VMware Contracts in Kent

VMware
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Kent 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 12 August 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
12 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 20 3
Rank change year-on-year +15 -17 +8
Contract jobs citing VMware 24 4 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Kent 19.35% 2.11% 16.67%
As % of the Vendors category 36.92% 7.14% 27.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 3 34
10th Percentile £153 £153 £340
25th Percentile £329 £154 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £157 £365
Median % change year-on-year +138.72% -56.96% +35.19%
75th Percentile £603 £248 £373
90th Percentile £623 £302 £489
South East median daily rate £569 £550 £500
% change year-on-year +3.36% +10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £22.40 -
South East median hourly rate £32.77 £36.17 £54.56
% change year-on-year -9.39% -33.72% +172.80%

All Vendors
Kent

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 Kent.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 65 56 135
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent 52.42% 29.47% 60.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 31 113
10th Percentile £196 £155 £153
25th Percentile £256 £189 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £238 £350
Median % change year-on-year +57.89% -32.14% -22.44%
75th Percentile £530 £494 £463
90th Percentile £623 £540 £600
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile - £18.58 £21.30
25th Percentile - £20.01 £28.87
Median hourly rate £16.36 £22.40 £42.12
Median % change year-on-year -26.96% -46.82% -
75th Percentile - £44.71 £54.74
90th Percentile - £58.10 £61.94
South East median hourly rate £19.00 £57.35 £45.00
% change year-on-year -66.87% +27.44% +127.85%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware in Kent

VMware
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Kent

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing VMware in Kent.

Daily rate trend for VMware in Kent

VMware
Daily Rate Histogram in Kent

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware in Kent over the 6 months to 12 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for VMware in Kent

VMware
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Kent

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing VMware in Kent.

Hourly rate trend for VMware in Kent

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Contract Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware within the Kent region over the 6 months to 12 August 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
Maidstone - 6 £474 - 2
Tonbridge - 5 £155 -
Dover - 5 £375 - 1
Chatham - 2 £480 - 1
West Malling - 1 £615 - 2
VMware
South East

VMware
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (20.83%) Confluence
1 5 (20.83%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 15 (62.50%) Azure
2 7 (29.17%) IaaS
3 5 (20.83%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (16.67%) PaaS
5 3 (12.50%) Asana
5 3 (12.50%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 17 (70.83%) DNS
2 12 (50.00%) DHCP
2 12 (50.00%) Firewall
3 10 (41.67%) TCP/IP
3 10 (41.67%) VPN
4 7 (29.17%) SAN
5 5 (20.83%) Remote Desktop
5 5 (20.83%) SSL
5 5 (20.83%) VLAN
6 4 (16.67%) Fibre Channel
Development Applications
1 8 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 5 (20.83%) Law
1 5 (20.83%) Legal
2 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (62.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 10 (41.67%) Azure Engineer
2 10 (41.67%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (29.17%) VMware Engineer
3 7 (29.17%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (20.83%) Help Desk Officer
4 5 (20.83%) Help Desk Support
4 5 (20.83%) IT Support
4 5 (20.83%) Service Desk Officer
4 5 (20.83%) Service Desk Support
4 5 (20.83%) Support Officer
4 5 (20.83%) Windows Engineer
4 5 (20.83%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
5 3 (12.50%) 3rd Line Support
5 3 (12.50%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Driving Licence
2 2 (8.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 17 (70.83%) Windows
2 5 (20.83%) Windows 10
2 5 (20.83%) Windows Server
2 5 (20.83%) Windows Server 2003
2 5 (20.83%) Windows Server 2012
2 5 (20.83%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 11 (45.83%) ITIL
3 7 (29.17%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (25.00%) DevOps
4 6 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (25.00%) Migration
4 6 (25.00%) Security Patching
5 5 (20.83%) Creative Problem-Solving
5 5 (20.83%) CRM
5 5 (20.83%) Preventative Maintenance
5 5 (20.83%) PRINCE2
5 5 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (12.50%) Change Management
6 3 (12.50%) Email Migration
6 3 (12.50%) Project Management
7 2 (8.33%) Identity Management
7 2 (8.33%) Project Delivery
7 2 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 1 (4.17%) Vulnerability Remediation
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (29.17%) SLA
2 5 (20.83%) GDPR
System Software
1 19 (79.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 12 (50.00%) vSphere
3 10 (41.67%) Hyper-V
4 7 (29.17%) DFS Replication
5 5 (20.83%) Terminal Services
6 3 (12.50%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (20.83%) Tivoli
2 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (70.83%) Citrix
2 14 (58.33%) Microsoft
3 5 (20.83%) SolarWinds
3 5 (20.83%) Veeam