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 23 June 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
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 41 22
Rank change year-on-year +4 -19 0
Contract jobs citing VMware 292 156 411
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 4.72% 5.13% 7.15%
As % of the Vendors category 11.35% 9.58% 15.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 248 111 279
10th Percentile £402 £363 £363
25th Percentile £463 £513 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% +6.67% +5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £603 £588
90th Percentile £725 £650 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £510
% change year-on-year -4.55% +7.84% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 4
10th Percentile - £28.95 £26.35
25th Percentile - £30.39 £32.29
Median hourly rate - £32.77 £53.08
Median % change year-on-year - -38.27% -10.60%
75th Percentile - £59.51 £76.25
90th Percentile - £75.55 £78.50
England median hourly rate £51.00 £47.07 £40.13
% change year-on-year +8.34% +17.31% -26.46%

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 2,572 1,629 2,677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 41.62% 53.55% 46.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,692 1,067 1,567
10th Percentile £286 £220 £248
25th Percentile £414 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £511
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -2.15% +2.20%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £608
90th Percentile £688 £660 £699
England median daily rate £505 £513 £520
% change year-on-year -1.46% -1.44% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 97 200
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.20 £12.24
25th Percentile £21.35 £15.38 £17.09
Median hourly rate £47.54 £22.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +111.29% -53.85% +8.33%
75th Percentile £85.19 £46.30 £61.30
90th Percentile £88.00 £69.79 £70.00
England median hourly rate £34.23 £27.13 £24.14
% change year-on-year +26.19% +12.37% -35.63%

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 23 June 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
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 23 June 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 +4 143 £525 -0.66% 22
Hampshire +6 131 £600 - 23
Buckinghamshire +14 83 £575 +9.52% 10
Berkshire -26 60 £437 -19.07% 7
Surrey -9 13 £475 -13.64% 7
East Sussex -2 2 £788 -
West Sussex -21 2 £600 +9.09% 5
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 14 (4.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.71%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.03%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 98 (33.56%) Azure
2 64 (21.92%) AWS
3 19 (6.51%) Entra ID
4 18 (6.16%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (4.11%) GCP
5 12 (4.11%) IaaS
6 10 (3.42%) PaaS
7 7 (2.40%) Rubrik
8 6 (2.05%) Azure Sentinel
9 5 (1.71%) Azure Logic Apps
9 5 (1.71%) OpenShift
9 5 (1.71%) SaaS
10 3 (1.03%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (1.03%) Nutanix
11 2 (0.68%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (0.68%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (0.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 1 (0.34%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 1 (0.34%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 67 (22.95%) DNS
2 41 (14.04%) Firewall
3 32 (10.96%) DHCP
4 30 (10.27%) WAN
5 28 (9.59%) VSAN
6 26 (8.90%) VPN
7 23 (7.88%) LAN
8 18 (6.16%) SD-WAN
9 17 (5.82%) Cisco Firepower
10 16 (5.48%) VLAN
11 15 (5.14%) Cisco ASA
12 14 (4.79%) Cisco Nexus
12 14 (4.79%) Network Security
13 12 (4.11%) BGP
14 11 (3.77%) FTP
14 11 (3.77%) IPsec
14 11 (3.77%) SSL
15 10 (3.42%) OSPF
16 9 (3.08%) NGFW
17 8 (2.74%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.03%) Data Mining
2 2 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (0.68%) Redis
2 2 (0.68%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (1.37%) Robot Framework
2 3 (1.03%) GitLab
2 3 (1.03%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.34%) Git
3 1 (0.34%) JIRA
3 1 (0.34%) MSI
General
1 42 (14.38%) Social Skills
2 29 (9.93%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (6.16%) Public Sector
4 13 (4.45%) Finance
5 9 (3.08%) Legal
5 9 (3.08%) Military
6 6 (2.05%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (2.05%) Retail
7 5 (1.71%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.37%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.68%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.34%) Advertising
10 1 (0.34%) Police
Job Titles
1 57 (19.52%) Architect
1 57 (19.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 43 (14.73%) Senior
3 35 (11.99%) Network Engineer
4 34 (11.64%) VMware Engineer
5 21 (7.19%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 21 (7.19%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
6 19 (6.51%) Infrastructure Architect
7 18 (6.16%) VMware Architect
8 15 (5.14%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 15 (5.14%) Lead
9 14 (4.79%) Cloud Engineer
9 14 (4.79%) Support Engineer
9 14 (4.79%) Technical Architect
10 13 (4.45%) Linux Engineer
10 13 (4.45%) Senior VMware Engineer
11 12 (4.11%) Senior Network Engineer
12 11 (3.77%) Citrix Engineer
12 11 (3.77%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
13 10 (3.42%) Capacity Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.71%) 802.1X
2 4 (1.37%) Software Packaging
3 2 (0.68%) Kafka
3 2 (0.68%) Keycloak
4 1 (0.34%) JSON
4 1 (0.34%) ModSecurity
4 1 (0.34%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 36 (12.33%) Data Centre
2 34 (11.64%) PKI
3 27 (9.25%) Public Cloud
4 21 (7.19%) Hybrid Cloud
5 15 (5.14%) Private Cloud
6 11 (3.77%) Cloud Native
7 10 (3.42%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (2.40%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (2.05%) Management Information System
9 6 (2.05%) Product Ownership
10 4 (1.37%) Replication
11 3 (1.03%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 2 (0.68%) Onboarding
12 2 (0.68%) Security Posture
13 1 (0.34%) Cyber Kill Chain
13 1 (0.34%) Driving Licence
13 1 (0.34%) Enterprise Cloud
13 1 (0.34%) Greenfield Project
13 1 (0.34%) Linux Command Line
13 1 (0.34%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 117 (40.07%) Windows
2 76 (26.03%) Linux
2 76 (26.03%) Windows Server
3 15 (5.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 13 (4.45%) Windows Server 2019
5 9 (3.08%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (2.05%) Debian
7 5 (1.71%) Ubuntu
8 4 (1.37%) Mac OS
9 3 (1.03%) CentOS
9 3 (1.03%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.68%) VMS
10 2 (0.68%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.34%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.34%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (24.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 65 (22.26%) Problem-Solving
3 48 (16.44%) ITIL
4 38 (13.01%) High Availability
5 35 (11.99%) Technical Leadership
6 30 (10.27%) Agile
6 30 (10.27%) ITSM
7 28 (9.59%) Migration
8 27 (9.25%) Roadmaps
9 24 (8.22%) Stakeholder Management
10 23 (7.88%) Continuous Improvement
11 21 (7.19%) CI/CD
11 21 (7.19%) Service Management
12 20 (6.85%) Change Management
12 20 (6.85%) Infrastructure as Code
13 18 (6.16%) Load Balancing
13 18 (6.16%) Service Delivery
14 17 (5.82%) DevOps
14 17 (5.82%) Network Virtualisation
15 16 (5.48%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 40 (13.70%) PowerShell
2 21 (7.19%) SQL
3 14 (4.79%) Python
4 2 (0.68%) Bicep
5 1 (0.34%) Java
Qualifications
1 216 (73.97%) Security Cleared
2 122 (41.78%) DV Cleared
3 102 (34.93%) SC Cleared
4 20 (6.85%) Cisco Certification
4 20 (6.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 19 (6.51%) CCNP
6 12 (4.11%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (4.11%) VCAP
7 11 (3.77%) Degree
8 8 (2.74%) ISTQB
8 8 (2.74%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 8 (2.74%) MCSE
9 6 (2.05%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.71%) CCSE
10 5 (1.71%) CCSM
11 4 (1.37%) AWS Certification
11 4 (1.37%) MCSA
12 3 (1.03%) CCA
12 3 (1.03%) Citrix Certification
13 2 (0.68%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.51%) NIST
2 16 (5.48%) NCSC
3 8 (2.74%) SLA
4 5 (1.71%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (1.37%) QA
6 3 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.68%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.34%) GDPR
System Software
1 182 (62.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 82 (28.08%) Active Directory
3 72 (24.66%) VMware NSX
4 58 (19.86%) VMware ESXi
5 37 (12.67%) Hyper-V
6 35 (11.99%) vSphere
7 22 (7.53%) Virtual Machines
8 21 (7.19%) vCloud
9 10 (3.42%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (1.71%) Docker
11 3 (1.03%) Firmware
11 3 (1.03%) UAG
12 1 (0.34%) NFS
Systems Management
1 55 (18.84%) vCenter Server
2 30 (10.27%) SCOM
3 29 (9.93%) Ansible
4 19 (6.51%) Terraform
5 16 (5.48%) Microsoft Intune
6 14 (4.79%) SCCM
7 11 (3.77%) Red Hat Satellite
8 10 (3.42%) Avamar
9 6 (2.05%) Kubernetes
10 5 (1.71%) WMI
11 4 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (1.03%) Argo
12 3 (1.03%) Grafana
12 3 (1.03%) Prometheus
12 3 (1.03%) SCSM
12 3 (1.03%) WSUS
13 2 (0.68%) Cisco CUCM
13 2 (0.68%) FortiGate
13 2 (0.68%) PowerCLI
13 2 (0.68%) Rancher
Vendors
1 80 (27.40%) Microsoft
2 52 (17.81%) Cisco
3 38 (13.01%) Citrix
4 24 (8.22%) Palo Alto
5 18 (6.16%) Red Hat
6 15 (5.14%) ServiceNow
6 15 (5.14%) SolarWinds
7 13 (4.45%) F5
7 13 (4.45%) Fortinet
8 11 (3.77%) Broadcom
8 11 (3.77%) CheckPoint
8 11 (3.77%) Veeam
9 10 (3.42%) Dell
9 10 (3.42%) Juniper
9 10 (3.42%) NetApp
10 8 (2.74%) Thales
11 6 (2.05%) Meraki
11 6 (2.05%) Zerto
12 5 (1.71%) Becrypt
13 4 (1.37%) BT