VMware Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

VMware
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire 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 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
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 36 46
Rank change year-on-year +7 +10 -36
Contract jobs citing VMware 44 10 31
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 5.13% 3.13% 3.69%
As % of the Vendors category 12.26% 7.14% 10.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 8 19
10th Percentile £350 £500 -
25th Percentile £463 £509 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -15.38% -3.27%
75th Percentile £523 £603 £725
90th Percentile £575 £620 £730
East of England median daily rate £507 £513 £554
% change year-on-year -1.07% -7.49% -7.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £71.25 £86.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £87.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -17.14% +25.00%
75th Percentile - £73.75 £89.06
90th Percentile - - £89.63
East of England median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £87.50
% change year-on-year -3.45% -17.14% +29.15%

All Vendors
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 359 140 286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 41.89% 43.89% 34.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 76 155
10th Percentile £350 £419 £179
25th Percentile £462 £455 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +19.44% -10.00%
75th Percentile £670 £578 £606
90th Percentile £750 £644 £708
East of England median daily rate £500 £502 £500
% change year-on-year -0.35% +0.35% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 135 35 68
10th Percentile £16.35 £16.95 £14.52
25th Percentile £18.27 £22.65 £35.56
Median hourly rate £19.91 £65.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -69.60% +0.77% -
75th Percentile £22.63 £85.00 £80.00
90th Percentile £68.00 - £85.00
East of England median hourly rate £20.35 £18.85 £18.00
% change year-on-year +7.96% +4.72% -11.11%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VMware relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire.

VMware job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

VMware
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing VMware.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing VMware

VMware
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 2 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VMware in Hertfordshire

VMware
Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing VMware.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing VMware

VMware
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 2 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
Stevenage 0 23 £485 -7.62% 1
Hatfield - 10 £507 - 1
Watford - 4 £438 - 1
Hemel Hempstead - 3 £625 - 3
VMware
East of England

VMware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 3 (6.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.27%) CMS
2 1 (2.27%) Exchange Server 2010
Cloud Services
1 4 (9.09%) Azure
2 2 (4.55%) Entra ID
2 2 (4.55%) GCP
2 2 (4.55%) GitHub
2 2 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (4.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 2 (4.55%) IaaS
3 1 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.27%) Google Workspace
3 1 (2.27%) PaaS
3 1 (2.27%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (18.18%) DNS
2 5 (11.36%) DHCP
2 5 (11.36%) SAN
2 5 (11.36%) WAN
3 4 (9.09%) Firewall
4 3 (6.82%) TCP/IP
5 2 (4.55%) BGP
5 2 (4.55%) iSCSI
5 2 (4.55%) LAN
5 2 (4.55%) MPLS
5 2 (4.55%) Multicast
5 2 (4.55%) NAS
5 2 (4.55%) Network Security
5 2 (4.55%) VPN
6 1 (2.27%) H.323
6 1 (2.27%) SSL
6 1 (2.27%) VoIP
6 1 (2.27%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (38.64%) Git
2 10 (22.73%) GitLab
3 9 (20.45%) Jenkins
4 8 (18.18%) JIRA
4 8 (18.18%) PVCS
4 8 (18.18%) Rational DOORS
General
1 11 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
2 9 (20.45%) Aerospace
3 8 (18.18%) Electronics
4 3 (6.82%) Legal
5 2 (4.55%) Finance
6 1 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.27%) Law
6 1 (2.27%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.27%) Retail
6 1 (2.27%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (27.27%) Administrator
2 9 (20.45%) Linux Administrator
2 9 (20.45%) Senior
3 8 (18.18%) Software Engineer
4 7 (15.91%) C Software Engineer
4 7 (15.91%) C/C++ Embedded Software Engineer
4 7 (15.91%) C/C++ Software Engineer
4 7 (15.91%) C++ Software Engineer
4 7 (15.91%) Embedded C Engineer
4 7 (15.91%) Embedded C Software Engineer
4 7 (15.91%) Embedded C/C++ Engineer
4 7 (15.91%) Embedded C/C++ Software Engineer
4 7 (15.91%) Embedded C++ Engineer
4 7 (15.91%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
4 7 (15.91%) Embedded Engineer
4 7 (15.91%) Embedded Software Engineer
4 7 (15.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (13.64%) JavaScript Engineer
5 6 (13.64%) PowerShell Engineer
5 6 (13.64%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (22.73%) LDAP
2 9 (20.45%) Middleware
3 1 (2.27%) OAuth
3 1 (2.27%) OAuth2
3 1 (2.27%) OpenID
3 1 (2.27%) REST
3 1 (2.27%) SAML
3 1 (2.27%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (20.45%) Data Centre
1 9 (20.45%) Management Information System
2 2 (4.55%) Cloud Native
2 2 (4.55%) Fat Client
2 2 (4.55%) PKI
2 2 (4.55%) Private Cloud
2 2 (4.55%) Thin Client
3 1 (2.27%) Clustering
3 1 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.27%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.27%) NHS
3 1 (2.27%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (2.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (31.82%) Windows
2 13 (29.55%) Linux
3 12 (27.27%) Windows Server
4 9 (20.45%) CentOS
4 9 (20.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (11.36%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (4.55%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (2.27%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (2.27%) VMS
7 1 (2.27%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (27.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 9 (20.45%) Information Management
2 9 (20.45%) Infrastructure Monitoring
3 8 (18.18%) Code Coverage
3 8 (18.18%) Requirements Analysis
3 8 (18.18%) Software Engineering
3 8 (18.18%) Unit Testing
3 8 (18.18%) Workflow
4 5 (11.36%) Migration
4 5 (11.36%) Zero Trust
5 4 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (9.09%) ITIL
6 3 (6.82%) CI/CD
6 3 (6.82%) DevOps
6 3 (6.82%) High Availability
6 3 (6.82%) Platform Engineering
6 3 (6.82%) Technical Leadership
7 2 (4.55%) Digital Transformation Strategy
7 2 (4.55%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 13 (29.55%) PowerShell
2 9 (20.45%) MATLAB
2 9 (20.45%) Shell Script
3 8 (18.18%) C
3 8 (18.18%) C++
4 7 (15.91%) Embedded C
4 7 (15.91%) Embedded C++
4 7 (15.91%) Python
5 6 (13.64%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.27%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (34.09%) Security Cleared
2 12 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 8 (18.18%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 6 (13.64%) DV Cleared
5 4 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (4.55%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (4.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (2.27%) Degree
7 1 (2.27%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (2.27%) PMI Certification
7 1 (2.27%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (25.00%) SLA
2 1 (2.27%) NIST
System Software
1 27 (61.36%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (45.45%) Active Directory
3 8 (18.18%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (11.36%) Hyper-V
5 2 (4.55%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (4.55%) vSphere
6 1 (2.27%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 15 (34.09%) Ansible
2 9 (20.45%) Check_MK
2 9 (20.45%) Podman
2 9 (20.45%) Red Hat Satellite
3 7 (15.91%) vRealize
4 5 (11.36%) Terraform
5 4 (9.09%) SCCM
5 4 (9.09%) vCenter Server
6 2 (4.55%) Argo
6 2 (4.55%) Kubernetes
6 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
7 1 (2.27%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (2.27%) WSUS
Vendors
1 12 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 9 (20.45%) Red Hat
3 8 (18.18%) ANSYS
3 8 (18.18%) IBM
4 5 (11.36%) Cisco
5 2 (4.55%) Palo Alto
5 2 (4.55%) Veeam
6 1 (2.27%) Citrix
6 1 (2.27%) Forcepoint
6 1 (2.27%) Google
6 1 (2.27%) HP
6 1 (2.27%) NetApp
6 1 (2.27%) Wyse