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 2 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
2 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 38 23
Rank change year-on-year -2 -15 -5
Contract jobs citing VMware 333 175 357
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 5.06% 5.00% 7.54%
As % of the Vendors category 11.59% 9.68% 15.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 251 132 239
10th Percentile £420 £329 £355
25th Percentile £463 £480 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £626 £600 £608
90th Percentile £725 £650 £646
England median daily rate £530 £550 £513
% change year-on-year -3.64% +7.32% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 3 2
10th Percentile £33.70 £28.95 £23.72
25th Percentile £51.31 £30.39 £25.70
Median hourly rate £67.00 £32.77 £29.28
Median % change year-on-year +104.46% +11.91% -46.30%
75th Percentile £70.00 £96.39 £33.16
90th Percentile £95.00 £134.55 £35.31
England median hourly rate £67.47 £31.39 £50.00
% change year-on-year +114.98% -37.23% -16.67%

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 2,873 1,808 2,313
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 43.64% 51.61% 48.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,782 1,210 1,383
10th Percentile £280 £207 £255
25th Percentile £425 £363 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £638
90th Percentile £700 £650 £700
England median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 106 129
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.20 £14.50
25th Percentile £18.45 £14.88 £26.25
Median hourly rate £47.54 £18.87 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +151.93% -67.10% +13.09%
75th Percentile £73.95 £37.88 £61.60
90th Percentile £88.00 £77.38 £70.00
England median hourly rate £31.96 £25.15 £30.00
% change year-on-year +27.09% -16.17% -27.71%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 +24 163 £536 +2.17% 36
Hampshire 0 147 £550 -8.33% 33
Buckinghamshire +22 92 £575 +8.80% 3
Berkshire -3 69 £460 -4.66% 27
Surrey -15 13 £475 -13.64% 19
West Sussex -22 4 £613 +11.36% 6
Middlesex -20 2 - -
Oxfordshire -21 2 £363 - 6
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 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (2.40%) Confluence
2 8 (2.40%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.50%) Apache
3 5 (1.50%) nginx
4 4 (1.20%) FactoryTalk
5 1 (0.30%) CMS
5 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.60%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (0.60%) Houdini
2 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.60%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 3 (0.90%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.30%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 98 (29.43%) Azure
2 57 (17.12%) AWS
3 17 (5.11%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (4.50%) Entra ID
5 10 (3.00%) IaaS
5 10 (3.00%) Rubrik
6 9 (2.70%) Azure Monitor
7 7 (2.10%) GCP
7 7 (2.10%) OpenShift
8 5 (1.50%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (1.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (0.90%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (0.90%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (0.90%) OneDrive
10 3 (0.90%) PaaS
11 2 (0.60%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (0.60%) Google Workspace
12 1 (0.30%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (0.30%) Cloudflare
12 1 (0.30%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 97 (29.13%) DNS
2 67 (20.12%) Firewall
3 52 (15.62%) DHCP
4 39 (11.71%) VPN
5 33 (9.91%) WAN
6 31 (9.31%) VLAN
6 31 (9.31%) VSAN
7 28 (8.41%) LAN
8 27 (8.11%) TCP/IP
9 22 (6.61%) Cisco Firepower
10 21 (6.31%) SD-WAN
11 20 (6.01%) Cisco ASA
12 17 (5.11%) BGP
12 17 (5.11%) Network Security
13 15 (4.50%) IPsec
14 14 (4.20%) SSL
15 13 (3.90%) Cisco Nexus
15 13 (3.90%) OSPF
16 12 (3.60%) NGFW
17 10 (3.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.10%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.90%) Data Mining
3 2 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.60%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (2.70%) JIRA
2 7 (2.10%) GitLab
3 5 (1.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 5 (1.50%) Bitbucket
4 3 (0.90%) Rational DOORS
4 3 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.60%) Git
6 1 (0.30%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.30%) MSI
6 1 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.30%) Robot Framework
General
1 66 (19.82%) Social Skills
2 56 (16.82%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (4.50%) Finance
4 10 (3.00%) Manufacturing
4 10 (3.00%) Public Sector
5 8 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (2.40%) Retail
6 7 (2.10%) Telecoms
7 6 (1.80%) Aerospace
7 6 (1.80%) Military
8 4 (1.20%) Legal
8 4 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (0.90%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.60%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.30%) Advertising
11 1 (0.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.30%) Police
Job Titles
1 82 (24.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 60 (18.02%) Senior
3 40 (12.01%) Architect
4 38 (11.41%) VMware Engineer
5 37 (11.11%) Network Engineer
6 33 (9.91%) Lead
7 31 (9.31%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 30 (9.01%) Cloud Engineer
9 27 (8.11%) Support Engineer
10 26 (7.81%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 25 (7.51%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
12 19 (5.71%) Storage Engineer
13 17 (5.11%) Senior VMware Engineer
14 14 (4.20%) Senior Network Engineer
15 13 (3.90%) Technical Leader
16 12 (3.60%) Administrator
16 12 (3.60%) Linux Engineer
16 12 (3.60%) Technical Architect
17 11 (3.30%) Citrix Engineer
17 11 (3.30%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (9.01%) Terraform
2 4 (1.20%) 802.1X
3 3 (0.90%) ARM Templates
3 3 (0.90%) REST
4 2 (0.60%) Kafka
4 2 (0.60%) Keycloak
4 2 (0.60%) Middleware
4 2 (0.60%) Unreal Engine
4 2 (0.60%) YAML
5 1 (0.30%) LDAP
5 1 (0.30%) ModSecurity
5 1 (0.30%) NETCONF
5 1 (0.30%) OpenConfig
5 1 (0.30%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 36 (10.81%) Data Centre
2 34 (10.21%) PKI
3 29 (8.71%) Hybrid Cloud
4 21 (6.31%) Public Cloud
5 17 (5.11%) Private Cloud
6 13 (3.90%) Management Information System
7 11 (3.30%) Cloud Native
8 7 (2.10%) SCADA
9 6 (1.80%) Operational Technology
10 5 (1.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 5 (1.50%) Life Science
10 5 (1.50%) Onboarding
10 5 (1.50%) Replication
11 4 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.20%) Driving Licence
11 4 (1.20%) Fibre Optics
11 4 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
12 2 (0.60%) Distributed Architecture
12 2 (0.60%) Distributed Computing
12 2 (0.60%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 173 (51.95%) Windows
2 115 (34.53%) Windows Server
3 81 (24.32%) Linux
4 23 (6.91%) Windows Server 2019
5 16 (4.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (2.10%) Windows 10
7 6 (1.80%) Debian
8 4 (1.20%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.90%) Rocky
10 2 (0.60%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.60%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.30%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.30%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.30%) VMS
11 1 (0.30%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (27.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 85 (25.53%) Problem-Solving
3 69 (20.72%) ITIL
4 65 (19.52%) Technical Leadership
5 50 (15.02%) ITSM
6 46 (13.81%) Change Management
7 38 (11.41%) Agile
8 34 (10.21%) Continuous Improvement
8 34 (10.21%) Service Management
9 31 (9.31%) CI/CD
9 31 (9.31%) High Availability
9 31 (9.31%) Stakeholder Management
10 28 (8.41%) Infrastructure as Code
10 28 (8.41%) Migration
11 26 (7.81%) Disaster Recovery
11 26 (7.81%) Network Virtualisation
11 26 (7.81%) Service Delivery
12 24 (7.21%) DevOps
13 21 (6.31%) Roadmaps
14 20 (6.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 76 (22.82%) PowerShell
2 31 (9.31%) Python
3 25 (7.51%) SQL
4 13 (3.90%) Bash
5 4 (1.20%) Java
6 3 (0.90%) Bicep
6 3 (0.90%) C
6 3 (0.90%) Lua
6 3 (0.90%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 244 (73.27%) Security Cleared
2 152 (45.65%) DV Cleared
3 109 (32.73%) SC Cleared
4 31 (9.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 25 (7.51%) Degree
6 21 (6.31%) Cisco Certification
7 17 (5.11%) VCAP
8 16 (4.80%) CCNP
9 14 (4.20%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (2.70%) Azure Certification
11 8 (2.40%) ISTQB
11 8 (2.40%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 6 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
12 6 (1.80%) MCSA
13 5 (1.50%) CCSE
13 5 (1.50%) CCSM
13 5 (1.50%) MCSE
14 4 (1.20%) CCNA
15 3 (0.90%) CCA
15 3 (0.90%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.50%) NIST
2 14 (4.20%) NCSC
3 9 (2.70%) SLA
4 4 (1.20%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 4 (1.20%) GxP
4 4 (1.20%) QA
5 3 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.60%) GDPR
6 2 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.60%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.30%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 218 (65.47%) VMware Infrastructure
2 96 (28.83%) Active Directory
2 96 (28.83%) VMware ESXi
3 88 (26.43%) VMware NSX
4 47 (14.11%) vSphere
5 39 (11.71%) Hyper-V
6 27 (8.11%) vCloud
7 22 (6.61%) Virtual Machines
8 15 (4.50%) Docker
9 12 (3.60%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (1.50%) VMware Server
11 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 2 (0.60%) UAG
11 2 (0.60%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.30%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 91 (27.33%) vCenter Server
2 60 (18.02%) SCOM
3 37 (11.11%) Ansible
4 17 (5.11%) Kubernetes
5 16 (4.80%) Avamar
6 12 (3.60%) SCCM
7 9 (2.70%) Grafana
7 9 (2.70%) Prometheus
7 9 (2.70%) Red Hat Satellite
8 8 (2.40%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (1.50%) Packer
10 4 (1.20%) Argo
10 4 (1.20%) Cisco CUCM
10 4 (1.20%) WMI
11 3 (0.90%) Dell DRAC
11 3 (0.90%) Istio
11 3 (0.90%) Nagios
11 3 (0.90%) Podman
11 3 (0.90%) Rancher
11 3 (0.90%) SCSM
Vendors
1 89 (26.73%) Microsoft
2 55 (16.52%) Cisco
3 32 (9.61%) SolarWinds
4 30 (9.01%) Citrix
5 29 (8.71%) Palo Alto
6 22 (6.61%) ServiceNow
7 19 (5.71%) Broadcom
8 18 (5.41%) Dell
9 17 (5.11%) Red Hat
10 14 (4.20%) Juniper
11 13 (3.90%) F5
11 13 (3.90%) Thales
11 13 (3.90%) Veeam
12 12 (3.60%) NetApp
13 10 (3.00%) CheckPoint
13 10 (3.00%) Fortinet
14 9 (2.70%) Meraki
15 6 (1.80%) Remedy
15 6 (1.80%) Splunk
16 5 (1.50%) Becrypt
141 VMware jobs in the South East