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 4 August 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
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 44 21
Rank change year-on-year +7 -23 -2
Contract jobs citing VMware 332 163 378
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 5.01% 4.67% 7.61%
As % of the Vendors category 11.50% 8.87% 15.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 118 251
10th Percentile £415 £344 £360
25th Percentile £463 £494 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £569 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.25% +5.77% +7.50%
75th Percentile £625 £603 £596
90th Percentile £725 £650 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £513
% change year-on-year -4.55% +7.32% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 3
10th Percentile - £28.95 £25.04
25th Percentile £33.70 £30.39 £28.99
Median hourly rate £58.74 £32.77 £36.17
Median % change year-on-year +79.23% -9.39% -33.72%
75th Percentile £67.47 £96.39 £58.37
90th Percentile - £134.55 £71.35
England median hourly rate £63.14 £32.77 £67.50
% change year-on-year +92.66% -51.45% +23.72%

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 2,887 1,837 2,379
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 43.59% 52.68% 47.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,815 1,213 1,432
10th Percentile £280 £209 £255
25th Percentile £425 £375 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £606 £600 £625
90th Percentile £700 £650 £700
England median daily rate £511 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.10% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 119 139
10th Percentile £16.93 £14.20 £14.50
25th Percentile £31.25 £15.00 £22.54
Median hourly rate £61.16 £19.00 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +221.89% -66.87% +27.44%
75th Percentile £83.46 £38.42 £61.30
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.20 £70.00
England median hourly rate £35.53 £25.15 £29.00
% change year-on-year +41.27% -13.28% -26.77%

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 4 August 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 4 August 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 4 August 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 +14 162 £536 +1.83% 30
Hampshire +3 151 £575 -4.17% 23
Buckinghamshire +20 95 £590 +12.01% 4
Berkshire -15 65 £450 -18.18% 19
Surrey -13 13 £475 -13.64% 21
Middlesex -14 2 - -
Oxfordshire -18 2 £363 - 7
West Sussex -24 2 - - 6
East Sussex +2 1 £800 - 2
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 14 (4.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (2.71%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.51%) Apache
3 5 (1.51%) Confluence
3 5 (1.51%) nginx
4 4 (1.20%) FactoryTalk
5 1 (0.30%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.60%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (0.60%) Houdini
2 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.60%) NUKE
Business Applications
1 3 (0.90%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.30%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 98 (29.52%) Azure
2 61 (18.37%) AWS
3 20 (6.02%) Entra ID
3 20 (6.02%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (3.01%) IaaS
4 10 (3.01%) Rubrik
5 8 (2.41%) GCP
6 7 (2.11%) PaaS
7 6 (1.81%) Azure Sentinel
8 5 (1.51%) Azure Logic Apps
8 5 (1.51%) OpenShift
9 4 (1.20%) Azure Monitor
9 4 (1.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (0.90%) Amazon EKS
10 3 (0.90%) OneDrive
10 3 (0.90%) SaaS
11 2 (0.60%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (0.60%) Google Workspace
12 1 (0.30%) Datadog
12 1 (0.30%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 97 (29.22%) DNS
2 63 (18.98%) Firewall
3 51 (15.36%) DHCP
4 37 (11.14%) VPN
5 34 (10.24%) VSAN
5 34 (10.24%) WAN
6 31 (9.34%) VLAN
7 27 (8.13%) LAN
8 23 (6.93%) SD-WAN
8 23 (6.93%) TCP/IP
9 22 (6.63%) Cisco Firepower
10 20 (6.02%) Cisco ASA
11 18 (5.42%) Network Security
12 17 (5.12%) BGP
13 16 (4.82%) IPsec
13 16 (4.82%) SSL
14 15 (4.52%) OSPF
15 14 (4.22%) Cisco Nexus
16 13 (3.92%) NGFW
17 10 (3.01%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.81%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.90%) Data Mining
3 2 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (0.60%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (1.81%) JIRA
2 5 (1.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 5 (1.51%) Bitbucket
3 4 (1.20%) GitLab
3 4 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (0.90%) Rational DOORS
4 3 (0.90%) Robot Framework
5 2 (0.60%) Git
6 1 (0.30%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.30%) MSI
6 1 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 66 (19.88%) Social Skills
2 44 (13.25%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (4.52%) Finance
4 13 (3.92%) Public Sector
5 12 (3.61%) Military
6 10 (3.01%) Manufacturing
7 8 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (2.41%) Retail
8 6 (1.81%) Legal
8 6 (1.81%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (0.90%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.60%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.30%) Advertising
12 1 (0.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.30%) Police
Job Titles
1 77 (23.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 56 (16.87%) Senior
3 41 (12.35%) Architect
4 40 (12.05%) Network Engineer
5 36 (10.84%) VMware Engineer
6 28 (8.43%) Lead
7 27 (8.13%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 26 (7.83%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 26 (7.83%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
9 23 (6.93%) Cloud Engineer
10 22 (6.63%) Support Engineer
11 18 (5.42%) Senior VMware Engineer
12 16 (4.82%) Senior Network Engineer
13 14 (4.22%) Storage Engineer
13 14 (4.22%) VMware Architect
14 12 (3.61%) Linux Engineer
14 12 (3.61%) Technical Architect
15 11 (3.31%) Administrator
15 11 (3.31%) Citrix Engineer
15 11 (3.31%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.51%) 802.1X
2 2 (0.60%) ARM Templates
2 2 (0.60%) Kafka
2 2 (0.60%) Keycloak
2 2 (0.60%) REST
2 2 (0.60%) Unreal Engine
3 1 (0.30%) LDAP
3 1 (0.30%) ModSecurity
3 1 (0.30%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 39 (11.75%) PKI
2 36 (10.84%) Data Centre
3 25 (7.53%) Hybrid Cloud
4 24 (7.23%) Public Cloud
5 17 (5.12%) Private Cloud
6 10 (3.01%) Management Information System
7 9 (2.71%) Cloud Native
7 9 (2.71%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (2.11%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (1.81%) Operational Technology
9 6 (1.81%) Product Ownership
9 6 (1.81%) Replication
9 6 (1.81%) SCADA
10 5 (1.51%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 5 (1.51%) Life Science
11 4 (1.20%) Fibre Optics
12 3 (0.90%) Onboarding
13 2 (0.60%) Driving Licence
13 2 (0.60%) Enterprise Storage
13 2 (0.60%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 160 (48.19%) Windows
2 102 (30.72%) Windows Server
3 88 (26.51%) Linux
4 23 (6.93%) Windows Server 2019
5 16 (4.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (2.11%) Windows 10
7 6 (1.81%) Debian
7 6 (1.81%) Windows Server 2016
8 5 (1.51%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.90%) CentOS
9 3 (0.90%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.60%) VMS
11 1 (0.30%) Apple iOS
11 1 (0.30%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.30%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.30%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (26.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 77 (23.19%) Problem-Solving
3 62 (18.67%) ITIL
4 49 (14.76%) Technical Leadership
5 43 (12.95%) ITSM
6 41 (12.35%) High Availability
7 39 (11.75%) Change Management
8 36 (10.84%) Agile
9 33 (9.94%) Continuous Improvement
10 29 (8.73%) Service Management
10 29 (8.73%) Stakeholder Management
11 27 (8.13%) Migration
12 26 (7.83%) CI/CD
12 26 (7.83%) Roadmaps
12 26 (7.83%) Service Delivery
13 25 (7.53%) Network Virtualisation
14 22 (6.63%) Infrastructure as Code
15 21 (6.33%) Disaster Recovery
16 19 (5.72%) Load Balancing
16 19 (5.72%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 64 (19.28%) PowerShell
2 29 (8.73%) Python
3 21 (6.33%) SQL
4 7 (2.11%) Bash
5 4 (1.20%) Java
6 3 (0.90%) Bicep
6 3 (0.90%) C
6 3 (0.90%) Lua
7 1 (0.30%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 246 (74.10%) Security Cleared
2 149 (44.88%) DV Cleared
3 109 (32.83%) SC Cleared
4 29 (8.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 22 (6.63%) Cisco Certification
5 22 (6.63%) Degree
6 18 (5.42%) CCNP
7 17 (5.12%) VCAP
8 13 (3.92%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (2.41%) Azure Certification
9 8 (2.41%) ISTQB
9 8 (2.41%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 5 (1.51%) CCNA
10 5 (1.51%) CCSE
10 5 (1.51%) CCSM
10 5 (1.51%) MCSA
10 5 (1.51%) MCSE
11 4 (1.20%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.90%) CCIE
12 3 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.82%) NIST
2 15 (4.52%) NCSC
3 8 (2.41%) SLA
4 5 (1.51%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (1.20%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 4 (1.20%) GxP
5 4 (1.20%) QA
6 3 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.60%) GDPR
8 1 (0.30%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 216 (65.06%) VMware Infrastructure
2 103 (31.02%) Active Directory
3 86 (25.90%) VMware NSX
4 83 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
5 41 (12.35%) vSphere
6 40 (12.05%) Hyper-V
7 23 (6.93%) vCloud
7 23 (6.93%) Virtual Machines
8 11 (3.31%) Virtual Desktop
9 10 (3.01%) Docker
10 2 (0.60%) Firmware
10 2 (0.60%) UAG
Systems Management
1 83 (25.00%) vCenter Server
2 48 (14.46%) SCOM
3 35 (10.54%) Ansible
4 30 (9.04%) Terraform
5 16 (4.82%) Avamar
6 12 (3.61%) Kubernetes
7 11 (3.31%) Red Hat Satellite
7 11 (3.31%) SCCM
8 10 (3.01%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (1.51%) Cisco CUCM
9 5 (1.51%) Grafana
9 5 (1.51%) Packer
9 5 (1.51%) Prometheus
10 4 (1.20%) Argo
10 4 (1.20%) WMI
11 3 (0.90%) Nagios
11 3 (0.90%) PowerCLI
11 3 (0.90%) Rancher
11 3 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.90%) WSUS
Vendors
1 92 (27.71%) Microsoft
2 57 (17.17%) Cisco
3 31 (9.34%) Citrix
3 31 (9.34%) SolarWinds
4 30 (9.04%) Palo Alto
5 21 (6.33%) ServiceNow
6 19 (5.72%) Red Hat
7 17 (5.12%) Broadcom
7 17 (5.12%) Dell
8 14 (4.22%) Juniper
9 13 (3.92%) F5
9 13 (3.92%) Thales
9 13 (3.92%) Veeam
10 12 (3.61%) Fortinet
10 12 (3.61%) NetApp
11 11 (3.31%) CheckPoint
12 10 (3.01%) Meraki
13 6 (1.81%) Splunk
13 6 (1.81%) Zerto
14 5 (1.51%) Becrypt