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 21 May 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
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 42 22
Rank change year-on-year +11 -20 -1
Contract jobs citing VMware 296 137 359
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 4.97% 4.61% 6.57%
As % of the Vendors category 11.99% 8.67% 14.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 97 241
10th Percentile £402 £363 £350
25th Percentile £485 £500 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £569 £513
Median % change year-on-year -3.25% +10.93% -1.25%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £575
90th Percentile £725 £650 £619
England median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - £33.08 -
25th Percentile £44.86 £40.69 £65.00
Median hourly rate £48.72 £55.25 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.82% -21.07% +11.11%
75th Percentile £52.58 £71.69 £77.50
90th Percentile - £80.43 £79.00
England median hourly rate £63.14 £54.57 £46.18
% change year-on-year +15.69% +18.17% -23.03%

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 2,469 1,580 2,555
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 41.49% 53.11% 46.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,707 1,056 1,549
10th Percentile £300 £220 £213
25th Percentile £413 £381 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - -
75th Percentile £609 £600 £600
90th Percentile £700 £663 £688
England median daily rate £501 £523 £515
% change year-on-year -4.21% +1.46% -3.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 86 182
10th Percentile £15.08 £14.20 £12.00
25th Percentile £23.47 £16.95 £16.25
Median hourly rate £47.50 £24.66 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +92.62% -48.08% +5.56%
75th Percentile £83.56 £58.39 £61.30
90th Percentile £88.00 £70.63 £67.02
England median hourly rate £32.50 £26.45 £22.50
% change year-on-year +22.87% +17.56% -40.00%

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 21 May 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 21 May 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 +15 158 £600 +4.35% 25
Thames Valley -3 111 £525 -2.78% 43
Buckinghamshire +6 66 £573 -0.22% 14
Berkshire -28 45 £419 -22.17% 20
Surrey -6 16 £475 -13.64% 14
West Sussex -12 5 £625 +13.64%
Kent -20 3 £575 +35.29% 6
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 15 (5.07%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.69%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.68%) Apache
4 1 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 4 (1.35%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.34%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 97 (32.77%) Azure
2 62 (20.95%) AWS
3 22 (7.43%) Entra ID
4 18 (6.08%) IaaS
4 18 (6.08%) Microsoft 365
5 17 (5.74%) PaaS
6 11 (3.72%) GCP
6 11 (3.72%) OpenShift
7 5 (1.69%) Azure Sentinel
7 5 (1.69%) GitHub
7 5 (1.69%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (1.69%) Nutanix
7 5 (1.69%) SaaS
8 4 (1.35%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (1.35%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (0.68%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (0.68%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (0.68%) Rubrik
10 1 (0.34%) Amazon OpenSearch
10 1 (0.34%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 66 (22.30%) DNS
2 43 (14.53%) Firewall
3 34 (11.49%) DHCP
4 24 (8.11%) VPN
4 24 (8.11%) WAN
5 22 (7.43%) VSAN
6 17 (5.74%) LAN
7 14 (4.73%) VLAN
8 13 (4.39%) SAN
8 13 (4.39%) SD-WAN
9 12 (4.05%) FTP
10 10 (3.38%) BGP
10 10 (3.38%) Cisco Firepower
10 10 (3.38%) Cisco Nexus
10 10 (3.38%) Network Security
10 10 (3.38%) TCP/IP
11 9 (3.04%) Cisco ASA
12 8 (2.70%) NAS
12 8 (2.70%) OSPF
13 7 (2.36%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
1 8 (2.70%) Redis
2 5 (1.69%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.01%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 9 (3.04%) GitLab
2 7 (2.36%) Robot Framework
3 6 (2.03%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.34%) Git
4 1 (0.34%) JIRA
4 1 (0.34%) MSI
General
1 36 (12.16%) Social Skills
2 25 (8.45%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (7.77%) Public Sector
4 9 (3.04%) Legal
4 9 (3.04%) Military
5 7 (2.36%) Finance
6 6 (2.03%) Retail
7 4 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (1.35%) Manufacturing
8 2 (0.68%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.34%) Advertising
9 1 (0.34%) Back Office
9 1 (0.34%) Front Office
9 1 (0.34%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.34%) Police
9 1 (0.34%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 66 (22.30%) Architect
2 55 (18.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 35 (11.82%) Senior
3 35 (11.82%) VMware Engineer
4 33 (11.15%) Network Engineer
5 25 (8.45%) VMware Architect
6 22 (7.43%) Infrastructure Architect
7 17 (5.74%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 16 (5.41%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 15 (5.07%) Lead
9 15 (5.07%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
10 14 (4.73%) Linux Engineer
11 13 (4.39%) Technical Architect
12 11 (3.72%) DevOps Engineer
12 11 (3.72%) Support Engineer
13 10 (3.38%) Analyst
13 10 (3.38%) Cloud Engineer
13 10 (3.38%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
13 10 (3.38%) Senior VMware Engineer
13 10 (3.38%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.70%) Kafka
1 8 (2.70%) Keycloak
2 4 (1.35%) Software Packaging
3 3 (1.01%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.34%) JSON
4 1 (0.34%) Middleware
4 1 (0.34%) ModSecurity
4 1 (0.34%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 35 (11.82%) Data Centre
2 34 (11.49%) PKI
3 25 (8.45%) Public Cloud
4 19 (6.42%) Hybrid Cloud
5 13 (4.39%) Private Cloud
6 11 (3.72%) Cloud Native
7 10 (3.38%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (3.04%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (2.03%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.69%) Replication
11 3 (1.01%) Fat Client
11 3 (1.01%) Management Information System
11 3 (1.01%) Thin Client
12 2 (0.68%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 2 (0.68%) Onboarding
12 2 (0.68%) Security Posture
13 1 (0.34%) Driving Licence
13 1 (0.34%) Enterprise Cloud
13 1 (0.34%) Enterprise Storage
13 1 (0.34%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 113 (38.18%) Windows
2 80 (27.03%) Linux
3 75 (25.34%) Windows Server
4 18 (6.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 15 (5.07%) Windows Server 2019
6 11 (3.72%) Windows Server 2016
7 9 (3.04%) Ubuntu
8 8 (2.70%) Debian
9 5 (1.69%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (1.35%) CentOS
10 4 (1.35%) Mac OS
10 4 (1.35%) Windows 7
11 2 (0.68%) Data ONTAP
11 2 (0.68%) VMS
12 1 (0.34%) Windows 10
12 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (24.66%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 65 (21.96%) Problem-Solving
3 52 (17.57%) ITIL
4 48 (16.22%) Agile
5 32 (10.81%) High Availability
6 31 (10.47%) Roadmaps
7 27 (9.12%) DevOps
7 27 (9.12%) Infrastructure as Code
8 26 (8.78%) CI/CD
9 25 (8.45%) ITSM
9 25 (8.45%) Technical Leadership
10 24 (8.11%) Migration
11 22 (7.43%) Stakeholder Management
12 21 (7.09%) Continuous Improvement
13 20 (6.76%) Service Management
14 19 (6.42%) DevSecOps
14 19 (6.42%) Service Delivery
15 18 (6.08%) Change Management
16 17 (5.74%) Platform Engineering
17 16 (5.41%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 40 (13.51%) PowerShell
2 25 (8.45%) Python
3 15 (5.07%) SQL
4 5 (1.69%) Bash
5 2 (0.68%) Bicep
5 2 (0.68%) Java
5 2 (0.68%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 216 (72.97%) Security Cleared
2 127 (42.91%) DV Cleared
3 99 (33.45%) SC Cleared
4 18 (6.08%) Cisco Certification
5 17 (5.74%) CCNP
6 10 (3.38%) Degree
6 10 (3.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 8 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (2.36%) VCAP
9 5 (1.69%) ISTQB
9 5 (1.69%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 5 (1.69%) MCSE
10 4 (1.35%) CCSE
10 4 (1.35%) CCSM
11 3 (1.01%) CCNA
12 2 (0.68%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.68%) JNCIS
13 1 (0.34%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.34%) CCDA
13 1 (0.34%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (5.74%) NCSC
2 16 (5.41%) NIST
3 9 (3.04%) SLA
4 5 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.68%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.34%) GDPR
7 1 (0.34%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.34%) QA
System Software
1 180 (60.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 86 (29.05%) Active Directory
3 57 (19.26%) VMware NSX
4 45 (15.20%) VMware ESXi
5 36 (12.16%) Hyper-V
6 33 (11.15%) vSphere
7 19 (6.42%) vCloud
8 17 (5.74%) Virtual Machines
9 8 (2.70%) Virtual Desktop
10 6 (2.03%) Docker
11 4 (1.35%) NFS
12 3 (1.01%) DFS Replication
12 3 (1.01%) Firmware
12 3 (1.01%) UAG
13 1 (0.34%) KVM
13 1 (0.34%) RHEV
13 1 (0.34%) Sendmail
13 1 (0.34%) Xen
Systems Management
1 46 (15.54%) vCenter Server
2 33 (11.15%) Ansible
3 27 (9.12%) Terraform
4 23 (7.77%) SCOM
5 18 (6.08%) Microsoft Intune
6 17 (5.74%) SCCM
7 13 (4.39%) Kubernetes
8 9 (3.04%) Argo
8 9 (3.04%) Grafana
8 9 (3.04%) Prometheus
9 8 (2.70%) Red Hat Satellite
9 8 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (2.36%) Avamar
11 6 (2.03%) WMI
12 5 (1.69%) Istio
12 5 (1.69%) linkerd
13 4 (1.35%) WSUS
14 3 (1.01%) Rancher
14 3 (1.01%) SCSM
15 2 (0.68%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 79 (26.69%) Microsoft
2 43 (14.53%) Cisco
3 33 (11.15%) Citrix
4 28 (9.46%) Red Hat
5 18 (6.08%) Palo Alto
6 14 (4.73%) F5
7 12 (4.05%) Fortinet
7 12 (4.05%) ServiceNow
8 11 (3.72%) Veeam
9 10 (3.38%) Broadcom
9 10 (3.38%) CheckPoint
9 10 (3.38%) Juniper
10 8 (2.70%) SolarWinds
10 8 (2.70%) Splunk
11 7 (2.36%) Dell
11 7 (2.36%) NetApp
12 6 (2.03%) Meraki
12 6 (2.03%) Zerto
13 5 (1.69%) Thales
14 4 (1.35%) Xerox