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 31 December 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
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 29 23
Rank change year-on-year -6 -6 +8
Contract jobs citing VMware 240 230 361
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 5.44% 6.40% 7.33%
As % of the Vendors category 10.77% 12.73% 14.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 172 218
10th Percentile £304 £350 £294
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £606
90th Percentile £668 £699 £670
England median daily rate £525 £513 £500
% change year-on-year +2.44% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 16
10th Percentile £59.94 £77.63 £20.38
25th Percentile £76.00 £77.81 £52.02
Median hourly rate £90.00 £81.25 £67.95
Median % change year-on-year +10.77% +19.58% +2.95%
75th Percentile £101.75 £85.31 £76.53
90th Percentile £127.60 £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 2,229 1,807 2,566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 50.57% 50.28% 52.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,591 1,194 1,640
10th Percentile £230 £240 £205
25th Percentile £405 £403 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% - +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £613
90th Percentile £675 £679 £688
England median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 141 49 121
10th Percentile £14.00 £19.99 £16.25
25th Percentile £16.36 £24.18 £24.34
Median hourly rate £22.00 £42.50 £56.40
Median % change year-on-year -48.24% -24.65% +111.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.75 £67.75
90th Percentile £89.63 £71.97 £77.50
England median hourly rate £23.75 £30.00 £46.12
% change year-on-year -20.83% -34.95% +69.24%

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 31 December 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 31 December 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 31 December 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 +6 122 £538 -6.52% 43
Thames Valley -25 85 £483 -12.27% 9
Berkshire -13 77 £483 -12.27% 3
Kent +10 11 £450 +39.53% 10
West Sussex -5 10 £525 +12.30% 2
Surrey -21 8 £400 -7.25% 17
Buckinghamshire -28 5 £550 -0.45% 5
East Sussex +7 3 £170 +4.62%
Oxfordshire -10 3 £425 - 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 7 (2.92%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.50%) OpenStack
3 5 (2.08%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.83%) Apache
4 2 (0.83%) WordPress
5 1 (0.42%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 4 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.83%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 65 (27.08%) AWS
1 65 (27.08%) Azure
2 39 (16.25%) OpenShift
3 18 (7.50%) GitHub
3 18 (7.50%) GitHub Actions
4 16 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
5 14 (5.83%) IaaS
6 10 (4.17%) Entra ID
6 10 (4.17%) GCP
7 7 (2.92%) PaaS
8 6 (2.50%) Nutanix
9 4 (1.67%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.42%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.42%) Cohesity
10 1 (0.42%) Mimecast
10 1 (0.42%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 58 (24.17%) DNS
2 44 (18.33%) Firewall
3 36 (15.00%) DHCP
4 28 (11.67%) TCP/IP
5 19 (7.92%) VLAN
6 15 (6.25%) SAN
7 13 (5.42%) VPN
8 12 (5.00%) VSAN
9 11 (4.58%) iSCSI
9 11 (4.58%) LAN
10 10 (4.17%) Fibre Channel
10 10 (4.17%) WAN
11 8 (3.33%) NAS
11 8 (3.33%) Wireless
12 7 (2.92%) BGP
12 7 (2.92%) MPLS
12 7 (2.92%) SNMP
13 6 (2.50%) FTP
13 6 (2.50%) OSPF
13 6 (2.50%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
2 7 (2.92%) Redis
2 7 (2.92%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.25%) MongoDB
3 3 (1.25%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (6.67%) GitLab
2 15 (6.25%) Jenkins
3 12 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 9 (3.75%) Cucumber
4 9 (3.75%) JMeter
4 9 (3.75%) JUnit
5 3 (1.25%) Maven
5 3 (1.25%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.42%) Git
6 1 (0.42%) Subversion
General
1 54 (22.50%) Social Skills
2 24 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (7.50%) Public Sector
4 14 (5.83%) Finance
5 10 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (2.50%) Aerospace
7 5 (2.08%) Legal
8 4 (1.67%) Law
8 4 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.25%) Banking
9 3 (1.25%) Military
9 3 (1.25%) Retail
10 2 (0.83%) Back Office
10 2 (0.83%) Front Office
11 1 (0.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 65 (27.08%) Architect
2 45 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 26 (10.83%) Infrastructure Architect
4 25 (10.42%) Support Engineer
5 22 (9.17%) VMware Architect
6 21 (8.75%) Infrastructure Support
6 21 (8.75%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 20 (8.33%) VMware Engineer
8 15 (6.25%) Senior
9 9 (3.75%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 9 (3.75%) Developer
9 9 (3.75%) DevOps Engineer
10 8 (3.33%) Java Developer
10 8 (3.33%) Lead
10 8 (3.33%) Network Engineer
11 7 (2.92%) Analyst
11 7 (2.92%) Automation Engineer
11 7 (2.92%) Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (2.92%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 7 (2.92%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (7.92%) Kafka
2 9 (3.75%) Spring
3 8 (3.33%) Hibernate
3 8 (3.33%) Loki
4 7 (2.92%) Keycloak
5 4 (1.67%) Spring Boot
6 3 (1.25%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (1.25%) Swagger
7 2 (0.83%) Middleware
7 2 (0.83%) OAuth
7 2 (0.83%) RESTful
7 2 (0.83%) SAML
8 1 (0.42%) LDAP
8 1 (0.42%) OAuth2
8 1 (0.42%) OpenID
8 1 (0.42%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 25 (10.42%) PKI
2 19 (7.92%) Cloud Native
3 18 (7.50%) Data Centre
4 15 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
5 11 (4.58%) Fat Client
5 11 (4.58%) Hybrid Cloud
5 11 (4.58%) Thin Client
6 8 (3.33%) Private Cloud
6 8 (3.33%) Virtual Team
7 7 (2.92%) Replication
8 4 (1.67%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.83%) NHS
10 1 (0.42%) FlexPod
10 1 (0.42%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.42%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.42%) Security Operations Centre
10 1 (0.42%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.42%) Smartphone
10 1 (0.42%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 93 (38.75%) Windows
2 85 (35.42%) Linux
3 49 (20.42%) Windows Server
4 28 (11.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 12 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
6 11 (4.58%) Windows 10
7 10 (4.17%) Windows 7
7 10 (4.17%) Windows Server 2016
8 7 (2.92%) Ubuntu
8 7 (2.92%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (1.67%) CentOS
10 3 (1.25%) Debian
10 3 (1.25%) Mac OS
10 3 (1.25%) Unix
11 1 (0.42%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.42%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 58 (24.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 53 (22.08%) Agile
4 46 (19.17%) CI/CD
5 44 (18.33%) ITIL
6 28 (11.67%) DevSecOps
7 26 (10.83%) Containerisation
7 26 (10.83%) Infrastructure as Code
8 24 (10.00%) Observability
9 22 (9.17%) DevOps
9 22 (9.17%) Platform Engineering
10 18 (7.50%) Cybersecurity
10 18 (7.50%) Disaster Recovery
10 18 (7.50%) Roadmaps
11 16 (6.67%) Prototyping
12 15 (6.25%) Continuous Improvement
12 15 (6.25%) Preventative Maintenance
13 14 (5.83%) Infrastructure Management
13 14 (5.83%) Virtual Infrastructure
14 13 (5.42%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 59 (24.58%) Python
2 40 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 33 (13.75%) Bash
4 17 (7.08%) Java
5 16 (6.67%) SQL
6 8 (3.33%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.25%) Go
7 3 (1.25%) Perl
8 2 (0.83%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.42%) VB
Qualifications
1 147 (61.25%) Security Cleared
2 78 (32.50%) SC Cleared
3 70 (29.17%) DV Cleared
4 21 (8.75%) Microsoft Certification
5 17 (7.08%) Azure Certification
6 15 (6.25%) AWS Certification
7 14 (5.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 11 (4.58%) Network+ Certification
8 11 (4.58%) Server+ Certification
9 8 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (3.33%) MCSE
10 7 (2.92%) CCIE
11 6 (2.50%) JNCIE
12 4 (1.67%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (1.67%) VCAP
12 4 (1.67%) VCDX
13 3 (1.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 3 (1.25%) Degree
13 3 (1.25%) VCP5
13 3 (1.25%) VCP6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.75%) GDPR
2 6 (2.50%) NCSC
3 4 (1.67%) QA
3 4 (1.67%) SLA
4 3 (1.25%) Def Stans
4 3 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.42%) JSP 440
5 1 (0.42%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 136 (56.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 64 (26.67%) Active Directory
3 46 (19.17%) vSphere
4 31 (12.92%) Hyper-V
5 30 (12.50%) VMware NSX
6 24 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (5.83%) Docker
8 13 (5.42%) NFS
9 7 (2.92%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (1.67%) Terminal Services
11 3 (1.25%) DFS Replication
11 3 (1.25%) KVM
11 3 (1.25%) vCloud
11 3 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
12 2 (0.83%) Firmware
12 2 (0.83%) UAG
12 2 (0.83%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.42%) Sendmail
13 1 (0.42%) VMware Server
13 1 (0.42%) Xen
Systems Management
1 57 (23.75%) Ansible
2 37 (15.42%) Kubernetes
3 34 (14.17%) Terraform
4 28 (11.67%) vCenter Server
5 21 (8.75%) Argo
6 18 (7.50%) Grafana
6 18 (7.50%) Prometheus
7 14 (5.83%) SCCM
8 13 (5.42%) Red Hat Satellite
9 11 (4.58%) Progress Chef
10 10 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
10 10 (4.17%) WMI
11 8 (3.33%) Kustomize
11 8 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
11 8 (3.33%) vRealize
12 6 (2.50%) Istio
12 6 (2.50%) linkerd
12 6 (2.50%) SCOM
13 5 (2.08%) vRealize Orchestrator
13 5 (2.08%) VxRail
Vendors
1 73 (30.42%) Microsoft
2 45 (18.75%) Red Hat
3 21 (8.75%) Citrix
4 19 (7.92%) Cisco
5 14 (5.83%) NetApp
5 14 (5.83%) Splunk
6 10 (4.17%) F5
6 10 (4.17%) Veeam
7 8 (3.33%) Fortinet
7 8 (3.33%) Juniper
8 6 (2.50%) Dell
8 6 (2.50%) Pure Storage
9 5 (2.08%) Palo Alto
9 5 (2.08%) ServiceNow
10 3 (1.25%) EMC
10 3 (1.25%) SolarWinds
10 3 (1.25%) Zscaler
11 2 (0.83%) NetIQ
11 2 (0.83%) Oracle
11 2 (0.83%) Symantec