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 6 February 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 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 32 26
Rank change year-on-year 0 -6 +2
Contract jobs citing VMware 256 198 338
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 5.52% 6.25% 6.17%
As % of the Vendors category 11.42% 12.49% 12.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 145 210
10th Percentile £350 £350 £310
25th Percentile £423 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £560 £511
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +9.59% -5.37%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £561
90th Percentile £688 £695 £621
England median daily rate £525 £525 £493
% change year-on-year - +6.60% -4.37%
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% -1.96%
75th Percentile £96.88 £85.31 £76.53
90th Percentile £101.75 £85.88 £77.27
England median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

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 2,242 1,585 2,751
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 48.31% 50.06% 50.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,615 1,016 1,745
10th Percentile £255 £238 £205
25th Percentile £406 £407 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £507 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.33% +1.35% -0.89%
75th Percentile £600 £618 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 48 161
10th Percentile £12.50 £18.50 £13.15
25th Percentile £15.75 £24.18 £20.25
Median hourly rate £22.50 £30.21 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.51% -36.41% +26.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.81 £63.29
90th Percentile £89.27 £74.91 £76.53
England median hourly rate £23.75 £30.41 £30.00
% change year-on-year -21.89% +1.35% -6.12%

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 6 February 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 6 February 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 6 February 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 +4 126 £525 -8.70% 31
Thames Valley -16 96 £483 -12.27% 27
Berkshire -4 83 £475 -11.71% 12
Surrey -7 13 £400 -14.89% 15
West Sussex -6 10 £575 +53.33% 1
Buckinghamshire -21 10 £560 -2.40% 7
Kent -2 7 £550 -3.25% 4
East Sussex +5 4 £180 +10.77% 2
Oxfordshire -8 3 £425 - 8
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 8 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.95%) OpenStack
3 4 (1.56%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.78%) Apache
4 2 (0.78%) WordPress
5 1 (0.39%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (0.78%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 80 (31.25%) Azure
2 72 (28.13%) AWS
3 41 (16.02%) OpenShift
4 18 (7.03%) GitHub
4 18 (7.03%) GitHub Actions
5 17 (6.64%) IaaS
6 16 (6.25%) Entra ID
7 14 (5.47%) GCP
7 14 (5.47%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (3.91%) PaaS
9 7 (2.73%) Nutanix
10 4 (1.56%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (0.78%) SaaS
12 1 (0.39%) Amazon EKS
12 1 (0.39%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 1 (0.39%) Cohesity
12 1 (0.39%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 62 (24.22%) DNS
2 43 (16.80%) Firewall
3 40 (15.63%) DHCP
4 24 (9.38%) TCP/IP
5 19 (7.42%) VLAN
6 15 (5.86%) SAN
7 14 (5.47%) VPN
8 11 (4.30%) LAN
8 11 (4.30%) WAN
9 10 (3.91%) FTP
9 10 (3.91%) VSAN
10 9 (3.52%) BGP
11 8 (3.13%) NAS
12 7 (2.73%) SNMP
13 6 (2.34%) OSPF
13 6 (2.34%) Wireless
14 5 (1.95%) iSCSI
14 5 (1.95%) MPLS
14 5 (1.95%) TACACS
15 4 (1.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (2.73%) Redis
3 6 (2.34%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.17%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.17%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (5.86%) GitLab
1 15 (5.86%) Jenkins
2 13 (5.08%) Sonatype Nexus
3 9 (3.52%) Cucumber
3 9 (3.52%) JMeter
3 9 (3.52%) JUnit
4 4 (1.56%) Robot Framework
5 3 (1.17%) Maven
6 1 (0.39%) Git
6 1 (0.39%) Subversion
General
1 52 (20.31%) Social Skills
2 28 (10.94%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (9.77%) Public Sector
4 14 (5.47%) Finance
5 8 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (2.34%) Aerospace
7 4 (1.56%) Legal
7 4 (1.56%) Military
7 4 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.17%) Banking
8 3 (1.17%) Retail
9 1 (0.39%) Back Office
9 1 (0.39%) Front Office
9 1 (0.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 71 (27.73%) Architect
2 45 (17.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 26 (10.16%) Infrastructure Architect
3 26 (10.16%) Support Engineer
4 21 (8.20%) Infrastructure Support
4 21 (8.20%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 19 (7.42%) VMware Engineer
6 17 (6.64%) VMware Architect
7 14 (5.47%) Senior
8 11 (4.30%) Analyst
8 11 (4.30%) Lead
8 11 (4.30%) Network Engineer
9 10 (3.91%) DevOps Engineer
9 10 (3.91%) Wintel Analyst
10 9 (3.52%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 9 (3.52%) Developer
10 9 (3.52%) Technical Architect
11 8 (3.13%) Java Developer
12 7 (2.73%) Full-Stack Developer
12 7 (2.73%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (7.42%) Kafka
2 9 (3.52%) Spring
3 8 (3.13%) Hibernate
3 8 (3.13%) Loki
4 7 (2.73%) Keycloak
5 4 (1.56%) Software Packaging
5 4 (1.56%) Spring Boot
6 3 (1.17%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (1.17%) Swagger
7 2 (0.78%) OAuth
7 2 (0.78%) REST
7 2 (0.78%) RESTful
7 2 (0.78%) SAML
8 1 (0.39%) JSON
8 1 (0.39%) LDAP
8 1 (0.39%) Middleware
8 1 (0.39%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.39%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 29 (11.33%) PKI
2 24 (9.38%) Cloud Native
3 19 (7.42%) Data Centre
4 15 (5.86%) Analytical Mindset
5 12 (4.69%) Hybrid Cloud
6 11 (4.30%) Fat Client
6 11 (4.30%) Thin Client
7 10 (3.91%) Private Cloud
7 10 (3.91%) Public Cloud
8 8 (3.13%) Replication
8 8 (3.13%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.78%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.78%) NHS
11 1 (0.39%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.39%) Linux Command Line
11 1 (0.39%) Operational Technology
11 1 (0.39%) Security Operations Centre
11 1 (0.39%) Security Posture
11 1 (0.39%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 96 (37.50%) Windows
2 91 (35.55%) Linux
3 46 (17.97%) Windows Server
4 28 (10.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (4.30%) Windows 7
6 7 (2.73%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (2.34%) Mac OS
7 6 (2.34%) Ubuntu
7 6 (2.34%) Windows 10
7 6 (2.34%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (1.56%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (1.17%) CentOS
9 3 (1.17%) Debian
9 3 (1.17%) Unix
10 1 (0.39%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.39%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (24.22%) Problem-Solving
2 60 (23.44%) Agile
3 59 (23.05%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 43 (16.80%) CI/CD
4 43 (16.80%) ITIL
5 30 (11.72%) Infrastructure as Code
6 29 (11.33%) DevSecOps
7 28 (10.94%) Containerisation
8 25 (9.77%) DevOps
8 25 (9.77%) Observability
9 21 (8.20%) Platform Engineering
10 20 (7.81%) Roadmaps
11 19 (7.42%) Cybersecurity
11 19 (7.42%) Disaster Recovery
12 18 (7.03%) Continuous Improvement
12 18 (7.03%) Prototyping
13 16 (6.25%) Service Management
14 15 (5.86%) Validation
15 14 (5.47%) Infrastructure Management
15 14 (5.47%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 56 (21.88%) Python
2 39 (15.23%) PowerShell
3 32 (12.50%) Bash
4 16 (6.25%) Java
5 11 (4.30%) SQL
6 4 (1.56%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.17%) Go
7 3 (1.17%) Perl
8 2 (0.78%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.39%) Bicep
9 1 (0.39%) VB
Qualifications
1 160 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 87 (33.98%) SC Cleared
3 70 (27.34%) DV Cleared
4 18 (7.03%) Azure Certification
4 18 (7.03%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (5.47%) AWS Certification
6 11 (4.30%) Cisco Certification
6 11 (4.30%) Network+ Certification
6 11 (4.30%) Server+ Certification
6 11 (4.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 6 (2.34%) CCIE
7 6 (2.34%) CCNP
7 6 (2.34%) MCSE
8 5 (1.95%) JNCIE
9 4 (1.56%) TOGAF Certification
9 4 (1.56%) VCAP
9 4 (1.56%) VCDX
10 3 (1.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.78%) RHCE
11 2 (0.78%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.52%) NCSC
2 4 (1.56%) GDPR
2 4 (1.56%) NIST
2 4 (1.56%) SLA
3 3 (1.17%) Def Stans
3 3 (1.17%) QA
4 2 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.39%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.39%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.39%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 147 (57.42%) VMware Infrastructure
2 70 (27.34%) Active Directory
3 40 (15.63%) vSphere
4 33 (12.89%) VMware NSX
5 32 (12.50%) Hyper-V
6 19 (7.42%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (5.47%) Docker
8 12 (4.69%) Virtual Desktop
9 9 (3.52%) NFS
10 6 (2.34%) vCloud
11 3 (1.17%) DFS Replication
11 3 (1.17%) KVM
11 3 (1.17%) UAG
12 2 (0.78%) Firmware
12 2 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
12 2 (0.78%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.39%) RHEV
13 1 (0.39%) Sendmail
13 1 (0.39%) Xen
Systems Management
1 58 (22.66%) Ansible
2 38 (14.84%) Kubernetes
3 36 (14.06%) Terraform
4 31 (12.11%) vCenter Server
5 21 (8.20%) Argo
6 20 (7.81%) Microsoft Intune
7 19 (7.42%) Grafana
7 19 (7.42%) Prometheus
8 16 (6.25%) SCCM
9 13 (5.08%) Red Hat Satellite
10 11 (4.30%) Progress Chef
10 11 (4.30%) WMI
11 9 (3.52%) Single Sign-On
12 8 (3.13%) Kustomize
13 6 (2.34%) Istio
13 6 (2.34%) linkerd
13 6 (2.34%) SCOM
13 6 (2.34%) vRealize
14 5 (1.95%) vRealize Orchestrator
15 4 (1.56%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 70 (27.34%) Microsoft
2 47 (18.36%) Red Hat
3 25 (9.77%) Citrix
4 22 (8.59%) Cisco
5 11 (4.30%) F5
6 9 (3.52%) Splunk
7 8 (3.13%) Fortinet
7 8 (3.13%) Juniper
7 8 (3.13%) NetApp
7 8 (3.13%) ServiceNow
8 6 (2.34%) Pure Storage
9 5 (1.95%) Dell
9 5 (1.95%) Palo Alto
9 5 (1.95%) Veeam
10 3 (1.17%) Broadcom
10 3 (1.17%) SolarWinds
10 3 (1.17%) Zscaler
11 2 (0.78%) Aruba
11 2 (0.78%) NetIQ
11 2 (0.78%) Symantec