VMware Contract Job Trends in the South East

VMware
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 30 January 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
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 32 24
Rank change year-on-year -3 -8 +4
Contract jobs citing VMware 253 206 353
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 5.53% 6.39% 6.57%
As % of the Vendors category 11.39% 12.72% 12.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 150 221
10th Percentile £350 £350 £310
25th Percentile £416 £416 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £556 £515
Median % change year-on-year -9.99% +7.86% -4.41%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £569
90th Percentile £684 £700 £643
England median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 16
10th Percentile £57.43 £77.63 £20.38
25th Percentile £73.00 £77.81 £52.02
Median hourly rate £87.00 £81.25 £68.63
Median % change year-on-year +7.08% +18.39% -2.31%
75th Percentile £96.88 £85.31 £76.53
90th Percentile £101.75 £85.88 £77.27
England median hourly rate £70.00 £68.75 £62.50
% change year-on-year +1.82% +10.00% -3.85%

All Vendors
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 2,222 1,619 2,726
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 48.55% 50.23% 50.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,601 1,038 1,738
10th Percentile £255 £236 £205
25th Percentile £406 £405 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.07% +2.12% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 50 153
10th Percentile £12.50 £18.50 £13.16
25th Percentile £16.13 £24.18 £20.75
Median hourly rate £22.25 £36.46 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.97% -30.56% +45.83%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.44 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.40 £74.88 £76.53
England median hourly rate £23.25 £30.00 £30.88
% change year-on-year -22.50% -2.83% -4.26%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing VMware relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

VMware job vacancy trend in the South East

VMware
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing VMware.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing VMware

VMware
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing VMware in the South East over the 6 months to 30 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for VMware in the South East

VMware
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing VMware.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing VMware

VMware
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VMware in the South East over the 6 months to 30 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for VMware in the South East

VMware
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware within the South East region over the 6 months to 30 January 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
Hampshire +5 125 £538 -6.52% 35
Thames Valley -18 93 £475 -13.64% 22
Berkshire -8 81 £475 -11.71% 8
Surrey -10 13 £400 -14.89% 18
West Sussex -3 11 £575 +53.33% 1
Buckinghamshire -26 9 £555 -3.27% 10
Kent -3 7 £550 -3.25% 4
East Sussex +7 4 £180 +10.77% 2
Oxfordshire -11 3 £425 - 4
VMware
England

VMware
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 7 (2.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (2.37%) OpenStack
3 4 (1.58%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.79%) Apache
4 2 (0.79%) WordPress
5 1 (0.40%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (0.79%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 79 (31.23%) Azure
2 72 (28.46%) AWS
3 42 (16.60%) OpenShift
4 18 (7.11%) GitHub
4 18 (7.11%) GitHub Actions
5 17 (6.72%) IaaS
6 16 (6.32%) Entra ID
7 14 (5.53%) GCP
7 14 (5.53%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (3.95%) PaaS
9 8 (3.16%) Nutanix
10 4 (1.58%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (0.79%) SaaS
12 1 (0.40%) Amazon EKS
12 1 (0.40%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 1 (0.40%) Cohesity
12 1 (0.40%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 62 (24.51%) DNS
2 43 (17.00%) Firewall
3 41 (16.21%) DHCP
4 24 (9.49%) TCP/IP
5 19 (7.51%) VLAN
6 16 (6.32%) SAN
7 13 (5.14%) VPN
8 11 (4.35%) LAN
8 11 (4.35%) VSAN
8 11 (4.35%) WAN
9 10 (3.95%) FTP
10 9 (3.56%) BGP
10 9 (3.56%) NAS
11 8 (3.16%) SNMP
12 7 (2.77%) Wireless
13 6 (2.37%) MPLS
13 6 (2.37%) OSPF
13 6 (2.37%) TACACS
14 5 (1.98%) iSCSI
15 4 (1.58%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.32%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (2.77%) Redis
2 7 (2.77%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.19%) MongoDB
3 3 (1.19%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (5.93%) GitLab
1 15 (5.93%) Jenkins
2 13 (5.14%) Sonatype Nexus
3 9 (3.56%) Cucumber
3 9 (3.56%) JMeter
3 9 (3.56%) JUnit
4 4 (1.58%) Robot Framework
5 3 (1.19%) Maven
6 1 (0.40%) Git
6 1 (0.40%) Subversion
General
1 53 (20.95%) Social Skills
2 27 (10.67%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 14 (5.53%) Finance
5 9 (3.56%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (2.37%) Aerospace
7 4 (1.58%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.19%) Banking
8 3 (1.19%) Legal
8 3 (1.19%) Military
8 3 (1.19%) Retail
9 2 (0.79%) Back Office
9 2 (0.79%) Front Office
10 1 (0.40%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 71 (28.06%) Architect
2 44 (17.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 27 (10.67%) Infrastructure Architect
4 26 (10.28%) Support Engineer
5 21 (8.30%) Infrastructure Support
5 21 (8.30%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 19 (7.51%) VMware Engineer
7 17 (6.72%) VMware Architect
8 14 (5.53%) Senior
9 11 (4.35%) Analyst
10 10 (3.95%) DevOps Engineer
10 10 (3.95%) Network Engineer
10 10 (3.95%) Wintel Analyst
11 9 (3.56%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 9 (3.56%) Developer
11 9 (3.56%) Lead
12 8 (3.16%) Java Developer
12 8 (3.16%) Technical Architect
13 7 (2.77%) Full-Stack Developer
13 7 (2.77%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (7.51%) Kafka
2 9 (3.56%) Spring
3 8 (3.16%) Hibernate
3 8 (3.16%) Loki
4 7 (2.77%) Keycloak
5 4 (1.58%) Spring Boot
6 3 (1.19%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (1.19%) Swagger
7 2 (0.79%) Middleware
7 2 (0.79%) OAuth
7 2 (0.79%) REST
7 2 (0.79%) RESTful
7 2 (0.79%) SAML
8 1 (0.40%) JSON
8 1 (0.40%) LDAP
8 1 (0.40%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.40%) OpenID
8 1 (0.40%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 29 (11.46%) PKI
2 24 (9.49%) Cloud Native
3 20 (7.91%) Data Centre
4 15 (5.93%) Analytical Mindset
5 13 (5.14%) Hybrid Cloud
6 11 (4.35%) Fat Client
6 11 (4.35%) Thin Client
7 10 (3.95%) Private Cloud
7 10 (3.95%) Public Cloud
8 8 (3.16%) Replication
8 8 (3.16%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.79%) NHS
11 1 (0.40%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.40%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.40%) Security Operations Centre
11 1 (0.40%) Security Posture
11 1 (0.40%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.40%) Smartphone
11 1 (0.40%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 92 (36.36%) Windows
2 89 (35.18%) Linux
3 46 (18.18%) Windows Server
4 29 (11.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (4.35%) Windows 7
6 8 (3.16%) Windows Server 2016
7 7 (2.77%) Windows Server 2019
8 6 (2.37%) Ubuntu
8 6 (2.37%) Windows 10
9 4 (1.58%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (1.19%) CentOS
10 3 (1.19%) Debian
10 3 (1.19%) Mac OS
10 3 (1.19%) Unix
11 1 (0.40%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.40%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (24.11%) Problem-Solving
2 60 (23.72%) Agile
3 57 (22.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 45 (17.79%) CI/CD
5 42 (16.60%) ITIL
6 29 (11.46%) DevSecOps
6 29 (11.46%) Infrastructure as Code
7 28 (11.07%) Containerisation
8 25 (9.88%) DevOps
8 25 (9.88%) Observability
9 22 (8.70%) Platform Engineering
10 21 (8.30%) Roadmaps
11 20 (7.91%) Disaster Recovery
12 19 (7.51%) Cybersecurity
13 18 (7.11%) Prototyping
14 17 (6.72%) Continuous Improvement
15 15 (5.93%) Service Management
16 14 (5.53%) Infrastructure Management
16 14 (5.53%) Migration
16 14 (5.53%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 59 (23.32%) Python
2 42 (16.60%) PowerShell
3 33 (13.04%) Bash
4 17 (6.72%) Java
5 11 (4.35%) SQL
6 6 (2.37%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.19%) Go
7 3 (1.19%) Perl
8 2 (0.79%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.40%) Bicep
9 1 (0.40%) VB
Qualifications
1 157 (62.06%) Security Cleared
2 86 (33.99%) SC Cleared
3 69 (27.27%) DV Cleared
4 18 (7.11%) Azure Certification
5 17 (6.72%) Microsoft Certification
6 15 (5.93%) AWS Certification
7 11 (4.35%) Network+ Certification
7 11 (4.35%) Server+ Certification
7 11 (4.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 10 (3.95%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (2.77%) CCIE
10 6 (2.37%) JNCIE
11 5 (1.98%) MCSE
12 4 (1.58%) CCNP
12 4 (1.58%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (1.58%) VCAP
12 4 (1.58%) VCDX
13 3 (1.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 2 (0.79%) RHCE
14 2 (0.79%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.16%) NCSC
2 4 (1.58%) GDPR
2 4 (1.58%) SLA
3 3 (1.19%) Def Stans
3 3 (1.19%) QA
4 2 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.79%) NIST
5 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.40%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.40%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 144 (56.92%) VMware Infrastructure
2 70 (27.67%) Active Directory
3 41 (16.21%) vSphere
4 33 (13.04%) VMware NSX
5 31 (12.25%) Hyper-V
6 19 (7.51%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (5.53%) Docker
8 9 (3.56%) NFS
8 9 (3.56%) Virtual Desktop
9 6 (2.37%) vCloud
10 3 (1.19%) DFS Replication
10 3 (1.19%) Firmware
10 3 (1.19%) KVM
10 3 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (0.79%) UAG
11 2 (0.79%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.40%) RHEV
12 1 (0.40%) Sendmail
12 1 (0.40%) Xen
Systems Management
1 58 (22.92%) Ansible
2 38 (15.02%) Kubernetes
3 36 (14.23%) Terraform
4 31 (12.25%) vCenter Server
5 21 (8.30%) Argo
6 19 (7.51%) Grafana
6 19 (7.51%) Prometheus
7 17 (6.72%) Microsoft Intune
8 14 (5.53%) SCCM
9 13 (5.14%) Red Hat Satellite
10 11 (4.35%) Progress Chef
10 11 (4.35%) WMI
11 9 (3.56%) Single Sign-On
12 8 (3.16%) Kustomize
12 8 (3.16%) vRealize
13 6 (2.37%) Istio
13 6 (2.37%) linkerd
13 6 (2.37%) SCOM
14 5 (1.98%) vRealize Orchestrator
15 4 (1.58%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 67 (26.48%) Microsoft
2 47 (18.58%) Red Hat
3 23 (9.09%) Citrix
4 21 (8.30%) Cisco
5 12 (4.74%) F5
6 9 (3.56%) Fortinet
6 9 (3.56%) Juniper
6 9 (3.56%) Splunk
7 8 (3.16%) NetApp
7 8 (3.16%) ServiceNow
8 6 (2.37%) Pure Storage
9 5 (1.98%) Dell
9 5 (1.98%) Palo Alto
9 5 (1.98%) Veeam
10 3 (1.19%) Broadcom
10 3 (1.19%) Oracle
10 3 (1.19%) SolarWinds
10 3 (1.19%) Zscaler
11 2 (0.79%) Aruba
11 2 (0.79%) NetIQ