iOS
13 16 (1.54%) Windows Server 2012
14 15 (1.44%) AIX
14 15 (1.44%) Android
14 15 (1.44%) Solaris
15 12 (1.15%) Mac OS
16 10 (0.96%) Windows Server 2003
17 9 (0.86%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 246 (23.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 178 (17.10%) Migration
3 174 (16.71%) Problem-Solving
4 134 (12.87%) ITIL
5 121 (11.62%) High Availability
6 112 (10.76%) Disaster Recovery
7 106 (10.18%) Agile
8 103 (9.89%) DevOps
9 92 (8.84%) Infrastructure as Code
10 89 (8.55%) CI/CD
11 80 (7.68%) Load Balancing
12 78 (7.49%) Change Management
13 76 (7.30%) Capacity Planning
14 70 (6.72%) Stakeholder Management
15 66 (6.34%) Roadmaps
16 65 (6.24%) Continuous Improvement
17 60 (5.76%) ITSM
18 59 (5.67%) Performance Tuning
19 58 (5.57%) Network Virtualisation
20 56 (5.38%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 188 (18.06%) PowerShell
2 127 (12.20%) Python
3 67 (6.44%) Bash
4 42 (4.03%) SQL
5 18 (1.73%) JavaScript
6 16 (1.54%) Shell Script
7 11 (1.06%) MATLAB
8 9 (0.86%) COBOL
9 8 (0.77%) Bicep
9 8 (0.77%) C
10 7 (0.67%) 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 (0.38%) C#
13 4 (0.38%) PHP
14 2 (0.19%) VBScript
15 1 (0.096%) VB
Qualifications
1 462 (44.38%) Security Cleared
2 278 (26.71%) SC Cleared
3 206 (19.79%) DV Cleared
4 78 (7.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 43 (4.13%) Cisco Certification
6 42 (4.03%) Degree
7 41 (3.94%) Microsoft Certification
8 36 (3.46%) VCAP
9 29 (2.79%) CCNP
10 28 (2.69%) MCSE
11 21 (2.02%) Azure Certification
12 17 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
12 17 (1.63%) MCSA
13 15 (1.44%) Oracle Certification
14 13 (1.25%) CCNA
15 12 (1.15%) 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 (4.32%) SLA
2 37 (3.55%) NIST
3 24 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 23 (2.21%) Cyber Essentials
5 22 (2.11%) NCSC
6 9 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 7 (0.67%) 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 (0.096%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.096%) DICOM
11 1 (0.096%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.096%) HL7
11 1 (0.096%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.096%) JSP 440
System Software
1 652 (62.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 243 (23.34%) Active Directory
3 224 (21.52%) VMware NSX
4 217 (20.85%) vSphere
5 186 (17.87%) VMware ESXi
6 138 (13.26%) Hyper-V
7 93 (8.93%) Virtual Machines
8 40 (3.84%) NFS
9 39 (3.75%) Docker
10 37 (3.55%) Firmware
11 29 (2.79%) Virtual Desktop
12 25 (2.40%) KVM
13 22 (2.11%) vCloud
14 15 (1.44%) GPFS
15 12 (1.15%) Microsoft App-V
16 10 (0.96%) BitLocker
17 9 (0.86%) VMware Workstation
18 7 (0.67%) SRDF
19 5 (0.48%) Oracle RAC
20 4 (0.38%) UAG
Systems Management
1 184 (17.68%) Ansible
2 159 (15.27%) vCenter Server
3 105 (10.09%) Terraform
4 95 (9.13%) Kubernetes
5 68 (6.53%) Microsoft Intune
5 68 (6.53%) vRealize
6 58 (5.57%) SCCM
7 35 (3.36%) SCOM
8 34 (3.27%) Argo
9 31 (2.98%) Grafana
10 26 (2.50%) VxRail
11 25 (2.40%) PowerCLI
12 24 (2.31%) Single Sign-On
12 24 (2.31%) vMotion
13 19 (1.83%) Red Hat Satellite
14 18 (1.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 18 (1.73%) NetBackup
14 18 (1.73%) Prometheus
14 18 (1.73%) WSUS
15 15 (1.44%) Podman
Vendors
1 246 (23.63%) Microsoft
2 176 (16.91%) Cisco
3 97 (9.32%) Citrix
4 86 (8.26%) Red Hat
5 66 (6.34%) NetApp
6 65 (6.24%) F5
7 53 (5.09%) Dell
8 46 (4.42%) IBM
9 44 (4.23%) ServiceNow
10 43 (4.13%) Palo Alto
11 42 (4.03%) Pure Storage
12 36 (3.46%) Oracle
13 33 (3.17%) Veeam
14 30 (2.88%) CheckPoint
14 30 (2.88%) McAfee
15 27 (2.59%) Blue Coat
16 26 (2.50%) Fortinet
16 26 (2.50%) Juniper
17 25 (2.40%) SolarWinds
17 25 (2.40%) Splunk