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 14 September 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
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 24 26
Rank change year-on-year +3 +2 -12
Contract jobs citing VMware 52 29 33
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 5.91% 6.37% 5.34%
As % of the Vendors category 14.77% 13.49% 14.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 26 23
10th Percentile £389 £463 £467
25th Percentile £463 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.82% - -9.28%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £575
90th Percentile £672 - -
East of England median daily rate £507 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.82% - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 0
10th Percentile £69.25 - -
25th Percentile £70.00 - -
Median hourly rate £85.48 - -
75th Percentile £92.11 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £85.48 - £50.00
% change year-on-year - - -36.49%

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 352 215 224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 40.00% 47.25% 36.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 122 102
10th Percentile £255 £350 £263
25th Percentile £425 £463 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £588 £575
90th Percentile £750 £700 £600
East of England median daily rate £507 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -3.43% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 41 50
10th Percentile £17.00 £16.25 £13.86
25th Percentile £31.38 £16.92 £17.11
Median hourly rate £50.00 £22.63 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +120.95% -65.18% +13.04%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £80.00
90th Percentile £85.00 - £85.00
East of England median hourly rate £38.00 £21.89 £16.23
% change year-on-year +73.60% +34.87% -51.47%

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 14 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VMware in Hertfordshire

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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

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VMware in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 14 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for VMware in Hertfordshire

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 14 September 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 -5 21 £475 -13.64% 41
Hatfield - 18 £507 - 2
Hemel Hempstead - 3 £725 - 2
Watford -6 2 £500 +5.26%
St Albans - 1 £400 -
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 7 (13.46%) IIS
2 3 (5.77%) Confluence
3 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.92%) CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (7.69%) Azure
2 2 (3.85%) Cohesity
2 2 (3.85%) GCP
2 2 (3.85%) GitHub
2 2 (3.85%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (3.85%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (1.92%) Entra ID
3 1 (1.92%) Google Workspace
3 1 (1.92%) IaaS
3 1 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (1.92%) PaaS
3 1 (1.92%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (19.23%) DNS
2 7 (13.46%) Firewall
2 7 (13.46%) HTTP
3 5 (9.62%) DHCP
4 4 (7.69%) NAS
4 4 (7.69%) SAN
4 4 (7.69%) WAN
5 3 (5.77%) TCP/IP
5 3 (5.77%) VLAN
6 2 (3.85%) BGP
6 2 (3.85%) iSCSI
6 2 (3.85%) MPLS
6 2 (3.85%) Multicast
6 2 (3.85%) Network Security
6 2 (3.85%) VPN
6 2 (3.85%) VSAN
7 1 (1.92%) H.323
7 1 (1.92%) LAN
7 1 (1.92%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (9.62%) GitLab
2 4 (7.69%) CppUnit
2 4 (7.69%) Git
2 4 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 4 (7.69%) PVCS
2 4 (7.69%) Rational DOORS
3 3 (5.77%) JIRA
General
1 7 (13.46%) Documentation Skills
2 6 (11.54%) Back Office
3 5 (9.62%) Finance
3 5 (9.62%) Social Skills
4 4 (7.69%) Aerospace
5 2 (3.85%) Law
5 2 (3.85%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.92%) Legal
6 1 (1.92%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (17.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 8 (15.38%) VMware Engineer
3 7 (13.46%) Administrator
3 7 (13.46%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 7 (13.46%) Security Engineer
4 6 (11.54%) JavaScript Engineer
4 6 (11.54%) PowerShell Engineer
4 6 (11.54%) Python Engineer
4 6 (11.54%) Senior
5 4 (7.69%) Consultant
5 4 (7.69%) Linux Administrator
5 4 (7.69%) Principal Consultant
5 4 (7.69%) Project Manager
5 4 (7.69%) VMware Consultant
6 3 (5.77%) Embedded C Software Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Infrastructure Manager
6 3 (5.77%) Infrastructure Project Manager
6 3 (5.77%) Network Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (23.08%) LDAP
2 7 (13.46%) JSON
2 7 (13.46%) Regular Expression
3 4 (7.69%) Middleware
3 4 (7.69%) Terraform
4 1 (1.92%) OAuth
4 1 (1.92%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.92%) OpenID
4 1 (1.92%) REST
4 1 (1.92%) SAML
4 1 (1.92%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.46%) Cyber Threat
2 6 (11.54%) Data Centre
3 3 (5.77%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.85%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.85%) CSOC
4 2 (3.85%) Private Cloud
4 2 (3.85%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (1.92%) Cyber Defence
5 1 (1.92%) FMCG
5 1 (1.92%) NHS
5 1 (1.92%) PKI
5 1 (1.92%) PMI
5 1 (1.92%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (1.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (38.46%) Windows
2 11 (21.15%) Linux
3 8 (15.38%) Windows Server
4 7 (13.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (9.62%) CentOS
6 1 (1.92%) Rocky
6 1 (1.92%) VMS
6 1 (1.92%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.92%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 8 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (15.38%) ITIL
2 8 (15.38%) Root Cause Analysis
3 7 (13.46%) AI
3 7 (13.46%) Machine Learning
3 7 (13.46%) Network Packet Capture
3 7 (13.46%) SIEM
3 7 (13.46%) Threat Detection
4 6 (11.54%) Data Modelling
4 6 (11.54%) Project Management
4 6 (11.54%) Red Team
4 6 (11.54%) Roadmaps
5 5 (9.62%) Infrastructure Monitoring
5 5 (9.62%) Project Delivery
6 4 (7.69%) Code Coverage
6 4 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (7.69%) Planning and Forecasting
6 4 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (7.69%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 20 (38.46%) PowerShell
2 16 (30.77%) Python
3 8 (15.38%) JavaScript
4 4 (7.69%) C
4 4 (7.69%) C++
4 4 (7.69%) MATLAB
4 4 (7.69%) Shell Script
5 3 (5.77%) Embedded C
6 2 (3.85%) Bash
Qualifications
1 28 (53.85%) Security Cleared
2 19 (36.54%) SC Cleared
3 14 (26.92%) DV Cleared
4 10 (19.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (5.77%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (3.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (3.85%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.92%) Degree
7 1 (1.92%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.92%) MCSE
7 1 (1.92%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (1.92%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.46%) SLA
2 1 (1.92%) NIST
System Software
1 35 (67.31%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (32.69%) Active Directory
3 11 (21.15%) Hyper-V
3 11 (21.15%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (13.46%) NFS
5 6 (11.54%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (7.69%) vSphere
7 2 (3.85%) Firmware
8 1 (1.92%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 10 (19.23%) Ansible
2 9 (17.31%) vRealize
3 5 (9.62%) vCenter Server
4 4 (7.69%) Check_MK
4 4 (7.69%) Podman
4 4 (7.69%) Red Hat Satellite
5 2 (3.85%) Argo
5 2 (3.85%) Kubernetes
5 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (3.85%) SCCM
6 1 (1.92%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (1.92%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 8 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.62%) NetApp
2 5 (9.62%) Red Hat
3 3 (5.77%) Cisco
3 3 (5.77%) Veeam
4 2 (3.85%) Palo Alto
4 2 (3.85%) Remedy
5 1 (1.92%) Citrix
5 1 (1.92%) Forcepoint
5 1 (1.92%) Google
5 1 (1.92%) McAfee
5 1 (1.92%) Splunk
5 1 (1.92%) Wyse