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 27 February 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
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 32 29
Rank change year-on-year -8 -3 -18
Contract jobs citing VMware 28 13 44
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 3.81% 3.52% 5.77%
As % of the Vendors category 8.24% 8.67% 13.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 12 30
10th Percentile £463 £466 £529
25th Percentile £464 £494 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £519 £700
Median % change year-on-year -5.16% -25.89% +5.90%
75th Percentile £575 £584 £775
90th Percentile £585 £613 £779
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £650
% change year-on-year - -23.08% +18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £71.25 £73.09
Median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £83.11
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -12.77% +13.85%
75th Percentile - £73.75 £88.75
90th Percentile - - £89.13
East of England median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £78.73
% change year-on-year -3.45% -7.91% +13.68%

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 340 150 320
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 46.26% 40.65% 41.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 81 175
10th Percentile £350 £306 £265
25th Percentile £450 £450 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.65% +7.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £700
90th Percentile £775 £675 £775
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 35 66
10th Percentile £16.35 £16.93 £25.00
25th Percentile £17.69 £56.50 £42.25
Median hourly rate £18.82 £73.50 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year -74.39% +8.89% +3.85%
75th Percentile £20.44 £85.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £95.00 £84.36
East of England median hourly rate £19.91 £21.46 £22.50
% change year-on-year -7.22% -4.62% +2.27%

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

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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

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 27 February 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 -8 19 £492 -6.29% 1
Watford -2 3 £475 +86.27% 1
Hatfield - 3 £575 -
Hemel Hempstead - 2 £526 -
VMware
East of England

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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 1 (3.57%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (10.71%) Azure
1 3 (10.71%) Entra ID
2 2 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (7.14%) Google Workspace
2 2 (7.14%) IaaS
3 1 (3.57%) PaaS
3 1 (3.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.86%) DNS
1 5 (17.86%) Firewall
2 4 (14.29%) DHCP
2 4 (14.29%) TCP/IP
3 3 (10.71%) SAN
4 2 (7.14%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (7.14%) Network Security
4 2 (7.14%) VLAN
4 2 (7.14%) VPN
5 1 (3.57%) LAN
5 1 (3.57%) SSL
5 1 (3.57%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (53.57%) Git
2 9 (32.14%) GitLab
3 8 (28.57%) JIRA
3 8 (28.57%) PVCS
3 8 (28.57%) Rational DOORS
4 7 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 9 (32.14%) Documentation Skills
2 8 (28.57%) Electronics
3 7 (25.00%) Aerospace
4 3 (10.71%) Social Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Finance
5 1 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Law
5 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (28.57%) Software Engineer
2 7 (25.00%) Administrator
2 7 (25.00%) C Software Engineer
2 7 (25.00%) C/C++ Embedded Software Engineer
2 7 (25.00%) C/C++ Software Engineer
2 7 (25.00%) C++ Software Engineer
2 7 (25.00%) Embedded C Engineer
2 7 (25.00%) Embedded C Software Engineer
2 7 (25.00%) Embedded C/C++ Engineer
2 7 (25.00%) Embedded C/C++ Software Engineer
2 7 (25.00%) Embedded C++ Engineer
2 7 (25.00%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
2 7 (25.00%) Embedded Engineer
2 7 (25.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 7 (25.00%) Linux Administrator
2 7 (25.00%) Senior
3 6 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (17.86%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) IT Security Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (25.00%) LDAP
1 7 (25.00%) Middleware
2 2 (7.14%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 7 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (10.71%) PKI
3 2 (7.14%) CCTV
4 1 (3.57%) Clustering
4 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (35.71%) Linux
2 8 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 7 (25.00%) CentOS
3 7 (25.00%) Windows
3 7 (25.00%) Windows Server
4 4 (14.29%) VMS
5 3 (10.71%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (3.57%) Data ONTAP
7 1 (3.57%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (28.57%) Code Coverage
1 8 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 8 (28.57%) Requirements Analysis
1 8 (28.57%) Software Engineering
1 8 (28.57%) Unit Testing
1 8 (28.57%) Workflow
2 7 (25.00%) Information Management
2 7 (25.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
3 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure Automation
3 4 (14.29%) Zero Trust
4 3 (10.71%) Agile
4 3 (10.71%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (10.71%) Migration
4 3 (10.71%) Scrum
4 3 (10.71%) Waterfall
5 2 (7.14%) CI/CD
5 2 (7.14%) DevOps
5 2 (7.14%) End-to-End Testing
5 2 (7.14%) Knowledge Transfer
5 2 (7.14%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (28.57%) C
1 8 (28.57%) C++
1 8 (28.57%) Shell Script
2 7 (25.00%) Embedded C
2 7 (25.00%) Embedded C++
2 7 (25.00%) MATLAB
2 7 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (10.71%) Python
4 1 (3.57%) Bash
4 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.57%) Korn
4 1 (3.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 7 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (10.71%) Degree
3 3 (10.71%) DV Cleared
4 2 (7.14%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.57%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (3.57%) PMI Certification
5 1 (3.57%) PMP
5 1 (3.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (64.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (53.57%) Active Directory
3 11 (39.29%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (14.29%) Hyper-V
5 1 (3.57%) Sendmail
5 1 (3.57%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (3.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (32.14%) Ansible
2 7 (25.00%) Check_MK
2 7 (25.00%) Podman
2 7 (25.00%) Red Hat Satellite
3 4 (14.29%) Terraform
4 3 (10.71%) vCenter Server
5 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (7.14%) SCCM
6 1 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (3.57%) vRealize
6 1 (3.57%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 9 (32.14%) IBM
1 9 (32.14%) Microsoft
2 8 (28.57%) ANSYS
3 7 (25.00%) Red Hat
4 2 (7.14%) Citrix
4 2 (7.14%) Google
4 2 (7.14%) Veeam
4 2 (7.14%) Wyse
5 1 (3.57%) NetApp