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 25 October 2025, 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
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 26 22
Rank change year-on-year -4 -4 +10
Contract jobs citing VMware 208 306 437
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 5.67% 7.24% 7.89%
As % of the Vendors category 10.79% 14.64% 14.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 219 268
10th Percentile £230 £329 £284
25th Percentile £450 £425 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £521
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +5.52% +4.25%
75th Percentile £600 £618 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £675
England median daily rate £525 £523 £500
% change year-on-year +0.48% +4.50% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 19
10th Percentile £45.49 £25.04 £32.05
25th Percentile £64.58 £28.99 £49.55
Median hourly rate £96.39 £36.17 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +166.51% -39.73% +135.29%
75th Percentile £128.19 £59.62 £76.53
90th Percentile £147.28 £73.35 £76.82
England median hourly rate £34.00 £40.58 £65.98
% change year-on-year -16.22% -38.49% +48.60%

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 1,928 2,090 2,917
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 52.56% 49.43% 52.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,303 1,296 1,881
10th Percentile £205 £256 £205
25th Percentile £375 £400 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +0.49% +2.50%
75th Percentile £588 £627 £613
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 74 135
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.25 £15.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £26.25 £19.35
Median hourly rate £20.00 £57.65 £45.21
Median % change year-on-year -65.31% +27.51% +100.93%
75th Percentile £33.05 £67.38 £65.13
90th Percentile £74.20 £70.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.08 £35.36 £43.90
% change year-on-year -29.09% -19.45% +75.60%

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 25 October 2025.

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 25 October 2025.

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 25 October 2025. 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 -5 94 £550 - 43
Thames Valley -6 80 £484 -7.86% 44
Berkshire -1 70 £483 -11.67% 30
Kent +15 20 £400 +154.64% 14
Buckinghamshire -12 8 £529 +3.12% 8
West Sussex -7 6 £500 +11.11% 9
Surrey -21 3 £500 +45.99% 16
East Sussex - 3 £170 -
Oxfordshire -11 2 £381 - 7
Middlesex - 1 £500 - 3
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 10 (4.81%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (3.85%) Apache
3 6 (2.88%) OpenStack
3 6 (2.88%) SharePoint
4 5 (2.40%) Confluence
5 4 (1.92%) IIS
6 1 (0.48%) Anypoint
Applications
1 5 (2.40%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.48%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 49 (23.56%) Azure
2 38 (18.27%) AWS
3 25 (12.02%) OpenShift
4 17 (8.17%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (5.77%) IaaS
6 10 (4.81%) Entra ID
7 7 (3.37%) GCP
8 6 (2.88%) GitHub
8 6 (2.88%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (1.92%) Nutanix
9 4 (1.92%) PaaS
10 3 (1.44%) Asana
11 1 (0.48%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 1 (0.48%) Mimecast
11 1 (0.48%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 45 (21.63%) DNS
2 32 (15.38%) Firewall
3 28 (13.46%) DHCP
4 27 (12.98%) TCP/IP
5 23 (11.06%) VLAN
6 19 (9.13%) Fibre Channel
7 17 (8.17%) iSCSI
8 15 (7.21%) SAN
8 15 (7.21%) VSAN
9 11 (5.29%) VPN
10 9 (4.33%) BGP
10 9 (4.33%) LAN
11 8 (3.85%) OSPF
11 8 (3.85%) WAN
11 8 (3.85%) Wireless
12 7 (3.37%) MPLS
12 7 (3.37%) TACACS
13 6 (2.88%) NAS
13 6 (2.88%) Remote Desktop
13 6 (2.88%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.88%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.44%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.48%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 9 (4.33%) Jenkins
2 8 (3.85%) GitLab
2 8 (3.85%) JIRA
2 8 (3.85%) Sonatype Nexus
3 4 (1.92%) MSI
3 4 (1.92%) Robot Framework
4 3 (1.44%) Cucumber
4 3 (1.44%) JMeter
4 3 (1.44%) JUnit
4 3 (1.44%) Maven
5 1 (0.48%) Git
General
1 53 (25.48%) Social Skills
2 18 (8.65%) Public Sector
3 17 (8.17%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
5 9 (4.33%) Finance
6 6 (2.88%) Legal
7 5 (2.40%) Law
7 5 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.44%) Aerospace
8 3 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (0.96%) Banking
9 2 (0.96%) Military
10 1 (0.48%) Back Office
10 1 (0.48%) Front Office
10 1 (0.48%) Local Government
10 1 (0.48%) Retail
Job Titles
1 50 (24.04%) Architect
2 47 (22.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 27 (12.98%) Infrastructure Architect
4 25 (12.02%) VMware Architect
5 22 (10.58%) VMware Engineer
6 21 (10.10%) Infrastructure Support
6 21 (10.10%) Support Engineer
7 20 (9.62%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
8 14 (6.73%) Senior
9 13 (6.25%) Integration Engineer
10 8 (3.85%) Network Engineer
11 7 (3.37%) Automation Engineer
11 7 (3.37%) Developer
12 6 (2.88%) Azure Engineer
12 6 (2.88%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
12 6 (2.88%) Designer
12 6 (2.88%) IP Designer
12 6 (2.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 6 (2.88%) Support Officer
12 6 (2.88%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.37%) Loki
2 6 (2.88%) Kafka
3 4 (1.92%) YAML
4 3 (1.44%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (1.44%) Hibernate
4 3 (1.44%) Middleware
4 3 (1.44%) Spring
4 3 (1.44%) Spring Boot
4 3 (1.44%) Swagger
5 2 (0.96%) JSON
5 2 (0.96%) OAuth
5 2 (0.96%) REST
5 2 (0.96%) RESTful
5 2 (0.96%) SAML
6 1 (0.48%) LDAP
6 1 (0.48%) OAuth2
6 1 (0.48%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.65%) PKI
2 15 (7.21%) Data Centre
3 11 (5.29%) Analytical Mindset
4 9 (4.33%) Fat Client
4 9 (4.33%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (4.33%) Thin Client
5 8 (3.85%) Cloud Native
6 7 (3.37%) Virtual Team
7 6 (2.88%) Private Cloud
8 4 (1.92%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.92%) Replication
9 2 (0.96%) Clustering
9 2 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
9 2 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.96%) NHS
10 1 (0.48%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.48%) FlexPod
10 1 (0.48%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.48%) Life Science
10 1 (0.48%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 99 (47.60%) Windows
2 71 (34.13%) Linux
3 50 (24.04%) Windows Server
4 24 (11.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 24 (11.54%) Windows Server 2019
5 18 (8.65%) Windows 10
6 15 (7.21%) Windows Server 2016
7 12 (5.77%) Ubuntu
8 11 (5.29%) CentOS
9 9 (4.33%) Windows 7
10 7 (3.37%) Windows Server 2012
11 5 (2.40%) Debian
11 5 (2.40%) Mac OS
11 5 (2.40%) Windows Server 2003
12 4 (1.92%) Unix
13 2 (0.96%) VMS
14 1 (0.48%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.48%) Rocky
14 1 (0.48%) Solaris
14 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (29.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 46 (22.12%) Problem-Solving
3 37 (17.79%) ITIL
4 34 (16.35%) Agile
5 25 (12.02%) CI/CD
6 22 (10.58%) Disaster Recovery
7 20 (9.62%) DevOps
8 19 (9.13%) Continuous Improvement
8 19 (9.13%) Prototyping
8 19 (9.13%) Validation
9 16 (7.69%) Preventative Maintenance
10 15 (7.21%) Containerisation
11 14 (6.73%) Migration
12 13 (6.25%) Infrastructure as Code
12 13 (6.25%) Mentoring
12 13 (6.25%) Observability
12 13 (6.25%) Virtual Infrastructure
13 12 (5.77%) Service Management
14 11 (5.29%) Infrastructure Management
15 10 (4.81%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 48 (23.08%) Python
2 37 (17.79%) PowerShell
3 23 (11.06%) Bash
3 23 (11.06%) SQL
4 10 (4.81%) Java
5 8 (3.85%) JavaScript
6 4 (1.92%) PHP
7 3 (1.44%) Go
8 2 (0.96%) Perl
9 1 (0.48%) VB
Qualifications
1 122 (58.65%) Security Cleared
2 70 (33.65%) DV Cleared
3 58 (27.88%) SC Cleared
4 32 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
5 19 (9.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 16 (7.69%) MCSE
7 13 (6.25%) Azure Certification
8 11 (5.29%) Network+ Certification
8 11 (5.29%) Server+ Certification
9 10 (4.81%) VCP5
9 10 (4.81%) VCP6
10 7 (3.37%) Cisco Certification
11 6 (2.88%) AWS Certification
11 6 (2.88%) CCIE
11 6 (2.88%) Degree
11 6 (2.88%) JNCIE
12 5 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (2.40%) VCAP
13 4 (1.92%) Master's Degree
14 3 (1.44%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.29%) GDPR
2 5 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (2.40%) QA
3 4 (1.92%) SLA
4 3 (1.44%) Def Stans
5 1 (0.48%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.48%) NCSC
5 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.48%) RMADS
5 1 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 121 (58.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 68 (32.69%) vSphere
3 54 (25.96%) Active Directory
4 44 (21.15%) VMware ESXi
5 32 (15.38%) Hyper-V
6 24 (11.54%) VMware NSX
7 17 (8.17%) NFS
8 9 (4.33%) Docker
9 8 (3.85%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (3.37%) Virtual Machines
11 5 (2.40%) Terminal Services
12 3 (1.44%) DFS Replication
12 3 (1.44%) Firmware
13 2 (0.96%) KVM
13 2 (0.96%) UAG
14 1 (0.48%) Virtual Servers
14 1 (0.48%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 43 (20.67%) Ansible
2 24 (11.54%) Terraform
3 20 (9.62%) Kubernetes
4 19 (9.13%) vCenter Server
5 13 (6.25%) Argo
6 10 (4.81%) Grafana
6 10 (4.81%) Prometheus
6 10 (4.81%) SCCM
6 10 (4.81%) WMI
7 8 (3.85%) Red Hat Satellite
8 7 (3.37%) Kustomize
8 7 (3.37%) vRealize
9 5 (2.40%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (2.40%) Progress Chef
9 5 (2.40%) Tivoli
9 5 (2.40%) VxRail
10 4 (1.92%) Rundeck
11 3 (1.44%) Proxmox
11 3 (1.44%) Salt
11 3 (1.44%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 81 (38.94%) Microsoft
2 35 (16.83%) Red Hat
3 25 (12.02%) Veeam
4 24 (11.54%) Citrix
5 20 (9.62%) NetApp
6 16 (7.69%) Splunk
7 14 (6.73%) Cisco
8 10 (4.81%) Dell
9 8 (3.85%) F5
9 8 (3.85%) Fortinet
9 8 (3.85%) Juniper
10 6 (2.88%) Pure Storage
10 6 (2.88%) SolarWinds
11 3 (1.44%) EMC
11 3 (1.44%) Oracle
12 2 (0.96%) Aruba
12 2 (0.96%) NetIQ
12 2 (0.96%) Wyse
13 1 (0.48%) Atlassian
13 1 (0.48%) Blue Coat