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 14 January 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
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 30 21
Rank change year-on-year -5 -9 +7
Contract jobs citing VMware 244 218 346
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 5.56% 6.50% 6.95%
As % of the Vendors category 11.16% 12.95% 13.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 163 209
10th Percentile £339 £350 £308
25th Percentile £416 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £588 £638 £595
90th Percentile £679 £698 £650
England median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -
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 £67.95
Median % change year-on-year +7.08% +19.58% -0.08%
75th Percentile £96.88 £85.31 £76.53
90th Percentile £101.75 £85.88 £77.27
England median hourly rate £70.00 £68.75 £65.98
% change year-on-year +1.82% +4.20% +1.51%

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 2,186 1,684 2,566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 49.82% 50.19% 51.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,581 1,099 1,648
10th Percentile £250 £239 £205
25th Percentile £406 £400 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £510
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +0.59% +1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £610
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 50 130
10th Percentile £13.35 £20.00 £15.69
25th Percentile £16.50 £24.18 £24.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £47.50 £55.40
Median % change year-on-year -52.63% -14.26% +61.75%
75th Percentile £63.75 £64.69 £67.02
90th Percentile £89.63 £74.88 £78.00
England median hourly rate £23.79 £30.00 £43.85
% change year-on-year -20.71% -31.58% +39.07%

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 14 January 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 14 January 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 14 January 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 +4 123 £525 -8.70% 31
Thames Valley -28 86 £479 -12.95% 19
Berkshire -15 76 £475 -11.63% 10
Surrey -13 13 £400 -7.25% 16
West Sussex -1 10 £525 +8.25% 4
Kent +5 9 £550 +71.88% 9
Buckinghamshire -27 7 £550 -1.79% 7
East Sussex +5 3 £170 +4.62% 2
Oxfordshire -11 3 £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 6 (2.46%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (2.46%) OpenStack
2 5 (2.05%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.82%) Apache
3 2 (0.82%) WordPress
4 1 (0.41%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (0.82%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 73 (29.92%) Azure
2 69 (28.28%) AWS
3 39 (15.98%) OpenShift
4 18 (7.38%) GitHub
4 18 (7.38%) GitHub Actions
5 17 (6.97%) IaaS
6 15 (6.15%) Microsoft 365
7 14 (5.74%) GCP
8 12 (4.92%) Entra ID
9 10 (4.10%) PaaS
10 6 (2.46%) Nutanix
11 4 (1.64%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (0.82%) SaaS
13 1 (0.41%) Amazon EKS
13 1 (0.41%) Cohesity
13 1 (0.41%) Mimecast
13 1 (0.41%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 62 (25.41%) DNS
2 43 (17.62%) Firewall
3 38 (15.57%) DHCP
4 26 (10.66%) TCP/IP
5 19 (7.79%) VLAN
6 15 (6.15%) SAN
6 15 (6.15%) VPN
7 11 (4.51%) LAN
7 11 (4.51%) VSAN
7 11 (4.51%) WAN
8 9 (3.69%) BGP
9 8 (3.28%) FTP
9 8 (3.28%) NAS
10 7 (2.87%) iSCSI
10 7 (2.87%) MPLS
10 7 (2.87%) SNMP
10 7 (2.87%) Wireless
11 6 (2.46%) Fibre Channel
11 6 (2.46%) OSPF
11 6 (2.46%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.56%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (2.87%) Redis
2 7 (2.87%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.23%) MongoDB
3 3 (1.23%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (6.56%) GitLab
2 15 (6.15%) Jenkins
3 13 (5.33%) Sonatype Nexus
4 9 (3.69%) Cucumber
4 9 (3.69%) JMeter
4 9 (3.69%) JUnit
5 4 (1.64%) Robot Framework
6 3 (1.23%) Maven
7 1 (0.41%) Git
7 1 (0.41%) Subversion
General
1 50 (20.49%) Social Skills
2 24 (9.84%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (7.79%) Public Sector
4 15 (6.15%) Finance
5 9 (3.69%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (2.46%) Aerospace
7 4 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.23%) Banking
8 3 (1.23%) Legal
8 3 (1.23%) Military
8 3 (1.23%) Retail
9 2 (0.82%) Back Office
9 2 (0.82%) Front Office
9 2 (0.82%) Law
Job Titles
1 67 (27.46%) Architect
2 43 (17.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 27 (11.07%) Infrastructure Architect
4 26 (10.66%) Support Engineer
5 21 (8.61%) Infrastructure Support
5 21 (8.61%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 21 (8.61%) VMware Engineer
6 18 (7.38%) VMware Architect
7 12 (4.92%) Senior
8 10 (4.10%) Network Engineer
9 9 (3.69%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 9 (3.69%) Analyst
9 9 (3.69%) Developer
9 9 (3.69%) DevOps Engineer
10 8 (3.28%) Java Developer
10 8 (3.28%) Lead
10 8 (3.28%) Wintel Analyst
11 7 (2.87%) Automation Engineer
11 7 (2.87%) Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (2.87%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (7.79%) Kafka
2 9 (3.69%) Spring
3 8 (3.28%) Hibernate
3 8 (3.28%) Loki
4 7 (2.87%) Keycloak
5 4 (1.64%) Spring Boot
6 3 (1.23%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (1.23%) Swagger
7 2 (0.82%) Middleware
7 2 (0.82%) OAuth
7 2 (0.82%) RESTful
7 2 (0.82%) SAML
8 1 (0.41%) LDAP
8 1 (0.41%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.41%) OpenID
8 1 (0.41%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 28 (11.48%) PKI
2 23 (9.43%) Cloud Native
3 19 (7.79%) Data Centre
4 15 (6.15%) Analytical Mindset
5 11 (4.51%) Fat Client
5 11 (4.51%) Hybrid Cloud
5 11 (4.51%) Thin Client
6 9 (3.69%) Private Cloud
7 8 (3.28%) Public Cloud
7 8 (3.28%) Virtual Team
8 7 (2.87%) Replication
9 3 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.82%) NHS
11 1 (0.41%) Legacy Applications
11 1 (0.41%) Legacy Systems
11 1 (0.41%) Operational Technology
11 1 (0.41%) Security Operations Centre
11 1 (0.41%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.41%) Smartphone
11 1 (0.41%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 92 (37.70%) Windows
2 86 (35.25%) Linux
3 49 (20.08%) Windows Server
4 28 (11.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 11 (4.51%) Windows 7
6 9 (3.69%) Windows Server 2016
7 8 (3.28%) Windows 10
7 8 (3.28%) Windows Server 2019
8 6 (2.46%) Ubuntu
9 5 (2.05%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (1.23%) CentOS
10 3 (1.23%) Debian
10 3 (1.23%) Unix
11 2 (0.82%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.41%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.41%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (23.77%) Problem-Solving
2 56 (22.95%) Agile
2 56 (22.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 45 (18.44%) CI/CD
4 41 (16.80%) ITIL
5 28 (11.48%) DevSecOps
6 26 (10.66%) Containerisation
6 26 (10.66%) Infrastructure as Code
7 24 (9.84%) Observability
8 22 (9.02%) DevOps
8 22 (9.02%) Platform Engineering
9 18 (7.38%) Cybersecurity
9 18 (7.38%) Disaster Recovery
9 18 (7.38%) Prototyping
9 18 (7.38%) Roadmaps
10 15 (6.15%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (5.74%) Infrastructure Management
11 14 (5.74%) Virtual Infrastructure
12 13 (5.33%) Preventative Maintenance
12 13 (5.33%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 60 (24.59%) Python
2 42 (17.21%) PowerShell
3 33 (13.52%) Bash
4 17 (6.97%) Java
5 14 (5.74%) SQL
6 7 (2.87%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.23%) Go
7 3 (1.23%) Perl
8 2 (0.82%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.41%) VB
Qualifications
1 152 (62.30%) Security Cleared
2 84 (34.43%) SC Cleared
3 67 (27.46%) DV Cleared
4 17 (6.97%) Azure Certification
4 17 (6.97%) Microsoft Certification
5 15 (6.15%) AWS Certification
6 12 (4.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 11 (4.51%) Network+ Certification
7 11 (4.51%) Server+ Certification
8 8 (3.28%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (2.87%) CCIE
10 6 (2.46%) JNCIE
11 5 (2.05%) MCSE
12 4 (1.64%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (1.64%) VCAP
12 4 (1.64%) VCDX
13 3 (1.23%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 2 (0.82%) CCNP
14 2 (0.82%) RHCE
14 2 (0.82%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.46%) GDPR
1 6 (2.46%) NCSC
2 4 (1.64%) QA
2 4 (1.64%) SLA
3 3 (1.23%) Def Stans
4 2 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.41%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.41%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 138 (56.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 66 (27.05%) Active Directory
3 43 (17.62%) vSphere
4 33 (13.52%) Hyper-V
5 32 (13.11%) VMware NSX
6 19 (7.79%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (5.74%) Docker
8 10 (4.10%) NFS
9 8 (3.28%) Virtual Desktop
10 6 (2.46%) vCloud
11 3 (1.23%) DFS Replication
11 3 (1.23%) KVM
11 3 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
12 2 (0.82%) Firmware
12 2 (0.82%) Terminal Services
12 2 (0.82%) UAG
12 2 (0.82%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.41%) RHEV
13 1 (0.41%) Sendmail
13 1 (0.41%) Xen
Systems Management
1 58 (23.77%) Ansible
2 37 (15.16%) Kubernetes
3 35 (14.34%) Terraform
4 31 (12.70%) vCenter Server
5 21 (8.61%) Argo
6 18 (7.38%) Grafana
6 18 (7.38%) Prometheus
7 13 (5.33%) Red Hat Satellite
7 13 (5.33%) SCCM
8 12 (4.92%) Microsoft Intune
9 11 (4.51%) Progress Chef
9 11 (4.51%) WMI
10 8 (3.28%) Kustomize
10 8 (3.28%) Single Sign-On
10 8 (3.28%) vRealize
11 6 (2.46%) Istio
11 6 (2.46%) linkerd
11 6 (2.46%) SCOM
12 5 (2.05%) vRealize Orchestrator
13 4 (1.64%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 67 (27.46%) Microsoft
2 44 (18.03%) Red Hat
3 20 (8.20%) Cisco
3 20 (8.20%) Citrix
4 11 (4.51%) Splunk
5 10 (4.10%) F5
5 10 (4.10%) NetApp
6 8 (3.28%) Fortinet
6 8 (3.28%) Juniper
6 8 (3.28%) Veeam
7 7 (2.87%) ServiceNow
8 6 (2.46%) Dell
8 6 (2.46%) Pure Storage
9 5 (2.05%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.23%) SolarWinds
10 3 (1.23%) Zscaler
11 2 (0.82%) Aruba
11 2 (0.82%) EMC
11 2 (0.82%) NetIQ
11 2 (0.82%) Symantec