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 31 March 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
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 34 25
Rank change year-on-year -1 -9 -3
Contract jobs citing VMware 283 175 356
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 5.15% 5.92% 6.31%
As % of the Vendors category 11.49% 11.28% 13.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 124 229
10th Percentile £400 £350 £348
25th Percentile £463 £474 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £567 £515
Median % change year-on-year -5.16% +10.05% -5.94%
75th Percentile £635 £630 £575
90th Percentile £725 £675 £620
England median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 7
10th Percentile £57.43 £37.90 £19.88
25th Percentile £73.00 £52.75 £42.75
Median hourly rate £87.00 £80.00 £68.63
Median % change year-on-year +8.75% +16.57% +14.38%
75th Percentile £96.88 £84.38 £71.82
90th Percentile £101.75 £85.50 £77.00
England median hourly rate £70.00 £72.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -3.45% +56.99% -27.41%

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 2,464 1,551 2,718
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 44.88% 52.51% 48.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,741 1,040 1,663
10th Percentile £305 £245 £213
25th Percentile £413 £404 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% -0.40%
75th Percentile £606 £613 £600
90th Percentile £700 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -4.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 87 175
10th Percentile £13.31 £14.20 £12.78
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.50 £18.00
Median hourly rate £37.69 £25.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.74% -47.37% +5.56%
75th Percentile £85.81 £62.50 £61.45
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.88 £67.31
England median hourly rate £25.47 £29.07 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.38% +21.13% -32.87%

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 31 March 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 31 March 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 31 March 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 +7 144 £588 +0.43% 38
Thames Valley -15 108 £500 -7.41% 31
Berkshire -20 72 £475 -9.52% 12
Buckinghamshire -16 34 £583 -5.28% 17
Surrey -3 15 £400 -20.00% 15
West Sussex -9 10 £575 +4.55%
Kent -14 4 £571 +71.80% 2
East Sussex +1 2 £788 +384.62% 1
Oxfordshire - 2 £425 - 2
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 15 (5.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.77%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.71%) Apache
3 2 (0.71%) WordPress
4 1 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (0.71%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 90 (31.80%) Azure
2 73 (25.80%) AWS
3 37 (13.07%) OpenShift
4 21 (7.42%) Entra ID
4 21 (7.42%) IaaS
5 19 (6.71%) Microsoft 365
6 17 (6.01%) GitHub
6 17 (6.01%) GitHub Actions
7 16 (5.65%) PaaS
8 12 (4.24%) GCP
9 8 (2.83%) Nutanix
10 6 (2.12%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (1.77%) SaaS
12 3 (1.06%) Azure Sentinel
13 2 (0.71%) Amazon EKS
13 2 (0.71%) Azure Logic Apps
14 1 (0.35%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 1 (0.35%) Cohesity
14 1 (0.35%) Datadog
14 1 (0.35%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 64 (22.61%) DNS
2 46 (16.25%) Firewall
3 33 (11.66%) DHCP
4 21 (7.42%) VPN
5 19 (6.71%) VSAN
6 17 (6.01%) SAN
7 16 (5.65%) TCP/IP
7 16 (5.65%) WAN
8 12 (4.24%) FTP
9 10 (3.53%) LAN
9 10 (3.53%) NAS
10 9 (3.18%) BGP
10 9 (3.18%) SD-WAN
10 9 (3.18%) VLAN
11 8 (2.83%) Cisco Firepower
11 8 (2.83%) Network Security
12 7 (2.47%) BIG-IP
12 7 (2.47%) OSPF
13 6 (2.12%) Cisco ASA
14 5 (1.77%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.65%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (2.83%) Redis
3 4 (1.41%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.06%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.06%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.35%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 14 (4.95%) Jenkins
2 13 (4.59%) Sonatype Nexus
3 12 (4.24%) GitLab
4 8 (2.83%) Cucumber
4 8 (2.83%) JMeter
4 8 (2.83%) JUnit
5 6 (2.12%) Robot Framework
6 3 (1.06%) Maven
7 1 (0.35%) Git
7 1 (0.35%) JIRA
7 1 (0.35%) Subversion
General
1 53 (18.73%) Social Skills
2 28 (9.89%) Public Sector
3 21 (7.42%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (4.95%) Finance
5 10 (3.53%) Military
6 9 (3.18%) Legal
7 6 (2.12%) Aerospace
8 5 (1.77%) Retail
9 4 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (0.71%) Banking
11 2 (0.71%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.71%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.35%) Advertising
12 1 (0.35%) Back Office
12 1 (0.35%) Front Office
12 1 (0.35%) Police
12 1 (0.35%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 83 (29.33%) Architect
2 36 (12.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 28 (9.89%) Infrastructure Architect
3 28 (9.89%) Senior
4 26 (9.19%) VMware Engineer
5 22 (7.77%) VMware Architect
6 21 (7.42%) Network Engineer
7 14 (4.95%) Technical Architect
8 11 (3.89%) DevOps Engineer
8 11 (3.89%) Lead
9 10 (3.53%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 10 (3.53%) Analyst
9 10 (3.53%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (3.53%) Wintel Analyst
10 9 (3.18%) Linux Engineer
10 9 (3.18%) Service Manager
10 9 (3.18%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (2.83%) Developer
11 8 (2.83%) Senior Network Engineer
12 7 (2.47%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (6.71%) Kafka
2 8 (2.83%) Keycloak
2 8 (2.83%) Loki
2 8 (2.83%) Spring
3 7 (2.47%) Hibernate
4 4 (1.41%) Software Packaging
4 4 (1.41%) Spring Boot
5 3 (1.06%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.35%) 802.1X
6 1 (0.35%) JSON
6 1 (0.35%) Middleware
6 1 (0.35%) OAuth
6 1 (0.35%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.35%) OpenID
6 1 (0.35%) REST
6 1 (0.35%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (12.01%) PKI
2 25 (8.83%) Cloud Native
3 20 (7.07%) Data Centre
4 19 (6.71%) Public Cloud
5 13 (4.59%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (3.53%) Analytical Mindset
6 10 (3.53%) Replication
7 9 (3.18%) Private Cloud
8 8 (2.83%) Fat Client
8 8 (2.83%) Legacy Systems
8 8 (2.83%) Thin Client
8 8 (2.83%) Virtual Team
9 6 (2.12%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.71%) Security Posture
12 1 (0.35%) Greenfield Project
12 1 (0.35%) Legacy Applications
12 1 (0.35%) Linux Command Line
12 1 (0.35%) Onboarding
12 1 (0.35%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 96 (33.92%) Windows
2 94 (33.22%) Linux
3 60 (21.20%) Windows Server
4 28 (9.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (3.89%) Windows Server 2016
6 9 (3.18%) Ubuntu
6 9 (3.18%) Windows Server 2019
7 8 (2.83%) Windows 7
8 5 (1.77%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (1.41%) CentOS
9 4 (1.41%) Debian
9 4 (1.41%) Mac OS
9 4 (1.41%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.35%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.35%) Solaris
10 1 (0.35%) Unix
10 1 (0.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (22.26%) Agile
2 59 (20.85%) Problem-Solving
3 54 (19.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 45 (15.90%) CI/CD
5 43 (15.19%) ITIL
6 35 (12.37%) Infrastructure as Code
6 35 (12.37%) Roadmaps
7 34 (12.01%) High Availability
8 31 (10.95%) DevOps
8 31 (10.95%) DevSecOps
9 28 (9.89%) Containerisation
10 25 (8.83%) Migration
11 24 (8.48%) Observability
11 24 (8.48%) Platform Engineering
12 21 (7.42%) Cybersecurity
12 21 (7.42%) Stakeholder Management
13 20 (7.07%) Load Balancing
14 19 (6.71%) Continuous Improvement
15 15 (5.30%) Disaster Recovery
15 15 (5.30%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 45 (15.90%) Python
2 35 (12.37%) PowerShell
3 25 (8.83%) Bash
4 12 (4.24%) Java
5 6 (2.12%) SQL
6 2 (0.71%) Bicep
6 2 (0.71%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.35%) Perl
Qualifications
1 197 (69.61%) Security Cleared
2 99 (34.98%) SC Cleared
3 95 (33.57%) DV Cleared
4 11 (3.89%) CCNP
4 11 (3.89%) Cisco Certification
5 10 (3.53%) AWS Certification
5 10 (3.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 8 (2.83%) Azure Certification
7 7 (2.47%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (1.77%) MCSE
8 5 (1.77%) VCAP
9 4 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.41%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (1.06%) CCSM
11 2 (0.71%) CCIE
11 2 (0.71%) CCNA
11 2 (0.71%) CCSE
11 2 (0.71%) Degree
11 2 (0.71%) JNCIS
12 1 (0.35%) CCDA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.30%) NCSC
2 11 (3.89%) NIST
3 5 (1.77%) SLA
4 4 (1.41%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.06%) Def Stans
5 3 (1.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.71%) GDPR
7 1 (0.35%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.35%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.35%) QA
System Software
1 164 (57.95%) VMware Infrastructure
2 79 (27.92%) Active Directory
3 43 (15.19%) VMware NSX
4 41 (14.49%) vSphere
5 33 (11.66%) Hyper-V
6 28 (9.89%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (4.95%) Docker
8 11 (3.89%) vCloud
8 11 (3.89%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (2.47%) NFS
10 6 (2.12%) Virtual Machines
11 3 (1.06%) DFS Replication
11 3 (1.06%) Firmware
12 2 (0.71%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.35%) KVM
13 1 (0.35%) RHEV
13 1 (0.35%) Sendmail
13 1 (0.35%) UAG
13 1 (0.35%) Xen
Systems Management
1 52 (18.37%) Ansible
2 37 (13.07%) Kubernetes
2 37 (13.07%) vCenter Server
3 33 (11.66%) Terraform
4 22 (7.77%) Argo
5 20 (7.07%) Grafana
5 20 (7.07%) Microsoft Intune
5 20 (7.07%) Prometheus
6 16 (5.65%) SCCM
7 11 (3.89%) Red Hat Satellite
8 9 (3.18%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (2.83%) Kustomize
9 8 (2.83%) Progress Chef
9 8 (2.83%) WMI
10 7 (2.47%) SCOM
11 6 (2.12%) Istio
11 6 (2.12%) linkerd
12 4 (1.41%) WSUS
13 2 (0.71%) vRealize
13 2 (0.71%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 68 (24.03%) Microsoft
2 45 (15.90%) Red Hat
3 29 (10.25%) Cisco
4 26 (9.19%) Citrix
5 16 (5.65%) Palo Alto
6 12 (4.24%) F5
7 11 (3.89%) ServiceNow
8 8 (2.83%) Splunk
9 7 (2.47%) Broadcom
10 6 (2.12%) Fortinet
10 6 (2.12%) Pure Storage
10 6 (2.12%) Veeam
10 6 (2.12%) Zerto
11 5 (1.77%) Juniper
11 5 (1.77%) NetApp
12 4 (1.41%) CheckPoint
12 4 (1.41%) NVIDIA
12 4 (1.41%) SolarWinds
12 4 (1.41%) Zscaler
13 3 (1.06%) Rackspace