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 3 April 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
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 33 26
Rank change year-on-year -2 -7 -3
Contract jobs citing VMware 281 174 354
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 5.08% 5.87% 6.28%
As % of the Vendors category 11.46% 11.18% 13.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 237 122 229
10th Percentile £400 £351 £350
25th Percentile £475 £481 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £569 £513
Median % change year-on-year -3.25% +10.93% -6.39%
75th Percentile £638 £630 £575
90th Percentile £725 £675 £625
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 £73.75 £46.18
% change year-on-year -5.08% +59.70% -27.84%

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 2,453 1,557 2,713
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 44.35% 52.51% 48.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,730 1,045 1,656
10th Percentile £306 £246 £213
25th Percentile £413 £408 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% -0.10%
75th Percentile £610 £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 167 88 179
10th Percentile £13.35 £14.20 £12.93
25th Percentile £17.25 £16.95 £18.29
Median hourly rate £37.12 £24.83 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +49.50% -47.73% +5.56%
75th Percentile £85.63 £62.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.66 £67.02
England median hourly rate £25.77 £29.00 £23.36
% change year-on-year -11.14% +24.16% -36.87%

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 3 April 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 3 April 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 3 April 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 +8 143 £600 +4.35% 38
Thames Valley -26 107 £516 -6.14% 31
Berkshire -18 69 £475 -9.52% 12
Buckinghamshire -14 36 £595 -3.64% 17
Surrey -2 15 £400 -20.00% 15
West Sussex -9 10 £575 +4.55%
Kent -16 4 £571 +71.80% 2
East Sussex 0 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 (5.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.78%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.71%) Apache
3 2 (0.71%) WordPress
4 1 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.36%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 92 (32.74%) Azure
2 75 (26.69%) AWS
3 34 (12.10%) OpenShift
4 22 (7.83%) IaaS
5 21 (7.47%) Entra ID
6 19 (6.76%) Microsoft 365
7 17 (6.05%) PaaS
8 14 (4.98%) GitHub
8 14 (4.98%) GitHub Actions
9 12 (4.27%) GCP
10 8 (2.85%) Nutanix
11 6 (2.14%) AWS CloudFormation
12 5 (1.78%) SaaS
13 3 (1.07%) Azure Sentinel
14 2 (0.71%) Amazon EKS
14 2 (0.71%) Azure Logic Apps
15 1 (0.36%) Amazon OpenSearch
15 1 (0.36%) Cohesity
15 1 (0.36%) Datadog
15 1 (0.36%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 64 (22.78%) DNS
2 45 (16.01%) Firewall
3 33 (11.74%) DHCP
4 21 (7.47%) VPN
5 18 (6.41%) VSAN
6 17 (6.05%) WAN
7 16 (5.69%) SAN
7 16 (5.69%) TCP/IP
8 12 (4.27%) FTP
9 11 (3.91%) LAN
10 10 (3.56%) NAS
11 9 (3.20%) BGP
11 9 (3.20%) SD-WAN
11 9 (3.20%) VLAN
12 8 (2.85%) Cisco Firepower
12 8 (2.85%) Network Security
13 7 (2.49%) BIG-IP
13 7 (2.49%) OSPF
14 6 (2.14%) Cisco ASA
15 5 (1.78%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.69%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (2.85%) Redis
3 4 (1.42%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.07%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.71%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 14 (4.98%) Jenkins
2 13 (4.63%) Sonatype Nexus
3 9 (3.20%) GitLab
4 8 (2.85%) Cucumber
4 8 (2.85%) JMeter
4 8 (2.85%) JUnit
5 6 (2.14%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.36%) Git
6 1 (0.36%) JIRA
6 1 (0.36%) Subversion
General
1 53 (18.86%) Social Skills
2 26 (9.25%) Public Sector
3 22 (7.83%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (4.98%) Finance
5 10 (3.56%) Military
6 9 (3.20%) Legal
7 5 (1.78%) Retail
8 4 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.07%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (0.71%) Banking
10 2 (0.71%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.71%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.36%) Advertising
11 1 (0.36%) Back Office
11 1 (0.36%) Front Office
11 1 (0.36%) Police
11 1 (0.36%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 83 (29.54%) Architect
2 37 (13.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 28 (9.96%) Senior
4 27 (9.61%) Infrastructure Architect
4 27 (9.61%) VMware Engineer
5 24 (8.54%) VMware Architect
6 21 (7.47%) Network Engineer
7 16 (5.69%) Technical Architect
8 11 (3.91%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 11 (3.91%) DevOps Engineer
9 10 (3.56%) Analyst
9 10 (3.56%) Lead
9 10 (3.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 10 (3.56%) Wintel Analyst
10 9 (3.20%) Linux Engineer
10 9 (3.20%) Service Manager
10 9 (3.20%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (2.85%) Capacity Manager
11 8 (2.85%) Senior Network Engineer
12 7 (2.49%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (5.69%) Kafka
2 8 (2.85%) Keycloak
2 8 (2.85%) Loki
2 8 (2.85%) Spring
3 7 (2.49%) Hibernate
4 4 (1.42%) Software Packaging
5 1 (0.36%) 802.1X
5 1 (0.36%) JSON
5 1 (0.36%) Middleware
5 1 (0.36%) OAuth
5 1 (0.36%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.36%) OpenID
5 1 (0.36%) REST
5 1 (0.36%) SAML
5 1 (0.36%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 33 (11.74%) PKI
2 25 (8.90%) Cloud Native
3 21 (7.47%) Data Centre
3 21 (7.47%) Public Cloud
4 14 (4.98%) Hybrid Cloud
5 11 (3.91%) Analytical Mindset
5 11 (3.91%) Private Cloud
6 10 (3.56%) Replication
7 8 (2.85%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (2.85%) Virtual Team
8 7 (2.49%) Fat Client
8 7 (2.49%) Thin Client
9 6 (2.14%) Product Ownership
10 3 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.71%) Security Posture
12 1 (0.36%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 1 (0.36%) Linux Command Line
12 1 (0.36%) Onboarding
12 1 (0.36%) Operational Technology
12 1 (0.36%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 96 (34.16%) Windows
2 91 (32.38%) Linux
3 61 (21.71%) Windows Server
4 26 (9.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (3.91%) Windows Server 2016
6 9 (3.20%) Ubuntu
6 9 (3.20%) Windows Server 2019
7 7 (2.49%) Windows 7
8 5 (1.78%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (1.42%) CentOS
9 4 (1.42%) Debian
9 4 (1.42%) Mac OS
9 4 (1.42%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.71%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.36%) Solaris
11 1 (0.36%) Unix
11 1 (0.36%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (22.78%) Agile
2 59 (21.00%) Problem-Solving
3 55 (19.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 46 (16.37%) CI/CD
5 43 (15.30%) ITIL
6 36 (12.81%) Infrastructure as Code
7 35 (12.46%) Roadmaps
8 34 (12.10%) High Availability
9 31 (11.03%) DevOps
10 29 (10.32%) DevSecOps
11 26 (9.25%) Containerisation
12 25 (8.90%) Migration
13 24 (8.54%) Observability
13 24 (8.54%) Platform Engineering
14 23 (8.19%) Stakeholder Management
15 21 (7.47%) Continuous Improvement
15 21 (7.47%) Load Balancing
16 18 (6.41%) Cybersecurity
17 16 (5.69%) Disaster Recovery
17 16 (5.69%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 44 (15.66%) Python
2 36 (12.81%) PowerShell
3 25 (8.90%) Bash
4 9 (3.20%) Java
5 6 (2.14%) SQL
6 2 (0.71%) Bicep
6 2 (0.71%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.36%) Perl
Qualifications
1 195 (69.40%) Security Cleared
2 98 (34.88%) DV Cleared
3 96 (34.16%) SC Cleared
4 13 (4.63%) CCNP
4 13 (4.63%) Cisco Certification
5 11 (3.91%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 10 (3.56%) AWS Certification
7 8 (2.85%) Azure Certification
7 8 (2.85%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (2.14%) MCSE
9 5 (1.78%) VCAP
10 4 (1.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (1.42%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (1.07%) CCSM
11 3 (1.07%) Degree
12 2 (0.71%) CCIE
12 2 (0.71%) CCNA
12 2 (0.71%) CCSE
12 2 (0.71%) JNCIS
13 1 (0.36%) CCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.69%) NCSC
2 12 (4.27%) NIST
3 5 (1.78%) SLA
4 4 (1.42%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.71%) GDPR
7 1 (0.36%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.36%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.36%) QA
System Software
1 165 (58.72%) VMware Infrastructure
2 79 (28.11%) Active Directory
3 46 (16.37%) VMware NSX
4 41 (14.59%) vSphere
5 33 (11.74%) Hyper-V
6 28 (9.96%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (4.98%) Docker
8 12 (4.27%) vCloud
9 11 (3.91%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (2.49%) NFS
10 7 (2.49%) Virtual Machines
11 3 (1.07%) DFS Replication
11 3 (1.07%) Firmware
12 2 (0.71%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.36%) KVM
13 1 (0.36%) RHEV
13 1 (0.36%) Sendmail
13 1 (0.36%) UAG
13 1 (0.36%) Xen
Systems Management
1 50 (17.79%) Ansible
2 39 (13.88%) vCenter Server
3 34 (12.10%) Kubernetes
4 33 (11.74%) Terraform
5 22 (7.83%) Argo
6 20 (7.12%) Microsoft Intune
7 17 (6.05%) Grafana
7 17 (6.05%) Prometheus
7 17 (6.05%) SCCM
8 9 (3.20%) Red Hat Satellite
8 9 (3.20%) Single Sign-On
9 8 (2.85%) Kustomize
9 8 (2.85%) Progress Chef
9 8 (2.85%) SCOM
10 7 (2.49%) WMI
11 6 (2.14%) Istio
11 6 (2.14%) linkerd
12 4 (1.42%) WSUS
13 2 (0.71%) Rancher
13 2 (0.71%) vRealize
Vendors
1 67 (23.84%) Microsoft
2 43 (15.30%) Red Hat
3 29 (10.32%) Cisco
4 26 (9.25%) Citrix
5 15 (5.34%) Palo Alto
6 12 (4.27%) F5
7 11 (3.91%) ServiceNow
8 8 (2.85%) Splunk
9 7 (2.49%) Broadcom
9 7 (2.49%) Veeam
10 6 (2.14%) Fortinet
10 6 (2.14%) NetApp
10 6 (2.14%) Pure Storage
10 6 (2.14%) Zerto
11 5 (1.78%) Juniper
12 4 (1.42%) CheckPoint
12 4 (1.42%) NVIDIA
12 4 (1.42%) SolarWinds
12 4 (1.42%) Zscaler
13 3 (1.07%) Rackspace