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 16 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
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 40 22
Rank change year-on-year +4 -18 -3
Contract jobs citing VMware 320 166 397
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 4.91% 4.91% 7.11%
As % of the Vendors category 11.48% 9.15% 15.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 117 268
10th Percentile £415 £354 £360
25th Percentile £463 £513 £450
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 £510
% change year-on-year -4.55% +7.84% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 4
10th Percentile - £28.95 £26.35
25th Percentile £33.70 £30.39 £32.29
Median hourly rate £48.73 £32.77 £53.08
Median % change year-on-year +48.70% -38.27% -2.71%
75th Percentile £64.19 £96.39 £76.25
90th Percentile £66.16 £134.55 £78.50
England median hourly rate £54.87 £34.71 £40.00
% change year-on-year +58.09% -13.23% -24.49%

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 2,787 1,814 2,615
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 42.77% 53.65% 46.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,804 1,179 1,552
10th Percentile £283 £220 £254
25th Percentile £425 £375 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £613
90th Percentile £694 £650 £700
England median daily rate £510 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -0.49% -0.49% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 199 117 175
10th Percentile £16.40 £14.20 £12.25
25th Percentile £26.81 £15.25 £18.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £20.75 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +165.06% -58.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £85.00 £46.30 £61.30
90th Percentile £88.00 £76.65 £70.00
England median hourly rate £35.50 £25.15 £25.25
% change year-on-year +41.15% -0.40% -29.86%

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 16 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing VMware in the South East over the 6 months to 16 July 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 16 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 +13 158 £536 -0.02% 22
Hampshire +9 145 £575 -4.17% 22
Buckinghamshire +19 91 £590 +12.01% 8
Berkshire -20 65 £450 -18.18% 11
Surrey -17 9 £475 -13.64% 15
West Sussex -22 4 £600 +9.09% 5
East Sussex +1 2 £788 - 2
Oxfordshire -28 2 £363 - 3
Middlesex -11 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 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (2.81%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.63%) Apache
3 2 (0.63%) Confluence
3 2 (0.63%) FactoryTalk
3 2 (0.63%) nginx
4 1 (0.31%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.31%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.31%) Houdini
3 1 (0.31%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 3 (0.94%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.31%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 97 (30.31%) Azure
2 63 (19.69%) AWS
3 22 (6.88%) Entra ID
4 19 (5.94%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (3.13%) IaaS
6 9 (2.81%) Rubrik
7 8 (2.50%) GCP
8 7 (2.19%) PaaS
9 6 (1.88%) Azure Sentinel
10 5 (1.56%) Azure Logic Apps
10 5 (1.56%) OpenShift
11 4 (1.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 3 (0.94%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (0.94%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (0.94%) Nutanix
12 3 (0.94%) SaaS
13 2 (0.63%) AWS CloudFormation
13 2 (0.63%) Google Workspace
13 2 (0.63%) OneDrive
14 1 (0.31%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 83 (25.94%) DNS
2 55 (17.19%) Firewall
3 40 (12.50%) DHCP
4 33 (10.31%) WAN
5 32 (10.00%) VSAN
6 31 (9.69%) VPN
7 27 (8.44%) LAN
8 25 (7.81%) VLAN
9 22 (6.88%) Cisco Firepower
10 20 (6.25%) SD-WAN
11 19 (5.94%) Cisco ASA
12 18 (5.63%) Network Security
13 17 (5.31%) TCP/IP
14 15 (4.69%) IPsec
15 14 (4.38%) BGP
15 14 (4.38%) Cisco Nexus
15 14 (4.38%) SSL
16 12 (3.75%) NGFW
16 12 (3.75%) OSPF
17 10 (3.13%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.25%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.94%) Data Mining
3 2 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.63%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (1.25%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (0.94%) GitLab
2 3 (0.94%) JIRA
2 3 (0.94%) Robot Framework
3 2 (0.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (0.63%) Bitbucket
3 2 (0.63%) Git
3 2 (0.63%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (0.31%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.31%) MSI
General
1 61 (19.06%) Social Skills
2 40 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (5.31%) Public Sector
4 14 (4.38%) Finance
5 12 (3.75%) Military
6 9 (2.81%) Legal
7 8 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (2.50%) Retail
8 7 (2.19%) Manufacturing
8 7 (2.19%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.63%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.31%) Advertising
10 1 (0.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.31%) Police
Job Titles
1 70 (21.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 50 (15.63%) Senior
3 47 (14.69%) Architect
4 36 (11.25%) Network Engineer
5 32 (10.00%) VMware Engineer
6 25 (7.81%) Lead
7 22 (6.88%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 22 (6.88%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 22 (6.88%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
8 19 (5.94%) Cloud Engineer
8 19 (5.94%) Support Engineer
9 16 (5.00%) Technical Architect
10 15 (4.69%) Senior Network Engineer
11 14 (4.38%) Senior VMware Engineer
11 14 (4.38%) VMware Architect
12 13 (4.06%) Linux Engineer
13 12 (3.75%) Administrator
13 12 (3.75%) Storage Engineer
14 11 (3.44%) Citrix Engineer
14 11 (3.44%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.56%) 802.1X
2 4 (1.25%) Software Packaging
3 3 (0.94%) REST
4 2 (0.63%) Kafka
4 2 (0.63%) Keycloak
5 1 (0.31%) JSON
5 1 (0.31%) LDAP
5 1 (0.31%) ModSecurity
5 1 (0.31%) Unreal Engine
5 1 (0.31%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 38 (11.88%) Data Centre
2 37 (11.56%) PKI
3 25 (7.81%) Public Cloud
4 23 (7.19%) Hybrid Cloud
5 16 (5.00%) Private Cloud
6 10 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
7 8 (2.50%) Cloud Native
7 8 (2.50%) Management Information System
8 7 (2.19%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (2.19%) Replication
9 6 (1.88%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 4 (1.25%) Operational Technology
11 4 (1.25%) SCADA
12 3 (0.94%) Fibre Optics
12 3 (0.94%) Onboarding
13 2 (0.63%) Driving Licence
13 2 (0.63%) Life Science
13 2 (0.63%) Linux Command Line
13 2 (0.63%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 146 (45.63%) Windows
2 89 (27.81%) Windows Server
3 84 (26.25%) Linux
4 20 (6.25%) Windows Server 2019
5 17 (5.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (2.19%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (1.88%) Debian
8 5 (1.56%) Mac OS
8 5 (1.56%) Ubuntu
9 4 (1.25%) Windows 10
9 4 (1.25%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.94%) CentOS
11 2 (0.63%) VMS
12 1 (0.31%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.31%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.31%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (25.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 73 (22.81%) Problem-Solving
3 58 (18.13%) ITIL
4 44 (13.75%) Technical Leadership
5 41 (12.81%) High Availability
6 40 (12.50%) ITSM
7 35 (10.94%) Agile
8 31 (9.69%) Continuous Improvement
9 30 (9.38%) Change Management
9 30 (9.38%) Stakeholder Management
10 29 (9.06%) Migration
11 28 (8.75%) Roadmaps
12 27 (8.44%) Service Management
13 26 (8.13%) CI/CD
14 25 (7.81%) Service Delivery
15 23 (7.19%) Network Virtualisation
16 22 (6.88%) Infrastructure as Code
17 19 (5.94%) DevSecOps
17 19 (5.94%) Disaster Recovery
17 19 (5.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 52 (16.25%) PowerShell
2 21 (6.56%) Python
2 21 (6.56%) SQL
3 3 (0.94%) Bash
3 3 (0.94%) Java
4 2 (0.63%) Bicep
4 2 (0.63%) C
4 2 (0.63%) Lua
5 1 (0.31%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 234 (73.13%) Security Cleared
2 143 (44.69%) DV Cleared
3 107 (33.44%) SC Cleared
4 25 (7.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 22 (6.88%) Cisco Certification
6 21 (6.56%) CCNP
7 17 (5.31%) Degree
8 15 (4.69%) Microsoft Certification
8 15 (4.69%) VCAP
9 8 (2.50%) ISTQB
9 8 (2.50%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 8 (2.50%) MCSE
10 6 (1.88%) Azure Certification
11 5 (1.56%) CCSE
11 5 (1.56%) CCSM
11 5 (1.56%) MCSA
12 4 (1.25%) AWS Certification
13 3 (0.94%) CCA
13 3 (0.94%) CCIE
13 3 (0.94%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (6.25%) NIST
2 18 (5.63%) NCSC
3 8 (2.50%) SLA
4 5 (1.56%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (1.25%) QA
6 3 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.63%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 2 (0.63%) GDPR
7 2 (0.63%) GxP
7 2 (0.63%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.31%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 208 (65.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 98 (30.63%) Active Directory
3 82 (25.63%) VMware NSX
4 75 (23.44%) VMware ESXi
5 39 (12.19%) vSphere
6 36 (11.25%) Hyper-V
7 23 (7.19%) Virtual Machines
8 21 (6.56%) vCloud
9 14 (4.38%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (2.19%) Docker
11 3 (0.94%) Firmware
11 3 (0.94%) UAG
Systems Management
1 71 (22.19%) vCenter Server
2 41 (12.81%) SCOM
3 32 (10.00%) Ansible
4 24 (7.50%) Terraform
5 16 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
6 15 (4.69%) SCCM
7 14 (4.38%) Avamar
8 11 (3.44%) Red Hat Satellite
9 9 (2.81%) Kubernetes
10 5 (1.56%) Grafana
10 5 (1.56%) Prometheus
11 4 (1.25%) Cisco CUCM
11 4 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
11 4 (1.25%) WMI
12 3 (0.94%) Argo
12 3 (0.94%) PowerCLI
12 3 (0.94%) Rancher
12 3 (0.94%) SCSM
12 3 (0.94%) WSUS
13 2 (0.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 93 (29.06%) Microsoft
2 55 (17.19%) Cisco
3 38 (11.88%) Citrix
4 29 (9.06%) Palo Alto
5 24 (7.50%) SolarWinds
6 20 (6.25%) Red Hat
7 17 (5.31%) Broadcom
7 17 (5.31%) ServiceNow
8 15 (4.69%) Dell
8 15 (4.69%) F5
9 13 (4.06%) Fortinet
9 13 (4.06%) Juniper
9 13 (4.06%) Veeam
10 12 (3.75%) NetApp
11 11 (3.44%) CheckPoint
11 11 (3.44%) Thales
12 7 (2.19%) Meraki
12 7 (2.19%) Zerto
13 6 (1.88%) Becrypt
14 5 (1.56%) Remedy