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 27 September 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
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 35 26
Rank change year-on-year -8 -9 -5
Contract jobs citing VMware 304 181 328
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 4.61% 5.11% 7.29%
As % of the Vendors category 10.56% 9.97% 14.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 223 143 231
10th Percentile £415 £219 £350
25th Percentile £463 £449 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £609
90th Percentile £720 £650 £675
England median daily rate £526 £550 £515
% change year-on-year -4.43% +6.80% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 2 2
10th Percentile £33.70 £45.49 £23.72
25th Percentile £52.84 £64.58 £25.70
Median hourly rate £67.24 £96.39 £29.28
Median % change year-on-year -30.24% +229.16% -51.20%
75th Percentile £70.73 £128.19 £33.16
90th Percentile £95.00 £147.28 £35.31
England median hourly rate £68.75 £34.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +102.21% -28.42% -27.47%

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 2,878 1,815 2,225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 43.69% 51.20% 49.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,750 1,220 1,347
10th Percentile £263 £204 £254
25th Percentile £425 £350 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -2.91% +3.00%
75th Percentile £610 £588 £630
90th Percentile £680 £650 £700
England median daily rate £514 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +1.28% -3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 108 99
10th Percentile £14.10 £14.20 £15.84
25th Percentile £16.25 £15.50 £26.25
Median hourly rate £37.24 £20.38 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +82.77% -64.47% +13.09%
75th Percentile £70.00 £34.83 £62.05
90th Percentile £89.80 £78.55 £70.00
England median hourly rate £26.69 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +6.12% -28.14% -20.20%

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 27 September 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 27 September 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 27 September 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 +13 147 £543 +12.58% 54
Hampshire -5 132 £538 -10.42% 44
Buckinghamshire +22 78 £575 +8.80% 9
Berkshire -13 67 £460 -4.66% 26
Surrey -4 15 £475 -13.64% 30
West Sussex -23 4 £613 +19.51% 9
Middlesex -18 2 - - 1
Oxfordshire -30 2 £363 -4.92% 19
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 9 (2.96%) Confluence
1 9 (2.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (2.63%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.64%) Apache
3 5 (1.64%) nginx
4 4 (1.32%) FactoryTalk
5 1 (0.33%) CMS
5 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.66%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (0.66%) Houdini
2 2 (0.66%) NUKE
3 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.99%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.33%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 85 (27.96%) Azure
2 42 (13.82%) AWS
3 17 (5.59%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (4.28%) Entra ID
5 10 (3.29%) Rubrik
6 9 (2.96%) Azure Monitor
6 9 (2.96%) IaaS
7 7 (2.30%) OpenShift
8 5 (1.64%) GCP
9 4 (1.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (0.99%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (0.99%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (0.99%) OneDrive
11 2 (0.66%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (0.66%) Google Workspace
12 1 (0.33%) Azure App Service
12 1 (0.33%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (0.33%) Cloudflare
12 1 (0.33%) GitHub
12 1 (0.33%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 101 (33.22%) DNS
2 60 (19.74%) Firewall
3 54 (17.76%) DHCP
4 37 (12.17%) VPN
5 29 (9.54%) VLAN
6 27 (8.88%) WAN
7 26 (8.55%) LAN
7 26 (8.55%) TCP/IP
8 22 (7.24%) VSAN
9 16 (5.26%) Cisco Firepower
9 16 (5.26%) SD-WAN
10 14 (4.61%) Cisco ASA
10 14 (4.61%) SSL
11 13 (4.28%) Network Security
11 13 (4.28%) Wi-Fi
12 12 (3.95%) BGP
13 11 (3.62%) Cisco Nexus
13 11 (3.62%) IPsec
14 8 (2.63%) OSPF
14 8 (2.63%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.30%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.66%) Data Mining
3 1 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 9 (2.96%) JIRA
2 7 (2.30%) GitLab
3 5 (1.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 5 (1.64%) Bitbucket
4 3 (0.99%) Rational DOORS
4 3 (0.99%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.66%) Git
5 2 (0.66%) MSI
6 1 (0.33%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.33%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.33%) Robot Framework
General
1 60 (19.74%) Social Skills
2 54 (17.76%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (3.62%) Finance
4 8 (2.63%) Manufacturing
5 7 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (2.30%) Telecoms
6 6 (1.97%) Aerospace
6 6 (1.97%) Public Sector
6 6 (1.97%) Retail
7 5 (1.64%) Military
8 4 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (0.99%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (0.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.66%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.33%) Back Office
11 1 (0.33%) Police
Job Titles
1 79 (25.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 50 (16.45%) Senior
3 35 (11.51%) VMware Engineer
4 33 (10.86%) Lead
5 32 (10.53%) Cloud Engineer
6 31 (10.20%) Support Engineer
7 30 (9.87%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 29 (9.54%) Architect
9 28 (9.21%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 25 (8.22%) Network Engineer
11 22 (7.24%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
12 20 (6.58%) Storage Engineer
13 15 (4.93%) Senior VMware Engineer
14 13 (4.28%) Technical Leader
15 12 (3.95%) Administrator
16 10 (3.29%) Linux Engineer
16 10 (3.29%) Systems Engineer
17 9 (2.96%) Citrix Engineer
17 9 (2.96%) Network Architect
17 9 (2.96%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (8.55%) Terraform
2 4 (1.32%) 802.1X
3 3 (0.99%) ARM Templates
3 3 (0.99%) REST
4 2 (0.66%) Middleware
4 2 (0.66%) Unreal Engine
4 2 (0.66%) YAML
5 1 (0.33%) Kafka
5 1 (0.33%) Keycloak
5 1 (0.33%) LDAP
5 1 (0.33%) ModSecurity
5 1 (0.33%) NETCONF
5 1 (0.33%) OpenConfig
5 1 (0.33%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 38 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 33 (10.86%) PKI
3 27 (8.88%) Hybrid Cloud
4 17 (5.59%) Private Cloud
5 16 (5.26%) Public Cloud
6 13 (4.28%) Management Information System
7 10 (3.29%) Cloud Native
8 7 (2.30%) SCADA
9 6 (1.97%) Operational Technology
10 5 (1.64%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 5 (1.64%) Driving Licence
10 5 (1.64%) Life Science
10 5 (1.64%) Replication
11 4 (1.32%) Fibre Optics
11 4 (1.32%) Onboarding
12 3 (0.99%) Enterprise Storage
12 3 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
13 2 (0.66%) Enterprise Cloud
13 2 (0.66%) Motion Graphics
13 2 (0.66%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 175 (57.57%) Windows
2 114 (37.50%) Windows Server
3 69 (22.70%) Linux
4 24 (7.89%) Windows Server 2019
5 15 (4.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (2.30%) Windows 10
7 5 (1.64%) Debian
8 3 (0.99%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.99%) Rocky
9 2 (0.66%) VMS
9 2 (0.66%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.66%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.33%) Data ONTAP
10 1 (0.33%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (28.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 80 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
3 62 (20.39%) ITIL
4 61 (20.07%) Technical Leadership
5 50 (16.45%) ITSM
6 47 (15.46%) Change Management
7 38 (12.50%) Agile
8 34 (11.18%) Continuous Improvement
9 28 (9.21%) Service Management
10 26 (8.55%) CI/CD
10 26 (8.55%) Disaster Recovery
11 25 (8.22%) Service Delivery
12 24 (7.89%) High Availability
12 24 (7.89%) Infrastructure as Code
12 24 (7.89%) Stakeholder Management
13 23 (7.57%) Project Delivery
14 22 (7.24%) Migration
14 22 (7.24%) Network Virtualisation
15 19 (6.25%) DevOps
15 19 (6.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 77 (25.33%) PowerShell
2 30 (9.87%) Python
3 25 (8.22%) SQL
4 13 (4.28%) Bash
5 4 (1.32%) Java
6 3 (0.99%) Bicep
6 3 (0.99%) C
6 3 (0.99%) Lua
6 3 (0.99%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 218 (71.71%) Security Cleared
2 140 (46.05%) DV Cleared
3 92 (30.26%) SC Cleared
4 32 (10.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 27 (8.88%) Degree
6 18 (5.92%) VCAP
7 17 (5.59%) Cisco Certification
8 13 (4.28%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (3.95%) CCNP
10 9 (2.96%) Azure Certification
11 8 (2.63%) ISTQB
11 8 (2.63%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
12 7 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
13 6 (1.97%) MCSA
14 4 (1.32%) CCNA
14 4 (1.32%) MCSE
15 3 (0.99%) CCA
15 3 (0.99%) CCIE
15 3 (0.99%) CCSE
15 3 (0.99%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.62%) NCSC
2 10 (3.29%) NIST
3 7 (2.30%) SLA
4 4 (1.32%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 4 (1.32%) GxP
4 4 (1.32%) QA
5 2 (0.66%) GDPR
5 2 (0.66%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.33%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 205 (67.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 100 (32.89%) Active Directory
3 93 (30.59%) VMware ESXi
4 78 (25.66%) VMware NSX
5 44 (14.47%) vSphere
6 38 (12.50%) Hyper-V
7 25 (8.22%) vCloud
8 22 (7.24%) Virtual Machines
9 12 (3.95%) Docker
9 12 (3.95%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (1.64%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 5 (1.64%) Virtual Servers
10 5 (1.64%) VMware Server
11 2 (0.66%) UAG
12 1 (0.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 92 (30.26%) vCenter Server
2 63 (20.72%) SCOM
3 32 (10.53%) Ansible
4 17 (5.59%) Avamar
5 14 (4.61%) Kubernetes
6 11 (3.62%) SCCM
7 8 (2.63%) Grafana
7 8 (2.63%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (2.63%) Prometheus
7 8 (2.63%) Red Hat Satellite
8 5 (1.64%) Packer
8 5 (1.64%) WMI
9 4 (1.32%) Cisco CUCM
10 3 (0.99%) Argo
10 3 (0.99%) Dell DRAC
10 3 (0.99%) Istio
10 3 (0.99%) Nagios
10 3 (0.99%) Podman
11 2 (0.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.66%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 94 (30.92%) Microsoft
2 46 (15.13%) Cisco
3 36 (11.84%) SolarWinds
4 27 (8.88%) Citrix
5 21 (6.91%) Dell
5 21 (6.91%) Palo Alto
6 20 (6.58%) Broadcom
7 19 (6.25%) ServiceNow
8 16 (5.26%) Red Hat
9 14 (4.61%) Thales
10 13 (4.28%) Juniper
10 13 (4.28%) NetApp
11 12 (3.95%) Veeam
12 11 (3.62%) Meraki
13 9 (2.96%) CheckPoint
14 8 (2.63%) F5
15 7 (2.30%) Commvault
15 7 (2.30%) Fortinet
16 6 (1.97%) Remedy
17 5 (1.64%) BT