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 10 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
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 33 26
Rank change year-on-year 0 -7 +1
Contract jobs citing VMware 264 193 338
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 5.63% 6.18% 6.15%
As % of the Vendors category 11.74% 12.35% 12.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 142 207
10th Percentile £350 £350 £312
25th Percentile £416 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £551 £511
Median % change year-on-year -9.26% +7.83% -6.67%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £562
90th Percentile £694 £687 £622
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 £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 2,248 1,563 2,749
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 47.95% 50.05% 50.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,619 995 1,738
10th Percentile £255 £250 £205
25th Percentile £409 £410 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -1.96%
75th Percentile £600 £618 £600
90th Percentile £678 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 49 158
10th Percentile £12.50 £18.50 £13.05
25th Percentile £15.75 £24.18 £19.21
Median hourly rate £22.50 £30.41 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.01% -35.98% +8.88%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £63.22
90th Percentile £89.46 £75.44 £76.53
England median hourly rate £23.83 £30.45 £27.14
% change year-on-year -21.76% +12.20% -16.49%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 +5 132 £538 -6.52% 30
Thames Valley -18 98 £479 -12.95% 29
Berkshire -6 85 £475 -11.71% 11
Surrey -12 13 £400 -15.79% 13
West Sussex -7 10 £575 +53.33% 1
Buckinghamshire -26 10 £560 -2.40% 10
Kent -4 7 £550 +22.09% 7
East Sussex +3 4 £180 +10.77% 2
Oxfordshire -16 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 10 (3.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.52%) OpenStack
2 4 (1.52%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.76%) Apache
3 2 (0.76%) WordPress
4 1 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (0.76%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 80 (30.30%) Azure
2 71 (26.89%) AWS
3 40 (15.15%) OpenShift
4 18 (6.82%) GitHub
4 18 (6.82%) GitHub Actions
4 18 (6.82%) IaaS
5 16 (6.06%) Entra ID
6 14 (5.30%) GCP
6 14 (5.30%) Microsoft 365
7 11 (4.17%) PaaS
8 7 (2.65%) Nutanix
9 4 (1.52%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (0.76%) SaaS
11 1 (0.38%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (0.38%) Amazon OpenSearch
11 1 (0.38%) Cohesity
11 1 (0.38%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 64 (24.24%) DNS
2 43 (16.29%) Firewall
3 40 (15.15%) DHCP
4 24 (9.09%) TCP/IP
5 19 (7.20%) VLAN
6 15 (5.68%) SAN
7 14 (5.30%) VPN
8 10 (3.79%) FTP
8 10 (3.79%) LAN
8 10 (3.79%) VSAN
8 10 (3.79%) WAN
9 8 (3.03%) BGP
9 8 (3.03%) NAS
10 6 (2.27%) SNMP
11 5 (1.89%) iSCSI
11 5 (1.89%) OSPF
11 5 (1.89%) Wireless
12 4 (1.52%) Fibre Channel
12 4 (1.52%) MPLS
12 4 (1.52%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (2.65%) Redis
3 6 (2.27%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.14%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.14%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (5.68%) GitLab
1 15 (5.68%) Jenkins
2 13 (4.92%) Sonatype Nexus
3 9 (3.41%) Cucumber
3 9 (3.41%) JMeter
3 9 (3.41%) JUnit
4 4 (1.52%) Robot Framework
5 3 (1.14%) Maven
6 1 (0.38%) Git
6 1 (0.38%) Subversion
General
1 51 (19.32%) Social Skills
2 29 (10.98%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (9.47%) Public Sector
4 14 (5.30%) Finance
5 7 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (2.27%) Aerospace
6 6 (2.27%) Military
7 4 (1.52%) Legal
7 4 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.14%) Banking
8 3 (1.14%) Retail
9 1 (0.38%) Back Office
9 1 (0.38%) Front Office
9 1 (0.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 73 (27.65%) Architect
2 45 (17.05%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 26 (9.85%) Infrastructure Architect
3 26 (9.85%) Support Engineer
4 21 (7.95%) Infrastructure Support
4 21 (7.95%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 21 (7.95%) VMware Engineer
5 19 (7.20%) VMware Architect
6 14 (5.30%) Senior
7 11 (4.17%) Analyst
7 11 (4.17%) Lead
7 11 (4.17%) Network Engineer
8 10 (3.79%) DevOps Engineer
8 10 (3.79%) Wintel Analyst
9 9 (3.41%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 9 (3.41%) Developer
9 9 (3.41%) Technical Architect
10 8 (3.03%) Java Developer
11 7 (2.65%) Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (2.65%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (7.20%) Kafka
2 9 (3.41%) Spring
3 8 (3.03%) Hibernate
3 8 (3.03%) Loki
4 7 (2.65%) Keycloak
5 4 (1.52%) Software Packaging
5 4 (1.52%) Spring Boot
6 3 (1.14%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (1.14%) Swagger
7 2 (0.76%) OAuth
7 2 (0.76%) REST
7 2 (0.76%) RESTful
7 2 (0.76%) SAML
8 1 (0.38%) JSON
8 1 (0.38%) LDAP
8 1 (0.38%) Middleware
8 1 (0.38%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.38%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 29 (10.98%) PKI
2 24 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 18 (6.82%) Data Centre
4 16 (6.06%) Analytical Mindset
5 12 (4.55%) Private Cloud
6 11 (4.17%) Fat Client
6 11 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
6 11 (4.17%) Thin Client
7 10 (3.79%) Public Cloud
8 8 (3.03%) Replication
8 8 (3.03%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.76%) NHS
11 2 (0.76%) Product Ownership
12 1 (0.38%) Operational Technology
12 1 (0.38%) Security Operations Centre
12 1 (0.38%) Security Posture
12 1 (0.38%) Smartphone
12 1 (0.38%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 98 (37.12%) Windows
2 96 (36.36%) Linux
3 48 (18.18%) Windows Server
4 31 (11.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (4.17%) Windows 7
6 7 (2.65%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (2.27%) Mac OS
7 6 (2.27%) Ubuntu
7 6 (2.27%) Windows 10
7 6 (2.27%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (1.52%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (1.14%) CentOS
9 3 (1.14%) Debian
9 3 (1.14%) Unix
10 1 (0.38%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.38%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 61 (23.11%) Agile
2 61 (23.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 47 (17.80%) ITIL
4 43 (16.29%) CI/CD
5 32 (12.12%) DevSecOps
6 30 (11.36%) Infrastructure as Code
7 28 (10.61%) Containerisation
8 25 (9.47%) DevOps
8 25 (9.47%) Observability
9 23 (8.71%) Platform Engineering
9 23 (8.71%) Roadmaps
10 19 (7.20%) Continuous Improvement
10 19 (7.20%) Cybersecurity
10 19 (7.20%) Disaster Recovery
11 18 (6.82%) Prototyping
12 17 (6.44%) Service Management
13 15 (5.68%) Architectural Design
14 14 (5.30%) Migration
14 14 (5.30%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 55 (20.83%) Python
2 39 (14.77%) PowerShell
3 32 (12.12%) Bash
4 16 (6.06%) Java
5 11 (4.17%) SQL
6 4 (1.52%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.14%) Go
7 3 (1.14%) Perl
8 2 (0.76%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.38%) Bicep
9 1 (0.38%) VB
Qualifications
1 168 (63.64%) Security Cleared
2 91 (34.47%) SC Cleared
3 74 (28.03%) DV Cleared
4 18 (6.82%) Azure Certification
4 18 (6.82%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (4.92%) AWS Certification
6 11 (4.17%) Network+ Certification
6 11 (4.17%) Server+ Certification
6 11 (4.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 10 (3.79%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (2.27%) CCNP
8 6 (2.27%) MCSE
9 5 (1.89%) CCIE
10 4 (1.52%) JNCIE
10 4 (1.52%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (1.52%) VCAP
10 4 (1.52%) VCDX
11 3 (1.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.76%) RHCE
12 2 (0.76%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.41%) NCSC
2 4 (1.52%) GDPR
2 4 (1.52%) NIST
2 4 (1.52%) SLA
3 3 (1.14%) Def Stans
4 2 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.76%) QA
5 1 (0.38%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.38%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.38%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 150 (56.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 72 (27.27%) Active Directory
3 40 (15.15%) vSphere
4 34 (12.88%) Hyper-V
5 32 (12.12%) VMware NSX
6 19 (7.20%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (5.30%) Docker
8 12 (4.55%) Virtual Desktop
9 9 (3.41%) NFS
10 7 (2.65%) vCloud
11 3 (1.14%) DFS Replication
11 3 (1.14%) KVM
11 3 (1.14%) UAG
12 2 (0.76%) Firmware
12 2 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
12 2 (0.76%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.38%) RHEV
13 1 (0.38%) Sendmail
13 1 (0.38%) Xen
Systems Management
1 60 (22.73%) Ansible
2 38 (14.39%) Kubernetes
3 35 (13.26%) Terraform
4 32 (12.12%) vCenter Server
5 21 (7.95%) Argo
6 20 (7.58%) Microsoft Intune
7 19 (7.20%) Grafana
7 19 (7.20%) Prometheus
8 16 (6.06%) Red Hat Satellite
8 16 (6.06%) SCCM
9 11 (4.17%) Progress Chef
9 11 (4.17%) WMI
10 9 (3.41%) Single Sign-On
11 8 (3.03%) Kustomize
12 6 (2.27%) Istio
12 6 (2.27%) linkerd
12 6 (2.27%) SCOM
12 6 (2.27%) vRealize
13 5 (1.89%) vRealize Orchestrator
14 4 (1.52%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 72 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 50 (18.94%) Red Hat
3 25 (9.47%) Citrix
4 21 (7.95%) Cisco
5 10 (3.79%) F5
6 9 (3.41%) Splunk
7 8 (3.03%) NetApp
7 8 (3.03%) ServiceNow
8 7 (2.65%) Fortinet
8 7 (2.65%) Juniper
9 6 (2.27%) Pure Storage
10 5 (1.89%) Dell
10 5 (1.89%) Palo Alto
10 5 (1.89%) Veeam
11 3 (1.14%) Broadcom
11 3 (1.14%) SolarWinds
11 3 (1.14%) Zscaler
12 2 (0.76%) Aruba
12 2 (0.76%) NetIQ
12 2 (0.76%) Oracle