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 1 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
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 40 22
Rank change year-on-year +4 -18 0
Contract jobs citing VMware 298 157 407
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 4.73% 4.99% 7.17%
As % of the Vendors category 11.24% 9.31% 15.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 251 112 276
10th Percentile £403 £357 £358
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 £510
% change year-on-year -4.55% +7.84% -2.86%
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 £34.71 £40.00
% change year-on-year +46.94% -13.23% -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 2,651 1,686 2,659
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 42.04% 53.61% 46.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,724 1,104 1,564
10th Percentile £283 £220 £243
25th Percentile £418 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £512
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -2.30% +2.35%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £608
90th Percentile £689 £654 £700
England median daily rate £508 £513 £520
% change year-on-year -0.98% -1.44% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 105 195
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.20 £12.11
25th Percentile £21.35 £15.50 £17.61
Median hourly rate £49.36 £21.39 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +130.76% -54.97% +5.56%
75th Percentile £85.00 £38.42 £61.30
90th Percentile £88.00 £68.79 £70.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £26.04 £24.65
% change year-on-year +34.41% +5.64% -33.38%

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 1 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 1 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 +6 146 £525 -1.87% 25
Hampshire +7 133 £575 -4.17% 25
Buckinghamshire +19 85 £583 +10.58% 11
Berkshire -27 61 £437 -19.82% 9
Surrey -14 11 £475 -13.64% 10
West Sussex -14 4 £600 +9.09% 4
East Sussex -1 2 £788 - 2
Middlesex -6 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 15 (5.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (2.01%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.34%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (1.34%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.34%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.34%) Houdini
3 1 (0.34%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 3 (1.01%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.34%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 98 (32.89%) Azure
2 65 (21.81%) AWS
3 20 (6.71%) Entra ID
4 17 (5.70%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (4.03%) GCP
5 12 (4.03%) IaaS
6 10 (3.36%) PaaS
7 7 (2.35%) Rubrik
8 6 (2.01%) Azure Sentinel
9 5 (1.68%) Azure Logic Apps
9 5 (1.68%) OpenShift
9 5 (1.68%) SaaS
10 4 (1.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 3 (1.01%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (1.01%) Nutanix
12 2 (0.67%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (0.67%) Azure Monitor
13 1 (0.34%) Amazon OpenSearch
13 1 (0.34%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 70 (23.49%) DNS
2 43 (14.43%) Firewall
3 34 (11.41%) DHCP
4 32 (10.74%) WAN
5 28 (9.40%) VSAN
6 27 (9.06%) VPN
7 25 (8.39%) LAN
8 20 (6.71%) SD-WAN
9 19 (6.38%) Cisco Firepower
9 19 (6.38%) VLAN
10 17 (5.70%) Cisco ASA
11 16 (5.37%) Cisco Nexus
12 14 (4.70%) BGP
12 14 (4.70%) Network Security
13 13 (4.36%) IPsec
14 12 (4.03%) OSPF
14 12 (4.03%) SSL
15 11 (3.69%) FTP
16 10 (3.36%) TCP/IP
16 10 (3.36%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.01%) Data Mining
2 2 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (0.67%) Redis
2 2 (0.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (1.68%) Sonatype Nexus
2 4 (1.34%) Robot Framework
3 3 (1.01%) GitLab
4 1 (0.34%) Git
4 1 (0.34%) JIRA
4 1 (0.34%) MSI
General
1 48 (16.11%) Social Skills
2 30 (10.07%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (6.04%) Public Sector
4 13 (4.36%) Finance
5 10 (3.36%) Military
6 9 (3.02%) Legal
7 8 (2.68%) Retail
8 7 (2.35%) Telecoms
9 6 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (1.68%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.67%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.34%) Advertising
12 1 (0.34%) Police
Job Titles
1 60 (20.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 54 (18.12%) Architect
3 44 (14.77%) Senior
4 35 (11.74%) Network Engineer
5 33 (11.07%) VMware Engineer
6 22 (7.38%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 21 (7.05%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
8 17 (5.70%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 17 (5.70%) Lead
9 16 (5.37%) Infrastructure Architect
9 16 (5.37%) Support Engineer
9 16 (5.37%) Technical Architect
9 16 (5.37%) VMware Architect
10 15 (5.03%) Cloud Engineer
11 13 (4.36%) Linux Engineer
11 13 (4.36%) Senior VMware Engineer
12 12 (4.03%) Senior Network Engineer
13 11 (3.69%) Administrator
13 11 (3.69%) Citrix Engineer
13 11 (3.69%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.68%) 802.1X
2 4 (1.34%) Software Packaging
3 2 (0.67%) Kafka
3 2 (0.67%) Keycloak
4 1 (0.34%) JSON
4 1 (0.34%) ModSecurity
4 1 (0.34%) REST
4 1 (0.34%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 38 (12.75%) Data Centre
2 36 (12.08%) PKI
3 26 (8.72%) Public Cloud
4 23 (7.72%) Hybrid Cloud
5 17 (5.70%) Private Cloud
6 11 (3.69%) Cloud Native
7 10 (3.36%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (2.35%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (2.35%) Management Information System
9 6 (2.01%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.68%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 4 (1.34%) Replication
12 3 (1.01%) Onboarding
13 2 (0.67%) Security Posture
14 1 (0.34%) Data Protection Act
14 1 (0.34%) Enterprise Cloud
14 1 (0.34%) Fat Client
14 1 (0.34%) Mobile App
14 1 (0.34%) Motion Graphics
14 1 (0.34%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 124 (41.61%) Windows
2 78 (26.17%) Windows Server
3 77 (25.84%) Linux
4 15 (5.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (4.70%) Windows Server 2019
6 9 (3.02%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (2.01%) Debian
8 5 (1.68%) Mac OS
8 5 (1.68%) Ubuntu
9 4 (1.34%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (1.01%) CentOS
11 2 (0.67%) VMS
11 2 (0.67%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.67%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
12 1 (0.34%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (24.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 66 (22.15%) Problem-Solving
3 52 (17.45%) ITIL
4 38 (12.75%) High Availability
5 36 (12.08%) Technical Leadership
6 33 (11.07%) Agile
7 32 (10.74%) ITSM
8 29 (9.73%) Migration
8 29 (9.73%) Roadmaps
9 26 (8.72%) Stakeholder Management
10 24 (8.05%) Continuous Improvement
11 23 (7.72%) Change Management
11 23 (7.72%) CI/CD
12 21 (7.05%) Infrastructure as Code
12 21 (7.05%) Service Management
13 20 (6.71%) Service Delivery
14 18 (6.04%) DevSecOps
14 18 (6.04%) Load Balancing
14 18 (6.04%) Network Virtualisation
15 17 (5.70%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 40 (13.42%) PowerShell
2 21 (7.05%) SQL
3 16 (5.37%) Python
4 2 (0.67%) Bicep
5 1 (0.34%) Java
Qualifications
1 221 (74.16%) Security Cleared
2 126 (42.28%) DV Cleared
3 104 (34.90%) SC Cleared
4 22 (7.38%) Cisco Certification
4 22 (7.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 21 (7.05%) CCNP
6 13 (4.36%) Degree
7 12 (4.03%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (4.03%) VCAP
8 8 (2.68%) ISTQB
8 8 (2.68%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 8 (2.68%) MCSE
9 6 (2.01%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.68%) CCSE
10 5 (1.68%) CCSM
11 4 (1.34%) AWS Certification
11 4 (1.34%) MCSA
12 3 (1.01%) CCA
12 3 (1.01%) CCIE
12 3 (1.01%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (6.38%) NIST
2 18 (6.04%) NCSC
3 8 (2.68%) SLA
4 5 (1.68%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (1.34%) QA
6 3 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.67%) GDPR
7 2 (0.67%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 188 (63.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 84 (28.19%) Active Directory
3 75 (25.17%) VMware NSX
4 60 (20.13%) VMware ESXi
5 38 (12.75%) vSphere
6 37 (12.42%) Hyper-V
7 22 (7.38%) Virtual Machines
8 21 (7.05%) vCloud
9 11 (3.69%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (1.68%) Docker
11 3 (1.01%) Firmware
11 3 (1.01%) UAG
12 1 (0.34%) NFS
Systems Management
1 57 (19.13%) vCenter Server
2 32 (10.74%) Ansible
2 32 (10.74%) SCOM
3 22 (7.38%) Terraform
4 16 (5.37%) Microsoft Intune
5 14 (4.70%) SCCM
6 11 (3.69%) Avamar
6 11 (3.69%) Red Hat Satellite
7 6 (2.01%) Kubernetes
8 5 (1.68%) WMI
9 4 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (1.01%) Argo
10 3 (1.01%) Grafana
10 3 (1.01%) Prometheus
10 3 (1.01%) SCSM
10 3 (1.01%) WSUS
11 2 (0.67%) AirWatch
11 2 (0.67%) Cisco CUCM
11 2 (0.67%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.67%) vMotion
Vendors
1 85 (28.52%) Microsoft
2 54 (18.12%) Cisco
3 39 (13.09%) Citrix
4 26 (8.72%) Palo Alto
5 18 (6.04%) Red Hat
5 18 (6.04%) SolarWinds
6 15 (5.03%) F5
6 15 (5.03%) ServiceNow
7 13 (4.36%) Fortinet
8 12 (4.03%) Broadcom
8 12 (4.03%) Dell
9 11 (3.69%) CheckPoint
9 11 (3.69%) Veeam
10 10 (3.36%) Juniper
10 10 (3.36%) NetApp
11 9 (3.02%) Thales
12 7 (2.35%) Meraki
13 6 (2.01%) Zerto
14 5 (1.68%) Becrypt
15 4 (1.34%) Xerox