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 21 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
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 31 25
Rank change year-on-year -4 -6 +4
Contract jobs citing VMware 246 208 348
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 5.54% 6.34% 6.72%
As % of the Vendors category 11.29% 12.66% 13.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 153 213
10th Percentile £350 £350 £302
25th Percentile £416 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £514
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +7.00% -2.10%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £575
90th Percentile £688 £698 £643
England median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 15
10th Percentile £57.43 £77.63 £20.35
25th Percentile £73.00 £77.81 £49.55
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 £77.41
England median hourly rate £70.00 £68.75 £65.98
% change year-on-year +1.82% +4.20% +1.51%

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 2,179 1,643 2,647
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 49.07% 50.11% 51.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,573 1,063 1,690
10th Percentile £255 £237 £205
25th Percentile £406 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -0.10%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £606
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 135 48 146
10th Percentile £12.60 £19.99 £13.17
25th Percentile £16.50 £24.18 £21.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £40.25 £54.78
Median % change year-on-year -44.10% -26.52% +49.06%
75th Percentile £60.00 £64.06 £64.69
90th Percentile £84.40 £74.91 £76.53
England median hourly rate £23.83 £30.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -20.58% -15.49% +9.23%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 +6 124 £525 -8.70% 33
Thames Valley -26 87 £475 -13.64% 22
Berkshire -8 78 £475 -9.52% 9
Surrey -12 13 £400 -8.57% 19
West Sussex -6 10 £575 +18.56% 2
Kent +7 8 £550 +71.88% 10
Buckinghamshire -31 6 £550 -4.14% 9
East Sussex +8 4 £180 +10.77% 4
Oxfordshire -9 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 6 (2.44%) OpenStack
2 5 (2.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.03%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.81%) Apache
3 2 (0.81%) WordPress
4 1 (0.41%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (0.81%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 74 (30.08%) Azure
2 69 (28.05%) AWS
3 39 (15.85%) OpenShift
4 18 (7.32%) GitHub
4 18 (7.32%) GitHub Actions
5 17 (6.91%) IaaS
6 14 (5.69%) Entra ID
6 14 (5.69%) GCP
6 14 (5.69%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (4.07%) PaaS
8 7 (2.85%) Nutanix
9 4 (1.63%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (0.81%) SaaS
11 1 (0.41%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (0.41%) Cohesity
11 1 (0.41%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 62 (25.20%) DNS
2 41 (16.67%) Firewall
3 40 (16.26%) DHCP
4 25 (10.16%) TCP/IP
5 19 (7.72%) VLAN
6 15 (6.10%) SAN
7 14 (5.69%) VPN
8 11 (4.47%) LAN
8 11 (4.47%) VSAN
8 11 (4.47%) WAN
9 9 (3.66%) BGP
9 9 (3.66%) FTP
10 8 (3.25%) NAS
11 7 (2.85%) iSCSI
11 7 (2.85%) SNMP
11 7 (2.85%) Wireless
12 6 (2.44%) Fibre Channel
12 6 (2.44%) MPLS
12 6 (2.44%) OSPF
12 6 (2.44%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.50%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (2.85%) Redis
2 7 (2.85%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.22%) MongoDB
3 3 (1.22%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (6.10%) GitLab
1 15 (6.10%) Jenkins
2 13 (5.28%) Sonatype Nexus
3 9 (3.66%) Cucumber
3 9 (3.66%) JMeter
3 9 (3.66%) JUnit
4 4 (1.63%) Robot Framework
5 3 (1.22%) Maven
6 1 (0.41%) Git
6 1 (0.41%) Subversion
General
1 53 (21.54%) Social Skills
2 25 (10.16%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (8.13%) Public Sector
4 14 (5.69%) Finance
5 9 (3.66%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (2.44%) Aerospace
7 4 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.22%) Banking
8 3 (1.22%) Legal
8 3 (1.22%) Military
8 3 (1.22%) Retail
9 2 (0.81%) Back Office
9 2 (0.81%) Front Office
10 1 (0.41%) Law
Job Titles
1 69 (28.05%) Architect
2 42 (17.07%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 28 (11.38%) Infrastructure Architect
4 26 (10.57%) Support Engineer
5 21 (8.54%) Infrastructure Support
5 21 (8.54%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 20 (8.13%) VMware Engineer
7 19 (7.72%) VMware Architect
8 12 (4.88%) Senior
9 10 (4.07%) Analyst
9 10 (4.07%) Network Engineer
10 9 (3.66%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 9 (3.66%) Developer
10 9 (3.66%) DevOps Engineer
10 9 (3.66%) Lead
10 9 (3.66%) Wintel Analyst
11 8 (3.25%) Java Developer
12 7 (2.85%) Full-Stack Developer
12 7 (2.85%) Full-Stack Java Developer
13 6 (2.44%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (7.72%) Kafka
2 9 (3.66%) Spring
3 8 (3.25%) Hibernate
3 8 (3.25%) Loki
4 7 (2.85%) Keycloak
5 4 (1.63%) Spring Boot
6 3 (1.22%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (1.22%) Swagger
7 2 (0.81%) Middleware
7 2 (0.81%) OAuth
7 2 (0.81%) REST
7 2 (0.81%) RESTful
7 2 (0.81%) SAML
8 1 (0.41%) JSON
8 1 (0.41%) LDAP
8 1 (0.41%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.41%) OpenID
8 1 (0.41%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 28 (11.38%) PKI
2 23 (9.35%) Cloud Native
3 19 (7.72%) Data Centre
4 15 (6.10%) Analytical Mindset
5 12 (4.88%) Hybrid Cloud
6 11 (4.47%) Fat Client
6 11 (4.47%) Thin Client
7 9 (3.66%) Private Cloud
8 8 (3.25%) Public Cloud
8 8 (3.25%) Virtual Team
9 7 (2.85%) Replication
10 3 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.81%) NHS
12 1 (0.41%) Legacy Applications
12 1 (0.41%) Legacy Systems
12 1 (0.41%) Operational Technology
12 1 (0.41%) Security Operations Centre
12 1 (0.41%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.41%) Smartphone
12 1 (0.41%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 92 (37.40%) Windows
2 86 (34.96%) Linux
3 49 (19.92%) Windows Server
4 28 (11.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (4.47%) Windows 7
6 9 (3.66%) Windows Server 2016
6 9 (3.66%) Windows Server 2019
7 7 (2.85%) Windows 10
8 6 (2.44%) Ubuntu
9 5 (2.03%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (1.22%) CentOS
10 3 (1.22%) Debian
10 3 (1.22%) Mac OS
10 3 (1.22%) Unix
11 1 (0.41%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.41%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (23.98%) Problem-Solving
2 57 (23.17%) Agile
3 54 (21.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 44 (17.89%) CI/CD
5 41 (16.67%) ITIL
6 28 (11.38%) DevSecOps
7 26 (10.57%) Containerisation
7 26 (10.57%) Infrastructure as Code
8 24 (9.76%) Observability
9 22 (8.94%) DevOps
9 22 (8.94%) Platform Engineering
10 19 (7.72%) Disaster Recovery
10 19 (7.72%) Roadmaps
11 18 (7.32%) Cybersecurity
11 18 (7.32%) Prototyping
12 16 (6.50%) Continuous Improvement
13 14 (5.69%) Infrastructure Management
13 14 (5.69%) Service Management
13 14 (5.69%) Virtual Infrastructure
14 13 (5.28%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 59 (23.98%) Python
2 42 (17.07%) PowerShell
3 33 (13.41%) Bash
4 17 (6.91%) Java
5 13 (5.28%) SQL
6 6 (2.44%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.22%) Go
7 3 (1.22%) Perl
8 2 (0.81%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.41%) VB
Qualifications
1 153 (62.20%) Security Cleared
2 83 (33.74%) SC Cleared
3 67 (27.24%) DV Cleared
4 17 (6.91%) Azure Certification
4 17 (6.91%) Microsoft Certification
5 15 (6.10%) AWS Certification
6 12 (4.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 11 (4.47%) Network+ Certification
7 11 (4.47%) Server+ Certification
8 8 (3.25%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (2.85%) CCIE
10 6 (2.44%) JNCIE
11 5 (2.03%) MCSE
12 4 (1.63%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (1.63%) VCAP
12 4 (1.63%) VCDX
13 3 (1.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 2 (0.81%) CCNP
14 2 (0.81%) RHCE
14 2 (0.81%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.44%) NCSC
2 5 (2.03%) GDPR
3 4 (1.63%) QA
3 4 (1.63%) SLA
4 3 (1.22%) Def Stans
5 2 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.41%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.41%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 141 (57.32%) VMware Infrastructure
2 66 (26.83%) Active Directory
3 43 (17.48%) vSphere
4 33 (13.41%) VMware NSX
5 32 (13.01%) Hyper-V
6 20 (8.13%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (5.69%) Docker
8 11 (4.47%) NFS
9 8 (3.25%) Virtual Desktop
10 6 (2.44%) vCloud
11 3 (1.22%) DFS Replication
11 3 (1.22%) KVM
11 3 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
12 2 (0.81%) Firmware
12 2 (0.81%) UAG
12 2 (0.81%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.41%) RHEV
13 1 (0.41%) Sendmail
13 1 (0.41%) Terminal Services
13 1 (0.41%) Xen
Systems Management
1 58 (23.58%) Ansible
2 37 (15.04%) Kubernetes
3 35 (14.23%) Terraform
4 31 (12.60%) vCenter Server
5 21 (8.54%) Argo
6 18 (7.32%) Grafana
6 18 (7.32%) Prometheus
7 15 (6.10%) Microsoft Intune
8 14 (5.69%) SCCM
9 13 (5.28%) Red Hat Satellite
10 11 (4.47%) Progress Chef
10 11 (4.47%) WMI
11 9 (3.66%) Single Sign-On
12 8 (3.25%) Kustomize
12 8 (3.25%) vRealize
13 6 (2.44%) Istio
13 6 (2.44%) linkerd
13 6 (2.44%) SCOM
14 5 (2.03%) vRealize Orchestrator
15 4 (1.63%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 67 (27.24%) Microsoft
2 44 (17.89%) Red Hat
3 21 (8.54%) Citrix
4 20 (8.13%) Cisco
5 11 (4.47%) F5
5 11 (4.47%) Splunk
6 10 (4.07%) NetApp
7 8 (3.25%) Fortinet
7 8 (3.25%) Juniper
8 7 (2.85%) ServiceNow
8 7 (2.85%) Veeam
9 6 (2.44%) Pure Storage
10 5 (2.03%) Dell
10 5 (2.03%) Palo Alto
11 3 (1.22%) SolarWinds
11 3 (1.22%) Zscaler
12 2 (0.81%) Aruba
12 2 (0.81%) EMC
12 2 (0.81%) NetIQ
12 2 (0.81%) Symantec