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 25 September 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
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 32 27
Rank change year-on-year -13 -5 -6
Contract jobs citing VMware 307 187 327
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 4.65% 5.33% 7.19%
As % of the Vendors category 10.67% 10.39% 14.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 147 230
10th Percentile £417 £219 £350
25th Percentile £463 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £608
90th Percentile £725 £650 £672
England median daily rate £530 £550 £515
% change year-on-year -3.64% +6.80% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 2 2
10th Percentile £33.70 £45.49 £23.72
25th Percentile £52.84 £64.58 £25.70
Median hourly rate £67.24 £96.39 £29.28
Median % change year-on-year -30.24% +229.16% -51.20%
75th Percentile £70.73 £128.19 £33.16
90th Percentile £95.00 £147.28 £35.31
England median hourly rate £68.38 £34.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +101.10% -32.00% -23.65%

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 2,878 1,800 2,242
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 43.55% 51.28% 49.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,761 1,213 1,358
10th Percentile £263 £205 £255
25th Percentile £425 £358 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -2.91% +3.00%
75th Percentile £610 £590 £628
90th Percentile £700 £650 £700
England median daily rate £514 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +1.28% -3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 252 105 104
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.20 £16.00
25th Percentile £16.33 £15.50 £26.81
Median hourly rate £37.37 £20.00 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +86.85% -65.13% +9.24%
75th Percentile £70.00 £34.83 £61.60
90th Percentile £92.05 £79.60 £70.00
England median hourly rate £27.50 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +9.34% -28.14% -20.27%

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 25 September 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 25 September 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 25 September 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
Thames Valley +8 146 £550 +13.99% 54
Hampshire -2 138 £538 -8.51% 41
Buckinghamshire +20 78 £575 +8.80% 7
Berkshire -19 66 £463 -4.15% 26
Surrey -8 13 £475 -13.64% 30
West Sussex -25 4 £613 +19.51% 9
Middlesex -18 2 - - 1
Oxfordshire -28 2 £363 -4.92% 21
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 9 (2.93%) Confluence
1 9 (2.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (2.61%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.63%) Apache
3 5 (1.63%) nginx
4 4 (1.30%) FactoryTalk
5 1 (0.33%) CMS
5 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.65%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (0.65%) Houdini
2 2 (0.65%) NUKE
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.98%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 85 (27.69%) Azure
2 41 (13.36%) AWS
3 17 (5.54%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (4.23%) Entra ID
5 10 (3.26%) Rubrik
6 9 (2.93%) Azure Monitor
6 9 (2.93%) IaaS
7 7 (2.28%) OpenShift
8 5 (1.63%) GCP
9 4 (1.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (0.98%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (0.98%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (0.98%) OneDrive
11 2 (0.65%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (0.65%) Google Workspace
12 1 (0.33%) Azure App Service
12 1 (0.33%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (0.33%) Azure Key Vault
12 1 (0.33%) Cloudflare
12 1 (0.33%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 99 (32.25%) DNS
2 61 (19.87%) Firewall
3 52 (16.94%) DHCP
4 36 (11.73%) VPN
5 32 (10.42%) VLAN
6 27 (8.79%) WAN
7 26 (8.47%) TCP/IP
8 25 (8.14%) LAN
9 24 (7.82%) VSAN
10 16 (5.21%) Cisco Firepower
10 16 (5.21%) SD-WAN
11 14 (4.56%) Cisco ASA
11 14 (4.56%) SSL
12 13 (4.23%) BGP
12 13 (4.23%) Network Security
13 11 (3.58%) Cisco Nexus
13 11 (3.58%) IPsec
13 11 (3.58%) Wi-Fi
14 9 (2.93%) OSPF
15 8 (2.61%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.28%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.65%) Data Mining
3 1 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (2.93%) JIRA
2 7 (2.28%) GitLab
3 5 (1.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 5 (1.63%) Bitbucket
4 3 (0.98%) Rational DOORS
4 3 (0.98%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.65%) Git
5 2 (0.65%) MSI
6 1 (0.33%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.33%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.33%) Robot Framework
General
1 60 (19.54%) Social Skills
2 54 (17.59%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (3.58%) Finance
4 8 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
4 8 (2.61%) Manufacturing
5 7 (2.28%) Telecoms
6 6 (1.95%) Aerospace
6 6 (1.95%) Public Sector
6 6 (1.95%) Retail
7 5 (1.63%) Military
8 4 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.65%) Police
11 1 (0.33%) Advertising
11 1 (0.33%) Back Office
11 1 (0.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 77 (25.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 51 (16.61%) Senior
3 35 (11.40%) VMware Engineer
4 33 (10.75%) Architect
4 33 (10.75%) Lead
5 32 (10.42%) Cloud Engineer
6 31 (10.10%) Support Engineer
7 30 (9.77%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 27 (8.79%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 25 (8.14%) Network Engineer
10 22 (7.17%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
11 20 (6.51%) Storage Engineer
12 15 (4.89%) Senior VMware Engineer
13 13 (4.23%) Technical Leader
14 12 (3.91%) Administrator
15 11 (3.58%) Linux Engineer
16 10 (3.26%) Citrix Engineer
16 10 (3.26%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
16 10 (3.26%) Network Architect
16 10 (3.26%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (8.47%) Terraform
2 4 (1.30%) 802.1X
3 3 (0.98%) ARM Templates
3 3 (0.98%) REST
4 2 (0.65%) Middleware
4 2 (0.65%) Unreal Engine
4 2 (0.65%) YAML
5 1 (0.33%) Kafka
5 1 (0.33%) Keycloak
5 1 (0.33%) LDAP
5 1 (0.33%) ModSecurity
5 1 (0.33%) NETCONF
5 1 (0.33%) OpenConfig
5 1 (0.33%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 35 (11.40%) Data Centre
2 33 (10.75%) PKI
3 28 (9.12%) Hybrid Cloud
4 17 (5.54%) Private Cloud
5 16 (5.21%) Public Cloud
6 13 (4.23%) Management Information System
7 10 (3.26%) Cloud Native
8 7 (2.28%) SCADA
9 6 (1.95%) Operational Technology
9 6 (1.95%) Replication
10 5 (1.63%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 5 (1.63%) Driving Licence
10 5 (1.63%) Life Science
10 5 (1.63%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.30%) Fibre Optics
12 3 (0.98%) Enterprise Storage
12 3 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
13 2 (0.65%) Distributed Computing
13 2 (0.65%) Enterprise Cloud
13 2 (0.65%) Motion Graphics
Operating Systems
1 173 (56.35%) Windows
2 114 (37.13%) Windows Server
3 68 (22.15%) Linux
4 24 (7.82%) Windows Server 2019
5 15 (4.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (2.28%) Windows 10
7 5 (1.63%) Debian
8 3 (0.98%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.98%) Rocky
9 2 (0.65%) VMS
9 2 (0.65%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.33%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.33%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (27.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 80 (26.06%) Problem-Solving
3 62 (20.20%) ITIL
3 62 (20.20%) Technical Leadership
4 50 (16.29%) ITSM
5 45 (14.66%) Change Management
6 38 (12.38%) Agile
7 32 (10.42%) Continuous Improvement
8 28 (9.12%) Service Management
9 27 (8.79%) Disaster Recovery
10 26 (8.47%) CI/CD
11 25 (8.14%) Service Delivery
12 24 (7.82%) High Availability
12 24 (7.82%) Stakeholder Management
13 23 (7.49%) Migration
14 22 (7.17%) Infrastructure as Code
14 22 (7.17%) Network Virtualisation
15 21 (6.84%) Project Delivery
16 19 (6.19%) DevOps
16 19 (6.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 77 (25.08%) PowerShell
2 31 (10.10%) Python
3 25 (8.14%) SQL
4 13 (4.23%) Bash
5 4 (1.30%) Java
6 3 (0.98%) Bicep
6 3 (0.98%) C
6 3 (0.98%) Lua
6 3 (0.98%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 221 (71.99%) Security Cleared
2 144 (46.91%) DV Cleared
3 91 (29.64%) SC Cleared
4 31 (10.10%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 27 (8.79%) Degree
6 17 (5.54%) Cisco Certification
6 17 (5.54%) VCAP
7 13 (4.23%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (3.91%) CCNP
9 9 (2.93%) Azure Certification
10 8 (2.61%) ISTQB
10 8 (2.61%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 7 (2.28%) Computer Science Degree
12 6 (1.95%) MCSA
13 4 (1.30%) CCNA
13 4 (1.30%) MCSE
14 3 (0.98%) CCA
14 3 (0.98%) CCIE
14 3 (0.98%) CCSE
14 3 (0.98%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.58%) NCSC
2 10 (3.26%) NIST
3 7 (2.28%) SLA
4 4 (1.30%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 4 (1.30%) GxP
4 4 (1.30%) QA
5 2 (0.65%) GDPR
5 2 (0.65%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.33%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 203 (66.12%) VMware Infrastructure
2 98 (31.92%) Active Directory
3 96 (31.27%) VMware ESXi
4 78 (25.41%) VMware NSX
5 46 (14.98%) vSphere
6 37 (12.05%) Hyper-V
7 25 (8.14%) vCloud
8 23 (7.49%) Virtual Machines
9 12 (3.91%) Docker
9 12 (3.91%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (1.63%) VMware Server
11 3 (0.98%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 3 (0.98%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.65%) UAG
13 1 (0.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 94 (30.62%) vCenter Server
2 63 (20.52%) SCOM
3 33 (10.75%) Ansible
4 17 (5.54%) Avamar
5 14 (4.56%) Kubernetes
6 11 (3.58%) SCCM
7 8 (2.61%) Grafana
7 8 (2.61%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (2.61%) Prometheus
7 8 (2.61%) Red Hat Satellite
8 5 (1.63%) Packer
8 5 (1.63%) WMI
9 4 (1.30%) Cisco CUCM
10 3 (0.98%) Argo
10 3 (0.98%) Dell DRAC
10 3 (0.98%) Istio
10 3 (0.98%) Nagios
10 3 (0.98%) Podman
10 3 (0.98%) PowerCLI
11 2 (0.65%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 91 (29.64%) Microsoft
2 46 (14.98%) Cisco
3 35 (11.40%) SolarWinds
4 28 (9.12%) Citrix
5 21 (6.84%) Palo Alto
6 20 (6.51%) Broadcom
6 20 (6.51%) Dell
7 19 (6.19%) ServiceNow
8 16 (5.21%) Red Hat
9 14 (4.56%) Thales
10 13 (4.23%) Juniper
11 12 (3.91%) NetApp
11 12 (3.91%) Veeam
12 9 (2.93%) Meraki
13 8 (2.61%) CheckPoint
13 8 (2.61%) F5
13 8 (2.61%) Fortinet
14 6 (1.95%) Remedy
15 5 (1.63%) Commvault
15 5 (1.63%) IBM