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 22 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
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 41 22
Rank change year-on-year +6 -19 +1
Contract jobs citing VMware 297 156 415
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 4.79% 5.13% 7.19%
As % of the Vendors category 11.53% 9.56% 15.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 253 111 281
10th Percentile £408 £363 £363
25th Percentile £463 £513 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% +6.67% +2.94%
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% -11.53%
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% -32.31%

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 2,577 1,631 2,694
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 41.60% 53.62% 46.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,697 1,069 1,577
10th Percentile £288 £220 £250
25th Percentile £414 £380 £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 £694 £660 £700
England median daily rate £505 £513 £520
% change year-on-year -1.46% -1.44% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 183 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% +2.63%
75th Percentile £85.13 £46.30 £61.30
90th Percentile £88.00 £69.79 £70.00
England median hourly rate £34.91 £27.13 £24.18
% change year-on-year +28.68% +12.18% -35.52%

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 22 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 22 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 +4 142 £525 -0.66% 24
Hampshire +6 136 £600 - 18
Buckinghamshire +14 83 £575 +9.52% 8
Berkshire -21 59 £439 -18.80% 10
Surrey -10 13 £475 -13.64% 9
West Sussex -17 3 £625 +13.64% 5
East Sussex -2 2 £788 -
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 (4.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (2.02%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.01%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 99 (33.33%) Azure
2 64 (21.55%) AWS
3 20 (6.73%) Entra ID
4 19 (6.40%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (4.38%) IaaS
6 12 (4.04%) GCP
6 12 (4.04%) PaaS
7 7 (2.36%) Rubrik
8 6 (2.02%) Azure Sentinel
9 5 (1.68%) Azure Logic Apps
9 5 (1.68%) OpenShift
9 5 (1.68%) SaaS
10 3 (1.01%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (1.01%) Nutanix
11 2 (0.67%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (0.67%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (0.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 1 (0.34%) Amazon OpenSearch
12 1 (0.34%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 69 (23.23%) DNS
2 41 (13.80%) Firewall
3 33 (11.11%) DHCP
4 30 (10.10%) WAN
5 28 (9.43%) VSAN
6 26 (8.75%) VPN
7 23 (7.74%) LAN
8 18 (6.06%) SD-WAN
9 17 (5.72%) Cisco Firepower
10 16 (5.39%) VLAN
11 15 (5.05%) Cisco ASA
12 14 (4.71%) Cisco Nexus
12 14 (4.71%) Network Security
13 12 (4.04%) BGP
14 11 (3.70%) FTP
14 11 (3.70%) IPsec
14 11 (3.70%) SSL
15 10 (3.37%) OSPF
16 9 (3.03%) BIG-IP
16 9 (3.03%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.01%) Data Mining
2 2 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (0.67%) Redis
2 2 (0.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (1.68%) Robot Framework
2 4 (1.35%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (1.01%) GitLab
4 1 (0.34%) Git
4 1 (0.34%) JIRA
4 1 (0.34%) MSI
General
1 42 (14.14%) Social Skills
2 30 (10.10%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (6.73%) Public Sector
4 13 (4.38%) Finance
5 9 (3.03%) Legal
5 9 (3.03%) Military
6 6 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (2.02%) Retail
7 5 (1.68%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.35%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.67%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.34%) Advertising
10 1 (0.34%) Police
Job Titles
1 60 (20.20%) Architect
2 58 (19.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 43 (14.48%) Senior
4 35 (11.78%) Network Engineer
5 34 (11.45%) VMware Engineer
6 21 (7.07%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 21 (7.07%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
7 20 (6.73%) Infrastructure Architect
7 20 (6.73%) VMware Architect
8 17 (5.72%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 16 (5.39%) Lead
10 15 (5.05%) Support Engineer
11 14 (4.71%) Cloud Engineer
11 14 (4.71%) Technical Architect
12 13 (4.38%) Linux Engineer
12 13 (4.38%) Senior VMware Engineer
13 12 (4.04%) Senior Network Engineer
14 11 (3.70%) Citrix Engineer
14 11 (3.70%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
15 10 (3.37%) Capacity Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.68%) 802.1X
2 4 (1.35%) Software Packaging
3 2 (0.67%) Kafka
3 2 (0.67%) Keycloak
4 1 (0.34%) JSON
4 1 (0.34%) ModSecurity
4 1 (0.34%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 36 (12.12%) Data Centre
1 36 (12.12%) PKI
2 27 (9.09%) Public Cloud
3 21 (7.07%) Hybrid Cloud
4 15 (5.05%) Private Cloud
5 11 (3.70%) Cloud Native
6 10 (3.37%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (2.69%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (2.02%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.02%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.35%) Replication
10 3 (1.01%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 2 (0.67%) Onboarding
11 2 (0.67%) Security Posture
12 1 (0.34%) Cyber Kill Chain
12 1 (0.34%) Driving Licence
12 1 (0.34%) Fibre Optics
12 1 (0.34%) Greenfield Project
12 1 (0.34%) Linux Command Line
12 1 (0.34%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 120 (40.40%) Windows
2 79 (26.60%) Windows Server
3 76 (25.59%) Linux
4 14 (4.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (4.71%) Windows Server 2019
5 10 (3.37%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (2.02%) Debian
7 5 (1.68%) Ubuntu
8 4 (1.35%) Mac OS
8 4 (1.35%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (1.01%) CentOS
10 2 (0.67%) VMS
10 2 (0.67%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.34%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.34%) Windows 10
11 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (24.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 67 (22.56%) Problem-Solving
3 48 (16.16%) ITIL
4 39 (13.13%) High Availability
5 35 (11.78%) Technical Leadership
6 34 (11.45%) Agile
7 31 (10.44%) ITSM
8 29 (9.76%) Roadmaps
9 28 (9.43%) Migration
10 24 (8.08%) Stakeholder Management
11 23 (7.74%) Continuous Improvement
12 22 (7.41%) CI/CD
13 21 (7.07%) Change Management
13 21 (7.07%) Service Management
14 20 (6.73%) Infrastructure as Code
15 19 (6.40%) Load Balancing
16 18 (6.06%) Service Delivery
17 17 (5.72%) DevOps
17 17 (5.72%) Network Virtualisation
18 16 (5.39%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 42 (14.14%) PowerShell
2 21 (7.07%) SQL
3 15 (5.05%) Python
4 2 (0.67%) Bicep
5 1 (0.34%) Java
Qualifications
1 220 (74.07%) Security Cleared
2 127 (42.76%) DV Cleared
3 101 (34.01%) SC Cleared
4 20 (6.73%) Cisco Certification
4 20 (6.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 19 (6.40%) CCNP
6 12 (4.04%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (4.04%) VCAP
7 11 (3.70%) Degree
8 8 (2.69%) ISTQB
8 8 (2.69%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 8 (2.69%) MCSE
9 6 (2.02%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.68%) CCSE
10 5 (1.68%) CCSM
11 4 (1.35%) AWS Certification
11 4 (1.35%) MCSA
12 3 (1.01%) CCA
12 3 (1.01%) Citrix Certification
13 2 (0.67%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.40%) NIST
2 16 (5.39%) NCSC
3 8 (2.69%) SLA
4 5 (1.68%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (1.35%) QA
6 3 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.67%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.34%) GDPR
System Software
1 184 (61.95%) VMware Infrastructure
2 85 (28.62%) Active Directory
3 74 (24.92%) VMware NSX
4 60 (20.20%) VMware ESXi
5 37 (12.46%) Hyper-V
6 35 (11.78%) vSphere
7 22 (7.41%) vCloud
7 22 (7.41%) Virtual Machines
8 10 (3.37%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (1.68%) Docker
10 3 (1.01%) Firmware
10 3 (1.01%) UAG
11 2 (0.67%) NFS
Systems Management
1 57 (19.19%) vCenter Server
2 31 (10.44%) SCOM
3 29 (9.76%) Ansible
4 20 (6.73%) Terraform
5 17 (5.72%) Microsoft Intune
6 16 (5.39%) SCCM
7 10 (3.37%) Avamar
7 10 (3.37%) Red Hat Satellite
8 6 (2.02%) Kubernetes
9 5 (1.68%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (1.68%) WMI
10 3 (1.01%) Argo
10 3 (1.01%) Grafana
10 3 (1.01%) Prometheus
10 3 (1.01%) SCSM
10 3 (1.01%) WSUS
11 2 (0.67%) Cisco CUCM
11 2 (0.67%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.67%) PowerCLI
11 2 (0.67%) Rancher
Vendors
1 81 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 52 (17.51%) Cisco
3 38 (12.79%) Citrix
4 24 (8.08%) Palo Alto
5 17 (5.72%) Red Hat
6 15 (5.05%) ServiceNow
6 15 (5.05%) SolarWinds
7 14 (4.71%) F5
8 13 (4.38%) Fortinet
9 11 (3.70%) Broadcom
9 11 (3.70%) CheckPoint
9 11 (3.70%) Veeam
10 10 (3.37%) Dell
10 10 (3.37%) Juniper
10 10 (3.37%) NetApp
11 8 (2.69%) Thales
12 6 (2.02%) Meraki
12 6 (2.02%) Zerto
13 5 (1.68%) Becrypt
14 4 (1.35%) BT