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 3 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
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 40 22
Rank change year-on-year +2 -18 0
Contract jobs citing VMware 301 161 408
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 4.76% 4.99% 7.14%
As % of the Vendors category 11.29% 9.31% 15.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 252 117 277
10th Percentile £408 £356 £359
25th Percentile £463 £513 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £569 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.25% +8.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £603 £588
90th Percentile £725 £650 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £509
% change year-on-year -4.55% +8.16% -3.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 4
10th Percentile - £28.48 £26.35
25th Percentile - £29.19 £32.29
Median hourly rate - £30.39 £53.08
Median % change year-on-year - -42.76% -2.71%
75th Percentile - £31.58 £76.25
90th Percentile - £32.29 £78.50
England median hourly rate £51.00 £32.77 £40.00
% change year-on-year +55.63% -18.08% -24.76%

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 2,665 1,730 2,678
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 42.19% 53.64% 46.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,729 1,128 1,578
10th Percentile £283 £220 £244
25th Percentile £419 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £608
90th Percentile £694 £650 £700
England median daily rate £510 £513 £520
% change year-on-year -0.49% -1.44% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 108 192
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.20 £12.03
25th Percentile £21.35 £15.47 £17.91
Median hourly rate £50.00 £20.33 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year +145.94% -58.30% +8.33%
75th Percentile £85.00 £38.42 £61.30
90th Percentile £88.00 £68.15 £70.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £25.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year +37.25% +2.00% -32.89%

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 3 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
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 3 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 +11 147 £525 -1.87% 28
Hampshire +4 135 £575 -4.17% 26
Buckinghamshire +20 85 £583 +10.58% 11
Berkshire -25 62 £439 -19.54% 12
Surrey -13 11 £475 -13.64% 10
West Sussex -18 4 £600 +9.09% 3
East Sussex -1 2 £788 - 2
Middlesex -7 1 - - 1
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 16 (5.32%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.33%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.33%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.33%) Houdini
3 1 (0.33%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 3 (1.00%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 96 (31.89%) Azure
2 64 (21.26%) AWS
3 20 (6.64%) Entra ID
4 17 (5.65%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (3.99%) IaaS
6 11 (3.65%) GCP
7 10 (3.32%) PaaS
8 8 (2.66%) Rubrik
9 6 (1.99%) Azure Sentinel
10 5 (1.66%) Azure Logic Apps
10 5 (1.66%) OpenShift
10 5 (1.66%) SaaS
11 4 (1.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 3 (1.00%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (1.00%) Nutanix
13 2 (0.66%) AWS CloudFormation
13 2 (0.66%) Azure Monitor
14 1 (0.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
14 1 (0.33%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 74 (24.58%) DNS
2 44 (14.62%) Firewall
3 36 (11.96%) DHCP
4 32 (10.63%) WAN
5 28 (9.30%) VSAN
6 27 (8.97%) VPN
7 25 (8.31%) LAN
8 20 (6.64%) SD-WAN
9 19 (6.31%) Cisco Firepower
9 19 (6.31%) VLAN
10 17 (5.65%) Cisco ASA
11 16 (5.32%) Cisco Nexus
12 15 (4.98%) Network Security
13 14 (4.65%) BGP
14 13 (4.32%) IPsec
15 12 (3.99%) OSPF
15 12 (3.99%) SSL
16 11 (3.65%) FTP
16 11 (3.65%) TCP/IP
17 10 (3.32%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.00%) Data Mining
2 2 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (0.66%) Redis
2 2 (0.66%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (1.66%) Sonatype Nexus
2 4 (1.33%) Robot Framework
3 3 (1.00%) GitLab
4 1 (0.33%) Git
4 1 (0.33%) JIRA
4 1 (0.33%) MSI
General
1 50 (16.61%) Social Skills
2 32 (10.63%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (5.98%) Public Sector
4 13 (4.32%) Finance
5 10 (3.32%) Military
6 9 (2.99%) Legal
7 8 (2.66%) Retail
8 7 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
8 7 (2.33%) Telecoms
9 5 (1.66%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.66%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.66%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.33%) Advertising
11 1 (0.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.33%) Police
Job Titles
1 61 (20.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 52 (17.28%) Architect
3 44 (14.62%) Senior
4 35 (11.63%) Network Engineer
5 33 (10.96%) VMware Engineer
6 22 (7.31%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 21 (6.98%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
8 18 (5.98%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 18 (5.98%) Lead
8 18 (5.98%) Support Engineer
9 17 (5.65%) Cloud Engineer
10 16 (5.32%) Technical Architect
10 16 (5.32%) VMware Architect
11 14 (4.65%) Infrastructure Architect
12 13 (4.32%) Linux Engineer
12 13 (4.32%) Senior VMware Engineer
13 12 (3.99%) Administrator
13 12 (3.99%) Senior Network Engineer
14 11 (3.65%) Citrix Engineer
14 11 (3.65%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.66%) 802.1X
2 4 (1.33%) Software Packaging
3 2 (0.66%) Kafka
3 2 (0.66%) Keycloak
4 1 (0.33%) JSON
4 1 (0.33%) ModSecurity
4 1 (0.33%) REST
4 1 (0.33%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 38 (12.62%) Data Centre
2 36 (11.96%) PKI
3 25 (8.31%) Public Cloud
4 23 (7.64%) Hybrid Cloud
5 17 (5.65%) Private Cloud
6 10 (3.32%) Cloud Native
6 10 (3.32%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (2.66%) Management Information System
8 7 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (1.99%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.66%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 4 (1.33%) Replication
12 3 (1.00%) Onboarding
13 2 (0.66%) Security Posture
14 1 (0.33%) Digital Signage
14 1 (0.33%) Driving Licence
14 1 (0.33%) Fibre Optics
14 1 (0.33%) Greenfield Project
14 1 (0.33%) Linux Command Line
14 1 (0.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 128 (42.52%) Windows
2 80 (26.58%) Windows Server
3 77 (25.58%) Linux
4 16 (5.32%) Windows Server 2019
5 15 (4.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (2.66%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (1.99%) Debian
8 5 (1.66%) Mac OS
8 5 (1.66%) Ubuntu
9 4 (1.33%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (1.00%) CentOS
11 2 (0.66%) VMS
11 2 (0.66%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.66%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.33%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (24.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 70 (23.26%) Problem-Solving
3 53 (17.61%) ITIL
4 38 (12.62%) High Availability
4 38 (12.62%) Technical Leadership
5 34 (11.30%) Agile
5 34 (11.30%) ITSM
6 29 (9.63%) Migration
6 29 (9.63%) Roadmaps
7 26 (8.64%) Continuous Improvement
7 26 (8.64%) Stakeholder Management
8 24 (7.97%) Change Management
9 23 (7.64%) CI/CD
10 22 (7.31%) Service Delivery
10 22 (7.31%) Service Management
11 21 (6.98%) Infrastructure as Code
12 19 (6.31%) Network Virtualisation
13 18 (5.98%) DevSecOps
13 18 (5.98%) Load Balancing
14 17 (5.65%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 41 (13.62%) PowerShell
2 22 (7.31%) SQL
3 16 (5.32%) Python
4 2 (0.66%) Bicep
5 1 (0.33%) Bash
5 1 (0.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 224 (74.42%) Security Cleared
2 129 (42.86%) DV Cleared
3 105 (34.88%) SC Cleared
4 22 (7.31%) Cisco Certification
4 22 (7.31%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 21 (6.98%) CCNP
6 13 (4.32%) Degree
7 12 (3.99%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (3.99%) VCAP
8 8 (2.66%) ISTQB
8 8 (2.66%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 8 (2.66%) MCSE
9 6 (1.99%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.66%) CCSE
10 5 (1.66%) CCSM
11 4 (1.33%) AWS Certification
11 4 (1.33%) MCSA
12 3 (1.00%) CCA
12 3 (1.00%) CCIE
12 3 (1.00%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.31%) NIST
2 18 (5.98%) NCSC
3 8 (2.66%) SLA
4 5 (1.66%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (1.33%) QA
6 3 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.66%) GDPR
7 2 (0.66%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 190 (63.12%) VMware Infrastructure
2 89 (29.57%) Active Directory
3 76 (25.25%) VMware NSX
4 62 (20.60%) VMware ESXi
5 38 (12.62%) Hyper-V
6 37 (12.29%) vSphere
7 22 (7.31%) vCloud
7 22 (7.31%) Virtual Machines
8 11 (3.65%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (1.66%) Docker
10 3 (1.00%) Firmware
10 3 (1.00%) UAG
11 1 (0.33%) NFS
Systems Management
1 58 (19.27%) vCenter Server
2 35 (11.63%) SCOM
3 32 (10.63%) Ansible
4 22 (7.31%) Terraform
5 16 (5.32%) Microsoft Intune
6 15 (4.98%) SCCM
7 11 (3.65%) Avamar
7 11 (3.65%) Red Hat Satellite
8 6 (1.99%) Kubernetes
9 5 (1.66%) WMI
10 4 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (1.00%) Argo
11 3 (1.00%) Grafana
11 3 (1.00%) Prometheus
11 3 (1.00%) SCSM
11 3 (1.00%) WSUS
12 2 (0.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 2 (0.66%) AirWatch
12 2 (0.66%) PowerCLI
12 2 (0.66%) Rancher
Vendors
1 86 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 54 (17.94%) Cisco
3 40 (13.29%) Citrix
4 26 (8.64%) Palo Alto
5 20 (6.64%) SolarWinds
6 18 (5.98%) Red Hat
7 15 (4.98%) F5
7 15 (4.98%) ServiceNow
8 13 (4.32%) Broadcom
8 13 (4.32%) Fortinet
9 12 (3.99%) Dell
10 11 (3.65%) CheckPoint
10 11 (3.65%) Juniper
10 11 (3.65%) Veeam
11 10 (3.32%) NetApp
12 9 (2.99%) Thales
13 7 (2.33%) Meraki
14 6 (1.99%) Zerto
15 5 (1.66%) Becrypt
16 4 (1.33%) Xerox