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 6 July 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
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 20 34
Rank change year-on-year -11 +14 -22
Contract jobs citing VMware 39 26 39
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 4.64% 6.84% 4.70%
As % of the Vendors category 11.64% 13.68% 13.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 23 32
10th Percentile £338 - -
25th Percentile £463 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.82% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £569 £575 £650
90th Percentile £659 - £724
East of England median daily rate £507 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.82% - -12.00%

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 335 190 297
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 39.83% 50.00% 35.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 108 161
10th Percentile £321 £393 £200
25th Percentile £450 £461 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £650 £575 £575
90th Percentile £750 £629 £701
East of England median daily rate £505 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -3.81% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 36 76
10th Percentile £17.11 £16.74 £14.26
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.95 £29.00
Median hourly rate £22.63 £24.15 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% -62.85% +32.65%
75th Percentile £40.00 £65.00 £76.44
90th Percentile £70.00 - £85.00
East of England median hourly rate £22.63 £20.75 £16.30
% change year-on-year +9.06% +27.30% -25.91%

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 6 July 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 6 July 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
Hatfield - 17 £507 - 3
Stevenage -24 9 £475 -13.64% 4
Watford - 4 £438 - 1
Hemel Hempstead - 2 £688 -
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 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.56%) CMS
2 1 (2.56%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (10.26%) Azure
2 3 (7.69%) IaaS
3 2 (5.13%) Entra ID
3 2 (5.13%) GCP
3 2 (5.13%) GitHub
3 2 (5.13%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (5.13%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 2 (5.13%) PaaS
3 2 (5.13%) SaaS
4 1 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.56%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 8 (20.51%) DNS
2 6 (15.38%) Firewall
3 5 (12.82%) DHCP
3 5 (12.82%) WAN
4 3 (7.69%) TCP/IP
5 2 (5.13%) BGP
5 2 (5.13%) iSCSI
5 2 (5.13%) LAN
5 2 (5.13%) MPLS
5 2 (5.13%) Multicast
5 2 (5.13%) NAS
5 2 (5.13%) Network Security
5 2 (5.13%) SAN
5 2 (5.13%) VPN
5 2 (5.13%) VSAN
6 1 (2.56%) H.323
6 1 (2.56%) SSL
6 1 (2.56%) VLAN
6 1 (2.56%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (17.95%) GitLab
2 6 (15.38%) Git
2 6 (15.38%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.56%) JIRA
General
1 7 (17.95%) Documentation Skills
2 5 (12.82%) Finance
3 3 (7.69%) Aerospace
3 3 (7.69%) Legal
3 3 (7.69%) Social Skills
4 2 (5.13%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (23.08%) Administrator
2 7 (17.95%) Senior
3 6 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (15.38%) JavaScript Engineer
3 6 (15.38%) Linux Administrator
3 6 (15.38%) PowerShell Engineer
3 6 (15.38%) Python Engineer
3 6 (15.38%) VMware Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Consultant
4 4 (10.26%) Principal Consultant
4 4 (10.26%) Project Manager
4 4 (10.26%) VMware Consultant
5 3 (7.69%) Network Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Cisco Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Infrastructure Manager
6 2 (5.13%) Infrastructure Project Manager
6 2 (5.13%) Senior Network Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Systems Administrator
6 2 (5.13%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (17.95%) LDAP
2 6 (15.38%) Middleware
3 1 (2.56%) OAuth
3 1 (2.56%) OAuth2
3 1 (2.56%) OpenID
3 1 (2.56%) REST
3 1 (2.56%) SAML
3 1 (2.56%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.38%) Data Centre
2 5 (12.82%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.13%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.13%) Fat Client
3 2 (5.13%) Private Cloud
3 2 (5.13%) Thin Client
3 2 (5.13%) Virtual Team
4 1 (2.56%) Clustering
4 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.56%) NHS
4 1 (2.56%) PKI
4 1 (2.56%) PMI
4 1 (2.56%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 13 (33.33%) Windows
2 12 (30.77%) Linux
3 8 (20.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (20.51%) Windows Server
4 7 (17.95%) CentOS
5 3 (7.69%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (2.56%) Data ONTAP
6 1 (2.56%) Rocky
6 1 (2.56%) VMS
6 1 (2.56%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (25.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (15.38%) Information Management
2 6 (15.38%) Infrastructure Monitoring
2 6 (15.38%) ITIL
3 5 (12.82%) Project Management
4 4 (10.26%) Agile
4 4 (10.26%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (10.26%) Migration
4 4 (10.26%) PRINCE2
4 4 (10.26%) Project Delivery
4 4 (10.26%) Technical Leadership
5 3 (7.69%) CI/CD
5 3 (7.69%) DevOps
5 3 (7.69%) High Availability
5 3 (7.69%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (7.69%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 3 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (7.69%) Zero Trust
6 2 (5.13%) Information Security
6 2 (5.13%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 12 (30.77%) PowerShell
2 8 (20.51%) Python
3 7 (17.95%) JavaScript
4 6 (15.38%) MATLAB
4 6 (15.38%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.56%) Bash
5 1 (2.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (48.72%) Security Cleared
2 15 (38.46%) SC Cleared
3 9 (23.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 7 (17.95%) DV Cleared
5 3 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (7.69%) PMI Certification
6 2 (5.13%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (5.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (5.13%) PMP
7 1 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (2.56%) Degree
7 1 (2.56%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (23.08%) SLA
2 1 (2.56%) NIST
System Software
1 20 (51.28%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (35.90%) Active Directory
3 4 (10.26%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (7.69%) Hyper-V
4 3 (7.69%) vSphere
5 1 (2.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 13 (33.33%) Ansible
2 8 (20.51%) vRealize
3 6 (15.38%) Check_MK
3 6 (15.38%) Podman
3 6 (15.38%) Red Hat Satellite
3 6 (15.38%) vCenter Server
4 5 (12.82%) Terraform
5 2 (5.13%) Argo
5 2 (5.13%) Kubernetes
5 2 (5.13%) SCCM
6 1 (2.56%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (2.56%) NetBackup
6 1 (2.56%) WSUS
Vendors
1 8 (20.51%) Microsoft
2 6 (15.38%) Red Hat
3 5 (12.82%) Cisco
4 2 (5.13%) NetApp
4 2 (5.13%) Palo Alto
5 1 (2.56%) Citrix
5 1 (2.56%) Forcepoint
5 1 (2.56%) Google
5 1 (2.56%) HP
5 1 (2.56%) Splunk
5 1 (2.56%) Veeam
5 1 (2.56%) Wyse