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 18 September 2025, 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
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 27 14
Rank change year-on-year -2 -13 +24
Contract jobs citing VMware 27 32 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 5.93% 5.25% 9.41%
As % of the Vendors category 12.05% 14.35% 18.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 23 44
10th Percentile £463 £467 £410
25th Percentile £525 £525 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £619
Median % change year-on-year - -11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £700
90th Percentile - - £838
East of England median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +41.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 10
10th Percentile - - £72.78
25th Percentile - - £73.09
Median hourly rate - - £78.73
75th Percentile - - £88.59
90th Percentile - - £90.00
East of England median hourly rate - £50.00 £78.73
% change year-on-year - -36.49% +7.84%

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 224 223 399
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 49.23% 36.62% 52.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 104 244
10th Percentile £343 £252 £204
25th Percentile £463 £381 £314
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% +3.63%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £650
90th Percentile £700 £600 £750
East of England median daily rate £525 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 48 48
10th Percentile £16.37 £13.86 £20.04
25th Percentile £17.24 £15.73 £42.25
Median hourly rate £22.63 £65.00 £50.75
Median % change year-on-year -65.18% +28.08% -7.73%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.63 £70.00
90th Percentile - £85.00 £84.36
East of England median hourly rate £22.60 £16.23 £42.50
% change year-on-year +39.22% -61.81% +102.38%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

Job postings citing VMware as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for VMware 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 18 September 2025.

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 18 September 2025. 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 +3 20 £550 - 2
Watford +4 3 £475 +86.27% 7
Broxbourne - 1 - -
Hoddesdon - 1 - - 2
VMware
East of England

VMware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 20 (74.07%) Cohesity
2 3 (11.11%) Azure
3 2 (7.41%) AWS
4 1 (3.70%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.70%) IaaS
4 1 (3.70%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (77.78%) DNS
1 21 (77.78%) SAN
2 3 (11.11%) Firewall
2 3 (11.11%) TCP/IP
2 3 (11.11%) VLAN
3 2 (7.41%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (7.41%) Network Security
3 2 (7.41%) VPN
4 1 (3.70%) DHCP
4 1 (3.70%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (3.70%) iSCSI
4 1 (3.70%) NAS
General
1 3 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (11.11%) IT Engineer
1 3 (11.11%) Senior
2 2 (7.41%) IT Security Engineer
2 2 (7.41%) Security Engineer
2 2 (7.41%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (7.41%) Senior IT Engineer
3 1 (3.70%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (3.70%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (3.70%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
3 1 (3.70%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (3.70%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (3.70%) Infrastructure Support
3 1 (3.70%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 1 (3.70%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (3.70%) Senior Security Engineer
3 1 (3.70%) Support Engineer
3 1 (3.70%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (3.70%) VMware Engineer
3 1 (3.70%) VMware Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.41%) CCTV
2 1 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.70%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 22 (81.48%) Windows
2 21 (77.78%) Windows Server
3 20 (74.07%) Windows Server 2016
3 20 (74.07%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (11.11%) Linux
5 2 (7.41%) VMS
6 1 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (3.70%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (74.07%) Build Automation
1 20 (74.07%) Deployment Automation
1 20 (74.07%) Operations Management
1 20 (74.07%) SIEM
2 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (7.41%) Agile
3 2 (7.41%) Data Loss Prevention
3 2 (7.41%) End-to-End Testing
3 2 (7.41%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (7.41%) Scrum
3 2 (7.41%) SDLC
3 2 (7.41%) Virtual Environments
3 2 (7.41%) Waterfall
4 1 (3.70%) BCP
4 1 (3.70%) Business Continuity
4 1 (3.70%) Configuration Management
4 1 (3.70%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (3.70%) Identity Management
4 1 (3.70%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 23 (85.19%) PowerShell
2 3 (11.11%) Python
3 2 (7.41%) Bash
4 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.70%) Korn
4 1 (3.70%) Shell Script
4 1 (3.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (77.78%) Security Cleared
2 20 (74.07%) DV Cleared
3 2 (7.41%) Degree
4 1 (3.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 24 (88.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 21 (77.78%) Active Directory
3 20 (74.07%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 20 (74.07%) Virtual Servers
4 5 (18.52%) Hyper-V
5 3 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (3.70%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 21 (77.78%) Ansible
2 20 (74.07%) SCCM
2 20 (74.07%) WSUS
3 1 (3.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (3.70%) Terraform
3 1 (3.70%) vRealize
3 1 (3.70%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 20 (74.07%) Microsoft
1 20 (74.07%) NetApp
1 20 (74.07%) Splunk
2 2 (7.41%) HP
3 1 (3.70%) Aruba
3 1 (3.70%) Citrix
3 1 (3.70%) IBM
3 1 (3.70%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.70%) Veeam
3 1 (3.70%) Veritas