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 June 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 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 84 60
Rank change year-on-year -17 -24 -3
Contract jobs citing VMware 1,022 742 1,224
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.35% 2.94% 3.28%
As % of the Vendors category 5.78% 6.22% 7.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 707 496 850
10th Percentile £350 £350 £300
25th Percentile £450 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £510
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +7.84% -2.86%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £575
90th Percentile £675 £675 £646
UK median daily rate £520 £535 £508
% change year-on-year -2.80% +5.42% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 4 34
10th Percentile £19.93 £29.00 £22.33
25th Percentile £29.00 £30.49 £36.09
Median hourly rate £51.00 £34.71 £40.13
Median % change year-on-year +46.94% -13.50% -25.63%
75th Percentile £72.13 £46.17 £71.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £53.72 £77.10
UK median hourly rate £51.00 £34.71 £40.25
% change year-on-year +46.94% -13.77% -33.31%

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 17,681 11,936 15,853
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 40.74% 47.35% 42.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,288 7,580 10,046
10th Percentile £313 £278 £275
25th Percentile £413 £402 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £513 £520
Median % change year-on-year -1.07% -1.44% -0.95%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £519
% change year-on-year - -3.57% -1.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 949 543 1,059
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.84 £12.40
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.50 £14.54
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.45 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year +32.33% +7.96% -34.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £52.08 £59.95
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £25.15 £24.18
% change year-on-year +35.15% +4.01% -42.40%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 +4 291 £550 -3.25% 82
London -19 253 £550 +4.76% 44
North of England -11 184 £459 +2.00% 46
Midlands -32 115 £450 -15.93% 41
South West -30 104 £550 -6.18% 24
North West -4 100 £450 +2.86% 29
West Midlands -30 87 £450 -10.09% 20
Yorkshire -13 81 £488 +6.56% 13
East of England -15 65 £507 -7.82% 25
East Midlands 0 28 £450 -18.18% 21
North East -36 4 £569 +59.09% 6
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 19 (1.86%) SharePoint
3 9 (0.88%) CICS
3 9 (0.88%) IIS
3 9 (0.88%) Tomcat
4 8 (0.78%) nginx
5 6 (0.59%) OpenStack
6 5 (0.49%) Confluence
7 4 (0.39%) Apache
8 3 (0.29%) CloudStack
8 3 (0.29%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.20%) CMS
9 2 (0.20%) Skype for Business
10 1 (0.098%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 8 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (0.59%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.098%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 262 (25.64%) Azure
2 169 (16.54%) AWS
3 74 (7.24%) Microsoft 365
4 55 (5.38%) OpenShift
5 51 (4.99%) Entra ID
6 41 (4.01%) GCP
6 41 (4.01%) IaaS
7 39 (3.82%) GitHub
8 29 (2.84%) PaaS
9 26 (2.54%) Rubrik
10 19 (1.86%) Nutanix
11 17 (1.66%) SaaS
12 16 (1.57%) Azure DevOps
13 12 (1.17%) Azure Monitor
13 12 (1.17%) GitHub Actions
14 10 (0.98%) Datadog
14 10 (0.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 9 (0.88%) Azure Sentinel
16 8 (0.78%) Amazon EC2
16 8 (0.78%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 224 (21.92%) DNS
2 180 (17.61%) Firewall
3 118 (11.55%) DHCP
4 93 (9.10%) SAN
5 84 (8.22%) VPN
6 83 (8.12%) WAN
7 82 (8.02%) VSAN
8 67 (6.56%) LAN
9 63 (6.16%) Network Security
10 55 (5.38%) TCP/IP
11 52 (5.09%) VLAN
12 50 (4.89%) NAS
13 47 (4.60%) SSL
14 39 (3.82%) BIG-IP
15 35 (3.42%) Cisco Nexus
15 35 (3.42%) HTTP
16 34 (3.33%) BGP
16 34 (3.33%) Wireshark
17 33 (3.23%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
17 33 (3.23%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (3.42%) SQL Server
2 14 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
3 9 (0.88%) DataStage
4 8 (0.78%) NonStop SQL
5 7 (0.68%) NoSQL
6 6 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
6 6 (0.59%) Power BI
7 5 (0.49%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (0.39%) Oracle BI EE
8 4 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (0.29%) Big Data
9 3 (0.29%) Data Mining
9 3 (0.29%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.20%) Redis
11 1 (0.098%) GIS
11 1 (0.098%) Metadata
11 1 (0.098%) Oracle Database 12c
Development Applications
1 44 (4.31%) Jenkins
2 29 (2.84%) GitLab
2 29 (2.84%) JIRA
3 27 (2.64%) Git
4 22 (2.15%) Fiddler
5 7 (0.68%) Chocolatey
6 6 (0.59%) Sonatype Nexus
6 6 (0.59%) Team Foundation Server
7 4 (0.39%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.39%) Robot Framework
8 3 (0.29%) MSI
9 1 (0.098%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.098%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.098%) GoCD
9 1 (0.098%) Maven
9 1 (0.098%) PVCS
9 1 (0.098%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.098%) RStudio
9 1 (0.098%) Subversion
9 1 (0.098%) VersionOne
General
1 211 (20.65%) Social Skills
2 112 (10.96%) Finance
3 88 (8.61%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (5.97%) Public Sector
5 44 (4.31%) Documentation Skills
6 42 (4.11%) Banking
7 23 (2.25%) Legal
8 18 (1.76%) Investment Banking
9 17 (1.66%) Telecoms
10 15 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (1.08%) Aerospace
11 11 (1.08%) Financial Institution
11 11 (1.08%) Police
11 11 (1.08%) Retail
12 9 (0.88%) Military
13 7 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 7 (0.68%) Manufacturing
14 6 (0.59%) Law
14 6 (0.59%) Local Government
15 5 (0.49%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 206 (20.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 153 (14.97%) Architect
3 103 (10.08%) Senior
4 92 (9.00%) VMware Engineer
5 85 (8.32%) Network Engineer
6 59 (5.77%) Consultant
7 41 (4.01%) Support Engineer
8 40 (3.91%) Administrator
9 39 (3.82%) VMware Architect
10 38 (3.72%) Cloud Engineer
11 37 (3.62%) VMware Consultant
12 34 (3.33%) Lead
13 32 (3.13%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 30 (2.94%) Technical Architect
15 29 (2.84%) Storage Engineer
16 28 (2.74%) Analyst
16 28 (2.74%) Senior VMware Engineer
17 26 (2.54%) 3rd Line Engineer
17 26 (2.54%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
18 25 (2.45%) Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (2.64%) LDAP
2 22 (2.15%) Middleware
3 18 (1.76%) Flash
4 14 (1.37%) REST
5 12 (1.17%) OpenTelemetry
6 10 (0.98%) 802.1X
7 9 (0.88%) SAML
8 7 (0.68%) Keycloak
9 6 (0.59%) Elastic Stack
10 5 (0.49%) .NET
10 5 (0.49%) JSON
11 4 (0.39%) Redfish
11 4 (0.39%) Software Packaging
12 3 (0.29%) Apache NiFi
13 2 (0.20%) .NET Core
13 2 (0.20%) Blazor
13 2 (0.20%) Django
13 2 (0.20%) OAuth
13 2 (0.20%) Qt
13 2 (0.20%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 148 (14.48%) Data Centre
2 72 (7.05%) Hybrid Cloud
3 66 (6.46%) Replication
4 65 (6.36%) PKI
5 46 (4.50%) Enterprise Storage
6 42 (4.11%) Management Information System
7 40 (3.91%) Cloud Native
8 36 (3.52%) Public Cloud
9 35 (3.42%) Clustering
10 32 (3.13%) Private Cloud
11 23 (2.25%) Linux Command Line
12 18 (1.76%) Data Protection Act
13 15 (1.47%) Blackberry
13 15 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
13 15 (1.47%) Onboarding
14 12 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
14 12 (1.17%) Virtual Team
15 11 (1.08%) BYOD
15 11 (1.08%) Product Ownership
15 11 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 421 (41.19%) Windows
2 264 (25.83%) Linux
3 263 (25.73%) Windows Server
4 62 (6.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 42 (4.11%) Windows Server 2019
6 27 (2.64%) Windows Server 2016
7 25 (2.45%) Unix
8 21 (2.05%) Ubuntu
8 21 (2.05%) VMS
9 20 (1.96%) Windows 10
10 19 (1.86%) Apple iOS
10 19 (1.86%) CentOS
11 17 (1.66%) Data ONTAP
11 17 (1.66%) Solaris
12 16 (1.57%) AIX
13 15 (1.47%) Android
13 15 (1.47%) Windows Server 2012
14 9 (0.88%) Mac OS
15 8 (0.78%) Windows Server 2003
15 8 (0.78%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 259 (25.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 190 (18.59%) Migration
3 171 (16.73%) Problem-Solving
4 127 (12.43%) ITIL
5 126 (12.33%) High Availability
6 106 (10.37%) Disaster Recovery
7 97 (9.49%) DevOps
8 94 (9.20%) CI/CD
9 93 (9.10%) Infrastructure as Code
10 90 (8.81%) Agile
11 75 (7.34%) Load Balancing
12 74 (7.24%) Stakeholder Management
13 71 (6.95%) Change Management
14 69 (6.75%) Capacity Planning
15 64 (6.26%) Validation
16 63 (6.16%) ITSM
17 62 (6.07%) Technical Leadership
18 61 (5.97%) Continuous Improvement
18 61 (5.97%) Performance Tuning
19 57 (5.58%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 182 (17.81%) PowerShell
2 121 (11.84%) Python
3 57 (5.58%) Bash
4 46 (4.50%) SQL
5 22 (2.15%) JavaScript
6 14 (1.37%) Shell Script
7 11 (1.08%) MATLAB
8 9 (0.88%) COBOL
9 7 (0.68%) Java
9 7 (0.68%) PL/SQL
10 6 (0.59%) Bicep
11 5 (0.49%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.39%) C
12 4 (0.39%) C#
12 4 (0.39%) PHP
13 2 (0.20%) VBScript
14 1 (0.098%) Embedded C
14 1 (0.098%) Embedded C++
14 1 (0.098%) Korn
14 1 (0.098%) VB
Qualifications
1 462 (45.21%) Security Cleared
2 284 (27.79%) SC Cleared
3 200 (19.57%) DV Cleared
4 82 (8.02%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 50 (4.89%) Cisco Certification
6 49 (4.79%) Degree
7 39 (3.82%) Microsoft Certification
8 35 (3.42%) CCNP
9 30 (2.94%) VCAP
10 27 (2.64%) MCSE
11 24 (2.35%) Azure Certification
12 17 (1.66%) MCSA
13 16 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
13 16 (1.57%) CCNA
14 15 (1.47%) Oracle Certification
15 12 (1.17%) OCP
16 9 (0.88%) AWS Certification
17 8 (0.78%) ISTQB
17 8 (0.78%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
17 8 (0.78%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (4.31%) SLA
2 36 (3.52%) NIST
3 24 (2.35%) NCSC
4 22 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 21 (2.05%) Cyber Essentials
6 10 (0.98%) QA
7 8 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 4 (0.39%) PCI DSS
9 3 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
9 3 (0.29%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.20%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.20%) GDPR
10 2 (0.20%) ISA99
10 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 1 (0.098%) Data Quality
11 1 (0.098%) DICOM
11 1 (0.098%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.098%) HL7
11 1 (0.098%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.098%) SOC 2
System Software
1 663 (64.87%) VMware Infrastructure
2 246 (24.07%) Active Directory
3 221 (21.62%) VMware NSX
4 212 (20.74%) vSphere
5 204 (19.96%) VMware ESXi
6 143 (13.99%) Hyper-V
7 94 (9.20%) Virtual Machines
8 38 (3.72%) Docker
8 38 (3.72%) Firmware
9 36 (3.52%) NFS
10 33 (3.23%) Virtual Desktop
11 26 (2.54%) KVM
12 23 (2.25%) vCloud
13 13 (1.27%) GPFS
13 13 (1.27%) Microsoft App-V
14 11 (1.08%) BitLocker
15 9 (0.88%) VMware Workstation
16 6 (0.59%) Oracle RAC
16 6 (0.59%) SRDF
17 4 (0.39%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 181 (17.71%) Ansible
2 166 (16.24%) vCenter Server
3 105 (10.27%) Terraform
4 90 (8.81%) Kubernetes
5 67 (6.56%) vRealize
6 65 (6.36%) Microsoft Intune
7 54 (5.28%) SCCM
8 39 (3.82%) SCOM
9 28 (2.74%) Argo
10 27 (2.64%) PowerCLI
10 27 (2.64%) vMotion
11 26 (2.54%) Grafana
11 26 (2.54%) VxRail
12 22 (2.15%) Red Hat Satellite
13 20 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
14 19 (1.86%) NetBackup
15 16 (1.57%) WSUS
16 15 (1.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 15 (1.47%) Podman
16 15 (1.47%) Puppet
Vendors
1 246 (24.07%) Microsoft
2 184 (18.00%) Cisco
3 103 (10.08%) Citrix
4 76 (7.44%) Red Hat
5 70 (6.85%) NetApp
6 56 (5.48%) F5
7 52 (5.09%) Dell
8 44 (4.31%) Palo Alto
9 43 (4.21%) ServiceNow
10 42 (4.11%) Pure Storage
11 40 (3.91%) IBM
12 38 (3.72%) Oracle
13 33 (3.23%) Juniper
13 33 (3.23%) Veeam
14 29 (2.84%) SolarWinds
15 27 (2.64%) CheckPoint
15 27 (2.64%) Fortinet
16 25 (2.45%) McAfee
17 23 (2.25%) Blue Coat
17 23 (2.25%) Broadcom