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 19 November 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
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 25 16
Rank change year-on-year -25 -9 +10
Contract jobs citing VMware 16 22 71
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 2.76% 4.85% 9.33%
As % of the Vendors category 5.67% 11.34% 17.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 16 48
10th Percentile £440 £404 £443
25th Percentile £463 £491 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% -15.38% +15.56%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £747
90th Percentile £579 - £820
East of England median daily rate £500 £513 £650
% change year-on-year -2.44% -21.15% +52.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £73.09
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £78.73
75th Percentile - - £88.75
90th Percentile - - £90.00
East of England median hourly rate £45.50 £50.00 £78.73
% change year-on-year -9.00% -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 282 194 398
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 48.62% 42.73% 52.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 90 240
10th Percentile £334 £262 £263
25th Percentile £440 £391 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £519 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% +3.75% -9.09%
75th Percentile £625 £584 £675
90th Percentile £772 £654 £775
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 38 52
10th Percentile £16.39 £14.08 £24.85
25th Percentile £17.20 £18.00 £42.25
Median hourly rate £19.14 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -70.56% +18.18% -15.38%
75th Percentile £60.31 £75.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £95.00 £84.36
East of England median hourly rate £20.52 £16.23 £44.50
% change year-on-year +26.43% -63.53% +27.14%

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 19 November 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 19 November 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 -17 5 £550 - 9
Watford 0 3 £475 +86.27% 1
Hatfield - 2 - - 1
Hemel Hempstead - 2 £526 - 3
Hoddesdon - 1 - -
Broxbourne - 1 - - 1
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 1 (6.25%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) Entra ID
3 2 (12.50%) AWS
3 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (12.50%) Google Workspace
4 1 (6.25%) Cohesity
4 1 (6.25%) IaaS
4 1 (6.25%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (37.50%) DNS
2 5 (31.25%) Firewall
2 5 (31.25%) TCP/IP
3 4 (25.00%) DHCP
3 4 (25.00%) SAN
4 3 (18.75%) VLAN
5 2 (12.50%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (12.50%) Network Security
5 2 (12.50%) VPN
6 1 (6.25%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (6.25%) iSCSI
6 1 (6.25%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Git
1 2 (12.50%) GitLab
1 2 (12.50%) JIRA
1 2 (12.50%) PVCS
1 2 (12.50%) Rational DOORS
General
1 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Electronics
3 1 (6.25%) Aerospace
3 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Law
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (43.75%) Senior
3 6 (37.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) IT Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) IT Security Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Security Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Senior IT Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Software Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) 3rd Line Support
6 1 (6.25%) C Software Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) C++ Software Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Embedded C Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Embedded C Software Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Embedded C/C++ Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Senior Security Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Support Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) PKI
2 2 (12.50%) CCTV
3 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (6.25%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (56.25%) Windows
2 8 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 5 (31.25%) Linux
4 4 (25.00%) VMS
5 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (6.25%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 1 (6.25%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Automation
2 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (18.75%) Task Automation
2 3 (18.75%) Zero Trust
3 2 (12.50%) Agile
3 2 (12.50%) CI/CD
3 2 (12.50%) Code Coverage
3 2 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (12.50%) End-to-End Testing
3 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (12.50%) Migration
3 2 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
3 2 (12.50%) Requirements Analysis
3 2 (12.50%) Scrum
3 2 (12.50%) Software Engineering
3 2 (12.50%) Unit Testing
3 2 (12.50%) Waterfall
3 2 (12.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (31.25%) Python
3 2 (12.50%) Bash
3 2 (12.50%) C
3 2 (12.50%) C++
4 1 (6.25%) Embedded C
4 1 (6.25%) Embedded C++
4 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
4 1 (6.25%) Korn
4 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
4 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 3 (18.75%) DV Cleared
3 2 (12.50%) Degree
4 1 (6.25%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
4 1 (6.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 13 (81.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 6 (37.50%) Hyper-V
4 5 (31.25%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (6.25%) Sendmail
5 1 (6.25%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) SCCM
1 3 (18.75%) Terraform
2 2 (12.50%) Ansible
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (12.50%) vCenter Server
3 1 (6.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (6.25%) vRealize
3 1 (6.25%) WSUS
3 1 (6.25%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) Microsoft
2 3 (18.75%) Citrix
2 3 (18.75%) IBM
3 2 (12.50%) ANSYS
3 2 (12.50%) Google
3 2 (12.50%) HP
3 2 (12.50%) Veeam
3 2 (12.50%) Wyse
4 1 (6.25%) Aruba
4 1 (6.25%) NetApp
4 1 (6.25%) Red Hat
4 1 (6.25%) Splunk
4 1 (6.25%) Veritas