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 29 July 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
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 45 22
Rank change year-on-year +7 -23 -4
Contract jobs citing VMware 328 161 382
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 4.99% 4.65% 7.45%
As % of the Vendors category 11.49% 8.75% 15.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 116 255
10th Percentile £417 £339 £360
25th Percentile £463 £491 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £569 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.25% +5.77% +7.50%
75th Percentile £625 £603 £595
90th Percentile £725 £650 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £513
% change year-on-year -4.55% +7.32% -1.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 3
10th Percentile - £28.95 £25.04
25th Percentile £33.70 £30.39 £28.99
Median hourly rate £48.73 £32.77 £36.17
Median % change year-on-year +48.70% -9.39% -33.72%
75th Percentile £67.47 £96.39 £58.37
90th Percentile - £134.55 £71.35
England median hourly rate £58.74 £34.71 £67.50
% change year-on-year +69.23% -48.58% +25.10%

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 2,854 1,840 2,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 43.45% 53.10% 47.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,812 1,212 1,464
10th Percentile £281 £209 £263
25th Percentile £425 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £625
90th Percentile £695 £650 £700
England median daily rate £510 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 215 116 149
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.20 £14.40
25th Percentile £29.72 £15.13 £20.75
Median hourly rate £58.74 £19.46 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +201.90% -66.08% +27.44%
75th Percentile £85.00 £40.39 £61.30
90th Percentile £88.00 £77.38 £70.00
England median hourly rate £35.71 £25.15 £28.00
% change year-on-year +41.99% -10.18% -29.20%

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 29 July 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 29 July 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 29 July 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 +17 158 £536 +1.83% 19
Hampshire +4 152 £568 -5.42% 26
Buckinghamshire +20 94 £590 +12.01% 3
Berkshire -17 62 £455 -17.27% 12
Surrey -10 12 £475 -13.64% 18
Middlesex -12 2 - -
Oxfordshire -21 2 £363 - 4
West Sussex -25 2 - - 7
East Sussex +1 1 £800 - 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 (4.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (2.74%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.22%) Apache
3 4 (1.22%) Confluence
3 4 (1.22%) FactoryTalk
3 4 (1.22%) nginx
4 1 (0.30%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.61%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (0.61%) Houdini
2 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.61%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 3 (0.91%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.30%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 96 (29.27%) Azure
2 61 (18.60%) AWS
3 20 (6.10%) Entra ID
3 20 (6.10%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (3.05%) IaaS
5 9 (2.74%) Rubrik
6 8 (2.44%) GCP
7 7 (2.13%) PaaS
8 6 (1.83%) Azure Sentinel
9 5 (1.52%) Azure Logic Apps
10 4 (1.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (0.91%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (0.91%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (0.91%) OneDrive
11 3 (0.91%) OpenShift
11 3 (0.91%) SaaS
12 2 (0.61%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (0.61%) Google Workspace
13 1 (0.30%) Datadog
13 1 (0.30%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 91 (27.74%) DNS
2 59 (17.99%) Firewall
3 44 (13.41%) DHCP
4 35 (10.67%) VPN
5 33 (10.06%) VSAN
5 33 (10.06%) WAN
6 28 (8.54%) VLAN
7 27 (8.23%) LAN
8 22 (6.71%) Cisco Firepower
9 21 (6.40%) TCP/IP
10 20 (6.10%) Cisco ASA
10 20 (6.10%) SD-WAN
11 18 (5.49%) Network Security
12 16 (4.88%) IPsec
12 16 (4.88%) SSL
13 14 (4.27%) BGP
13 14 (4.27%) Cisco Nexus
14 13 (3.96%) NGFW
15 12 (3.66%) OSPF
16 10 (3.05%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.83%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.91%) Data Mining
3 2 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.61%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (1.52%) JIRA
2 4 (1.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 4 (1.22%) Bitbucket
2 4 (1.22%) GitLab
2 4 (1.22%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (0.91%) Rational DOORS
3 3 (0.91%) Robot Framework
4 2 (0.61%) Git
5 1 (0.30%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.30%) MSI
5 1 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 66 (20.12%) Social Skills
2 43 (13.11%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (4.57%) Finance
4 14 (4.27%) Public Sector
5 13 (3.96%) Military
6 9 (2.74%) Manufacturing
7 8 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (2.44%) Retail
8 7 (2.13%) Legal
9 6 (1.83%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.61%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.61%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.30%) Advertising
12 1 (0.30%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.30%) Police
Job Titles
1 73 (22.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 53 (16.16%) Senior
3 42 (12.80%) Architect
4 37 (11.28%) Network Engineer
5 34 (10.37%) VMware Engineer
6 28 (8.54%) Lead
7 26 (7.93%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 24 (7.32%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 24 (7.32%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
9 23 (7.01%) Cloud Engineer
10 22 (6.71%) Support Engineer
11 16 (4.88%) Senior Network Engineer
11 16 (4.88%) Senior VMware Engineer
12 14 (4.27%) Storage Engineer
12 14 (4.27%) VMware Architect
13 13 (3.96%) Technical Architect
14 12 (3.66%) Linux Engineer
15 11 (3.35%) Administrator
15 11 (3.35%) Citrix Engineer
15 11 (3.35%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.52%) 802.1X
2 3 (0.91%) Software Packaging
3 2 (0.61%) Kafka
3 2 (0.61%) Keycloak
3 2 (0.61%) REST
3 2 (0.61%) Unreal Engine
4 1 (0.30%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.30%) LDAP
4 1 (0.30%) ModSecurity
4 1 (0.30%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 39 (11.89%) PKI
2 37 (11.28%) Data Centre
3 24 (7.32%) Public Cloud
4 23 (7.01%) Hybrid Cloud
5 16 (4.88%) Private Cloud
6 10 (3.05%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (2.74%) Management Information System
8 8 (2.44%) Cloud Native
9 7 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (1.83%) Operational Technology
10 6 (1.83%) Product Ownership
10 6 (1.83%) Replication
10 6 (1.83%) SCADA
11 5 (1.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 4 (1.22%) Fibre Optics
12 4 (1.22%) Life Science
13 3 (0.91%) Onboarding
14 2 (0.61%) Driving Licence
14 2 (0.61%) Enterprise Storage
14 2 (0.61%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 160 (48.78%) Windows
2 100 (30.49%) Windows Server
3 86 (26.22%) Linux
4 23 (7.01%) Windows Server 2019
5 16 (4.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (1.83%) Debian
6 6 (1.83%) Windows 10
6 6 (1.83%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (1.52%) Ubuntu
8 4 (1.22%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.91%) CentOS
9 3 (0.91%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.61%) VMS
11 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.30%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.30%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (26.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 76 (23.17%) Problem-Solving
3 58 (17.68%) ITIL
4 47 (14.33%) Technical Leadership
5 43 (13.11%) ITSM
6 41 (12.50%) High Availability
7 36 (10.98%) Agile
8 35 (10.67%) Change Management
9 33 (10.06%) Continuous Improvement
10 29 (8.84%) Stakeholder Management
11 28 (8.54%) Service Management
12 26 (7.93%) CI/CD
12 26 (7.93%) Migration
12 26 (7.93%) Network Virtualisation
13 25 (7.62%) Roadmaps
13 25 (7.62%) Service Delivery
14 21 (6.40%) Infrastructure as Code
15 19 (5.79%) Disaster Recovery
16 18 (5.49%) Load Balancing
16 18 (5.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 59 (17.99%) PowerShell
2 26 (7.93%) Python
3 21 (6.40%) SQL
4 4 (1.22%) Bash
4 4 (1.22%) Java
5 3 (0.91%) C
5 3 (0.91%) Lua
6 2 (0.61%) Bicep
7 1 (0.30%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 243 (74.09%) Security Cleared
2 150 (45.73%) DV Cleared
3 107 (32.62%) SC Cleared
4 27 (8.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 21 (6.40%) Degree
6 20 (6.10%) Cisco Certification
7 19 (5.79%) CCNP
8 16 (4.88%) VCAP
9 13 (3.96%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (2.44%) ISTQB
10 8 (2.44%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 7 (2.13%) Azure Certification
12 6 (1.83%) MCSE
13 5 (1.52%) CCSE
13 5 (1.52%) CCSM
13 5 (1.52%) MCSA
14 4 (1.22%) AWS Certification
15 3 (0.91%) CCA
15 3 (0.91%) CCIE
15 3 (0.91%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.49%) NIST
2 16 (4.88%) NCSC
3 8 (2.44%) SLA
4 5 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (1.22%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 4 (1.22%) GxP
5 4 (1.22%) QA
6 3 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.61%) GDPR
7 2 (0.61%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 215 (65.55%) VMware Infrastructure
2 102 (31.10%) Active Directory
3 84 (25.61%) VMware NSX
4 81 (24.70%) VMware ESXi
5 40 (12.20%) vSphere
6 38 (11.59%) Hyper-V
7 23 (7.01%) Virtual Machines
8 22 (6.71%) vCloud
9 14 (4.27%) Virtual Desktop
10 9 (2.74%) Docker
11 3 (0.91%) UAG
12 2 (0.61%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 81 (24.70%) vCenter Server
2 46 (14.02%) SCOM
3 33 (10.06%) Ansible
4 27 (8.23%) Terraform
5 16 (4.88%) Avamar
6 13 (3.96%) Microsoft Intune
6 13 (3.96%) SCCM
7 11 (3.35%) Red Hat Satellite
8 10 (3.05%) Kubernetes
9 5 (1.52%) Cisco CUCM
10 4 (1.22%) Argo
10 4 (1.22%) Grafana
10 4 (1.22%) Packer
10 4 (1.22%) Prometheus
10 4 (1.22%) WMI
11 3 (0.91%) PowerCLI
11 3 (0.91%) Rancher
11 3 (0.91%) SCSM
11 3 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.91%) WSUS
Vendors
1 94 (28.66%) Microsoft
2 55 (16.77%) Cisco
3 33 (10.06%) Citrix
4 30 (9.15%) Palo Alto
5 27 (8.23%) SolarWinds
6 18 (5.49%) Red Hat
6 18 (5.49%) ServiceNow
7 17 (5.18%) Broadcom
7 17 (5.18%) Dell
8 14 (4.27%) Juniper
9 13 (3.96%) F5
9 13 (3.96%) Thales
9 13 (3.96%) Veeam
10 12 (3.66%) Fortinet
10 12 (3.66%) NetApp
11 11 (3.35%) CheckPoint
12 7 (2.13%) Meraki
13 6 (1.83%) Becrypt
13 6 (1.83%) Zerto
14 5 (1.52%) Splunk