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 1 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
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 79 67
Rank change year-on-year -19 -12 -8
Contract jobs citing VMware 1,021 750 1,130
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.53% 3.08% 3.04%
As % of the Vendors category 6.03% 6.49% 7.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 708 511 774
10th Percentile £340 £325 £275
25th Percentile £450 £431 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £606 £623 £575
90th Percentile £688 £676 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £533 £500
% change year-on-year -1.52% +6.63% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 7 40
10th Percentile £41.49 £29.99 £22.08
25th Percentile £51.00 £48.16 £39.41
Median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +56.99% -26.70%
75th Percentile £74.00 £83.18 £71.25
90th Percentile £87.80 £85.97 £81.40
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £48.20
% change year-on-year -3.45% +50.43% -25.85%

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 16,936 11,564 15,642
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.95% 47.50% 42.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,050 7,453 9,947
10th Percentile £313 £288 £257
25th Percentile £413 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -3.26%
75th Percentile £609 £625 £631
90th Percentile £711 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £515
% change year-on-year -2.91% -0.04% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 886 460 995
10th Percentile £15.36 £14.84 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £18.10 £14.26
Median hourly rate £30.63 £27.13 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.90% +20.56% -44.10%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £56.91
90th Percentile £79.13 £76.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £31.09 £26.45 £22.50
% change year-on-year +17.53% +17.56% -49.44%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 +4 280 £550 -4.35% 98
London -21 255 £550 +4.76% 71
North of England -17 177 £449 +5.65% 52
Midlands -36 119 £407 -22.43% 36
North West -5 104 £449 +1.18% 21
South West -34 95 £550 -4.35% 33
West Midlands -26 92 £400 -20.16% 25
East of England +13 85 £507 -1.07% 24
Yorkshire -15 73 £420 -6.67% 21
East Midlands -23 27 £450 -18.18% 11
North East -27 3 £638 +78.32% 13
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 42 (4.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (1.76%) SharePoint
3 9 (0.88%) CICS
4 8 (0.78%) Confluence
4 8 (0.78%) IIS
5 7 (0.69%) nginx
5 7 (0.69%) Tomcat
6 4 (0.39%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.29%) Apache
7 3 (0.29%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2010
8 2 (0.20%) Skype for Business
8 2 (0.20%) WordPress
9 1 (0.098%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.098%) CMS
9 1 (0.098%) JBoss
9 1 (0.098%) WebSphere
Applications
1 14 (1.37%) MS Visio
2 13 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 247 (24.19%) Azure
2 170 (16.65%) AWS
3 78 (7.64%) Microsoft 365
4 63 (6.17%) OpenShift
5 51 (5.00%) Entra ID
6 50 (4.90%) IaaS
7 49 (4.80%) GitHub
8 38 (3.72%) PaaS
9 35 (3.43%) GCP
10 24 (2.35%) Nutanix
11 17 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (1.47%) Datadog
12 15 (1.47%) SaaS
13 14 (1.37%) Azure DevOps
14 12 (1.18%) Azure Monitor
15 9 (0.88%) Rubrik
16 8 (0.78%) Azure Sentinel
17 7 (0.69%) Microsoft Purview
18 6 (0.59%) Amazon EC2
18 6 (0.59%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 210 (20.57%) DNS
2 182 (17.83%) Firewall
3 104 (10.19%) DHCP
4 84 (8.23%) VPN
5 81 (7.93%) VSAN
6 80 (7.84%) SAN
7 65 (6.37%) WAN
8 64 (6.27%) Network Security
8 64 (6.27%) TCP/IP
9 54 (5.29%) LAN
10 52 (5.09%) SSL
11 45 (4.41%) BIG-IP
12 44 (4.31%) HTTP
13 43 (4.21%) NAS
14 40 (3.92%) Wireshark
15 37 (3.62%) VLAN
16 32 (3.13%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 28 (2.74%) BGP
17 28 (2.74%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
18 24 (2.35%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (3.33%) SQL Server
2 17 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
4 9 (0.88%) DataStage
4 9 (0.88%) Redis
5 7 (0.69%) NonStop SQL
5 7 (0.69%) NoSQL
6 3 (0.29%) Data Mining
6 3 (0.29%) Oracle BI EE
6 3 (0.29%) Power BI
6 3 (0.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (0.20%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.098%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.098%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 46 (4.51%) Jenkins
2 31 (3.04%) GitLab
3 28 (2.74%) Fiddler
3 28 (2.74%) Git
4 27 (2.64%) JIRA
5 11 (1.08%) Sonatype Nexus
6 8 (0.78%) PVCS
6 8 (0.78%) Rational DOORS
7 7 (0.69%) Chocolatey
7 7 (0.69%) Team Foundation Server
8 6 (0.59%) Robot Framework
9 5 (0.49%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.49%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.49%) JMeter
9 5 (0.49%) JUnit
10 2 (0.20%) MSI
10 2 (0.20%) RStudio
11 1 (0.098%) Artifactory
11 1 (0.098%) Postman
11 1 (0.098%) VersionOne
General
1 205 (20.08%) Social Skills
2 104 (10.19%) Finance
3 89 (8.72%) Analytical Skills
4 87 (8.52%) Public Sector
5 50 (4.90%) Banking
6 39 (3.82%) Documentation Skills
7 22 (2.15%) Investment Banking
7 22 (2.15%) Legal
8 20 (1.96%) Aerospace
9 13 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (1.08%) Police
11 10 (0.98%) Electronics
11 10 (0.98%) Local Government
11 10 (0.98%) Military
11 10 (0.98%) Retail
11 10 (0.98%) Telecoms
12 8 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (0.69%) Financial Institution
13 7 (0.69%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 178 (17.43%) Architect
2 173 (16.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 97 (9.50%) Senior
3 97 (9.50%) VMware Engineer
4 79 (7.74%) Network Engineer
5 57 (5.58%) Consultant
6 48 (4.70%) VMware Architect
7 46 (4.51%) Analyst
8 40 (3.92%) Lead
9 37 (3.62%) VMware Consultant
10 36 (3.53%) Technical Architect
11 33 (3.23%) Infrastructure Architect
12 29 (2.84%) DevOps Engineer
13 28 (2.74%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 28 (2.74%) Web Engineer
14 27 (2.64%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
15 25 (2.45%) Administrator
16 24 (2.35%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 24 (2.35%) Wintel Engineer
17 23 (2.25%) Senior VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (2.74%) LDAP
2 22 (2.15%) Middleware
3 20 (1.96%) Flash
4 14 (1.37%) Kafka
4 14 (1.37%) OpenTelemetry
4 14 (1.37%) SAML
5 13 (1.27%) Keycloak
6 11 (1.08%) REST
7 5 (0.49%) Software Packaging
7 5 (0.49%) Spring
8 4 (0.39%) Hibernate
8 4 (0.39%) OAuth
8 4 (0.39%) OpenID
9 3 (0.29%) 802.1X
10 2 (0.20%) .NET
10 2 (0.20%) Apache NiFi
10 2 (0.20%) Elastic Stack
10 2 (0.20%) OAuth2
10 2 (0.20%) SOAP
10 2 (0.20%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 112 (10.97%) Data Centre
2 78 (7.64%) Replication
3 63 (6.17%) PKI
4 56 (5.48%) Hybrid Cloud
5 54 (5.29%) Cloud Native
6 38 (3.72%) Clustering
7 37 (3.62%) Management Information System
8 34 (3.33%) Public Cloud
9 33 (3.23%) Private Cloud
10 31 (3.04%) Enterprise Storage
11 26 (2.55%) Linux Command Line
12 21 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
13 17 (1.67%) Operational Technology
14 16 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
15 15 (1.47%) Blackberry
16 13 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
16 13 (1.27%) Onboarding
16 13 (1.27%) SCADA
17 11 (1.08%) Product Ownership
17 11 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 380 (37.22%) Windows
2 259 (25.37%) Linux
3 235 (23.02%) Windows Server
4 58 (5.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 41 (4.02%) Windows Server 2019
6 36 (3.53%) Windows Server 2016
7 28 (2.74%) Ubuntu
8 24 (2.35%) VMS
9 22 (2.15%) Windows 10
10 19 (1.86%) Windows Server 2012
11 18 (1.76%) Unix
12 17 (1.67%) Apple iOS
13 16 (1.57%) CentOS
13 16 (1.57%) Data ONTAP
13 16 (1.57%) Solaris
14 15 (1.47%) Android
15 12 (1.18%) Mac OS
16 11 (1.08%) AIX
17 8 (0.78%) Windows Server 2003
18 7 (0.69%) CoreOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 219 (21.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 182 (17.83%) Problem-Solving
3 171 (16.75%) Migration
4 128 (12.54%) ITIL
5 127 (12.44%) Agile
6 117 (11.46%) High Availability
7 112 (10.97%) DevOps
8 108 (10.58%) Disaster Recovery
9 94 (9.21%) CI/CD
10 85 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
11 81 (7.93%) Load Balancing
12 71 (6.95%) Capacity Planning
12 71 (6.95%) Roadmaps
13 70 (6.86%) Stakeholder Management
14 63 (6.17%) Containerisation
15 61 (5.97%) Change Management
16 59 (5.78%) Platform Engineering
17 58 (5.68%) Continuous Improvement
17 58 (5.68%) Cybersecurity
18 55 (5.39%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 186 (18.22%) PowerShell
2 135 (13.22%) Python
3 68 (6.66%) Bash
4 33 (3.23%) SQL
5 20 (1.96%) JavaScript
6 14 (1.37%) Shell Script
7 11 (1.08%) C
8 10 (0.98%) Java
9 9 (0.88%) COBOL
9 9 (0.88%) MATLAB
10 8 (0.78%) C++
11 7 (0.69%) Embedded C
11 7 (0.69%) Embedded C++
11 7 (0.69%) PL/SQL
11 7 (0.69%) T-SQL
12 6 (0.59%) Bicep
13 5 (0.49%) C#
14 4 (0.39%) PHP
15 2 (0.20%) Perl
15 2 (0.20%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 459 (44.96%) Security Cleared
2 287 (28.11%) SC Cleared
3 188 (18.41%) DV Cleared
4 78 (7.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 43 (4.21%) Degree
6 40 (3.92%) Microsoft Certification
7 35 (3.43%) Cisco Certification
8 32 (3.13%) VCAP
9 28 (2.74%) MCSE
10 25 (2.45%) Azure Certification
10 25 (2.45%) CCNP
11 23 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
12 18 (1.76%) MCSA
13 17 (1.67%) Oracle Certification
14 14 (1.37%) AWS Certification
15 12 (1.18%) OCP
16 10 (0.98%) CCNA
17 8 (0.78%) RHCA
18 6 (0.59%) CompTIA Security+
18 6 (0.59%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (3.53%) SLA
2 33 (3.23%) NIST
3 23 (2.25%) Cyber Essentials
3 23 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 22 (2.15%) NCSC
5 9 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 8 (0.78%) GDPR
7 5 (0.49%) Def Stans
7 5 (0.49%) QA
8 3 (0.29%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.20%) ISA99
9 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 2 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.098%) COBIT
10 1 (0.098%) DICOM
10 1 (0.098%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.098%) HL7
10 1 (0.098%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.098%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.098%) SOC 2
System Software
1 638 (62.49%) VMware Infrastructure
2 235 (23.02%) Active Directory
3 205 (20.08%) VMware NSX
4 202 (19.78%) vSphere
5 163 (15.96%) VMware ESXi
6 134 (13.12%) Hyper-V
7 83 (8.13%) Virtual Machines
8 44 (4.31%) Docker
9 39 (3.82%) NFS
10 36 (3.53%) Firmware
11 25 (2.45%) Virtual Desktop
12 23 (2.25%) KVM
13 14 (1.37%) GPFS
13 14 (1.37%) vCloud
14 10 (0.98%) BitLocker
14 10 (0.98%) Microsoft App-V
15 5 (0.49%) XenDesktop
16 4 (0.39%) Oracle RAC
16 4 (0.39%) SRDF
16 4 (0.39%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 192 (18.81%) Ansible
2 141 (13.81%) vCenter Server
3 109 (10.68%) Terraform
4 98 (9.60%) Kubernetes
5 77 (7.54%) Microsoft Intune
6 73 (7.15%) vRealize
7 65 (6.37%) SCCM
8 36 (3.53%) Argo
9 31 (3.04%) Grafana
10 29 (2.84%) Single Sign-On
11 28 (2.74%) VxRail
12 26 (2.55%) PowerCLI
13 24 (2.35%) vMotion
14 22 (2.15%) SCOM
15 19 (1.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 18 (1.76%) Red Hat Satellite
16 18 (1.76%) WSUS
17 16 (1.57%) NetBackup
17 16 (1.57%) Progress Chef
17 16 (1.57%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 239 (23.41%) Microsoft
2 157 (15.38%) Cisco
3 91 (8.91%) Citrix
4 83 (8.13%) Red Hat
5 67 (6.56%) F5
6 57 (5.58%) NetApp
7 48 (4.70%) IBM
8 43 (4.21%) Dell
8 43 (4.21%) ServiceNow
9 42 (4.11%) Oracle
9 42 (4.11%) Pure Storage
10 40 (3.92%) Palo Alto
11 32 (3.13%) McAfee
12 31 (3.04%) Veeam
13 28 (2.74%) Blue Coat
14 26 (2.55%) Splunk
15 24 (2.35%) Broadcom
15 24 (2.35%) CheckPoint
16 22 (2.15%) SolarWinds
17 19 (1.86%) Commvault